What are the powers/abilities of The Spectre?

Question

Please give all.

Answer 1

super human strength
intangibility
size-changer
flight
able to cross dimensions
able to speak with God
able to re-amimate the dead
super speed
immortal

Answer 2

The Spectre has divine mystical enhancements. He has/can:

condemn souls to Hell
grow to unlimited proportions
superstrength
invulnerability
telepathy
mind control/possesion
molecular transformation
weather control
...in a nutshell, he has the power to do anything pretty much since he's The Wrath of God/Spirit of Vengeance. His power levels do fluctuate from low to unlimited, depending on the situation.

Answer 3

The powers of the Spectre are virtually limitless; he was supposed to be as powerful as God, Whom Spectre would sometimes ask for advice. Spectre was created by Siegel and Schuster, who had invented Superman; they were looking for something that would be the ultimate in the supernatural realm as Superman was in the physical realm.

Spectre was shown to grow as large as the galaxy, grab a passing comet by the tail and swing it around his head to use as a club, turn invisible, intangible, fire mystic blasts, turn bullets to smoke, turn back time, create matter, destroy matter, and question murder victims at to the manner of their demise.

In the 1970’s they made Spectre vicious, and that was perhaps his period of the greatest fame and the most intense fan appreciation.

His usual approach then was to animate objects, and sometimes cause them to grow to enormous size, or to transform the nature of one object to something else. But if he transformed a person, they would remain alive and conscious.

To punish a mob boss who had ordered contract assassinations, Spectre appeared while the man was taking a bath. He gestured at the trademark rubber duck the man had, and caused it to grow to enormous size. It then ate the man, as a real duck would eat a fish.

To punish an assassin, whose day job was a hairdresser, Spectre appeared in his salon, gestured at a pair of scissors, which grew to enormous size and snipped the man in half.

To stop a holdup man who had killed a cop and was trapped inside a hobby store, the Spectre gestured at a miniature lead figure of a Viking warrior, which grew to life size and buried his axe in the man’s skull. When a reporter investigated later, he found the man reduced to the size of a miniature lead figure, with the Viking’s axe still buried in his skull.

The reporter figured there was something supernatural going on and tried following the last member of the gang, to warn him to give himself up before he was destroyed. The Spectre tracked them to a sawmill, where he gestured at the criminal and turned him into a log, like a wooden sculpture of the man he had once been, with a very surprised expression on his face. Spectre then ran him through the saw, reducing him to slices. The reporter ranted at Spectre as he departed, that he hadn’t even left the man’s family anything to bury.

There was an old geezer who was able to make realistic looking store window mannequins out of plaster and bring them to life. He sent them out to rob for him, and they killed those who got in their way.

He kidnapped the beautiful red headed neighbor (romantic interest) of Jim Corrigan (Spectre’s secret ID) and sent a mannequin in her image to kill Corrigan with a cleaver.

She struck from behind, but he (automatically) dematerialized before the blow. He remarked how foolish it was, to try to kill that which did not live. Then he animated the cleaver, which chopped her limb from limb. When he realized that she was a mannequin, he tracked down the maker.

He turned th eold geezer into a mannequin, one which was NOT animated. Then Spectre arranged to have all the mannequins he made destroyed in an incinerator. The work crew accidentaly knocked off one arm of the old geezer mannequin when they threw him into the fire, and despite his face being frozen in one expression, you could see the panic in his eyes, the fear and pain, and you knew he was getting what he deserved.

There are probably more examples I don’t have in my collection. But these should be enough to give you some idea. The Spectre has no limits.

In his most recent incarnation, Hal Jordan was the Spectre, and he took a terrible revenge on William Hand, the villain who was called Black Hand. He turned his hand to lifeless coal. You get the idea.

I hope this is what you were looking for. Check out the Wikipedia and Toonopedia entries for the Spectre. They will have additional information.

14 APR 07, 0633 hrs, GMT.