SUPER-HERO FILE 013: THE SPECTRE
(More Fun Comics 052, 1940) What we have here is one of the big boys. Not quite a Tier One super-hero – for that to be the case, remember, your non-comics-reading parents have to have heard of him – but certainly a high-ranking Tier Two. He also might just be the first instance of the “guy who dies too early returned to Earth to do good” origin story. He definitely predates Mr Justice and the Wraith, at least, and though…