Comic Title: Phantom Stranger #1
Publisher: DC (National Periodical Publications, Inc.)
Address: 909 Third Avenue, New York, NY
Cover Date: May/Jun 1969
On Sale Date: March 18, 1969 Newsstand Date March 18, 1969
Source: Comic Reader, #72

Copyright Date March 18, 1969
Source: Library of Congress, Periodicals 1969

Newsstand Date March 13, 1969
Source: House Ad, Angel and the Ape #4, Page 32

Frequency: Bi-monthly
Cover Price: $0.12
Page Count: 32
Editor: Joe Orlando

Title: "When Ghosts Walk"
Pages: 7

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)

Comments:
This story was originally titled "When Dead Men Walk".

Page 1 of the original story six page story has been omitted. Page 2 of the original story has been altered to create the first page of this story. New panels have been added. Pages 2-3 of the reprint are original, but are re-drawings of the original splash page. Two panels from the final page of the original story are omitted.

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.