Comic Title: Spectre #22
Publisher: DC
Cover Date: Winter 1988
On Sale Date: October 4, 1988 Shipping Date October 4, 1988
Source: Direct Currents, #9

Shipping Date October 6, 1988
Source: Amazing Heroes, #149

Copyright Date October 18, 1988
Source: Library of Congress, Copyright Office 1988

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

Title: "The Cow Butchers"
Pages: 24

Feature(s):
Spectre (Post-Crisis)

Writer: Doug Moench
Penciller: Bart Sears
Inker: Mark Pennington
Letterer: John Costanza
Colorist: Adrienne Roy

Feature Character(s)

• Spectre (last appearance in Spectre #21; next appearance in Invasion #1)

Supporting Character(s)

• Bug McGrew (last appearance in Spectre #21; next appearance in Spectre #23)
• Hassan Al Armani (last appearance in Spectre #21; next appearance in Spectre #23)
• Mr. Zoran (last appearance in Spectre #20; next appearance in Spectre #23)
• Cynner (last appearance in Spectre #20; next appearance in Spectre #23)

Villain(s)

• An alien (no further appearances)

Other Character(s)

• Zack and Marge (a cook and a waitress; next appearance in Spectre #23)
• Two men in black (both die in this story; no further appearances)

Comments:
This story continues in Spectre #23.

Synopsis:
Jim Corrigan and several of his associates from Cryptica Crimes head to the desert to investigate a cattle mutilation which is believed to have been caused by a paranormal event. They find a dead cow with its stomach sliced open. They also encounter strange lights and the bodies of two government agents stripped of their flesh.

When the group is attacked by a swarm of bats, they take refuge in a cavern. The group is forced to split up. Corrigan becomes the Spectre and finds an open gateway to another dimension. Meanwhile Bug McGrew has fallen asleep and is abducted by a seemingly alien creature.