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The omnibus collection book will be collecting the Fantomen-created "The Phantom Year One" stories, in which the 21st Phantom is badly wounded

The Phantom community was in mourning with Ulf Granberg passing in January 2026, and the new Fantomen issue that is released 29 April 2026 celebrates the impact he had on our community. We released a special podcast, X-Band: Phantom Podcast #327 - Remembering Ulf Granberg which you can watch and/or listen to. This special 100-page magazine goes one step further, remembering and honouring his impact. First up is the great cover by Henrik Salhstrom honouring Ulf Granberg a

After two years, the third TPB collection is now available to be purchased online for 15,00€ (160 sek/nok, $20US and $25AUD). Click here to buy! These TPB's are published by Egmont Kustannus which is a Finnish magazine publisher and subsidiary of the Danish media house Egmont. Petri Aarnio is the editor of these three books. This volume is printed in black and white, which the stories were originally created for, and the TPB is 104 pages. This volume the stories included ar

Ulf Granberg was a giant in the Phantom community as both a writer and editor but perhaps even more as a historian and Phantom-lore builder who added structure to the loose lore established by Lee Falk . Sadly, he recently passed, and Dan Fraser and Jermayn Parker (with a special guest) talked about his legacy and reminisced about our chat with him almost a decade ago. At the end of us talking and remembering a legend, we include some snippets from our 3-hour chat with him

Sad news has come through that sadly Ulf Granberg has passed away. In our X-Band: The Phantom Podcast #110 , the team had Ulf in the top 5 of all-time influential Phantom people. Once you look into his legacy and footprint, it is not hard to see why. Ulf Granberg became the 12th editor of Fantomen in 1973, succeeding Per-Anders Jonsson , and continued until 1987 and then returned again in 2003. He did, however, remain in charge of the Team Fantomen production between his tw

We review the 2025 Frew annual which has a monster theme with 8 stories with a mixture of colour & black and white over 220+ pages

2 hours of goodness of Phantom talk reviewing comics & news from around the world. The perfect way to spend that evening in Bangalla.

Review of the latest Australian, Swedish & Indian comics from July 2023 & discussion of all Phantom related news from around the world.

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

We interview Robert Aman about his new book "When the Phantom Became Swedish". It is a rather provocative title but is he right? Let us know

X-Band #235 is about the new Robert Aman book "When the Phantom Became a Swede" & included are the referenced stories in the book & podcast

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!! It is The Phantoms 85th Birthday - on this day back in 1936, something amazing happened with the debut of a comic strip in the newspapers that has changed the world and many peoples lives. We at Chronicle Chamber have celebrated the birthday by talking about each of the decades in detail and going over what we believe are the key moments through out the Phantoms history. Have a listen and tell us what you agree with and do not agree with. Have we missed any