New Mini - Phantom Action

Moonstone have announced a new, two issue mini series called Phantom Action which will see the Phantom teaming up with Captain Action. Moonstone has released a blurb for the mini which reads thus;

Together again for the first time!

The Phantom and Captain Action were forever united in the 1960s when the original Captain Action toy was released with a Phantom costume, allowing Cap to transform into the Ghost Who Walks. Now, for the first time, the two timeless titans collide in the first concussive crossover ever created.

When an international intelligence cartel makes a surgical strike for global control, UN committee member Diana Palmer-Walker and her legendary husband are all that stands in their way, but when the Ghost Who Walks goes missing, the only one Diana can turn to is none other than - Captain Action!

Don’t miss history in the making!

Full details of the first issue are now on the Moonstone page.

Article - Behind the Mask

The latest of the Ed Rhoades' Behind the Mask articles to feature here on ChronicleChamber.com is now on-line and can be read on the Talking Drums page. This instalment, entitled Secret Identities discusses the idea of secret identities in comics and how the Phantom's own secret identity has defined the character.

The Return of Johnny Hotwire

Frew and Egmont readers may remember the Johnny Hotwire series of stories that came out 2004 as part of the Year One story arc. Well, it seems Johnny is set to return. Egmont artis Sal Velluto has posted an image of Johnny on his blog from a forthcomming story starting the young 21st Phantom's alter ego.

Original Phantom Statues!

If collecting unique items is your thing, then some awesome, phan made statues may just be your cup of jungle juice. Ridiculously talented phan Giovanni (PhantomBR on the forums) has built some absolutely beautiful Phantom sculptures which have also been hand painted. 

Thus far Giovanni has three statues available; The Phantom Shooting, The Phantom Standing ($2000US each) and New Phantom which is a special statues limited to only 30 pieces. 

CC sent Giovanni an e-mail asking about availability of the statues we received the following response; 

The Phantom shooting and standing with higher or lower base cost USD200.00 + sh each one (you choose the base you want and color you want).

The New Phantom is a special statue and are limited in 30 pieces. This piece is numbered, dated and signed by sculptor, Gabriel Luna, a friend of mine.

I can sell with payment on my paypal account, this is secure to both, seller and buyer.

I need 10 business days to prepair a statue.

I sold Phantom statues to whole world, USA, France, Austria, Australia.

For more images and information on Giovanni's statues check out this thread on the forums. If you're intersted in purchasing one of the statues you can contact Giovanni via the forums or send CC and e-mail and we'll pass it on.


 

New Comics!

The latest from Egmont and Frew;


Egmont:
Fantomet nr. 22/2009
Fantomen nr. 23/2009

Frew:
#1554 - cover added.
#1555

Indrajal Comics #6 - Free Download

An blog entitled Parishi's Vision has posted Indrajal Comics #6 - Lunar Cult in it's entierty for download. Apparently, it;s the best on-line version of the issue. You can download it HERE.

Article about the remarkable life of Lee Falk

We strongly recommend our readers to check out the New World Encyclopedia article about the Phantom's creator, Lee Falk. It provides a great deal of interesting information previously unknown to most of his fans.

In it, you can among other things read about how Falk raised his children, his work in the theatre, the creation of the Phantom, and how Falk almost got sued by Adolf Hitler!

Read about the life and times of Mr. Falk here.

Julie Featured in Previews

Previews, the comic book catalogue, is featuring Moonstone's Julie Walker: Race Against Death one-shot on their website this month (and most probably in the catalogue as well). The issue is available for pre-order in this month's edition of Previews (NOV, 2009) which should be in comic stores very soon so you can place your orders.

While the feature on the Previews site doesn't give us any new information about the book it's great to see it getting the attention it deserves.

ChronicleChamber Gallery Returns

Those of you who have visited CC before its latest incantation using Blogger might remember that the site originally had a gallery. Well, the gallery is back!

Due to the large number of interesting images that we've come across in the time this site has been around I thought it would be a good idea to have a place where people can easily view those images rather than having to find the corresponding news or forum post.

Keeping with the Joe-is-too-poor-to-pay-for-anything nature of this site the gallery will be hosted on Photobucket. You can access the gallery HERE, by clicking on the text link in the menu to the left or the sideshow preview on the right.

The gallery itself will have sub-sections for cover images, stills from movies and TV, photos from the CC Meet Up (and any future Meet Ups) and photos of Phan's collections.

As with everything here on CC, I'd like to encourage visitor participation in the gallery. If you have some photos you'd like to add of your own collection or images of interesting Phantom things please e-mail them to us and they shall be added.

I feel I should stress that this gallery will not be replacing PhanWorks in any way. PhanWorks is its own beast and all the awesome phan-created works will remain there.

I hope everyone enjoys the new gallery, please feel free to leave any thoughts or comments here or on the forums.

Here's a preview of what to expect.

New Images from THE PHANTOM TV Series

RHI Entertainment has released several new photos from the forthcoming THE PHANTOM series that is to appear on SyFy next year. Check out the slide show below to view the images.

Thanks to Paul for spotting this.