*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 the series we’ve been marketing over the last few months. 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 Jack Miller with pencils by Carmine Infantino, Murphy Anderson, John Giunta and Jerry Grandenetti. 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 final issue of our run is also the final issue of the series and is in the best condition of the issues we’ve had. Murphy Anderson pencils a fabulous cover which many years later he swiped for Justice League of America #2. There are just a few cover flaws – a small split at top of spine, small colour-breaking creases across top and bottom right corners and a tiny nick out of the right cover centre edge. The cover image is clean and attractive with great colours. Staples are firm and strong at spine and centrefold and the supple pages are a remarkable off-white to white. 
PICTURED: PHANTOM STRANGER #6 VG- £400 SOLD