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More Gwen
Gwen was a bit of an exception to the rule that knowing a superhero was bad for your health. Nobody knew she was the Spectre's girlfriend (in fact no one seems to suspect he existed) but she kept getting abducted anyway. In Adventure Comics 437 she was kidnapped on the orders of a genuine mad scientist with a fondnesss for irony.
In addition to crocodile pits and baraccuda tanks for disposing of troublesome minions his lair also included a hypno-disc which he used to brainwash Gwen and other prominent citizens into becoming human bomb bank robbers. After that they walked into banks and threatened to detonate the bombs strapped to them. If the bank thought they were bluffing they'd blow themselves up without hesitation so it wasn't long before all the banks were paying up. Naturally Jim didn't like this and trailed Gwen back to the hideout. Where he quickly returned Gwen and the other victims to normal before hypnotising the mastermind into walking into his own crocodile pit.
For a rich heiress banks seem to have been unlucky places for Gwen. In the issue pictured above she was settling her accounts when the Symbiosis Liberation Army came in to make a withdrawal
Jim saw the terrorists getting away with Gwen and quicker than you could say "Patty Hearst" showed the Symbiosis Liberation Army why a 3-headed snake banner was a bad idea.
After the rescue Gwen took the unusal step of proposing marriage which Corrigan turned down on the reasonable grounds that he was a ghost. At which point the power that made him the Spectre relented and restored him to flesh and blood. Nearly killed before he figured this out Jim accepted Gwen's proposal and they made wedding plans. Except that Jim then proved he was a real slow learner by once again walking into an ambush and got himself killed by criminals. Becoming the Spectre once more he avenged his death and wound up back at square one with Gwen. I've no idea if Gwen ever reappeared in the DC continuity. If anyone does know then drop me a line. There were two Spectre comic series after this. A mediocre one in the eighties and John Ostander's excellent 90's series that gave the character both depth and closure. Check the back issue bins, it's worth a look.
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