Comic Title: Phantom Stranger #3
Publisher: DC
Cover Date: December 1987
On Sale Date: September 15, 1987 Newsstand Date September 15, 1987
Source: DC Releases, #43

Newsstand Date September 15, 1987
Source: Amazing Heroes, #124

Shipping Date August 25, 1987
Source: Amazing Heroes, #124

Shipping Date August 25, 1987
Source: Focus, #1, Page BC

Shipping Date August 25, 1987
Source: Capital City Distributors, Orderpack August 1987

Copyright Date August 3, 1987
Source: Library of Congress, Copyright Office 1987
DC publication dates beyond April 1981 listed by the LoC
represent shipping dates NOT newsstand sale dates

Shipping Date August 25, 1987
Source: Comic Shop News, #8

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

Title: "Thunder in the Night"
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 #2; next appearance in Phantom Stranger #4)

Supporting Character(s)

• Negative Woman (last appearance in Phantom Stranger #1; next appearance in Phantom Stranger #4)
• Jimmy Olsen (last appearance in Phantom Stranger #2; next appearance in Superman #11)

Villain(s)

• Eclipso (last appearance in Phantom Stranger #2; next appearance in Phantom Stranger #4)
• Lycaon (last appearance in Phantom Stranger #2; next appearance in Phantom Stranger #4)
• Rizzoli (last appearance in Phantom Stranger #1; no further appearances)
• Dmitri (Rizzoli's contact; no further appearances)

Other Character(s)

• Ronald Reagan (last appearance in Phantom Stranger #1; next appearance in Millennium #3)
• Mr. Payton (the President's Chief of Staff; no further appearances)
• Mikhail Gorbachev (last appearance in Suicide Squad #7; next appearance in Secret Origins #34)
• Illya Alexandrovich (Gorbachev's advisor; no further appearances)
• Mr. Tarkoff (a television executive; no further appearances)
• Several political advisors (Henderson named; no further appearances)
• Colonel Evans, General Ashe, and various military personnel (no further appearances)
• Several Secret Service men (no further appearances)

Comments:
This story is continued from Phantom Stranger #2 and continues in Phantom Stranger #4.

Synopsis:
After recovering from his battle with demons underneath Mount St. Helens, the Phantom Stranger tracks down Jimmy Olsen who has been tailing what he believes is a Russian spy working with the mob. Jimmy soon discovers that the spy is actually a demon in human form. The demon has been sent by Eclipso to instigate a nuclear war.

Jimmy and the Stranger locate the demon outside the White House gates. They are unable to prevent him from switching places with the President. Jimmy and the Stranger then bring the real President back into the White House and fight the demon in an effort to prevent him from giving the launch codes to start a war. Once the demon has been exposed and defeated, tensions between the United States and the Soviet Union ease.