#SPECTRE DC CRIMES AND JUDGEMENTS SERIES#

He was chained and tortured for two weeks in the foul basement of a tenement filled with desperate people and outcasts on the edge of society. Slum-lord Leonard Krieger has been murdered in one of his own rat-traps. This is followed by the first quarter of an eight-part epic by David Lapham, Eric Battle and Prentis Rollins that featured in DCâ€™s revival of the classic anthology title Tales of the Unexpected. It then has to prove the validity of the admittedly illogical way the Spirit of Retribution selects his victims from the billions of murderous sinners in sore need of their personal and bloodily ironic attentions.Ī subtle tale, the inescapable tragedy of the ending lends some desperately needed depth to a character far too powerful for traditional periodical tale-telling. In â€˜Dead Againâ€™ by Will Pfeifer and Cliff Chiang, The Spectre first has to convince the angry atheist Allen to bond with him to dispense Heavenly Justice.

#SPECTRE DC CRIMES AND JUDGEMENTS SERIES#

Following a complex series of events in the wake of the Infinite Crisis Jordan was resurrected as a mortal superhero and the Spectre was left without human guidance.Ĭollecting the three-part miniseries Crisis Aftermath: The Spectre and the lead stories from Tales of the Unexpected #1-3, this book follows the Ghostly Guardian in a search for a new host, which he finds in the reluctant, intangible form of Crispus Allen, a Detective in the Gotham City police force, murdered by fellow officer and dirty cop Jim Corrigan (no relation to the original). Jordanâ€™s soul bonded with the Spectre force and became a Spirit of Redemption as well as Retribution.

Jordan was a Green Lantern who had nearly destroyed the universe when possessed by the antediluvian fear-parasite Parallax, only to sacrifice his life to reignite our dying sun in the Final Night miniseries (ISBN-13: 978-1-56389-419-0). Latterly revealed to be Godâ€™s Spirit of Vengeance bonded to a human conscience, Corrigan was finally laid to rest and Hal Jordan replaced him. He has been revamped and revived many times since. Jim Corrigan, a murdered police detective, was given a mission to fight crime and evil by a glowing light and disembodied voice, and swiftly became one of the most overwhelmingly powerful heroes of the Golden Age. The Spectre first appeared in 1940 in More Fun Comics #52 (February 1940), the brainchild of Superman co-creator Jerry Siegel and artist Bernard Baily. By Will Pfeifer & Cliff Chiang: David Lapham, Eric Battle & Prentis Rollins (DC Comics)

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