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Issue: The Spirit Casebook #[nn]
Publication Date: January 1990
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Publisher: FlagKitchen Sink Press
Brand: Kitchen Sink PressView Brand Images
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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[untitled]

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Genres: adventure, mystery, superhero
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Pages: 1
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Who Is the Spirit?

Foreword, Introduction, Preface, Afterword  on  Interior Page(s)
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Letterer(s): typeset
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Pages: 2
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Two Lives

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Genres: adventure
Character(s): Carboy T. Gretch; Cranfranz Gwayle
Synopsis: Carboy T. Gretch and Cranfranz Gwalye look exactly alike. Both are miserable where they are, so they trade lives.
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Pages: 7
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Ten Minutes

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Genres: adventure
Character(s): Freddy; Max; Mrs. Schmidt
Synopsis: 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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Pages: 7
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The Killer

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Genres: adventure
Character(s): Henry; Mary; Mr. James; Sheldon; Trigger
Synopsis: 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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Pages: 7
Disclose Notes: Story is told looking through Henry's eyes.
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Wild Rice

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Genres: adventure
Character(s): Wild Rice Wilder (intro); Mike Caliban
Synopsis: 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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Pages: 7
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Life Below

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

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

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

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Genres: adventure
Character(s): Autumn Mews; Virgil
Synopsis: Autumn uses her womanly wiles on Sammy to get him to spill the beans on the Spirit.
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Pages: 7
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Christmas Spirit of 1948

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Genres: adventure
Character(s): Basher Bains; Teench; Franky
Synopsis: Basher Bains wants to get out of jail for Christmas, so Santa helps him.
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Pages: 7
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Lorelei Rox

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Genres: adventure
Character(s): Lorelei Rox; Blacky Marquett; Boss Wheeler
Synopsis: Like the sirens of old, Lorelei lures truckers to their doom.
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Pages: 7
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The Last Hand

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

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

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Genres: adventure
Character(s): Reynard
Synopsis: Reynard kills 10 men as an experiment in psychology. The Spirit is shot.
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Pages: 7
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The Embezzler

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Genres: adventure
Character(s): Quadrant J. Stet; Mr. Parrish
Synopsis: 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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Pages: 7
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Rat-Tat, the Toy Machine Gun

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

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Genres: adventure
Character(s): Spangles
Synopsis: 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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Pages: 7
Disclose Notes: Pg 4-7 originally done for unpublished John Law story
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Bring in Sand Saref

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

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

Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
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Letterer(s): typeset
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Genres: adventure, mystery, superhero
Character(s): Powder Pouf
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Pages: 1

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