#DC SPECTRE TV#

Transmuting bad people into substances such as sand, wood, or glass, which he then righteously destroys.Bringing inanimate objects to destructive life.His powers are limitless, though he seems to favor:

His chief is, or at least seems to be, God, from whom he gets his orders directly. The Spectre wears a cape and hood like the Justice Society member that he is (and almost comically, he also wears trunks, gloves, slippers, and…that’s it), but he’s as much an avenging demigod as he is a superhero. In this column, I’ve been looking at DC characters with ties to the spirit realm, but the Spectre has the most solid afterlife bona fides of anyone-even more than the Deadman, who’s actually a ghost, or the Phantom Stranger, who hangs out with angels in paradise. He first appeared in 1940, in adventures written by Superman co-creator Jerry Siegel and drawn by Bernard Baily.

#DC SPECTRE TV#

The Spectre predates the vast majority of superheroes currently appearing in comics (and in film and on TV and in games, all of which have become the real home of superheroes in this day and age). And when every problem is the Devil, then every solution is God’s wrath. Or you could see crime as something beyond even that.įor the Spectre, crime was synonymous with evil-cosmic, spiritual, arisen-from-the-darkest-pit malevolence. Does a caped powerhouse see villains as foe to be bested, in a kind of high-powered sports rivalry? Are criminals more of a societal problem-a sign of a communications breakdown? If you’re Batman, you might see a gun-wielding mugger as a part of something beyond human, a cancer eating away at civilization that can only be addressed with obsessive violence. One of the factors that distinguishes a costumed vigilante from another is their attitude towards crime.

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