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"Day of Judgment"
Cover of Day of Judgment #5 (November 1999). Pencils by Matthew Dow Smith and inks by Steve Mitchell.
Publisher	DC Comics
Publication date	November  1999
Genre	Superhero Crossover
Title(s) Day of Judgment #1-5 Anarky (vol. 2) #7 Aquaman (vol. 5) #61 Azrael : Agent of the Bat #58 Batman: Day of Judgment #1 Day of Judgment Secret Files and Origins #1 Green Lantern (vol. 3) #118 Hourman #8 Impulse #54 and 61 JLA #6-7 and 35 Martian Manhunter (vol. 2) #12 Stars and S.T.R.I.P.E. #4 Superboy #68 Supergirl (vol. 4) #38 Superman: The Man of Tomorrow #15 The Titans #9 Young Justice #14 JLA: Paradise Lost #1-3
Main character(s)	The Spectre Hal Jordan The Sentinels of Magic Etrigan the Demon Asmodel Neron
Creative team
Writer(s)	Geoff Johns
Penciller(s)	Matthew Dow Smith , Christopher Jones (breakdowns)
Inker(s)	Steve Mitchell
Letterer(s)	Comicraft
Colorist(s)	James Sinclair
Editor(s)	Kevin Dooley

Day of Judgment is a multi-title DC Comics miniseries and crossover storyline during the autumn of 1999. The limited series was written by Geoff Johns , with art by Matthew Dow Smith .

The main storyline for the series dealt with the Spectre (whose previous host, Jim Corrigan , had left him when he ascended into Heaven ) being bonded to a new host, in the form of the then-deceased Hal Jordan .

Storyline [ edit ]

Endeavoring to cause chaos on Earth, as well as to defeat his enemy and rival demon Neron , Etrigan the Demon arranges for the now-hostless Spectre-Force to be bonded to the renegade King-Angel Asmodel , who uses the Spectre's power to freeze Hell and release hordes of demons on Earth. This action also results in villains, such as the Enchantress , being released. Earth's conventional heroes are powerless against Asmodel's onslaught. With the regular heroes having fallen, it is up to the newly-formed Sentinels of Magic - consisting of Doctor Occult , Zatanna , the Phantom Stranger , Madame Xanadu , Deadman , Raven , the Ragman , Sentinel and Sebastian Faust - to stand against the Spectre/Asmodel.

To vanquish Asmodel, the Sentinels and the other heroes divide into three groups: a 'home front' to defend Earth, a team to reignite the fires of Hell and a team to search for Jim Corrigan in Heaven and convince him to become the Spectre again. Although the team who is at Hell falls into the River Styx after a fight with Cerberus - being rescued only by the soulless Faust, who is unaffected by the visions that plague his comrades - and the team who is in Heaven fails to recruit Corrigan to their cause, they are directed by the archangel Michael to Purgatory, where a soul in search of redemption may aid them. Selecting Hal Jordan , who is feeling guilty over his actions as Parallax , as the best candidate for the Spectre-Force's new host, the Sentinels bring him to Earth with the aid of other deceased heroes.

While Captain Marvel - who possesses a "pure" soul - takes the Spear of Destiny to aid in the fight, Faust sacrifices his newly regained soul - the demon who had previously been promised his soul having already been defeated - to restore the fires of Hell by killing the Enchantress. With Marvel having weakened the Spectre, Hal attempts to merge with the Spirit of Vengeance, leading to a three-way battle between himself, Asmodel and Neron - who had hidden inside Superman to gain access to the mortal plane - that is interrupted by the Spectre-Force. At first demanding to know why it should accept any of them as hosts, the Spectre-Force finally chooses Hal when he states that being the Spectre would be an appropriate punishment for what he had done as Parallax. As a result of this choice, Neron is punished by his fellow demon-lords for using Hell's power for his own pleasure by having his royal status stripped from him and being demoted to a Rhyming Demon - which had been Etrigan's plan all along.

The crossover event resulted in the creation of the Sentinels of Magic and Hal Jordan becoming the Spectre's new host for a time.

Certain aspects of this event were later dealt with in Green Lantern: Rebirth (involving Hal Jordan being released from the Spectre-Force) and Day of Vengeance (wherein the again-hostless Spectre-Force once more runs amok on Earth).

References [ edit ]

External links [ edit ]

• Day of Judgment at the DC Database Project