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Welcome to our 200th celebration for X-Band: The Phantom Podcast. It has been an amazing ride for the last 8+ years. Chronicle Chamber gives thanks to the past and present hosts in Joe Douglas, Lindsay Walker, Jermayn Parker, Stephen East, Dan Fraser and Matt Kyme along with our many correspondents including Mikael Lyck and Ankit Mitra. To celebrate the 200th, our patreons were invited to chat with the newspaper adventure creators Tony DePaul, Mike Manley and Jeff Weigel. Wha

We manage to get the podcast under two hours as we review 6 weeks of comics from Frew Publications and Fantomen by regulars Jermayn Parker, Dan Fraser and Stephen East with input by Mikael Lyck and Ankit Mitra. plus all the latest Phantom news from around the world across five continents with new comics from around the world, items to buy for Christmas, a new kickstarter campaign to follow plus much more. Stephen East goes on a long run up to digest the three part saga of the

During our recording of our 200th podcast with our patreons and newspaper creators Tony DePaul, Mike Manley and Jeff Weigel, Tony was asked about the 21st Phantoms death. Not only did he answer but he talked about the current daily newspaper story "To Wrack and Ruin at Gravelines" and how it will show the DEATH OF THE 21ST PHANTOM. Because it was such an amazing 15-minute chat, we decided to cut it out of the 200th podcast and present it together in a separate, stand-alone mi

Jermayn Parker and Dan Fraser with input by regulars Mikael Lyck, Stephen East and Ankit Mitra review all the latest Phantom news and comics from around the world across five continents. We review comics from Frew Publications, Regal Publications and Fantomen plus spend time discussing a big month of Phantom news of new publishers and comics to come in the near future, new items to buy plus some new dates for Supanova events in Australia for the back end of 2021. Frew also dr

Mikael Lyck is joined by regulars Dan Fraser and Jermayn Parker in reviewing the latest comics and news from Australia, Sweden and around the world. With the team at Chronicle Chamber releasing other topical podcasts it meant the normal practice of a comics and news podcast once a month did not happen. Here we present a review of the comics from May and June. Episode #192B will contain all the news from the past two months. We also discuss the latest happenings with the Sunda

Every since we started this website and the X-Band: The Phantom Podcast one of the most common questions we have received is when will we get to hear from someone from King Features and or Hearst? It has always been a goal for us as we ourselves had a million and one questions that we wanted to ask. After 200 podcasts we got the chance and while we did not get to ask them all, we spent 90 minutes racing through as many questions as possible. A huge thanks must go to Tea Fougn

We are joined by past Phantom Sunday artist, Terry Beatty who drew the Phantom in the KFS Sunday newspaper strip between the dates of January 29, 2012 and the last one on May 7, 2017. He drew 9 complete stories and 2 part stories including gems like "Mandrake's Bon Voyage", "Death Stalks the 5th Phantom" and "The Shadows of Rune Noble". Terry is part of the exclusive club that both drew The Phantom and Batman, only the third credited artist to draw both the Phantom and Mandra

We have not released a comics and news for a while and it shows with an almost three hour long podcast. Stay with us and be prepared to go through several cups of coffee and trips to and from work as we talk about everything from the past couple of months. Luckily Ikon Collectors have just released a new Phantom coffee mug to help you through this bumper podcast. As some may only want to listen to parts of the podcast, we have included a time stamp of each topic. Either way,

By now most phans know of Wulfic Media and their huge range of Phantom rings they have released. What follows is an almost two hour chat with Kelby Wooldridge and the team at Chronicle Chamber. We talk about Kelby as a phan, his journey from country Western Australia to Queensland to producing some of the best most meticulous Phantom rings any phan has ever seen since the 1940's when the first Phantom ring was produced. We also touch upon important topics like: The design pro