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Issue Details

Issue #39
Published October-November 1975
Frequency bi-monthly
Cover Price 0.25 USD
Pages 36
Editing Joe Orlando; Paul Levitz (Assistant Editor)

Cover Details

Characters Phantom Stranger; Deadman [Boston Brand]
Genre occult; superhero
Pencils Jim Aparo [as JA]
Inks Jim Aparo [as JA]
Reprinted in Showcase Presents Phantom Stranger (DC, 2006 series) #2 (March 2008)

12 page Phantom Stranger story "Death Calls Twice for a Deadman"

Characters Phantom Stranger; Deadman [Boston Brand]
Genre occult; superhero
Script Paul Levitz
Pencils Fred Carrillo
Inks Fred Carrillo
Reprinted in Showcase Presents Phantom Stranger (DC, 2006 series) #2 (March 2008)

6 page Black Orchid story "The Legion of the Black Orchid"

Characters Black Orchid; Ronnie Kuhn; Lisa Patrick; Karen Jensen; Stefanie Tower; Barbie Henderson; Janet Grant
Synopsis Ronnie Kuhn, an admirer of the Black Orchid, is invited to join a league of women who claim collectively to be her. Ronnie accepts, not knowing the Black Orchid Legion is a fraud.
Genre superhero
Script Mike Fleisher; Russell Carley [as Russ Carley] (Script Continuity)
Pencils Fred Carrillo
Inks Fred Carrillo
Notes Character appearances and synopsis from Darci via the GCD Error List (22 March 2007).

1 page letters page "Mail to the Phantom Stranger"

Letters typeset
Notes LOC from readers Mark Schmieder and Bruce Parello.