American Update: DC Debuts: Silver Age Spectre in Showcase #60 and #61
*DC: In the wake of the Justice League/Justice Society crossovers, interest was revived in the 1940s heroes of the JSA, and one of several tryouts was the Spectre, a literal ghost who wandered the Earth, battling evil with mighty supernatural abilities. Brought back for a solo tryout in Showcase #60, by the superb team of Gardner Fox and Murphy Anderson, the Ghostly Guardian’s powers were elevated to almost godlike levels, to the point where the writer must have strained to come up with credible opposition for him – but the epic clashes between mystical and demonic forces pioneered ‘cosmic’ before ‘cosmic’ was even a thing over at Marvel! Issue #60 is FN+ p £60; issue #61 is VF+ £70. SORRY, THESE HAVE NOW SOLD