ADVENTURE COMICS issue 436, page 13

About five years ago on eBay, a guy in Kentucky was selling some old Spectre pages by Jim Aparo from “Adventure Comics.” The ones with the Spectre in them were too expensive for me, but I wound up with this one, the last page the seller had. I loved this Spectre series because the justice dealt by the Spectre was swift and brutal. I was about 9 years old at the time, and these stories were so much darker than all the other comics on the newsstand that it was impossible not to like them. this was the difference between “jonny quest” having real monsters and “Scooby Doo,” in which the villain was always some bozo in a costume. and although the Spectre doesn't appear on this page, Corrigan does. as does one of the bad guys, whom the Spectre has turned into part of a sandy cliff at a beach. and you've got this journalist who bears a ... ahem ... slight resemblance to clark kent. but it isn't clark kent. i've never understood that.