Comic Title: Showcase Presents:The Spectre TPB
Publisher: DC
Cover Date: 2012
On Sale Date: April 25, 2012 Direct Market Date April 25, 2012
Source: ComicList, New Comic Book Releases List for Wednesday, April 25, 2012

Direct Market Date January 18, 2012
Source: Previews, #277

Cover Price: $19.99
Page Count: 592

See Also: The Guide to Graphic Novels and Collected Editions

Title: "The Spectre Means Death?"
Pages: 23

Feature(s):
Spectre (of Earth-2)

Writer/Artist: Neal Adams

Reprinted From:
Spectre #5 (1968)

Feature Character(s)

• Spectre (last appearance in Spectre #4; next appearance in Spectre #6)

Villain(s)

• Psycho Pirate (last appearance in Showcase #56; next appearance in All-Star Comics #66)
• Gat Benson (last appearance in More Fun Comics #53; no further appearances)

Other Character(s)

• Various bystanders (no further appearances)

Comments:
Chapter II:"Fugitive from Justice"

Synopsis:
The Psycho-Pirate steals a magic globe to locate a source of mystic energy that will enable him to remove the magic mask that Doctor Fate used to deny him the use of his powers. The globe gives the Pirate control over a drifter who becomes a giant and can focus the emotion manipulation powers of his master. When the Spectre tries to stop the giant drifter, Psycho-Pirate causes bystanders to fear him. He also siphons off the Spectre's powers.

The Spectre seeks to renew his energy by entering the body of Jim Corrigan, but Corrigan wants to arrest him. Instead the Spectre uses his remaining power in a final confrontation with the drifter. He manages to neutralize the giant, but in doing so he allows the Psycho-Pirate to overcome him.

The drifter is then revealed to be Gat Benson, the man who killed Jim Corrigan. When he sees Corrigan alive, Benson panics and accidentally smashes Psycho-Pirate's magic globe. Corrigan is then able to knock out both crooks and reverse the effects of the Pirate's emotional control on the Spectre.