*DC: As rare as hen’s teeth! In 30+ years of flogging comics, we’ve only ever had a couple of issues of the first series of Phantom Stranger through our hands before. In 1952, he appeared from nowhere, without explanation or origin to be DC’s mysterious omniscient and omnipotent being of mystery. Despite numerous theories in the DCU, no concrete information has ever been revealed about his true nature. Edited by Whitney Ellsworth, and created by John Broome and Carmine Infantino, this series had the finest creators of the time working on it in a number of horror/supernatural stories. Here we get scripts by John Broome and Manly Wade Wellman with pencils by Carmine Infantino, Murphy Anderson and Gene Colan. Whilst perhaps not as Pre-Code horrifically as the fare of other less polished publishers, the Phantom Stranger made up for that in the quality of substance and style of his stories. This lower-graded copy has a narrowly taped spine, but the staples seem to hold it together firmly regardless. Cover colours are strong, with some short colour-breaking creases at edges and corners only. Page quality is a nice off-white to cream.
PICTURED: PHANTOM STRANGER #4 GD £190