Lightning Strike & TASQ Art release new magazine supplement

Irish publisher Lightning Strike in collaboration with the comic school TASQ Art has released some exciting news on their social media accounts on top of their digital comic series and the comics in 'The Echo' Irish newspaper.

Starting with Free Comic Day on 3 May 2025 will be some supplements featuring comic stories from the King Features Syndicate catalogue of The Phantom, Flash Gordon and Popeye. These will obviously only be available in participating comic stores in Dublin, Ireland.

We assume the comic stores will also carry the Free Comic Day Phantom comic released by Mad Cave Studios.

On top of this in June 2025,  publisher Lightning Strike in collaboration with the comic school TASQ Art will be releasing a Phantom magazine. It will contain the origin strip as featured in the current 2025 story "The Spark" that was printed in newspapers and Comics Kingdom between January 27, 2025 and February 2, 2025.

This magazine will also feature information on the character which will serve as a perfect jumping on magazine for their journey to become a phan.

From what we understand, this ongoing magazine will printed and released every quarter and will be on sale on their website for €5 ($10AUD, $5USD, 55 sek/nok & 490INR). We have been informed that their desire is to be able to ship this magazine internationally to all the phans in USA, Australia, Europe and India but with some uncertainty in the world market, there may be some delays or restrictions that will be beyond their control.

The Cover Art is by Joel Folda and was first used on the digital comic Tasq Force #6.