James Corrigan

"'There are heroes who fight crime with magic rings, or with the powers they have brought with them from distant planets. But all these pale into insignificance beside the astral power of The Spectre.'""- Tex Thompson, 1952"James Jebediah "Jim" Corrigan (19 April 1904 - 13 February 1940, later resurrected) was an American cop who was murdered by organized crime, but was reborn as the Spectre, the divine spirit of vengeance.