The Spirit
#9/24/1944
(September 24th, 1944)
Register and Tribune Syndicate,
1940 Series
- Price
- [None]
- Pages
- 16
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- [none printed]
Issue Notes
This issue has variants:
![Cover Thumbnail for The Spirit (1940 series) #9/24/1944 [Philadelphia Record Edition]](https://files1.comics.org//img/gcd/covers_by_id/1216/w100/1216536.jpg?-5480668019810372925)
The Case of the Headless Burglar
The Spirit / comic story / 7 pages
- Script
- Manly Wade Wellman
- Pencils
- Lou Fine
- Inks
- Don Komisarow
- Colors
- Quality Staff (sourced)
- Letters
- Martin deMuth (sourced)
- Genre
- adventure; superhero
- Characters
- Commissioner Dolan; The Spirit [Denny Colt]; Ebony White; Headless Burglar [Half-Pint Harry] (introduction)
- Reprints
-
in Police Comics (Quality Comics, 1941 series) #58 (September 1946) - in The Spirit (Quality Comics, 1944 series) #16 (July 1949)
- in Will Eisner's The Spirit Archives (DC, 2000 series) #9 ([January] 2003)
-
Indexer Notes
writer id by Bob Hughes
[no title indexed]
Lady Luck / comic story / 4 pages
- Script
- Klaus Nordling (signed)
- Pencils
- Klaus Nordling (signed)
- Inks
- Klaus Nordling (signed)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- An executioner's sword, eh, Bombay?
- Genre
- adventure; superhero
- Characters
- Lady Luck [Brenda Banks]
- Reprints
- in Smash Comics (Quality Comics, 1939 series) #66 (August 1946)
-
[no title indexed]
Intellectual Amos / comic story / 4 pages
- Script
- André LeBlanc (signed)
- Pencils
- André LeBlanc (signed)
- Inks
- André LeBlanc (signed)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- The problem is to determine who is painting whom!
- Genre
- humor; children
- Characters
- Amos; Wilbur
[no title indexed]
Jonesy / comic story / 1 page
- Script
- Bernard Dibble (signed as Dib)
- Pencils
- Bernard Dibble (signed as Dib)
- Inks
- Bernard Dibble (signed as Dib)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- Genre
- humor; teen
- Characters
- Jonesy
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
-
1.
The Case of the Headless Burglar
The Spirit -
2.
["An executioner's sword, eh, Bombay?"]
Lady Luck -
3.
["The problem is to determine who is painting whom!"]
Intellectual Amos -
4.
[no title indexed]
Jonesy
This issue was modified by, among others
- Michael Hoskin
- Bob Hughes
- Lou Mougin (R.I.P.)
- Mike Nielsen
- Ramon Schenk
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