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Issue Details

Issue #1
Published August-September 1952
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 36
Editing Whitney Ellsworth (credited); Julius Schwartz (actual)

Cover Details

Genre occult
Pencils Carmine Infantino
Inks Sy Barry

8 page Phantom Stranger story "The Haunters from Beyond"

Characters The Phantom Stranger (intro)
Genre occult
Script John Broome
Pencils Carmine Infantino
Inks Sy Barry [Seymour Barry]
Notes Reprint info from Mark Waid and Michael R. Grabois (Per Sandell)
Reprinted in DC 100-Page Super Spectacular (DC, 1971 series) #4 (1971)

6 page Phantom Stranger story "When Dead Men Walk"

Characters Phantom Stranger; John Martin; Bart Benson; Carson Rand; Jim Thompson; Edgar Jones; Margo Phillips; Matt Wright
Synopsis When three friends die in a plane crash, the spirits seem to be haunting those they left behind, but the Phantom Stranger reveals that the ghostly appearances are really the work of an embezzler attempting to cover his tracks.
Genre occult
Script John Broome
Pencils Carmine Infantino
Inks Sy Barry; Joe Giella
Notes Reprint in The Phantom Stranger (DC, 1969 series) #1 noted by Michael R. Grabois through Per Sandell.
Reprinted in Phantom Stranger, The (DC, 1969 series) #1 [with new introduction and title change to "When Ghosts Walk"]; in Greatest 1950s Stories Ever Told, The (DC, 1990 series) #[nn]; in Greatest 1950s Stories Ever Told, The (DC, 1992 series) #[nn]; in Showcase Presents Phantom Stranger (DC, 2006 series) #1

6 page story "Goblin in the Bottle"

Script John Broome
Pencils Murphy Anderson
Inks Murphy Anderson

1 page story "Whistle Magic"

Script Mort Drucker
Pencils Mort Drucker
Inks Mort Drucker

2 page text story "Fate Takes a Hand"

Script Jack Miller
Pencils Raymond Perry
Inks Raymond Perry
Letters typeset
Notes text w/illo

6 page Phantom Stranger story "The House of Strange Secrets"

Genre occult
Script John Broome
Pencils Carmine Infantino
Inks Joe Giella
Notes Reprint info from Mark Waid and Michael R. Grabois (Per Sandell)
Reprinted in Phantom Stranger, The (DC, 1969 series) #2 (July-August 1969)