Issue Tales of the Unexpected 1 Subtitle The Cold Hand of Vengeance Date December 2006 Writer(s) David Lapham Artist(s) Eric Battle, Prentis Rollins storyline Gotham City homicide detectives worked a scene where slumlord Leonard Krieger had been found dead in his own building. He had been handcuffed to a water pipe and stabbed sixteen times. Crispus Allen was unable to help them find the murder weapon - he was dead. Allen went though the building, checking on each of the tenants looking for someone to confess the murder so he - the Spectre - could act. The Spectre manifest itself as rats and brought vengeance to Peter Pullito, the man who'd killed his landlord - a man who kept rats and blamed the other for their deaths. Pullito jumped from his apartment window and landed on the police car below. The detectives, who were there to arrest him, chalked it up as suicide and refused to believe they'd seen a ghost.

Issue Tales of the Unexpected 2 Subtitle The Horrible Joy of Vengeance Date January 2007 Writer(s) David Lapham Artist(s) Eric Battle, Prentis Rollins storyline Crispus still had not moved on from his last act. A young couple entered the murderer's apartment. In another, he saw a man beat his girlfriend and her two kids, but he could do nothing about it. Elsewhere, at a Gotham police station, autopsy reports came in on Pullito. He'd died of a broken neck caused by the fall, but he'd also been attacked by dozens of rats. The rats had been dead for at least a week. Later that night, the wife beater, George Holcomb, attacked two men who'd pranked his girlfriend into dumping his drugs. The Spectre took him and his friends, David Newberg, Thomas Willard, and Mark Whitford. Crispus later helped the young couple he'd witnessed by stopping the girl's father from attacking her boyfriend.

Issue Tales of the Unexpected 3 Subtitle Death of a Grocery Store Assistant Supervisor Date February 2007 Writer(s) David Lapham Artist(s) Eric Battle, Prentis Rollins storyline Alfonso and Damian Munoz were the Spectre's next target. Together, they'd killed a woman, cut her up, and flushed her down a toilet. He returned to the slumlord's apartment building, then to his own former home. Allen happened upon a vandalized car. The man inside had apparently been mugged by a hooker. He followed the man home, then to his job as a grocery store clerk. His wife knew he was cheating on her. The man had a conversation with a friend - he'd not been cheating on his wife: his friend was trying to get rid of his own affair who was now pregnant. Dough fought back against Jack (his brother-in-law), who then fired him and told him he was going to lie to Doug's wife about him having an affair. Doug's wife believed her brother, not her husband. He explained everything - how he'd been mugged by Jack's girlfriend, and how he'd killed her boyfriend when he was attacked trying to get it back. The Spectre took form and went for Doug, who died in his wife's arms.

Issue Tales of the Unexpected 4 Subtitle City of Monsters Date March 2007 Writer(s) David Lapham Artist(s) Eric Battle, Prentis Rollins storyline Detective Marcus Driver continued to investigate a series of "impossible" murders where the only connection seemed to be that the victims were all murderers themselves. The latest was a man who'd been eaten from the inside by spiders. Batman showed up on the scene, the fourteenth in three weeks. Driver told him about seeing the giant green and white ghost. The Spectre called Crispus Allen to work again. Driver and Batman found a known accomplice dead and stuffed with money. Another of the bank robbers / cop killers was hit - placed inside a brick wall. An old man confessed to Batman and Driver that he'd killed his landlord. The last turned himself in; the Spectre appeared at the police station. Driver opened fire. Batman attacked him, ordering him to leave the city, but the hand of God smote the last killer by burning him alive. The Spectre then faded away with Crispus Allen left to uncover the truth about the slumlord murder.

Issue Tales of the Unexpected 5 Subtitle Bad Medicine Date April 2007 Writer(s) David Lapham Artist(s) Eric Battle, Prentis Rollins storyline Crispus headed to a Gotham City bank, where a robber wearing a dress left the money he'd stolen and killed three. The Spectre could not kill the man, as he was mentally unstable due to medication and drugs. Allen was furious. As the ghost left, the man through his sister from his apartment. Police moved in, but the man killed one of them and took his weapons and uniform. The doctor who had the man on experimental Parkinson's Disease medication gave the police an antidote and headed back to his office to shred the man's paper work and records. The Spectre took the doctor as his patient was shot by a sniper.

Issue Tales of the Unexpected 6 Subtitle Hear no Evil Date May 2007 Writer(s) David Lapham Artist(s) Tom Mandrake storyline Allen looked over the scene of the Spectre's latest kill - an abuser and child killer. He was astonished when another man saw him - the Phantom Stranger. The stranger took him to a new location where a man in a clown suit returned to his mother's home with a young girl in a bag. Driver was given evidence pointing to others in the slumlord murder. Phantom Stranger tried to convince Allen that he was in charge, not the Spectre. After the clown murdered the little girl, the Spectre killed both him and his mother (for not acting).

Issue Tales of the Unexpected 7 Subtitle The End... the Beginning... the End... Date June 2007 Writer(s) David Lapham Artist(s) Eric Battle, Prentis Rollins storyline A woman was questioned in the slumlord murder. She'd made a 911 call when she discovered him in the basement handcuffed to a pipe. Allen, who was working overtime taking down murderers as the Spectre, went home to talk to his wife. She, of course, couldn't hear him. Police descended on the apartment building where the landlord had been killed. Romy Chandler and Marcus Driver attempted to talk a man down from jumping. He'd left a note feeling guilty about not helping his landlord, even though the man's negligence caused his daughter's death. The man jumped anyway, but Allen was able to control the Spectre enough to save him. Driver believed the ghost was Chris.

Issue Tales of the Unexpected 8 Subtitle Bloody Night Date July 2007 Writer(s) David Lapham Artist(s) Eric Battle, Prentis Rollins storyline The would-be jumper rattled off the whole incident with the landlord and told of everyone's involvement. While doing so, the Spectre was busy taking them all down for their parts. When he arrived for the jumper, Driver confronted him, and he admitted to once being Crispus Allen. The Spectre took the man for wanting to take his own life, then got another (the man who originally chained the landlord up) for good measure.