The most powerful comic book hero of all-time in DC's Spectre.

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  • The Spectre was intended to appear in a Superman: The Animated Series Christmas special, but the episode was never produced. [1]
  • The 2001 Green Arrow story "Quiver" (written by Kevin Smith) revealed that the Spectre (as the Hal Jordan incarnation) is aware of the Crisis on Infinite Earths. He is one of the few DC Universe characters with this knowledge.
  • Despite similar names, Jim Corrigan has nothing to do with Chris Ware's graphic novel Jimmy Corrigan, the Smartest Kid on Earth.
  • Apparently, the Spectre and the Living Tribunal from Marvel worked together to create the Big Bang that brought the current universe into being

Day of Vengeance


Promotional art for Day of Vengeance #3 (August 2005) featuring the Spectre fighting Captain Marvel. Art by Walt Simonson.


As covered in one of the lead-ins to Infinite Crisis, Day of Vengeance, Jean Loring was transformed into the new Eclipso. She went after the Spectre, who was on a vengeance rampage. Not only was he killing murderers, he was also killing people for minor crimes, such as petty theft. She seduced the Spectre, who was unstable due to the loss of his host, into removing all magic in the DC Universe. Eclipso explained to the Spectre that all things that follow the rules of the physical universe follow God's law. Anything that breaks those rules, breaks God's law and is therefore evil. Subsequently, as magic breaks the rules of the physical universe, it is an originating source of tremendous evil (this line of logic made sense to the unstable Spectre).
Therefore, the Spectre went on a rampage, destroying magical constructs, institutions that taught magic, and magical dimensions. In one such dimension, his acts included the mass murder of over 700 battle hardened magicians. His actions caused havoc to some of the more powerful magic-based characters