When talking to Grange in X-Band: The Phantom Podcast Ep #168 we talked about villains and his rogues gallery. Ironically back in 2007 Paul Jonassen a Norwegian phan wrote for Chronicle Chamber and gave his top 10 villains. Now 13 years later we are going to relook at this list and the rest of the CC crew will add theirs. It is only fair to be joined by Paul and give him a chance to revisit his list. It is a great two hour chat and we not only discuss our top 10 villains but discuss who should return, what makes a great villain and do villains have a shelf life? We discuss many other important points including our own selection criteria's. You will enjoy this chat. Between Jermayn's, Stephens, Dan's and Paul's top 10 lists, there are 25 different villains and or organisations. Below are the top 10 lists and then our combined top 10 list. We would love to hear from you on what your top 10 villains are. Paul's 2007 Top 10 Villains Kigali Lubanga General Bababu Dogai Singh Ralp Mars Baron Grover Bail Rama Singh Sala Goldhand The Marshall Sisters Paul's 2020 Top 10 Villains Kigali Lubanga General Bababu Dogai Singh Manuel Ortega Bail Irma Faustenberg Cammell Chatu Sandal Singh Goldhand Jermayn's Top 10 Villains Kigali Lubanga Chatu Dogai Singh The Nomad Baron Grover Rama Singh The Black Carnation Princess Sin Sandal Singh Vultures Dan's Top 10 Villains Vultures The Nomad Singh Brotherhood Bababu Mountain Princes The Sky Band Chatu Kigali Lubanga Scorpia / Hydra Drummer of Timpanni Stephen's Top 10 Villains Vultures Singh Brotherhood The Nomad Kigali Lubanga Kurt Walker (N’Darma the Weather Demon) Mountain Princes The Butterfly Man General Bababu The Lady Luck Pirates Witch doctors Our Combined Top 10 Villains Kigali Lubanga The Nomad Vultures Bababu Singh Brotherhood Chatu Dogai Singh Mountain Princes Manuel Ortega Bail Baron Grover Kurt Walker (N’Darma the Weather Demon) As you can see we have both Dogai Singh and the Singh Brotherhood organisation both in the top ten and Bail, Baron Grover and Kurt Walker (N’Darma the Weather Demon) all equal 10th. We would love to hear from you on what your top 10 villains are. You can email us at chroniclechamebr@gmail.com or via our social media profiles: Facebook, Twitter and or Instagram. Do not forget to subscribe and leave a review on our podcast and or our YouTube Channel.

In Sweden the comic book Fantomen have being published since 1950, it is the second oldest ongoing comic book with only Kalle Anka & Co (Donald Duck) as older ongoing comic book, from 1948. Fantomen has traditionally been fortnightly published but have also been tried previously as a weekly and a monthly comic book. In 2007, the occurrence of double issues premiered with 2 showing up that year. The number of double issues have increased since that until the current schedule that was introduced 2012 with 7 double issues and 12 regular issues. I have been told that the biggest reasons to have double issues is that they can be longer at the newsagents and stores, saving costs of sending them there and taking returns. But for many the worries of the Swedish Phantom phan community is that with the issues getting fewer and fewer, it is historically not a good sign, because they are seldom increased again. For example the Norwegian Fantomet magazine had the same publishing schedule and then they introduced double issues in 2007 and continued to increase them, from 7 double issues in 2012, to 8 double issues in 2013 and from 2014 all of the issues were double issues - so 13 double issues. The 13 issues per year continued until the last issue of the regular series in 2018. History lesson over, what I want to conclude is that fewer issues are bad for the livelihood of a comic book but it is more cost effective to have fever issues sent to newsagent. The real revenue is converting readers into subscribers. Back to Kalle Anka & Co, which is published each week, with 52 issues per year. They recently announced that they are starting to only send out every second issue to stores and newsagents and the rest will be exclusive to subscribers. That should mean that they will save costs from sending half their issues to newsagents and probably increasing the number of subscribers that want all the issues. One could argue that this since Kalle Anka & Co and Fantomen have the same owner, if this works fine it could be the future of Fantomen too. Another good thing this could lead to is that they could start with 26 issues a year for subscribers and a problem I have talked about earlier is that some issues aren't good as an introduction to the Phantom for new readers, then these issues could be only for subscribers while more independent stories could be sold in stores to get in more new readers. What do you think? Could this be a valid option for Fantomen?

Today we get to chat with the Brazilian artist who drew the Dynamite Entertainment "The Last Phantom" series which was a series based on a concept by Alex Ross and Scott Beatty. The first issue of "The Last Phantom" was published in August 2010 and the last (issue #12) in February 2012. Famousily (or infamously) the first issue of series was published in ten variants, some limited to very few copies. In total, there were 60 cover variants produced for the 12 issues in the series. Let us now learn about the artist Eduardo Ferigato, who drew the 12 issues in the series. Chronicle Chamber: Can you tell us a bit about yourself? What country and region are you from? Eduardo Ferigato: Hey guys, My name is Eduardo Ferigato, I’m a comic book artist and I live in Brazil, in the city of Campinas, which is in the Sao Paulo estate. CC: Where did you study art? EF: I studied art in several art schools, the major one being Quanta Academia de Artes. That is in Sao Paulo city. CC: Is there anyone in particular who has inspired you and influenced your work? EF: I think the major person that influenced me, made me passionate about comics and inspired me to be a comic artist was Frank Miller. His work in Dark Knight Returns still amazes me to this day. After that, Joe Madureira, Roger Cruz, Mike Mignola, Bruce Timm and most recently the Italian artists Ivo Millazo and Gigi Cavenaggo. CC: What made you want to be an artist? EF: I have always drawn since I was a kid. I would sit in front of the television, watching Hanna Barbera cartoons and would draw. After that, this passion turned to comics. Since it was something that I loved doing, it was a big surprise to know that I could do that for a living. CC: How did you get the role of the Last Phantom series for Dynamite? EF: At the time I was in the Chiaroscuro agency, that takes care of the work of several Brazilian artists for the American comic market. So my agent got me the job. CC: Did you know of the Phantom before you started work on those stories? Did you ever read the character? EF: I did know about the Phantom, my father was a big fan of the character, and I have watched the Defenders of the Earth cartoons with him when I was young. CC: Did you have to research a lot for the series? EF: No I did not, I have downloaded some of the classic material, and with the visual references and character models from Alex Ross it was enough. CC: Did you like working on the Phantom? EF: It was a fun series to work on. And my first major comic character, so it holds a special place to me. CC: How was it working on a series influenced and written by Scott Beatty and Alex Ross? Did you work closely with them? EF: At the time, I talked most with the editors at Dynamite. I think I’ve exchanged two or three emai ls with Alex about some concepts that I did for issue 3, but nothing further than that. CC: The Last Phantom is famous for the berry juice dripping costume instead of the traditional skin tights. Did you design that? EF: No, that was all Alex Ross. At the time, Dynamite has hired him to create the visuals for the character. He was the one who created the berry juice and the invisible suit visuals. CC: How was the challenge of drawing the Phantom in the jungle in one issue, fighting pirates on the high seas in the next and then the city in the other issues? EF: I think that as an artist, that was the best part of it. Every issue had a different mood and location, that makes it fresh and a challenge for me as I had to research the references, and environments that would work for the story. CC: Was the series ever only 12 issues? Was there ever any talk about it being a regular series? The series ended on a cliffhanger with the Phantom in trouble. EF: I guess that it started with the intention to be a regular series, but the sales didn’t go so well, after some time, they told me the series would end on issue 12. CC: Devil and Hero who are shown from issue one, do you see them as descents of the 21st Phantoms? In issue 6, we see a pup that looks like Devil. EF: Yes, they were descendants. I guess the idea was that the guys that took care of the phantom legacy, has breed animals for the future generations of the Phantom. CC: Some phans did not enjoy the series because of the modernisation of the suit, the 22nd Phantom killing people and the fact that the 22nd Phantom stopped being the Phantom. How do you see the series? EF: To be honest, when I heard I was going to work on the Phantom, I thought it would be with the original Phantom, not his son. Phantom killing people did not bother me, I wasn’t a reader of the original, and for me, a guy who walked with to pistols on his waist would have to use them at some point...lol As I’ve said, if it was for me to decide, I would go for adventures with the original Phantom, protecting the jungle and all. I’ve read some of the original material and really liked it. The idea of a son who was always conflicted about being the Phantom or not bothered me a bit. But at the time, I did not have any choice on the matter, so, that being said, it was fun to draw it anyway. My favorite arc is the second one, that is more action packed and reminds me more of the source material. CC: Did you enjoy adding in the Easter Eggs with things like the Mr Walker alias and coat? Did you have to research Phantom Lore elements like that? EF: I haven’t. That credit goes all to Scott. CC: In the flash backs with the 21st and 22nd Phantom, he is in a red costume. Is that a tribute for South America where he is red? EF: Yes! CC: Did you enjoy issue 7 with the different design past adventure with the movie star Fawkes? EF: I loved it. It was a lot of fun. CC: Did you follow what Dynamite did after your series? Do you have any feedback on it? EF: No I haven’t. At this time I started to work on my own projects and was also working on a mobile games company, so I was out of mainstream comics for a while. CC: Do you work traditionally using pencils, inks on paper or do you prefer working on the computer? EF: On the Phantom I did inks in some issues traditionally, and others on digital. The layouts were always digital, after that I would print the pages and make the inks with brushes and pens. CC: Do you accept commissions and how can they contact you? EF: I rarely have time for commissions, but sometimes I open lists on my social networks, you guys can follow me on Instagram and Facebook and follow the news :) CC: Do you have a place where phans can see your work? EF: Instagram: @eduardoferigato and Eduardo Ferigato on Facebook. And also, here’s my portfolio on Behance: https://www.behance.net/eduardoferigato

"Vigil at Phantom Head" is the 190th Phantom Sunday story. The story is written by Tony DePaul and drawn by Jeff Weigel. This story features a policeman who is a descendant of Emperor Joonkar and during the adventure the 21st Phantom along with the policeman talk about The 7th Phantom and Emperor Joonkar and their adventures together. Jeff Weigel has been on fire and has referenced several panels originally from past Sy Barry stories. Tony DePaul is also having fun recounting the stories but also using this as an opportunity to clean up some past inconsistencies. Inconsistencies within Lee Falk's stories is nothing new with many creators trying to make sense of them in new stories. Along with fixing the inconsistencies it also helps tie the pre and post Falk newspaper timelines together as well. The most obvious inconsistency in the Joonkar tale is the telling of how the Phantom first met and saves Joonkar. Lee Falk over the years mentions both a tiger and a lion plus killing and not killing the tiger. Naturally we asked Tony DePaul about this. This is what he had to say: The fact that he told the Joonkar story several different ways over the years. As you know, he could be lax on continuity sometimes… It’s a tiger, it’s a lion, Phantom kills the tiger, Phantom kicks the tiger… I thought it would be fun to incorporate the various versions into a separate story. Of course, that becomes a hall-of-mirrors thing, wheels within wheels… was it Falk telling that “wrong” version way back when, or was it the lore standing off and regarding itself? Some kind of metanarrative? Let us now look at some research on this origin story of Joonkar. Let us start with the two modern day Sundays drawn by Jeff Weigel. The first appears on the 8 and 15 of November 2020. Here are the story mentions from the past, telling the various storylines. Sunday 69 "The Golden Sands of Keela-Wee" By Lee Falk & Sy Barry. Originally ran in newspapers between 15 May 1966 and 11 December 1966. The original telling of the story shows killing a tiger. Sunday 99 "Joonkar and the Slavers" by Lee Falk and Sy Barry. Originally ran in newspapers between 18 April 1976 and 29 August 1976. This shows killing the lion but also hunting a tiger later on. Sunday 125 "Phantom Head Peak" By Lee Falk and Sy Barry. Originally ran in newspapers between 12 January 1986 and 27 April 1986. First and only time sparing the animal, in this case a tiger. Daily 191 "Joomkar's Crown" by Lee Falk, George Olesen and Keith Williams. Originally ran in newspapers between 17 November 1997 and 18 April 1998. This shows killing a lion. As you can see, the four times it shows this origin tale of how the 7th Phantom and Joonkar meet in the newspapers it has the animals two times being a lion and two times a tiger. Interesting only once has it been shown he spared the animal - the rest the animal was killed. If we are to take this one step further, we will look at all the other non newspaper stories with the origin tale also being told. The following stories retell the origin story: Avon Publications "The Story of the Phantom #1" (1972) has the Phantom rescuing Joonkar from a lion. Team Fantomen "The Last Emperor", Fantomen 17/1990 & Frew #1568 (2010) shows The Phantom rescuing Joonkar from a lion. Moonstone "The Phantom: Ghost Who Walks #0" (2009) shows The Phantom rescuing Joonkar from a tiger. After doing this and not including Tony DePauls correction of the tale, there are more retelling of the lion version than the emperor being rescued from a tiger. We are unsure if Tony went through nearly 20 stories of stories being published from three continents over nearly a 60 year period like we did or whether he just made the judgement call that Tigers usually are not found in Africa. Lee Falk himself tried to correct his own mistake with the 138 Sunday story "Tiger, Tiger" drawn by Sy Barry published between 24 May 1992 and 6 December 1992 explaining how tigers came to be in the jungles of Bengalla. Do you like current creators exploring, fixing and adding to Lee Falk's mythos?

1991 was dubbed by Frew Publications as the year of the Phantom which included a Phantom exhibition along with the first Annual issue #972. The Phantom art Gallery opened on 1 February 1991 and ran until 22 February at the D.C. Art Gallery in Paddington, Sydney. The exhibition was curated by art director Michael Naggy with artist Peter Kingston and Frew Jim Shepherd contributing with artwork and merchandise. Together 30+ artists contributed to the gallery, The opening night was a black tie event which was invite only with limited public spots available. All funds from tickets and the auction of specific artworks went to the Starlight Foundation of Australia. Double tickets were sold for $80 - to the right is a scan of a ticket for the event. Some art pieces were donated by celebrities like cricketer Ian Chappell, TV personality Jeff McMullen, Richard Morecroft among others. We have been able to hunt down some prices that some of the artworks sold for. Phantom Fetish by Richard Morecroft sold for $700 A triptych from David Lyle sold for $210 The Ghost who Baulks by Brett Whiteley featuring a Mona Lisa cut out wearing a black mask sold for $3,250 Ian Chappell's sporting print titled The Phantom Lawry on the Attack dedicated to his cricket co-commentator Bill Lawry sold for $100. The Phantom at Glenrowan by Jeff McMullen sold for $200 The exhibition also included other items besides art pieces including many items from the Frew archives including printing plates from the 1930's, Phantom comics books from around the world, original cover art, merchandise and much more. One of our favourite pieces from the gallery has to be the chess set - instead with white and black, it features the good guys and bad guys including the Google Eyed Pirates, Lady Luck Pirates, Guran and the Pygmies and of course Diana. Some eager eyed phans will spot a few similar pieces in other more recent 2014-2017 Phantom art galleries organised by Peter Kingston and Dietmar Lederwasch. This is just a small sample from the evening: Hundreds of phans attended the event and the event helped raise the profile of the Phantom with newspaper articles around Sydney and other mediums it also did cause some negative attention including an article by the Post Magazine highlighting three pieces that show the Phantom in rather unique situations. Artist David Nelson (right) painting titled "Take That" with The Phantom with his hands bound. Ron Waugh's depiction of the Phantom cupping a mans face all caused some different reactions. One famous phan Max Walker who played senior AFL for Melbourne and Cricket for Australia was apparently one of those not impressed. To help capitalise on this event and the 1000th Frew issue, Frew also released a Media Kit which went out to celebrities', media houses and much more. Thanks to Peter Kingston he was able to send through some photos from phans and people who attended the opening night. Some of these photos are in colour while others are scans from newspaper articles we were able to hunt down. Some prominent attendees who attended the opening night were Martin Sharp, Jennifer Byrne, Andrew Denton, actor Noah Taylor and politician Malcolm Turnbull. Photos and some information has been sourced by Peter Kingston, Trevor Clark and Keith Bennett who attended the event. Thanks also to Jon Cookson and Glenn Ford for their input and access to files that has been scanned and are included in the Phantom Preservation Project - you can find out about the project here.

Mythos started with a bang in July 2019 bring out Phantom comics again. Their first comic issue featured a brilliant cover by popular Brazilian artist Alexandre Jubran with not one but two new Team Fantomen stories. The Team Fantomen stories were from 2015 to 2016 and surprisingly started off with a story featuring Sandal Singh and her birth of Nadir who may or may not be the 21st Phantoms child. It is a very weird way to start a new series. Especially when you think that majority of the readers would have no idea of the storyline and backstory. After a unique first issue cover, they then started using rebadged Fantomen covers. After two years for some reason in the regular O Fantasma series they have decided to publish newspaper stories instead. I find it weird as they also currently have their own separate series Crônicas do Fantasma which already print classic newspaper stories originally published in the 1940's and 1950's. Is there a reason for this? Am I the only one who finds it all a bit weird? It would be interesting to learn why Mythos have switched to just newspaper stories and not continue with the Team Fantomen stories. From what I have seen talking to phans & on social media, the Team Fantomen stories were fairly well received. Is it a case of finances were publishing them is more expensive? Does this mean that the series was not making enough money? Are you a Mythos comic reader? What do you think about the move away from Team Fantomen stories? Did you enjoy them? Would you like to see them return to these stories?

King Features Syndicate has some real issues with The Phantom license. A month ago Shakti Comics from India announced they would be publishing The Phantom in Hindi, Bengali and.... English! Everyone was taken aback as The Phantom was already being published by Regal Comics who had out out 15 comics from the previous year and already in English! Two licensees of the same character in the same country in the same language?? It's not a new situation. King Features has always been short sighted. The infamous Moonstone / Dynamite situation 10-12 years ago comes to mind. It was an extremely sad and unfortunate way that Moonstone wrapped up their comics to just finish with their license. Dynamite debuted with the criticised 'The Last Phantom' series and it got worse with every comic that came out afterwards. The sheer move of giving the same license to two publishers in the same region for the same language seems like a real unprofessional move. Back to the Regal and Shakti situation... Initially the speculation was that KFS did some sort of division in terms of content between the two companies but then Shakti announced they are also reprinting current running dailies too. Does this make sense to you? Here are two active publishers in the same country putting out the same material from a shared content pool! How does it benefit either publishing house? Can they both survive? In the end it is likely that one of Regal or Shakti will fold. Shakti publishing the comics in 3 different languages seems less likely. Who knows what plans from Regal have now gone awry thanks to another licensee being given the same license and same library to print from. It is this writers opinion that KFS has blundered their Phantom license and left many phans bitter many a time with some of their decisions bordering on self destruction. It had come to light later that DC Comics' Phantom run didn't come to an end due to low sales, but rather KFS' greed to hike up the license money once they got wind the series was gaining acclaim. They lost writer Tony DePaul for a brief moment (corporate greed on creator rights) before somehow managing to right all wrongs and get him back. Moonstone's exit is still something many phans are sore about (including from the Chronicle Chamber team). It seems KFS over the decades has hardly been active in promoting or pushing The Phantom license and preferred staying with the status quo. This is the reason why The Phantom readership continues to dwindle and the new generation of comic lovers are completely ignorant about the character. In a country like India where generations have treated the character as almost an Indian one, he has been neglected for too long. Regal and Shakti, could have been a harmonious relationship of cultivating new readers but are now reduced to competitors - thrown into the colosseum of Indian Readership to battle it out while KFS sits back and watches from the stands. This begs the questions. How can KFS make such decisions with a clear conscience? What security do future licensees have? The author of this article has requested to remain nameless. We have respected his wishes. If you want to submit any feedback, please contact us at chroniclechamber@gmail.com

In episode 196 of X-Band: The Phantom Podcast the Phellas discuss the elements of the Phantom that they think are the most important to the character. They are the elements that make The Phantom The Phantom not just some generic spandex wearing comic hero. Over the coming weeks Chronicle Chamber will post a series of polls to get your opinions about what you think are the most important elements to our hero. With the current Sunday Story retrofitting different costumes to previous generations of Phantoms, our first poll will be on The Phantom’s uniform. You can answer this week's poll here or below. Feel free to discuss your responses on our socials but as always please keep your arguments civil (Old Social Media Saying) Happy Phantoming! Picture Credits Mask - Paul Ryan D219 31/1 Rings - Sal Velluto Frew 1772 Cover Pants - Paul Ryan D219 5/4 Suit - Glenn Lumsden Frew 1790 Cover Belt - Wilson McCoy S37

In episode 196 of X-Band: The Phantom Podcast the Phellas discuss the elements of the Phantom that they think are the most important to the character. They are the elements that make The Phantom The Phantom not just some generic spandex wearing comic hero. Over the coming weeks Chronicle Chamber will post a series of polls to get your opinions about what you think are the most important elements to our hero. Last week's poll was on the Phantom's uniform, this week's looks at The Places. Feel free to discuss your responses on our socials but as always please keep your arguments civil (Old Social Media Saying) Happy Phantoming! Image Credits Phantom Country Banner - Sy Barry Skull Cave - Sy Barry D81 Deep Woods - Paul Ryan D231 11/3 Jungle - Paul Ryan D216 17/4 Bangalla - Ozcan Eralp Frasertown - Ray Moore D003 Phantom Country - Sy Barry S142

In episode 196 of X-Band: The Phantom Podcast the Phellas discuss the elements of the Phantom that they think are the most important to the character. They are the elements that make The Phantom The Phantom not just some generic spandex wearing comic hero. Over the last couple of weeks Chronicle Chamber have posted a series of polls to get your opinions about what you think are the most important elements to our hero. So far the polls have covered the Phantom's uniform and places. This week concentrates on one place in particular, The Skull Cave. What makes the Skull Cave so integral to The Phantom and not simply a derivative of the Bat Cave? So much happens in the Skull Cave, it’s where new Phantoms are born and where old Phantoms are laid to rest. There are treasure rooms, meeting places and of course the Skull Throne. You can make your selection below or click here to be taken to a new screen. Feel free to discuss your choice in the comments on our socials, but please keep your arguments civil (Old Facebook Saying). Image Credits Skull Throne - Paul Ryan D238 The Treasure Rooms - Paul Ryan D238 The Crypt - Paul Ryan D238 The Vault - Sy Barry S111 The Chain - Wilson McCoy S034 X-Band - Sy Barry D112 Chronicle Chamber - Paul Ryan D238 Hall of Costumes - Paul Ryan D238

Brazilian publisher Mythos recently announced editorial changes to their Phantom titles. Since 2019, Mythos has been publishing the Phantom in Brazil again, after a considerable period in which the character was absent from publications in the country, making a bold investment in the character with more than one comic line. The periodic were: “Crônicas do Fantasma” (The Phantom Chronicles): With stories from the daily and Sunday comics written by Lee Falk and illustrated by Ray Moore and Wilson McCoy. “O Fantasma” (The Phantom) – Initially with stories from Team Fantomen (#1 through #8) and then with stories from the most recent newspaper adventures (#9 through #12). Mythos has also published special hardbacks ("Danger in the Forbidden City” and “Jim Aparo's Complete Charlton Comics”) in addition to an Avon book “The Scorpia Menace”. But now Mythos has announced changes. The “Chronicles of the Phantom” comic series will continue to be published in the same format (15.5 x 21 cm) and publishing the character's classic stories. However unfortunately, “The Phantom” comic title has been discontinued for more than one reason. Firstly, the title sells less than “Chronicles of the Phantom”. A lot of Brazilian readers were divided over this publication, as some refused to read the Swedish stories on the grounds that they were not written by Lee Falk. Others preferred the Swedish stories because they were new and more interesting. Another main reason is the country's economic crisis, aggravated by the Covid-19 pandemic and uncertainties in the political scenario, which affects the distribution of magazines across the country and also forces consumers to cut spending. According to information from the marketing department of Mythos, from 2022 the publisher will release a new title "The Phantom", with the proposal to publish a bound larger comic with a greater number of pages and with closed arcs of stories from Ghost Who Walks. This has excited many Brazilian fans, as they may get to see newspaper stories like “The Death of Diana Palmer Walker” and the stories featuring bad guys like Nomad and Python. The Fantasma Brasil Channel will be helping Mythos with editorials for future comics and as soon as we have additional information, we will share it with the entire phan community including here.

After the news of Wulfric Media / Reapers Quest starting a Go Fund Me campaign for their "Phantom Treasure" game some phans were confused on exactly what it was for. After talking to owner Kelby Wooldridge, we at Chronicle Chamber now understand what the game is about. Hopefully you will to. If you have any further questions, you can contact Kelby via the companies Facebook account. The best way to describe the game is a board-based treasure hunt with a web content element. There are ten miniatures on the board that forms a map of Phantom's country and its major landmarks. Made up of 15 (fifteen) centimeter square tiles, the board encompasses a space 45 centimeters by 75 centimeters. The board itself is self-contained with all the clues and a login to your personal entry form via online. This is not a geo-cache or a game with any travel required. You need the completed board, placed miniatures and a computer with a web connection, that is it. Each miniature is a cast non-lead based pewter model based on art from Glenn Ford from Frew Publications. Here is some of the artwork drawings you have already seen before (originally reported here). This artwork is then to be transformed into 3D models like the following: It is worth noting that the models here are shown in 3D printed resin and are not the final version. It takes a lot of work to transfer a 2D drawing to a 3D model. The Phantom World map is also designed by Glenn Ford, with locations of the landmarks and tribes from the Phantom storyline, making it one of the most comprehensive to date. Every month, once it is for sale, a miniature will be shipped to you with the last month containing the map. When you receive your miniature, you have to confirm receipt of it by logging into the website. With the last shipment, the game will start five days after the last person has confirmed their shipment. Only then will you get the first clue to start the hunt. You only get the next clue once you have solved the previous one. To get the treasure, you have to solve all the clues to reveal what it is and where it is located. Included on the website, we hope to have a leader board showing your progress against the other players. The big question is what will it cost? At this stage, the total costs will be around around $770Au ($550US, €490 & 5,000 nok/sek). This will be paid over 10 monthly payments of $77Au ($55US, €49 & 500 nok/sek). Now you know what the game is all about, does it excite you or make you change your opinion? Will you support the Go Fund Me campaign? We did ask Kelby about the Go Fund Me campaign and he had the following to say: "We have tried getting grants to complete this, but we do not fit into any one criteria. The other items we sell on our website were going to help fund this, bit with COVID impacting sales, we are asking for your help to get this unique game into market. Your one off donation will secure you first option to purchase the game and the amount you donate will come off your price. Thank you for your assistance and hopefully we can get this to a reality." Let us know your thoughts...

X-Band: The Phantom Podcast Episode 207 saw the Phellas hosting a Phantom Quiz as a phun way to finish the year off. No spoilers here as to who won, so go and have a watch/ listen and see if you can beat our inaugural Chronicle Chamber Quiz Champion. Following on from the recording of the podcast we opened the quiz up for all phans. Over the past week over 60 phans tested their Phantom (and Chronicle Chamber) knowledge. Below is a brief summary of how they went, what questions they found difficult and what areas everyone blitzed. Round One: The Newspaper As the title suggests, this round tested phans' knowledge of the Newspaper strip, since its inception til today. 55 phans provided an answer for question 1 but this dropped to 41 by question 10. Of those who answered 87% were able to identify Sy Barry's handiwork, whereas only 71% were able to identify Wilson McCoy's. The real stumpers for this round were questions 4 and 6, "In which story Bangalla first shown to be in Africa?" and "What are the start and end dates for Sy Barry's time on the Phantom daily strip?", with only 25% and 26% getting the correct answer. Round 2: Publishers On average, 39 phans attempted the questions regarding worldwide publishers of the Phantom. This round really tested phans' mettle with 2 most correct answers, questions 1 (What is date of the first Frew issue?) and 9 (which of the big 2 - DC / Marvel published a standalone Phantom comic first?) only cracking 63% and 59% respectfully. The real stumpers in this round both related to Frew. Only 32% of those who answered knew what the first issue published by "The Frew Crew" was and 33% could tell us the year that Frew #1000 was published. Round 3: Chronicle Chamber This was our self indulgent round where we tested your knowledge on Chronicle Chamber history. 38 phans answered questions in this round with most (69%) knowing what the P3 is. The 2nd most correct answer saw 47% of phans knowing who Joe's first guest on the podcast was. Questions 5 and 10 were the stumpers in this round. 22% of those who answered knew (or guessed correctly) who first signed of with our now Happy Phantoming and 24% knew which episode the December 2021 Comics and News podcast was. Round 4: Random To finish off the quiz, we had a random round where questions could come from any category and to add a bit more excitement, the answer time was halved from 20 to 10 seconds. This round saw our most correct answer with 94% of those who attempted this round knowing the name of the 1980s cartoon that featured The Phantom. 66% were able to get questions 5, 9 and 10 correct - Which company recently released a Jungle Patrol hat and Beanie?, Which Phamous Phan is the quote "Things are Hotting up!" attributed to? and What is Lee Falk's longest running Sunday story. The big stumper for this round was question 6 with only 8 phans knowing who composed the film score for the 1996 The Phantom movie. So how did you go? Would the stumpers have stumped you? Thank you to all who participated in the quiz, we hope that you had as much fun as we did running it. Congratulations to the top 10. Indian 30,477 Seuj 28,464 Mase 25,934 Marcus 24,579 Callum 22,748 Oyvind 22,448 PhantomCaveRev 21,696 Erma 19,465 DanB 18,449 Glaucio 18,395

[Editorial Note: This article recently featured in Fantomen 25&26/2021. You can watch a review of the issue here. This article has been translated and published on ChronicleChamber.com with permission from Egmont. You can read the press release about the 1000th Team Fantomen stories here.] The very first Team Fantomen story was produced in 1963 and very few would think nearly sixty years later that there would be more Phantom stories produced in the nordics than newspaper stories. When licensing a famous IP like the Phantom, the licensed product seldom holds up to the original. However the Team Fantomens stories are truly loved by its readers. Majority of the winners of the yearly best story competitions are won by Team Fantomen stories and many elements from them have found their way to the newspaper stories. [Editors Note: Click here for a list of elements that have found their way into the newspaper stories.] In the beginning, the stories were made because the comic book Fantomen was close to publishing all the newspaper stories and they needed new content. These early Team Fantomen stories were usually reworks of Lee Falk's scripts with new art or filler stories that did not change anything in the world of the Phantom. For example "The Mysterious Passenger" by Bertil Wilhelmsson (phantomwiki link). During the 1960's there was a moral panic in Sweden over its comic books and The Phantom got quite a bad reputation for being imperialistic and out of touch with reality. The writers wanted to change this, Falk changed Bangalla to a Republic with a black president and changed The Phantom from ruler of the Jungle to friend to the jungle chiefs and this was just the start. The stories written in Sweden from this time had a huge focus on social justice and more realistic. In one story The Phantom fights side by side with Fidel Castro himself ("Fatal Dose" written by Anders Eklund, with art by Bertil Wilhelmsson and Özcan Eralp - phantomwiki link). During this time the fictitious countries Carpatia and Rhodia were introduced that are still featured to this day. When Ulf Granberg came in as editor the changes between the Newspaper stories and the Team Fantomen stories grew. The editorial staff created timelines for the different ancestors; when they were born, when they took over as acting Phantom and when they ultimately died. The aim was for the Phantom world to be neat and no more contradictions. With these facts in place stories about the origin of many Phantom elements and historical episodes were produced. For example the Skull Ring, the Good Mark Ring and even Devil. The Singh Pirates that was used very sparingly by Lee Falk, got a strong leader, Dogai Singh that must count as one of the hardest villains any Phantom has ever had to battle with. The problem was that Lee Falk did not care about timelines, or what happened. So in spite of all effort from Team Fantomen to combat contradictions, they kept on coming. In 1994 the biggest change from the newspaper stories and the Team Fantomen was introduced, Luaga lost the election to Lubanga (phantomwiki link) and for 25 years the president of Bangalla was different in Team Fantomen stories compared to the newspaper stories. This meant that a lot of work had to be done to edit the newspaper stories that were published in Fantomen to make sure that the Team Fantomen president was shown. [Editors Note: A historical look at the Presidents of Bengalla] After the "Election in Bengali" storyline Team Fantomen tried out some exciting arcs that really pushes the envelope of what can be considered a Phantom story. A few examples are: "In a Strange Land" About what could have happened if the first Phantom washed ashore in Japan instead of Bengalla. "Year 1" Adventures that takes place when the current Phantom took over the reigns from the 20th Phantom. "The 22nd Phantom Saga" Stories from the future when Kit and Heloise are all grown up and take on the role of the Phantom. "The Phantom Crusader" about a medieval Phantom "The Phantom in Cyberspace" there are even stories about the Phantom stuck in cyberspace! Tony DePaul, who writes the scripts for both the Sunday and the Daily strip, started out as a writer in Team Fantomen. He has through the years taken many elements from the Team Fantomen stories and added them to the newspaper stories making the “worlds” more aligned than ever. At the same time collaborations between editors and creators from Frew, Team Fantomen and the Newspaper strips makes the universe less and less contradictory and more streamlined. During the years Team Fantomen have created a great gallery of recurring characters. Some featured quite seldom as: The Iron Hand, Black Carnation, Bahamot, Nelson N'Dela and Vasti Riba. Some featured more like Dogai Singh, Lubanga, Sarah Cartwright and Sandal Singh. After this deepdive into the history of Team Fantomen I can barely wait to see what lies in store! I got word from a mole inside the editorial staff that we will get to read more about the future adventure of Kit and Heloise. More than that I am not allowed to disclose. Within Team Fantomen we will see some familiar creators, but also get to know a few new ones. The project leader Jacob Habinc and the editor Andreas Eriksson have a special project that will make every phan lose their mind. So stay tuned because a great Phantom year is just around the corner! If you want to learn more about Andreas Eriksson, watch his X-Band: The Phantom Podcast interview with the Chronicle Chamber crew.

The Phantom community is abuzz this weekend as the cover for the anticipated 'Heart of Darkness' hardcover collection by fan phav cover artist Luca Erbetta has been released. When we first broke the news of this collection back in April, we believed it was a softcover but we can confirm it is a HARDCOVER collection which will excite even more phans. Some details of the hardcover collection is still unknown like if its in black and white or colour and the final page count but what we do know is: Its a Hardcover collection At least 390 pages long It will be collectable Cover design by Luca Erbetta Released 1 August 2022 Printed in Swedish Some filtered news is that this wont be a standard hardcover collection and it may include some extras to make it even more desirable. You can pre order this book from Aldibris.com here, the price is 564 kronas (Roughly $60US, €55 & $80Au). "The Heart of Darkness" is a long story comprising off 390 pages and was originally released as an ongoing back up story for the Fantomen comic between 1994 and 1996. It was written by Claes Reimerthi and drawn by Joan Boix. The story features the Phantom facing several supernatural elements. It was then reprinted in Fantomen krönikan in a more collected form that span 4 full issues with an added new story. We will review the book on our platform when it is available for purchase, keep an eye on our website and or social media profiles at Facebook, Twitter and or Instagram for any other related news on this hardcover collection plus other Phantom related news and reviews.