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Issue: The Spirit Casebook #[nn]
Publication Date: January 1990
 
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Publisher: FlagKitchen Sink Press
Indicia Publisher: Kitchen Sink Press Inc.
On Sale Date: 1990
Volume:
Pages: 164
ISBN: 0878160949
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Price: $15.55 CAD
$12.95 USD
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Content Items: 21 (18 stories, 1 cover)
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color cover; black and white interior
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Binding: softcover
Publishing Format: collected edition
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Cover, Front
Original Artwork
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Adult Image
Title Page
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[untitled]

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
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Subject Matter
adventure, mystery, superhero
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Miscellaneous
1
Who Is the Spirit?

Foreword, Introduction, Preface, Afterword  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
typeset
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Miscellaneous
2
Two Lives

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
adventure
Carboy T. Gretch; Cranfranz Gwayle
Carboy T. Gretch and Cranfranz Gwalye look exactly alike. Both are miserable where they are, so they trade lives.
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Miscellaneous
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parallel stories told
Ten Minutes

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
adventure
Freddy; Max; Mrs. Schmidt
Freddy just wants some money so he can leave town and start a new life. A new life that lasts ten minutes.
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Miscellaneous
7
The Killer

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
adventure
Henry; Mary; Mr. James; Sheldon; Trigger
Henry was a hot shot soldier in the French underground, but back in America he's back in the same old dead end job.
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Miscellaneous
7
Story is told looking through Henry's eyes.
Wild Rice

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
adventure
Wild Rice Wilder (intro); Mike Caliban
Mike Caiban tries to rob the Wilder Mansion on the day of Rice's wedding, but Rice wants a life of adventure, so she begs him to take her with him.
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Miscellaneous
7
Life Below

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
adventure
Tattler Jeeke; The Worm
The Spirit chases a killer through Central City's sewers. Then a snowstorm traps them down there.
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7
The Story of Gerhard Shnobble

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
adventure
Gerhard Shnobble (introduction)
Gerhard, a mere nobody, discovers he can fly. But still nobody notices him. Not even the Spirit.
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Miscellaneous
7
Meet P'Gell

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
adventure
Hans Dammt; Emil; Picar
P'Gell leaves a string of dead husbands behind her in her quest to get to America.
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Miscellaneous
7
Death of Autumn Mews

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
adventure
Autumn Mews; Virgil
Autumn uses her womanly wiles on Sammy to get him to spill the beans on the Spirit.
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Miscellaneous
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Christmas Spirit of 1948

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
adventure
Basher Bains; Teench; Franky
Basher Bains wants to get out of jail for Christmas, so Santa helps him.
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Miscellaneous
7
Lorelei Rox

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
adventure
Lorelei Rox; Blacky Marquett; Boss Wheeler
Like the sirens of old, Lorelei lures truckers to their doom.
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Miscellaneous
7
The Last Hand

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
adventure
J. Rollo Dyce; Meataxe Morrison
A murderer takes a job as caretaker for an old lady, unaware she's a homicidal maniac.
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Miscellaneous
7
Andre LeBlanc verified by Will Eisner in Kitchen Sink Spirit 31, May 1987.
Visitor

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
adventure
Cracker Barl; Combo Nathan; Miss Cosmek; Nimbus
The Spirit gets involved with a woman who claims to be from Mars.
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Miscellaneous
7
Fox at Bay

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
adventure
Reynard
Reynard kills 10 men as an experiment in psychology. The Spirit is shot.
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Miscellaneous
7
The Embezzler

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
adventure
Quadrant J. Stet; Mr. Parrish
Quadrant J. Stet is going blind. He needs $5000 for an operation. And there's $5000 missing from his firm's accounts. The Spirit is still on crutches.
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Miscellaneous
7
Rat-Tat, the Toy Machine Gun

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
adventure
Rat-Tat; Max the Chopper; Carbunkle; Boolits
A story about a toy machine gun that wanted to be real.
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Miscellaneous
7
Sand Saref

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
adventure
Spangles
flashback to Denny Colt's childhood and his friend Sand who he tried to turn from the wild life of the dark side.
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Miscellaneous
7
Pg 4-7 originally done for unpublished John Law story
Bring in Sand Saref

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
adventure
Dr. Vitriol
Sand has the formula for a dangerous virus and the Spirit has to bring her in.
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Miscellaneous
7
Pg 1 original splash pg for John Law story, pg 2-7 originally pgs 6-11
Satin

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
adventure
Satin; Kurt von Breck; Sylvia
Satin asks the Spirit to help clear her husband from a murder charge. Only trouble is, he's guilty.
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Miscellaneous
7
Back Cover

Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
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typeset
Subject Matter
adventure, mystery, superhero
Powder Pouf
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Miscellaneous
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