Phantom Stranger

[The Green Hornet]

just what are the origins and powers of this perhaps greatest member of the quintessense?

[Borg4of3]

Here's an excerpt from http://www.classicmarvel.com/cast/phantom_stranger.htm (http://)

"The Phantom Stranger's beginnings are shrouded in mystery, even to him. The most commonly believed story is that he was once an angel, but he refused to either rebel with Lucifer or fight on the side of the Host; he was then rejected by Heaven and Hell alike. But it is also said that he is the Wandering Jew, doing God's work until Christ comes again; or that he was chosen by Heaven as the one man to be saved from an evil city marked for destruction, but that he tried to reject Heaven's gift of life and killed himself. Heaven then placed a doom upon him, according to this story; he was to be denied either mortality or immortality, life or death.

He was given the power to do as he said ought to be done, turning men from their evil ways and saving them one at a time rather than destroying them; but he was cursed to wander the earth and never have a home, since he had chosen his home city over the will of Heaven.

Some say he is an agent of the Lords of Order; others that he serves Heaven; others that he serves only Humanity, protecting it against lords of all kinds and preserving Balance.

Darker things are said, too: that he was an angel who loved a demoness, for example. But these, right-thinking people reject. Whether he was once angel or man, whether he is now mortal or immortal, whether his powers come from Heaven or from Humanity or from himself, where he has come from on his endless walk and where he is going; all of this is unknown

His legend says he is able to look to any man's eyes to "see" his soul. "


Oh, and this is good too: http://polisci.spc.uchicago.edu/~jtlevy/stranger.html (http://)