X-Band: The Phantom Podcast

In 2025, The Phantom returned to being published in the USA thanks to Mad Cave Studios . In this podcast, we chat with Russell Mark Olson , who is / was the artist of the regular series. We talk about the hits of the series, as well as the controversial moments like the Phantom's eyes being shown and the Phantom swapping out his striped trunks. As Russell Olson is a visual person, he shows us...

In this episode, the boys Dan Fraser , Jermayn Parker, and Stephen East come together to review and discuss Phantom comics, stories, and related news from around the world. Christian Moller joins the team with his reviews of the latest comics from Germany.  Just a friendly reminder that we are a phan website and everyone has full-time jobs, children, and lives outside this website. Occasionally, l...

Something a little different, as Jermayn Parker is joined by Nick Moles and Sean Bassett as they chat about the 2026 Phantom phan catch-up in Sydney, Australia. This event is the world’s largest phan gathering weekend and will see phans from around the world gathering together to celebrate our hero, the Phantom. As the three all have faces for radio, we will place throughout the video loads of pho...

Something a little different, as today we review the recently remastered in 4K from a 35mm original camera negative by Kino Lorber , a boutique Blu-ray distributor. This new edition comes in both 4KUHD (two-disc) and Blu-ray (single disc) and can be purchased at the Kino Lorber website .  Along with a new master of the film, each set (either two-disc or single) comes with audio commentary from dir...

The American in the Chronicle Chamber crew, Scott Waldyn , jumps on the podcast this week to interview Juancho Vélez , the incredible colorist behind Defenders of the Earth, Defenders of the Earth: Dark Destiny , The Phantom vs. The Sky Band #1 , and the upcoming The Phantom vs. The Red Dragons #1 from Mad Cave Studios . For comic book fans, Juancho Vélez has made a name for himself by contributin...

In this episode, the boys come together to review and discuss Phantom comics, stories, and related news from around the world, including the team arguing over story elements in the latest newspaper, Frew, and the latest comics from Germany, Austria, and the USA. We love comments and feedback from the Phantom phans. If you agree and/or disagree with us, you can either email us; leave your comments...

Jermayn Parker goes solo as he interviews Fantomen creator Mikael Bergkvist who is one of the few creators who draws and writes Phantom stories for the Fantomen magazine. He joins the likes of Joan Boix , Hans Lindahl , Mikael Sol , Felmang and Lennart Moberg .  Mikael is an interesting person whose career has been interwoven with several other known creators, including Fantomen writer Dai Darell...

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...

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 vi...

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...

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. Dai...

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...

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 9...

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 coll...

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'...

Ulf Granberg was a giant in the Phantom community as both a writer and editor but perhaps even more as a historian and Phantom-lore builder who added structure to the loose lore established by Lee Falk . Sadly, he recently passed, and Dan Fraser and Jermayn Parker  talked about his legacy and reminisced about our chat with him almost a decade ago. At the end of us talking and remembering a legend,...

In this episode the gang is back together after a few months of separation, as they chat with Australian comedian Sammy J, who 10 years ago toured Australia with his award-winning show Hero Complex. This show explores the friendship between two men who bonded over Phantom comics and spanned from the schoolyard to an Australian federal agent searching an attic.  Sammy J talks to us about the last 1...

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. The hardest thing is to try and keep abreast of everything that happens in a month and stay concise - we usually fail. We will admit, the boys did get off-topic and distracted from the runsheet in a few places. If we do not di...

When we first announced the proposed new Phantom TV show on our website in July 2023 , we spent a whole episode with guests joining the team to pitch ideas in episode 256 . This year there has been some more news that Netflix is ‘likely’ going to be the platform to distribute the show . However, the Phantom has had some false dawns ever since Tom Tyler donned the uniform in 1943. This podcast is g...

We are lucky that every month is a busy month in the Phantom world! These podcasts are our attempt to wrap up everything from comic reviews to catching up on the latest newspaper Comics Kingdom stories, related news from around the world. In this episode Jermayn Parker is joined by phan and Patreon supporter Daniel Brogna . Daily / Sunday Adventures Progress Daily #269 " The Muckmen of Zumari...

Action scenes are a critical component of any Phantom story, so how does a comics creator seek authenticity, credibility, and high-level danger and originality in combat scenes and thrill sequences? The answer is to consult a stunt performer. Phantom writer Julie Ditrich and film and TV stunt performer Alex Jewson discuss how they collaborate, the psychology of fight scenes, and the dramatic and e...

Following on from X-Band: The Phantom Podcast Episode 307 , Jermayn Parker and Matt Kyme explored the many elements that were vital to making a Phantom story something that hits the mark for phans. One of those elements was Old Jungle Sayings, in this podcast we do a deep dive into Old Jungle Sayings! According to DeepWoods.org , a story cannot be a Phantom story without these sayings appearing mo...

It is not every month we see a new country publishes the Phantom for the first time so that makes October a busy but important month in the world of the Phantom.. 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, including comic conventions, passings of giants, the latest comics soon...

If you listen to this podcast, chances are you are obsessed with purple (or blue in Scandinavia, Red in South America etc) and have an unhealthy fetish on all things Phantom. This podcast is something a little different; Jermayn Parker is joined by Sean Bassett and Nick Moles as we chat about collecting.  We have interviewed and chatted with a few collectors like Pete Klaus  (Episode #88) , Jon Co...

Wednesday 24 September 2025, Mad Cave Studios release their first regular feature Phantom comic on the back of their well received Defenders of the Earth comic series.  Jermayn Parker and Scott Waldyn review the comic together. We talk about the elephant in the room of the Phantom showing his eyes for us readers plus what the comic does well. At the end of the day, it is a good comic. The story is...