Mikros Iros Publications

The Phantom is a comic book series published by Mikros Iros Publications in Greece from November 2024.

Mikros Iros Publications was established by Stelios Anemodouras in Greece in 1949, originally trading under the name of ‘Anemodouras Publications’ as a publishing house. They predominantly publish comic books, leisure magazines and teen focused magazines.

In 1953, they commencing publishing the famous series ‘Mikros Iros’, which translates to ‘Little Hero’, printed for 16 years on a weekly basis. In the field of comics, Stelios Anemodouras also published the famous Blek, Zagor, Mister No and Peripeteia. In the field of leisure magazines, he published popular weekly titles including Grifos, Koyiz, Savvato and in the field of teen magazines the Katerina, Super Katerina and Afisorama.

In 2018, the publishing house entered a new revival era, with the publication of the bimonthly magazine ‘Black-The Best Comics’, a rich anthology of comics featuring heroes from the past, including Storm, Maddy Riley, Corto Maltese, Tarzan, Kid Panther, Judge Dredd, Phantom and more. Luxurious graphic novels of classic comic book characters were also released, such as Zagor, Mr. No, Tex and Dylan Dog.

In 2020 saw the release of award-winning ‘Blacksad’ (Canales, Guarnido) and ‘Fax From Sarajevo’ (Kubert).

Mikros Iros Publications continues to publish a wide range of classic and contemporary comics to this day, with Leokratis in charge of the publishing house, the grandchild of Stelios Anemodouras. New and classic comic strip stories are currently being published, featuring comic book characters such as the Phantom, Batman, The Flash, Zagor, Tex, Dylan Dog, Superman, Corto Maltese and many more.

Titled ‘The Phantom #1 – The Forbidden Land‘, published in November 2024 is the first edition in the series containing 156 color pages measuring 17cm x 24cm, with the 5 stories published within printed in Greek text. An array of writers and illustrators are featured in the comic book, including Tony DePaul, Graham Nolan, Paul Ryan, Terry Beatty and Jeff Weigel.

The front cover can be seen below, with cover art completed by Giannis Rouboulias.

The Phantom #1 – The Forbidden Land includes 5 comic strip stories which were originally published in US newspapers as Sunday stories from 2006 thru till 2020. This comic book will be the first time these stories are published in Greece, translated from English to Greek. The 5 stories are:

The Forbidden Land
The Gravediggers
Pirates of Plutonium
The Nomad’s Fortress
The Ship Of Spies

A sample of internal pages can be seen below.

Titled ‘The Phantom #2 – The Water Creature‘, published in June 2025 is the second edition in the series containing 156 color pages measuring 17cm x 24cm, with the 5 stories published within printed in Greek text. An array of writers and illustrators are featured in the comic book, including Lee Falk, Tony DePaul, Donne Avenell, Claes Reimerthi, George Olesen, Fred Fredericks, Graham Nolan, Terry Beatty and Jeff Weigel.

The front cover can be seen below, with cover art completed by Giannis Rouboulias.

The The Phantom #2 – The Water Creature includes 5 comic strip stories which were originally published in US newspapers as Sunday stories from 1997 thru till 2019. This comic book will be the first time these stories are published in Greece, translated from English to Greek. The 5 stories are: