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Issue: Wrath of the Spectre #4
Publication Date: August 1988
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Issues: #4 of 4 Issues
Title:
Variant: unnamed
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Publisher: FlagDC
Brand: DC [bullet]View Brand Images2
Indicia Publisher: DC Comics Inc.
On Sale Date: 04/26/1988
Volume: none
Pages: 52
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $3.50 CAD
$2.50 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 6 (4 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s):  
Disclose Notes: All the Spectre stories in this issue were written by Michael Fleisher for the Spectre's run in Adventure Comics in the 1970's. The Spectre was cancelled before Jim Aparo could draw the stories. When this mini-series began reprinting those Spectre stories Jim Aparo was given the go ahead to illustrate these scripts for this issue.

On-sale date from Direct Currents #3, confirmed from copyright registration.
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color
Dimensions: standard Modern Age U.S.
Paper Stock: glossy covers; Baxter paper interiors
Binding: saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: limited series
Format Notes:  
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reprinted from a Content Item in another Issue.
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Cover, Front Only (of Wraparound and/or Gatefold)
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Illustration  on  Cover, Wraparound
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: occult, superhero
Character(s): The Spectre [Jim Corrigan]
Reprinting
In Issue: FlagWrath of the Spectre #[nn] published July 2005
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
Disclose Notes: Wrap-around cover.
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The Sudden End of... The Spectre

Text Article  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Synopsis: Information on how these old scripts were finished for this issue.
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Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
Disclose Notes: Inside front and inside back covers. Second page includes a plug for the current Spectre series.
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The Arson Fiend And... The Spectre!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: occult, superhero
Character(s): 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!
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In Issue: FlagWrath of the Spectre #[nn] published July 2005
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 14
Disclose 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.
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The Maniac And... The Spectre!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: occult, superhero
Character(s): 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.
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In Issue: FlagWrath of the Spectre #[nn] published July 2005
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 9
Disclose Notes: Written in 1975, drawn in 1988.
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The Voodoo Hag of Doom!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: occult, superhero
Character(s): 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.
Reprinting
In Issue: FlagWrath of the Spectre #[nn] published July 2005
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 18
Disclose 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").

Story appears that it was to have been continued, but it never was.
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The Demon Within!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Character(s): Cain [Host]
Synopsis: Little Gary has a magic power to turn himself into a monster. His parents fix the problem.
Reprinting
From Content Item: FlagHouse of Mystery #201 published April 1972
was The Demon Within! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 7
Job Number: G-3998

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