← Article overview

Stories

Favourite adventures and the ways they were first read.

Panels from the first Phantom daily strip, dated 17 February 1936Stories

The Phantom introduction

An introduction to The Phantom and a guide to the Phantom Index.

Read article →
First image in the comparisonStories · Restoration

When the Phantom ran seven days a week

The combined daily and Sunday adventures of 1949–1950, and five years of work bringing them together for Comics Revue.

Read article →
The first Phantom strip I saw, was a Sy Barry strip.Stories · Personal memories

Phantom Stories That Have Stayed with Me

Personal favourites from a lifetime of reading the newspaper strip.

Read article →
The Phantom reading the ChroniclesArtists · Stories

Behind the familiar names

Other hands in the writing and artwork, two versions of the Phantom’s childhood, and the questions raised by his wartime adventure.

Read article →
The Phantom reading the ChroniclesStories · Personal memories

Rex: 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.

Read article →
Is the Phantom strip a soup opera?Stories

Is the Phantom a Soap Opera?

The long courtship, the wedding and the difference between an adventure serial and continuing relationship drama — a personal view.

Read article →
Norwegian Fantomet annual cover showing the blue-costumed Phantom facing a gorillaStories · Personal memories

The Phantom in Colour — a Personal Preference

Norwegian memories, colour and black-and-white traditions around the world, and my own colouring work for Frew.

Read article →