Secret Origins Vol 2 10

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 * Title              = Secret Origins
 * Event              = Legends
 * Image              = Secret Origins Vol 2 10.jpg
 * Volume             = 2
 * Issue              = 10
 * Month              = 1
 * Year               = 1987


 * Executive Editor   = Dick Giordano
 * CoverArtist1       = Jim Aparo


 * Writer1_1          = Mike W. Barr
 * Penciler1_1        = Jim Aparo
 * Inker1_1           = Jim Aparo
 * Colourist1_1       = Tom Ziuko
 * Letterer1_1        = Jim Aparo
 * Editor1_1          = Robert Greenberger


 * Writer2_1          = Paul Levitz
 * Penciler2_1        = Jose Luis Garcia-Lopez
 * Inker2_1           = Jose Luis Garcia-Lopez
 * Colourist2_1       = Tatjana Wood
 * Letterer2_1        = Gaspar Saladino
 * Editor2_1          = Robert Greenberger


 * Writer3_1          = Dan Mishkin
 * Penciler3_1        = Ernie Colon
 * Inker3_1           = Pablo Marcos
 * Colourist3_1       = Carl Gafford
 * Letterer3_1        = Albert DeGuzman
 * Editor3_1          = Robert Greenberger


 * Writer4_1          = Alan Moore
 * Penciler4_1        = Joe Orlando
 * Inker4_1           = Joe Orlando
 * Colourist4_1       = Joe Orlando
 * Letterer4_1        = Bob Lappan
 * Editor4_1          = Robert Greenberger


 * Quotation          = We are wanderers in a foreign land between the furrow and the stars.
 * Speaker            = Phantom Stranger


 * StoryTitle1        = Tarry Till I Come Again
 * Synopsis1          = On a Christmas Eve night, a priest despairing that good will win out in the world is visited by the Phantom Stranger, and hears of how he was once known as the Wandering Jew, a man who lost his child when King Herod had all the babies in Bethlehem destroyed while Jesus escaped, and so purchased his way to pose as a Roman soldier to scourge Jesus during His crucifixion. Expecting Jesus to speak vile curses to him, He instead told the man he will "tarry till I come again". After Jesus' death and resurrection, the man found himself wandering through the earth, trying to remove the curse placed on him, until he comes to the rescue of a woman during the Inquisition period who died at the hands of her torturers. From that point on, the man used the curse as a blessing to help those who were suffering, and even though God eventually offered to remove the curse, the man chose to remain under the curse until Jesus came again. The priest eventually believes the story and is renewed in his faith that good will overcome evil.


 * StoryTitle2        = ...And Men Shall Call Him Stranger
 * Synopsis2          = A man in an ancient Middle Eastern country who lost his family in a divine judgment that befell his city committed suicide, but was prevented from joining the dead by an angel sent to him, telling him that he must now walk the earth as a stranger.


 * StoryTitle3        = Revelations
 * Synopsis3          = In a future time when society has reached its nadir, scientists were on the verge of discovering their universe's origin when the Phantom Stranger visits them, warning them that they could destroy their universe. One of the scientists believe what the Phantom Stranger tells him while the other scientists were unswayed, and so wears a protective spacesuit while the universe around him was destroyed, resulting in both a new creation of the universe and the scientist becoming the Phantom Stranger.


 * StoryTitle4        = Footsteps
 * Synopsis4          = During the time of the rebellion against Heaven by a third of the angels, one angel chose neither side, and, as a result, had his wings torn away and was accepted by neither side in turn. Thus, he became the Phantom Stranger.  In the present, he comes upon a man beaten and rejected by both Guardian Angels and Subway Survivalists, and offers the man his hand, as a brother who can walk with him for a little while.

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 * Appearing1         =
 * {{a|Jesus Christ}}
 * {{a|God}} (as words into flames}

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 * (as a angel)
 * (as a angel)
 * (as a angel)

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 * Notes              =
 * This issue is Chapter 6 of the 1986 Legends crossover event.
 * This issue shows four possible origins of the Phantom Stranger.
 * "Footsteps" is featured in DC Universe: The Stories Of Alan Moore.
 * Trivia             =
 * The title for the story "Tarry Till I Come Again" comes from John 21:22,23.
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