Comic Title: Phantom Stranger Omnibus HC
Publisher: DC
Cover Date: 2023
On Sale Date: August 29, 2023 Direct Market Date August 30, 2023
Source: ComicList, New Comic Book Releases List for Wednesday, August 30, 2023

Direct Market Date August 22, 2023
Source: DC Connect, #32

Direct Market Date November 1, 2022
Source: Previews, #25

Direct Market Date November 1, 2022
Source: Panels, June 2022

Direct Market Date May 24, 2022
Source: Panels, #20

Cover Price: $150.00
Page Count: 1200

See Also: The Guide to Graphic Novels and Collected Editions

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

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

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

Reprinted From:
Secret Origins #10 (1987)

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.