The Spectre #5

Dates

Cover date

July-August 1968

On sale

May 14, 1968

Pages

36

Editions and covers

• Original edition

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Creators

Stories

• Prologue · 2 pages

  A masked man takes possession of a mystic globe.

• Chapter I: The Spectre Means Death? · 6.67 pages

  The Spectre emerges from Jim Corrigan to fight an empowered drifter.

• Chapter II: Fugitive from Justice! · 13.5 pages

  After a detour to the past, the Spectre finds the drifter again and leads Jim Corrigan to the Psycho Pirate, who has been draining the Spectre of his power to remove the mask Dr. Fate put on him. But when the drifter awakens and the Pirate orders him to kill Corrigan, the drifter realizes he killed Corrigan once before and refuses to do it again.

Reprinted in

The Spectre: The Wrath of the Spectre Omnibus (2020), Adventure Comics (1938), Showcase Presents: The Spectre (2012)