The Spectre
#1
(November-December 1967)
DC,
1967 Series
- Price
- 0.12 USD
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- bi-monthly
- On-sale Date
- 1967-09-21
- Publisher's Age Guidelines
- Approved by the Comics Code Authority
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- National Periodical Publications, Inc.
- Brand
-
Superman DC National Comics
- Editing
- Julius Schwartz (credited)
Issue Notes
On-sale date from copyright registration, confirmed by promo in The Inferior Five #5.
The Sinister Lives of Captain Skull!
The Spectre / cover / 1 page
- Pencils
- Murphy Anderson
- Inks
- Murphy Anderson
- Colors
- Jack Adler ?
- Letters
- Ira Schnapp
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- The Spectre [Jim Corrigan]
- Reprints
-
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)
-
Indexer Notes
Credits for pencils and inks confirmed from Julius Schwartz's editorial records, provided by DC Comics.
The Sinister Lives of Captain Skull!
The Spectre / comic story / 22 pages
- Script
- Gardner Fox (credited)
- Pencils
- Murphy Anderson (credited)
- Inks
- Murphy Anderson (credited)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- Gaspar Saladino
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- The Spectre [Jim Corrigan]; Captain Skull (villain)
- Synopsis
- The use of an experimental anesthetic on a sniper-shot ambassador causes him to be possessed by his ancestor, an 18th century pirate named Captain Skull who has received strong supernatural powers in the process. Only the Spectre can stand against him.
- Reprints
-
in Eclipso (Arédit-Artima, 1968 series) #1 (avril 1968) - in Adventure Comics (DC, 1938 series) #494 (December 1982)
- 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
- pirate
Indexer Notes
Credits for script, pencils and inks confirmed from Julius Schwartz's editorial records, provided by DC Comics.
Story across 23 pages, but pages 14 and 23 are 1/2-pages.
[no title indexed]
Readers' Rendezvous / letters page / 1 page
- Script
- Julius Schwartz ?
- Letters
- typeset
Indexer Notes
Letters from Joseph Arul, Loran Lieberthal, and Dan Fleming.
[no title indexed]
Cap's Hobby Hints / activity / 0.5 page
- Script
- Henry Boltinoff
- Pencils
- Henry Boltinoff (signed)
- Inks
- Henry Boltinoff (signed)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- Job Number
- 6568
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- I always mess up my paint jobs and get paint all over everything.
- Genre
- non-fiction
Indexer Notes
Idea from Maurice Wadu, Downey, Calif.
[no title indexed]
Readers' Rendezvous / letters page / 1 page
- Script
- Julius Schwartz ?
- Letters
- typeset
Indexer Notes
Title of feature is misspelled as "Reader's Rendezous (sic) -- Extra."
Letters from Martin Walsh, John Pierce, Bob Butts, and Paul Seydor.
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
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0.
The Sinister Lives of Captain Skull!
The Spectre -
1.
The Sinister Lives of Captain Skull!
The Spectre -
2.
[no title indexed]
Readers' Rendezvous -
3.
["I always mess up my paint jobs and get paint all over everything."]
Cap's Hobby Hints -
4.
[no title indexed]
Readers' Rendezvous -
5.
[no title indexed]
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