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Issue: The Spirit #6/2/1940
Publication Date: June 1940
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Issues: #6/2/1940 of 646 Issues (1071 Printings)
Title:
Variant: Philadelphia Record
Rating:
Publisher: FlagRegister and Tribune Syndicate
Brand: none
Indicia Publisher: none
On Sale Date: 06/02/1940
Volume:
Pages: 16
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.00 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 3 (3 stories, 1 cover)
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color
Dimensions: most originally newspaper broadsheet; then most standard Golden Age US (when cut and folded from broadsheet size); some newspaper tabloid size
Paper Stock: newsprint
Binding: cut-and-assemble-it-yourself (broadsheet to Golden Age US); loose pages (original broadsheet or original tabloid or unstapled assembled Golden Age US)
Publishing Format: was ongoing series
Format Notes:  
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There is currently no data for this Issue being reprinted from anywhere.
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Original Artwork
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Adult Image
Title Page
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Cover, Front
Original Artwork
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The Origin of the Spirit

Story  on  Interior Page(s) with IFC and Front Cover
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure, mystery, superhero
Character(s): The Spirit [Denny Colt] (first appearance); Commissioner Dolan (first appearance); Dr. Cobra (first appearance); "Happy" the Coroner (first appearance); Kelly (first appearance); Ebony White (first appearance, cameo); Sgt. O'Rourke (first appearance)
First Line: Good evening Commissioner Dolan... May I can come in?
Synopsis: While chasing Dr. Cobra Denny Colt falls into a vat of chemicals and is presumed dead.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagPolice Comics #11 published September 1942
as The Origin of the Spirit [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagComic Forum #14 published June 1982
as [untitled] [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagThe Spirit #36 published August 1982
as The Origin [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagSpirit: The Origin Years #1 published May 1992
as The Origin of the Spirit [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagWill Eisner's The Spirit Archives #1 [unnamed variant] published July 2000
as The Origin of the Spirit [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 7
Disclose Notes: First Spirit strip by Will Eisner and beginning of the series. In this first story the Spirit doesn't wear a mask.

Credits confirmed from Cat Yronwode's Spirit index. Unnoficial title taken from Will Eisner's The Spirit Archives (DC, 2000 series) #1.

Letterer credit of Zoltan Szenics confirmed by Alberto Becattini in his blog "alberto's pages", 29 January 2015 (http://alberto-s-pages.webnode.it/news/zoltan-szenics/), retrieved 16 February 2015.
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure
Character(s): Lady Luck (first appearance)
First Line: Swift as a young deer, a graceful, cloaked figure slips from shadow over the city's darkened rooftops.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 4
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Origin of Mr Mystic

Story  on  Interior Page(s) with IBC and Back Cover
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): Mr. Mystic
Character(s): Mr. Mystic [Kenneth St. Germain; name revealed in John Law (2006)] (first appearance, origin)
Synopsis: The origin sequence for Mr. Mystic.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagWill Eisner Presents #1 published December 1990
as Origin of Mr Mystic [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 5

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