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Leading American-based auction house Heritage currently has an original cover painting by phan favourite César Spadari up for auction. Bidding starts at $1 US and ends Sunday 19th April 2026, local USA time. You can bid on it here on Heritage From what we have been told, this is a larger piece than the one previously sold and features the popular Kate Sommerset character. The cover was used for Fantomen 24/2011 and Fantomet 23/2011 .

After two years, the third TPB collection is now available to be purchased online for 15,00€ (160 sek/nok, $20US and $25AUD). Click here to buy! These TPB's are published by Egmont Kustannus which is a Finnish magazine publisher and subsidiary of the Danish media house Egmont. Petri Aarnio is the editor of these three books. This volume is printed in black and white, which the stories were originally created for, and the TPB is 104 pages. This volume the stories included ar

We discuss all things Phantom from around the world for January & February 2026 with the latest Phantom news, and Newspaper daily and Sunday stories.

The poor Norwegians have had no luck in the last 8 years with their Phantom comic, with another Phantom series cancelled after 3 issues in 2025

Fantomen published 19 different Phantom magazines in 2025 & now you can vote on your favourite cover of the year.

We have a winner of the New Old Jungle Saying which saw 28% vote for the one created by Martin Blad from Ödåkra.

We wrap up everything that happened in the world of the Phantom for 2025 & go over what we liked & didn't like

Ulf Granberg  was a giant in the Phantom community as both a writer and editor but perhaps even more as a historian and Phantom-lore builder who added structure to the loose lore established by Lee Falk . Sadly, he recently passed, and Dan Fraser and Jermayn Parker (with a special guest) talked about his legacy and reminisced about our chat with him almost a decade ago. At the end of us talking and remembering a legend, we include some snippets from our 3-hour chat with him

A reflection on a legacy of a man who created 91 Phantom stories over a 45 year period for us to enjoy. Thank you

Sad news has come through that sadly Ulf Granberg has passed away. In our X-Band: The Phantom Podcast #110 , the team had Ulf in the top 5 of all-time influential Phantom people. Once you look into his legacy and footprint, it is not hard to see why. Ulf Granberg became the 12th editor of Fantomen in 1973, succeeding Per-Anders Jonsson , and continued until 1987 and then returned again in 2003. He did, however, remain in charge of the Team Fantomen production between his tw

Fantomen published 40 different Phantom stories in 2025 & now you can vote on your favourite story of the year.

We discuss all things Phantom from around the world for December 2025 with the latest Phantom news, reviews of comics and stories to read.

A perfect opportunity for phans & readers to get a Fantomen magazine subscription with a towel as a free gift for new subscriptions

Details on getting your subscription for the Fantomen - Den inbundna årgången (Fantomen - Year's issues in hardcover) series.

Fantomen have released a new tote bag as a free extra to go with their 2023 subscriptions. You can get 4, 8 and or a full year subscription.

This is in part what I wrote 20 years ago when Jaime Vallvé had passed away and originally appeared in Fantomen 10/2001. Today we remember Jaime 20 years on. Jaime Vallvé was a great artist and comics creator who put aside his ink pen and brush permanently and left us. On October 15 2000 Jaime Peralta Vallvé passed away in Copenhagen, Denmark . He was 72 years old. Jaime was born in Barcelona, Spain in 1928 and as a teenager he started to draw comics to be able to pay fo

Every year Semic and then Egmont puts out a Christmas Album which is a tradition which started all the way back in 1944 and 2018 is no exception with it already hitting stores late October. For the third year in a row it features a cover from Henrik Sahlström and includes the Facsimile copy of a past annual – this year 1968 includes a traditional cover by Rolf Gohs and the contents. All up the issue is 96 pages, costs 99 sek ($15AU) and includes the following stories. "

After the recent passing of longtime Egmont Phantom artist Carlos Cruz, ChronicleChamber has reached out to one of the colleagues who knew him best: Team Fantomen editor Ulf Granberg . Ulf has kindly contributed the following tribute to one of the very highly talented artists in the Egmont team. Carlos Cruz was recruited to ”Team Fantomen” by me in 1987. In the mid 80’s the Swedish production of stories with the Phantom for the Scandinavian market was in full swing, with an a