X-Band: The Phantom Podcast

Welcome to our 200th celebration for X-Band: The Phantom Podcast . It has been an amazing ride for the last 8+ years. Chronicle Chamber gives thanks to the past and present hosts in Joe Douglas , Lindsay Walker , Jermayn Parker , Stephen East , Dan Fraser and Matt Kyme along with our many correspondents including Mikael Lyck and Ankit Mitra .  To celebrate the 200th, our patreons were invited to c...

Jason Paulos , is one of the most prolific Frew creators and we have not had him on since 2016 in X-Band: The Phantom Podcast #65 when we where introduced to the Phantom by Gaslight series. We learn all about Jason including his history of comic creation including great stories of receiving a photocopy of art from Glenn Lumsden ( Glenns Podcast Interview ) as a kid and photocopying his first comic...

To celebrate the 25th anniversary of the 1996 Phantom movie being released we hold a phan commentary on the movie. This podcast is released on the day the movie was released in Australia. Come and join us as we watch and talk about the movie.  We would love to hear from you on what you think of what we discussed during this phan commentary. Do you have a solution on how you could change the skulls...

We manage to get the podcast under two hours as we review 6 weeks of comics from Frew Publications and Fantomen by regulars Jermayn Parker , Dan Fraser and Stephen East with input by Mikael Lyck and Ankit Mitra.   plus all the latest Phantom news from around the world across five continents with new comics from around the world, items to buy for Christmas, a new kickstarter campaign to follow plus...

During our recording of our 200th podcast with our patreons and newspaper creators Tony DePaul , Mike Manley and Jeff Weigel , Tony was asked about the 21st Phantoms death. Not only did he answer but he talked about the current daily newspaper story " To Wrack and Ruin at Gravelines " and how it will show the DEATH OF THE 21ST PHANTOM. Because it was such an amazing 15 minute chat we dec...

After reading disappointing stories from various publishers and then asking King Features Syndicate about their Phantom bible in X-Band: The Phantom Podcast #191 the boys at Chronicle Chamber ( Jermayn Parker , Dan Fraser , Stephen East & Mikael Lyck ) have decided to take matters in their own hands and start the discussion. We talk about why its important to lift the standard of the poorer st...

Jermayn Parker and Dan Fraser with input by regulars Mikael Lyck , Stephen East and Ankit Mitra review all the latest Phantom news and comics from around the world across five continents.  We review comics from Frew Publications , Regal Publications and Fantomen plus spend time discussing a big month of Phantom news of new publishers and comics to come in the near future, new items to buy plus som...

Every Phantom phan was devastated when they heard the news of Claes Reimerthi passing on the 23 of July 2021. Please read our obituary on the legacy of Claes Reimerthi . On the podcast the boys ( Jermayn Parker , Dan Fraser , Mikael Lyck & Stephen East ) spend 90 minutes talking about the great man and his imprint on our hero, The Phantom.  We discuss our lasting memory of Claes and what we th...

Glenn Lumsden is a very popular Australian artist who first drew comics in Australia back in the 1970's. He was one of the first Australian artists to draw a full length Phantom story, has worked for several American comic companies including DC and Marvel .  Some of the topics we touch upon are: History of the Marvel Phantom series including the amazing lengths he went to to get it right inc...

Dan Fraser and Jermayn Parker continue the podcast with #192B discussing all the news from May and June 2021. This follows the comics from May and June 2021 which can be found here . At the end of the podcast after discussing the news, we talk to Ankit Mitra who is a Chronicle Chamber contributor but also a cover artist for Regal Publishers . He talks about Regal and their struggles gaining a foot...

With the team at Chronicle Chamber releasing other topical podcasts it meant the normal practice of a comics and news podcast once a month did not happen. Here we present a review of the comics from May and June. We also discuss the latest happenings with the Sunday and Daily newspaper stories. If you only want to listen to specific reviews of the comics and or stories, we have included a timeline...

Every since we started this website and the X-Band: The Phantom Podcast one of the most common questions we have received is when will we get to hear from someone from King Features and or Hearst ?  It has always been a goal for us as we ourselves had a million and one questions that we wanted to ask. After 200 podcasts we got the chance and while we did not get to ask them all, we spent 90 minute...

*This is the 200th episode actually published. In Frew 1893 , Dudley Hogarth the Frew publisher in his Message from the Publisher suggested that the short story " The Future Phantom: Forever " may be worth a podcast. We listened and here is our thoughts of the 8 page story by Andrew Constant and Massimo Gamberi .  To begin with we go over every story and future Phantom which includes the...

If you love classic Lee Falk , Wilson McCoy and Ray Moore , this is a must listen (or watch) Podcast as we chat with two Australian creators whose work is heavily influenced by their legendary work. Frew #1892 was released May 6 2021 and features the second Phantom story by Matt Kyme . His first Phantom story was solely created by him. For this second story Shane Foley was brought in by Frew Publi...

Anthony Spay 's first story appeared in the 2019 Fantomen Christmas album and in no time he has seven completed stories to his credit. In this episode Mikael Lyck joins Jermayn Parker as we go over each of his stories and learn interesting things about Anthony like how he got the job at both Frew and Fantomen .  Anthony is one of two artists you have created new stories for both publishers -...

We are back to a shorter comics and news podcast this month. Due to timing there isn't a Regal Publishers comic to review but Mikael Lyck is joined by regulars Dan Fraser and Jermayn Parker in reviewing the latest comics and news from Australia Sweden and around the world. Latest Comics Frew 1889 & 1890: 3 Minutes, 30 Seconds Frew 1891: 19 Minutes Fantomen 8/2021: 29 Minutes, 30 Seconds F...

We are joined by past Phantom Team Fantomen & Moonstone writer, Ben Raab who wrote 23 Phantom stories over a decade between 1999 and 2009. Some of his stories include the popular " The Spear of Destiny " saga, " The Hero ", " The Invisible Phantom " which won Norwegian best story in 2001, the first team we see Kit and Heloise as the joint 22nd Phantom in " Th...

It may be only be a month since our last comics and news podcast but with 11 comics out around the world, Claes Reimerthi retiring, board and card games, wall banners plus much more news to discuss the podcast originally went for 3 hours so we decided to split it into two podcasts.  Hopefully it makes the podcast more palatable and enjoyable. This is episode 185B and where we focus on all the Phan...

It may be only be a month since our last comics and news podcast but with 11 comics out around the world, Claes Remierthi retiring, board and card games, wall banners plus much more news to discuss the podcast originally went for 3 hours so we decided to split it into two podcasts.  Hopefully it makes the podcast more palatable and enjoyable. We will release Episode 185B News in a weeks time. Comi...

We are joined by past Phantom Sunday artist, Terry Beatty who drew the Phantom in the KFS Sunday newspaper strip between the dates of January 29, 2012 and the last one on May 7, 2017. He drew 9 complete stories and 2 part stories including gems like " Mandrake's Bon Voyage ", " Death Stalks the 5th Phantom " and " The Shadows of Rune Noble ".  Terry is part of th...

HAPPY BIRTHDAY FREW CREW!!!  Tuesday 23 February we celebrated 5 years of the Frew Crew releasing their first comic and we discussed what they have done throughout the years. Plus we will try and play Nostradamus on what we think they will do in the future. Tale of the tape After Jim Shepherd 's death in April 2013, Judith and their son Stephen stepped in and kept the title alive. Stephen int...

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!! It is The Phantoms 85th Birthday - on this day back in 1936, something amazing happened with the debut of a comic strip in the newspapers that has changed the world and many peoples lives.  We at Chronicle Chamber have celebrated the birthday by talking about each of the decades in detail and going over what we believe are the key moments through out the Phantoms history. Have a...

It may be only be a month since our last comics and news podcast but with a heap of news and four comics to review there is plenty to talk about. Who are we kidding? We love chatting Phantom and you love listening to us - its a perfect match. As some may only want to listen to parts of the podcast, we have included a time stamp of each topic. Either way, I hope you enjoy the podcast. We have also...

Are Frew readers colourblind?  If you like watching your podcasts with props, this will be a podcast to watch on YouTube. To discuss The Phantom & colour in detail we are joined by Kevin Patrick , author of " The Phantom Unmasked: America's First Superhero " and Indian phan Ankit Mitra who reviews the Regal Publishers Phantom comics for us. Together with Jermayn and Dan they dis...

Jermayn, Dan, Stephen & Mikael go over their phavourites from around the world for 2020 including the " Frew Best Of 2020 " results as held in the survey ran by Chronicle Chamber. It is a bumper podcast just a tick over 2.5 hours but with 100+ comics and products that came out and 12 categories for us to discuss from 2020, it was not an easy task but we managed. First of all we go ov...