FREW Phantom Cover Archive

This page provides links to scans of ALL the FREW Phantom comics from #1 to #100. Just click on each issue number in the lists below to bring up a picture of the corresponding cover. Format details for all of these issues are provided towards the bottom.

All scans courtesy of David Budds from Melbourne, Australia, from his own personal collection.

David has requested that these scans not be reproduced on any other web-site. Should you encounter any of these images used on another web-site, they should be regarded as unsolicited replication. Please encourage any offending web-masters to remove the images.

1948

Issue	Story Title	Official Title	Part	Code
1	Enter The Phantom	The Slave Traders		D9
2	In the Tiger's Lair	Queen Asta of Trondelay		D28
3	Smashing the Crime Ring	Mister Hog		D29
4	The Phantom versus the Jewel Pirates	Romance and the Vesta Pirates	2	D30
5	The Phantom's Treasure Stolen	The Phantom's Treasure		D15

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1949

Issue	Story Title	Official Title	Part	Code
6	The Phantom's Revenge	The Singh Brotherhood	2	D1
7	The Phantom versus the Gun-Runners	The Game of Alvar	2	D13
8	Death to the Sky Band	The Sky Band	2	D2
9	The Pearl Pirates	Fishers of Pearls		D8
10	The Phantom versus the Spy Ring	The Seahorse	1	D12
11	On Bleak Island	The Seahorse	2	D12
12	The Shark's Nest	The Shark's Nest		D7
13	The Phantom's Dilemma	The Golden Circle	1	D11
14	The Golden Circle	The Golden Circle	2	D11
15	The Poison-Gas Chamber	The Golden Circle	3	D11
16	Adventure in Algiers	Adventure in Algiers		D6
17	Kidnapped in Egypt	The Mysterious Girl	1	D10

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1950

Issue	Story Title	Official Title	Part	Code
18	Trapped Under the Sea	The Mysterious Girl	2	D10
19	The Golden Princess	The Golden Princess		S12
20	The Phantom versus the Old-Man-of-the-Mountains	Castle in the Clouds The Ismani Cannibals	2	S8 S9
21	The Kidnapped Bride	Prisoner of the Himalayas	1	D5
22	Sentenced to Death	Prisoner of the Himalayas	2	D5
23	Jungle Victory	Diana Aviatrix Lost	1	D14
24	The Phantom's Triumph	Diana Aviatrix Lost	2	D14
25	The Kidnapped Rajah	The Maharajah's Daughter	1	D22
26	The Royal Prisoner	The Maharajah's Daughter	2	D22
27	The Phantom Goes to War	The Phantom Goes to War	1	D16
28	The Red Invaders	The Phantom Goes to War	3	D16
29	Death to the Invaders	The Phantom Goes to War	2	D16

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1951

Issue	Story Title	Official Title	Part	Code
30	The Hero of Oolan	The Phantom Goes to War	4	D16
31	Hamid the Terrible	Hamid the Terrible	1	S10
32	The Sultan's Prisoner	Hamid the Terrible	2	S10
33	Bent Beak and the Phantom's Mark	Bent Beak Broder		D17
34	The Phantom's Engagement	The Phantom's Engagement		D18
35	The Young Phantom	The Childhood of the Phantom		S11
36	King of the Beasts	King of Beasts		S15
37	The Kidnapped Princess	The Scarlet Sorceress		S16
38	The Reluctant Bridegroom	Queen Pera the Perfect		S14
39	The Dragon God	The Dragon God		S18
40	The Strange Fisherman	The Strange Fisherman		S13

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1952

Issue	Story Title	Official Title	Part	Code
41	Underwater Doom	Lago the Lake God		D24
42	The Lion Woman	The Wild Girl		D25
43		The League of Lost Men		S1
44		The Beachcomber		S4
45		The Precious Cargo of Colonel Winn		S2
46		Whirlpool Channel		D41
47		Princess Valerie	1	D27
48	The Phantom versus the Hairy Twins	Princess Valerie	2	D27
49		The Haunted Castle		S21
50		Tiger Girl		D42
51		The Fire Goddess		S3
52		The White Monkey		D39
53		The Lady Luck	1	D32

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1953

Issue	Official Title	Part	Code
54	The Lady Luck	2	D32
55	The Masked Marvel	1	D33
56	The Masked Marvel	2	D33
57	The Flirtatious Princess	1	D35
58	The Flirtatious Princess	2	D35
59	The Governor's Family		D43
60	The Jungle Patrol		D45
61	The Gray Gang	1	D40
62	The Gray Gang	2	D40
63	The Great Ajax		D47
64	Bobo the Toy Dog		D46
65	The Mermaids of Melo Straits		D26
65A	Romance and the Vesta Pirates The Phantom Trophy	2	D30 S20

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1954

Issue	Official Title	Part	Code
66	The Marshall Sisters The Professor	1 1	S19 D44
67	The Professor	2	D44
68	The Toad Men	1	D48
69	The Toad Men	2	D48
70	The Impostor		S7
71	The Devil Road	1	D31
72	The Devil Road	2	D31
73	The Devil Road	3	D31
74	The Return of the Sky Band	1	S6
75	The Return of the Sky Band	2	S6
76	Fathers and Sons		D34
76A	Mister Hog The Mysterious Passenger		D29 S26

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1955

Issue	Official Title	Part	Code
76B	The Phantom's Treasure The Marshall Sisters	2	D15 S19
77	The Crooner		D21
78	The Spy Gang		D20
79	The Governor and Suzie	1	D19
80	The Governor and Suzie	2	D19
81	The Governor and Suzie	3	D19
82	The Lady from Nowhere		D49
83	Ragon's Game	1	D52
84	Ragon's Game	2	D52
85	The Wrestling Tourney		D54
86	The Thuggees	1	D36
87	The Thuggees	2	D36
88	The Matchmaker		D50

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1956

Issue	Story Title	Part	Code
89	The Super Apes	1	D51
90	The Super Apes	2	D51
91	Aboard the SS Gay		D55
92	The Mob		D53
93	The Ape Idol of the Durugu		D37
94	The Slimming of Prince Tagon		D56
95	Captain Kidder's Treasure		D57
96	Dr Axel and the Witchmen		D58
97	The Singh Brotherhood	2	D1
98	The Slave Traders		D9
99	Queen Sansamor and the Sixth Man		D59
100	The Seahorse	1	D12

Other peculiarities:

• Issues #1 and #2 were unnumbered.
• The "flip-flop" format of issues #7 to #42 (portrait covers, landscape inside, staples on short edge), was also used for most of the Phantom comics produced by Feature Publications in New Zealand, right up until they finished in 1965.
• A red vertical stripe along one edge of the front cover was a common feature on issues numbered from #9 to #42. The vertical stripe on the cover of issues #13 and #14 was black.
• A cover price was absent from issues #31 and #32. For each of these comics, the usual price "circle" was overstruck with the statement "PHANTOM is also in SUPER YANK Comics".
• The creator of The Phantom was shown as "Lew Falk" on the cover of issues #33, #34, #70, #72 and #75.
• The story titles printed on the covers were usually created by the staff at Frew Publications. The "official" story titles according to Lee Falk, are also given.
• Story titles were absent from the majority of comic covers after issue #42.
• From issue #46 onwards, the cover artwork was generally not related to the story contained in the comic.
• The issues denoted 65A, 76A and 76B were Christmas 1953, Christmas 1954, and New Year 1955 specials. No issue number was given on their covers. The A/B designation came from the subsequent usage of the letter "A" for special issues during the 1980s.