Comic Title: Phantom Stranger #2
Publisher: DC (National Comics Publications, Inc.)
Address: 480 Lexington Avenue, New York, NY
Cover Date: Oct/Nov 1952
Approx. On Sale Date: September 3, 1952 Copyright Date September 1, 1952
Source: Library of Congress, Periodicals 1952
Until 1958 DC did not report actual on sale dates to the copyright office
The publication dates listed in LoC records are NOT release dates.

Frequency: Bi-monthly
Cover Price: $0.10
Page Count: 32
Editor: Julius Schwartz

Title: "Death's Strange Deputy"
Pages: 6

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

Writer: John Broome
Penciller: Carmine Infantino
Inker: Bernard Sachs

Reprinted In:
Adventure Comics #418 (1972)

Feature Character(s)

• Phantom Stranger (last appearance in Phantom Stranger #2; next appearance in Phantom Stranger #2)

Villain(s)

• Velie (a phony magician; no further appearances)

Other Character(s)

• Adam Horton and Caldwell (an assistant district attorney and his boss; no further appearances)

Synopsis:
Adam Horton awakens in a laboratory with amnesia. A man named Velie convinces Adam that he is not a man at all, but a creation of magic. Velie orders Adam to kill a man named Caldwell. Since he has no memory, Adam believes Velie and goes forth to kill.

Adam encounters the Phantom Stranger, then continues on his mission. The Phantom Stranger prevents the murder then follows Adam back to Velie. Adam then regains the memory that he is the assistant district attorney and Caldwell is his boss. To avoid prosecution as a gang chief Velie attempted to use Adam to kill Caldwell. The Phantom Stranger's interventon foils the plot, and Velie is taken into custody.