Originally posted by cheap cabbage
The spectre tried during the crisis...he failed.
actually he could have, why did you think god was angry at him later on, he could have beated him but if he has killed antimonitir in that moment he would have killed all the heroes conected to him, jim corrigan didint want that, anyway it was PIS, i mean everyone is figthing hard and sudendly , here comes spectre to save to day, kaboom no more antimonitor, no more comics in this saga, no more sales, get my meaning?
I'd guess that nobody could, otherwise the individual in question would have. By the time Kal-L finished him off, he'd been weakenned by the numerous previous assaults.
Now, one could say that if the Pro-Monitor (They were both called "The Monitor." Anti-Monitor is just a handy distinction) had been more proacive and taken the fight to his counterpart sooner rather than waiting for him to unleash the anti-matter wave and power up by destroying so many universes, he might've been the one who could do it.