X-Band: The Phantom Podcast

Every month, we take an hour or two to discuss all things Phantom from around the world. In this podcast, we are discussing August and September 2025. We review comics from Australia; catch up on the newspaper adventures printed on Comics Kingdom; and discuss every bit of Phantom-related news from around the world. If we do not discuss the Phantom comics from your country, that is because we are s...

Something a little different this fortnight with a bunch of phans, publishers & creators from around the world telling us what their phavourite Phantom stories are. If you would like to tell us your own phavourite Phantom stories, send us an email - ChronicleChamber@gmail.com .  Here are the stories chosen from the phans, creators and publishers: Sal Velluto . " Danger in the Forbidden Ci...

The second volume TPB of the Defenders of the Earth series by Mad Cave Studios is now out for sale around the world. Scott Wydon joins Stephen East and Jermayn Parker as they review all 8 issues from the series. They do a 5 minutes synopsis of the series and then get down to business talking about what they like, what they do not like and much more. We will be discussing the story in detail, so th...

In this podcast, we are discussing June and July 2025. We review comics from Australia, USA and Germany; catch up on the newspaper adventures printed on Comics Kingdom; and discuss every bit of Phantom-related news from around the world, and much more. We love comments and feedback from the Phantom phans from around the world. You can either email us, leave your comments at our YouTube channel, an...

This podcast includes recordings from the Australian Phantom weekend, including the video from Lauren Marshall, who spoke beautifully at the 2025 LFMBEC dinner. Billy Zane completed many Q&As over the two weeks he was in Australia. He did Q&As at Sydney and Perth Supanova as well as other events at theaters located in Sydney and Melbourne in between the two weekends. Thanks must go to thos...

Stephen East , Dan Fraser and Jermayn Parker meet and chat with Daniel Nguyen , the director over at Saturday Morning Cards (SMC). SMC has released a Phantom Designer Art Card set, with preorders being shipped at the end of July 2025. During this podcast, Daniel shows us the cards and explains the collector card concept, which may be foreign for some phans.  Daniel also shows us every card in the...

Stephen East , Dan Fraser and Jermayn Parker get together to review Frew 's celebratory issue 2000. They review every story and element of this bumper 220+ page comic in full colour with a variant cover and a free print included.  Along with the stories, it includes an article giving a bird's-eye view of the history of Frew which covers their first comic release in 1948.  The stories inc...

Jermayn Parker and Stephen East chat with Swedish writer Magnus Carling . This is a fascinating chat with a new comer to the Phantom universe who has two story credits to his name. We learn about his jounery from a Fantomen reader as a kid who grew up in the 1980's to someone who gets to live most phans dreams of creating their own Phantom stories. You can follow Magnus Carling at his Instagr...

Every year Phantom phans from around the world descend into Sydney to meet up with other phans and have a great weekend. In this podcast we preview the weekend,d chat with the organisers of the famous LFMBEC dinner, as well as the dinner's & Supanova guest Lauren Marshall and Julie Ditrich who is the writer behind the key story in Frew 's milestone number 2000th - The Return of the G...

Every month, we take an hour or two to discuss all things Phantom from around the world. This month for May 2025, we review comics from Australia and Germany, catch up on the newspaper adventures printed on Comics Kingdom and discuss every bit of Phantom related news from around the world with comic conventions, the latest comics soon to be released, and much more.  If your one of the phans who ca...

If you are a Phantom nerd, you will like this podcast as Jermayn Parker and Matt Kyme discuss close to 50+ stories as they try and nail down important elements on how to create a good Phantom story. With the Phantom census currently open we are gathering data and information from hundreds of Phantom fans around the world telling us what they like, do not like and want to see happen with their Phan...

These monthly podcasts where we discuss all things Phantom from around the world are the highlights of our month and we hope you enjoy this podcast. We review comics from Australia, India, Germany and USA, catch up on the newspaper adventures printed on Comics Kingdom and discuss every bit of Phantom related news from around the world with comic conventions, the latest in soon to be released in Ir...

Jermayn Parker is on his own as he talks to Chilean born Australian raised Marcelo Baez who is a Frew cover artist who has also drawn one short story so far. This is a fascinating chat with a new comer to the Phantom universe who brings an unique style to his covers. He also shows us his new Phantom cover which will be out in the next month. We go over his career, the reason why there was a five y...

What better way to escape the world's troubles with weather patterns and political upheaval dominating our life than spending time with us as we review everything Phantom from March 2025. We review comics from Australia and USA, catch up on the newspaper adventures printed on Comics Kingdom and discuss every bit of Phantom related news from around the world with comic conventions, the latest...

For almost 90 years, The Phantom has been thrilling phans worldwide. But who exactly are the phans? In collaboration with King Features and several publishers, we at Chronicle Chamber aim to find that out, with the Phantom Phan Census 2025! This global census is a chance for YOU to share your Phantom story, from how you first discovered the legend to what you want to see in the future - whether it...

What better way to escape the world's troubles with weather patterns and political upheaval dominating our life than spending time with us as we review everything Phantom from February 2025. We review comics from Australia and Germany, catch up on the newspaper adventures printed on Comics Kingdom and discuss every bit of Phantom related news from around the world. We love comments and feedba...

The 2025 Frew annual deserves a stand alone review and we spend a good 70 minutes dissecting it. The theme for this years annual is a monster theme with 8 stories with a mixture of colour & black and white over 220+ pages. What do we like, what do we not like and what rating do we give it? Listen and or watch and find out. Do not remember to let us know what you agree and or disagree with.  An...

Happy birthday to the Phantom & happy anniversary to us celebrating our 300th podcast. We wanted to share the celebration with the Phantom!  We were joined by Jeff Weigel and Mike Manley the newspaper story artists. Tony DePaul , unfortunately had to cancel due to some health reasons which we briefly cover during the podcast and or you can go to our website for more information . To help celeb...

We are padding out our episodes as we want to release our 300th podcast with the Phantom's birthday . This will be 299B where we discuss the latest comics from around the world including Australia, USA, Sweden and Germany. Unfortunately due to the Frew 2025 Annual being delayed, we will be doing a 299C episode in a weeks time for the annual. We may have stolen the A and B issues from Frew but...

We are padding out our episodes as we want to release our 300th podcast with the Phantom's birthday . This will be 299A as we discuss the latest Daily and Sunday stories that are running in newspapers and on the Comics Kingdom website. We will also discuss all the related Phantom news. If your one of the phans who can only listen to some parts of the podcast, below is a timeline of what we di...

Some phans will know that every year we review and discuss EVERYTHING that has been released from the year before and give our opinions on it. In 2024 there were 112 comics released over 14 countries from around the world and close to 30 different Phantom products released for phans to buy. That means every week, there is at least two Phantom comics and or items to purchase to add to your collecti...

Some phans will know that we have reviews of all of the Mad Cave Studios Defenders of the Earth Series up on our YouTube Channel and website but we wanted to conduct a mid series review with the whole extended team. Join Stephen East , Dan Fraser and Jermayn Parker with our USA reviewer Scott Waldyn .  We love comments and feedback from the Phantom phans from around the world. You can either email...

We have fallen behind again with our monthly comics and news podcasts so this will be Episode 296B where we discuss and review the latest comics from around the world including Australia, USA, Norway, Sweden and Germany. There is 11 comics in total we will go through. We love comments and feedback from the Phantom phans from around the world. At the bottom of the article, we list some talking poin...

We discuss the latest Daily and Sunday stories that are running in newspapers around the world and all the related Phantom news that has been released around the world. We love comments and feedback from the Phantom phans from around the world. At the bottom, we list some talking points we would love to have your input on. Remember if you comment, you automatically go into our draw for a monthly c...

Stephen East , Dan Fraser and Jermayn Parker catch up with the team behind the Phantom Video Game. With pre orders for the digital version of the game now open, we thought it would be a great opportunity for us to catch up with Ash Nicholls the Director behind Art Of Play , but also two of his colleagues who have left their imprint on the game. Go here to pre order your digital and collector box e...