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Issue: The Spirit #1
Publication Date: April 1974
 
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Variant: unnamed
Rating:
Publisher: FlagWarren
Indicia Publisher: Warren Publishing Co.
On Sale Date: 01/29/1974
Volume: none
Pages: 76
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $1.00 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 11 (8 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s):  
Disclose Notes: On-sale date from Comic Reader (Street Enterprises, 1973 series) #103, January - February 1974.
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color cover; black & white interior (some interior color, issues 1-10)
Dimensions: magazine size
Paper Stock: glossy cover; newsprint interior
Binding: saddle-stitched (issues 1-5,15); squarebound (issues 6-14, 16)
Publishing Format: was ongoing series
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Cover, Front
Original Artwork
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Adult Image
Title Page
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Subject Matter
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Cover based on Eisner splash for 3/16/50.
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Foreword, Introduction, Preface, Afterword  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
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typeset
Subject Matter
Almost four years after...
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Introductory text with illustration and photograph of Will Eisner.
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Table of Contents  on  Interior Page(s)
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The Last Trolley

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
mystery
Hop aboard a $100,000 ride into mystery. Travel Death's twisted track to Raven's Point. For The Spirit, it could be a one-way trip!
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FlagThe Spirit #3/24/1946 published March 1946
 
Miscellaneous
7
rewritten?
Escape

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
mystery
The Spirit never sleeps. Neither does the criminal mind. Watch as three escaped convicts find that the world is a prison for those who would flaunt justice!
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FlagThe Spirit #4/13/1947 published April 1947
 
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Li'l Adam

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
mystery
Al Slapp; Li'l Adam; Elmer Hay; Hector Ghoul
Classic comic strip characters come to life! A world of stick figures is the strange setting! Murder is the heinous crime! And The Spirit is baffled!
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FlagThe Spirit #7/20/1947 published July 1947
 
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7
Parodies of Li'l Abner, Dick Tracy and Little Orphan Annie included.
The Criminal

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
mystery
Mr. Sawbuck
A cop is shot! The Spirit is wounded! Tough gangland figures are held at bay! And behind it all is one Mr. Sawbuck... a seven-year old boy!
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FlagThe Spirit #11/2/1947 published November 1947
 
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El Spirito

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
mystery
The Spirit has witnessed many strange things on rainy nights. But tonight is the first time he has ever followed a ghost ... straight to his own watery grave!
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FlagThe Spirit #2/1/1948 published February 1948
 
Miscellaneous
7
Splash page redrawn.
The Killer

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
mystery
Henry the war-hero is back ... and no one wants him. No one, that is, until he kills his wife and her leering lover. Then he belongs to The Spirit!
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FlagThe Spirit #12/8/1946 published December 1946
 
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7
A Granule of Time

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
mystery
Dr. Lateur
A hostile visitor from the year 2400! One Dr. Lateur and his incredible Theory of Molecular Arrangement. Into this melee comes The Spirit!
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FlagThe Spirit #3/2/1947 published March 1947
 
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The Partner

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
mystery
The Spirit! Slaughtered by Slinko Joe Daws. Now there's no one to save a helpless Central City from the nefarious clutches of Slimy Skinch and Co.!
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FlagThe Spirit #1/26/1947 published January 1947
 
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