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Issue: The Spectre #5
Publication Date: July 1968
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Issues: #5 of 10 Issues
Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Publisher: FlagDC
Brand: Superman DC National ComicsView Brand Images3
Indicia Publisher: National Periodical Publications Inc.
On Sale Date: 05/14/1968
Volume: none
Pages: 36
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.12 USD
Indicia Frequency: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Content Items: 7 (3 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s):  
Disclose Notes: On-sale date from copyright registration.
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color
Dimensions: standard Silver Age US
Paper Stock: Glossy cover; Newsprint interior
Binding: Saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: was ongoing series
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Fugitive from Justice!

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: occult, superhero
Character(s): Spectre
Reprinting
In Issue: FlagEl Halcón de Oro #130 published ?cover
In Content Item: FlagShowcase Presents: The Spectre #1 published June 2012
as The Spectre #5 [Cover Reprint (on Interior Page) on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Credits for pencils and inks confirmed from Julius Schwartz's editorial records, provided by DC Comics
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Prologue

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: occult, superhero
Character(s): Psycho-Pirate [Roger Hayden]; Gat Benson
Synopsis: A masked man takes possession of a mystic globe.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagAdventure Comics #498 [Direct Sales] published April 1983
as The Spectre Means Death? [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagShowcase Presents: The Spectre #1 published June 2012
as The Spectre Means Death? [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
Disclose Notes: Credits for script, pencils and inks confirmed from Julius Schwartz's editorial records, provided by DC Comics.
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Chapter I: The Spectre Means Death?

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): The Spectre; Jim Corrigan; Gat Benson
Synopsis: The Spectre emerges from Jim Corrigan to fight an empowered drifter.
Reprinting
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 6.67
Disclose Notes: Credits for script, pencils and inks confirmed from Julius Schwartz's editorial records, provided by DC Comics.
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Chapter II: Fugitive from Justice!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): The Spectre; Jim Corrigan; Psycho-Pirate [Roger Hayden]; Gat Benson
Synopsis: 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.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 13.5
Disclose Notes: Credits for script, pencils and inks confirmed from Julius Schwartz's editorial records, provided by DC Comics.

The 9th page (numbered 18) is a 1/2-page.

Dr. Fate bonded Psycho-Pirate to the Medusa Mask in Showcase #56. Gat Benson killed Jim Corrigan in More Fun Comics #52. Psycho-Pirate was drawn to Benson because Benson had stumbled onto the magic bullet that Asmodeus used to keep Spectre imprisoned in Corrigan.
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In-house Column  on  Interior Page(s)
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Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
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Pages: 1
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Letters Page  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Letters from David Lewin, Fred Webster, Jr., Dennis Casey, and Lee Salem.
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Letters Page  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Spectre-Graphs - Extra
Reprinting
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Letters from Howard P. Siegal, Dan Dias, Harrington G. Purvis, Jr., Ted Young, and Loren Lieberthal.

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