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Issue: The Spirit #9/28/1947
Publication Date: September 1947
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Issues: #9/28/1947 of 646 Issues (1071 Printings)
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Variant: unnamed
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Publisher: FlagRegister and Tribune Syndicate
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Indicia Publisher:
On Sale Date: (not set)
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Pages: ?
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: none entered
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Content Items: 1 (1 story, 0 covers)
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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
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Disclose Reprinted In4
Some/all of Issue reprinted as 4 Content Items in other Issues:
FlagThe Spirit #2 published June 1974 as UFO [Story on Interior Page(s)]
FlagThe Spirit #22 published August 1986 as UFO [Story on Interior Page(s)]
FlagAgent X9 #10/1996 published January 1996 as UFO [Story on Interior Page(s)]
FlagWill Eisner's The Spirit Archives #15 [unnamed variant] published January 2004 as U.F.O. [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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U.F.O.

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Subject Matter
Genres: mystery
Character(s): Awsome Bells; Man from Mars; Flash Feeny; Snifter; Looy
Synopsis: Awsome Bells is based on Orson Welles, banished to Hollywood after his hoax Martian invasion broadcast. Bells is beside himself when he meets a real Martian. Especially after the Martian kills press agent Flash Feeny.
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Pages: 7
Disclose Notes: The first UFO was seen on June 24, 1947 near Mt. Ranier Washington. The designation U.F.O. supposedly didn't come into circulation until 1952. (?) This is probably the very first comic book story about U.F.O.s. The version reprinted in the Archives volume includes the addition of "UFO" at the bottom of the story's splash page in very large lettering (completely absent on the original printing). Additionally, newer typeset text appears at the bottom of Page 7, referencing events from later decades.

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