With his new mission as an agent of God, the Spectre became one of the most famous mystery-men of the Golden Age. Popp had accidentally stumbled onto Corrigan's alter ego of the Spectre, and it was Popp who designed the costume of the Golden Age Spectre. Percival Poplaski (alias Percival Popp Super Cop). Īs a ghost, Corrigan settled back into his role as a police detective. Later, the Spectre killed a criminal named Rhami, who had hired Benson to murder Corrigan in the first place due to the detective's investigations into his affairs. The Spectre took his vengeance on Benson and rescued Winston. The Voice told Corrigan that he was to return to Earth to fight evil with the supernatural powers he now possessed. Corrigan agreed and was immediately bonded with the Divine Wrath. He was confronted by a mysterious Voice that offered him a chance to seek justice. The deceased Corrigan's spirit, now in a void, was filled with anger and a lust for vengeance. Corrigan was placed in a barrel that was filled with cement, and then dumped off a wharf into the river. But one night, in 1939, Corrigan and Winston were captured by the criminal "Gat" Benson and two of his men. He rarely showed mercy or compassion to anyone breaking the law. Times were hard, and Corrigan responded by being even harder. ![]() Jim Corrigan grew up and became a police detective in New York City and was later engaged to socialite Clarice Winston. In a way Jim had had the fear of God beaten out of him. Shortly afterward, Rafe was killed in a storm and Jim reacted against his father's harsh teachings and beatings by rejecting the figure that his father held most high, God. Jebediah was secretly having an affair with Rose, and when Jim's mother discovered this, Rafe and Rose were forced to leave. During childhood, Jim's best friend was Rafe, the son of their housekeeper, Rose. Jim Corrigan was the son of Reverend Corrigan, a fire and brimstone preacher that traveled all over the country. ![]() He would grow up to be the Reverend Jebediah Corrigan. You merely stole from them! Live - and wonder what I will steal from you!" That man had a son, Jebediah, who had the fear of god beaten into him by his mother. ![]() The Spectre told him, "If you escape little man, do not doubt it is because I have let you go. Of the soldiers, he left only one man alive, who had only stolen from Cherokees, and had not participated in the slaughter. During the American Civil War, the Spectre punished a band of drunken soldiers that had butchered a band of Cherokees.
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