American Update: The Phantom Stranger! New issues added to DC’s Mysterious Guardian
*DC: The Phantom Stranger was a short-lived 1950s concept re-introduced by Bob Kanigher in Showcase #80, and promptly spun off into his own series in the wake of DC’s successful revamp of their long-running thriller titles, House of Secrets and House of Mystery. An enigmatic wanderer with unspecified supernatural abilities, he fought otherworldly incursions into the terrestrial realm. His primary writer was Len Wein, and Jim Aparo produced daring and imaginative artwork, which, combined with stunning Neal Adams covers on the early issues, gave the series the distinct impression of being set on the mystical borders of the DC Universe, a far cry from the sanitised world of the Justice League. We have a selection of issues from #10 to #24 newly in stock, and if you haven’t tried the Stranger yet, we can recommend you pick up this under-estimated series – before someone goes and makes a TV show of it, and the prices skyrocket!