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Cover is a wrap-around dustjacket. Illustrated with the Spectre image from the cover of More Fun Comics (DC, 1936 series) #54 (April 1940) minus his right arm and with his original gray "skin" "corrected" to the standard white.
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Text piece on the front inside flap of the dustjacket.
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The title page, illustrated with the encircled Spectre figure from the cover from More Fun Comics (DC, 1936 series) #60 (October 1940) with the lower half of the circle originally behind him altered to come in front and cut off the image across the upper legs.
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The "Spectre" logo is the one seen on every story from More Fun Comics #57 (Sequence 17 here) through #65 (Sequence 35).
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List of contents of this volume with newly created titles ("for reader reference") and basic creative credits specified for each story (each cover repro is covered within the entry for its issue's story). Illustrated with the headshot of Spectre page 7, last panel from More Fun Comics (DC, 1936 series) #67 (May 1941) at the top of the first page.
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Illustrated with the headshot of Spectre from page 7, panel 5 from More Fun Comics (DC, 1936 series) #59 (September 1940) at the top of the first page.
More Fun Comics #52 published February 1940 Notes:
The Spectre's originally blue "costume" and gray "skin" are "corrected" to the subsequently standard green and white.
More Fun Comics #52 published February 1940 Notes:
This story's given title, unlike all the others in this volume, is not an arbitrary, after-the-fact, editorial choice. It is actually a combination of the logo and the opening to a lengthy caption box that explains who and what this "new" character is, both in the splash panel. The Spectre as such appears in only that, rather generic, splash illustration and in an iconic pose in a blurb after the final story panel, with his originally blue "costume" and gray "skin" herein "corrected" to the subsequently standard green and white.
More Fun Comics #53 published March 1940 Notes:
The Spectre's originally gray "skin" is "corrected" to the standard white (his "costume" WAS green in the original publication of this cover).
More Fun Comics #53 published March 1940 Notes:
While the Spectre's initially blue "costume" became green at this point in the original run (and therefore was always so in actual in-story appearances; it is seen here on the final page only, with the story's action beginning in the splash and depicting Jim Corrigan there), his "skin" remained gray and was "corrected" for this presentation.
More Fun Comics #54 published April 1940 Notes:
"Swiped" by Murphy Anderson for the Spectre's Silver Age revival in Showcase #60 (January-February 1966), specifically page 3, panel 3. The Spectre's originally gray "skin" is "corrected" to white here.
More Fun Comics #54 published April 1940 Notes:
This and the two previous stories were "remade" by writer Roy Thomas and artist Michael T. Gilbert in Secret Origins (1986 series) #15, June 1987, where it was "revealed" that the swami had hired "Gat" Benson to kill Corrigan. The Spectre's originally gray "skin" is "corrected" to white here.
More Fun Comics #55 published May 1940 Notes:
The Spectre's originally gray "skin" is "corrected" to white here.
More Fun Comics #55 published May 1940 Notes:
The Spectre's originally gray "skin" is "corrected" to white here.
More Fun Comics #56 published June 1940
More Fun Comics #56 published June 1940 Notes:
Despite the spelling in the selected-decades-after-the-fact title ("...Lytell's"), in the story the retailer's name is rendered "Lytel's Department Store." The Spectre's originally gray "skin" is "corrected" to white here.
More Fun Comics #57 published July 1940 Notes:
The Spectre's "skin" was originally the familiar white as of this issue.
More Fun Comics #57 published July 1940 Notes:
Beginning with this story, the feature opened with the same half-page splash panel each issue.
More Fun Comics #58 published August 1940
More Fun Comics #58 published August 1940 Notes:
The Spectre's melting of one thug here inspired Michael Fleisher to write a similar scene for his first Spectre story in Adventure Comics #431 (January-February 1974).
More Fun Comics #59 [10¢ Cover Price] published September 1940
More Fun Comics #59 [10¢ Cover Price] published September 1940
More Fun Comics #60 published October 1940 Notes:
"Swiped" by Murphy Anderson for Showcase #60 (January-February 1966), page 3, panel 4.
More Fun Comics #60 published October 1940 Notes:
The Ring of Life would make several more "deus ex machina" type appearances after this, as well as being the means of restoring life to the body of Jim Corrigan in More Fun Comics #75 (January 1942). In All-Star Squadron #28 (December 1983), Roy Thomas would indicate that it was the same ring that appeared out of nowhere to immobilize the Spectre in his solo chapter in All-Star Comics #5 (June-July 1941), and that both its gem and Sargon the Sorcerer's Ruby of Life, introduced in All-American Comics #26 (May 1941), were cut from the same stone.
More Fun Comics #61 published November 1940
More Fun Comics #61 published November 1940 Notes:
Corrigan's town is incorrectly called "Center City" several times in this story; Jerry Siegel had previously established "Cliffland" in a Spectre tale for All Star Comics #1 (Summer 1940) (published at that time by All-American Comics, then a separate company from National/DC, which was responsible for More Fun) and would make regular use of it here beginning with the next issue. Perhaps not coincidental to this story's error, when the Spectre appeared in Brave and the Bold #72 (June-July 1967), his Earth-2 base of operations was given as the similar "Central City," even though his solo series of that era called it "Gateway City."
More Fun Comics #62 published December 1940
More Fun Comics #62 published December 1940 Notes:
Corrigan's city is referred to as Cliffland for the first time in More Fun (after the previous issue's mistaken usage of Center City).
More Fun Comics #63 [Without Canadian Price] published January 1941
More Fun Comics #63 [Without Canadian Price] published January 1941 Notes:
There is not so much as a hint as to how "Trigger" Daniels knows with absolute certainty that his execution will not be a final death.
More Fun Comics #64 published February 1941
More Fun Comics #64 published February 1941
More Fun Comics #65 published March 1941
More Fun Comics #65 published March 1941 Notes:
At a high society "lawn fete," one attendee appears to be Clarice Winston, but she is not expressly identified.
More Fun Comics #66 published April 1941
More Fun Comics #66 published April 1941 Notes:
The standard half-page splash panel is dropped as of this story. In his "Foreword," Jerry Bails incorrectly states that Jerry Siegel did not write this installment.
More Fun Comics #67 published May 1941 Notes:
This was the last time that the Spectre would be given More Fun's cover spotlight.
More Fun Comics #67 published May 1941 Notes:
The final scene, in police headquarters, includes a character who appears to be Det. Wayne Grant, but he is not expressly identified.
More Fun Comics #68 published June 1941
More Fun Comics #68 published June 1941
More Fun Comics #69 published July 1941
More Fun Comics #69 published July 1941
More Fun Comics #70 published August 1941
More Fun Comics #70 published August 1941 Notes:
Despite the selected-decades-after-the-fact title ("...Mystery Society"), in the story the organization is consistently referred to as the "...Mystic Society."
More Fun Comics #52 published February 1940More Fun Comics #62 published December 1940More Fun Comics #65 published March 1941More Fun Comics #67 published May 1941 Notes:
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