This issue features the book-length ""Obeah Man" written by Mike Sekowsky and drawn by Jim Aparo. While on vacation in a Haiti, Dr. Thirteen is called by the president who believes that local practitioners of voodoo are targeting him to scare people into worshiping their religion. Thirteen relates to a similar case he was involved with that had to do with Voodoo, and how he debunked it as a hoax.
Along the way to confront the Papaloi of the Voodoo worshipers, Dr. Thirteen spots Mr. Square, Wild Rose, Spartacus and Attila, this hippy kids from Sekowsky's previous Phantom Stranger issues). He suspects that the Phantom Stranger is going to interfere because of their presence and questions them about the whereabouts of the Stranger. However when he returns to the President's car, they find that the Stranger is in the vehicle and has convinced the President to allow him to accompany them.
Arriving at the Papaloi's castle, they find that Tala is once more involved, Phantom Stranger battles both the Papaloi and Tala. The Stranger captures Papaloi in it's true form of a spider inside the Seal of Solomon, and throws the relic into the ocean. When he tries to apprehend Tala, she disappears. The Phantom Stranger leaves as well, with Dr. Thirteen cursing him once more for his interference and vowing that he will one day reveal the Stranger as a hoax. This story was reprinted in Showcase Presents Phantom Stranger Vol. 1 TPB.
John William Ely, Jr. started with DC in 1937 with More Fun Comics #21, where he wrote and drew three strips featuring Sandra of the Secret Service, Jack Woods and Johnnie Law. He is listed as the creator or co-creator of Nadir, Johnnie Law, Kraklow, Lawrence Steele, Scoop Scanlon and Scott Scanlon. He mainly worked on non-super-hero strips. He did draw Rip Hunter...Time Master from issue 8 to 29. His last work was in Young Love #62, in 1967. Though he worked for other publisher, 349 of 360 strips he worked on were for DC.
Edited by Joe Orlando.
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