Details of the Norwegian Egmont "Jul med barndommens helter" (Christmas with Childhood heroes) 2026 Christmas album
- Jermayn Parker
- 6 hours ago
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Some more great news from Norway with the Phantom returning to an Egmont Christmas book celebrating our childhood heroes and characters. This book will be on sale online and at shops from 30 October 2026, and at the time of writing, it is available for preorders.
This 124-page book will feature six stories and one story from The Phantom, Mandrake the Magician, Rip Kirby, Flash Gordon, and Modesty Blaise. This book will be in an anthology format featuring an extended essay/article about the characters and other related interesting information written by Kristian Hellesund.
According to the link on Akadmika, the Phantom Sunday story is drawn by Sy Barry and will be from 1990. We assume it will be the 135 Sunday Phantom story "The Eastern Dark at Janorra".
The other stories featured are all classics, with the Mandrake the Magician story from 1948. The Flash Gordon story from 1953, the Rip Kirby story is from 1949, and the Modesty Blaise story is "The Black Pearl" from 1966.
The sixth story we believe will be the 1992 story written by Bob Scarlatti and drawn by Romano Felmang. The story was originally commissioned by Christies' Auctions which is a British fine art auction house, and the story first in their 7 May 1992 auction catalogue featuring many comic and cartoon original artwork up for sale.
You can learn more about this fascinating story that has previously been published by Comics Revue, Frew, and Sweden's Agent X9 in this article.
At this stage, the cover has not been announced along with the exact details of the other stories, but when we know, you will know. We hope the cover will feature a Christmas theme to go with the celebration.
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 series for us, please contact us. Note, the imagery from this article is from the Daily newspaper story "Little Tommy" drawn by Ray Moore, and these panels are coloured by Guy Poissant.
