Crowd fundraiser for new Norwegian Fantomet book
Updated: 23 minutes ago
Back in August 2026, we announced a new Fantomet Norway book to come out. The crowd funding campaign for the book is now live, and the best news is that for those who live outside Norway, you can pledge as well.
The hardcover book with a dust jacket cover will be 320 pages and contain six classic Phantom stories written by Lee Falk and drawn by Ray Moore and Wilson McCoy. These stories will be printed in black and white. The restoration and lettering of the stories in Norwegian from the original English is by Ivan Pedersen.
This book includes over 50 pages of editorial pages which will be written by several of the editors and publishers and will feature colour pages throughout the ditorial pages. The editorial team consists of Jostein Hansen, Kristian Hellesund and Peder J. Bjørkmann. The layout and design of the cover and the book is by Per Mork.
The important thing to remember for those undecided about ordering the book is that there will only be 500 copies of the book printed; this will fast become a collector's edition. The book is hopefully to be printed and launched from the middle to the end of December 2026.
For those who live outside Norway and want to pledge. YOU CAN NOT PLEDGE OUTSIDE OF NORWAY. Contact the publisher via e-mail (post@jbforlag.no) so they can calculate postage with your order. Payment must then be done via PayPal.
As mentioned when we announced this new book. John Berge is a journalist and publisher. He has been involved in the comics scene in Norway for years. When he started the publisher company John Berge Forlag (JB Forlag), it was to publish comics. The only comic publication he got to market was five James Bond albums in 2000 and 2001. After that, he concentrated on trade magazines and websites for the video business, later the movie business and PRO AV and the toy business. He also runs a local newspaper in his hometown, Kristiansund.
Berge also published a comic fanzine in the 80s, Ny Dimensjon, when he was only 14 to 16 years old, and he wrote articles for Semic in the 1990s. Later he was hired as the editor of their (and later Egmont’s after the buyout of Semic) comic magazine Seriesamler’n, from 1996 to 2008. He also wrote editorial content for Egmont’s Christmas comics for many years 2005-2015, plus translated and InDesign-set up of the last two Tarzan-comic albums (1&2/2017).
We find it interesting that this is a new publisher and not Egmont Norway. It follows the Danish publisher E-voke publishing the Phantom. We wonder if it means that a smaller publisher can survive on a smaller margin of profit than a larger publishing house like Egmont.
Thanks go to all the phans who have messaged us with this news. If you notice us missing any Phantom-related news, please contact us at ChronicleChamber@gmail.com. If anyone wants to review this book for us, please contact us.
