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   * August 1: When gambler Ace Chance is murdered by mobsters for an unpaid debt, the Spectre attempts to save his life by entering his soulless body and revitalizing it, but when his soul returns to find his body occupied, he instead takes Jim Corrigan's body and erects a supernatural barrier of sinister energy to keep the Spectre from returning. As Corrigan, Chance quits the Gateway City Police Department and begins wooing Mona Marcy, the world's wealthiest woman, while the Spectre empowers himself with good radiation from good deeds. //Note: Ace Chance likely absorbed his supernatural powers from Jim Corrigan's body, since an ordinary human soul would not possess such abilities.// ["The Ghost of Ace Chance," Showcase #64 (September-October, 1966)]
-  * August 31: After a whirlwind courtship, Ace Chance as Jim Corrigan is ready to propose to Mona Marcy when the Spectre returns and pierces the evil barrier, removing Chance's ghost from Corrigan's body. But Chance, who has already learned much from the evil energies of Earth, uses his supernatural powers to summon foes -- basilisks, occultists of the chapel of Secaire armed with an unholy sistrum, lunar sword, Paracelsus' trident, and the great ring of Gyres, the witches and warlocks of Earth who envelop the Spectre in flame, and the winged elemental demon god Soraboru -- to battle the Spectre. After draining Chance's powers, the Spectre brings him to the hospital in which his body is being kept alive, only to realize that Chance (using the last of his power) has teleported Corrigan's body there and made him look like Chance. Removing the illusion from Corrigan, the Spectre returns Chance's soul to his body and returns him to the hospital. Corrigan must then cancel his resignation from the police department and deal with Mona Marcy, who expects him to propose. ["The Ghost of Ace Chance," Showcase #64 (September-October, 1966)]
+  * August 31: After a whirlwind courtship, Ace Chance as Jim Corrigan is ready to propose to Mona Marcy when the Spectre returns and pierces the evil barrier, removing Chance's ghost from Corrigan's body. But Chance, who has already learned much from the evil energies of Earth, uses his supernatural powers to summon foes -- basilisks, occultists of the chapel of Secaire armed with an unholy sistrum, lunar sword, Paracelsus' trident, and the great ring of Gyres, the witches and warlocks of Earth who envelop the Spectre in flame, and the winged elemental demon god Soraboru -- to battle the Spectre. After draining Chance's powers, the Spectre brings him to the hospital in which his body is being kept alive, only to realize that Chance (using the last of his power) has teleported Corrigan's body there and made him look like Chance. Removing the illusion from Corrigan, the Spectre returns Chance's soul to his body and returns him to the hospital. Corrigan must then cancel his resignation from the police department and deal with Mona Marcy, who expects him to propose. //Note: Jim Corrigan continues dating Mona Marcy at this point on, since she is still his girlfriend as of The Spectre #2.// ["The Ghost of Ace Chance," Showcase #64 (September-October, 1966)]
 === December, 1966 ===
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 ==== 1968 ====
+=== January, 1968 ===
+  * January 15-17: When power emitted during a battle between two other-dimensional sorcerers, it reaches Knickerbocker City on Earth through a portal to enter the body of small-time crook "Sad" Jack Dold, formerly of Gateway City. When Wildcat tries to stop him from robbing a museum with the rest of his gang, Dold discovers that he now has vast magic powers such as mind over matter and the ability to force others to bend to his will, and uses his power to bring Wildcat to a boxing stadium, where he overcomes the hero in the boxing ring before a huge crowd and a TV audience. Having seen the fight on TV, the Spectre arrives and brings Wildcat back to his home after the spell has worn off. Meanwhile, Dold returns to Gateway City to get revenge on everyone, creating a gaudy costume for himself and planning to drop an atomic bomb on the city. Spotting him, the Spectre muffles the explosion and turns it back on Dold, who diverts it into outer space, then keeps up the attack until he is able to draw out the mystical other-dimensional power from him. Journeying to the edge of time and space, the Spectre deposits the power there before returning to deliver Dold to jail. //Note: This story establishes that Ted Grant, who has never married, is the ex-heavyweight boxing champion of the world and is now a wealthy man thanks to his boxing championship.// ["Hang 'Em Up, Wildcat, You're Finished," The Spectre #3 (March-April, 1968); "Menace of the Mystic Mastermind," The Spectre #3 (March-April, 1968)]
 === February, 1968 ===
-  * Ted Grant (Wildcat) opens up Grant's Gym in Knickerbocker City (New York City), using his years of experience to begin training youngsters, after the Spectre suggests he focus his efforts outwardly rather than inwardly. [Spectre #3]
+  * Ted Grant (Wildcat) opens up Grant's Gym in Knickerbocker City, using his years of experience to begin training youngsters, after the Spectre suggests he focus his efforts outwardly rather than inwardly. //Note: This takes place in an epilogue set weeks after the main story.// ["Menace of the Mystic Mastermind," The Spectre #3 (March-April, 1968)]
+=== March, 1968 ===
+  * A boy named Hamilton Benedict is struck by a comet-like energy blast that turns out to be a malevolent being that takes over his body and possesses great power. The next day, as Detective-Captain Jim Corrigan investigates the boy's disappearance, the Spectre combats a series of unusual disasters such as a tornado and a plague of locusts before he discovers that the boy is causing them. The Spectre soon discovers he cannot remove the power without also removing the boy's life-force, which would kill him. Tracking the source of the evil, the Spectre discovers that it has visited several worlds, infecting each one with evil and causing whole civilizations to destroy themselves. Returning to Earth, the Spectre battles the boy on the astral plane and is nearly destroyed. Corrigan tries to convince the Spectre that he must stop the boy for the world's sake despite the risk of killing him. But the Spectre refuses to kill the boy, which results in the evil fleeing the boy's body, unable to feed. Corrigan guesses that, on each world it targets, the evil tricks the greatest force for good (in this case the Spectre) to become an ally of evil, but this is the first time it failed. Hamilton recovers and is brought home to his parents. ["Stop That Kid Before He Wrecks the World," The Spectre #4 (May-June, 1968)]
 === May, 1968 ===
+  * When a drifter discovers a gun containing a magic bullet, and it is absorbed into his skin, he becomes  a giant monster nicknamed Bright-Eyes because of the light emanating from his eyes. When he attacks the people of Gateway City, the Spectre tries to stop him but only ends up terrifying the populace as his powers are strangely drained away. Ordered to bring the Spectre in for being a public menace, Detective-Captain Jim Corrigan is present when the Spectre finally defeats Bright-Eyes, returning him to normal. Then the Psycho-Pirate reveals that he was behind the public panic over the Spectre, and tells them that, thanks to a magic globe stolen from a hermit in Northern India, he has been draining the Spectre's powers in order to get rid of the magic mask Doctor Fate placed on him to nullify his powers. Now free, Psycho-Pirate tells the drifter to kill Corrigan, only for the drifter to go crazy and attack the villain, since the drifter turns out to be Gat Benson, the same man who murdered Corrigan in 1940. An enraged Corrigan knocks them both out and revives the Spectre before taking the criminals to jail. ["The Spectre Means Death?" The Spectre #5 (July-August, 1968)]
+=== June, 1968
+  * Archeologists succeed in raising the island of Atlantis from the Atlantic Ocean. //Note: This island contains a rather well-preserved city of Atlantis, which remains above the waves until 1976, but it is just one of several Atlantean cities.// ["The Stormy Return of the Red Tornado," Justice League of America #64 (August, 1968)]
   * Tornado Champion becomes Red Tornado II, joins the JSA (after some initial confusion over whether s/he was original member "Ma" Hunkel). [JLA #64]
+=== July, 1968 ===
+  * In Gateway City's Old Quarter, the ghosts of four colonists come to life for one day and attempt to use four ancient talismans to restore themselves to full life with great wealth and power. The Spectre battles the demon Nawor from the realm of Geimpo, while Detective-Captain Jim Corrigan fights the ancient cultists to stop them from opening a gateway to Geimpo. Upon Nawor's defeat, the cultists turn to dust, never to be restored again. ["Pilgrims of Peril," The Spectre #6 (September-October, 1968)]
 === August, 1968 ===
   * August 16: Dr. Emil Trapp begins murdering the members of the Justice Experience, beginning with Steven Chase (Acro-Bat), father of Cameron Chase.
+=== September, 1968 ===
+  * September 7: Returning from a JSA meeting, Hourman visits the subterranean vault of the Tyler Chemical Company where he keeps his civilian garb, only to encounter a thief named Dick Arnold wielding a weapon allowing him to pass through the vault. Having stolen top-secret blueprints, Arnold fights Hourman, and when his weapon the Metalizer drops to the ground, it goes off and bathes Hourman with deadly radiation. Thinking Hourman is dead, Arnold flees in terror, knowing that the law and the JSA will go all out to catch his murderer. Meanwhile, Hourman realizes that he is still half-alive thanks to the Miraclo in his blood, but he will fully die within the hour expires unless he can retrieve the Metalizer and cure himself with it. Using a temporary ability to track the radiation, Hourman first discovers that the Metalizer and the stolen blueprints were thrown off a bridge, since they were evidence connected with Hourman's supposed murder, then tracks down Arnold and captures him. Hourman quickly develops a cure from the irradiated cash just before his Miraclo charge wears off, then delivers Arnold to the police. ["The Hour Hourman Died," The Spectre #7 (November-December, 1968)]
 === Fall, 1968 ===
   * Jack Knight is born to Ted (Starman) and Doris Knight in Opal City. [Starman: Stars Be My Destiny, Book 1: Sins of the Father]
+=== November, 1968 ===
+  * November 4: Returning from a long voyage through the astral plane, the Spectre is nearly drained of energy when he attempts to return to Detective-Captain Jim Corrigan's body. When Corrigan insists that the Spectre stop the armed criminals who are about to kill him first, the Spectre recklessly blasts them with a spell that causes them to fall asleep, and accidentally also strikes a passerby. That night, the Spectre is summoned before the Voice, who reprimands him for his recklessness and gives him an unknown weakness that will manifest during times of stress and will change from time to time. ["The Parchment of Power Perilous," The Spectre #8 (January-February, 1969)]
+  * November 7: During a routine case, Detective-Captain Jim Corrigan is nearly shot in the back by a criminal when the Spectre shows up and destroys him with bolts from his eyes. When Corrigan argues that he has no right to kill, and refuses to allow the Spectre to return to his body, the Spectre ends up knocking out Corrigan while attempting to forcefully return. The Spectre is summoned before the Voice to account for his actions and is told that his mission on Earth must be ended immediately. When the Spectre appeals for mercy, he is given another chance, but now must be chained to a book called the Journal of Judgment, whose tasks he must fulfill in order to return to his previous standing. From this point on, the Spectre must review those mortals whose names appear in the book and pass judgment on them, occasionally issuing a warning to them. //Note: This story takes place a few nights after the previous issue.// ["Journal of Judgment," The Spectre #9 (March-April, 1969)]
 ==== 1969 ====
   * Amanda Mason Martin, daughter of Bill Martin and Myra Mason Martin, is born. She will grow up to become the new Star Sapphire.
+=== April, 1969 ===
+  * A stage magician named Frederick Foost, while fighting his assistant Willard after a failed outdoor performance in a small town, is summoned before the Devil, alias Beelzebub and Mister Scratch, who offers him, in exchange for his soul, great power in a talisman called the Abracadoom. Although the Spectre appears to warn Foost from making the bargain, the magician does so anyway and is warned by the Devil to never come within six feet of an identical talisman called the Abracadeath. In three months Foost has become a successful performer with sold-out shows. A week later, when given the opportunity for a command performance before the royal family of Marlovia, Foost uses his magic to cause them to vanish, then impersonates Count Lagos to become the sovereign ruler of Marlovia. The Spectre withholds his judgment, as Marlovia prospers under his reign over the next few months, and the previous rulers were harsh. When Marlovia is attacked by a neighboring country, Foost uses his magic to defeat its army. Contacted by the prime minister of the attacking nation, Foost agrees to meet with him, planning to use the Abracadoom to take control over him. When Foost pays no heed to the Spectre's final warning, he meets the prime minister only to learn that he is his old assistant Willard, who possesses the Abracadeath. Since the Abracadoom and the Abracadeath are brought within six feet of each other, both men are instantly killed and claimed by the Devil. //Note: This story takes place over several months in the present, possibly from November, 1968, to April, 1969.// ["Abraca-Doom," The Spectre #9 (March-April, 1969)]
 ==== 1970 ====