Will Eisner's The Spirit Archives #3

([February] 2001)

Building Strong Character (Table of Contents)

comic story / 2 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Tom Heintjes

Pencils:

Will Eisner (spot illos)

Inks:

Will Eisner (spot illos)

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

non-fiction

Characters:

Dolan; Pierpont; Ebony; P'Gell; Satin; Spirit

Agent 24 (Table of Contents)

Spirit / comic story / 8 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Will Eisner

Pencils:

Will Eisner

Inks:

Will Eisner

Colors:

Joe Kubert (reconstructed by Digital Chameleon)

Letters:

Sam Rosen

Content Information

Genre:

adventure

Characters:

Ellen; Satin; Dolan

Synopsis:

Ellen goes to England to drive an ambulance

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• from The Spirit (Register and Tribune Syndicate, 1940 series) #7/6/1941

Stolen Squad Cars (Table of Contents)

Spirit / comic story / 8 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Will Eisner

Pencils:

Will Eisner

Inks:

Will Eisner

Colors:

Joe Kubert (reconstructed by Digital Chameleon)

Letters:

Sam Rosen

Content Information

Genre:

adventure

Characters:

Ebony; Dolan; Mayor Aldrich; Squire Samson

Synopsis:

After 10 squad cars are stolen, Mayor Aldrich appoints Squire Samson to be Dolan's Assistant.

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• from The Spirit (Register and Tribune Syndicate, 1940 series) #7/13/1941

Indexer Notes

Keyword: autoplane

The Jewel of Death (Table of Contents)

Spirit / comic story / 8 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Will Eisner

Pencils:

Will Eisner

Inks:

Will Eisner

Colors:

Joe Kubert (reconstructed by Digital Chameleon)

Letters:

Sam Rosen

Content Information

Genre:

adventure

Synopsis:

The Spirit searches for a doctor who can stop a plague and gets mixed up in a quest for a jewel with a curse on it.

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• from The Spirit (Register and Tribune Syndicate, 1940 series) #7/20/1941

Pink Perkins (Table of Contents)

Spirit / comic story / 8 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Will Eisner

Pencils:

Will Eisner

Inks:

Will Eisner

Colors:

Joe Kubert (reconstructed by Digital Chameleon)

Letters:

Sam Rosen

Content Information

Genre:

adventure

Characters:

Algernon Tidewater [PS]; Bertram Tidewater [Brains]; Pink Perkins (introduction); Ebony; Dolan

Synopsis:

Brains decides the writer of a detective comic strip is the best person to save his father from gangsters.

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• from The Spirit (Register and Tribune Syndicate, 1940 series) #7/27/1941

Wanted Dead or Alive: The Spirit (Table of Contents)

Spirit / comic story / 8 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Will Eisner

Pencils:

Will Eisner

Inks:

Will Eisner

Colors:

Joe Kubert (reconstructed by Digital Chameleon)

Letters:

Sam Rosen

Content Information

Genre:

adventure

Characters:

Ellen; Dolan; Ebony; Mayor Aldrich

Synopsis:

The Spirit helps a man escape from jail so that he can prove his innocence.

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• from The Spirit (Register and Tribune Syndicate, 1940 series) #8/3/1941

Indexer Notes

Keyword: autoplane

The Element of Time (Table of Contents)

Spirit / comic story / 8 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Will Eisner

Pencils:

Will Eisner

Inks:

Will Eisner

Colors:

Joe Kubert (reconstructed by Digital Chameleon)

Letters:

Sam Rosen

Content Information

Genre:

adventure

Characters:

Ebony

Synopsis:

Professor Corda condenses time into an element, but sends a man into the future instead of the past by accident.

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• from The Spirit (Register and Tribune Syndicate, 1940 series) #8/10/1941

Indexer Notes

4 page time sequence printed in color holds with no black (except the word balloons)

The Spirit Am Unfair to His Assistant (Table of Contents)

Spirit / comic story / 8 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Will Eisner

Pencils:

Will Eisner

Inks:

Will Eisner

Colors:

Joe Kubert (reconstructed by Digital Chameleon)

Letters:

Sam Rosen

Content Information

Genre:

adventure

Characters:

Ebony; Pierpont

Synopsis:

Ebony opens his own Super Detective agency.

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• from The Spirit (Register and Tribune Syndicate, 1940 series) #8/17/1941

Indexer Notes

Ebony feature

River Lily (Table of Contents)

Spirit / comic story / 8 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Will Eisner

Pencils:

Will Eisner

Inks:

Will Eisner

Colors:

Joe Kubert (reconstructed by Digital Chameleon)

Letters:

Sam Rosen

Content Information

Genre:

adventure

Characters:

Ebony; Dolan; River Lily (introduction)

Synopsis:

Ebony searches for pirate treasure and meets a deadly femme fatale.

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• from The Spirit (Register and Tribune Syndicate, 1940 series) #8/24/1941

Barton Heartbern (Table of Contents)

Spirit / comic story / 8 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Will Eisner

Pencils:

Will Eisner

Inks:

Will Eisner

Colors:

Joe Kubert (reconstructed by Digital Chameleon)

Letters:

Sam Rosen

Content Information

Genre:

adventure

Characters:

Dolan; Barton Hartsell (introduction)

Synopsis:

A great criminologist is murdered and the Spirit has to solve the crime.

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• from The Spirit (Register and Tribune Syndicate, 1940 series) #8/31/1941

Indexer Notes

Title should be Barton Hartsell

Dorothy Heartbern (Table of Contents)

Spirit / comic story / 8 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Will Eisner

Pencils:

Will Eisner

Inks:

Will Eisner

Colors:

Joe Kubert (reconstructed by Digital Chameleon)

Letters:

Sam Rosen

Content Information

Genre:

adventure

Characters:

Ellen; Ebony

Synopsis:

After the Spirit stands her up, Ellen gets a female impersonator to dress up as the Spirit and take her to a ball. (No, really, that's what happens.)

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• from The Spirit (Register and Tribune Syndicate, 1940 series) #9/7/1941

Biography of a Big Shot: Joe Frisk (Table of Contents)

Spirit / comic story / 8 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Will Eisner

Pencils:

Will Eisner

Inks:

Will Eisner

Colors:

Joe Kubert (reconstructed by Digital Chameleon)

Letters:

Sam Rosen

Content Information

Genre:

adventure

Characters:

Dolan; Joe Frisk (introduction)

Synopsis:

The life story of one of Central City's "leading business men" from his first childhood attempts at extortion to his last rigged court case.

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• from The Spirit (Register and Tribune Syndicate, 1940 series) #9/14/1941

Gogi the Yogi (Table of Contents)

Spirit / comic story / 8 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Will Eisner

Pencils:

Will Eisner

Inks:

Will Eisner

Colors:

Joe Kubert (reconstructed by Digital Chameleon)

Letters:

Sam Rosen

Content Information

Genre:

adventure

Characters:

Ebony; Pierpont; Scarlett Brown; Juliet; Montmorency

Synopsis:

Pierpont guarantees Ebony's love to Juliette, Gogi the Yogi guaranteess Scarlett's love to Ebony. The Spirit delivers an antidote for poison gas.

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• from The Spirit (Register and Tribune Syndicate, 1940 series) #9/21/1941

Women! (Table of Contents)

Spirit / comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Will Eisner

Pencils:

Will Eisner

Inks:

Will Eisner

Colors:

Joe Kubert (reconstructed by Digital Chameleon)

Letters:

Sam Rosen

Content Information

Genre:

adventure

Characters:

Ellen; Ebony; Dolan; Goldie (introduction); Snipe (introduction)

Synopsis:

Goldie tells Snipe he'd be a real man if he killed the Spirit. So he does.

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• from The Spirit (Register and Tribune Syndicate, 1940 series) #9/28/1941

Sphinx and Satin (Table of Contents)

Spirit / comic story / 8 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Will Eisner

Pencils:

Will Eisner

Inks:

Will Eisner

Colors:

Joe Kubert (reconstructed by Digital Chameleon)

Letters:

Sam Rosen

Content Information

Genre:

adventure

Characters:

Sphinx; Satin; Ebony

Synopsis:

Sphinx and Satin are two British agents, assigned to go after the Spirit

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• from The Spirit (Register and Tribune Syndicate, 1940 series) #10/5/1941

The Genius (Table of Contents)

Spirit / comic story / 8 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Will Eisner

Pencils:

Will Eisner

Inks:

Will Eisner

Colors:

Joe Kubert (reconstructed by Digital Chameleon)

Letters:

Sam Rosen

Content Information

Genre:

adventure

Characters:

Algernon Tidewater [PS]; Bertram Tidewater [Brains]; Ebony; Pierpont; Dolan

Synopsis:

A gang of crooks decides PS is a genius and want him to plot their crimes.

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• from The Spirit (Register and Tribune Syndicate, 1940 series) #10/12/1941

The Oldest Man in the World (Table of Contents)

Spirit / comic story / 8 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Will Eisner

Pencils:

Will Eisner

Inks:

Will Eisner

Colors:

Joe Kubert (reconstructed by Digital Chameleon)

Letters:

Sam Rosen

Content Information

Genre:

adventure

Characters:

Ebony

Synopsis:

In the year 2941 archeologists unearth an old Spirit story dealing with the Oldest Man in the World.

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• from The Spirit (Register and Tribune Syndicate, 1940 series) #10/19/1941

Indexer Notes

framing sequence done completely with color holds
Keyword: Autoplane

Hallowe'en Dusk (Table of Contents)

Spirit / comic story / 8 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Will Eisner

Pencils:

Will Eisner

Inks:

Will Eisner

Colors:

Joe Kubert (reconstructed by Digital Chameleon)

Letters:

Sam Rosen

Content Information

Genre:

adventure

Characters:

Mr Dusk; Twilight; Hazel P Macbeth (introduction); Dolan; Ebony; Pierpont

Synopsis:

Dusk, Twilight and Hazel hold a Hallowe'en party.

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• from The Spirit (Register and Tribune Syndicate, 1940 series) #10/26/1941

The Confessions of Monk Mallon (Table of Contents)

Spirit / comic story / 8 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Will Eisner

Pencils:

Will Eisner

Inks:

Will Eisner

Colors:

Joe Kubert (reconstructed by Digital Chameleon)

Letters:

Sam Rosen

Content Information

Genre:

adventure

Characters:

Ebony; Dolan; Ellen; Weepy Willie (looks just like Eisner)

Synopsis:

Spirit tries to save an innocent man from being executed.

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• from The Spirit (Register and Tribune Syndicate, 1940 series) #11/2/1941

Indexer Notes

title should be "The Confessions of Monks Mallon"

Killer Ghost (Table of Contents)

Spirit / comic story / 8 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Will Eisner

Pencils:

Will Eisner

Inks:

Will Eisner

Colors:

Joe Kubert (reconstructed by Digital Chameleon)

Letters:

Sam Rosen

Content Information

Genre:

adventure

Characters:

Ebony; Dolan

Synopsis:

Carl Benson claims he's innocent of murdering his wife and uncle. A Ghost did it.

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• from The Spirit (Register and Tribune Syndicate, 1940 series) #11/9/1941

Eustace the Turkey (Table of Contents)

Spirit / comic story / 8 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Will Eisner

Pencils:

Will Eisner

Inks:

Will Eisner

Colors:

Joe Kubert (reconstructed by Digital Chameleon)

Letters:

Sam Rosen

Content Information

Genre:

adventure

Characters:

Ebony; Pierpont; Dolan

Synopsis:

A thanksgiving turkey swallows a diamond and then escapes.

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• from The Spirit (Register and Tribune Syndicate, 1940 series) #11/16/1941

Ellen Dolan, Fullback (Table of Contents)

Spirit / comic story / 8 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Will Eisner

Pencils:

Will Eisner

Inks:

Will Eisner

Colors:

Joe Kubert (reconstructed by Digital Chameleon)

Letters:

Sam Rosen

Content Information

Genre:

adventure

Characters:

Ellen; Dolan; Ebony

Synopsis:

Ellen joins an all-girl football team

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• from The Spirit (Register and Tribune Syndicate, 1940 series) #11/23/1941

Goll Girder (Table of Contents)

Spirit / comic story / 8 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Will Eisner

Pencils:

Will Eisner

Inks:

Will Eisner

Colors:

Joe Kubert (reconstructed by Digital Chameleon)

Letters:

Sam Rosen

Content Information

Genre:

adventure

Characters:

Ebony

Synopsis:

The Spirit saves a teen age boy from a prison sentence.

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• from The Spirit (Register and Tribune Syndicate, 1940 series) #11/30/1941

The Last of the Minstrels (Table of Contents)

Spirit / comic story / 8 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Will Eisner

Pencils:

Will Eisner

Inks:

Will Eisner

Colors:

Joe Kubert (reconstructed by Digital Chameleon)

Letters:

Sam Rosen

Content Information

Genre:

adventure

Characters:

Ellen; Dolan; Ebony; Aesop the Minstrel (introduction); Cymbeline the Sorceress (introduction)

Synopsis:

Two criminals fight over the loot in the middle of a robbery at a costume party.

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• from The Spirit (Register and Tribune Syndicate, 1940 series) #12/7/1941

Ventro (Table of Contents)

Spirit / comic story / 8 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Will Eisner

Pencils:

Will Eisner

Inks:

Will Eisner

Colors:

Joe Kubert (reconstructed by Digital Chameleon)

Letters:

Sam Rosen

Content Information

Genre:

adventure

Characters:

Dolan; Marius the Dummy Maker (introduction); Ventro (introduction)

Synopsis:

A ventriloquist kills the man who makes his dummies.

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• from The Spirit (Register and Tribune Syndicate, 1940 series) #12/14/1941

Army Operas No 1: Chuck Magoo (Table of Contents)

Spirit / comic story / 8 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Will Eisner

Pencils:

Will Eisner

Inks:

Will Eisner

Colors:

Joe Kubert (reconstructed by Digital Chameleon)

Letters:

Sam Rosen

Content Information

Genre:

adventure

Characters:

Chuck Magoo (introduction)

Synopsis:

The Spirit convinces a bank robber to join the army.

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• from The Spirit (Register and Tribune Syndicate, 1940 series) #12/21/1941 (December 21, 1941)

Christmas Spirit of 1941: A Trilogy (Table of Contents)

Spirit / comic story / 8 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Will Eisner

Pencils:

Will Eisner

Inks:

Will Eisner

Colors:

Joe Kubert (reconstructed by Digital Chameleon)

Letters:

Sam Rosen

Content Information

Genre:

adventure

Characters:

Ellen; Dolan; Ebony; King Hobo (introduction)

Synopsis:

The Spirit doesn't hunt criminals on Christmas. So it's up to another spirit to make King Hobo return the loot he stole.

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• from The Spirit (Register and Tribune Syndicate, 1940 series) #12/28/1941