The Phantom Stranger had previously appeared in Scarab, but his appearance in this issue is merely as background for a flashback:
...sometimes its not easy, having a blog about The Phantom Stranger. I bought this whole book for that?
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But we appreciate your efforts Rob!, never forget that.
I maybe wrong as I've never seen this series either but I believe it is the miniseries that created the Scarab character that Geoff Johns used in his JSA run. I thought it was a Johns creation but someone told me there was a mini that was his first apperance. Just what I hear through the old E-grapevine.
...sometimes its not easy, having a blog about The Phantom Stranger. I bought this whole book for that?Hope you got it cheap. ;)
Yeah, it's the same Scarab who later appears in JSA (maybe someone else has picked up the mantle since then? and this was his first appearance. He was kind of a vertigo-style horror-themed hero but not part of the vertigo line, firmly grounded in the DC mainstream. Flashbacks describe him teaming up with Dr. Fate and the golden age GL. I rather liked the mini; it had kind of a Clive Barker feel. I thought it was cool than Johns revived him.
Rob, will you be covering PS's cameos in the Byrne/Claremont X-Men run? Or maybe it was just the one time.
I appreciated that the Johns-Robinson JSA relaunch started out with a full assault on the wall dividing Vertigo from the DCU: they quickly reaffirmed that Sandman Mystery Theater was in the same continuity as the JSA Sandman, and used Kid Eternity and Scarab-- and treated Lyta and Hector's Sandman adventures as (complicated and best-not-thought-about but still real) parts of their histories.
Butch-
Thanks for the kind words!
Rick-
I did get this cheap, thankfully. :)
RC-
I did cover the PS cameo in X-Men, a few months ago.
To quote The Big Lebowski, you're a good man, and thorough!
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