Unofficial Chronology SPECTRE [James Brendan 'Jim' Corrigan]
 Created by Jerry Siegel and Bernard Bailey

Spectre

Character Chronology Index

Below is the definitive list of appearances of Spectre in chronological order. Flashback sequences or story entries will be followed by a [Flashback] note. Stories that for some reason are no longer part of current continuity will have a comment saying this in a note following the entry.

Follow the links for a complete index of the issue, including story and creator info as well as full character chronology and in some cases story synopses.

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Spectre Chronology


Spectre Vol. 3 #3 (February 1993): "Crimes and Punishments" [Flashback]
Spectre Vol. 3 #4 (March 1993): "Crimes and Judgment" [Flashback]
More Fun Comics #52 (February 1940): "The Spectre: Introduction"
More Fun Comics #53 (March 1940): [The Spectre Strikes]
More Fun Comics #54 (April 1940): [The Spiritualist]
Spectre Vol. 3 #24 (December 1994): "A Small Boldness"
More Fun Comics #55 (May 1940): [Zor]
More Fun Comics #56 (June 1940): [Terror at Lytell's]
All-Star Comics #1/5 (summer 1940): [The Tenement Fires]
More Fun Comics #57 (July 1940): [The Return of Zor]
More Fun Comics #58 (August 1940): [The Arsonist]
More Fun Comics #59 (September 1940): [The Fur Hi-Jackers]
All-Star Comics #2/3 (fall 1940): [The Curse of Kulak]
Spectre Annual Vol. 3 #1 (1995): "Lost In Memory"
More Fun Comics #60 (October 1940): [The Menace of Xnon]
More Fun Comics #61 (November 1940): "The Golden Curse Deaths"
More Fun Comics #62 (December 1940): [The Mad Creation of Professor Fenton]
More Fun Comics #63 (January 1941): [Trigger Daniel's Death Curse]
DC Special #29 (August-September 1977): "The Untold Origin of the Justice Society"
All-Star Comics #3 (winter 1940): "The First Meeting of the Justice Society of America"
All-Star Comics #4 (March-April 1941): "For America and Democracy"
More Fun Comics #64 (February 1941): [The Ghost of Elmer Watson]
More Fun Comics #65 (March 1941): [Dr. Mephisto]
More Fun Comics #66 (April 1941): [The World within the Paintings]
More Fun Comics #67 (May 1941): [The Incredible Robberies]
More Fun Comics #68 (June 1941): [Menace of the Dark Planet]
All-Star Comics #5 (June-July 1941): [The Mysterious Mister X]
More Fun Comics #69 (July 1941): [The Strangler]
More Fun Comics #70 (August 1941): [The Crimson Circle Mystic Society]
All-Star Comics #6 (August-September 1941): "The Justice Society Initiates Johnny Thunder"
More Fun Comics #71 (September 1941): [The Reluctant Bridegroom]
More Fun Comics #72 (October 1941): [Spiezel]
All-Star Comics #7 (October-November 1941): "The Justice Society of America Raises $1,000,000 for War Orphans"
All-Star Squadron Annual #3 (1984): [Untitled] [Flashback]
DC 2000 #1 (2000): [No Title]
DC 2000 #2 (2000): [No Title]
More Fun Comics #73/6 (November 1941): [The Vanishing Menaces]
More Fun Comics #74 (December 1941): "Introducing Percival Popp, the Super Cop"
All-Star Comics #8 (December 1941-January 1942): "Two New Members Win Their Spurs"
More Fun Comics #75/7 (January 1942): "Jim Corrigan Lives Again"
More Fun Comics #76/7 (February 1942): [The Head Man]
All-Star Comics #9 (February-March 1942): [Hemisphere Defense]
More Fun Comics #77/6 (March 1942): "Death Rules the Elements"
More Fun Comics #78/6 (April 1942): "The Magic Crimes"
All-Star Comics #10 (April-May 1942): "500 Years Into the Future"
More Fun Comics #79/6 (May 1942): "Money to Burn"
More Fun Comics #80/6 (June 1942): "The King of Color"
Justice League of America #193/2 (August 1981): "The All-Star Squadron"
All-Star Squadron #1 (September 1981): "The World on Fire"
All-Star Squadron #2 (October 1981): "The Tyrant Out of Time"
All-Star Squadron #3 (November 1981): "The Dooms of Dark December"
All-Star Squadron #4 (December 1981): "Day of the Dragon King"
All-Star Squadron #5 (January 1982): "Never Step On A Feathered Serpent" [Appearance same as All-Star Comics #11, pages 1-3]
All-Star Comics #11 (June-July 1942): "The Justice Society Join the War on Japan" [Pages 1-3]
More Fun Comics #81/6 (July 1942): "Case of the Scholarly Spendthrift"
More Fun Comics #82/6 (August 1942): "The Truth Hurts"
All-Star Squadron #28 (December 1983): "By Hatred Possessed" [Flashback]
All-Star Squadron #20 (April 1983): "For the Dark Things Cannot Stand the Light"
All-Star Squadron #28 (December 1983): "By Hatred Possessed" [Flashback]
All-Star Squadron #27 (November 1983): "A Spectre is Haunting the Multiverse"
All-Star Squadron #28 (December 1983): "By Hatred Possessed"
All-Star Comics #12 (August-September 1942): "The Black Dragon Menace"
All-Star Squadron #30 (February 1984): "Day of the Black Dragon" [Flashback: Appearance same as All-Star Comics #12]
All-Star Squadron #31 (March 1984): "Uncle Sam Wants You"
All-Star Squadron #32 (April 1984): "Crisis on Earth-X! A Prequel"
All-Star Squadron #33 (May 1984): "The Battle of Santa Barbara--Times Two"
All-Star Squadron #34 (June 1984): "The Wrath of Tsunami"
All-Star Squadron #35 (July 1984): "That Earths May Live"
More Fun Comics #83/6 (September 1942): "Leatherpusher Law"
More Fun Comics #84/6 (October 1942): "The Cry-Baby Crimes"
All-Star Comics #13 (October-November 1942): "Shanghaied Into Space"
All-Star Squadron #50 (October 1985): "Crisis Point" [Appearance same as All-Star Comics #13 pages 1-5]
All-Star Squadron #59 (July 1986): "Out of the Ashes... Mekanique" [Appearance same as All-Star Comics #13 pages 37-42]
All-Star Squadron #60 (August 1986): "The End of the Beginning" [Appearance same as All-Star Comics #13 pages 55-56]
More Fun Comics #85/6 (November 1942): "When Money Talks"
More Fun Comics #86/6 (December 1942): "The Man Who Knew All the Angles"
Young All-Stars #3 (August 1987): "A Call to Arms"
Young All-Stars #9 (February 1988): "You Have Nothing to Lose But Your Souls"
Young All-Stars Annual #1 (1988): "The Mekanique Paradox"
All-Star Comics #14 (December 1942-January 1943): "Food for Starving Patriots"
Young All-Stars #27 (July 1989): "Meanwhile..." [Flashback to events taking place during All-Star Comics #14]
More Fun Comics #87/6 (January 1943): "Crimes That Bloom in Spring, Tra La"
More Fun Comics #88/5 (February 1943): "Crime Makes a Movie"
All-Star Comics #15 (February-March 1943): "The Man Who Created Images"
Starman Vol. 2 #69 (September 2000): "Grand Guignol, Neuvieme Partie: Heroes Reborn, Renewed... and Remembered" [Post-Crisis only; replaces All-Star Comics #15 in current continuity]
Action Comics #663 (March 1991): [9] "Time & Time Again Phase Two: Lost In the '40s Tonight"
More Fun Comics #89/5 (March 1943): "The Underworld Goes Overweight"
More Fun Comics #90/5 (April 1943): "Crime-Buster by Proxy"
All-Star Comics #16 (April-May 1943): "The Justice Society of America Fights for a United America"
More Fun Comics #91/5 (May-June 1943): "The Prophet Takes a Loss"
All-Star Comics #17 (June-July 1943): "Brain Wave Goes Berserk"
More Fun Comics #92/5 (July-August 1943): "The Dummy vs. Percival Popp"
All-Star Comics #18 (fall 1943): "Insects Turn to Crime"
More Fun Comics #93/5 (September-October 1943): "Crime Runs a Complex"
More Fun Comics #94/6 (November-December 1943): "The Man Who Hated Puppets"
All-Star Comics #19 (winter 1943): "The Crimes Set to Music"
More Fun Comics #95/6 (January-February 1944): "The Book Bandits"
All-Star Comics #20 (spring 1944): "The Movie That Changed a Man's Life"
More Fun Comics #96/6 (March-April 1944): "Publicity Hound"
More Fun Comics #97/6 (May-June 1944): "Nerves Take a Holiday"
All-Star Comics #21 (summer 1944): "The Man Who Relived His Life"
More Fun Comics #98 (July-August 1944): "Cartoons of Crime"
All-Star Comics #22 (fall 1944): "The Test of Time"
More Fun Comics #99 (September-October 1944): "The Magician and the Mobsters"
More Fun Comics #100/5 (November-December 1944): "The Woodcarver and the Crooks"
All-Star Comics #23 (winter 1944): "The Plunder of the Psycho-Pirate"
JSA #18 (January 2001): "Injustice Be Done, Part 3: Sorrow's Story" [Flashback]
More Fun Comics #101/5 (January-February 1945): "The Unsafe Safe"
Showcase #60 (January-February 1966): "War That Shook the Universe"
Showcase #61 (March-April 1966): "Beyond the Sinister Barrier"
Justice League of America #46 (August 1966): "Crisis Between Earth-One and Earth-Two"
Justice League of America #47 (September 1966): "The Bridge Between Earths"
Showcase #64 (September-October 1966): "The Ghost of Ace Chance"
Brave and the Bold #72 (June-July 1967): "Phantom Flash, Cosmic Traitor"
Spectre Vol. 1 #1 (November-December 1967): "The Sinister Lives of Captain Skull"
Brave and the Bold #75 (December 1967-January 1968): "The Grasp of Shahn-Zi"
Spectre Vol. 1 #2 (January-February 1968): "Die, Spectre... Again"
Spectre Vol. 1 #3 (March-April 1968): "Menace of the Mystic Mastermind"
Spectre Vol. 1 #4 (May-June 1968): "Stop That Kid... Before He Wrecks The World"
Spectre Vol. 1 #5 (July-August 1968): "The Spectre Means Death"
Spectre Vol. 1 #6 (September-October 1968): "Pilgrims of Peril"
Spectre Vol. 1 #7 (November-December 1968): "The Ghost That Haunted Money"
Spectre Vol. 1 #8 (January-February 1969): "The Parchment of Power Perilous"
Spectre Vol. 1 #9 (March-April 1969): [No Title]
Spectre Vol. 1 #10 (May-June 1969): [No Title]
Justice League of America #82 (August 1970): "Peril of the Paired Planets"
Justice League of America #83 (September 1970): "Where Valor Fails... Will Magic Triumph?"
Adventure Comics #431 (January-February 1974): "The Wrath of... The Spectre"
Adventure Comics #432 (March-April 1974): "The Anguish of... The Spectre"
Adventure Comics #433 (May-June 1974): "The Swami and... The Spectre"
Adventure Comics #434 (July-August 1974): "The Nightmare Dummies and... The Spectre"
Adventure Comics #435 (September-October 1974): "The Man Who Stalked the Spectre"
Adventure Comics #436 (November-December 1974): "The Gasmen and... The Spectre"
Brave and the Bold #116 (December 1974-January 1975): "Grasp of the Killer Cult"
Adventure Comics #437 (January-February 1975): "The Human Bombs and... The Spectre"
Adventure Comics #438 (March-April 1975): "The Spectre Haunts the Museum of Fear"
Adventure Comics #439 (May-June 1975): "The Voice That Doomed... The Spectre"
Adventure Comics #440 (July-August 1975): "The Second Death of the... Spectre"
Wrath of the Spectre #4/1 (August 1988): "The Arson Fiend and... The Spectre!"
Wrath of the Spectre #4/2 (August 1988): "The Maniac and... The Spectre!"
Wrath of the Spectre #4/3 (August 1988): "The Voodoo Hag of Doom!"
Justice League of America #124 (November 1975): "Avenging Ghosts of the Justice Society"
All-Star Comics #70 (January-February 1978): "A Parting of the Ways!" [As Jim Corrigan]
Showcase #100 (May 1978): "There Shall Come a Gathering"
DC Comics Presents #29 (January 1981): "Where No Superman Has Gone Before"
Ghosts #97 (February 1981): "Dr. Thirteen, Ghost-Breaker, and the Spectre"
Ghosts #98 (March 1981): "The Haunted House and the Spectre"
Ghosts #99 (April 1981): "Death and the Spectre"
Brave and the Bold #180 (November 1981): "The Scepter of the Dragon God"
Brave and the Bold #199 (June 1983): "The Body-Napping of Jim Corrigan"
Justice League of America #220 (November 1983): "The Doppelganger Gambit"
Saga of the Swamp Thing Annual #2 (1984): "Down Amongst the Dead Men"
America vs. the Justice Society #2 (February 1985): "Trial By Congress" [Note: no longer in continuity]
Crisis on Infinite Earths #5 (August 1985): "Worlds in Limbo"
Crisis on Infinite Earths #7 (October 1985): "Beyond the Silent Night"
Crisis on Infinite Earths #8 (November 1985): "A Flash of the Lightning!"
Crisis on Infinite Earths #10 (January 1986): "Death at the Dawn of Time!"
Crisis on Infinite Earths #11 (February 1986): "Aftershock"
Crisis on Infinite Earths #12 (March 1986): "Final Crisis"
Swamp Thing Vol. 2 #49 (June 1986): "The Summoning"
Swamp Thing Vol. 2 #50 (July 1986): "The End"
Last Days of the Justice Society Special #1 (1986): "Last Days of the Justice Society of America"
Spectre Vol. 3 #7 (June 1993): "Vision and Power" [Flashback]
Spectre Vol. 2 #1 (April 1987): "Vessels"
Spectre Vol. 2 #2 (May 1987): "First Stirrings"
Spectre Vol. 2 #3 (June 1987): "Justice Beyond the Flesh"
Spectre Vol. 2 #4 (July 1987): "The Lanquer Look"
Spectre Vol. 2 #5 (August 1987): "The Mystery of My Murder"
Spectre Vol. 2 #6 (September 1987): "Murder of My Mystery"
Spectre Vol. 2 #7 (October 1987): "Pieces of Zatanna"
Spectre Vol. 2 #8 (November 1987): "Armed Against Evil"
Spectre Vol. 2 #9 (December 1987): "Drowning in a Dry Sea"
Millennium #4 (January 1988): "Forth"
Spectre Vol. 2 #10 (January 1988): "Infinite Possessions"
Suicide Squad Vol. 1 #9 (January 1988): "The Final Price" [Note: Behind the scenes during Spectre Vol. 2 #10]
Detective Comics #582 (January 1988): "Sole Survivor" [Note: Behind the scenes during Spectre Vol. 2 #10]
Action Comics #596 (January 1988): "Hell Is Where the Heart Is..."
Millennium #5 (February 1988): "In"
Millennium #8 (February 1988): "The Rising and Advancing of Ten Spirits"
Spectre Vol. 2 #11 (February 1988): "Housewarming Party"
Spectre Vol. 2 #12 (March 1988): "Major Arcana, Part One: Willie & Fingers"
Spectre Vol. 2 #13 (April 1988): "Major Arcana, Part Two: Jimmy's Wings"
Spectre Vol. 2 #14 (May 1988): "Major Arcana, Part Three: Seeing Smoke"
Spectre Vol. 2 #15 (June 1988): "The Twenty Third Trump"
Spectre Vol. 2 #16 (July 1988): "Secret Weapon"
Spectre Annual Vol. 2 #1 (July 1988): Ghost, Dead Man, Devil-Child..."
Spectre Annual Vol. 2 #1/2 (July 1988): "Fruitful Multiplication"
Spectre Vol. 2 #17 (August 1988): "Every Cop A Criminal"
Spectre Vol. 2 #18 (September 1988): "Zombie Transit"
Spectre Vol. 2 #19 (October 1988): "Hellbound Creeps"
Spectre Vol. 2 #20 (November 1988): "The National Snoop Front Page Star!"
Spectre Vol. 2 #21 (December 1988): "Jenny Dean Is Dead"
Spectre Vol. 2 #22 (winter 1988): "The Cow Butchers"
Invasion! #1 (1988): "Invasion! Book One: The Alien Alliance"
Spectre Vol. 2 #23 (Holiday 1988): "House of the Secret Enemy"
Spectre Vol. 2 #24 (February 1989): "Ghosts in the Machine, Part One: Boyz Be Bad"
Spectre Vol. 2 #25 (April 1989): "Ghosts in the Machine, Part Two: The Man Is Worse"
Spectre Vol. 2 #26 (May 1989): "Ghosts in the Machine, Part Three: One World Wired"
Spectre Vol. 2 #27 (June 1989): "Ghosts in the Machine, Part Four: The Million Kill"
Spectre Vol. 2 #28 (August 1989): "Ghosts in the Machine, Part Five: Electrogeddon"
Spectre Vol. 2 #29 (September 1989): "Ghosts in the Machine, Part Six: Doomsday Tuesday"
Spectre Vol. 2 #30 (October 1989): "Howling Bones"
Spectre Vol. 2 #31 (November 1989): "Bye, Bye, Betty Bye-Bye"
Justice League America #31 (October 1989): "Crossed Wires!"
Justice League Europe #7 (October 1989): "Teasdale Unbound!"
Justice League America #32 (November 1989): "Breaking Point!"
Justice League Europe #8 (November 1989): "Showdown..."
Books of Magic Vol. 1 #2 (February 1991): "The Books of Magic, Book II: The Shadow World"
War of the Gods #2 (October 1991): "The Holy Wars"
War of the Gods #4 (December 1991): "In the Beginning... There Was the End"
Armageddon: Inferno #1 (April 1992): "Seeds of Doom"
Armageddon: Inferno #3 (June 1992): "The Last Hope"
Armageddon: Inferno #4 (July 1992): "The Gathering of Heroes"
Spectre Vol. 3 #20 (July 1994): "Spear of Destiny, Part Two: Strange Friends" [Flashback]
Spectre Vol. 3 #1 (December 1992): "Crimes of Violence"
Spectre Vol. 3 #2 (January 1993): "Crimes of Passion"
Spectre Vol. 3 #3 (February 1993): "Crimes and Punishments"
Spectre Vol. 3 #4 (March 1993): "Crimes and Judgment"
Spectre Vol. 3 #5 (April 1993): "A Rage In Hell"
Spectre Vol. 3 #6 (May 1993): "The Bleeding Gun"
Spectre Vol. 3 #7 (June 1993): "Vision and Power"
Spectre Vol. 3 #8 (July 1993): "Righteous Anger"
Spectre Vol. 3 #9 (August 1993): "No Good Deed Goes Unpunished"
Spectre Vol. 3 #10 (September 1993): "Unforgivable Acts"
Spectre Vol. 3 #11 (October 1993): "The Deepest Cut"
Spectre Vol. 3 #12 (November 1993): "Final Fate"
Spectre Vol. 3 #13 (December 1993): "Righteousness"
Spectre Vol. 3 #14 (January 1994): "Wrath of God"
Spectre Vol. 3 #15 (February 1994): "Old Blood"
Spectre Vol. 3 #16 (March 1994): "Call For Blood"
Spectre Vol. 3 #17 (April 1994): "Into the Dark Side"
Spectre Vol. 3 #18 (May 1994): "Final Judgments"
Spectre Vol. 3 #19 (June 1994): "Spear of Destiny, Part One: Afire"
Spectre Vol. 3 #20 (July 1994): "Spear of Destiny, Part Two: Strange Friends"
Spectre Vol. 3 #21 (August 1994): "Spear of Destiny, Part Three: Troubled Waters"
Spectre Vol. 3 #22 (September 1994): "Spear of Destiny, Conclusion"
Zero Hour: Crisis In Time! #4 (September 1994): "Zero Hour"
Zero Hour: Crisis In Time! #1 (September 1994): "Zero Hour"
Zero Hour: Crisis In Time! #0 (September 1994): "Zero Hour"
Spectre Vol. 3 #0 (October 1994): "The Temptation of the Spectre"
Spectre Vol. 3 #23 (November 1994): "Consequence"
Spectre Vol. 3 #24 (December 1994): "A Small Boldness"
Spectre Vol. 3 #25 (January 1995): "Malicious"
Spectre Vol. 3 #26 (February 1995): "The Door of the Solstice"
Spectre Vol. 3 #27 (March 1995): "Desecration Part I"
Spectre Vol. 3 #28 (April 1995): "Desecration Part II"
Spectre Vol. 3 #29 (May 1995): "Desecration Part III"
Spectre Vol. 3 #30 (June 1995): "Desecration Conclusion"
Spectre Vol. 3 #31 (July 1995): "Desecration Epilogue: Matters of Faith"
Spectre Vol. 3 #32 (August 1995): "The Twilight Man"
Spectre Vol. 3 #33 (September 1995): "Fatal Tissue"
Showcase '95 #8/3 (September 1995): "Sunken Beauty"
Spectre Vol. 3 #34 (October 1995): "Blood Suckers"
Spectre Vol. 3 #35 (November 1995): "Evil Intent"
Spectre Vol. 3 #36 (December 1995): "Forces of Hell"
Underworld Unleashed #3 (late December 1995): "Seduction of the Innocent"
Spectre Vol. 3 #37 (January 1996): "The Haunting of America, Part 1: Fallen Dreams"
Spectre Vol. 3 #38 (February 1996): "Icons"
Spectre Vol. 3 #39 (March 1996): "Pragmatic Realities"
Spectre Vol. 3 #40 (April 1996): "Ill Wind"
Spectre Vol. 3 #41 (May 1996): "Merchants of Vengeance"
Spectre Vol. 3 #42 (June 1996): "The Poisoned Land"
Spectre Vol. 3 #43 (July 1996): "Shattered Glass"
Spectre Vol. 3 #44 (August 1996): "Righteous Anger"
Spectre Vol. 3 #45 (September 1996): "Acts of God"
Spectre Vol. 3 #46 (October 1996): "Gather the Ghosts"
Spectre Vol. 3 #47 (November 1996): "Use of Power"
Spectre Vol. 3 #48 (December 1996): "Beyond the Grave"
Spectre Vol. 3 #49 (January 1997): "In Dark Defeat"
Spectre Vol. 3 #50 (February 1997): "The Haunting of America - Conclusion: Patriots"
Spectre Vol. 3 #51 (March 1997): "A Savage Innocence"
Spectre Vol. 3 #52 (April 1997): "The Haunting of Jim Corrigan, Part 1: Retribution"
Spectre Vol. 3 #53 (May 1997): "The Haunting of Jim Corrigan, Part 2: Confrontation!"
Spectre Vol. 3 #54 (June 1997): "The Haunting of Jim Corrigan, Part 3: Atonement"
Spectre Vol. 3 #55 (July 1997): "Proven Guilty"
Spectre Vol. 3 #56 (August 1997): "The Haunting of Jim Corrigan - Conclusion: Forgiveness!"
Spectre Vol. 3 #57 (September 1997): "The Search For God - Part 1: A Measure of Pain"
Spectre Vol. 3 #58 (October 1997): "The Source of All Things"
Spectre Vol. 3 #59 (November 1997): "True Believers"
Spectre Vol. 3 #60 (December 1997): "Within"
Spectre Vol. 3 #61 (January 1998): "The Face of God"
Spectre Vol. 3 #62 (February 1998): "Final Rites"
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