![]() ![]() In his young adulthood, Constantine was a wild, silver-tongued punk with no idea what he was destined to become. However, he was not told that the spell required a sacrifice while performing it, his family home caught fire and resulted in the death of his mother and father. During his childhood experiments with magic, he attempted a spell taught to him that would make him a powerful magician. Corrigan’s rage, Corrigan’s fury.John Constantine was born in Liverpool, England. He has always been Corrigan’s inner demon. He has never been the Spirit of Divine Justice. Issue #9 was released last week and this is where the holy shit came in: Spectre has never been the Wrath of God. Corrigan struggles with the Spectre, resisting his manifestation and usually failing, though he does manage to keep his hitchhiker from destroying the entire city. In it, Corrigan is the head of a sort of special forces police unit that investigates all the weird cases. ![]() The latest incarnation of Spectre is the original Jim Corrigan, updated to Gotham here and now, as portrayed in Gotham by Midnight. Then there’s some crap with Blackest Night. We’re going to have to let that WTF go to the universe, kids. The next person to be cursed with Spectre was Gotham Central’s own Crispus Allen, who was murdered by a corrupt cop named Jim Corrigan. Except, perhaps, the innocent folk of Atlantis who had their home obliterated by a rampaging Spirit of Wrath. Hal Jordan has always been a douchebag and I don’t really see him being one for atonement.Īfter that debacle, unable to function properly without a host (despite having done so without issue on previous occasions), Spectre went ripshit and did a bunch of really nasty stuff to a bunch of people, some of whom were “good” some of whom were “evil” but all of whom probably deserved it. Then, no atonement for Jordan because some genius retconned Spectre inhabiting Jordan so as to prevent the Parallax entity from doing so once more. There were some missteps, a stint as head of a supernatural detective agency, and an appearance in Neil Gaiman’s Books of Magic (coming to us from THE AGE OF THE SPEEDO AND BAD PONYTAILS). Eight of the ten planned issues were eventually published, though they appeared sporadically over a fourteen year period. The ten story run was criticized from go for being too gruesome. Spectre was revived yet again in 1974 after a DC editor was mugged IRL and decided the world needed a… decisive hero. There’s a crypt and Doctor Fate… who the hell knows what’s going on when that dude is involved. He was given his own book in 1967 and partnered with Batman (which actually does make sense, wonder of wonders). The character was revived in the 1950s as a member of the Justice League and as a partner to Silver-Age Flash. Killing Nazis definitely isn’t a worthy pastime for the SPIRIT OF DIVINE FUCKING VENGEANCE, is it? Probably because that would have made fucking sense. During the mid 40s, Spectre was cast as a guardian angel to a farcical cop in another book entirely and then, when Corrigan enlisted to serve during WWII, drifted into non-entity status. Understandably, he started with his own murderers who met their ends in decidedly grisly fashions.Ĭorrigan/Spectre joined the JSA, but then left Corrigan’s body and started to function independently. Refused entry to the afterlife by “The Voice,” he was sent back to the mortal plane with a hitchhiker: the spirit of Divine Retribution known as Spectre. The Lowdown: Jim Corrigan got the shit end of the stick when he was murdered on the way to his own engagement party. Romantic Partners: Some chick named Clarice Powers: Poly-location (multi-location?) (limited), vast knowledge of events on Earth, time manipulation, shape shifting, telekinesis, illusionist, near invulnerability, immortality, remembers events before Crisis.Īffiliations: Justice Society of America, All-Star Squadron, Archangels, The Justice League Sorry.įirst Appearance: More Fun Comics #51 (Jan 1940), fist solo story in More Fun Comics #52 (Feb 1940) (the “more fun” bit being rather ironic considering in his first appearance Corrigan is murdered). Vital Statistics: Corrigan is from the time before significant backstory. ![]() Jim Corrigan, The Spirit of Vengeance, Spirit of Redemption, Avenging Wrath of God, The Ghostly Guardian, The Man of Darkness, Raguel, Hal Jordan (twice) Which entity apparently they don’t give a crap about the character period, which is odd considering he’s been around for 75 years, because I just went to the DC website to do research and he doesn’t have an entry in their character index.Īliases/Alter Egos: Det. ![]()
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