Comic Title: Secret Origins #10
Publisher: DC (DC Comics Inc.)
Address: 666 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY
Cover Date: January 1987
On Sale Date: October 9, 1986 Newsstand Date October 9, 1986
Source: DC Releases, #32

Newsstand Date October 9, 1986
Source: Amazing Heroes, #101

Shipping Date September 16, 1986
Source: Amazing Heroes, #101

Shipping Date September 16, 1986
Source: DC Releases, #32

Shipping Date September 16, 1986
Source: Comics Journal, #110

Copyright Date September 16, 1986
Source: Library of Congress, Copyright Office 1986
DC publication dates beyond April 1981 listed by the LoC
represent shipping dates NOT newsstand sale dates

Frequency: Monthly
Cover Price: $1.25
Page Count: 48
Editor: Robert Greenberger

Notes:
This issue is labeled: "Legends Spin-Off Chapter 6".

Title: "Footsteps"
Pages: 10

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

Crossover Event:
Legends

Writer: Alan Moore
Artist/Colorist: Joe Orlando
Letterer: Bob Lappan

Reprinted In:
Across the Universe:The DC Universe Stories of Alan Moore TPB (2003)
DC Universe:The Stories of Alan Moore TPB (2006)
DC Universe by Alan Moore HC (2012)
DC Universe by Alan Moore TPB (2013)

Feature Character(s)

• Phantom Stranger (last appearance in Secret Origins #10; next appearance in Action Comics #585)

Villain(s)

• Otis and the Sewer Survivalists (no further appearances)
• Satan (in flashback during the Fall; no further appearances)
• Asmodeus (in flashback during the Fall; no further appearances)
• Leviathan (in flashback during the Fall; no further appearances)

Guest Appearance(s)

• Demon (as the angel Etrigan; in flashback during the Fall; earliest chronological appearance; next appearance in Swamp Thing #87)

Other Character(s)

• Josh (leader of the Subway Angels; no further appearances)

Flashback Appearance(s)

• Phantom Stranger (during the Fall; last appearance in Secret Origins #10; next appearance in Secret Origins #10)

Comments:
This is one of four possible origins presented for the Phantom Stranger. Since the stories are all substanially different, it is unclear which, if any, of them are canonical.

Synopsis:
The Phantom Stranger witnesses the conflict between a group of Subway Angels who work to keep the subways clean and safe, and the Sewer Survivalists who want to live and rule in the subway tunnels. The conflict reminds him to the Fall in which Satan and his followers rebelled against Yahweh. An unnamed angel who was unable to choose sides during the conflict was cast out by both groups after the battle. Satan's followers ripped off the angel's wings and he was forced to walk the Earth alone as the Phantom Stranger. His indecision is mirrored by another young boy caught in the subway conflict. Both sides cast out the boy, and he is disfigured while being beaten by the Sewer Survivalists. The Phantom Stranger counsels him that walking can sometimes soothe the pain.