The Spirit #7/20/1941
(July 20, 1941)

Register and Tribune Syndicate, 1940 Series
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Price
0.00 FREE
Pages
16
Indicia / Colophon Publisher
[none printed]
Editing
Will Eisner

Issue Notes

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[The Jewel of Death] (Table of Contents: 1)

Spirit / comic story / 8 pages (report information)

Script
Will Eisner
Pencils
Will Eisner (signed)
Inks
Will Eisner
Colors
Joe Kubert
Letters
Sam Rosen
First Line of Dialogue or Text
Damascus is far from Wildwood Cemetery where the Spirit hides his crime laboratory... but the seeds of crime beyond the law find strange gardens in which to grow...
Genre
adventure; detective-mystery; superhero
Characters
The Spirit [Denny Colt]; Fred Gregg; Shellah Gregg; Belabaruk; Orlan; Beka
Synopsis
The Spirit is in Damascus to get a cure for a disease from a discredited doctor.
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Indexer Notes

Later swiped for The Marksman story in Smash Comics #41.

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 2)

Lady Luck / comic story / 4 pages (report information)

Script
Nick Cardy [as Ford Davis]
Pencils
Nick Cardy [as N. V.] (signed)
Inks
Nick Cardy [as N. V.] (signed)
Colors
?
Letters
?
First Line of Dialogue or Text
Hurry, Peecolo, lower that jib
Genre
adventure; detective-mystery; superhero
Characters
Lady Luck; Peecolo; Jim Scott; Jigger Madison

Littletown, Home of the Dwarfs (Table of Contents: 3)

Mr. Mystic / comic story / 4 pages (report information)

Script
Bob Powell [as S. R. Powell]
Pencils
Bob Powell
Inks
Bob Powell
Colors
?
Letters
?
Genre
superhero
Characters
Mr. Mystic; Harrianni; Bodkin; Modkin; Penny Douglas
Synopsis
Mystic has to defend Harrianni against the inhabitants of Littletown who want to execute her for a crime she did not commit. Penny decides to return Mr. Mystic's ring.
Editing
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Table of Contents
  1. 1. [The Jewel of Death]
    Spirit
  2. 2. ["Hurry, Peecolo, lower that jib"]
    Lady Luck
  3. 3. Littletown, Home of the Dwarfs
    Mr. Mystic
This issue was modified by, among others
  • Peter Croome
  • Kirk House
  • Bob Hughes
  • Keith Alan Morgan
  • Lou Mougin (R.I.P.)
  • Jim Stangas
  • Jim Walls
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