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Issue Details

Issue #60
Published January-February 1966
Frequency Bi-monthly
Cover Price 0.12
Pages 36
Editing Julius Schwartz

Cover Details

Characters The Spectre
Genre Super-hero; Occult
Pencils Murphy Anderson
Inks Murphy Anderson
Notes 1st Spectre

1 page public service announcement "The Magic Card!"

Genre Teen
Script Jack Schiff
Pencils Bernard Baily
Inks Bernard Baily
Letters Ira Schnapp
Notes On the inside front cover, in black and white.

23 page The Spectre story "War That Shook the Universe"

Characters Spectre; Jim Corrigan; Azmodus; Stefan Miklos; Millicent Olcott; Paul Nevers
Synopsis The Spectre confronts the evil Azmodus, who has taken over the body of Paul Nevers.
Genre Super-hero; Occult
Script Gardner Fox
Pencils Murphy Anderson
Inks Murphy Anderson
Notes Revival of the character. This issue explains why he has not been seen in 20 years. Credits for script, pencils and inks confirmed from Julius Schwartz's editorial records, provided by DC Comics [May 2008]. The character Stefan Miklos is a thinly disguised rendition of real-life alleged psychic Peter Hurkos. The story is divided into three parts, with pages 8, 18 and 24 just 0.33 page each, shared with various house ads.
Reprinted in Adventure Comics (DC, 1938 series) #491 (September 1982)

Half page Little Pete cartoon "I just can't get Pete to keep his room neat."

Synopsis Pete's father gets him to pick up all this stuff on his bedroom floor by giving him a model car racing set.
Genre Humor
Script Henry Boltinoff (?)
Pencils Henry Boltinoff (signed)
Inks Henry Boltinoff (signed)
Notes Follows page 18 of Sequence 2.

1 page Spectre story "Origin of the Spectre"

Characters Spectre (Jim Corrigan)
Genre fact
Script Julius Schwartz
Pencils Bernard Baily
Inks Bernard Baily
Letters Typeset
Notes Opposite Sequence 3; reprints cover of More Fun #52. Originally credited to Gardner Fox. Error pointed out by Ted Watson.
Reprinted from the cover of More Fun comics (DC, 1936 series) #52, February 1940.