Comic Title: Spectre #7
Publisher: DC (National Periodical Publications, Inc.)
Address: 575 Lexington Avenue, New York, NY
Cover Date: Nov/Dec 1968
On Sale Date: September 17, 1968 Newsstand Date September 17, 1968
Source: Comic Reader, #69

Copyright Date September 17, 1968
Source: Library of Congress, Periodicals 1968

Frequency: Bi-monthly
Cover Price: $0.12
Page Count: 32
Editor: Julius Schwartz

Title: "The Hour Hourman Died"
Pages: 9

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

Writer: Gardner F. Fox
Penciller: Dick Dillin
Inker: Sid Greene

Reprinted In:
Justice League of America #91 (1971)
Super Heroes (#18) (1982)
Crisis on Multiple Earths the Team Ups Vol. 1 TPB (2006)

Feature Character(s)

• Hourman (last appearance in Justice League of America #65; next appearance in Justice League of America #82)

Villain(s)

• Tricky Dick Arnold (no further appearances)

Synopsis:
Hourman interrupts a robbery at the Tyler Chemical Company. The thief, Tricky Dick Arnold, is using a device called a Metalizer which enables him to walk through the metal vault door. When exposed to radiation from the Metalizer, Hourman dies.

The Miraclo in Hourman's system revives the hero a short time later, but he deduces that once the Miraclo wears off, he will be dead permanently. Hourman then tracks down the crook, before his life is over. Then by analyzing the metalizer radiation he concocts an antidote just before the hour is up.