New German comic series celebrating Heiner Bade from Comics und Mehr

One of the world's most popular and long-lasting creators of the Phantom, Heiner Bade is from Germany, which has a rich history of the Phantom. This includes a current mini renaissance with many Germanic publishers publishing new and old classic stories in several publications - all of these are reviewed on our Chronicle Chamber website and YouTube Channel.

Starting in 2026, German comic publisher Comics und Mehr (translated to Comics and More) will be starting a new series celebrating the Phantom's 90th anniversary and Heiner Bade. The series will be featuring six volumes in total, and all in colour. Each volume will feature two stories and will be 72 pages in total. In the blurb on their website, they do make mention that one of Heiner Bade's true classic stories, "The Ku Klux Klan," will be featured in one of the volumes.

Volume one will be released in March-April 2026 and feature "The Ghost Pirate," written by Donne Avenell, first published in 1987, and "The White Elephant," written by Claes Reimerthi, first published in 2008. At this stage we do not know the contents for the other volumes, but with 90+ other stories, the publisher has a lot of great stories to choose from.

From what we understand, each volume will also feature a variant hardcover edition limited to 77 copies. The first volume will feature a cover by Henrik Salhstrom which was originally used for a different story, "Broken Tusk" and was published in Fantomen 5/2024. The variant cover is a new Heiner Bade cover not published before.

If you are interested in buying these issues, we recommend contacting them via their website. They have subscription options and do ship outside of Germany to limited countries.