Comic Title: Showcase Presents:The Spectre TPB
Publisher: DC
Cover Date: 2012
On Sale Date: April 25, 2012 Direct Market Date April 25, 2012
Source: ComicList, New Comic Book Releases List for Wednesday, April 25, 2012

Direct Market Date January 18, 2012
Source: Previews, #277

Cover Price: $19.99
Page Count: 592

See Also: The Guide to Graphic Novels and Collected Editions

Title: "Will the Real Killer Please Rise?"
Pages: 8

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

Artist: Jack Sparling

Reprinted From:
Spectre #10 (1969)

Feature Character(s)

• Spectre (last appearance in Spectre #10; next appearance in Justice League of America #82)

Villain(s)

• Vargo the Ventriloquist (no further appearances)

Other Character(s)

• Hawkins and Conrad Slade (murder victims; no further appearances)
• Sarah Frame (a circus fat lady; no further appearances)

Synopsis:
The Spectre investigates two murders which he believes were committed by Vargo the Ventriloquist. The victims were former associates for whom Vargo carried a grudge. The Spectre tries to pull the truth from Vargo's mind, but he can't read it. He continues to watch Vargo in order to protect Sarah Frame, his next likely target. The Spectre barely discovers the truth in time that Vargo has been disguising himself as his ventriloquist dummy. The human Vargo is a robot which had no mind for the Spectre to read. The Spectre prevents Sarah's murder, and Vargo is arrested.