Frew Publications is an Australian comic book publisher, known for its long-running reprint series of Lee Falk's The Phantom.
Frew Publications was founded in 1948 by Ron Forsyth, Lawford 'Jim' Richardson, Jack Eisen, and Peter Watson, with each contributing 500 Australian pounds to establish the publisher.
[3] In 1990 Frew published the first ever Australian created Phantom adventure, "Rumble in the Jungle" (Issue #951A), with art by Keith Chatto and the story by Jim Shepherd.
In 2016, the company and licence was purchased by Glenn Ford and Rene White[1] Frew has a tradition of using their own cover art, created specially for the publisher.
Cover artists have included Tommy Hughes, Keith Chatto, Terry Welsby (credited as "Tessa"), Glenn Ford, Antonio Lemos, Meg Coates, Terry Lee, Paul Agnew, Jason Frazer, Jeremy MacPherson, Wai-Chew Chan, and Shane Foley Jamie Johnson.
[citation needed] As of 2007, Frew sales figures place The Phantom's distribution above all other contemporary comic books sold in Australia.
For ease of reference, official Frew archivists have assigned them either an 'A' or a 'B' as per their publishing date: In editions 43-47, 49-821 and 823-828 no story title appeared on the front cover.