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Issue Details

Issue #5
Published April-May 1953
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 36
Editing Whitney Ellsworth

Cover Details

Genre occult
Pencils Murphy Anderson
Inks Bernard Sachs

7 page Phantom Stranger story "The Living Nightmare"

Characters Phantom Stranger
Genre occult
Script John Broome
Pencils Carmine Infantino
Inks Bernard Sachs
Reprinted in House of Mystery (DC, 1951 series) #226 (August-September 1974); in Showcase Presents: The House of Mystery (DC, 2006 series) #3

1 page story "Demon Count"

Script Morris Waldinger
Pencils Morris Waldinger
Inks Morris Waldinger

6 page Phantom Stranger story "The Unseen Familiar"

Genre occult
Script John Broome
Pencils Murphy Anderson
Inks Joe Giella

1 page Superman public service announcement "People are People!"

Genre superhero
Script Jack Schiff
Pencils Win Mortimer
Inks Win Mortimer
Letters Ira Schnapp

4 page story "Time to Kill"

Script Jack Miller
Pencils John Giunta
Inks John Giunta

2 page text story "Strange Secrets of the Ozarks"

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

6 page Phantom Stranger story "The Stars Screamed Danger"

Characters Villain: Vasti the Fortune Teller
Genre occult
Script John Broome
Pencils Frank Giacoia
Inks Joe Giella
Reprinted in Phantom Stranger, The (DC, 1969 series) #3 [incorporated into: "How Do You Know My Name?"]; in Showcase Presents Phantom Stranger (DC, 2006 series) #1

1 page story "Hand of Glory"

Script Morris Waldinger
Pencils Morris Waldinger
Inks Morris Waldinger

1 page story "The Nameless Ones"

Script Morris Waldinger
Pencils Morris Waldinger
Inks Morris Waldinger