Comic Title: Greatest 1950s Stories Ever Told HC
Publisher: DC
Cover Date: 1990
On Sale Date: October 16, 1990 Shipping Date October 16, 1990
Source: Previews, #20

Shipping Date October 16, 1990
Source: Amazing Heroes, #184

Shipping Date October 18, 1990
Source: Advance Comics, #22

Direct Market Date October 18, 1990
Source: Comic Shop News, #166, Page 1

Direct Market Date November 29, 1990
Source: Comic Shop News, #175

Cover Price: $29.95
Page Count: 288
Editor: Mike Gold

See Also: The Guide to Graphic Novels and Collected Editions

Title: "When Dead Men Walk"
Pages: 6

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

Writer: John Broome
Penciller: Carmine Infantino
Inker: Sy Barry

Reprinted From:
Phantom Stranger #1 (1952)

Feature Character(s)

• Phantom Stranger (last appearance in Phantom Stranger #1; next appearance in Phantom Stranger #1)

Villain(s)

• Matt Wright (a night club employee; no further appearances)

Other Character(s)

• John Martin, Bart Benson, and Carson Rand (victims of a plane crash; die in this story; no further appearances)
• Edgar Jones (no further appearances)
• Margo Phillips (Martin's fiancee; no further appearances)

Synopsis:
Three friends share a plane flight that ends in a fatal crash. Sometime after the crash, ghosts appear and carry out the plans of the dead men that they were unable to complete.

The ghost of Carson Rand attempts to take papers from Edgar Jones which were to be used to blackmail him. The ghost is stopped by the Phantom Stranger. Next the ghost of Bart Benson appears to break a unbreakable bronco. The Phantom Stranger appears to and reveals that it was a trick.

Finally, the apparent ghost of John Martin contacts his fiancee, Margo Phillips. The Phantom Stranger once again appears. The Stranger unmasks the ghost as Matt Wright, a night club employee which Margo caught stealing. Matt had used the ghosts to disguise his true goal of killing Margo. The Stranger's arrival saves Margo and exposes the ghostly hoax.