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Issue: The Spirit #6/9/1940
Publication Date: June 1940
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Issues: #6/9/1940 of 646 Issues (1071 Printings)
Title:
Variant: The Sunday Star [Washington, D.C.]
Rating:
Publisher: FlagRegister and Tribune Syndicate
Brand: none
Indicia Publisher: none
On Sale Date: 06/09/1940
Volume:
Pages: 16
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: none entered
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 3 (3 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s):  
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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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Original Artwork
Digital Edition
Adult Image
Title Page
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Cover, Front
Original Artwork
Digital Edition
Adult Image
Title Page
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Notation
Marked Image
Penciling above masthead.
 
 
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The Return of Dr. Cobra

Story  on  Interior Page(s) with IFC and Front Cover
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure, mystery, superhero
Character(s): The Spirit [Denny Colt]; Ebony White; Ellen Dolan (first appearance); Homer Creep (first appearance); Commissioner Dolan; Sgt. O'Rourke; Dr. Cobra (death)
First Line: Night... a taxi rattles across lonely Wildwood cementery road...
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagThe Spirit #37 published October 1982
as The Return of Dr Cobra [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagSpirit: The Origin Years #1 published May 1992
as The Return of Dr Cobra [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagWill Eisner's The Spirit Archives #1 [unnamed variant] published July 2000
as The Return of Dr Cobra [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 7
Disclose Notes: Beginning in this story the Spirit wears a mask.

Credits confirmed from Cat Yronwode's Spirit index. The unofficial title is 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 Line: Rather than face a trial, disgrace, and ruin, Judge Vernon reserves passage for Bermuda...
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 4
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Karoly Gore, the Dictator of Europe

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): Mr. Mystic
Character(s): Mr. Mystic [Kenneth St. Germain]; Elena (first appearance)
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagWill Eisner Presents #1 published December 1990
as Karoly Gore, the Dictator of Europe [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 5

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