Mythos Editora released their first volume of this series back in 2022, and now the second volume is open for pre-orders with delivery in September/October 2026. The Era De Ouro Dos Quadrinhos volume 2, like volume 1, will be 268 pages and feature classic newspaper stories in black and white. Click to preorder your copy here For those who do not have volume 1 of this series, this book is about King Features characters. Inside will feature articles and stories of the Phantom but also other King Features characters like Flash Gordon, Prince Valiant, Popeye, Beetle Bailey, Hagar the Horrible, and Pinduca. If you are from Brazil and will be buying this issue, we would love to have you review this book and other Mythos Editora Phantom releases for us. Please contact us at ChronicleChamber@gmail.com.

Some more great news from Norway with the Phantom returning to an Egmont Christmas book celebrating our childhood heroes and characters. This book will be on sale online and at shops from 30 October 2026, and at the time of writing, it is available for preorders. Get your copy now from Akadmika This 124-page book will feature six stories and one story from The Phantom, Mandrake the Magician, Rip Kirby, Flash Gordon, and Modesty Blaise. This book will be in an anthology format featuring an extended essay/article about the characters and other related interesting information written by Kristian Hellesund. According to the link on Akadmika, the Phantom Sunday story is drawn by Sy Barry and will be from 1990. We assume it will be the 135 Sunday Phantom story "The Eastern Dark at Janorra". The other stories featured are all classics, with the Mandrake the Magician story from 1948. The Flash Gordon story from 1953, the Rip Kirby story is from 1949, and the Modesty Blaise story is "The Black Pearl" from 1966. The sixth story we believe will be the 1992 story written by Bob Scarlatti and drawn by Romano Felmang. The story was originally commissioned by Christies' Auctions which is a British fine art auction house, and the story first in their 7 May 1992 auction catalogue featuring many comic and cartoon original artwork up for sale. You can learn more about this fascinating story that has previously been published by Comics Revue, Frew, and Sweden's Agent X9 in this article. At this stage, the cover has not been announced along with the exact details of the other stories, but when we know, you will know. We hope the cover will feature a Christmas theme to go with the celebration. Thanks go to all the phans who have messaged us with this news. If you notice us missing any Phantom-related news, please contact us at ChronicleChamber@gmail.com. If anyone wants to review this series for us, please contact us. Note, the imagery from this article is from the Daily newspaper story "Little Tommy" drawn by Ray Moore, and these panels are coloured by Guy Poissant.

Sad news has come out from Frew Publications that Dudley Hogarth has been released from his publishing duties that he has completed for 12 years. He took over the role from Steve Shepherd (son of the late Jim Shepherd) in September 2014 for Phantom issue #1706 and continued after the acquisition of Frew by Rene White in January 2016. Dudley Hogarth and Glenn Ford became the power couple behind the renaissance of the comic after the purchase as they worked together to improve the comic. Through their hard work, they saw an increase of sales and subscriptions through several improvements. These improvements and changes included a dedicated newer younger pool of cover artists, which brought a fresh style and vigorousness that caught the attention of both newer readers and also older readers who had dropped the comic. They hired creators from around the world to create new Frew-created stories, as well as releasing their own products like trading cards, posters, graphic novels, and trade paperbacks. Many phans were also excited about them attending conventions, which gave them a chance to rub shoulders with those who created their comics. On top of these changes, they produced coloured comics, variant comics, themed annuals, and coloured Daily and Sunday classic stories which pleased many a phan. Throughout all this, Dudley Hogarth continued to produce a regular fortnightly comic on time, which is not an easy task with an ever-shrinking budget and market in an ever-progressing online-saturated world. On behalf of the team at Chronicle Chamber, we want to say thank you for the friendship built, the long nights chatting Phantom at the yearly LFMBEC dinners; the train rides home from Supanova; always being a message or email away, and giving us sneak peeks of what is to come from Frew over the 10+ years. The Phantom's world will be lesser without you in it. The team will be discussing this big move from Rene White, the owner of Frew in an upcoming podcast. From what we understand, Alan Ho and Glenn Ford will step up and fill the shoes left from Dudley Hogarth. We wish you well, Alan Ho and Glenn Ford, you have big shoes to fill. Our reactions and thoughts on Dudley leaving Frew

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Australian comedian Sammy J toured his sell-out, 5-star award-winning show Hero Complex across the country throughout 2016/2017 and again in 2026 Hero complex (& the encore) Things Are Hotting Up! Australian comedian Sammy J toured his sell-out, 5-star award-winning show Hero Complex across the country throughout 2016/2017. The hilarious coming-of-age story is about a schoolboy and his gardener and their friendship based on a shared love of the comic book hero, The Phantom. Jam-packed with real-life photos, videos, and new songs, Sammy took his audiences on an unbelievably true journey across the last twenty years of his life to an incredible, must-be-seen-to-be-believed finale. In 1996, Sammy J borrowed some Phantom comics from his school gardener. That moment set off a chain of events that led to the birth of his daughter, saw him committing a crime in Canberra, and ended with a federal policeman searching his attic. After the success in 2016/17, Sammy J brought the show back for an encore tour around the country in 2026 to celebrate the character's 90th birthday. The encore show is very similar but with some important updates on what has happened since the original show. Click to view the photos from the 2016/17 tour Click to view the photos from the 2026 tour Hero Complex has won multiple awards across the comedy scene in Australia. While the tour has now completed, Sammy has hinted at others to come. Stay abreast by checking out Sammy's official website at Sammy-J.com . We've covered the show fairly extensively here on ChronicleChamber and even had the pleasure of Sammy as a guest multiple times on our X-Band: The Phantom Podcast . Episode #45 Episode #74 Episode #326 Now that Sammy is now a good friend of ChronicleChamber.com we thought it'd be cool to have something of a repository for all the cool stuff that has been released around the show from images to videos and more. Check it all out below! Awards Best Comedy Winner, 2016 Melbourne Fringe Best Comedy Nominee, 2017 Adelaide Fringe Best Comedy Nominee, 2017 Melbourne Comedy Festival Best Comedy Performer Nominee, 2017 Helpmann Awards Promos To help promote Hero Complex, Sammy and The Phantom teamed up to release several short sketches which Sammy then shared accross various social media platforms. You can watch them all in the playlist below. As well as creating these clips, Sammy also did his time on media street: ABC radio - The Conversation Hour 31 March 2017 Sammy J - ABC - The Conversation Hour with Jon Faine 00:00 / 00:00 MICF 2017 - Melbourne International Comedy Festival Interviews And of course, there were the Facebook Live videos! Gallery from the 2016/2017 show Not only was a good deal of promotional images released for Hero Complex , but Sammy was constantly accosted by phans at his shows. The below gallery includes all the promo images and photos of those lucky enough to have met the man himself (Sammy that is, not The Phantom.) Remember, if YOU have any pics from the Hero Complex tour, including you posing with Sammy J or anything else, please send them through to us via ChronicleChamber@gmail.com and we will add them to the Gallery! Gallery from the 2026 encore show Like 2016/2017 Sammy was constantly accosted by phans at his shows. The below gallery includes all the photos of those lucky enough to have met the man himself (Sammy that is, not The Phantom.) during the 2026 tour. Remember, if YOU have any pics from the Hero Complex tour, including you posing with Sammy J or anything else, please send them through to us via ChronicleChamber@gmail.com and we will add them to the Gallery! Reviews Many publications reviewed Hero Complex as Sammy toured the show around Australia: Cross Media Sammy J has been generous enough to allow the Irish publisher Lightning Strike Comic Books to use the song he wrote for Hero Complex to put behind their re-interpretation of Ray Moore's original Origin strip. And here is Tim Wilson MP's maiden speech to the Australian parliament, with his very sneaky Phantom reference (skip to 5 min 15 seconds - this will make the most sense if you've seen Hero Complex ): And finally... Possibly the most exciting moment of the Hero Complex tour for the ChronicleChamber team, as Sammy J and Duncan visited the Skull Cave of one of our own - Jermayn Parker - in a house in suburban Perth... 2016 Photos 2026 Photos