Comic Title: DC Universe by Mike Mignola HC
Publisher: DC
Cover Date: 2017
On Sale Date: May 24, 2017 Direct Market Date May 24, 2017
Source: ComicList, New Comic Book Releases List for Wednesday, May 24, 2017

Direct Market Date May 10, 2017
Source: Previews, #341

Cover Price: $39.99
Page Count: 400
Editor: Robin Wildman

See Also: The Guide to Graphic Novels and Collected Editions

Title: "The Soul of the Man"
Pages: 23

Feature(s):
Phantom Stranger (Post-Crisis)

Writer: Paul Kupperberg
Penciller: Mike Mignola
Inker: P. Craig Russell
Letterer: John E. Workman, Jr.
Colorist: Petra Scotese (Goldberg)

Reprinted From:
Phantom Stranger #2 (1987)

Feature Character(s)

• Phantom Stranger (last appearance in Phantom Stranger #1; next appearance in Phantom Stranger #3)

Supporting Character(s)

• Jimmy Olsen (last appearance in Phantom Stranger #1; next appearance in Phantom Stranger #3)
• Jenet Klyburn (last appearance in Phantom Stranger #1; next appearance in Detective Comics #595)

Villain(s)

• Eclipso (last appearance in Phantom Stranger #1; next appearance in Phantom Stranger #3)
• Lycaon (last appearance in Phantom Stranger #1; next appearance in Phantom Stranger #3)
• Several demons (no further appearances)

Guest Appearance(s)

• Lords of Order (last appearance in Doctor Fate #4; next appearance in Doctor Fate Annual #1)

Other Character(s)

• Yuri (Jimmy Olsen's Russian contact; no further appearances)

Comments:
This story is continued from Phantom Stranger #1 and continues in Phantom Stranger #3.

Synopsis:
The Phantom Stranger creates psychic defenses in the mind of Bruce Gordon to protect him from Eclipso. The Stranger then begins to question his own faith for humanity. This brings a confrontation with the Lords of Order who strip the Stranger of his powers as punishment for questioning them. The Stranger vows to continue to fight for humanity's survival until the end.

To do so, the Stranger recruits Jenet Klyburn from STAR Labs. She has determined that the seismic events that have occurred around the world are not natural in origin. Bruce, Jenet, and the Stranger then travel to Mount Saint Helens which is about to erupt. Jenet pinpoints a seismic frequency responsible for the quakes which leads the Stranger to demons underground in the employ of Eclipso. Working together, the Stranger and Klyburn dispatch the demons and stop the quakes.

Eclipso realizes that the Stranger has stopped this scheme, but he has two other plans in the works to plunge Earth in perpetual darkness.