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In that story, a group of four DC mystics — John Constantine , the Phantom Stranger , Mister E , and Doctor Occult — approach the young Hunter and inform him he had the potential to become the world's greatest magician. In '' A Christmas Carol '' fashion, he is taken on a journey to the mystic parts of the DC Universe's past (by the Phantom Stranger), its present (by Constantine), and its future (by Mister E), and also shown the world of the Faerie (by Doctor Occult), along with such other planes of existence as The Dreaming ). After the journey, he must decide whether to remain an ordinary boy or to follow the path of magic. After some thought, he chooses the latter. The original miniseries was collected as a 1993 '', which ran 15 issues from September 2004 to October 2005 Other trade-paperback collections include ''The Books of Magic: The Summoning'' (1996). SIMILARITIES TO HARRY POTTER Many people have noticed similarities between Timothy Hunter — a bespectacled English teenager with family troubles who has a magical owl as a pet — and the later and more famous Harry Potter of J.K. Rowling 's Novels . Gaiman has been quoted as saying that any similarities between the two are largely superficial and most likely reflect the fact that both draw on common archetypes. Most significantly, the original miniseries was published long before the Harry Potter books, the first of which was published in 1997. |
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