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Ronald Joseph
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Posted: 03 October 2012 at 3:35pm \| IP Logged \| 1

Marvel released ORIGIN, it's own tale spelling out pretty much everything about their own mysterious character.

The depths of my hatred for ORIGIN and everything it did (or undid?) cannot be measured using human technology.

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Wallace Sellars
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Posted: 03 October 2012 at 4:23pm \| IP Logged \| 2

I don't want to know the origin of a character named The Phantom Stranger.

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Brennan Voboril
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Posted: 03 October 2012 at 4:39pm \| IP Logged \| 3

Wow. This sucks. Thanks for nothing DC.

As a poster above said: at least we have our Jim Aparo classics.

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Bill De Simone
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Posted: 03 October 2012 at 4:52pm \| IP Logged \| 4

Wait a minute, is this why they just released Walt Simonson's most recent graphic novel after all these years? As a tie-in?

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Aaron Smith
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Posted: 03 October 2012 at 5:23pm \| IP Logged \| 5

I looked up a spoiler, since I'm not going to read any current DC anyway. This is the second time one of my favorite fictional characters was given an origin that made him that guy, one in comics now and one in a movie about a decade ago.

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Paul Kimball
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Posted: 03 October 2012 at 5:37pm \| IP Logged \| 6

This is a story I'm going to ignore and I suspect DC will also in a few years.

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Kevin Sharp
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Posted: 03 October 2012 at 6:35pm \| IP Logged \| 7

aside from the fact that Roger Stern had years ago come up with a PERFECT origin for the Phantom Stranger (he's Terry Thirteen)

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JB, If you recall, could you explain how Roger got from point A to point B on that?

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Stephen Churay
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Posted: 03 October 2012 at 6:49pm \| IP Logged \| 8

It's been a long time since I read the SECRET ORIGINS issue that
Steven posted. Time plays trick on the mind sometimes and my
memory of that issue was that he was who they are now claiming him
to be. Even though I don't think that was the actual story in that issue.
I actually think it's a cool backstory for A CHARACTER but agree with
JB that the Phantom Stranger should remain just that " a stranger".

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Petter Myhr Ness
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Posted: 04 October 2012 at 12:46am \| IP Logged \| 9

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Flavio Sapha
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Posted: 04 October 2012 at 1:06am \| IP Logged \| 10

What Petter said.

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Robert Bradley
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Posted: 04 October 2012 at 1:19am \| IP Logged \| 11

Sometimes they don't realize what makes a particular character intriguing.

This is definitely on of those times.

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Robert White
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Posted: 04 October 2012 at 2:00am \| IP Logged \| 12

Couldn't agree more about the Phantom Stranger. Why ruin a good thing? It's amazing what creators just don't GET nowadays. It seems symptomatic of the compulsive need for spoilers across all entertainment media.

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