Comic Title: Spectre #25
Publisher: DC
Cover Date: April 1989
On Sale Date: March 7, 1989 Shipping Date February 7, 1989
Source: Direct Currents, #13

Copyright Date March 7, 1989
Source: Library of Congress, Copyright Office 1989

Direct Market Date February 9, 1989
Source: Comic Shop News, #85

Shipping Date January 12, 1989
Source: Amazing Heroes, #155

Cover Price: $1.50
Page Count: 32
Editor: Andrew Helfer

Title: "The Man Is Worse"
Pages: 24

Feature(s):
Spectre (Post-Crisis)

Writer: Doug Moench
Penciller: Tom Artis
Inker: Ralph Cabrera
Letterer: John Costanza
Colorist: Robbie Busch

Feature Character(s)

• Spectre (last appearance in Spectre #24; next appearance in Spectre #26)

Supporting Character(s)

• Kim Liang (last appearance in Spectre #24; next appearance in Spectre #26)
• Bug McGrew (last appearance in Spectre #24; next appearance in Spectre #26)
• Peter Quarral (last appearance in Spectre #24; next appearance in Spectre #26)
• Cynner (last appearance in Spectre #24; next appearance in Spectre #26)
• Hassan Al Armani (last appearance in Spectre #24; next appearance in Spectre #26)

Villain(s)

• Richard Redditch (last appearance in Spectre #24; next appearance in Spectre #26)
• Dr. Eugene Shockley (last appearance in Spectre #24; next appearance in Spectre #26)
• Creach (last appearance in Spectre #24; next appearance in Spectre #26)
• Jamie (last appearance in Spectre #24; next appearance in Spectre #29)
• Mr. Rand (head of a secret computer facility; next appearance in Spectre #26)
• Joseph Sarbonne (a punk with a mohawk; not named in this story; next appearance in Spectre #26)

Other Character(s)

• Praxis (last appearance in Spectre #24; next appearance in Spectre #26)
• Luke and Matt (last appearance in Spectre #24; next appearance in Spectre #29)
• An arcade manager (no further appearances)
• Colonel Lister (military commander of a computer facility; next appearance in Spectre #26)
• Nunzio and Ferdie (electrians; both die in this story; no further appearances)
• Dr. Robinson (no further appearances)
• Kelly Gee (a DJ; next appearance in Spectre #27)

Comments:
Ghosts in the Machine Part 2

This story is continued from Spectre #24 and continues in Spectre #26.

Synopsis:
Following his transformation from the energy of a video game, Jamie leads his friends back to the arcade. He exposes the others to the game which turns them all into killers. They attack the arcade manager who is rescued by the Spectre.

Meanwhile Bug McGrew and Armani learn that Richard Redditch was abducted following his release from the hospital. His kidnappers were found dead soon after. Jim Corrigan makes inquiries and learns from Quarral that Redditch was not killed. He deduces that another party kidnapped him again.

Elsewhere, Redditch transforms a punk into a murderous acolyte. Dr. Shockley, whose experiments triggered Redditch's meta-gene is questioned by his employer.