Comic Title: Star Spangled Comics #126
Publisher: DC
Cover Date: March 1952
Approx. On Sale Date: January 16, 1952 Copyright Date January 14, 1952
Source: Library of Congress, Periodicals 1952
Until 1958 DC did not report actual on sale dates to the copyright office
The publication dates listed in LoC records are NOT release dates.

Cover Price: $0.10
Page Count: 32
Editor: Jack Schiff

Title: "The Phantom of Paris"
Pages: 8

Feature(s):
Doctor 13 (of Earth-1)

Writer: France E. Herron
Artist: Leonard Starr

Reprinted In:
Phantom Stranger #3 (1969)
Showcase Presents Phantom Stranger Vol. 1 TPB (2006)

Feature Character(s)

• Doctor Thirteen (last appearance in Star Spangled Comics #125; next appearance in Star Spangled Comics #127)

Supporting Character(s)

• Marie Leeds (last name given as Leeds for the first time in this story; last appearance in Star Spangled Comics #125; next appearance in Star Spangled Comics #127)

Villain(s)

• Ferandel (aka the Phantom of Paris; a stage prompter; dies in this story; no further appearances)

Other Character(s)

• Janette Royer and Pierre Morton (stage actors; both die in this story; no further appearances)
• Gustave Landou (a stage manager; no further appearances)
• Claude Martineau (an actor; no further appearances)

Synopsis:
Doctor Thirteen and Marie attend an opera in Paris. One of the actresses is killed on stage during the performance. A masked Phantom is seen is the audience, then he disappears. Dr. Thirteen investigates, but he finds no suspects in the murder. At the next performance another actor is killed by the mysterious Phantom of Paris.

Doctor Thirteen learns of a legend in which the opera house was plagued by murder 100 years earlier. He locates a tunnel which had been bricked off, but has now been opened. Despite the discovery he still has no explanation. Finally, he replaces another actor during the next performance. He escapes the murder planned for him, then unmasks the Phantom as Ferandel, the stage prompter who was angry that his opera scripts had been rejected. Ferandel dies while trying to escape, bringing an end to the Phantom.