Spiritman

Real Name: Spirit Malcolm

Identity/Class: Human technology user

Occupation: Crimefighter

Group Membership: None

Affiliations: Ray Williams

Enemies: Gold bullion robbers

Known Relatives: None

Aliases: None

Base of Operations: His lab, in an unidentified location somewhere on Earth

First Appearance: Silver Streak Comics#1 (Lev Gleason, December 1939)

Powers/Abilities: By using his "futurescope" Spiritman and his friend Ray monitor events happening anywhere in the world. Via "mistodone rays" Spiritman can become invisible and insubstantial, and be transported anywhere in the world almost instantly. He can also fly, and carries a "rayodine" gun.

Height: Unrevealed
Weight: Unrevealed
Eyes: Unrevealed
Hair: Unrevealed

Summary: Via a string of highly advanced gadgets, Spirit Malcolm fights crime anywhere around the world as the Spiritman.

History:

Comments: Creators unknown.

   Spiritman is a fairly brutal crimefighter. He traps the gold robbers by blowing up the end of their tunnel, but despite them having no way to escape before the authorities find them, he then deliberately activates an electric current in their tunnel, so that they "die like burning rats." He then pursues the truck the robber loaded the gold into, and though it has already delivered its cargo to a plane that has taken off, he takes the time to force the driver off a cliff. Only then does he pursue the plane, and commandeers the controls to make it crash into the sea. Basically, he goes out of his way to kill almost all the criminals even when it would have been just as easy to capture many of them, and the only ones he spares are some of the crew on a ship that the gold was being delivered to, and only them because sinking the vessel would have made it almost impossible for the coast guard to recover the loot.

   Though both the end of his story and the next issue blurb on the final page of the issues promised Spiritman would return in the next issue, he failed to materialize.

Appearance checklist (not including reprints): Silver Streak Comics#1

CLARIFICATIONS:
Spiritman should not be confused with:

First Posted: Circa 27/09/2004
Last updated: 27/05/2023

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