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We discuss all the Phantom comics from around Australia, USA, Germany, and Austria that was released in January & February 2026

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

Paul Mason has an essay in the new book "Folio: Essays on Australian Comics" published by Palgrave Macmillan Cham featuring the Phantom.

Review of Frew's celebratory issue 2000 with 220+ pages in full colour with a variant cover & a free pull-out poster

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

Full details on Frew's number 2000 comic incl a variant cover & the stories. Plus what they will be selling at Sydney Supanova.

Your votes revealed - FREW phan phavourites for 2023!

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

The announcement of the shortlist awards for The Comic Art Awards of Australia featuring several Phantom creators & Frew #1925 by Paul Mason

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.

Metro Comic Con will be held at the Melbourne Showgrounds on July 8th and 9th with 8 confirmed popular Phantom creators attending.

The team reviews 14 Phantom comics featuring 33 stories from Frew (Australia), Shatki, Regal (India), Sweden & Finland from May & June 2023

As revealed in our Best of 2022 podcast - the results from our annual poll of Frew phans' phavourites results are detailed here.

Time to vote for your favourite cover, story and issue that was released by Frew in 2022. 5 prizes to be won. Voting ends 5 January 2023

Frew has released a new Masked Marvel poster to go with Frew #1925. We talk with the artist Paul Mason, about the inspiration of the poster

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