{"id":2487,"date":"2020-06-19T09:18:41","date_gmt":"2020-06-19T16:18:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/?p=2487"},"modified":"2020-05-11T09:47:26","modified_gmt":"2020-05-11T16:47:26","slug":"414-not-the-phantom-stranger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/414-not-the-phantom-stranger\/","title":{"rendered":"414 &#8211; Not the Phantom Stranger"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"834\" height=\"652\" src=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/not-the-phantom-stranger.png\" alt=\"A panel from Amazing Mysteries #32, February 1949\" class=\"wp-image-2488\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/not-the-phantom-stranger.png 834w, https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/not-the-phantom-stranger-300x235.png 300w, https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/not-the-phantom-stranger-768x600.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 834px) 100vw, 834px\" \/><figcaption>A panel from Amazing Mysteries #32, February 1949<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>In February 1949, Timely (Marvel) debuts Amazing Mysteries comics with issue #32, an odd first issue number.  It seems like it picks up numbering from Sub-Mariner, except Sub-Mariner Comics has its final issue (#32) next month.  Anyway, in Amazing Mysteries, an anthology of creepy tales, one story features a narrator character named &#8220;The Witness&#8221; that bears a striking resemblance to DC&#8217;s future Phantom Stranger character (still a few years from being created).  Some of the stories in Amazing Mysteries featured supernatural elements, but not The Witness.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In February 1949, Timely (Marvel) debuts Amazing Mysteries comics with issue #32, an odd first issue number. It seems like it picks up numbering from Sub-Mariner, except Sub-Mariner Comics has its final issue (#32) next month. Anyway, in Amazing Mysteries, an anthology of creepy tales, one story features a narrator character named &#8220;The Witness&#8221; that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2488,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[448,349,397,90,92,454,396],"class_list":["post-2487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-448","tag-anthology","tag-horror-comics","tag-marvel","tag-namor","tag-phantom-stranger","tag-superhero-collapse"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2487","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2487"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2487\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2493,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2487\/revisions\/2493"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2488"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}