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Issue: Will Eisner's The Spirit Archives #25
Publication Date: December 2008
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Issues: #25 of 26 Issues (28 Printings)
Title:
Variant: unnamed
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Publisher: FlagDC
Brand: DC Comics
Indicia Publisher: DC Comics
On Sale Date: 10/15/2008
Volume: 25
Pages: 208
ISBN: 9781401218560
UPC/EAN: 978140121856055999
Price: $68.99 CAD
$59.99 USD
Indicia Frequency: none
Content Items: 21 (17 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s):  
Disclose Notes: Daily newspaper strips printed 4 to page. Really small. Story titles taken from Cat Yronwode's Eisner Checklist Part 2 from The Spirit (Kitchen Sink, 1977 series) #30 (July 1981).
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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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[untitled]

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure
Character(s): The Spirit; Dolan
Reprinting
From Issue: FlagThe Spirit #[nn] published January 1977cover
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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The Spirit Dailies: Two Faces, One Heart

Foreword, Introduction, Preface, Afterword  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
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Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 3
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Foreword

Foreword, Introduction, Preface, Afterword  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
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Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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A Note on Numbers and Dates

Foreword, Introduction, Preface, Afterword  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure
Character(s): The Spirit
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Special Summary strip given to newspapers that picked up the strip after the beginning as a starting episode. Known as strip #0.
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Squire Sampson

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure
Character(s): Spirit; Ebony; Dolan
Reprinting
Reprint Notes: from The Spirit daily (Register and Tribune Syndicate) 10/13/41-11/29/41 (numbered 1-42)
Miscellaneous
Pages: 10.5
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Sphinx and Kaibosh

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure
Character(s): The Spirit; Ebony; Dolan; Destiny Blake
Reprinting
Reprint Notes: from Spirit Daily Strips (Register and Tribune Syndicate) 12/1/41-2/7/42
Miscellaneous
Pages: 14
Disclose Notes: 12/8/41 is first dated strip. 12/1-12/6/41 numbered 43-48.
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Ebony & King Hamhock III

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure
Character(s): Spirit; Ebony; Dolan; Caesar Hamhock (intro, king of the Nockney Islands)
Synopsis: King Hamhock comes to America to sell the priceless Silver Heart which protects the wearer from all harm. He hires Ebony as his bodyguard.
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Reprint Notes: from Spirit daily strips (Register and Tribune Syndicate) 2/9/42-2/21/42
Miscellaneous
Pages: 3
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Gloria Fillum

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure
Character(s): Spirit; Ebony; Gloria Fillum (intro); De Witt Pinsk; Maizie Jones
Synopsis: When film star Gloria Fillum is injured in a plane wreck, Maizie Jones seizes her big chance at stardom
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Reprint Notes: from daily strips (Register and Tribune Syndicate) 2/23/42-3/28/42
Miscellaneous
Pages: 7.5
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Blind Bat and the Blot

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure
Character(s): Spirit; Ebony; Dolan; Ellen; Blind Bat (intro); Blot; Captain Vulture
Synopsis: Dolan is kidnapped and the police think the Spirit did it. The Spirit ends up being shanghaied.
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Reprint Notes: from Daily strips (Register and Tribune Syndicate) 3/30/42-5/16/42
Miscellaneous
Pages: 10
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Fanny Ogre

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Character(s): Spirit; Ellen; Dolan; Ebony; Uncle Scallywag (intro); Fanny Ogre
Synopsis: Ebony and Uncle Scallywag go into business together, but rent a storefront where an escaped convict is hiding
Reprinting
Reprint Notes: from Daily strips (Register and Tribune Syndicate) 5/18/42-8/8/42
Miscellaneous
Pages: 18
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Doctor Future

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure
Character(s): Spirit; Dolan; Ellen; Ebony; Dr Future (intro)
Synopsis: Dr Future predicts the Spirit will murder him
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Reprint Notes: from Daily strips (Register and Tribune Syndicate) 8/10/42-10/31/42
Miscellaneous
Pages: 17.5
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Mr. Porcine and Destiny Blake

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure
Character(s): Spirit; Dolan; Ellen; Ebony; Mr Porcine; Destiny Blake
Synopsis: Mr Porcine tries to take over Central City's rackets
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Reprint Notes: from Daily strips (Register and Tribune Syndicate) 11/2/42-12/12/42
Miscellaneous
Pages: 9
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Ebony and Ambergris Jones

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure
Character(s): Spirit; Dolan; Ellen; Ebony; Scarlett Brown; Ambergris Jones
Synopsis: Ebony earns $500 by testing a new scientific breakthrough
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Reprint Notes: from Daily strips (Register and Tribune Syndicate) 12/14/42-1/16/43
Miscellaneous
Pages: 7.5
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Col. Max Mite, the Termite of Crime

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure
Character(s): Spirit; Dolan; Ellen; Col. Max Mite
Synopsis: A con man moves into Central City
Reprinting
Reprint Notes: from daily strips (Register and Tribune Syndicate) 1/18/43-3/6/43
Miscellaneous
Pages: 10.5
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Dr. Lear N. Lurk and the Multiple Ebonies

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure
Character(s): Spirit; Dolan; Ellen; Ebony; Dr. Lear N. Lurk
Synopsis: Dr. Lear N. Lurks Psychic Duplicator creates multiple Ebonys
Reprinting
Reprint Notes: from Daily strips (Register and Tribune Syndicate) 3/8/43-4/7/43
Miscellaneous
Pages: 6.5
Disclose Notes: Fox credit from Alter Ego 12 interview
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Frothingham Twittle

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure
Character(s): Spirit; Dolan; Ellen; Ebony; Frothingham Twitte
Synopsis: Ellen gets mixed up with a shady theatrical troupe
Reprinting
Reprint Notes: from Daily strips (Register and Tribune Syndicate) 4/19/43-5/29/43
Miscellaneous
Pages: 9
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Lucky Chance

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Character(s): Lucky Chance; Tearful Thompson; The Man From Cairo; Destiny Blake
Synopsis: The FBI asks the Spirit and Lucky Chance to help capture the Man From Cairo
Reprinting
Reprint Notes: from Daily strips (Register and Tribune Syndicate) 5/31/43-8/7/43
Miscellaneous
Pages: 15
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The Spirit in Nazi Germany

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure
Character(s): Heinrich Himmler; Col. Kellner; Adolph Hitler; Goering; Elsa Werner
Synopsis: A group of gangsters meet in Istanbul to help the Nazi's smuggle their money out of Germany. The Spirit breaks up the scheme but ends up captured by the Germans.
Reprinting
Reprint Notes: from daily strips (Register and Tribune Syndicate) 8/9/43-10/9/43
Miscellaneous
Pages: 14
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The Cowled Killer

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Character(s): Mayor Blast; John Humphreys; Cowled Killer
Synopsis: Spirit has to track down a costumed criminal, who vaguely resembles Batman. Mayor Blast assigns the famous detective Humphreys to the case.
Reprinting
Reprint Notes: from daily strips (Register and Tribune Syndicate) 10/11/43-11/27/43
Miscellaneous
Pages: 11
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The Ranee of Jarawabi and Maxie the Knife

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure
Character(s): Ranee of Jarawabi; Hunter Van Cleve
Synopsis: The Ranee's jewels are stolen soon after she arrives in Central City. Or are they?
Reprinting
Reprint Notes: from daily strips (Register and Tribune Syndicate) 11/29/43-1/1/44
Miscellaneous
Pages: 7
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Junius Sneezer and Formula X

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure
Character(s): Spirit; Dolan; Junius Sneezer; Ellen; Ebony
Synopsis: Junius Sneezer invents a drug that releases a person's innermost inhibitions and it accidentally gets dropped into the Central City drinking water supply.
Reprinting
Reprint Notes: from daily strips (Register and Tribune Syndicate) 1/3/44-3/11/44
Miscellaneous
Pages: 15
Disclose Notes: This story line ends with a cliff hanger.

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