Comic Title: More Fun Comics #69
Publisher: DC (Detective Comics, Inc.)
Address: 480 Lexington Avenue, New York, NY
Cover Date: July 1941
Approx. On Sale Date: May 27, 1941 Copyright Date May 23, 1941
Source: Library of Congress, Periodicals 1941
Until 1958 DC did not report actual on sale dates to the copyright office
The publication dates listed in LoC records are NOT release dates.

Frequency: Monthly
Cover Price: $0.10
Page Count: 64
Editor: Fredric Whitney Ellsworth

Title: (The Strangler)
Pages: 10

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

Writer: Jerry Siegel
Artist: Bernard Baily

Reprinted In:
Golden Age Spectre Archives Vol. 1 HC (2003)

Feature Character(s)

• Spectre (last appearance in All-Star Comics #5; next appearance in More Fun Comics #70)

Supporting Character(s)

• The police chief of Cliffland (last appearance in More Fun Comics #68; next appearance in More Fun Comics #70)

Villain(s)

• A horticulturist (dies in this story; no further appearances)

Other Character(s)

• Thomas Bardsley, Daniel Lakespur, and Jake Carstairs (victims of a strangler; Bradsley and Lakespur die in this story; no further appearances)

Comments:
This story was not originally titled; the title shown here was given on the contents page of the Golden Age Spectre Archives Vol. 1 in which this story is reprinted.

Synopsis:
Thomas Bardsley phones police to report a death threat. When police including Jim Corrigan arrive at Bardsley house they find him strangled inside a locked room. Similar events take the lives of other men, forcing Corrigan's other self the Spectre to set a trap for the killer. When Jake Carstairs is threatened, the Spectre interrupts his death, discovering the killer is a plant. Spectre track down the plant's creator, who was extorting money from the victims. The Spectre ends the scheme, and the horticulturist is killed by his own plants.