So the story starts out with a bunch of teenagers walking down the street... Oh, I forgot about these fucking kids.... Okay, we have to back up again because I have to explain yet another aspect of the series. See in the early issues released in the 60's, DC Comics seemed to have this incisive need to add 60's hippie type characters into this series. Thankfully it's not over done in this title, but if you want an example of that (and a good excuse for blowing your brains out) I'd recommend you read early issues of the Teen Titans.

In the case of the Phantom Stranger, his regular supporting cast of jive talking hip cats are Spartacus, Wild Rose, Attila and Mister Square. A group of groovy cats who apparently happen to be around whenever there's some sort of supernatural mystery afoot (Once they even manage to stumble upon a Phantom Stranger mystery in Africa.... By accident...) Allow me to introduce them all to you:

There are the two hip jive talking hippie cats Spartacus, and Attila.. Why name your peace nicks after famous warriors? I honestly can't tell you, but whatever, let's continue... Then there's the busty and

equally hiptastic girl Wild Rose. The only thing really wild about her is her ability to get easily coerced by guys with money (See Phantom Stranger #5 for that one... ) And finally, there is Mr. Square. Which implies that he is dull and uninteresting. As his name implies he usually doesn't understand when the other people in his group get into using all the hep lingo, so they have to translate things after the fact. So get ready to re-read the same fucking thing twice over because Mr. Square doesn't understand. But to his credit, even if he is a total square, Mr. Square is the only one in the group who shows even a sliver of common sense among the group.

So, that being said let us get back to our story, which begins on the corner of Main and Thirteenth St. Our group of hip teenagers are walking down the street as their car is broken down and they are

trying to find a place for the night. Of course this also happens to be the night that something strange is happening on 13 Thirteenth St, because as they pass the house there is a lot of strange noises and the old bints that live in the house run out in fear.

The group decides to get involved and see what all the commotion is and so they go into the house to see what's going on and at first things look perfectly normal, but then all the furniture begins to float and crash about. In all the excitement the best these guys can do is call Doctor Thirteen, once the call is placed Phantom Stranger also decides to make an appearance.

When Doctor Thirteen finally gets over, the two of them argue like a married couple about if the floating furniture was really caused by the super natural or was a hoax. And this is about the time when the two of them decide to tell stories that justify their theories.

Yeah, here we go, we're in a house that is potentially possessed by demons that like to throw the furniture around, let's sit around and tell stories inside the fucking house, instead of either solving the mystery or having the house torn down for good measure or something!