Comic Title: Spectre #17
Publisher: DC
Cover Date: August 1988
On Sale Date: May 3, 1988 Shipping Date May 3, 1988
Source: Direct Currents, #3

Shipping Date May 3, 1988
Source: Amazing Heroes, #138

Copyright Date May 3, 1988
Source: Library of Congress, Copyright Office 1988

Shipping Date May 3, 1988
Source: Comics Buyers Guide, #754, #756

Newsstand Date May 17, 1988
Source: Comics Buyers Guide, #754, #756

Cover Price: $1.25
Page Count: 32
Editor: Andrew Helfer

Title: "Every Cop a Criminal"
Pages: 24

Feature(s):
Spectre (Post-Crisis)

Writer: Doug Moench
Penciller: Chris Wozniak
Inker: Ricardo Villagran
Letterer: John Costanza
Colorist: Lovern Kindzierski

Feature Character(s)

• Spectre (last appearance in Spectre Annual #1; next appearance in Spectre #18)

Supporting Character(s)

• Peter Quarral (last appearance in Spectre Annual #1; next appearance in Spectre #18)

Villain(s)

• Chino (a pimp and drug pusher; dies in this story; no further appearances)
• Sam Vickars and his partner (vice cops; both die in this story; no further appearances)
• Vicker's associate (dies in this story; no further appearances)
• Frank Groschen and two unnamed men (all die in this story; no further appearances)

Other Character(s)

• An unnamed prostitute (no further appearances)
• Two unnamed cops (next appearance in Spectre #18)

Comments:
This story continues in Spectre #18.

Synopsis:
Lt. Pete Quarral contacts Jim Corrigan to get his help against a group of dirty vice cops. One of the cops killed a drug pusher, then dies himself from a drug overdose. Quarral meets his partner, Sam Vickars. When Quarral won't join the dirty cops, Vickars turns against him. Corrigan is there to provide back-up, but Vickars and another man are killed. Quarral stages the scene to make it look like Corrigan wasn't there.

Later, Quarral and Corrigan track down Vickars supplier Frank Groschen, who is also Quarral's former partner. Quarral wants the Spectre to get involved, but when he does, he is horrified. The Spectre kills Groschen and his men. He then admits to having killed the first dirty cop. Quarral blames Corrigan, who then punches his friend. More cops arrive on the scene and one shoots Corrigan in the head.