The Spirit #12/8/1940 [Newark NJ Star Ledger edition]

Register and Tribune Syndicate, 1940 Series
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[The Haunted House] (Table of Contents: 1)

Spirit / comic story / 7 pages (report information)

Script
Will Eisner
Pencils
Will Eisner
Inks
Will Eisner
Colors
Joe Kubert
Letters
Sam Rosen
Genre
adventure; detective-mystery; superhero
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[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 2)

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

Script
Dick French [as Ford Davis]
Pencils
Chuck Mazoujian
Inks
Chuck Mazoujian
Colors
?
Letters
?
First Line of Dialogue or Text
Look...look what is floating in the fountain of the Taj Mahal...
Genre
adventure; detective-mystery; superhero
Characters
Lady Luck [Brenda Banks]; Harkins; MacGregor
Synopsis
A body is discovered floating in the Taj Mahal's reflecting pool. A Thugee uprising is blamed, but Lady Luck investigates and finds a different story.

Indexer Notes

Credits from Holtz's American Newspaper Comics.

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 3)

Mr. Mystic / comic story / 5 pages (report information)

Script
Bob Powell [as W. Morgan Thomas]
Pencils
Bob Powell (signed)
Inks
Bob Powell (signed)
Colors
?
Letters
?
First Line of Dialogue or Text
Stopping in Persia on his travels around the world...
Genre
adventure; superhero
Characters
Mr Mystic; Gada; Meeko; Doctor Gadasky
Synopsis
Mr Mystic investigates a case in the stone age, where dinosaurs and men live side by side.

Indexer Notes

Powell signed in last panel.

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Table of Contents
  1. 1. [The Haunted House]
    Spirit
  2. 2. ["Look...look what is floating in the fountain of the Taj Mahal..."]
    Lady Luck
  3. 3. ["Stopping in Persia on his travels around the world..."]
    Mr. Mystic
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