Mad Cave Studios is a comic book publishing house based in Miami, Florida, USA established in 2014. The company was created by writer Mark London, with founding members including Giovanna Tobar Orozco, Miguel Zapata and Cecilia Medina.
Mad Cave Studios publish a range of comic books and trade paperbacks, originally partnering with distributor Diamond Comic Distributors. In following years, Mad Cave Studios continued to grow, partnering with Maverick imprint and Simon & Schuster for distribution, plus acquiring Papercutz and the introduction of licensed and creator-owned projects.
The Phantom vs. The Sky Band
The Phantom vs. The Sky Band is a standalone one-shot comic book published by Mad Cave Studios in the USA on the 22nd of April 2026. This edition publishes a Phantom adventure battling The Sky Band, a notorious group of all-female air pirates that first appeared in the very first daily Phantom comic strip story to be published in US newspapers in 1936, ‘The Singh Brotherhood‘. Created by Lee Falk and illustrated by Ray Moore, they are recognized as one of the first “Amazon Brigade” style organizations in comic history, predating mainstream feminist movements in the medium.
This all original story and artwork comic book contains 40 full color pages and is authored by Ray Fawkes, illustrated by Federico Sabbatini, colored by Juancho Velez and lettering by Taylor Esposito.
The description seen in online advertisements reads:
THE PHANTOM’S JUSTICE IS SWIFT AND ETERNAL! The Sky Band entered the Phantom’s domain when they took blood money to carry the Singh Brotherhood into Bangalla. They thought their helicopters would make them untraceable¸ immune. Now the mercenaries-for-hire will face the Phantom’s wrath. Those who survive…will be irreparably MARKED.
The two front cover variants of The Phantom vs. The Sky Band offer contrasting perspectives on a high-stakes confrontation between the Phantom and his classic aerial adversaries, The Sky Band. Cover A (seen below left), illustrated by Federico Sabbatini, is a dynamic, action-oriented piece featuring the Phantom leaping through the air amidst a fiery explosion, with a tactical helicopter looming in the background under a full moon. In stark contrast, Cover B (seen below right), by Freddie Williams II and Andrew Dalhouse, presents a more dire scene from a low-angle perspective, showing a bloodied Phantom grounded and gritting his teeth in the foreground. He is being held at bay by a determined, blonde-haired woman, likely a leader of the Sky Band, who stands before a landed helicopter wielding an assault rifle, with a pile of skulls nearby emphasizing the lethal stakes of their encounter.
Although the front cover indicates that this is edition number one, the comic book is a one-shot publication, with no further editions in this series anticipated after this release.
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