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Issue: The Spirit #2
Publication Date: March 1967
 
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Is Variant Variant: Canadian
Rating: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Publisher: FlagHarvey
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Indicia Publisher: Harvey Hits Inc.
On Sale Date: 1966
Volume: 1
Pages: 68
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Price: $0.35 CAD
Indicia Frequency: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Content Items: 0 (0 stories, 0 covers)
12 (10 stories, 1 cover) from base issue
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: four color
Dimensions: standard Silver Age US
Paper Stock: glossy cover; newsprint interior
Binding: squarebound
Publishing Format: was ongoing series
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[untitled]

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Octopus: The Life Story of the King of Crime

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Mrs. Zark (the Octopus's mother) (introduction)
The Spirit tries to stop the King of Crime, the Octopus.
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The Spirit Answers Your Mail

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The Spirit answers mail from his friends and enemies.
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Plaster of Paris

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Plaster of Paris; Inspector Gillotine; Don Macabre
Inspector Guillotine asks the Spirit to help him find the criminal Don Macabre, who seems to know the Inspector's every move. The Spirit realizes that the Inspector's fiancee -- Plaster of Paris -- is actually in love with Don and is a member of his gang.
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The Deadly Comic Book

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an unnamed music teacher; Dr. Wolfgang Worry (cameo); Wrecker; Stickie
A music teacher picks up an "awful book" from a book-burning pile -- actually a comic book -- and is then plagued by someone who wants the book back.
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The Spirit Lab [The Man From MSD]

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The Man From MSD (Moitle Schmertz's Deli) (introduction)
A deli worker comes to the Spirit's lab to demonstrate a new weapon in crimefighting: a salami with 86 different ways to fight crime.
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New story possibly inspired by the "Man from U.N.C.L.E." television series.
Rudy the Barber

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Rudy (a barber); Jenny (Rudy's girlfriend); Joe (a thug)
A thug starts up a numbers racket in a barber shop's back room. When the Spirit comes in for a shave, the timid barber must kill the crime fighter before he discovers a dead body in the shop.
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The Story of Sam, the Saucer That Wanted to Fly

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drama, fantasy, mythological
Sam (a plate)
A simple plate wishes to fly. He's granted his wish when the Spirit uses him to stop some crooks. But soon Sam finds that being a "flying saucer" is not the ideal life he had hoped for.
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Sam Chapparell

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Sam Chapparell; Omar Trent (the town sheriff); Little Spy; Choat
A robber and murderer from the old west appears in a town, looking 40 years old but is really 130. This leads the Spirit to track down the murderer when he returns to Boot Camp, a Shangri-La for criminals.
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La Cucaracha

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Lupo (a flea circus owner); La Cucaracha (a talking cockroach); Jack (a diner owner); Cutter (a hood); Pete Grifter (an associate of Cutter)
Lupo tells a cafe owner his life story and of his talking cockroach.
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The Halloween Spirit of 1948--Ellen Meets Hazel

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the Spirit [Denny Colt]; Ellen Dolan; Hazel B. Macbeth (a witch); The Octopus; Weezy (the Octopus' flunky); Commissioner Dolan
While playing a witch in Ellen's Halloween play for school children, Hazel P. Macbeth is charmed by the Octopus. He then asks her to steal a book on black magic the kids are using in their play for him.
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Here's The Preview of the Next Issue

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Preview of stories scheduled for the unpublished third issue.

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