Comic Title: More Fun Comics #53
Publisher: DC (Detective Comics, Inc.)
Address: 480 Lexington Avenue, New York, NY
Cover Date: March 1940
Approx. On Sale Date: February 1, 1940 Copyright Date February 2, 1940
Source: Library of Congress, Periodicals 1940
Until 1958 DC did not report actual on sale dates to the copyright office
The publication dates listed in LoC records are NOT release dates.

Frequency: Monthly
Cover Price: $0.10
Page Count: 64
Editor: Fredric Whitney Ellsworth

Title: (The Spectre Strikes)
Pages: 10

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

Writer: Jerry Siegel
Artist: Bernard Baily

Reprinted In:
Secret Origins #5 (1973)
Golden Age Spectre Archives Vol. 1 HC (2003)
Weird Secret Origins #1 (2004)
DC Universe:Secret Origins HC (2012)
DC Universe:Secret Origins TPB (2013)

Feature Character(s)

• Spectre (last appearance in More Fun Comics #52; next appearance in More Fun Comics #54)

Supporting Character(s)

• Wayne Grant (last appearance in More Fun Comics #52; next appearance in More Fun Comics #55)
• Clarice Winston (last appearance in More Fun Comics #52; next appearance in More Fun Comics #54)

Villain(s)

• Gat Benson (last appearance in More Fun Comics #52; next appearance in Spectre #5)
• Benson's men (Ricky named; last appearance in More Fun Comics #52; no further appearances)

Comments:
This story is continued from the first story of More Fun Comics #52.

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:
Jim Corrigan, having recently been restored to life as the Spectre, enters the warehouse where his killers hold Clarice Winston. Corrigan frightens one man to death and touchs two others, reducing them to a pile of bones. Clarice has been shot during the scuffle, but Jim revives her with a touch. Finally he summons the police.

When the police arrive, Jim restores the hoods and turns them over to the police. Because he is not truly alive, Jim does not tell Clarice what happened. Instead he breaks his engagement with her and makes a clean start. He fashions a green and white costume for himself and begins his mission as the Spectre.