The Spirit #10/26/1947

(October 26th, 1947)

The Hallowe'en Spirit of 1947: The Burning of P.S. 43 (Table of Contents: 1)

The Spirit / comic story / 7 pages (report information)

Script

Will Eisner

Pencils

Will Eisner; Jerry Grandenetti (backgrounds)

Inks

Will Eisner; Jerry Grandenetti (backgrounds)

Colors

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Letters

Abe Kanegson

Genre

detective-mystery

Characters

Hazel P MacBeth (introduction); Ward Healy; Ebony White; Hubert Loophole; The Spirit; Commissioner Dolan; Firebug Butts; Loophole

Synopsis

The kids challenge Hazel to prove she's a real witch by making the school burn down. Or did Ward Healy do it? One thing's for sure, he's not the one who's going to burn at the stake.

Reprints

• in The Spirit (Kitchen Sink Press, 1977 series) #41 (June 1983)
• in The Spirit (Kitchen Sink Press, 1983 series) #23 (September 1986)
• in Spirit (Alvglans, 1984 series) #9 (1988) ["The Burning of PS 43"]
• in Agent X9 (Semic, 1976 series) #7/1997 (uke 26 1997)
• in Will Eisner's The Spirit Archives (DC, 2000 series) #15 (2004 [January 2005])

Keywords

Halloween