Manning, Matthew K.; Dolan, Hannah, ed. (2010). «1990s». DC Comics Year By Year A Visual Chronicle. Dorling Kindersley. p. 279. ISBN978-0-7566-6742-9. «The Spectre ongoing series was nearing its end, but that didn't stop writer John Ostrander and artist Tom Mandrake from pooling their creative forces to create one of the DCU's newest shining stars...An inspired and reborn [Michael] Holt then picked up the mantle of Mr. Terrific.»