Spectro

While battling crime, Robert Morgan, alias Spectro, acted less like a magician and more like a hard-boiled private eye, crashing through doors and manhandling thugs.

Archive 2008-02-01 Chuck Wells 2008

This tale is from Exciting #41, and the art is credited to Al Camy who was a regular artist on Better Publications titles with features like 'Jill Trent', 'Crime Crushers', 'Grim Reaper', 'Phantom Detective' and 'Spectro'.

Kara the Jungle Princess (Better/Standard; 1945) Chuck Wells 2009

This tale is from Exciting #41, and the art is credited to Al Camy who was a regular artist on Better Publications titles with features like 'Jill Trent', 'Crime Crushers', 'Grim Reaper', 'Phantom Detective' and 'Spectro'.

Archive 2009-11-01 Chuck Wells 2009

Spectro was known alternately as "The Master of Magic" and "The Mind Reader" during his Golden Age career.

Archive 2008-02-01 Chuck Wells 2008

However Spectro did demonstrate some magical ability and his main power was reading minds, which often came in handy, especially when dealing with tight-lipped criminals.

Archive 2008-02-01 Chuck Wells 2008

It was Thomas Gwenhidwy, come down all the way from London, with the news about poor Spectro.

Gravity's Rainbow Pynchon, Thomas 1978

Spectro is one of the original seven owners of The Book, and if you ask Mr. Pointsman what Book, you'll only get smirked at.

Gravity's Rainbow Pynchon, Thomas 1978

Spectro feels so like a fraud but carries on ... only because the pain continues to be real ....

Gravity's Rainbow Pynchon, Thomas 1978

Gwenhidwy inside his fluffy beard never as impassive as he might have wished, Spectro hurrying away with a syringe for his Fox, when nothing can really stop the Abreaction of the Lord of the Night unless the Blitz stops, rockets dismande, the entire film runs backward: faired skin back to sheet steel back to pigs to white incandescence to ore, to Earth.

Gravity's Rainbow Pynchon, Thomas 1978

One night Spectro asked: "If he hadn't been one of Laszlo Jamf's subjects, would you be all this keen on him?"

Gravity's Rainbow Pynchon, Thomas 1978