The Spectre Appreciation Thread

[Professor Moriarty]

The Spectre has always been one of my all time favorite DC characters.

[Old Man Ollie 1962]

In my opinion, Jim Aparo drew the best Spectre.

[Professor Moriarty]

In my opinion, Jim Aparo drew the best Spectre.

Agreed.

[Old Man Ollie 1962]

Agreed.

Yes. Beautiful works. Aparo's Batman art is exquisite too.

[MRP]

I have equal love for the Aparo-Fleisher run in Adventure and the Ostrander Mandrake run. Spectre is one of my top 3 DC characters.

I got to meet Jim Aparo at a small con in CT maybe 15-20 years back, and he signed on of my Spectre books for me (back when the standard was to sign the first page of a book not the cover)...



He was a gentleman as well as a great artist, and it wa shis work that created my love for the character.

-M

[Old Man Ollie 1962]

I have equal love for the Aparo-Fleisher run in Adventure and the Ostrander Mandrake run. Spectre is one of my top 3 DC characters.

I got to meet Jim Aparo at a small con in CT maybe 15-20 years back, and he signed on of my Spectre books for me (back when the standard was to sign the first page of a book not the cover)...



He was a gentleman as well as a great artist, and it wa shis work that created my love for the character.

-M

I don't say this often, but when I do I surely mean it: That's totally awesome.

[The Darknight Detective]

In my opinion, Jim Aparo drew the best Spectre.

You might be right, Oliver. His Spectre had just the right mix of nobility and menace.

[SmokeMonster]

I'm unfamiliar with the Spectre and why so many love him.

Someone care to sell me on him?

[victorxd1999]

I'm unfamiliar with the Spectre and why so many love him.

Someone care to sell me on him?

Read Ostrander's run. If you do you're sold.

[Trey Strain]

There is no version of the Spectre that I hate, although some are better than others. In any case, he should not carry out divinely sanctioned punishment. The world needs less of that. There are plenty of other things he can do in a title, and he can do them on his own initiative. That's the best way to make this traditionally marginal seller work better. I really think this can be a successful comic, with a fairly minimal re-imagining.

[Outside_85]

For an ongoing... I prefer Mandrake, but that is heavily influenced by my usual apathy for the 'old school' way of drawing comics and because I think it really suits the character to be dawn as unlike most books.
But for still images; Ross.

Speaking of different versions, which ones do people actually prefer?:
-The original... that I have to admit I know the least about?
-Ostrander's Jim Corrigan, the sour 30'ties cop trying to earn his own redemption by doing gods work?
-Hal Jordan, who took the whole thing cosmic and made it into a Spirit of Redemption?
-Or Crispus Allen, the one most at odds with his job and the one left mostly untapped?

[Savage Savant]

Okay, let me try this again...

Unless you're appreciating the Spectre, stay out of this thread. If you like one version of the character, great, but that doesn't mean you can dump on the other versions, either.

I don't feel like dealing out bans, but I will if need be.

I acknowledge that I created this thread as an appreciation thread but can it also be an all-encompassing thread about the Spectre (i.e appreciation & discussion)? I haven't seen any heated arguments between anyone from either camp that prefers one version over another (I certainly have never regressed to insults or ad hominems when debating which version I prefer).

Also I'd like to point out that many fans the the Post-Crisis recton Spirit of Vengeance version claim that reverting the character back to his Pre-Crisis version (which was the ghost/spirit of Jim Corrigan) would be depowering the character, yet what they fail to understand is that even during Pre-Crisis continuity the Spectre was still the most powerful superhero around (even between DC & Marvel). That version literally held two universies apart in the first JSA/JLA team-up & he'd most definitely steamroll Superman, Doctor Strange, Thor, Martian Manhunter, Silver Surfer & all the other superhero heavyweights you could think of.

[The Beast Of Yucca Flats]

One of my favorite poetic Spectre-smitings, from the aforementioned definitive run of Ostrander/Mandrake:

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[Trey Strain]

the SIegel version of the Spectre was crude and crazy, but it was entertaining. You have to entertain people with this.

[Old Man Ollie 1962]

During his run on Swamp Thing, Alan Moore made great use of the Spectre.


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