Plate no. 34 pre-published in Pilote no. 548, 7 May 1970

Album published by Dargaud/Lombard in 1972

Presented in 2009 at the Paris exhibition VRAOUM
Included in the book Les 100 plus belles planches de la BD, published by Beaux Arts

Reviewed in Beaux-Arts Magazine special issue, "The secrets of the comic strip masters".

Doctor Gir's opinion of his Spectre album, 18 years after its creation for Pilote during the Interviews with Numa Sadoul in 1988 (Casterman , 1991, p.169):

" And I still wonder how I came to draw The Spectre of the Golden Bullets. I'm stunned by the amount of work and achievement it represents" .... "In Le Spectre, all of a sudden, I began to produce drawings that I thought myself incapable of.. "

Or in the interview given for Falatoff In May 1973, when people were still talking to him about The Spectre, he admitted that ". I really felt the place. Besides, I like everything that's natural, rocks, moving lines. But strangely enough, in a house, in the rooms, I feel a kind of powerlessness to render the architecture, especially when it starts to get a bit 'serious'." .

In 1974, he was asked in Smurf Les cahiers de la bande dessinée if he was involved in Charlier's scripts, to which he replied " Yes, especially since La Mine de l'Allemand perdu... it was Luckner's character that excited me! And also reminiscences of J.O. Curwood's Gold Hunters!. "

Otherwise I really liked his interview with G. Ciment and published in 2000 in "Trait de génie Giraud Moebius" published by the CNBDI in Angoulême, where Gir admits " I am looking for ways to make up for my shortcomings, in particular by developing a system of film and documentary references [...] It is true that my debt to the " new western "This is particularly evident in the double album of La Mine and Le Spectre.. "
So we have to look a little deeper into the cinema of this post-68 era and discover, quite obviously, " Mackenna's gold "by J. Lee Thompson with Gregory Peck and Omar Sharif!

Released just one year before the Spectre was pre-published in Pilote, it is clearly one of the major & little-known sources of cinematographic inspiration for various scenes such as the settings, the rift near the sand dune, the idea of an escape to Europe, the final explosion, but above all the vertiginous ascent to the famous ghost pueblo, taken as it is!