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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

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

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

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

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

Podcast #244 was so long we have split it into 2 episodes. Episode #244A is a review of the Frew issues in #1935, #1936, #1937 & #1938

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

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

Frew issue 1877 is an 84 page issue which features the classic daily newspaper story " The Adventures of Lucy Cary " by Lee Falk and Sy Barry . It also features a new story titled " The Outlaws " which is a follow on story with the 19th Phantom, his wife Jane / Janie and his brother in law Dr Bart Cary. This is a new story by Swedish writer Pidde Andersson and Brazilian artist Rafael Dantas . Pidde is not new to Frew readers but Rafael is. In the comic, he was incorrectly

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

Have you read the 2019 Frew Annual yet? Every single page contributes to a great collection of past classic and new stories. It's a well printed volume filled with content from great storytelling masters, all wrapped up in a stunning and eye-catching cover. Well done Frew and all the creators! We loved the Annual so much we decided to do an early video review. Join us as we go through every story in detail looking at what was well done and what missed the mark (spoiler - not

We all know about the beautiful and successful For Those Who Came In Late trade paperback released by Frew late last year , and are excited about the prospect of a Pirates of the Red Dragon TPB to be released as a Reward level or Stretch goal in the Kickstarter campaign for The Phantom board game in November 2018. ChronicleChamber has now discovered that Frew will also be celebrating their 70th Birthday later this year with another very unique and special TPB. As we expl

Over the last six months we have seen new Phantom stories being created by Frew with the Lou Manna , Felmany, Gaslight and Kid Phantom stories. Today the team at Chronicle Chamber has learnt and can confirm that two known authors who have done work for Egmont have also been commissioned to do more Frew created stories. Their names are Philip Madden and Pidde Andersson . Philip Madden we should all know as we have interviewed him before on the XBand Podcast (Episode #22) a