The evil etheric body of magician Dirk Rawley emerges and forces him into crime, spurring the Spectre into action.

Stage magician Dirk Rawley had a good thing going for him. While performing before an audience, they suppied him with a perfect alibi for the robberies simultaneously being committed of stage by his other self.

And while Dectective Jim Corrigan ran uo against a stone wall trying to solve the "impossible crimes" his own spectral self ran headlong into the theif only to fall victim to his eerie powers.