Comic Title: Adventure Comics #492
Publisher: DC (DC Comics Inc.)
Address: 75 Rockefeller Plaza, New York, NY
Cover Date: October 1982
On Sale Date: July 1, 1982 Newsstand Date July 1, 1982
Source: House Ad, Justice League of America #207, Page 32

Newsstand Date July 1, 1982
Source: Comic Reader, #203

Newsstand Date July 1, 1982
Source: Comics Journal, #74

Newsstand Date July 1, 1982
Source: Amazing Heroes, #13

Copyright Date June 8, 1982
Source: Library of Congress, Copyright Office 1982
DC publication dates beyond April 1981 listed by the LoC
represent shipping dates NOT newsstand sale dates

Frequency: Monthly
Cover Price: $1.25
Page Count: 96
Editor: Dick Giordano

See Also: The Guide to DC Giants

Title: "Beyond the Sinister Barrier"
Pages: 24

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

Writer: Gardner F. Fox
Artist: Murphy Anderson

Reprinted From:
Showcase #61 (1966)

Feature Character(s)

• Spectre (last appearance in Showcase #60; next appearance in Justice League of America #46)

Villain(s)

• Shathan the Eternal (master of Dis; no further appearances)
• Demons of Dis (Tsathhala of the Hundred Seas and Ahriman of the Windy Worlds named; no further appearances)
• Various unnamed crooks (no further appearances)

Other Character(s)

• A mongolian bandit, a window washer, Andre Voisin, Olive Morell, and other worshippers of Shathan (no further appearances)

Cameo Appearance(s)

• Azmodus (in flashback to Showcase #60)
• Moses, Peter, Buddha, and Mohammed (in flashback)

Synopsis:
Shathan the Eternal, ruler of the psycho-matter world of Dis, offers to help various people in life-threatening situations in exchange for their shadows. Using the shadows Shathan plots to enter the physical world. Spectre witnesses the theft of a shadow. When he investigates, he is drawn to the world of Dis and attacked by demons.

Spectre overcomes his opponents, then travels back in time to learn of Shathan's creation. He also learns that Azmodus was Shathan's agent. Spectre plans to oppose Shathan, so the demon ruler threatens Jim Corrigan in order to delay the Spectre.

Spectre decides to track down Shathan's worshippers just as they succeed in bringing him to Earth. Spectre engages Shathan in battle, but finds his opponent is all-powerful. Spectre then drags Shathan back in time to various large explosions in hopes one will be powerful enough to destroy the demon. When Spectre tosses Shathan into the primal atom at the dawn of time, the explosion causes the demon's essence to be hurled outward into the universe, incapable of reforming.