Editing Spectre (DC Comics character) (section)

===Silver Age version===
In the mid-1950s and 1960s [[Silver Age of Comic Books]], [[DC Comics]] editor [[Julius Schwartz]] revived the Spectre and returned him to the role of an avenging spirit, beginning in ''[[Showcase (comics)|Showcase]]'' #60  (February 1966). Under writer [[Gardner Fox]] and [[penciller]] [[Murphy Anderson]], his power was vastly increased, at times approaching omnipotence. A 1987 magazine retrospective on the character said this revival had been initially announced as a team-up with [[Doctor Mid-Nite]].<ref>Stewart, Alan, "The Lives and Deaths of Jim Corrigan, Alias...The Spectre: Part One of a Hero History", ''[[Amazing Heroes]]'' #112 (1 March 1987) [[Fantagraphics Books|Fantagraphics]]  p. 32.</ref> After a three-issue try-out in ''Showcase'', the Spectre appeared in the superhero-team comic ''[[Justice League|Justice League of America]]'' #46–47 in that year's team-up of the titular group and its 1940s predecessors, the [[Justice Society of America]], written by Gardner Fox. A few months later, he co-starred with the Silver Age [[Flash (DC Comics character)|Flash]] in ''[[The Brave and the Bold]]'' #72 (July 1967).

The Spectre was given his own title, premiering in December 1967, while simultaneously making another appearance in ''The Brave and the Bold'' #75 (January 1968), this time teamed with [[Batman]]. In ''The Spectre'', the creative credits varied in the 10 issues published, with introduction of a then-newcomer to comics, [[Neal Adams]], who drew issues #2–5 and wrote issues #4–5. For its final two issues, the comic became in effect a horror anthology, with the title character being little more than a narrator in several short stories. The Spectre title suffered from the same problem that vexed the Golden Age series: writing meaningful stories using a character who was virtually omnipotent.

This era's end came at the climax of a JLA/JSA crossover when [[Doctor Fate]] frees the Ghostly Guardian from a crypt in time to block a collision between Earth-One and Earth-Two caused by an alien device planted inside the android [[Red Tornado]]. The Spectre's body is torn apart when Doctor Fate creates a massive explosion to destroy the device and return the colliding Earths to their own dimensions.<ref>''Justice League of America'' #83 (September 1970)</ref>