Comic Title: Phantom Stranger Omnibus HC
Publisher: DC
Cover Date: 2023
On Sale Date: August 29, 2023 Direct Market Date August 30, 2023
Source: ComicList, New Comic Book Releases List for Wednesday, August 30, 2023

Direct Market Date August 22, 2023
Source: DC Connect, #32

Direct Market Date November 1, 2022
Source: Previews, #25

Direct Market Date November 1, 2022
Source: Panels, June 2022

Direct Market Date May 24, 2022
Source: Panels, #20

Cover Price: $150.00
Page Count: 1200

See Also: The Guide to Graphic Novels and Collected Editions

Title: "Revelations"
Pages: 10

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

Writer: Dan Mishkin
Penciller: Ernie Colon
Inker: Pablo Marcos
Letterer: Albert Tobias De Guzman
Colorist: Carl Gafford

Reprinted From:
Secret Origins #10 (1987)

Feature Character(s)

• Phantom Stranger (at the end of time; possibly dies in this story; last appearance in Day of Vengeance:Infinite Crisis Special #1; no further appearances)

Villain(s)

• Dr. Alt (an avatar of Anti-Life; no further appearances)

Other Character(s)

• A lab assistant (no further appearances)

Flashback Appearance(s)

• Phantom Stranger (a scientist from the future at the beginning of time; earliest chronological appearance; next appearance in Secret Origins #10)

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

Synopsis:
At a time when the universe is nearing the end, two scientists search for a way to prolong the existence of the universe by siphoning energy from the Big Bang at the beginning of time. As the scientists look back in time they begin to see swirls forming a giant hand. Just then the Phantom Stranger appears and shuts off the machine. He warns that their actions would cause disastrous effects for the universe as similar experiments have done before.

Dr. Alt, one of the scientists, is able to knock out the Stranger. The Phantom Stranger knows that Alt is an avatar of Anti-Life whose intent is to stop the universe from being created at the beginning of time. His partner learns the truth and is given power by the Stranger. He then jumps through an open portal which leads to the beginning of time. There, the scientist is exposed to the incredible energy of the Big Bang and the new universe only nanoseconds after creation. He becomes the Phantom Stranger and realizes that the man he met at the end of time was himself after living through the entire timespan of the universe's existence.