Phantom Stranger (Prime Earth)

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 * Image                  = Phantom Stranger Vol 4 4 Textless.jpg
 * RealName               = Unknown
 * CurrentAlias           = Phantom Stranger
 * Aliases                = Philip Stark
 * Identity               = Secret
 * Alignment              = Neutral
 * Affiliation            = Trinity of Sin
 * Relatives              = Elena Stark (wife), Allie Stark (daughter), Tim Stark (son)
 * Universe               = Prime Earth
 * BaseOfOperations       = Mobile; Long Island, New York


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 * Eyes                   = Black
 * Hair                   = Black
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 * Creators               = John Broome; Carmine Infantino
 * First                  = Justice League Vol 2 #6


 * Quotation              = I wander the world searching for others to help.
 * Speaker                = Phantom Stranger
 * QuoteSource            = Phantom Stranger Vol 4 #1


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Phantom Stranger
A man had tried to kill himself after betraying his best friend. Rather than the Heaven or Hell he expected, he had found himself in a strange chamber, faced with the council of wizards. Though he felt he deserved his fate, he begged forgiveness, not knowing how dire his punishment would be. There were two others alongside him, and the wizards called them all the Trinity of Sin; the world's most egregious sinners. The wizards gave his punishment first, charging him with avarice, and forever branding the thirty pieces of silver that he had earned into his skin - though he knew that greed was not his greatest crime. It was the betrayal. He woke in the field of blood, alive. This place was significant to the crime he committed. As he called out with confusion at his apparent resurrection, a voice boomed down, urging him to put on the robe that lay nearby, and complete his punishment. When he put on the robe, he realized that it was the robe of his betrayed friend, and it held a transformative power. From the moment he put it on, he would forever be a "Phantom Stranger". He realized that with each act he did in the service of the voice, he would be one step closer to redemption. Until the voice came again, he would have to wander, and remain nothing more than a stranger.


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 * Phantom Stranger was created by John Broome and Carmine Infantino, first appearing in Phantom Stranger Vol 1. However, in the rebooted Prime Earth continuity his first appearance as part of the DC Universe is in Dan DiDio and Brent Anderson's New 52 Phantom Stranger series.
 * Though it has yet to be stated outright, it is heavily implied that the Phantom Stranger is Judas Iscariot, he who betrayed Jesus Christ in exchange for thirty pieces of silver, before hanging himself at dawn.
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