Comic Title: Secret Origins #10
Publisher: DC (DC Comics Inc.)
Address: 666 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY
Cover Date: January 1987
On Sale Date: October 9, 1986 Newsstand Date October 9, 1986
Source: DC Releases, #32

Newsstand Date October 9, 1986
Source: Amazing Heroes, #101

Shipping Date September 16, 1986
Source: Amazing Heroes, #101

Shipping Date September 16, 1986
Source: DC Releases, #32

Shipping Date September 16, 1986
Source: Comics Journal, #110

Copyright Date September 16, 1986
Source: Library of Congress, Copyright Office 1986
DC publication dates beyond April 1981 listed by the LoC
represent shipping dates NOT newsstand sale dates

Frequency: Monthly
Cover Price: $1.25
Page Count: 48
Editor: Robert Greenberger

Notes:
This issue is labeled: "Legends Spin-Off Chapter 6".

Title: "...and Men Shall Call Him Stranger"
Pages: 10

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

Crossover Event:
Legends

Writer: Paul Levitz
Artist: Jose Luis Garcia-Lopez
Letterer: Gaspar Saladino
Colorist: Tatjana Wood

Feature Character(s)

• Phantom Stranger (last appearance in Secret Origins #10; next appearance in Secret Origins #10)

Other Character(s)

• An angel (no further appearances)
• The Phantom Stranger's family (Joshua named; no further appearances)
• The people of an unnamed city (many die in this story; no further appearances)

Comments:
This story takes place at an indeterminant time in Earth's past when angels still walked the Earth.

This is one of four possible origins presented for the Phantom Stranger. Since the stories are all substanially different, it is unclear which, if any, of them are canonical.

Synopsis:
During ancient times the people of a large city had all become corrupt and evil, except for a single man. Heaven punished the city by unleashing nature's wrath upon it. The good man prayed to God to save the city despite the evil within it. He was visited by an angel who offered to take the man to safety. The man pleaded to the angel to save his people and refused to be the only one spared. When the angel would not concede, the man took his own life with a dagger.

The angel then punished the man for forsaking God's will. Instead of allowing the man to die, he was restored to life. However, he was cursed to always walk among men, but to never be one of them. He then helped to save some people from the city including his own family. However, due to his curse, the man would remain a stranger to them.