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Join us for 80 minutes as we review each Phantom & Mandrake crossover story in finer detail, the annual as a whole, and much more.

The Phantom is now 90 years young! We had to put out a special podcast to celebrate. Come join us and let us celebrate together! First of all, we put the call out to our listeners, our phriends, those who follow us on social media and a bunch of creators from around the world if they would like to send out a happy birthday wish video to the Phantom. Thanks to all of those that did so. We have collected them here. If you missed out, send through a comment or post on whatever p

In an announcement by Dudley Hogarth, the publisher for the Australian Phantom comic, the yearly Frew annual for 2026 has been delayed.

We can announce the theme for the 2026 Frew Annual which will feature crossover stories of Mandrake the Magician.

If you did not attend the Sydney Supanova event, they have now made it available to purchase on their website.

The results from Chronicle Chamber's annual poll of Frew phans' phavourites results are in! We greatly appreciate all the phans who cast their votes during the Christmas break, sharing their appreciation for the work of Frew Publications from the year that was 2024. Voting numbers remained consistent with last year's figures, and we saw a diverse group of phans from across Australia and indeed the world taking the time to express their opinions, providing us with clear insi

The 2025 Frew annual will be the Phantom battling monsters. Will be out in shops on Thursday 16 January 2025. We look at potential stories

Presenting Frew's 2000th issue featuring two classic Lee Falk stories printed in colour & a new story by Pidde Andersson & Shane Foley.

Review of Frew #1952, the 75th Anniversary Comic Celebration feat 8 stories & 180 pages of full colour & 19 creators from around the world

Excited for the Frew 75th anniversary 180 page, full colour comic out on 31 August 2023? Included are the contents & two sneak peak pages

The latest Frew Pholio set is now available to buy & we review the 13 prints by Australian cover artists featuring classic Phantom villains.

We review Frew's 8th Pholio set titled 'Generations' which features 13 prints created by popular Australian artists sold for $95 +postage.

Chronicle Chamber's annual poll on Frew 's phans' phavourites results revealed here! We now know what you loved about Frew Publications last year, as you the phans voted on your best Frew issues, stories and covers, produced and published under the extraordinary circumstances of a COVID affected 2021. After another huge response from the phans, the Best of Frew 2021 results are below, and are discussed in detail in our X-Band: The Phantom Podcast Episode #209 - Our Best of

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

Anyone reading Dudley Hogarth 's Message From The Publisher in the FREW editions published through 2021, particularly in the latter third of the year, will have some small understanding of the difficulties faced by the relatively small Australia publisher through a second COVID affected year. Based in a city that went through over 100 days of lockdown from June to October, dealing with key staff working from home, a disrupted postal services and supply issues, FREW neverthel

The trade paperback from Frew Publications is now available to buy from their website plus comic book stores and book shops. Attached is our detailed review of the book plus the seven stories inside. Our review of the board game will come soon. This is the fourth Frew TPB and follows the standard layout with the other three that does not disappoint with a slick, professional and eye catching presentation that makes it a TPB die hard and casual phans a-like will want to buy

So which did you think were the best Frew issues, stories and covers published in 2020? After a huge response from the phans, the Best of Frew 2020 survey has been run and won. Today we're pleased to be releasing the results, both here and in conjunction with our "Best of 2020" podcast. Once again we were blown away by the entries - over 210 responses in all. It's great to see so many phans, new and old, getting involved. Thanks so much to all of you who took the time to

So which did you think were the best Frew issues, stories and covers published in 2019? After a huge response from the phans, the Best of Frew 2019 survey has been run and won. Today we're releasing the results - very exciting! It was an expanded survey this year as we added a "Favourite Issue" category, and we were blown away by the entries - over 230 responses in all. The google form document went into hyperdrive on the last day in particular as votes came in thick and f

Frew have recently established a great tradition of attending the Sydney Supanova comic convention, and an even better one of releasing beautiful items for Phantom phans to enjoy. This post is a wrap up of all the items that Frew have published on their Facebook page, as well as those that Glenn Ford told us about in X-Band: The Phantom Podcast #121 . The Phantom Gallery - Series 2 Trading Cards While they're not necessarily a 'Frew Publications' product as such, the rele

So which were the most popular Frew stories and covers published in 2018? After a huge response from the phans the Best of Frew 2018 survey has been run and won, and many of you will have already heard the results on Episode #109 of X-Band: The Phantom Podcast . However today we're releasing the full set of results in written form so you can sit back and take it all in at your leisure! We were blown away by the entries - over 300 responses to the survey just about melted