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Issue: John Law Detective #1
Publication Date: April 1983
 
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Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating:
Publisher: FlagEclipse
Indicia Publisher: Eclipse Enterprises
On Sale Date: 03/1983
Volume: 1
Pages: 36
ISBN:
UPC/EAN:
Price: $1.75 CAD
$1.50 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 11 (4 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s):  
Disclose Notes: John Law was created by Will Eisner in 1948, but not published until 1983.
On-sale date agrees with Amazing Heroes #20.

Printed in Canada
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color
Dimensions: standard Modern Age U.S.
Paper Stock: glossy cover; newsprint interior
Binding: saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: one-shot
Format Notes:  
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Disclose Images1
Cover, Front
Original Artwork
Digital Edition
Adult Image
Title Page
Indicia on this Page
 
 
Assets1
 
 
Will Eisner's

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
?
?
Subject Matter
mystery
John Law
Reprinting
 
Miscellaneous
1
[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
Subject Matter
childrens
Nubbin
John Law; Nubbin
Reprinting
 
Miscellaneous
1
Partially inked splash page to "Sand Blue", that was eventually discarded. Most of the stories were later converted to Spirit stories.
Meet John Law

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
mystery
John Law
Reprinting
 
Miscellaneous
11
Early life of John Law and his enemy/lover Sand Saref.
The Strange, Ghastly Affair of the Half Dead Mr. Lox

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
childrens
Nubbin the Shoeshine Boy
Nubbin; John Law
Reprinting
 
Miscellaneous
6
Ratt Gutt

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
mystery
John Law
Reprinting
 
Miscellaneous
8
The Coach's Bench

Text Article  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
typeset
Subject Matter
John Law
Reprinting
 
Miscellaneous
2
Text article with illustrated title header.
The Adventures of Nubbin the Shoeshine Boy

Cover Reprint (on Interior Page)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
?
Subject Matter
childrens
Nubbin the Shoeshine Boy
Nubbin; John Law; Melba (inset)
Reprinting
 
Miscellaneous
1
Unfinished cover to the unpublished "Adventures of Nubbin the Shoeshine Boy".
Will Eisner's Sunday Comics

Illustration  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
?
?
Subject Matter
mystery
John Law; Nubbin
Reprinting
 
Miscellaneous
1
Unpublished splash page for Sunday Comics (1948).
Will Eisner's John Law Detective

Cover Reprint (on Interior Page)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
?
Subject Matter
mystery
John Law; Sand Saref
Reprinting
 
Miscellaneous
1
Unpublished cover for "John Law Detective" (1948). Art is part of the Sunday Comics splash with added elements. Discarded in favor of this issue's cover. Later used as a The Spirit splash.
The Spirit splash pages

Illustration  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
?
Subject Matter
mystery
The Spirit
Reprinting
 
Miscellaneous
1
Four Spirit splash pages that adapted the unpublished John Law stories.
Will Eisner's John Law Detective

Cover Reprint (on Interior Page)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
Subject Matter
mystery
John Law; Sand Saref
Reprinting
 
Miscellaneous
1
On back cover. Penciled cover rough for John Law Detective (1948), inked in 1983 and used on this book.

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