Comic Title: DC Universe by Mike Mignola HC
Publisher: DC
Cover Date: 2017
On Sale Date: May 24, 2017 Direct Market Date May 24, 2017
Source: ComicList, New Comic Book Releases List for Wednesday, May 24, 2017

Direct Market Date May 10, 2017
Source: Previews, #341

Cover Price: $39.99
Page Count: 400
Editor: Robin Wildman

See Also: The Guide to Graphic Novels and Collected Editions

Title: "The Heart of a Stranger"
Pages: 22

Feature(s):
Phantom Stranger (Post-Crisis)

Writer: Paul Kupperberg
Penciller: Mike Mignola
Inker: P. Craig Russell
Letterer: John E. Workman, Jr.
Colorist: Petra Scotese (Goldberg)

Reprinted From:
Phantom Stranger #1 (1987)

Feature Character(s)

• Phantom Stranger (last appearance in Spectre #7; next appearance in Phantom Stranger #2)

Supporting Character(s)

• Commissioner Gordon (last appearance in Batman #412; next appearance in Phantom Stranger #4)
• Jimmy Olsen (last appearance in Adventures of Superman #433; next appearance in Phantom Stranger #2)
• Negative Woman (last appearance in Doom Patrol #3; next appearance in Phantom Stranger #3)
• Jenet Klyburn (last appearance in Fury of Firestorm #58; next appearance in Phantom Stranger #2)

Villain(s)

• Eclipso (last appearance in Outsiders #18; next appearance in Phantom Stranger #2)
• Lycaon (a demonic cult leader; next appearance in Phantom Stranger #2)
• Rizzoli (a mob clerk; not named in this story; next appearance in Phantom Stranger #3)
• Eclipso's henchman (no further appearances)
• A demon (summoned by Lycaon; destroyed in this story; no further appearances)

Other Character(s)

• Ronald Reagan (last appearance in Captain Atom #8; next appearance in Phantom Stranger #3)
• Lieutenant Stiles (a Gotham City detective; no further appearances)
• Randy (Jenet Klyburn's boss; no further appearances)
• Winston (a government agent; no further appearances)
• Ravonovich (a U.N. official; no further appearances)
• Maverick (an undercover agent; dies in this story; no further appearances)

Comments:
This story continues in Phantom Stranger #2.

Eclipso and Bruce Gordon are depicted as separate individuals again in this story despite the fact that they were rejoined in Outsiders #18.

Synopsis:
In Gotham City, a gang war leaves several mobsters dead. After reviewing the scene with his detectives, Commissioner Gordon is called to the Temple of Divine Light where the Phantom Stranger is battling Lycaon, Chosen of Chaos, a cult leader. The Stranger is unable to defeat a demon summoned by Lycaon with his magic, but Gordon is able to dispatch the demon with mere bullets.

Elsewhere tensions around the world escalate due to a series of seemingly unrelated events. Earthquakes rock Romania. Jenet Klyburn believes they are unnatural in origin. The Soviet and American governments are at odds over the location of nuclear missiles. Valentina Vostok believes that the governments are being manipulated, but one of her agents disappears before he can deliver information.

The agent, Maverick, is a captive of Eclipso. The dark villain has been manipulating events to plunge the world into darkness. The Phantom Stranger tracks him down, but his magic is ineffective just as it was against Lycaon. The Stranger then tracks down Eclipso's other half Bruce Gordon, who is getting drunk at a bar.