Comic Title: Showcase Presents Phantom Stranger Vol. 1 TPB
Publisher: DC
Cover Date: 2006
On Sale Date: October 25, 2006 Direct Market Date October 18, 2006
Source: Previews, Vol. 16 #7 (#211)

Direct Market Date October 25, 2006
Source: Usenet, New Releases List for Wednesday, October 25, 2006

Cover Price: $16.99
Page Count: 544
Editor: Bob Joy

See Also: The Guide to Graphic Novels and Collected Editions

Title: "The Girl Who Lived 5,000 Years"
Pages: 8

Feature(s):
Doctor 13 (of Earth-1)

Writer: France E. Herron
Artist: Leonard Starr

Reprinted From:
Star Spangled Comics #128 (1952)

Feature Character(s)

• Doctor Thirteen (last appearance in Star Spangled Comics #127; next appearance in Star Spangled Comics #129)

Supporting Character(s)

• Marie Leeds (last appearance in Star Spangled Comics #127; next appearance in Star Spangled Comics #129)

Villain(s)

• Tateeka (a girl who claims to be 5000 years old; no further appearances)
• Hendricks and his partner (con artists; no further appearances)

Other Character(s)

• Reed Masters (a friend of Dr. Thirteen; dies in this story; no further appearances)
• Desmond and Paul (friends of Reed Masters; both die behind-the-scenes; no further appearances)
• Tateeka's father (no further appearances)

Synopsis:
After the apparent suicide of his friend Reed Masters, Doctor Thirteen investigates the circumstances of his death. Masters and two other men had been driven to kill themselves after falling in love with a woman claiming to be 5000 years old. The woman, Tateeka, claims to have been cursed in ancient Babylon and wakes for thirty days every 100 years.

To prove Tateeka's story false, Doctor Thirteen begins dating Tateeka. Within days he has fallen under her spell. Only after talking with Marie does he come to his senses. He then exposes her con and proves that she drugged Masters. She was working for Hendricks and his partner because they held her father hostage. Thirteen rescues her father and puts an end to the con.