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[The Australian Panther]

Interesting and New Two:- JACQUES TARDI - NESTOR BURMA.
Taken a while to get back to this thread.
Not going to say much about this one. Speaks for itself.
Nestor Burma
http://www.thrillingdetective.com/burma.html
Jacques Tardi
https://www.lambiek.net/artists/t/tardi.htm
And a link to the Fantagraphics edition
https://comicvine.gamespot.com/fog-over-tolbiac-bridge-a-nestor-burma-mystery-1-h/4000-604899/
Cheers

[paw broon]

Good stuff Panther.  Love Jacques Tardi and I remember buying 120 Rue de la Gare in a Paris librairie in the late '80's, and it was a revelation.  For those who aren't aware, Tardi is also responsable for Adele Blanc Sec
http://www.coolfrenchcomics.com/adeleblancsec.htm
and they are excellent stories.  Don't know if there are English language versions available.  If there are, buy them.

[The Australian Panther]

The Frew Phantom

This post is way overdue. My apologies. Should have posted it when I saw a

[paw broon]

Like you, I've been reading The Phantom for a long time and as I've neted the first time I saw The Ghost Who Walks was in Fife in a Crail newsagents window in the '50's.That was the cover of what I now know to be a Frew issue.  A lot of pestering got my mum to buy it.  I was hooked but Australian comics were difficult to find in Scotland although some arrived as ballast on boats, but there was no rhyme or reason to what was in a bundle.  Pot luck - if you could even find them.  I had to make do with the 1/- Miller issues.  Covers here:-
http://www.deepwoods.org/miller.html
Now I have a fair collection of Frew Phantoms incl. the thick specials and some old Giant size.  Plus a selection of French, Italian, German and Scandinavian issues.
As Catman was completely re-designed, I thought it became a Frew character, as there is very little left of the Continental character.
As you mentioned the Scandinavian issues, it reminded me that I was chatting to David Bishop at a library do a couple of years ago (embarrassing as I was being a bit of a fan boy) and he told me that he writes the script in English, sends it to Sweden where it's translated into Swedish and Norwegian, then when Frew want to reprint the story its translated back into English.  Odd.  You'd have though they would have simply sent the original English strip. Hope I've remembered correctly
As for the costumes link, thank you for that.  Love the illos.

[The Australian Panther]

I posted earlier about FREW

[paw broon]

Excellent and I am excited about the reprints and revivals.  Just a bit annoyed that I will find it difficult laying hands on a copy. Although some of us CB+ are aware of these old heroes, they are obscurities or unknowns to the vast majority of comics fans.
We have a couple of Invisible Avenger comics on CB+, N.Z. reprints I seem to remember. Was there an Invisible Avenger character?
Ghost Who Walks looks a bit bulky on the cover!