Personal memories
A lifetime of reading, collecting and working with the Phantom.
Restoration · Personal memoriesBringing the classic Phantom back to print
Recolouring for Frew and restoring Wilson McCoy’s strips for Comics Revue — a personal account.
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Stories · Personal memoriesPhantom Stories That Have Stayed with Me
Personal favourites from a lifetime of reading the newspaper strip.
Read article →Artists · Personal memoriesThe Phantom, Sy Barry and me
From childhood newspaper strips and colour albums to collecting, colouring and a memorable meeting in New York.
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Stories · Personal memoriesRex: The Boy Who Was Simply There
Memories of the Phantom’s foster son, his place in the jungle adventures and his later life in Baronkhan.
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Stories · Personal memoriesThe Phantom in Colour — a Personal Preference
Norwegian memories, colour and black-and-white traditions around the world, and my own colouring work for Frew.
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Artists · Personal memoriesTony DePaul: Writing the Phantom After Falk
On 15 October 2026, Tony DePaul announced that King Features had ended his assignment as writer of The Phantom newspaper strips. In his account, That's it for me and the Phantom, Part II, he makes a clear distinction from the contract dispute in 2017: then he had quit; this time the decision was the syndicate's. He says Amy Anderson told him on 14 October that King Features wanted to take the strip in a new direction and attract younger readers.
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