The Australian marks a world-record milestone for Frew’s The Phantom comic series: 60 years, and more than 1,500 issues, of uninterrupted publication.

The newspaper notes that each issue, “published every fortnight or so,” still sells about 30,000 copies — nearly a decade after the death of creator Lee Falk.

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