The Phantom is back in Norway

November 2018 saw the cancellation of the regular Fantomet magazine. In exciting news, the Fantomet Facebook page has announced that the comic series is back. The first comic will come out in September 2025.

The news has excited many local Norwegian readers but has also been widely praised around the wider Phantom community.

The series will be a monthly release and will be 100 pages per issue. The contents will be very similar to the Swedish Fantomen series, featuring a mixture of old classic and new stories.

Interestingly, this series will feature just Phantom stories, unlike the Swedish Fantomen series, which features other comic stories.

This issue will feature four Phantom stories. Two never before published in Norway and two classics. The beauty of the two classic stories is that these will be presented in full colour for the first time to Fantomet readers.

• "The Coast of Chains" by Daniel Carlsson & Anthony Spay (published by Fantomen in 2022)

• "Death in Carpatia" by Mikael Sol & Janusz Ordon (published by Fantomen in 2019)

• "Revenge of the Drummer" by Norman Worker & Knut Westad (last published in Norway in 2015),

• "The Man Who Could Not Die" by Idi Kharelli & Georges Bess (last published in Norway in 2001),

Since the cancellation of the regular comic series in 2018, there have been several attempts to keep the character alive in the country, but they were not successful. Hopefully this new series will be the answer and be ongoing.

The Fantomet Kronologisk series stopped in 2023. The Fantomet Kronologisk reprinted stories previously published in Fantomet, chronologically from 1964 onwards.

Another series titled Nye Fantomet historier was an album series that started in 2019 but only lasted two issues.

The year album was the third series that restarted again after the initial regular comic cancellation. The yearly album initially stopped in 1987 and was again picked up in 2021 and has continued to 2024, and we assume will also be out again in 2025.