Dolmen Editorial releasing Wilson McCoy & Lee Falk stories in hardcover album #20

Dolmen Editorial is now up to volume 20 in their hardcover Phantom Daily adventure release and will be shipping their preorders from next week (end of June 2026).

You can buy volume 20 here

You can buy back issues here

The good news is that it follows a more regular release date compared to prior releases. Volume 19 was released in March 2026; however, volume 18 was released May 22, 2025—basically a year prior, and volume 17 was released 16 months before that, in January 2024.

Volume #20 features stories released in 1949-1951, written by Lee Falk and illustrated by Wilson McCoy. The volume is 192 pages printed in black and white. The list of stories is likely:

• "The Thuggees"

• "The Ape Idol of the Durugu"

• "The Movie Stars"

• "The White Monkey"

• "The Gray Gang"

• "Whirlpool Channel"

Unlike Frew and other publishers, Dolmen Editoria has decided to merge the daily and Sunday versions of three stories in their reprints. This is the same as what Hermes originally did, and it is the right call.

Starting in February 1949, the Phantom Sundays and the Phantom daily strips featured the same stories. However - since several newspapers only included either the Phantom dailies or the Phantom Sundays, the stories also had to be written in such a way that the readers who didn't get both were still able to understand and appreciate the plot. As a result, the stories became quite repetitive when reading both Sundays and dailies, while the readers who only had access to either one of the two were left with some notable jumps in the storytelling. This practice was abandoned in May 1950, after four stories, which were "Father and Son", "The Flirtatious Princess", "The Thuggees", and "The Ape Idol of the Durugu".

Attached is an example of what it looks like with "The Thuggees" which is included in this volume.

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