The Spectre title suffered from the same problem that vexed the Golden Age series: writing meaningful stories using a character who was virtually omnipotent. For its final two issues, the comic became in effect a horror anthology, with the title character being little more than a narrator in several short stories. In The Spectre, the creative credits varied widely over the 10 issues published, with introduction of a then-newcomer to comics, Neal Adams, who drew issues #2–5 and wrote issues #4–5. The Spectre was given his own title, premiering in December 1967, while simultaneously making another appearance in The Brave & the Bold #75 (Jan. A few months later, he co-starred with the Silver Age Flash in The Brave and the Bold #72 (July 1967). After a three-issue try-out in Showcase, the Spectre appeared in the superhero-team comic Justice League of America #46–47 in that year's team-up of the titular group and its 1940s predecessors, the Justice Society of America: written by Gardner Fox. A 1987 magazine retrospective on the character said this revival had been initially announced as a team-up with Doctor Mid-Nite. Under writer Gardner Fox and penciller Murphy Anderson, his power was vastly increased and at times he approached the level of omnipotence. In the mid-1950s and 1960s Silver Age of Comic Books, DC Comics editor Julius Schwartz revived the Spectre and returned him to the role of an avenging undead spirit, beginning in Showcase #60 (Feb. 1945), and the Spectre made his last appearance in the superhero group the Justice Society of America at roughly the same time in All Star Comics #23 (winter 1944–1945). The feature's final installment was in issue #101 (Feb. When Corrigan enlisted in the military and departed to serve in World War II, in More Fun #90 (April 1943), the Spectre became permanently invisible, becoming a secondary player in his own series.
During the mid-1940s, the popularity of superhero comics began to decline and the Spectre was reduced to playing the role of guardian angel to a bumbling character called "Percival Popp, the Super Cop", who first appeared in More Fun #74 (Dec. 1942), after which the Spectre's ghostly form enters and emerges from Jim Corrigan functioning independently of him. Jim Corrigan is resurrected in More Fun #75 (Jan. The Spectre is soon awarded charter membership in the first-ever superhero team, the Justice Society of America in All Star Comics. He eventually turns down an offer to relinquish his mission to destroy all evil. Corrigan soon creates his signature costume, breaks off his romance with Clarice, and continues to live as Jim Corrigan, assuming the secret identity of the Spectre whenever he is needed. One of them turned to a skeleton upon touching him. The Spectre seeks bloody vengeance against Corrigan's murderers in grim, supernatural fashion. His spirit is refused entering into the afterlife however, and he is sent back to Earth by an entity referred to only as " The Voice" to eliminate evil. The Spectre debuted in More Fun Comics #52 (February 1940) when hard-boiled cop Jim Corrigan, on his way with his fiancée Clarice to their engagement party, is murdered by thugs who stuff him into a barrel filled with cement and then throw it into a body of water. He was created by Jerry Siegel and Bernard Baily, although several sources attribute creator credit solely to Siegel, limiting Baily to being merely the artist assigned to the feature. The character first appeared in More Fun Comics #52 (Feb. Spectre is the name given to several fictional antiheroes who have appeared in numerous comic books published by DC Comics.
The Spirit of Vengeance, the Spirit of Redemption, the Avenging Wrath of God, the Ghostly Guardian, the Man of Darkness, Raguel, Master
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