Comic Title: Showcase Presents Phantom Stranger Vol. 1 TPB
Publisher: DC
Cover Date: 2006
On Sale Date: October 25, 2006 Direct Market Date October 18, 2006
Source: Previews, Vol. 16 #7 (#211)

Direct Market Date October 25, 2006
Source: Usenet, New Releases List for Wednesday, October 25, 2006

Cover Price: $16.99
Page Count: 544
Editor: Bob Joy

See Also: The Guide to Graphic Novels and Collected Editions

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)

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.