The Spirit
#8/9/1942
(August 9th, 1942)
Register and Tribune Syndicate,
1940 Series
- Price
- none
- Pages
- 16
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- [none printed]
[Shoplifters and Sodas]
The Spirit / comic story / 8 pages
- Script
- Will Eisner
- Pencils
- Will Eisner (layouts); Lou Fine
- Inks
- Lou Fine
- Colors
- Quality Staff
- Letters
- Sam Rosen
- Genre
- adventure; superhero
- Characters
- Mayor Blast; Dolan; Ebony; Ellen White; Spirit [Denny Colt]
- Reprints
-
in Police Comics (Quality Comics, 1941 series) #43 (June 1945) - in Will Eisner's The Spirit Archives (DC, 2000 series) #5 ([November] 2001)
-
Indexer Notes
Colors and letters credits from cat yronwode's Spirit index.
[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
- Pardon me, I'd like some information.
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Lady Luck; Peecolo; Dutch Kraut
- Synopsis
- Lady Luck and Peecolo find a "retired" bootlegger smuggling spies into a backwoods town.
- Reprints
- in Golden-Age Greats (AC, 1994 series) #8 (1996)
-
- Keywords
- bootlegger; railroad; slingshot; spies
[Origin of Mr. Mystic]
Mr. Mystic / comic story / 4 pages
- Script
- Bob Powell (signed)
- Pencils
- Bob Powell (signed)
- Inks
- Bob Powell (signed)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Mr. Mystic (origin); Prof Padewski
- Synopsis
- Recovering in a hospital from being slugged, Mr. Mystic tells a nurse about his escape from Warsaw, Poland, and how he ended up in Tibet, where seven Lamas gave him the gift of magic. Mr. Mystic sends his nurse to recover some important papers, but she is captured by spies and he has to send his astral form to defeat the spies.
- Reprints
- Keywords
- hospital; Lamas; magic; Nazis; nurse; spies; telepathy; Tibet; Warsaw
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
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1.
[Shoplifters and Sodas]
The Spirit -
2.
["Pardon me, I'd like some information."]
Lady Luck -
3.
[Origin of Mr. Mystic]
Mr. Mystic
This issue was modified by, among others
- Merlin Haas
- Michael Hoskin
- Bob Hughes
- Mike Nielsen
- Jim Van Dore
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