Comic Title: Showcase Presents:The House of Mystery Vol. 3 TPB
Publisher: DC
Cover Date: 2009
On Sale Date: January 28, 2009 Direct Market Date January 28, 2009
Source: ComicList, New Comic Book Releases List for Wednesday, January 28, 2009

Direct Market Date January 28, 2009
Source: Previews, #241

Cover Price: $16.99
Page Count: 520
Editor: Scott Nybakken

See Also: The Guide to Graphic Novels and Collected Editions

Title: "Mystery in Miniature"
Pages: 6

Feature(s):
Phantom Stranger (of Earth-1)

Writer: John Broome
Artist: Frank Giacoia

Reprinted From:
Phantom Stranger #6 (1953)

Feature Character(s)

• Phantom Stranger (last appearance in Phantom Stranger #6; next appearance in Showcase #80)

Villain(s)

• A race of elves (no further appearances)

Other Character(s)

• Tim Harley (a photographer; no further appearances)
• Pete (a night watchman; no further appearances)

Synopsis:
When a night watchman quits his job at the Ironside Mine, he claims that elves near the mine have scared him away. Photographer Tim Harley investigates and discovers the elves too. When he photographs them, the elves attack. The Phantom Stranger appears and fends off the elves with an iron sword.

Harley returns home with the Stranger. An elf appears there. The elf explains that his people are from Earth and are planning to invade. The elf disappears when Tim attacks it with an iron poker.

The Phantom Stranger and Tim then don suits of armor and return to the mine. There, they battle the elves and thwart the attempted invasion. The Phantom Stranger theorizes that the elves are from thousands of years in the future, then he disappears.