In this episode, the boys review and discuss Phantom comics, stories, and related news from around the world.

If you agree and/or disagree with us, you can either email us; leave your comments at our YouTube channel, and/or leave them at our social media platforms on Facebook, Twitter, and/or Instagram.

If you're one of the phans who can only listen to some parts of the podcast, below is a timeline of what we discussed.

Note: "Hunters Prey" was included in Frew issue's 2017, 2018, and 2019. For the sake of discussing these parts together, we have included our review of these parts together instead of reviewing them in the individual comics.

Comics Kingdom stories

• Daily 269: "The Muckmen of Zumaridi River": 3 Mins
• Sunday 198: “1536”: 18 Mins

Frew (Australia)

• Frew #2017: 29 Mins
• Frew #2018: 42 Mins
• Frew #2019: 56 Mins
• "Hunters Prey pt 4, 5 & 6" by Shane Foley: 1 Hour & 8 Mins

Germany

• Zauberstern #23: 1 Hour & 18 Minutes

Phantom news from around the world

• The Phantom Video Game updates: 1 Hour & 23 Mins
• Photos of the Newstalgia lounge at the Comic Con Cruise (link): 1 Hour & 35 Mins
• Read Bengali Books release mug (link): 1 Hour & 39 Mins
• Mad Cave Studios update (link): 1 Hour & 41 Mins
• Phantom comics in PNG newspaper: 1 Hour & 45 Mins
• Finnish TPB out now (link): 1 Hour & 48 Mins
• Mythos Editora re-releases Kings Watch TPB (link): 1 Hour & 49 Mins
• Frew poster of 2000th issue for sale (link): 1 Hour & 52 Mins
• Original art to buy (link & link): 1 Hour & 57 Mins
• Phantom donation of Bob Griffin’s collection (link): 2 Hours & 1 Min

We may miss something, especially conventions in your corner of the world with Phantom-related guests, so please let us know of them so we can promote them on our website, socials, and podcasts. We are also looking for reviewers who can review comics from India, Sweden, Finland, France, Italy, and some other locations that publish the Phantom. If you would like to join the team with regular reviews, please contact us.

We love comments and feedback from the Phantom phans from around the world. Make sure you stay with us, and do not forget to subscribe and leave a review on our podcast on our YouTube Channel.

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In this episode, Jermayn Parker and Stephen East are joined by Scott Waldyn, Chronicle Chambers USA's correspondent, to review the first five issues of the new series from Mad Cave Studios.

The Singh Brotherhood is on the hunt for their missing drug cargo. Little do they know they have landed in the Phantom’s backyard. What they think will be a quick and easy track, retrieve, enslave the village, and be out again turns into a dire game of cat and mouse, with the cat not realising it is actually the mouse. But it's no walk in the park for the Phantom, though; this is the jungle, and the jungle has its own mind. There is beauty in its danger, and if you can be at one with it, then you may just get out alive.

We have 5 copies of a variant cover by Boom Tube Comics exclusive drawn by Keith Williams and one copy of Cover 1G by Natacha Bustos to give away. To enter, we will need your review and/or thoughts of the series on either the social media post promoting this podcast or on YouTube.

We discuss many topics and we would love your input on what we have raised plus what we may have missed. We discussed:

• Did the showing of the Phantom eyes in the first issue straight away turn the hardcore fans off?
• What do we think of The Phantom’s characterization along with the other main characters like Guran, Diana and Asif Singh?
• Was Guran's redesign a sign of the times to ensure we did not have a fat black man being featured?
• The Bandar are a “poison tribe,” and this story seems to suggest it’s because they’re all skilled and lethal. Does this newer definition make sense to us?
• Has the village ever been depicted in other comics by Frew or Fantomen or by creators like Lee Falk and Tony DePaul?
• Scott Waldyn called this series an “adaptation” of The Phantom in his last review. Do we agree or disagree?
• Are we happy with the balance Ray tiptoed with the white saviour concept?
• The Singh pirates called themselves tigers on the radio. Is this a nod to the "Ten Tigers" Old Jungle Saying?
• Does the Phantom need his stripped jocks back?
• Did we have too many covers by Mad Cave Studios?
• Do we like Ray Fawkes work as the writer of the series?
• Do we like Russell Olson's work as the artist of the series?
• This series featured a quick-witted Phantom, so we like this?
• The drugs came from the mountains. Is this the Eastern Dark? The Phantom as the Guardian of the Eastern Dark was mentioned on page 9 in issue 1 by the wife of Guran's dad.
• Lee Falk never got in-depth with other characters. In this we see the minds of Asif Singh and Guran. Do we like getting to know these secondary characters better?
• Did Lee Falk ever have the Phantom think to himself as much as Ray Fawkes?
• Who's the real hero here? Guran or the Phantom?
• Do we like the Sky Band being featured?
• Should Mad Cave Studios do a Phantom crossover with another character, and if so, who?
• What's next?

You can email us at chroniclechamber@gmail.com or chat with us via our social media profiles on Facebook, Twitter, and/or Instagram. We love comments and feedback from the Phantom phans from around the world. Make sure you stay with us, and do not forget to subscribe and leave a review on our podcast on our YouTube Channel.

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In this episode, Jermayn Parker is joined by co-host Stephen East as they review the Australian comics and include a few rants about Frew missing the mark and other things that are bothering them. Scott Waldyn and Christian Moller also join in with their reviews of comics released in the USA, Germany, and Austria.

Normally, these podcasts are our attempt to wrap up everything from comic reviews to catching up on the latest Newspaper Comics Kingdom stories and related news from around the world. As it has been two months since we last reviewed everything that has happened in the Phantom's world, we have split the wrap-up podcast into two. In the last podcast we discussed all the related Phantom news and reviewed the Newspaper daily and Sunday stories.

We love comments and feedback from the Phantom phans from around the world. If you agree and/or disagree with us, you can either email us; leave your comments at our YouTube channel, and/or leave them at our social media platforms on Facebook, Twitter, and/or Instagram.

If you're one of the phans who can only listen to some parts of the podcast, below is a timeline of what we discussed.

Frew (Australia)

• Frew #2013: 2 Minutes
• Frew #2015: 12 Minutes
• Frew #2016: 17 Minutes
• Giant Size #36: 31 Minutes

The USA

• Mad Cave Studios Phantom #4: 46 Minutes
• Mad Cave Studios Phantom #5: 59 Minutes
• Defenders of the Earth: Dark Destiny #2: 1 Hour & 15 Minutes
• Defenders of the Earth: Dark Destiny #3: 1 Hour & 26 Minutes

Germany & Austria

• Wick #9 & #10: 1 Hour & 41 Minutes
• ECR #98, #99 & #100: 1 Hour & 46 Minutes
• Zauberstern Spezial 7: 1 Hour & 51 Minutes
• (Austrian) Die Klassiker #4: 1 Hour & 54 Minutes

We can only report and discuss what we have seen or been told by the phans. We may miss something, especially conventions in your corner of the world with Phantom-related guests, so please let us know of them so we can promote them on our website, socials, and podcasts. We are also looking for reviewers who can review comics from India, Sweden, Finland, France, Italy, and some other locations that publish the Phantom. If you would like to join the team with regular reviews, please contact us.

You can email us at chroniclechamber@gmail.com or chat with us via our social media profiles on Facebook, Twitter, and/or Instagram. We love comments and feedback from the Phantom phans from around the world. Make sure you stay with us, and do not forget to subscribe and leave a review on our podcast on our YouTube Channel.

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In this episode, Jermayn Parker and co-host Stephen East go for a rant.

As it has been two months since we last reviewed everything that has happened in the Phantom's world, we have split the wrap-up podcast into two. In this podcast we discuss all the related Phantom news and the Newspaper daily and Sunday stories. In our next podcast, we will review all the comics from around the world.

Daily / Sunday Adventures Progress

• Daily #269 - "The Muckmen of Zumaridi River": 1 Min
• Sunday #197 - "The Ungraved": 11 Min

Phantom News

• Passing of Phantom creators: 17 Min
• Saturday Morning Cards announces volume 2 (link): 22 Min
• The Phantom movie goes Blu-ray (link): 27 Min
• What is next from Mad Cave Studios (link): 29 Min
• Vote for the best story and cover published by Fantomen in 2025 (link and link): 32 Min
• New Old Jungle Saying (link): 34 Min
• Norwegian Fantomet series cancelled (link): 35 Min
• New KFS product (link): 38 Min
• Shakti Comics releases more Phantom items through Imag!kal (link): 41 Min
• Mallon Publishing 90th anniversary collectibles designed by Douglas Klauba (link): 44 Min
• The Phantom art tile by Artovision 3D (link): 46 Min
• Aristocrat slot machine promotional limited edition figure (link): 47 Min
• The Phantom at Budapest, Hungary Comic Con 2026 (link): 51 Min
• Swedish lecture on Wilson McCoy (link): 52 Min
• Mythos Editora releases a Kings Watch TPB: 54 Min
• Original Phantom art to buy: 56 Min
• Phantom video game updates: 57 Min

You can email us at chroniclechamber@gmail.com or chat with us via our social media profiles on Facebook, Twitter, and/or Instagram. We love comments and feedback from the Phantom phans from around the world. Make sure you stay with us, and do not forget to subscribe and leave a review on our podcast on our YouTube Channel.

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Mandrake the Magician was Lee Falk's first created hero and, to many, was their gateway into the Phantom, with some countries having a deeper relationship with the hypnotic magician than the purple-wearing jungle hero.

Surprisingly, there have not been many comics or stories where the two heroes share equal billing. Frew in 2026 have tried to do this with their 2026 yearly annual. 228 pages in full colour featuring stories from both universes and a new story created for this annual.

Join us for 80 minutes as we review each Phantom & Mandrake crossover story in finer detail, the annual as a whole, and much more.

The following stories are reviewed and are time-stamped if you cannot listen to the whole podcast and want to listen to specific stories.

• "Mandrake's Bon Voyage" by Tony DePaul and Terry Beatty: 15 Minutes
• "The Missing Aviatrix" by Fred Fredericks: 22 Minutes
• "Lights! Camera! Danger!" by Fred Fredericks: 29 Minutes & 30 Seconds
• "Trouble in the Twelve Nations" by Tony DePaul and Terry Beatty: 33 Minutes
• "Shadows on Devil Road" by Fred Fredericks: 39 Minutes
• "Still Lovely, Still Deadly" by Fred Fredericks: 46 Minutes
• "The Magician's Curse" by Jeff Dyer, Andrew Constant and Boris Kay: 54 Minutes

If you are wanting to read the final week of "Still Lovely, Still Deadly" by Fred Fredericks that was edited out, you can read that here.

If you are wanting to read behind the scenes with "The Magician's Curse" story by Jeff Dyer, Andrew Constant and Boris Kay and find out about who Dryake is and how he is related to Mandrake, you can read that here.

Finally, a heads up: we are aware we have not done a monthly wrap-up podcast of January or February yet; that’ll be next.

You can email us at chroniclechamber@gmail.com or chat with us via our social media profiles on Facebook, Twitter, and/or Instagram. We love comments and feedback from the Phantom phans from around the world. Make sure you stay with us, and do not forget to subscribe and leave a review on our podcast on our YouTube Channel.

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To celebrate the Phantom's 90th birthday, we got several phans and creators to wish the Phantom a happy birthday, which we collected together for our X-Band: The Phantom Podcast, which you can watch and/or listen to here on your favourite podcast player, our YouTube Channel (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D-xMMwISoxM) or website www.ChronicleChamber.com

Sy Barry wishes the Phantom a happy 90th birthday.

Happy Birthday!

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The Phantom is now 90 years young! We had to put out a special podcast to celebrate. Come join us and let us celebrate together!

First of all, we put the call out to our listeners, our phriends, those who follow us on social media and a bunch of creators from around the world if they would like to send out a happy birthday wish video to the Phantom. Thanks to all of those that did so. We have collected them here. If you missed out, send through a comment or post on whatever platform you use, use a #Phantom hashtag and remind everyone of our character.

Let us now swing around the world for those who wished the Phantom a happy 90th!

The phans and creators you will hear from in alphabetical order are:

• Antonio Lemos. Frew cover artist.
• Bernd Frenz. Writer for Fantomen.
• Bradleigh Kelly. Creator of the fan community The Phantom Cave Reviews.
• Bradley and Joyful Peach. Long-time phans and in the Lee Falk Bangalla Member Explorers Club (Australian chapter).
• Murilo. Cosplayer from Brazil
• Dan the Great Curator. Director of Saturday Morning Cards.
• Dean Rankine. Artist and writer for Frew.
• Duncan Munro. Writer for Frew.
• Ashley Tuchin. Phan from Australia.
• Glaucio Cardoso. Creator of the Brazilian fan community Fantasma YouTube Channel.
• Lucas. Phan from Brazil.
• Jaime Diaz. Phan from the USA.
• Jason Paulos. Artist for Frew.
• Jeff Weigel. Comics Kingdom Sunday Phantom newspaper artist & artist and writer for Frew.
• Joel Folda. Cover artist for Lightning Strike and Tasq Force.
• Juan Munari Rousselot. Phan from Argentina and is the stepson of the late Cesar Spadari.
• Lennart Moberg. Artist and writer for Fantomen.
• Mike Bullock. Writer for Moonstone and Lightning Strike.
• Paul Mason. Artist and writer for Frew.
• Pete Klaus. Phan from the USA & co-founder of Friends of the Phantom, a USA phan club.
• Pidde Andersson. Writer for Frew and Fantomen.
• Ross. Phan from Australia.
• Sammy J. Phan from Australia and star of the Hero Complex comedy show.
• Scott Waldyn. Phan from the USA & Chronicle Chamber reviewer.
• Wendell Cavalcanti. Artist for Frew.

After hearing from the phans and creators, the team spends some time dissecting and discussing among ourselves why we are fans, why we enjoy the Phantom, and what are some of our favourite things about the character and our favourite stories, artists, and creators. To finish off, we will then speculate a bit about the future—what we may expect in 5, 10, and, who knows, even the next 90 years.

You can email us at chroniclechamber@gmail.com or chat with us via our social media profiles on Facebook, Twitter, and/or Instagram. We love comments and feedback from the Phantom phans from around the world. Make sure you stay with us, and do not forget to subscribe and leave a review on our podcast on our YouTube Channel.

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In this podcast we wrapped up everything that happened in the world of the Phantom for 2025, and we did it in under two hours. We will go over the tale of the tape, highlighting every comic and merchandise released around the world (that we know of), and then we and our regular contributors will go over our favorites.

If you disagree with us, please let us know. We welcome the input!

If you're one of the phans who can only listen to some parts of the podcast, below is a timeline of what we discussed.

• KFS/Comics Kingdom comics: 3 Minutes
• Frew: 4 Minutes
• Fantomen: 25 Minutes & 30 Seconds
• USA comics: 37 Minutes
• Indian comics: 46 Minutes & 30 Seconds
• German comics: 51 Minutes
• Other countries' comics: 1 Hour
• Our other phavourites
  • Best writer: 1 Hour & 9 Minutes
  • Best story artist: 1 Hour & 14 Minutes
  • Best merchandise released in 2025: 1 Hour & 17 Minutes
  • Best Chronicle Chamber moment: 1 Hour & 23 Minutes
  • Overall reflection on 2025: 1 Hour & 28 Minutes
  • What will be the big news of 2026 as we enter the 90th birthday: 1 Hour & 35 Minutes

You can email us at chroniclechamber@gmail.com or chat with us via our social media profiles on Facebook, Twitter, and/or Instagram. We love comments and feedback from the Phantom phans from around the world. Make sure you stay with us, and do not forget to subscribe and leave a review on our podcast on our YouTube Channel.

Support the show