New Brazilian fanzine with Phantom stories

Roberto Guedes, a Brazilian reporter, former Phantom magazine editor, and Phantom phan has released a fanzine with a heavy Phantom influence focusing on local artists Gutemberg Monteiro and Walmir Amaral. This is the 11th issue from the "Forca Maxima" series and the first one focused on the Phantom, with other issues focusing on other mainstream and local characters and stories.

Roberto Guedes website is guedes-manifesto.blogspot.com but if you want to get a copy for your collection, the best option is to contact him directly either via the website or via Facebook.

The cover features artwork by Gutemberg Monteiro which was originally used on Fantasma #85 published by RGE in 1964. It has been flipped and coloured by John Castelhano which gives it a more modern look.

Gutemberg Monteiro who passed in 2012, started his career in 1943 and became one of the first Brazilians to work in the American market in the 1960's. He contributed to the Warren magazines Eerie and Creepy, and then illustrated many "Tom & Jerry" Sunday pages under the pen name Goott, as well as "Casper the Friendly Ghost" and "Hot Stuff the Little Devil".

Inside this magazine it will contain reproductions of two stories.

"O Tesouro Submerso" ("The Sunken Treasure") was originally published in Fantasma 85, 1964, and was an adaptation of The Singh Brotherhood story by Lee Falk and Ray Moore.

"Os Invasores da Floresta Negra" ("The Invaders of the Deep Woods") by Elias Barrocas, Walmir Amaral de Oliveira, and Milton Sardella. It was first published in Fantasma 168 (1970). The story is about renegade aliens battling the Phantom in an entertaining science fiction plot—a type of plot generally avoided in stories written by Lee Falk.

Thanks to Andreas Eriksson and Celso Nunes for the heads-up on this new publication. If there are any Brazilian phans who would like to review these comics and magazines for Chronicle Chamber, contact us at ChronicleChamber@gmail.com.