The Spectre #6

(September-October 1968)

Pilgrims of Peril! (Table of Contents: 1)

The Spectre / comic story / 21.67 pages (report information)

Script

Gardner Fox

Pencils

Jerry Grandenetti

Inks

Murphy Anderson

Colors

?

Letters

Jerry Grandenetti (some roughs, see notes); Gaspar Saladino

Genre

superhero

Characters

The Spectre [Jim Corrigan]; Nawor (villain); Billy; The Four Pilgrims

Synopsis

One night every century, four pilgrims return to life in Gateway City and try to bring their demonic master into our dimension.

Reprints

• in All Star Adventure Comic (K. G. Murray, 1959 series) #59
• in Eclipso (Arédit-Artima, 1968 series) #15 (août 1971) [N&B [B&W]]
• in Adventure Comics (DC, 1938 series) #499 (May 1983)
• in Showcase Presents: The Spectre (DC, 2012 series) #1 ([June] 2012)
• in The Spectre: The Wrath of the Spectre Omnibus (DC, 2020 series) ([October] 2020)

Keywords

demon; Gateway City; Grand Canyon; pilgrim

Indexer Notes

Credits for script, pencils and inks confirmed from Julius Schwartz's editorial records, provided by DC Comics.

Letters credit per Mark Evanier via the GCD Error Tracker: "some display lettering was roughed in in pencil by Grandenetti but it's really Gaspar lettering in the story." Jerry Grandenetti credit for lettering first suggested by Alan Stewart in Amazing Heroes #112, pg. 36, as submitted by Ted Watson.

Story across 23 pages in four parts: an untitled prologue (1 page), Part One: The Challenge from Beyond! (6.67 pages), Part 2: The Hundred Year-Long Day! (9.5 pages), and Part Three: "Ashes to Ashes... Dust to Dust" (4.5 pages).

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 2)

Spectre-Graphs / letters page / 1 page (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

?

Inks

?

Colors

?

Letters

typeset

Indexer Notes

Letters from Lee Salem, V.O. Speights, Kendall Sutton, and Richard Prybyzerski.