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: "Revelations"
Pages: 10

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

Crossover Event:
Legends

Writer: Dan Mishkin
Penciller: Ernie Colon
Inker: Pablo Marcos
Letterer: Albert Tobias De Guzman
Colorist: Carl Gafford

Feature Character(s)

• Phantom Stranger (at the end of time; possibly dies in this story; last appearance in Day of Vengeance:Infinite Crisis Special #1; no further appearances)

Villain(s)

• Dr. Alt (an avatar of Anti-Life; no further appearances)

Other Character(s)

• A lab assistant (no further appearances)

Flashback Appearance(s)

• Phantom Stranger (a scientist from the future at the beginning of time; earliest chronological appearance; next appearance in Secret Origins #10)

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

Synopsis:
At a time when the universe is nearing the end, two scientists search for a way to prolong the existence of the universe by siphoning energy from the Big Bang at the beginning of time. As the scientists look back in time they begin to see swirls forming a giant hand. Just then the Phantom Stranger appears and shuts off the machine. He warns that their actions would cause disastrous effects for the universe as similar experiments have done before.

Dr. Alt, one of the scientists, is able to knock out the Stranger. The Phantom Stranger knows that Alt is an avatar of Anti-Life whose intent is to stop the universe from being created at the beginning of time. His partner learns the truth and is given power by the Stranger. He then jumps through an open portal which leads to the beginning of time. There, the scientist is exposed to the incredible energy of the Big Bang and the new universe only nanoseconds after creation. He becomes the Phantom Stranger and realizes that the man he met at the end of time was himself after living through the entire timespan of the universe's existence.