(November-December 1971)
DC,
1969 Series
- Price
- 0.25 USD
- Pages
- 52
- Indicia Frequency
- bi-monthly
- On-sale Date
- 1971-09-14
- Publisher's Age Guidelines
- Approved by the Comics Code Authority
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- National Periodical Publications Inc.
- Brand
-
DC [character]
- Editing
- Joe Orlando (credited) (editor); Mark Hanerfeld (credited) (assistant editor)
Issue Notes
On-sale date from copyright registration.
Image in Wax
The Phantom Stranger / cover / 1 page
- Job Number
- J-1382
- Genre
- fantasy-supernatural; horror-suspense; superhero
- Characters
- The Phantom Stranger; Dalia; Judah Tallow
- Synopsis
- Dalia faces old, wheelchair-bound Judah Tallow, as an eerie pair of hands awaits to grab her from behind.
- Reprints
-
in Historias Fantásticas (Editorial Novaro, 1958 series) #308 (18 de junio de 1973) -
in Showcase Presents: Phantom Stranger (DC, 2006 series) #1 ([December] 2006)
-
- Keywords
- terror; wax museum; wax statues
Indexer Notes
The Phantom Stranger appears on this cover in the form of one of the many frightening wax statues on display.
Image in Wax
The Phantom Stranger / comic story / 17 pages
- Script
- Len Wein (credited)
- Pencils
- Jim Aparo (credited)
- Inks
- Jim Aparo (credited)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- Jim Aparo (credited)
- Job Number
- J-1338
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- New York's famous East Village -- wrapped in the mantle of darkness!
- Genre
- fantasy-supernatural; horror-suspense; superhero
- Characters
- The Phantom Stranger; Judah Tallow (owner of the wax museum); Dalia; Ernie Drapper
- Synopsis
- Judah Tallow, wheelchair-bound proprietor of a wax museum devoted to sorcery and the occult, kidnaps the amnesiac Dalia (a long-preserved queen of an ancient realm of sorcery), intending to restore her so that she may lead an army of sorcerers to conquer the modern world.
- Reprints
- in Historias Fantásticas (Editorial Novaro, 1958 series) #308 (18 de junio de 1973)
-
in Il Est Minuit... l'Heure des Sorcières (Arédit-Artima, 1975 series) #10 (4ème trimestre 1976) [N&B et recadré [B&W and reframed]] - in DC Special Blue Ribbon Digest (DC, 1980 series) #6 (January-February 1981)
- in Showcase Presents: Phantom Stranger (DC, 2006 series) #1 ([December] 2006)
-
- Keywords
- ancient realm; East Village; mystery; New York City; occult; sorcery; wax museum; wax statues
Indexer Notes
Two of the wax exhibits at "Tallow's Museum of the Occult" resemble Cain from DC's "House of Mystery" and DC Golden Age mystic Sargon the Sorcerer.
The Threat of the Horrible Hex
Mark Merlin / comic story / 11.67 pages
- Script
- Arnold Drake
- Pencils
- Mort Meskin (signed as Meskin)
- Inks
- Mort Meskin (signed as Meskin)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- Stan Starkman
- Job Number
- J-1370
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- You volunteered to accept the curse of another! Now, you must pay the price -- with your life!
- Genre
- detective-mystery; fantasy-supernatural; adventure; science fiction
- Characters
- Mark Merlin; Elsa Magnusson; Henrietta Von Halz; Josef Von Halz (burgermeister); Spinster Toten (witch); Peter Stalb (occultist); Black Moon (medicine man)
- Synopsis
- Mark and Elsa travel to central Pennsylvania to help a young woman (Henrietta Von Halz) escape from a curse on her family from the days of the colonial witch trials.
- Reprints
- from House of Secrets (DC, 1956 series) #64 (January-February 1964)
-
- Keywords
- 1690; barn; curse; ghosts; hex signs; mystery; occult; Pennsylvania; witch; witch trials
Indexer Notes
writer credit by Martin O'Hearn
Mail to the Phantom Stranger
Mail to the Phantom Stranger / letters page / 1 page
- Script
- Joe Orlando
- Letters
- typeset
- Job Number
- J-1381
- Keywords
- letters of comment
Indexer Notes
Letters of comment from Matthew Graham, Janie Allen and Gerard Triano.
And the Corpse Cried, "Murder!"
Doctor Thirteen / comic story / 9 pages
- Script
- Len Wein (credited)
- Pencils
- Tony DeZuniga (credited)
- Inks
- Tony DeZuniga (credited)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- Ben Oda
- Job Number
- J-1118
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Suicide! The word splashes across the headlines -- Prominent TV Exec Commits Suicide -- and the matter is quickly forgotten.
- Genre
- detective-mystery; fantasy-supernatural
- Characters
- Doctor Terrence Thirteen; Harry (motorist); Martha (motorist); Paul Williams (TV exec); Sylvia Williams (Paul's wife); Ross Curran (TV technician)
- Synopsis
- Motorists Harry and Martha witness television executive Paul Williams deliberately drive his car off the edge of a mountain road in a suicide attempt. The restless spirit of Paul Williams seeks out Doctor Thirteen to prove his death was murder, and to identify the murderer.
- Reprints
- in DC Special Blue Ribbon Digest (DC, 1980 series) #6 (January-February 1981)
- in Showcase Presents: Phantom Stranger (DC, 2006 series) #1 ([December] 2006)
-
- Keywords
- ghost; murder; mystery; suicide
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
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0.
Image in Wax
The Phantom Stranger -
1.
Image in Wax
The Phantom Stranger -
2.
The Threat of the Horrible Hex
Mark Merlin -
3.
For Suspense
DC Comics; House of Mystery -
4.
Mail to the Phantom Stranger
Mail to the Phantom Stranger -
5.
And the Corpse Cried, "Murder!"
Doctor Thirteen
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