| The Spirit King | |
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| 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 DC Universe; he was initially an adversary of the original Mister Terrific,[1] but later expanded to be a threat to the entire Justice Society, particularly the Spectre and the Flash.
The character was created for a murder mystery story in the 1970s and retroactively introduced into the fictional history of the character Mister Terrific.[2]
- ^ Thomas, Roy (2007). The All-Star Companion Volume 3. TwoMorrows Publishing. p. 136. ISBN 9781893905801.
- ^ Cowsill, Alan; Irvine, Alex; Manning, Matthew K.; McAvennie, Michael; Wallace, Daniel (2019). DC Comics Year By Year: A Visual Chronicle. DK Publishing. p. 174. ISBN 978-1-4654-8578-6.