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Issue: Will Eisner's The Spirit Archives #24
Publication Date: August 2008
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Issues: #24 of 26 Issues (28 Printings)
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Publisher: FlagDC
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Indicia Publisher: DC Comics
On Sale Date: 06/11/2008
Volume: 24
Pages: 280
ISBN: 97814012169861401216986
UPC/EAN: 978140121698655999
Price: $68.99 CAD
$59.99 USD
Indicia Frequency: none
Content Items: 43 (40 stories, 1 cover)
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Publication Type: Hardcover
Color: color cover; color interior (#1-24, 26); black and white interior with partial color (#25)
Dimensions: standard Modern Age U.S.
Paper Stock: glossy interior
Binding: hardcover with dustjacket
Publishing Format: collected editions
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reprinted 40 times from some/all in other Issues.
reprinted 2 times from a Content Item in another Issue.
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[untitled]

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure
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From Issue: FlagThe Spirit #8/3/1952 [Newark Star Ledger] published August 1952splash page
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Pages: 1
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Foreword

Foreword, Introduction, Preface, Afterword  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Letterer(s): typeset
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
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The Spirit of Wally Wood

Text Article  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Character(s): Spirit
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Pages: 4
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Fabian Skimp

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure
Character(s): Fabian Skimp; Louise Fipp; Roach; Ben Clarion
Synopsis: Fabian Skimp can't stand inefficiency, or any deviation from the system.
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From Issue: FlagThe Spirit #1/6/1952 [Newark Star Ledger] published January 1952
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 7
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Design for Doomsday

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure
Character(s): Jules Feiffer
Synopsis: Feiffer tries to sell a plot about the end of the world to Eisner.
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From Issue: FlagThe Spirit #1/13/1952 published January 1952
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 7
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A Witness to Murder

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure
Character(s): Dora; Frank
Synopsis: A tv store decides to film a family's first look at tv in their own home.
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From Issue: FlagThe Spirit #1/20/1952 published January 1952
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 7
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The First Man on Mars

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure
Character(s): Captain Isotope
Synopsis: TV star Captain Isotope is so popular he thinks he really can fly to Mars, and the Spirit is inclined to let him try, because he's making time with Ellen.
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From Issue: FlagThe Spirit #1/27/1952 [unnamed variant] published January 1952
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 7
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A Man Named Nero

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure
Character(s): Mr. Nero
Synopsis: Mr. Nero builds a replica of the Colisseum and tries to feed the Spirit to the lions.
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From Issue: FlagThe Spirit #2/3/1952 published February 1952
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 7
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The Snow Fort Massacre

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Letterer(s): ?
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Genres: adventure
Character(s): Ronald; Itchy West; Silky Purse; Eggy Poach
Synopsis: A boy finds a dead body inside his snow fort.
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From Issue: FlagThe Spirit #2/10/1952 published February 1952
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Pages: 7
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Leap Year

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure
Character(s): Tiny Buttrix; Dapper; Foxy
Synopsis: Tiny Buttrix decides she's in love with Dolan. Dapper and Foxy don't like him so much however.
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From Issue: FlagThe Spirit #2/17/1952 published February 1952
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Pages: 7
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It Kills by Dark

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure, crime, superhero
Character(s): The Spirit [Denny Colt]; Commissioner Eustace Dolan; Sam Toodem (mine foreman); Sam's younger brother (death); Hauler
Synopsis: The Spirit goes in to help save trapped miners only to discover that the collapse was caused to cover up a murder.
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From Content Item: FlagThe Spirit #2/24/1952 [unnamed variant] published February 1952
was You Will Spend 15 Minutes in Darkness... [Illustration on Cover, Front]The story does not begin on the cover but on second page.
From Content Item: FlagThe Spirit #2/24/1952 [unnamed variant] published February 1952
was You Will Spend 15 Minutes in Darkness... [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 7
Disclose Notes: Original title, "You Will Spend 15 Minutes in Darkness...". The original cover has been incorporated as a part of the story page count.
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The Miami Beach Rumble

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure
Feature(s): Spirit
Character(s): Spirit; Dolan; Gastro; Quartz
Synopsis: The Spirit goes to Miami to escort a gangster who wants to give himself up back to Central City.
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From Issue: FlagThe Spirit #3/2/1952 published March 1952
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Pages: 7
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The Big Job

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Letterer(s): ?
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Genres: adventure
Feature(s): Spirit
Character(s): Archie; Spirit; Dolan
Synopsis: Archie taunts another gangster into trying to kill the Spirit.
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From Issue: FlagThe Spirit #3/9/1952 published March 1952
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Pages: 7
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Patrolman Dolan

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Genres: adventure
Feature(s): Spirit
Character(s): Dolan; Spirit; John J. Beagle; Mr. Stain, Hinky
Synopsis: Mr. Stain and the Good Times Party replace Dolan as police commissioner and put the Spirit in jail.
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From Issue: FlagThe Spirit #3/16/1952 published March 1952
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Pages: 7
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Staple Springs

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure
Feature(s): Spirit
Character(s): Spirit (as Eisenhower S. Daft); Dolan; Butcher Polk; P'Gell; Judge Slater
Synopsis: Spirit goes undercover at a resort for criminals, looking for a judge who has disappeared.
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From Issue: FlagThe Spirit #3/23/1952 [unnamed variant] published March 1952
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Pages: 7
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The Rainmaker

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure
Feature(s): Spirit
Character(s): Hubert Heever; Myrtle Heever; Rudolph the Rainmaker; Spirit
Synopsis: Hubert Heever suffers from hard luck. He goes into the bottled water business 50 years too early. But his luck is bound to change. In fact, it gets worse.
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From Issue: FlagThe Spirit #3/30/1952 published March 1952
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Pages: 7
Disclose Notes: Spirit on last page only.
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The Million Dollar Robbery

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure
Character(s): Sam
Synopsis: Passengers on a ferry daydream about what they'd do if they'd pulled the Million Dollar Bank robbery. Willum knows though, because the guy who's kidnapped him, is the bank robber.
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From Issue: FlagThe Spirit #4/6/1952 published April 1952
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Pages: 7
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Mayor Dolan

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure
Character(s): Mike Poltax
Synopsis: Flashback story showing how Ellen ended up mayor of Central City
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From Issue: FlagThe Spirit #4/13/1952 [unnamed variant] published April 1952
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Pages: 7
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The Great Galactic Mystery

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Letterer(s): ?
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Genres: adventure
Character(s): Humbolt Weepy
Synopsis: Humbolt Weepy vows to send a man to the Moon using only the power of his mind.
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From Issue: FlagThe Spirit #4/20/1952 [unnamed variant] published April 1952
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Pages: 7
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A Different Face

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Genres: adventure
Character(s): William Birch
Synopsis: The Spirit wakes up one morning with a different face. And no one believes him.
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From Issue: FlagThe Spirit #4/27/1952 published April 1952
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Pages: 7
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L'Espirit

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Genres: adventure
Character(s): Casey; Franz; Carl; the Skipper
Synopsis: Three men book passage on a freighter and vie for the attentions of the only female passenger.
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From Issue: FlagThe Spirit #5/4/1952 [unnamed variant] published May 1952
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Pages: 7
Disclose Notes: Written in French with English subtitles. The English and French have nothing to do with each other. Continued next week.
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The Incident of the Sitting Duck

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Letterer(s): ?
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Genres: adventure
Character(s): Carl; Franz
Synopsis: The Spirit and two spies vy for the attentions of P'Gell while traveling aboard a freighter.
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From Issue: FlagThe Spirit #5/11/1952 [unnamed variant] published May 1952
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Pages: 7
Disclose Notes: continued from previous week
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Assassins Incorporated, Part One

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Genres: adventure
Character(s): Krug; Assassins, Inc.
Synopsis: The Spirit is in Madrid looking for a terrorist who wants to turn himself in, during the Running of the Bulls.
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From Issue: FlagThe Spirit #5/18/1952 [unnamed variant] published May 1952
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Pages: 7
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Assassins Incorporated Part Two

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Letterer(s): ?
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Genres: adventure
Character(s): Assassins, Inc.; Cyrus Plunder
Synopsis: Cyrus Plunder hired Assassins, Inc. to kill the leader of a MidEast country. Now the Spirit must stop him from succeeding.
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From Issue: FlagThe Spirit #5/25/1952 published May 1952
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Pages: 7
Disclose Notes: continued from previous week
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Sammy Falls in Love

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Letterer(s): ?
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Genres: adventure
Character(s): Gertrude Plastik; The Heist Brothers
Synopsis: Sammy falls in love with a 17 year-old sculptress whose ambition is to commit the perfect murder.
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From Issue: FlagThe Spirit #6/1/1952 [unnamed variant] published June 1952
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Pages: 7
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What Are You Really Like?

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Letterer(s): ?
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Genres: adventure
Character(s): Psam Psych; Mangler
Synopsis: Parody of magazine personlity quizzes. Psam Psych's personality test says the Spirit may become a murderer at any moment. And Mangler is "sweet, kind and full of virtues."
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From Issue: FlagThe Spirit #6/8/1952 published June 1952
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 7
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Five Hundred Papers

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Letterer(s): ?
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Genres: adventure
Character(s): Quill; George
Synopsis: Quill, the creator of Captain Adventure, hires a background man. The beginning of a slippery slope to murder.
Reprinting
From Issue: FlagThe Spirit #6/15/1952 published June 1952
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 7
Disclose Notes: Dixon's initials on splash page. "J D" or is that Jim and Don? Spirit and Dolan only appear on the splash page (and as shadows in the last panel.)
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The Golden Lily

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure
Character(s): Hans Vanguilter; Pepe; Swyndle; Mr. Fat
Synopsis: Hans Vanguilter can turn lilies into gold. And Sand Saref has the lily.
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From Issue: FlagThe Spirit #6/22/1952 published June 1952
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Pages: 7
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Rube Potter

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Letterer(s): ?
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Genres: adventure
Character(s): Rube Potter; Mr. Sack; Pinky Quinto; Willum Waif
Synopsis: Rube led the league in stolen bases for 12 years, but now he's washed up and due to be traded.
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From Issue: FlagThe Spirit #6/29/1952 published June 1952
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Pages: 7
Disclose Notes: one panel Spirit cameo, 1st Moon Report
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The Ballad of Greenly Sleeve

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Letterer(s): ?
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Genres: adventure
Character(s): Greenly Sleeve
Synopsis: Narrator sings the story, with a hey, down derry down. Apparently Carrion is in love with Greenly Sleeve, but she thinks he's a coward.
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From Issue: FlagThe Spirit #7/6/1952 published July 1952
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Pages: 7
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Matt Slugg

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure
Character(s): Harry Shill; Dolan; Spirit; Matt Slugg
Synopsis: Harry Shill is looking for a boxer that will fit his system. He finally finds him in a burglar. Only trouble is, Slugg likes being a burglar.
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From Issue: FlagThe Spirit #7/13/1952 published July 1952
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Pages: 7
Disclose Notes: Moon Report #2 on page 7
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Marry The Spirit

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure
Character(s): Finchly Squander
Synopsis: Eisner is ordered by the Syndicate to marry the Spirit because all the best comic strips are doing it.
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From Issue: FlagThe Spirit #7/20/1952 [unnamed variant] published July 1952
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Pages: 7
Disclose Notes: 3rd Moon Report on page 7
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Outer Space

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Letterer(s): ?
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Genres: science fiction
Feature(s): Outer Space
Character(s): Spirit; Dolan; Hartley Skol; Ellen; Dutch; Spider
Synopsis: The Interplanetary Flight Commission asks the Spirit to lead a crew of convicts on a mission to the Moon.
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From Issue: FlagThe Spirit #7/27/1952 [Newark Star Ledger] published July 1952
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Pages: 7
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Mission...the Moon

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Feature(s): Outer Space
Character(s): Spirit; Spider; Dutch; Ringo; Skobey; Kress (dies); Captain Delf; Professor Hartley
Synopsis: The Spirit and his crew of convicts land on the Moon and try to adjust to its gravity and each other.
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From Issue: FlagThe Spirit #8/3/1952 [Newark Star Ledger] published August 1952
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 7
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A DP on the Moon

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Letterer(s): ?
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Feature(s): Outer Space
Character(s): Spirit; Francisco Rivera; Colonel Gomez
Synopsis: The Spirit and his crew find a book on the Moon, reporting the trip of a South American dictator to the Moon, 10 years earlier.
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From Issue: FlagThe Spirit #8/10/1952 [unnamed variant] published August 1952
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Pages: 7
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Heat

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Feature(s): Outer Space
Character(s): Spirit; Spider Webbin (dies); Dolan; Ellen; Fly Musca
Synopsis: Story alternates between Moon and Central City as Spider Webbin's life story unfolds as he plunges to his death on the Moon.
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From Issue: FlagThe Spirit #8/17/1952 [unnamed variant] published August 1952
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Pages: 7
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Rescue

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Feature(s): Outer Space
Character(s): Spirit; Professor Skol; Ebony; P.S.; Brains; Scarlett
Synopsis: Professor Skol goes blind from the bright sunlight.
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From Issue: FlagThe Spirit #8/24/1952 [unnamed variant] published August 1952
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Pages: 4
Disclose Notes: story length cut to 4 pages
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The Last Man (on Planet Moon)

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Genres: science fiction
Feature(s): Outer Space
Character(s): Archie Blyke; Dutch; Spirit
Synopsis: Dutch decides he doesn't want to go back to Earth. Meanwhile Archie Blyke is waiting for him.
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From Issue: FlagThe Spirit #8/31/1952 [unnamed variant] published August 1952
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Pages: 4
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The Man in the Moon

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Feature(s): Outer Space
Character(s): Dutch Birch
Synopsis: Dutch Birch decides to stay behind on the Moon. He sits and waits for fame and fortune.
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From Issue: FlagThe Spirit #9/7/1952 [unnamed variant] published September 1952
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Pages: 4
Disclose Notes: no Spirit.
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The Osiris Jewel

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure
Feature(s): Denny Colt Alias the Spirit
Character(s): Dolan; Sammy; Ebony; Herman Fleeble; Prexy Filch; Spirit
Synopsis: Prexy Filch tries to use Sammy in his plot to switch a fake Osiris jewel for the real one.
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From Issue: FlagThe Spirit #9/14/1952 published September 1952
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Pages: 4
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Return from the Moon

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Feature(s): Space Report
Character(s): Spirit; Professor Skol; Buggsy
Synopsis: Buggsy decides that everything is a figment of his imagination.
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From Issue: FlagThe Spirit #9/28/1952 published September 1952
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Pages: 4
Disclose Notes: printed out of sequence to preserve continuity
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The Spirit Back on Earth

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Feature(s): Denny Colt Alias the Spirit
Character(s): Dolan; Ellen Dolan; Ebony; Spirit
Synopsis: While the Spirit's expedition is returning to Earth they pass a UFO heading in the same direction.
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From Issue: FlagThe Spirit #9/21/1952 published September 1952
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Pages: 4
Disclose Notes: printed out of sequence to put the stories in continuity order
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Denny Colt, UFO Investigator

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Feature(s): Outer Space
Character(s): Spirit; Ellen Dolan; Dolan; Gofer
Synopsis: Now back on Earth, the Spirit investigates reports of a UFO landing in North Dakota.
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From Issue: FlagThe Spirit #10/5/1952 published October 1952
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Pages: 4
Disclose Notes: last published story. But it's continued.

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