Will Eisner's The Spirit Archives #19

([October] 2006)

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents)

foreword, introduction, preface, afterword / 3 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Stephan Weiner

Pencils:

Will Eisner

Ye Olde Spirit of '76 (Table of Contents)

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

Credits

Script:

Will Eisner; Jules Feiffer

Pencils:

Will Eisner

Inks:

Will Eisner

Colors:

Jamison

Letters:

Abe Kanegson

Content Information

Genre:

adventure

Characters:

Ellen Dolan; Prof Flintlock; Spirit; Ebony; Ratsy; Ebeneezer Budderchern

Synopsis:

The Spirit and everybody else are searching for a lost copy of the Declaration of Independence. Only Ebeneezer Budderchern knows where it is. But he's dead.

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• from The Spirit (Register and Tribune Syndicate, 1940 series) #7/3/1949 (July 3rd, 1949)

Lilly Lotus (Table of Contents)

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

Credits

Script:

Jules Feiffer

Pencils:

Will Eisner

Inks:

Will Eisner

Colors:

Jamison

Letters:

Abe Kanegson

Content Information

Genre:

adventure

Characters:

Spirit; Lilly Lotus (intro); Dolan; Ellen; Ebony; Butcher Vaddis; Judge Gavel

Synopsis:

The Spirit moves to the South Seas to escape his past life, but half the hoods in Central City seem to have followed him.

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• from The Spirit (Register and Tribune Syndicate, 1940 series) #7/10/1949 (July 10th, 1949)

Indexer Notes

1st extended foreign adventure as the Spirit begins wandering thru the South Pacific, Yronwode says these are all by Feiffer

Sally of the Islands (Table of Contents)

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

Credits

Script:

Jules Feiffer

Pencils:

Will Eisner

Inks:

Will Eisner; Jerry Grandenetti (backgrounds)

Colors:

Jamison

Letters:

Abe Kanegson

Content Information

Genre:

Adventure

Characters:

Spirit; Sally of the Islands; Kragg; Dolan; Ebony

Synopsis:

The Spirit rescues a gold shipment and a damsel in distress from her no good husband. Dolan and Ebony begin a trek through the South Seas looking for him.

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• from The Spirit (Register and Tribune Syndicate, 1940 series) #7/17/1949 (July 17th, 1949)

The Masked Man (Table of Contents)

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

Credits

Script:

Jules Feiffer

Pencils:

Will Eisner

Inks:

Will Eisner

Colors:

Jamison

Letters:

Abe Kanegson

Content Information

Genre:

adventure

Characters:

Ellen (feature); Spirit; Dolan; Ebony; Willie Ankle; Sugar Dumpling; Foxie

Synopsis:

Ellen hires a private eye to find the Spirit.

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• from The Spirit (Register and Tribune Syndicate, 1940 series) #7/24/1949 (July 24th, 1949)

Indexer Notes

first Central City interlude

The Ball Game (Table of Contents)

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

Credits

Script:

Jules Feiffer

Pencils:

Wil Eisner

Inks:

Will Eisner

Colors:

Jamison

Letters:

Abe Kanegson

Content Information

Genre:

adventure

Characters:

Sammy (intro); Baby Manuelo; Governor Baptiste; Spirit

Synopsis:

An election and freedom on the Isle of Monabou depend on the outcome of a baseball game.

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• from The Spirit (Register and Tribune Syndicate, 1940 series) #7/31/1949 (July 31st, 1949)

Matua (Table of Contents)

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

Credits

Script:

Will Eisner; Jules Feiffer

Pencils:

Will Eisner

Inks:

Will Eisner

Colors:

Jamison

Letters:

Abe Kanegson

Content Information

Genre:

adventure

Characters:

Sammy; Matua; Tan-Gau; Cutter; Ace

Synopsis:

Every hundred years a pre-historic monster comes to life, unless the curse is renewed.

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• from The Spirit (Register and Tribune Syndicate, 1940 series) #8/7/1949 (August 7th, 1949)

The Return (Table of Contents)

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

Credits

Script:

Jules Feiffer

Pencils:

Wil Eisner

Inks:

Will Eisner

Colors:

Jamison

Letters:

Abe Kanegson

Content Information

Genre:

adventure

Characters:

Spirit; Sammy; Klink; Split Lipton; Dolan; Ellen; Ebony

Synopsis:

The Spirit returns to Central City only to find Mayor Bowser has resigned and Dolan; Ellen and Ebony are missing.

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• from The Spirit (Register and Tribune Syndicate, 1940 series) #8/14/1949 (August 14th, 1949)

The Candidate (Table of Contents)

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

Credits

Script:

Jules Feiffer

Pencils:

Will Eisner

Inks:

Will Eisner

Colors:

Jamison

Letters:

Abe Kanegson

Content Information

Genre:

adventure

Characters:

Monica Veto (intro); Spirit; Dolan; Ebony; Sammy

Synopsis:

The Good Old Days Party decides to run the Spirit for mayor.

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• from The Spirit (Register and Tribune Syndicate, 1940 series) #8/21/1949 (August 21st, 1949)

White Cloud (Table of Contents)

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

Credits

Script:

Jules Feiffer

Pencils:

Will Eisner

Inks:

Will Eisner

Colors:

Jamison

Letters:

Abe Kanegson

Content Information

Genre:

adventure

Characters:

Monica Veto; Dolan; Muldoon; Spirit; Sgt. White Cloud

Synopsis:

Dolan is now Mayor of Central City, but Monica Veto controls the City Council. However, Charlie Whitecloud apparently owns Central City- so the point is moot.

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• from The Spirit (Register and Tribune Syndicate, 1940 series) #8/28/1949 (August 28th, 1949)

The Story of Rat-Tat the Toy Machine Gun (Table of Contents)

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

Credits

Script:

Jules Feiffer

Pencils:

Will Eisner

Inks:

Will Eisner

Colors:

Jamison

Letters:

Abe Kanegson

Content Information

Genre:

adventure

Characters:

Rat-Tat; Max the Chopper; Carbunkle; Boolits; Spirit

Synopsis:

A story about a toy machine gun that wanted to be real.

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• from The Spirit (Register and Tribune Syndicate, 1940 series) #9/4/1949 (September 4th, 1949)

10 Minutes (Table of Contents)

Spirit, the / comic story / 7 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Jules Feiffer; Will Eisner

Pencils:

Will Eisner

Inks:

Will Eisner

Colors:

Jamison

Letters:

Abe Kanegson

Content Information

Genre:

adventure

Characters:

Freddy; Max; Mrs. Schmidt; Dolan; Spirit

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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• from The Spirit (Register and Tribune Syndicate, 1940 series) #9/11/1949 (September 11th, 1949)

Lurid Love (Table of Contents)

Spirit, the / comic story / 7 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Jules Feiffer

Pencils:

Will Eisner

Inks:

Will Eisner

Colors:

Jamison

Letters:

Abe Kanegson

Content Information

Genre:

adventure

Characters:

Sammy (feature); Ellen; Spirit; Ebony; Seth Passifik; Ugly Mary

Synopsis:

Parody of romance pulps, as Sammy becomes smitten with Ellen.

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• from The Spirit (Register and Tribune Syndicate, 1940 series) #9/18/1949 (September 18th, 1949)

Indexer Notes

fake advertisements run throughout section, Feiffer & Kanigson insert names in cartoonist ad

The Return of Vino Red (Table of Contents)

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

Credits

Script:

Will Eisner

Pencils:

Will Eisner

Inks:

Will Eisner

Colors:

Jamison

Letters:

Abe Kanegson

Content Information

Genre:

adventure

Characters:

Vino Red; Ice Waters; Spirit; Dots Semaphore; Spitz; Dolan

Synopsis:

Gangster Vino Red discovers he can't go home again.

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• from The Spirit (Register and Tribune Syndicate, 1940 series) #9/25/1949 (September 25th, 1949)

Crime (Table of Contents)

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

Credits

Script:

Jules Feiffer

Pencils:

Will Eisner

Inks:

Will Eisner

Colors:

Jamison

Letters:

Abe Kanegson

Content Information

Genre:

adventure

Characters:

Autumn Mews (intro); Dolan; Spirit; Stinger Ray; Vulture; Stabby; Snaggly

Synopsis:

Stinger Ray is probably dead and the his rivals contend over the spoils.

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• from The Spirit (Register and Tribune Syndicate, 1940 series) #10/2/1949 (October 2nd, 1949)

Death of Autumn Mews (Table of Contents)

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

Credits

Script:

Will Eisner

Pencils:

Will Eisner

Inks:

Will Eisner; Jerry Grandenetti

Colors:

Jamison

Letters:

Abe Kanegson

Content Information

Genre:

adventure

Characters:

Autumn Mews; Sammy (feature); Virgil; Dolan; Spirit

Synopsis:

Autumn uses her womanly wiles on Sammy to get him to spill the beans on the Spirit.

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• from The Spirit (Register and Tribune Syndicate, 1940 series) #10/9/1949 (October 9th, 1949)

The Curse (Table of Contents)

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

Credits

Script:

Jules Feiffer

Pencils:

Will Eisner

Inks:

Will Eisner

Colors:

Jamison

Letters:

Abe Kanegson

Content Information

Genre:

adventure

Characters:

Pete Bog; Sweet Cider Sue; Jimson Weed; Doc Ringer; Spirit; Dolan

Synopsis:

Pete Bob sings an old murder ballad. Doc Ringer fixes fights and steals Jimson Weed's girl. Only trouble is, she's a witch.

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• from The Spirit (Register and Tribune Syndicate, 1940 series) #10/16/1949 (October 16th, 1949)

Fox at Bay (Table of Contents)

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

Credits

Script:

Jules Feiffer

Pencils:

Will Eisner

Inks:

Will Eisner

Colors:

Jamison

Letters:

Abe Kanegson

Content Information

Genre:

adventure

Characters:

Spirit; Reynard; Dolan

Synopsis:

Reynard kills 10 men as an experiment in psychology. The Spirit is shot.

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• from The Spirit (Register and Tribune Syndicate, 1940 series) #10/23/1949 (October 23rd, 1949)

Elect Miss Rhinemaiden of 1950 (Table of Contents)

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

Credits

Script:

Jules Feiffer

Pencils:

Will Eisner

Inks:

Will Eisner

Colors:

Jamison

Letters:

Abe Kanegson

Content Information

Genre:

adventure

Characters:

Hazel P Macbeth; Garfield Tripod; Mr. Rhinemaiden; Ellen Dolan; Spirit; Moxie; Slime

Synopsis:

The Spirit is still on crutches. Hazel P. MacBeth uses her powers to win a beauty contest, but then she gets kidnapped, much to Moxie and Slime's regret.

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• from The Spirit (Register and Tribune Syndicate, 1940 series) #10/30/1949 (October 30th, 1949)

The Inner Voice (Table of Contents)

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

Credits

Script:

Will Eisner

Pencils:

Will Eisner; John Spranger

Inks:

Will Eisner; Bob Palmer

Colors:

Jamison

Letters:

Abe Kanegson (pg 1); Martin deMuth? (2-7)

Content Information

Genre:

adventure

Characters:

Spirit; Maurice Maywee; Dolan

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• from The Spirit (Register and Tribune Syndicate, 1940 series) #8/11/1946 (August 11th, 1946) [pp. 2-7], #11/6/1949 (November 6th, 1949) [splash page]

Surgery (Table of Contents)

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

Credits

Script:

Jules Feiffer

Pencils:

Will Eisner

Inks:

Will Eisner; Jerry Grandenetti

Colors:

Jamison

Letters:

Abe Kanegson

Content Information

Genre:

adventure

Characters:

Silk Satin; Ellen (feature); Dr. Anschluss; Hansie; Klink; Mr. Pigeon

Synopsis:

In three hours, the Spirit will have his legs amputated, unless Ellen or Satin can find Dr. Anschluss.

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• from The Spirit (Register and Tribune Syndicate, 1940 series) #11/13/1949 (November 13th, 1949)

The Thanksgiving Spirit of 1949 (Table of Contents)

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

Credits

Script:

Jules Feiffer

Pencils:

Will Eisner

Inks:

Will Eisner; Jerry Grandenetti (backgrounds)

Colors:

Jamison

Letters:

Abe Kanegson

Content Information

Genre:

adventure

Characters:

Mr Carrion; Julia; P.S.; P.T. Bumble; Spirit; Dolan; Mr. Axie; Bully Dozer

Synopsis:

P.T. Bumble hires Carrion to blow up Axie's store, right in the middle of the Thanksgiving parade.

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• from The Spirit (Register and Tribune Syndicate, 1940 series) #11/20/1949 (November 20th, 1949)

Indexer Notes

The Spirit is still on crutches.

The Embezzler (Table of Contents)

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

Credits

Script:

Jules Feiffer

Pencils:

Will Eisner

Inks:

Will Eisner

Colors:

Jamison

Letters:

Abe Kanegson

Content Information

Genre:

adventure

Characters:

Quadrant J. Stet; Mr. Parrish; Spirit; Dolan

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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• from The Spirit (Register and Tribune Syndicate, 1940 series) #11/27/1949 (November 27th, 1949)

Winter Haven (Table of Contents)

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

Credits

Script:

Jules Feiffer

Pencils:

Will Eisner

Inks:

Will Eisner

Colors:

Jamison

Letters:

Abe Kanegson

Content Information

Genre:

adventure

Characters:

Flaxen Weaver (intro); Dolan; Spirit; Bats McBelfry; Matty Luger; Sammy; Ellen

Synopsis:

Dolan and the Spirit vacation in the mountains and unwittingly walk into a criminals' convention.
The Spirit drops his crutches.

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• from The Spirit (Register and Tribune Syndicate, 1940 series) #12/4/1949 (December 4th, 1949)

Flaxen Weaver (Table of Contents)

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

Credits

Script:

Jules Feiffer; Will Eisner

Pencils:

Will Eisner

Inks:

Will Eisner

Colors:

Jamison

Letters:

Abe Kanegson

Content Information

Genre:

adventure

Characters:

Flaxen Weaver; Sammy; Spirit; Ellen; Baron and Baroness LaPlanche; Blink; Seedy; Dolan

Synopsis:

Flaxen Weaver turns up at a society soiree that Ellen bullies the Spirit into attending. She's leading a gang of pickpockets.

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• from The Spirit (Register and Tribune Syndicate, 1940 series) #12/11/1949 (December 11th, 1949)

Indexer Notes

rewrite of 3/16/41 story;

Lonesome Cool (Table of Contents)

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

Credits

Script:

Will Eisner

Pencils:

Will Eisner

Inks:

Will Eisner

Colors:

Jamison

Letters:

Abe Kanegson

Content Information

Genre:

adventure

Characters:

E. Launcelot Cool; Frankie Spade; Torpedo McWeen; Dolan; Spirit

Synopsis:

Lonesome Cool was the toughest tough guy there was. If he was nice to his mother he might still be alive.

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• from The Spirit (Register and Tribune Syndicate, 1940 series) #12/18/1949 (December 18th, 1949)

Indexer Notes

not on Feiffer's list

The Christmas Spirit of 1949 (Table of Contents)

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

Credits

Script:

Jules Feiffer

Pencils:

Will Eisner

Inks:

Will Eisner; Jerry Grandenetti

Colors:

Jamison

Letters:

Abe Kanegson

Content Information

Genre:

adventure

Characters:

P.S.; Klink; S. Kringle Claus; Dolan; Pixie; McJimmy (no Spirit)

Synopsis:

P.S. brains Santa with a snow ball and induces amnesia, a week before Christmas.

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• from The Spirit (Register and Tribune Syndicate, 1940 series) #12/25/1949 (December 25th, 1949)