Comic Title: DC Universe by Mike Mignola TPB
Publisher: DC
Cover Date: 2018
On Sale Date: July 25, 2018 Direct Market Date July 25, 2018
Source: ComicList, New Comic Book Releases List for Wednesday, July 25, 2018

Direct Market Date July 25, 2018
Source: Previews, #355

Cover Price: $19.99
Page Count: 400
Editor: Robin Wildman

See Also: The Guide to Graphic Novels and Collected Editions

Title: "Thunder in the Night"
Pages: 23

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 #3 (1987)

Feature Character(s)

• Phantom Stranger (last appearance in Phantom Stranger #2; next appearance in Phantom Stranger #4)

Supporting Character(s)

• Negative Woman (last appearance in Phantom Stranger #1; next appearance in Phantom Stranger #4)
• Jimmy Olsen (last appearance in Phantom Stranger #2; next appearance in Superman #11)

Villain(s)

• Eclipso (last appearance in Phantom Stranger #2; next appearance in Phantom Stranger #4)
• Lycaon (last appearance in Phantom Stranger #2; next appearance in Phantom Stranger #4)
• Rizzoli (last appearance in Phantom Stranger #1; no further appearances)
• Dmitri (Rizzoli's contact; no further appearances)

Other Character(s)

• Ronald Reagan (last appearance in Phantom Stranger #1; next appearance in Millennium #3)
• Mr. Payton (the President's Chief of Staff; no further appearances)
• Mikhail Gorbachev (last appearance in Suicide Squad #7; next appearance in Secret Origins #34)
• Illya Alexandrovich (Gorbachev's advisor; no further appearances)
• Mr. Tarkoff (a television executive; no further appearances)
• Several political advisors (Henderson named; no further appearances)
• Colonel Evans, General Ashe, and various military personnel (no further appearances)
• Several Secret Service men (no further appearances)

Comments:
This story is continued from Phantom Stranger #2 and continues in Phantom Stranger #4.

Synopsis:
After recovering from his battle with demons underneath Mount St. Helens, the Phantom Stranger tracks down Jimmy Olsen who has been tailing what he believes is a Russian spy working with the mob. Jimmy soon discovers that the spy is actually a demon in human form. The demon has been sent by Eclipso to instigate a nuclear war.

Jimmy and the Stranger locate the demon outside the White House gates. They are unable to prevent him from switching places with the President. Jimmy and the Stranger then bring the real President back into the White House and fight the demon in an effort to prevent him from giving the launch codes to start a war. Once the demon has been exposed and defeated, tensions between the United States and the Soviet Union ease.