Doctor Spektor

Doctor Spektor
Dr. Spektor, on the cover of issue #15. Art by Jesse Santos.
Publication information
Publisher	Western Publishing
First appearance	Mystery Comics Digest #5 (July 1972)
Created by	Donald F. Glut (script) Dan Spiegle (art)
In-story information
Full name	Doctor Adam Spektor
Partnerships	Lakota Rainflower, Lu-Sai
Abilities	Skilled investigator
The Occult Files of Doctor Spektor
Series publication information
Publisher	Gold Key Comics
Schedule	Bimonthly
Format	Ongoing series
Genre	Horror
Publication date	May 1973 – Feb. 1977
Number of issues	24
Main character(s)	Dr. Spektor
Creative team
Writer(s)	Donald F. Glut
Artist(s)	Dan Spiegle, Jesse Santos
Collected editions
The Occult Files of Doctor Spektor Archives, Vol. 1
The Occult Files of Doctor Spektor Archives. Vol. 2
The Occult Files of Doctor Spektor Archives, Vol. 3
The Occult Files of Doctor Spektor Archives, Vol. 4

Doctor Spektor is a fictional comic book "occult detective" that appeared in Western Publishing's Gold Key Comics. Created by writer Donald F. Glut and artist Dan Spiegle, he first appeared in Mystery Comics Digest #5 (July 1972).

After his first appearance in a 10-page story in Mystery Comics Digest #5, Dr. Spektor was spun off into his own title, The Occult Files of Doctor Spektor. The series ran for 24 issues (May 1973 - February 1977). His final original story appeared in one issue of Gold Key Spotlight (#8, August 1977). Jesse Santos replaced Spiegle as artist on the series, and remained there for the entire run.

Dr. Spektor appeared in all four issues of Gold Key's Spine-Tingling Tales (1975–76), where he provided linking narration for some of the stories within. (These stories were reprints from Mystery Comics Digest that dealt with characters who later appeared in his title). He also had stories he narrated in Mystery Comics Digest #10, #11, #12, and #21, and articles in Golden Comics Digest #25, #26, and #33.

Under the Whitman Comics name, issue #25 was released in May 1982. It reprinted issue #1, but with a line-art cover instead of the original painted cover.

In 2014, Dynamite Entertainment released a new version of "Doctor Spektor", written by Mark Waid and drawn by Greg Pak, as part of the company's revival of several Gold Key characters (which also included Magnus, Robot Fighter, Dr. Solar and Turok).

Doctor Adam Spektor is an occult investigator, dealing with various occult menaces, such as mummies (Ra-Ka-Tep), vampires (Baron Tibor, Dracula), werewolves, and more. He is aided by Lakota Rainflower, his Sioux secretary (until issue #22), along with several semi-recurring assistants (Elliot Kane in issue #4 and #10, future love interest Lu-Sai in issues #12 and #24, his cousin Anne Sara in issue #17). Several of the monsters he encounters return in subsequent issues, and for several issues, Spektor became a werewolf (#11-13).