Comic Title: Great Comic Book Super-Heroes HC
Publisher: Dial Press
Cover Date: 1965
On Sale Date: November 15, 1965 Copyright Date November 15, 1965
Source: Library of Congress, Pamphlets 1965

Cover Price: $9.95
Page Count: 192

Notes:
A second edition was published by Bonanza Books/Crown Publishing

Title: (The Tenement Fires)
Pages: 10

Feature(s):
Spectre (of Earth-2)

Writer: Jerry Siegel
Artist: Bernard Baily

Reprinted From:
All-Star Comics #1 (1940)

Feature Character(s)

• Spectre (last appearance in More Fun Comics #56; next appearance in More Fun Comics #57)

Supporting Character(s)

• The police chief of Cliffland (next appearance in More Fun Comics #59)

Villain(s)

• Dr. Cragg (dies in this story; no further appearances)
• Nick Brant (also called "Bates" in this story; no further appearances)
• Pete and his hireling (arsonists; no further appearances)

Other Character(s)

• Fire Warden Zane, a woman, and her child (no further appearances)

Cameo Appearance(s)

• Dr. Cragg’s murder victims (as spirit apparitions)

Comments:
This story was not originally titled.

Synopsis:
When an epidemic of tenement fires breaks out in Cliffland, the Spectre investigates. He finds that the fires are caused by arsonists in the employ of the tenements’ owner, Dr. Cragg, to collect the insurance when the structures burn. When confronted by the Spectre, the villain dies of fright.