Doctor Spectro
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Doctor Spectro is the name of a supervillain that appears in comics published by Charlton Comics and DC Comics.
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[edit] History
[edit] Charlton Comics
Doctor Spectro debuted in Captain Atom #79 (February-March 1966). After inventing a series of prisms that could alter human emotions, the Doctor was kidnapped by a gang of criminals and forced to use his invention to commit a bank robbery. When the Doctor refused to help, the criminals pushed him into his experimental machinery. The strange energies of the machine reacted with the prisms, giving the Doctor the ability to control emotions directly. The energy also affected his mind, causing the Doctor to embark on a crime spree. The superhero Captain Atom confronted Doctor Spectro, who is disintegrated when he comes in contact with a high tension wire. The supervillain manages to survive and return to fight Captain Atom in issue #81 (July 1966).
[edit] DC Comics
Captain Spectro became part of the DC Universe after DC Comics purchased the rights to Captain Atom and other characters. He appeared in issues #9 and 10 of Crisis on Infinite Earths (December 1985 and January 1986, respectively).
Post-Crisis, Doctor Spectro was re-introduced in Captain Atom Vol. 3, #5 (July 1987), in a story written by Cary Bates and drawn by Pat Broderick. In the new version Doctor Spectro was really Tom Emery. A newspaper reporter discovered that "Doctor Spectro" was the creation of General Wade Eiling, a fake supervillain whose exploits were used to provide a cover story for the Captain Atom project. Once Captain Atom went missing, Doctor Spectro reverted to the life of a small time super-crook.
Doctor Spectro has made guest appearances in other DC titles, including Underworld Unleashed (November 1995), JLA #34 (October 1999), Action Comics #760 (December 1999), JSA #28 (November 2001), and Superman/Batman #3 (December 2003).
In the Green Arrow comics, the Green Arrow family often claim that Doctor Spectro has the worst supervillian costume.
[edit] Other media
In Justice League Unlimited, Doctor Spectro is later seen as one of the latest recruits in the Legion of Doom.
