Issue Infinite Crisis Aftermath: The Spectre 1
Subtitle Dead Again
Date July 2006
Writer(s) Will Pfeifer
Artist(s) Cliff Chiang
storyline The Spectre spoke to Crispus Allen - it had been a year since he died and it was time he made a decision. He'd originally turned God's instrument of divine justice down on the job offer.
He'd spent the year watching his family, crimes, and Batman. Once, while witnessing a cult killing, he'd been able to touch something tangible - he knocked a beer bottle off a table. He later found out no charges would be brought against Corrigan - his own killer.
He agreed to become the Spectre's human host. Their first job together was a man who'd preyed on children. The Spectre animated dozens of dolls and they killed him.
Allen realized the Spectre need him more than he needed the Spectre.

Issue Infinite Crisis Aftermath: The Spectre 2
Subtitle Dead Again part 2
Date August 2006
Writer(s) Will Pfeifer
Artist(s) Cliff Chiang
storyline The Spectre struck down a man who killed and placed his victims' heads in jars. Crispus was having a hard time seeing what they did as "justice." The Spectre showed him things from another perspective - cases from his own past. They disagreed on their next target - Allen wanted the cultist he'd been following (who could see him), Spectre took him to a nearby bank where they watched a robber shoot a woman. They forced him to shoot himself.
Allen's oldest son bought a gun. The Spectre told his new host that Corrigan would soon meet his justice.

Issue Infinite Crisis Aftermath: The Spectre 3
Subtitle Dead Again conclusion
Date September 2006
Writer(s) Will Pfeifer
Artist(s) Cliff Chiang
storyline Allen was given his first opportunity to decide on a punishment (but not decide on who received the punishment). A corporate embezzler was killed by the Spectre spitting money at him. The Spectre laughed when Allen said he was ready to decide who receives their wrath. He was shown just how not ready he was for that. He was given one choice, and he went after Weiss, the cult killer.
The oldest Allen son could not go through with killing his father's murderer, so his little brother took the gun and went after Corrigan. Cris watched his son kill his own murderer. Allen realized he must punish him and he appeared so that he was recognizable. The Spectre gave him a moment with his son.
The Spectre came clean - he'd used Allen after he died, before he agreed to become one with him. Once they were merged, the Spectre punished the man who'd been Allen's first murder case, a Joker copycat killer.

Notes, references to time, and chronology:
Jim Corrigan was killed by Malcolm Allen, youngest son of Crispus - a man he'd murdered.
Crispus Allen became the human host to the Spectre.