Story: "Geronition" (56 Pages)

Credits: Alisa Kwitney (plot, script); Guy Davis (pencils, inks); Clem Robins (letters); Robbie Busch (colors); Julie Rottenberg (assistant edits); Tom Peyer and Lou Stathis (edits)

Feature Character: Phantom Stranger (last in Hellblazer #63; next in Swamp Thing Vol. 2 #137)

Supporting Characters: Naomi Walker (Naamah; first appearance; a demon), Cerberus the Hellhound (in flashback between ??? and Day of Judgment #2)

Villains: Ashe (Asmodeus; first appearance; a demon; not to be confused with the demon Azmodus or the rogue angel Asmodel), Millicent "Millie" Phippen, Elba Benchley, Typhoid Mary (Molly), Caleb Holt (all damned, possibly with demonic rank; first appearance of all)

Other Characters: Demons, Damned (including three old crummy men (including Irving); first appearance of all)

Comment: This story presents us with yet another of several possible origins for the Phantom Stranger. The old man is the human aspect of the Stranger, separated from his immortal self.

Synopsis:

Naomi Walker starts working in a nursing home, and encounters a strange old man who tells her that this is not a nursing home and that they are both prisoners in Hell. Naomi, of course, doesn’t believe him, until stranger and stranger things start happening...