New USA Newspapers printing Phantom stories

It is time for some good news. Back in 2020 and 2022 we saw newspaper companies in Australia and USA dropping the Phantom strip in their newspapers. Several fans and even creators have since wondered on the future of the character.

Thanks to eager eyed fan Marko Davidovic, we can celebrate that several newspapers in 2025 have added the strip to their newspaper in a surprising turn of events. Majority of the time it is the opposite so this is cause for celebration to see newspapers around the world adding the character to their diminishing comic sections.

So far we know of 14 newspapers and interestingly they have all started with the 268th Phantom daily newspaper story "The Spark" by Tony DePaul and Mike Manley. At the time it was the current daily story, with the story starting January 27th 2025 on Comics Kingdom and other newspapers, but started on these newspapers on March 4th 2025.

Perhaps this is why the story started off with a two week For Those Who Came In Late storytelling of the origin of the Phantom for potential new readers who read the newspaper.

The list of newspapers are:

• The Ann Arbor News

• The Bay City Times

• The Express-Times

• The Flint Journal

• Jackson Citizen Patriot

• The Kalamazoo Gazette

• The Muskegon Chronicle

• The Oregonian

• The Patriot-News

• The Plain Dealer (Originally known to have published the Phantom from 1963 to 1968)

• The Post-Standard

• The Saginaw News

• South Jersey Times

• The Times (Trenton) (Originally known to have published the Phantom from 2010 to 2023)