Comic Title: Phantom Stranger #2
Publisher: DC
Cover Date: November 1987
On Sale Date: August 18, 1987 Newsstand Date August 18, 1987
Source: DC Releases, #42

Newsstand Date August 18, 1987
Source: Amazing Heroes, #123

Shipping Date July 28, 1987
Source: Amazing Heroes, #123

Shipping Date July 28, 1987
Source: Focus, #1, Page BC

Cover Price: $0.75
Page Count: 32
Editor: Mike Carlin

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 In:
DC Universe by Mike Mignola HC (2017)
DC Universe by Mike Mignola TPB (2018)

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.