The Spirit
#27
(February 1981)
Kitchen Sink Press,
1977 Series
- Price
- 2.00 USD
- Pages
- 68
- Indicia Frequency
- bi-monthly
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Kitchen Sink Comix
- Brand
-
Kitchen Sink Enterprise
- Editing
- Will Eisner (credited) (editor in chief); Denis Kitchen (credited) (editor); cat yronwode (credited) (assistant editor)
Issue Notes
Will Eisner is listed as editor-in-chief in masthead.
[no title indexed]
The Spirit / cover / 2 pages
- Pencils
- Will Eisner (signed as
Will Eisner) - Inks
- Will Eisner
- Colors
- Will Eisner
- Letters
- ?
- Genre
- adventure; humor; superhero
- Characters
- The Spirit [Denny Colt]
- Reprints
-
in Will Eisner Color Treasury (Kitchen Sink Press, 1981 series) #[nn] (1981) -
in Ilustración + Comix Internacional (Toutain Editor, 1980 series) #12 ([noviembre 1981]) - in The Art of Will Eisner (Kitchen Sink Press, 1982 series) #[nn] [First Edition] (1982)
-
in Comix (Semic, 1983 series) #4 ([januar] 1984)
-
Indexer Notes
wrap-around cover
[no title indexed]
The Dept. of Loose Ends / text article / 0.8 page
- Script
- cat yronwode
- Letters
- typeset
The Spirit Checklist Part Six
text article / 2 pages
- Script
- cat yronwode (credited)
- Pencils
- Will Eisner
- Inks
- Will Eisner
- Letters
- typeset
Indexer Notes
Index of Spirit Reprints from Police thru Warren #9.
The Devil's Shoes
The Spirit / comic story / 8 pages
- Genre
- adventure; humor; superhero
- Characters
- The Spirit [Denny Colt]; Duchess of Doom; Ebony
- Reprints
- from The Spirit (Register and Tribune Syndicate, 1940 series) #2/1/1942 (February 1st, 1942)
-
M.U.R.D.E.R.
The Spirit / comic story / 8 pages
- Script
- Will Eisner
- Pencils
- Will Eisner (layouts)
- Inks
- Lou Fine (finishes)
- Letters
- Sam Rosen
- Genre
- adventure; humor; superhero
- Characters
- The Spirit [Denny Colt]; Dolan; Ebony
- Reprints
- from The Spirit (Register and Tribune Syndicate, 1940 series) #7/19/1942 (July 19, 1942)
-
Indexer Notes
entire story is a riff on the letters "M.U.R.D.E.R"
Montabaldo
The Spirit / comic story / 7 pages
- Genre
- adventure; humor; superhero
- Characters
- The Spirit [Denny Colt]; Octopus; Mr Carrion; Fraternization H Shack; Castanet (Intro)
- Reprints
- from The Spirit (Register and Tribune Syndicate, 1940 series) #1/25/1948 (January 25th, 1948) [misdated 1/18/48]
-
Indexer Notes
parody of Night on bald Mountain
No. 4 (The Frame)
Essay on Comic Art / text article / 4 pages
- Script
- Will Eisner (credited)
- Pencils
- Will Eisner (credited) (spot illos)
- Inks
- Will Eisner (credited) (spot illos)
- Letters
- typeset
- Genre
- non-fiction
- Reprints
- in Comics & Sequential Art: Expanded Edition (Poorhouse Press, 1990 series) (1990)
-
in La Bande dessinée, art séquentiel (Vertige Graphic, 1997 series) (janvier 1997) - in Comics and Sequential Art (W. W. Norton, 2008 series) (2008)
- in Les Clés de la bande dessinée (Delcourt, 2009 series) #1 (septembre 2009)
-
Indexer Notes
essay on drawing
The Treasure of Avenue 'C'
Big City / comic story / 9 pages
- Genre
- adventure; humor
- Reprints
- in Will Eisner Color Treasury (Kitchen Sink Press, 1981 series) #[nn] (1981) [3 page excerpt]
- in The Art of Will Eisner (Kitchen Sink Press, 1982 series) #[nn] (1982) [one page only]
- in Ilustración + Comix Internacional (Toutain Editor, 1980 series) #14 (enero 1982)
- in Will Eisner's New York the Big City (Kitchen Sink Press, 1986 series) (1986) which is reprinted
- in Will Eisner's New York the Big City (Kitchen Sink Press, 1986 series) (1986) which is reprinted
- in Will Eisner's New York the Big City (Kitchen Sink Press, 1986 series) (1986) which is reprinted
- in Will Eisner's New York the Big City (Kitchen Sink Press, 1986 series) (1986) which is reprinted
- in Will Eisner's New York the Big City (Kitchen Sink Press, 1986 series) (1986) which is reprinted
- in Will Eisner's New York the Big City (Kitchen Sink Press, 1986 series) (1986) which is reprinted
- in Will Eisner's New York the Big City (Kitchen Sink Press, 1986 series) (1986), (1986), (1986), (1986), (1986), (1986)
- in New York, the Big City (DC, 2000 series) (July 2000)
-
Indexer Notes
A series of vignettes surrounding a subway grate
Rife
The Spirit / comic story / 7 pages
- Genre
- adventure; humor; superhero
- Characters
- The Spirit [Denny Colt]
- Reprints
- from The Spirit (Register and Tribune Syndicate, 1940 series) #1/14/1951 (January 14, 1951)
-
Indexer Notes
Life magazine parody, no "story". Many cameos "pin up style"
The Amulet of Osiris
The Spirit / comic story / 7 pages
- Genre
- adventure; humor; superhero
- Characters
- The Spirit [Denny Colt]; Klink; Ebony
- Reprints
- from The Spirit (Register and Tribune Syndicate, 1940 series) #11/28/1948 (November 28th, 1948)
-
The Amulet of Osiris
Denny Colt, Alias the Spirit / comic story / 1 page
- Genre
- detective-mystery
- Characters
- The Spirit [Denny Colt]; Dolan; Sammy; Ebony
- Reprints
- from The Spirit (Register and Tribune Syndicate, 1940 series) #9/14/1952 (September 14, 1952)
-
Indexer Notes
4 page story printed 1/4 size on a single page. Fill-in story due to Wood missing his deadlines.
The Return
Denny Colt, Alias the Spirit / comic story / 4 pages
- Genre
- detective-mystery
- Characters
- The Spirit [Denny Colt]; Dolan; Sammy
- Reprints
- from The Spirit (Register and Tribune Syndicate, 1940 series) #9/21/1952 (September 21, 1952)
-
Indexer Notes
This story is a fill-in because the Wood story was so late.
[no title indexed]
The Spirit Letters / letters page / 1.87 pages
Indexer Notes
Letters from Dorothy C. Witek, Kevin C. McConnell, Mark A. Worden, Dennis Watts, Tim O'Hara, Daniel Theodore, Anne Hoste, Mitchell Raskin, Fred Janssen, Stuart Lichtenthal, and Randy Prislow; includes Free Spirit Classifieds and Spirit Portfolio advertisement.
Editing
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Series Information
Table of Contents
-
0.
[no title indexed]
The Spirit -
1.
[no title indexed]
The Dept. of Loose Ends -
2.
[no title indexed]
-
3.
The Spirit Checklist Part Six
-
4.
The Devil's Shoes
The Spirit -
5.
M.U.R.D.E.R.
The Spirit -
6.
Montabaldo
The Spirit -
7.
No. 4 (The Frame)
Essay on Comic Art -
8.
The Treasure of Avenue 'C'
Big City -
9.
Rife
The Spirit -
10.
The Amulet of Osiris
The Spirit -
11.
The Amulet of Osiris
Denny Colt, Alias the Spirit -
12.
The Return
Denny Colt, Alias the Spirit -
13.
[no title indexed]
The Spirit Letters
This issue was modified by, among others
- mcomics
- Chris Boyko
- Peter Croome
- Jerry Hillegas (R.I.P.)
- Mike Nielsen
- Mark Q
- Richard Thomson
- Jim Van Dore
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