Real name: Oom
First appearance: All-Star Comics#3 (Winter 1940)
Abilities: Magic
Worst act: Attempted murder, murder
Created by: Gardner Fox, Jerry Siegel (script), Bernard Bailey, E.E. Hibbard (pencils)
The Spectre offers up a story. Always good to hear from the personification of God's Vengeance; in his day job as police detective Jim Corrigan, the Spectre investigates a series of full moon slayings. The killer doesn't waste any time. His name is Oom and he has a bargain for the ghostly guardian. He's looking for the Red Moon Stone of Yzgartyl. Whoever can find it can remain on Earth with the loser being banished forever.
For some reason, the Spectre humors him and goes on the hunt. Oom manages to find the stone, but the Spectre tricks him into dropping the stone in his hands, thus damning his soul to remain forever trapped in the stone.
Dang. Bit harsh, pity Hourman trying to top that.
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