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Issue: The Spirit #12/28/1941

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Publication Date: December 1941

Detail

Issues: #12/28/1941 of 645 Issues (1047 Printings)

Title:

Variant: Newark NJ Star Ledger edition

Rating:

Publisher: Flag

Brand:

Indicia Publisher: none

On Sale Date: (not set)

Volume:

Pages: 16

ISBN: none

UPC/EAN: none

Price: $0.00 USD

Indicia Frequency:

Content Items: 3 (3 stories, 1 cover)

Editor(s): Will Eisner

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Format

Publication Type: Comic Book

Color: color

Dimensions: standard Golden Age US; some were also issued as tabloid size

Paper Stock: newsprint

Binding: loose pages or cut-and-assemble-it-yourself

Publishing Format: was ongoing series

Format Notes:

Variants4

The Spirit #12/28/1941 [Newark NJ Star Ledger edition]

The Spirit #12/28/1941 [Baltimore Sunday Sun]

The Spirit #12/28/1941 [Philadelphia Record]

The Spirit #12/28/1941 [Syracuse Herald American]

Reprinted In5

1 Content Item
- The Christmas Spirit: A Trilogy [Story on Interior Page(s) with IFC and Front Cover]3

reprinted 3 times as Content Items in other Issues.

Some/all of Issue reprinted as 2 Content Items in other Issues:

The Spirit #38 published December 1982 as The Christmas Spirit (1941) [Story on Interior Page(s)]

Fantomet #26/1990 published December 1990 as Lasaron-kongen [Story on Interior Page(s)] original title: The Christmas Spirit

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Cover, Front

Original Artwork

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Title Page

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Content Items (3 total)

The Christmas Spirit: A Trilogy

Story on Interior Page(s) with IFC and Front Cover

Credits

Writer(s): Will Eisner

Penciller(s): Will Eisner

Inker(s): Will Eisner

Colorist(s): Joe Kubert

Letterer(s): Sam Rosen

Subject Matter

Genres: adventure, mystery, superhero

Feature(s): Spirit

Reprinting

In Content Item: Flag

The Spirit #38 published December 1982
as The Christmas Spirit (1941) [Story on Interior Page(s)]

In Content Item: Flag

Fantomet #26/1990 published December 1990
as Lasaron-kongen [Story on Interior Page(s)]

In Content Item: Flag

Will Eisner's The Spirit Archives #3 published February 2001
as Christmas Spirit of 1941: A Trilogy [Story on Interior Page(s)]

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 8

[untitled]

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): Nick Cardy [as N. Viscardi and Ford Davis] (signed)

Penciller(s): Nick Cardy [as N. Viscardi and Ford Davis] (signed)

Inker(s): Nick Cardy [as N. Viscardi] (signed)

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: adventure, mystery, superhero

Feature(s): Lady Luck

Character(s): Lady Luck [Brenda Banks]; Jim Scott; Peecolo; Chigger

First Line: You men can stay up if you like, but I'm going to bed!!

Synopsis: Brenda tells her invited friends that she is going to bed on this Christmas Eve night and they can stay up if they wish. Hours later, two figures enter Brenda's Aunt's home and puts a "special" Christmas gift under the tree....a ticking package set to go off as twelve o'clock!

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 4

Notes: Signed "N. Viscardi" in panel 7 on page 3; also signed as "Ford Davis" in last panel of story

Boy Killer to Die Tomorrow

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): Bob Powell [as S. R. Powell]

Penciller(s): Bob Powell [as S. R. Powell]

Inker(s): Bob Powell [as S. R. Powell]

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: superhero

Feature(s): Mr. Mystic

Character(s): Mr. Mystic; Chowderhead; Spirit; Lady Luck; Peecolo; Ebony White; Tommy Carter; Boss Morey; Sam the Stool Pigeon; Plapp; Droop

Synopsis: Three crime fighters investigate the case of an innocent boy sentenced to death.

Reprinting

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 4

Notes: Other Spirit Section characters guest-star.