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Issue: The Spirit #1
Publication Date: April 1974
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Issues: #1 of 16 Issues
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Variant: unnamed
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Publisher: FlagWarren
Brand: A Warren MagazineView Brand Images3
Indicia Publisher: Warren Publishing Co.
On Sale Date: (not set)
Volume: none
Pages: 76
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $1.00 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 11 (8 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): Will Eisner; Bill DuBay
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color cover; black & white interior (some interior color, issues 1-10)
Dimensions: magazine size
Paper Stock: glossy cover; newsprint interior
Binding: saddle-stitched (issues 1-5,15); squarebound (issues 6-14, 16)
Publishing Format: was ongoing series
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Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Penciller(s): Basil Gogos (painting)
Inker(s): Basil Gogos (panting)
Colorist(s): Basil Gogos (painting)
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: mystery
Feature(s): The Spirit
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Cover based on Eisner splash for 3/16/50.
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Foreword, Introduction, Preface, Afterword  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Will Eisner
Penciller(s): Will Eisner; ? (photograph)
Inker(s): Will Eisner; ? (photograph)
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
First Line: Almost four years after...
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Introductory text with illustration and photograph of Will Eisner.
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[untitled]

Table of Contents  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Basil Gogos
Inker(s): Basil Gogos
Letterer(s): typeset
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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The Last Trolley

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Will Eisner
Penciller(s): John Spranger; Bob Palmer (splash)
Inker(s): Will Eisner; Bob Palmer (splash)
Letterer(s): Martin deMuth
Subject Matter
Genres: mystery
Feature(s): The Spirit
Synopsis: Hop aboard a $100,000 ride into mystery. Travel Death's twisted track to Raven's Point. For The Spirit, it could be a one-way trip!
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From Issue: FlagThe Spirit #3/24/1946 published March 1946
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 7
Disclose Notes: rewritten?
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Escape

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Will Eisner
Penciller(s): Will Eisner
Inker(s): Will Eisner; Jerry Grandenetti
Letterer(s): Abe Kanegson ?
Subject Matter
Genres: mystery
Feature(s): The Spirit
Synopsis: The Spirit never sleeps. Neither does the criminal mind. Watch as three escaped convicts find that the world is a prison for those who would flaunt justice!
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From Issue: FlagThe Spirit #4/13/1947 published April 1947
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 7
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Li'l Adam

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Will Eisner
Penciller(s): Will Eisner; Jules Feiffer (most of page 6)
Inker(s): Will Eisner; Jerry Grandenetti
Letterer(s): Abe Kanegson
Subject Matter
Genres: mystery
Feature(s): The Spirit
Character(s): The Spirit; Al Slapp; Li'l Adam; Elmer Hay; Hector Ghoul
Synopsis: Classic comic strip characters come to life! A world of stick figures is the strange setting! Murder is the heinous crime! And The Spirit is baffled!
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From Issue: FlagThe Spirit #7/20/1947 published July 1947
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 7
Disclose Notes: Parodies of Li'l Abner, Dick Tracy and Little Orphan Annie included.
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The Criminal

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Will Eisner
Penciller(s): Will Eisner
Inker(s): Will Eisner; Jerry Grandenetti
Letterer(s): Abe Kanegson
Subject Matter
Genres: mystery
Feature(s): The Spirit
Character(s): The Spirit; Klink; Mr. Sawbuck
Synopsis: A cop is shot! The Spirit is wounded! Tough gangland figures are held at bay! And behind it all is one Mr. Sawbuck... a seven-year old boy!
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From Issue: FlagThe Spirit #11/2/1947 published November 1947
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 7
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El Spirito

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Will Eisner
Penciller(s): Will Eisner
Inker(s): Will Eisner; Jerry Grandenetti
Colorist(s): Richard Corben
Letterer(s): Abe Kanegson
Subject Matter
Genres: mystery
Feature(s): The Spirit
Synopsis: The Spirit has witnessed many strange things on rainy nights. But tonight is the first time he has ever followed a ghost ... straight to his own watery grave!
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From Issue: FlagThe Spirit #2/1/1948 published February 1948
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 7
Disclose Notes: Splash page redrawn.
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The Killer

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Will Eisner
Penciller(s): John Spranger
Inker(s): Will Eisner; Bob Palmer
Letterer(s): Martin deMuth
Subject Matter
Genres: mystery
Feature(s): The Spirit
Synopsis: Henry the war-hero is back ... and no one wants him. No one, that is, until he kills his wife and her leering lover. Then he belongs to The Spirit!
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From Issue: FlagThe Spirit #12/8/1946 published December 1946
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 7
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A Granule of Time

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Will Eisner
Penciller(s): Will Eisner
Inker(s): Will Eisner; Jerry Grandenetti
Letterer(s): Martin deMuth
Subject Matter
Genres: mystery
Feature(s): The Spirit
Character(s): The Spirit; Dr. Lateur; Silken Floss (introduction)
Synopsis: A hostile visitor from the year 2400! One Dr. Lateur and his incredible Theory of Molecular Arrangement. Into this melee comes The Spirit!
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From Issue: FlagThe Spirit #3/2/1947 published March 1947
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 7
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The Partner

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Will Eisner
Penciller(s): Will Eisner
Inker(s): Will Eisner; Jerry Grandenetti
Letterer(s): Abe Kanegson ?
Subject Matter
Genres: mystery
Feature(s): The Spirit
Synopsis: The Spirit! Slaughtered by Slinko Joe Daws. Now there's no one to save a helpless Central City from the nefarious clutches of Slimy Skinch and Co.!
Reprinting
From Issue: FlagThe Spirit #1/26/1947 published January 1947
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 7

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