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Issue: The Phantom Stranger #15
Publication Date: September 1971
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Issues: #15 of 42 Issues
Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Publisher: FlagDC
Brand: DC [character]View Brand Images
Indicia Publisher: National Periodical Publications Inc.
On Sale Date: 07/13/1971
Volume: none
Pages: 52
ISBN:
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.25 USD
Indicia Frequency: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Content Items: 8 (4 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s):  
Disclose Notes: Cover price increases from 15 to 25 cents. Page count increases from 36 to 52 pages.

On-sale date from copyright registration.
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color
Dimensions: standard Silver Age US; standard Modern Age US
Paper Stock: glossy cover; newsprint interior
Binding: saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: was ongoing series
Format Notes:  
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Original Artwork
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Title Page
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The Iron Messiah!

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Subject Matter
Genres: fantasy, occult, superhero
Character(s): The Phantom Stranger; Chuma (The Iron Messiah); Ororo (doctor); Ngumi (witch doctor)
Synopsis: The artificial metallic form of the god Chuma rises from the Earth.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagShowcase Presents: Phantom Stranger #1 published December 2006
as The Iron Messiah! [Phantom Stranger #15] [Cover Reprint (on Interior Page) on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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The Iron Messiah!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: fantasy, occult, superhero
Character(s): The Phantom Stranger; John Kweli; Chuma (The Iron Messiah); Ororo (doctor); Ngumi (witch doctor); Amos Trent (oil company executive)
First Line: Superstition vs. science -- the Long Ago fighting a losing battle against the Yet to Be...
Synopsis: Cyberneticist John Kweli returns from America to his African home to find his people harassed by the armed force of an oil company to get them to move off their ancestral land, under which are vast pools of oil. To rally his dispirited people, Kweli creates a metalic, cybernetic incarnation of the god Chuma... that exhibits human characteristics in a most unexpected way.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagShowcase Presents: Phantom Stranger #1 published December 2006
as The Iron Messiah! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 14
Job Number: J-1296
Disclose Notes: Connections?: In this story written by Len Wein, an African female doctor and longtime friend of John Kweli, who remained in her native country to serve her people (rather than seek her fortune in America), is named "Ororo". ...Four years later Wein and Dave Cockrum would create "Ororo Munroe" (aka Storm) for Giant Size X-Men (Marvel, 1975 Series) #1.
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I Battled for the Doom-Stone

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure
Character(s): Hale; Professor Amos Simpson; Roy Cathcart; native chief; ape-like creature
First Line: When I plunged into that remote, uncharted wilderness to find a missing scientist, I never dreamed that the search would turn a fight for survival...
Synopsis: An explorer discovers that a missing scientist has undergone a fantastic transformation.
Reprinting
From Content Item: FlagMy Greatest Adventure #61 published November 1961
was I Battled for the Doom-Stone [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 7.67
Job Number: J-1317
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The Magic of Kirby!

Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ? (ad copy)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): DC Comics; Mister Miracle
Character(s): Mister Miracle [Scott Free]; Dr Bedlam
First Line: Bigger and Better only 25¢
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 0.33
Disclose Notes: DC Comics house ad for Mister Miracle. Reproduces the cover illustration for Mister Miracle (DC, 1971 series) #4 September-October 1971. "On sale July 13 [1971]" Lower third of page.
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Mail to the Phantom Stranger

Letters Page  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Character(s): The Phantom Stranger (header illustration only)
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Job Number: J-1297
Disclose Notes: Readers' comments on issues #10, 11, and 12. Between pages 2 and 3 of previous story.
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Satan's Sextet

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: fantasy, horror
Character(s): Doctor Terrence Thirteen; Satan's Sextet (rock band); Willard Wentworth (middle-aged millionaire); young hippie-like party guests
First Line: Like the eye of a drowned swimmer in the midnight sea of sky, the moon stares glassily at the scarlet sextet capering out of the lavish beach house...
Synopsis: The frontman of a rock band playing a party at a millionaire's beach house leads a group of young people and their middle-aged millionaire host to a watery doom "Pied-Piper style". Saved from drowning when a strong riptide frees him from the piper's thrall, Willard Wentworth (the millionaire) turns to Doctor Thirteen to investigate these horrific events.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagShowcase Presents: Phantom Stranger #1 published December 2006
as Satan's Sextet [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 8
Job Number: J-1187
Disclose Notes: Doctor Thirteen drives a dune buggy.
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I Scout Earth's Strangest Secrets!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: fantasy, mystery, occult
Character(s): Mark Merlin; Elsa Magnusson; Mrs. Phipps; Mr. Wakely (uranium hunter); Wakely's miners; Mr. Cole (museum owner); Joss (museum manager); Danton (crooked real estate developer); Mr. Lemmon (owner of Ridgely Hills Caverns); tourists; single-celled amoeba creatures
First Line: Weird mountain-dwelling monsters... flying inanimate objects... a hidden world containing fantastic one-celled creatures! Which of these is true... and which a figment of wild imagination?
Synopsis: Mark Merlin introduces himself and discusses the type of cases he takes on.
Reprinting
From Content Item: FlagHouse of Secrets #23 published August 1959
was I Scout Earth's Strangest Secrets! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 7.67
Job Number: J-1318
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"Let's Rap" with Carmine Infantino

Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: non-fiction
Feature(s): DC Comics [as National Periodical Publications, Inc.]
First Line: Dear Fans: Let's stop and rap a moment... we owe you an explanation!
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 0.33
Disclose Notes: Carmine Infantino, in his capacity as Editorial Director, tells it "like it is" (in his best attempt at late-sixties/early-seventies youth lingo) of the necessity for DC to increase cover prices. Lower third of page.

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