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Issue: The Spirit Casebook #2
Publication Date: October 1998
 
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Title: All About P'Gell
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Publisher: FlagKitchen Sink Press
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Indicia Publisher: Kitchen Sink Press
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Volume:
Pages: 160
ISBN: 0878160930
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Price: $22.95 CAD
$18.95 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 19 (17 stories, 1 cover)
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Disclose Notes: Indicia title for volume two is "All About P'Gell: The Spirit Casebook, Volume Two."
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color cover; black and white interior
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Binding: softcover
Publishing Format: collected edition
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Some/all of 2 other Issues reprinted as/in this Issue:
FlagThe Spirit #11/23/1947 published November 1947
FlagThe Spirit #11/23/1947 published November 1947
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Cover, Front
Original Artwork
Digital Edition
Adult Image
Title Page
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[untitled]

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
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Subject Matter
adventure, mystery, superhero
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Miscellaneous
1
Introduction

Foreword, Introduction, Preface, Afterword  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
typeset
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Miscellaneous
1
The Portier Fortune

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
adventure, mystery, superhero
M Daufan; Millissy Portier; Homer Portier
When P'Gell comes to Central City in search of her late husband's fortune, dead bodies seem to start appearing everywhere.
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Miscellaneous
7
Saree

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
adventure, mystery, superhero
Saree Raymond (introduction); Miss Vitriola; Roger Raymond; Inchly 3rd
Saree is a student at Miss Vitriola's school. Her father announces he's going to marry P'Gell. Then Miss Vitriola dies. But Saree, who is a match for P'Gell in every way, does not want a new mother around, any more than she wanted Miss Vitriola.
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Miscellaneous
7
The School for Girls

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
adventure, mystery, superhero
Saree; Lady McBeth; Inchly 3rd; Picar
P'Gell asks for the Spirit's help because she thinks some one is trying to murder her husband and frame her, but which one of her past victims is responsible?
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Miscellaneous
7
Saree Falls in Love

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
adventure, humorous, superhero
Saree Raymond; Dr. Bigelow; Rattler; Gilhooly
Saree runs away to a life of crime and gets mixed up with the Rattler who the Spirit's trying to catch.
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Miscellaneous
7
Il Duce's Locket

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
mystery, superhero
Saree; Bandito; Bigelow; Stiletto
P'Gell apparently has Il Duce's locket, which contains that map to his treasure vault and half of Italy has come to America to get it back.
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Miscellaneous
7
Black Gold (The Lands of Ben Adim)

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
mystery, superhero
Abu ben Adim; Hanash; Ali
Two brothers fight over their oily inheritance, and for the hand of P'Gell. As usual, both end up dead.
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Miscellaneous
7
Competition

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
adventure, humorous
Saree; Toothpaste; Giffy; Twinch
P'Gell rents her school out to a bunch of crooks to help pay the mortgage but they double-cross her. Saree works her charms on rookie patrolman Klink to get him to come to the rescue.
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Miscellaneous
7
Money

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
adventure
Saree; Mr. Quinse; Ahmed the Trader
Mr. Quinse tries to get P'Gell to default on her mortgage by telling her pupils' mothers about her past.
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Miscellaneous
7
Assignment Paris (The Spanish Jewels)

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
adventure
Don Carlos
Dolan tries to get P'Gell to help him track down one of her ex-husbands.
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Miscellaneous
7
Andre LeBlanc verified by Will Eisner in Kitchen Sink Spirit 31, May 1987.
Teacher's Pet

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
Subject Matter
adventure
Dick Whittler; Prof Acyd
P'Gell turns up as a teacher at a prep school. The Spirit reluctantly investigates at Dick Whittler's request. Turns out she's after Prof Acyd's secret formula.
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Miscellaneous
7
The Seventh Husband

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
adventure
Ellis Murdoch; King Kwang
P'Gell is involved in smuggling atomic rifles to dictators. The Spirit ends up trapped in the Far East
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Miscellaneous
7
A Ticket Home

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
Subject Matter
adventure
Rajah
P'Gell offers the Spirit a lift home.
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Miscellaneous
7
continued from 6/17 story.
The Loot of Robinson Crusoe (The Island of Pearls)

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
Subject Matter
adventure
The Spirit and P'Gell are shipwrecked on an island that's covered with pearls.
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Miscellaneous
7
continued from 7/1/51 story
Staple Springs

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
Subject Matter
adventure
Butcher Polk; Judge Slater
Spirit goes undercover at a resort for criminals, looking for a judge who has disappeared.
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Miscellaneous
7
L'Spirit

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
Subject Matter
adventure
Casey; Franz; Carl; the Skipper
Three men book passage on a freighter and vie for the attentions of the only female passenger.
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Miscellaneous
7
Written in French with English subtitles. The English and French have nothing to do with each other. Continued next week.
The Incident of the Sitting Duck

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
Subject Matter
adventure
Carl; Franz
The Spirit and two spies vy for the attentions of P'Gell while traveling aboard a freighter.
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Miscellaneous
7
continued from previous week
The Capistrano Jewels

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
adventure, humorous, superhero
Reprinting
 
Miscellaneous
4

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