Comic Title: Showcase #61
Publisher: DC (National Periodical Publications, Inc.)
Address: 575 Lexington Avenue, New York, NY
Cover Date: Mar/Apr 1966
On Sale Date: January 25, 1966 Newsstand Date January 25, 1966
Source: House Ad, Action Comics #334, Page 9

Copyright Date January 25, 1966
Source: Library of Congress, Periodicals 1966

Frequency: Bi-monthly
Cover Price: $0.12
Page Count: 32
Editor: Julius Schwartz

Title: "Beyond the Sinister Barrier"
Pages: 24

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

Writer: Gardner F. Fox
Artist: Murphy Anderson

Reprinted In:
Adventure Comics #492 (1982)
Showcase Presents:The Spectre TPB (2012)
Spectre:The Wrath of the Spectre Omnibus HC (2020)

Feature Character(s)

• Spectre (last appearance in Showcase #60; next appearance in Justice League of America #46)

Villain(s)

• Shathan the Eternal (master of Dis; no further appearances)
• Demons of Dis (Tsathhala of the Hundred Seas and Ahriman of the Windy Worlds named; no further appearances)
• Various unnamed crooks (no further appearances)

Other Character(s)

• A mongolian bandit, a window washer, Andre Voisin, Olive Morell, and other worshippers of Shathan (no further appearances)

Cameo Appearance(s)

• Azmodus (in flashback to Showcase #60)
• Moses, Peter, Buddha, and Mohammed (in flashback)

Synopsis:
Shathan the Eternal, ruler of the psycho-matter world of Dis, offers to help various people in life-threatening situations in exchange for their shadows. Using the shadows Shathan plots to enter the physical world. Spectre witnesses the theft of a shadow. When he investigates, he is drawn to the world of Dis and attacked by demons.

Spectre overcomes his opponents, then travels back in time to learn of Shathan's creation. He also learns that Azmodus was Shathan's agent. Spectre plans to oppose Shathan, so the demon ruler threatens Jim Corrigan in order to delay the Spectre.

Spectre decides to track down Shathan's worshippers just as they succeed in bringing him to Earth. Spectre engages Shathan in battle, but finds his opponent is all-powerful. Spectre then drags Shathan back in time to various large explosions in hopes one will be powerful enough to destroy the demon. When Spectre tosses Shathan into the primal atom at the dawn of time, the explosion causes the demon's essence to be hurled outward into the universe, incapable of reforming.