Comic Title: Golden Age Spectre Archives Vol. 1 HC
Publisher: DC
Cover Date: 2003
On Sale Date: March 19, 2003 Direct Market Date March 12, 2003
Source: Previews, Vol. 13 #1 (#169)

Direct Market Date March 19, 2003
Source: ComicList, New Comic Book Releases List for Wednesday, March 19, 2003

Cover Price: $49.95
Page Count: 224
Editor: Dale Crain

See Also: The Guide to Graphic Novels and Collected Editions

Title: "The Menace of Xnon"
Pages: 10

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

Writer: Jerry Siegel
Artist: Bernard Baily

Reprinted From:
More Fun Comics #60 (1940)

Feature Character(s)

• Spectre (last appearance in All-Star Comics #2; next appearance in More Fun Comics #61)

Supporting Character(s)

• Wayne Grant (last appearance in More Fun Comics #59; next appearance in More Fun Comics #61)
• The police chief of Cliffland (last appearance in All-Star Comics #2; next appearance in More Fun Comics #61)

Villain(s)

• Xnon (an extra-dimensional tyrant; no further appearances)
• Bill and Jack (gangsters; no further appearances)

Other Character(s)

• Various train guards (no further appearances)

Comments:
The Spectre is given the Ring of Life in this story.

This story was not originally titled; the title shown here was given on the contents page of the Golden Age Spectre Archives Vol. 1 in which this story is reprinted.

Synopsis:
When a train full of gold disappears, the Spectre is seen by several witnesses. Jim Corrigan is assigned to investigate the disappearance, though he knows the Spectre is not responsible. While trailing two crooks, the Spectre follows them through a dimension portal where he meets Xnon, a tyrant using super-science.

Xnon's powers prove too much for the Spectre. The tyrant places Spectre under his command and sends back to Earth on an errand of mass murder. Spectre is halted by the Voice responsible for his transformation into the Ghostly Guardian. The Voice gives Spectre a talisman called the Ring of Life which breaks the spell of Xnon.

Spectre then returns to confront Xnon. With the Ring of Life in his possession, the Spectre overcomes his opponent and returns the missing train to Earth. The police however are not convinced that the Spectre is not a crook, so Jim Corrigan is assigned to apprehend his other self.