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We review & discuss all the latest Phantom news from around the world incl figurines, collective HC books & Aussie, German & Swedish comics

Pidde Andersson, a Swede writing Phantom comics for Frew joins us as he talks about himself, the artists he has worked with & the Phantom.

We review all the latest Frew & Fantomen comics & news from around the world inc figurines, comics from Germany & France & Sydney Supanova

We chat paper quality, covers, figurines, historical stories, the ongoing 22nd Phantom saga, DePaul & his title choices of stories & more

The 3 amigo's are back together talking all the latest Phantom comics & news from around the world. We talk figurines, trading cards & more

Who loves a good random phact? Jermayn Parker and Dan Fraser got over 10 random phacts from around the world and have a good chin wag over them. We reckon not one phan will know all 10 and everyone will learn something as you listen or watch this podcast. Full list of the phacts and sources below. Here are the random Phantom phacts we highlight during the podcast. Multiple wives marrying the same Phantom. Lee Falk kept it in the family. Pura married the 3rd, 4th and 11th Phan

We review 12 comics from four continents and 34 stories plus the latest Sunday and Daily stories. Fair to say its a big episode but join us.

First X-Band: The Phantom Podcast discussing the news for 2022. It is a bumper episode as we go over all the latest Phantom related news.

In a bumper 2 hour podcast Jermayn Parker, Dan Fraser and Stephen East go over their favourites for 2021 from around the world. Mikael Lyck and Ankit Mitra also give us their favourites. We cover every country, every publisher and every comic. 10 countries, 100+ comics and 20+ new stories is a lot and even through a pandemic, 2021 has been a good Phantom year. In December we started the competition for the best of Frew of 2021 and we go over the results including drawing the

For our Merry Phantoming (Christmas) X-Band: The Phantom Podcast we decided to have some phun. We created a quiz to celebrate the festive season. The quiz was open for a live participation with phans from around the world and then afterwards open for all. While we only received three participants on the night, we had over 100 phans have a go at the quiz afterwards. The top ten who got the most answers correct are: Indian 30,477 Seuj 28,464 Mase 25,934 Marcus 24,579 Callum 22,

Anthony Spay 's first story appeared in the 2019 Fantomen Christmas album and in no time he has seven completed stories to his credit. In this episode Mikael Lyck joins Jermayn Parker as we go over each of his stories and learn interesting things about Anthony like how he got the job at both Frew and Fantomen . Anthony is one of two artists you have created new stories for both publishers - the other is Joan Boix . Is there anyone else we have missed? Anthony Spay before

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

Frew sneaked in a new concept at the back of Frew 1876 with the publication off the short two page story " Heloise on Adventure " which is a 2014 Team Fantomen story, written by Alan Sonne , with art by Kim W. Andersson . It is the first in the The World of the Phantom series of short stories and the first Frew Publishing has published in their comic. With the " Heart of Darkness " saga soon coming to end, it is important to see what Frew are going to do with the left over

Luca Erbetta is one of the few artists who draws covers for Frew Publications and also Egmont and as you will learn he also has a new cover coming out soon for a third Phantom publisher. In this podcast we learn all about Luca, his history as an artist for European and USA publishers and his blossoming Phantom career. Luca goes through in detail his 9 Phantom covers and other illustrations including commissions, the Frew / Phanfare Trading Card and his past Phantom costum

Bild & Bubbla has a long tradition of writing about the Phantom in their magazine. We have previously written about the magazine and some of their earlier covers here. In the latest issue of Bild & Bubbla (issue 222) there are two pieces about The Phantom in Australia and its influence by Swedish creators. One of the articles is written by Andreas Eriksson and is about the history of the publication from the debut in Australian Women's Mirror in 1936 all the way to prese

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

In his Message from the Publisher in Frew #1806, publisher Dudley Hogarth relayed some fascinating information about the 'new' cover artist featured on that issue. However, space constraints prevented him from telling the full fascinating story of Jonny Nordlund , so Andreas Erikkson has kindly allowed us to share the tale with you here. Frew readers with a keen eye may have taken a look at issue #1806 and thought that a new cover artist was making his debut. But they woul