Wrath of the Spectre #4

(August 1988)

The Sudden End of the Spectre (Table of Contents)

text article / 2 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Peter Sanderson

Letters:

Typeset

Content Information

Synopsis:

Information on how these old scripts were finished for this issue.

Indexer Notes

Inside Front and Back covers.

The Arson Fiend And... The Spectre! (Table of Contents)

The Spectre / comic story / 14 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Michael Fleisher (signed)

Pencils:

Jim Aparo (signed)

Inks:

Mike DeCarlo (signed)

Colors:

Adrienne Roy (signed)

Letters:

Agustin Mas (signed)

Editing:

Joe Orlando (initial script development); Robert Greenberger

Content Information

Genre:

occult; superhero

Characters:

The Spectre [Jim Corrigan]; Earl Crawford (Newsbeat Magazine reporter); Bob Elliot (Newsbeat Magazine editor); Wayne (Newsbeat darkroom technician); Freddy "The Torch" Fisher (villain, death)

Synopsis:

Following leads in a story involving tenement fires, reporter Earl Crawford not only spots the Spectre at work, but photographs him in the act of dealing with an arsonist. However, Earl's editor doesn't believe in spooks, and phones the Police to have his star reporter arrested for the murder!

Reprints:

• in Wrath of the Spectre (DC, 2005 series) #[nn] ([May] 2005)

Indexer Notes

Continued story. Written in 1975, drawn in 1988. Many elements and scenes in this story are found in the Spectre story found in All Star Comics #1 (Summer, 1940), written by Jerry Siegel. Revised synopsis by Craig Delich 2011-24-11.

The Maniac And... The Spectre! (Table of Contents)

The Spectre / comic story / 9 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Michael Fleisher (signed)

Pencils:

Jim Aparo (signed)

Inks:

Mike DeCarlo (signed)

Colors:

Adrienne Roy (signed)

Letters:

Agustin Mas (signed)

Editing:

Joe Orlando (initial script development); Robert Greenberger

Content Information

Genre:

occult; superhero

Characters:

The Spectre [Jim Corrigan]; Earl Crawford [Newsbeat Magazine reporter]; Gwen Sterling; Harrison DeMarco (villain, slumlord, death)

Synopsis:

Having been found innocent, by reason of insanity, for the murder of an arsonist, reporter Crawford escapes from the institution he has been sentenced to with the help of Gwen. Lt. Corrigan then assists in the clearing of Crawford of all charges when he impersonates the dead arsonist at the Police station and is able to deal with the true villain in the tenement fires case.

Reprints:

• in Wrath of the Spectre (DC, 2005 series) #[nn] ([May] 2005)

Indexer Notes

Written in 1975, drawn in 1988. Revised synopsis by Craig Delich 2011-24-11.

The Voodoo Hag Of Doom! (Table of Contents)

The Spectre / comic story / 18 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Michael Fleisher (signed)

Pencils:

Jim Aparo (signed)

Inks:

Pablo Marcos (signed)

Colors:

Adrienne Roy (signed)

Letters:

John Costanza (signed)

Editing:

Joe Orlando (initial script development [?])

Content Information

Genre:

occult; superhero

Characters:

The Spectre [Jim Corrigan]; Gwen Sterling; Police Captain Stanley; Earl Crawford [Newsbeat Magazine reporter]; Bob Elliot (Newsbeat Magazine editor); Freddy (Newsbeat Magazine office boy); Dawson (Sterling Textiles employee); Mr. Henderson (Sterling Textiles Board member, death); Ed (Police Department coroner); Fred Thompson (Sterling Textiles board member, death); The Hag (villain, turned into a spider); Mr. Slater (villain, Sterling Textiles board member)

Synopsis:

A board meeting of Sterling Textiles, Incorporated is halted by a weird hag with a voodoo doll, who kills a board member whose image is found on that doll, and warns the other board members that the company should cease manufacturing the peek-a-boo dresses it is known for or else. While the Spectre is trying to track her down, reporter Earl Crawford, upon hearing about the death of Henderson to voodoo, decides following that story may finally bring him face-to-face with the Spectre.

Reprints:

• in Wrath of the Spectre (DC, 2005 series) #[nn] ([May] 2005)

Indexer Notes

Written in 1975, drawn in 1988 (supposedly, in an interview with Michael Fleisher in The Comics Journal #56, 1980, it is flatly stated that he wrote "two [(Spectre scripts) that were never drawn," and this, which makes THREE, not only has a different letterer and a different inker from the other two--and two separate people having deadline trouble is highly unlikely under the alleged circumstances--but also a title that does not match those of the other twelve stories, which are done to a strict formula, specifically "([Something] and/of the Spectre"). Revised synopsis by Craig Delich 2011-24-11. Story appears that it was to have been continued, but it never was.

The Demon Within! (Table of Contents)

comic story / 7 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Joe Orlando (Plot); John Albano (Script)

Pencils:

Jim Aparo

Inks:

Jim Aparo

Colors:

Adrienne Roy

Letters:

?

Editing:

Joe Orlando (Original publication)

Content Information

Genre:

horror-suspense

Characters:

Cain [Host]

Synopsis:

Little Gary has a magic power to turn himself into a monster. His parents fix the problem.

Reprints:

• from House of Mystery (DC, 1951 series) #201 (April 1972)