At Night Stalks... The Spectre
A crime reporter on the Daily Globe newspaper is apparently
killed while investigating
a news story. The world believes newspaperman Jim Jordan is dead,
but he still carries on his crusade against crime, calling himself
The Spectre[f] (The Spirit). Jordan/The Spectre is now fighting crime, rather
than merely reporting it, using
an array of gadgets that make it seem he is the ghost of the missing reporter.
Hence his opponents are terrified to find that if they shoot him he doesn't
die (thanks to a bullet-proof raincoat). And he has a secret underground
hideout beneath the statue erected in his memory, from which he covertly
and unexpectedly emerges, or disappears into, under cover of an artificial fog,
to give the impression he is coming and going from the spirit world.
In his first case he tracks down Black Murdo, the racketeer who
the world believes had murdered him.
At Night Stalks the Spectre ran on Smash! And Pow! Incorporating Fantastic
from issue 144 [1968-11-02] till issue 157 [1969-02-01] in Smash!
Incorporating Fantastic and continued as The Spectre vs The Demon from
issue 158 [1969-02-08] to 162 [1969-03-08].
The artist's name was Patrick Williams.
(Luis Miguel)
40 Pages
Compiled and edited by H. C.
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