Spirit King

The Spirit King
Publication information
Publisher	DC Comics
First appearance	Justice League of America #171 (October 1979)
Created by	Gerry Conway Dick Dillin Frank McLaughlin
In-story information
Alter ego	Roger Romaine
Team affiliations	The Demon Shaitan
Abilities	Command of the dead Able to possess the bodies of others

The Spirit King is a character in the fictional

The character was created for a murder mystery story in the 1970s and retroactively introduced into the fictional history of the character

Years later, after the Justice Society had disbanded and reformed, they found themselves investigating a spree of violence on the streets of Portsmouth, one of the victims being a friend of Doctor Mid-Nite. While Mid-Nite and the new Mister Terrific debated religion in a church, they were visited by Hal Jordan, former Green Lantern and the current Spectre, who revealed that his attempts to turn the Spectre's mission to one of redemption as opposed to one of vengeance had weakened the Spectre's hold on the spirits he had once damned. As a result, all those souls that had been condemned to Hell by the Spectre had escaped, with Romaine leading them against the world, and the JSA his first targets. As the JSA tried to hold their own against the undead army, Romaine once again possessed the Flash, using him to attack Sentinel and seriously injure Mister Terrific. Seeing the near-murder of his friends, Jordan rejected his mission of redemption, concluding that it was only helping himself, and returned to his role of vengeance, banishing Romaine and his army back to Hell.

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