…at least for us
The SaintWhen Leslie Charteris published Meet the Tiger! in 1928 he probably didn’t realise for a while what he had begun. Indeed he continued to write stories featuring other heroes for some time before chronicling the exploits of Simon Templar claimed his whole attention. |
The Saints
The Saints—the Saint Kilda Football Club—took their one and only premiership flag in 1966.
They *will* get another (whether we live to see it or not is another matter 🙂 )
The Phantom
From it’s debut in American newspapers on 17 February 1936 Lee Falk’s The Phantom has been one of the world’s most popular comic heroes. Australia has always been a stronghold with Frew Publications holding the distinction of producing the worlds longest unbroken run of Phantom comics from their first issue on 9 September 1948 right through to the present almost 2000 issues later.
There are a few excellent reference sites for The Phantom. Try some of these…
- Frew Publications: https://www.phantomcomic.com.au/ — originally merely a couple of placeholder pages, this site has matured greatly in recent years to become a truly useful resource and online shop
- Don Markstein’s Toonopedia™: http://www.toonopedia.com/phantom.htm
- The Phantom, a comprehensive (presumably US-based) fan site: https://thephantom.fan/
- The (Australian) Deep Woods: http://www.deepwoods.org/
- The Chronicle Chamber, another fairly comprehensive fan site: https://www.chroniclechamber.com/
And finally, if you want a daily fix of Phantom for free, (as of May 2025) you can find each day’s current strip at “https://comicskingdom.com/phantom/yyyy-mm-dd” [you will need to replace the “yyyy-mm-dd” portion of the address with the date of the strip you’re looking for]—although you can just go to https://comicskingdom.com/phantom/ and click on the “Read” button it seems to generally find itself OK.
Fred Basset
Created by Scottish cartoonist Alex Graham and first published in July 1963, Fred has been a part of our family for as long as I can remember. Enjoy a new strip each day at gocomics.com
Max Fatchen
My grandpa’s cousin: this is some bio info and some collected works.
Some interesting pictures…
…that we’ve taken (or collected)