Written by Darwyn Cooke; Art by Cooke and J. Bone; Cover by Cooke

The bizarre story of The Spirit's most fearsome new foe, El Morte! The gangs in Central City are being ritualistically destroyed, and now the killer is targeting The Spirit. All the clues point to Alvarro Mortez, the criminal who died with Denny Colt on that fateful night The Spirit came to be. Is he dead or alive?