([August] 2008)
DC,
2000 Series
- Volume
- 24
- Price
- 59.99 USD; 68.99 CAD
- Pages
- 280
- On-sale Date
- 2008-06-11
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- DC Comics
- Brand
-
DC Comics
- ISBN
-
978-1-4012-1698-6; 1-4012-1698-6
- Barcode
- 9781401216986 55999
- Editing
- Scott Nybakken
[no title indexed]
Spirit / cover / 1 page
- Genre
- adventure
- Characters
- The Spirit
- Reprints
-
from The Spirit (Register and Tribune Syndicate, 1940 series) #8/3/1952 (August 3, 1952) [splash page]
-
Fabian Skimp
Spirit / comic story / 7 pages
- Genre
- adventure
- Characters
- Fabian Skimp; Louise Fipp; Roach; Spirit; Ben Clarion
- Synopsis
- Fabian Skimp can't stand inefficiency, or any deviation from the system.
- Reprints
- from The Spirit (Register and Tribune Syndicate, 1940 series) #1/6/1952 (January 6, 1952)
-
Design for Doomsday
Spirit / comic story / 7 pages
- Genre
- adventure
- Characters
- Spirit; Dolan; Will Eisner; Jules Feiffer; Ellen Dolan
- Synopsis
- Feiffer tries to sell a plot about the end of the world to Eisner.
- Reprints
- from The Spirit (Register and Tribune Syndicate, 1940 series) #1/13/1952 (January 13, 1952)
-
A Witness to Murder
Spirit / comic story / 7 pages
- Genre
- adventure
- Characters
- Spirit; Dolan; Dora; Frank
- Synopsis
- A tv store decides to film a family's first look at tv in their own home.
- Reprints
- from The Spirit (Register and Tribune Syndicate, 1940 series) #1/20/1952 (January 20, 1952)
-
Indexer Notes
Spirit appears only on first and last page.
The First Man on Mars
Spirit / comic story / 7 pages
- Genre
- adventure
- Characters
- Captain Isotope; Dolan; Spirit; Ellen Dolan
- Synopsis
- TV star Captain Isotope is so popular he thinks he really can fly to Mars, and the Spirit is inclined to let him try, because he's making time with Ellen.
- Reprints
- from The Spirit (Register and Tribune Syndicate, 1940 series) #1/27/1952 (January 27, 1952)
-
A Man Named Nero
Spirit / comic story / 7 pages
- Genre
- adventure
- Characters
- Spirit; Mr. Nero; Sand Saref
- Synopsis
- Mr. Nero builds a replica of the Colisseum and tries to feed the Spirit to the lions.
- Reprints
- from The Spirit (Register and Tribune Syndicate, 1940 series) #2/3/1952 (February 3, 1952)
-
The Snow Fort Massacre
Spirit / comic story / 7 pages
- Genre
- adventure
- Characters
- Dolan; Ronald; Spirit; Itchy West; Silky Purse; Eggy Poach
- Synopsis
- A boy finds a dead body inside his snow fort.
- Reprints
- from The Spirit (Register and Tribune Syndicate, 1940 series) #2/10/1952 (February 10, 1952)
-
Leap Year
Spirit / comic story / 7 pages
- Genre
- adventure
- Characters
- Dolan; Spirit; Tiny Buttrix; Dapper; Foxy
- Synopsis
- Tiny Buttrix decides she's in love with Dolan. Dapper and Foxy don't like him so much however.
- Reprints
- from The Spirit (Register and Tribune Syndicate, 1940 series) #2/17/1952 (February 17, 1952)
-
It Kills by Dark
The Spirit / comic story / 7 pages
- Genre
- crime; superhero
- Characters
- The Spirit [Denny Colt]; Commissioner Eustace Dolan; Sam Toodem (mine foreman); Sam's younger brother (death); Hauler
- Synopsis
- The Spirit goes in to help save trapped miners only to discover that the collapse was caused to cover up a murder.
- Reprints
- from The Spirit (Register and Tribune Syndicate, 1940 series) #2/24/1952 (February 24, 1952), #2/24/1952 (February 24, 1952) [The story does not begin on the cover but on second page.]
-
Indexer Notes
Original title, "You Will Spend 15 Minutes in Darkness...". The original cover has been incorporated as a part of the story page count.
The Miami Beach Rumble
Spirit / comic story / 7 pages
- Genre
- adventure
- Characters
- Spirit; Dolan; Gastro; Quartz
- Synopsis
- The Spirit goes to Miami to escort a gangster who wants to give himself up back to Central City.
- Reprints
- from The Spirit (Register and Tribune Syndicate, 1940 series) #3/2/1952 (March 2, 1952)
-
The Big Job
Spirit / comic story / 7 pages
- Genre
- adventure
- Characters
- Archie; Spirit; Dolan
- Synopsis
- Archie taunts another gangster into trying to kill the Spirit.
- Reprints
- from The Spirit (Register and Tribune Syndicate, 1940 series) #3/9/1952 (March 9, 1952)
-
Patrolman Dolan
Spirit / comic story / 7 pages
- Genre
- adventure
- Characters
- Dolan; Spirit; John J. Beagle; Mr. Stain, Hinky
- Synopsis
- Mr. Stain and the Good Times Party replace Dolan as police commissioner and put the Spirit in jail.
- Reprints
- from The Spirit (Register and Tribune Syndicate, 1940 series) #3/16/1952 (March 16, 1952)
-
Staple Springs
Spirit / comic story / 7 pages
- Genre
- adventure
- Characters
- Spirit (as Eisenhower S. Daft); Dolan; Butcher Polk; P'Gell; Judge Slater
- Synopsis
- Spirit goes undercover at a resort for criminals, looking for a judge who has disappeared.
- Reprints
- from The Spirit (Register and Tribune Syndicate, 1940 series) #3/23/1952 (March 23, 1952)
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The Rainmaker
Spirit / comic story / 7 pages
- Genre
- adventure
- Characters
- Hubert Heever; Myrtle Heever; Rudolph the Rainmaker; Spirit
- Synopsis
- Hubert Heever suffers from hard luck. He goes into the bottled water business 50 years too early. But his luck is bound to change. In fact, it gets worse.
- Reprints
- from The Spirit (Register and Tribune Syndicate, 1940 series) #3/30/1952 (March 30, 1952)
-
Indexer Notes
Spirit on last page only.
The Million Dollar Robbery
Spirit / comic story / 7 pages
- Genre
- adventure
- Characters
- Sam; Willum Waif; Spirit
- Synopsis
- Passengers on a ferry daydream about what they'd do if they'd pulled the Million Dollar Bank robbery. Willum knows though, because the guy who's kidnapped him, is the bank robber.
- Reprints
- from The Spirit (Register and Tribune Syndicate, 1940 series) #4/6/1952 (April 6, 1952)
-
Mayor Dolan
Spirit / comic story / 7 pages
- Genre
- adventure
- Characters
- Spirit; Ellen Dolan; Mike Poltax; Dolan
- Synopsis
- Flashback story showing how Ellen ended up mayor of Central City
- Reprints
- from The Spirit (Register and Tribune Syndicate, 1940 series) #4/13/1952 (April 13, 1952)
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The Great Galactic Mystery
Spirit / comic story / 7 pages
- Genre
- adventure
- Characters
- Spirit; Dolan; Humbolt Weepy; Klink
- Synopsis
- Humbolt Weepy vows to send a man to the Moon using only the power of his mind.
- Reprints
- from The Spirit (Register and Tribune Syndicate, 1940 series) #4/20/1952 (April 20, 1952)
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A Different Face
Spirit / comic story / 7 pages
- Genre
- adventure
- Characters
- Ellen Dolan; Spirit; Dolan; Klink; William Birch
- Synopsis
- The Spirit wakes up one morning with a different face. And no one believes him.
- Reprints
- from The Spirit (Register and Tribune Syndicate, 1940 series) #4/27/1952 (April 27, 1952)
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L'Espirit
Spirit / comic story / 7 pages
- Genre
- adventure
- Characters
- Spirit; Casey; P'Gell; Franz; Carl; the Skipper
- Synopsis
- Three men book passage on a freighter and vie for the attentions of the only female passenger.
- Reprints
- from The Spirit (Register and Tribune Syndicate, 1940 series) #5/4/1952 (May 4, 1952)
-
Indexer Notes
Written in French with English subtitles. The English and French have nothing to do with each other. Continued next week.
The Incident of the Sitting Duck
Spirit / comic story / 7 pages
- Genre
- adventure
- Characters
- Spirit; P'Gell; Carl; Franz
- Synopsis
- The Spirit and two spies vy for the attentions of P'Gell while traveling aboard a freighter.
- Reprints
- from The Spirit (Register and Tribune Syndicate, 1940 series) #5/11/1952 (May 11, 1952)
-
Indexer Notes
continued from previous week
Assassins Incorporated, Part One
Spirit / comic story / 7 pages
- Genre
- adventure
- Characters
- Spirit; Krug; Assassins, Inc.
- Synopsis
- The Spirit is in Madrid looking for a terrorist who wants to turn himself in, during the Running of the Bulls.
- Reprints
- from The Spirit (Register and Tribune Syndicate, 1940 series) #5/18/1952 (May 18, 1952)
-
Assassins Incorporated Part Two
Spirit / comic story / 7 pages
- Genre
- adventure
- Characters
- Spirit; Assassins, Inc.; Cyrus Plunder
- Synopsis
- Cyrus Plunder hired Assassins, Inc. to kill the leader of a MidEast country. Now the Spirit must stop him from succeeding.
- Reprints
- from The Spirit (Register and Tribune Syndicate, 1940 series) #5/25/1952 (May 25, 1952)
-
Indexer Notes
continued from previous week
Sammy Falls in Love
Spirit / comic story / 7 pages
- Genre
- adventure
- Characters
- Sammy; Spirit; Gertrude Plastik; Dolan; The Heist Brothers
- Synopsis
- Sammy falls in love with a 17 year-old sculptress whose ambition is to commit the perfect murder.
- Reprints
- from The Spirit (Register and Tribune Syndicate, 1940 series) #6/1/1952 (June 1, 1952)
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What Are You Really Like?
Spirit / comic story / 7 pages
- Genre
- adventure
- Characters
- Spirit; Dolan; Ellen Dolan; Psam Psych; Mangler
- Synopsis
- Parody of magazine personlity quizzes. Psam Psych's personality test says the Spirit may become a murderer at any moment. And Mangler is "sweet, kind and full of virtues."
- Reprints
- from The Spirit (Register and Tribune Syndicate, 1940 series) #6/8/1952 (June 8, 1952)
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Five Hundred Papers
Spirit / comic story / 7 pages
- Genre
- adventure
- Characters
- Spirit; Quill; George; Dolan
- Synopsis
- Quill, the creator of Captain Adventure, hires a background man. The beginning of a slippery slope to murder.
- Reprints
- from The Spirit (Register and Tribune Syndicate, 1940 series) #6/15/1952 (June 15, 1952)
-
Indexer Notes
Dixon's initials on splash page. "J D" or is that Jim and Don? Spirit and Dolan only appear on the splash page (and as shadows in the last panel.)
The Golden Lily
Spirit / comic story / 7 pages
- Script
- Klaus Nordling ?
- Pencils
- Klaus Nordling (layouts); Al Wenzel
- Inks
- Al Wenzel
- Colors
- Jamison
- Letters
- ?
- Genre
- adventure
- Characters
- Sand Saref; Spirit; Hans Vanguilter; Pepe; Swyndle; Mr. Fat
- Synopsis
- Hans Vanguilter can turn lilies into gold. And Sand Saref has the lily.
- Reprints
- from The Spirit (Register and Tribune Syndicate, 1940 series) #6/22/1952 (June 22, 1952)
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Rube Potter
Spirit / comic story / 7 pages
- Script
- Jules Feiffer ?
- Pencils
- Al Wenzel (pages 1-6); Wally Wood (page 7)
- Inks
- Al Wenzel (pages 1-6); Wally Wood (page 7)
- Colors
- Jamison
- Letters
- ?
- Genre
- adventure
- Characters
- Rube Potter; Mr. Sack; Pinky Quinto; Willum Waif; Spirit
- Synopsis
- Rube led the league in stolen bases for 12 years, but now he's washed up and due to be traded.
- Reprints
- from The Spirit (Register and Tribune Syndicate, 1940 series) #6/29/1952 (June 29, 1952)
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Indexer Notes
one panel Spirit cameo, 1st Moon Report
The Ballad of Greenly Sleeve
Spirit / comic story / 7 pages
- Genre
- adventure
- Characters
- Spirit; Carrion; Sammy; Dolan; Greenly Sleeve
- Synopsis
- Narrator sings the story, with a hey, down derry down. Apparently Carrion is in love with Greenly Sleeve, but she thinks he's a coward.
- Reprints
- from The Spirit (Register and Tribune Syndicate, 1940 series) #7/6/1952 (July 6, 1952)
-
Matt Slugg
Spirit / comic story / 7 pages
- Script
- Jules Feiffer
- Pencils
- Klaus Nordling (layouts); Al Wenzel; Wally Wood (page 7)
- Inks
- Al Wenzel; Wally Wood (page 7)
- Colors
- Jamison
- Letters
- ?
- Genre
- adventure
- Characters
- Harry Shill; Dolan; Spirit; Matt Slugg
- Synopsis
- Harry Shill is looking for a boxer that will fit his system. He finally finds him in a burglar. Only trouble is, Slugg likes being a burglar.
- Reprints
- from The Spirit (Register and Tribune Syndicate, 1940 series) #7/13/1952 (July 13, 1952)
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Indexer Notes
Moon Report #2 on page 7
Marry The Spirit
Spirit / comic story / 7 pages
- Script
- Jules Feiffer
- Pencils
- Al Wenzel; Wally Wood (page 7)
- Inks
- Al Wenzel; Wally Wood (page 7)
- Colors
- Jamison
- Letters
- ?
- Genre
- adventure
- Characters
- Will Eisner; P'Gell; Sand Saref; Finchly Squander; Ellen
- Synopsis
- Eisner is ordered by the Syndicate to marry the Spirit because all the best comic strips are doing it.
- Reprints
- from The Spirit (Register and Tribune Syndicate, 1940 series) #7/20/1952 (July 20, 1952)
-
Indexer Notes
3rd Moon Report on page 7
Outer Space
Outer Space / comic story / 7 pages
- Script
- Jules Feiffer (signed)
- Pencils
- Wally Wood (signed)
- Inks
- Wally Wood
- Colors
- Jamison Services
- Letters
- ?
- Genre
- science fiction
- Characters
- Spirit; Dolan; Hartley Skol; Ellen; Dutch; Spider
- Synopsis
- The Interplanetary Flight Commission asks the Spirit to lead a crew of convicts on a mission to the Moon.
- Reprints
- from The Spirit (Register and Tribune Syndicate, 1940 series) #7/27/1952 (July 27, 1952)
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Mission...the Moon
Outer Space / comic story / 7 pages
- Genre
- science fiction
- Characters
- Spirit; Spider; Dutch; Ringo; Skobey; Kress (dies); Captain Delf; Professor Hartley
- Synopsis
- The Spirit and his crew of convicts land on the Moon and try to adjust to its gravity and each other.
- Reprints
- from The Spirit (Register and Tribune Syndicate, 1940 series) #8/3/1952 (August 3, 1952)
-
A DP on the Moon
Outer Space / comic story / 7 pages
- Characters
- Spirit; Francisco Rivera; Colonel Gomez
- Synopsis
- The Spirit and his crew find a book on the Moon, reporting the trip of a South American dictator to the Moon, 10 years earlier.
- Reprints
- from The Spirit (Register and Tribune Syndicate, 1940 series) #8/10/1952 (August 10, 1952)
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Heat
Outer Space / comic story / 7 pages
- Genre
- science fiction
- Characters
- Spirit; Spider Webbin (dies); Dolan; Ellen; Fly Musca
- Synopsis
- Story alternates between Moon and Central City as Spider Webbin's life story unfolds as he plunges to his death on the Moon.
- Reprints
- from The Spirit (Register and Tribune Syndicate, 1940 series) #8/17/1952 (August 17, 1952)
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Rescue
Outer Space / comic story / 4 pages
- Script
- Jules Feiffer
- Pencils
- Wally Wood (pages 1,2,4); Will Eisner (page 3)
- Inks
- Wally Wood (pages 1,2,4); Al Wenzel ? (page 3)
- Colors
- Jamison Services
- Letters
- Ben Oda ?
- Genre
- science fiction
- Characters
- Spirit; Professor Skol; Ebony; P.S.; Brains; Scarlett
- Synopsis
- Professor Skol goes blind from the bright sunlight.
- Reprints
- from The Spirit (Register and Tribune Syndicate, 1940 series) #8/24/1952 (August 24, 1952)
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Indexer Notes
story length cut to 4 pages
The Last Man (on Planet Moon)
Outer Space / comic story / 4 pages
- Genre
- science fiction
- Characters
- Archie Blyke; Dutch; Spirit
- Synopsis
- Dutch decides he doesn't want to go back to Earth. Meanwhile Archie Blyke is waiting for him.
- Reprints
- from The Spirit (Register and Tribune Syndicate, 1940 series) #8/31/1952 (August 31, 1952)
-
The Man in the Moon
Outer Space / comic story / 4 pages
- Genre
- science fiction
- Characters
- Dutch Birch
- Synopsis
- Dutch Birch decides to stay behind on the Moon. He sits and waits for fame and fortune.
- Reprints
- from The Spirit (Register and Tribune Syndicate, 1940 series) #9/7/1952 (September 7, 1952)
-
Indexer Notes
no Spirit.
The Osiris Jewel
Denny Colt Alias the Spirit / comic story / 4 pages
- Genre
- adventure
- Characters
- Dolan; Sammy; Ebony; Herman Fleeble; Prexy Filch; Spirit
- Synopsis
- Prexy Filch tries to use Sammy in his plot to switch a fake Osiris jewel for the real one.
- Reprints
- from The Spirit (Register and Tribune Syndicate, 1940 series) #9/14/1952 (September 14, 1952)
-
Return from the Moon
Space Report / comic story / 4 pages
- Genre
- science fiction
- Characters
- Spirit; Professor Skol; Buggsy
- Synopsis
- Buggsy decides that everything is a figment of his imagination.
- Reprints
- from The Spirit (Register and Tribune Syndicate, 1940 series) #9/28/1952 (September 28, 1952)
-
Indexer Notes
printed out of sequence to preserve continuity
The Spirit Back on Earth
Denny Colt Alias the Spirit / comic story / 4 pages
- Genre
- science fiction
- Characters
- Dolan; Ellen Dolan; Ebony; Spirit
- Synopsis
- While the Spirit's expedition is returning to Earth they pass a UFO heading in the same direction.
- Reprints
- from The Spirit (Register and Tribune Syndicate, 1940 series) #9/21/1952 (September 21, 1952)
-
Indexer Notes
printed out of sequence to put the stories in continuity order
Denny Colt, UFO Investigator
Outer Space / comic story / 4 pages
- Genre
- science fiction
- Characters
- Spirit; Ellen Dolan; Dolan; Gofer
- Synopsis
- Now back on Earth, the Spirit investigates reports of a UFO landing in North Dakota.
- Reprints
- from The Spirit (Register and Tribune Syndicate, 1940 series) #10/5/1952 (October 5, 1952)
-
Indexer Notes
last published story. But it's continued.
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Table of Contents
-
0.
[no title indexed]
Spirit -
1.
Foreword
-
2.
The Spirit of Wally Wood
-
3.
Fabian Skimp
Spirit -
4.
Design for Doomsday
Spirit -
5.
A Witness to Murder
Spirit -
6.
The First Man on Mars
Spirit -
7.
A Man Named Nero
Spirit -
8.
The Snow Fort Massacre
Spirit -
9.
Leap Year
Spirit -
10.
It Kills by Dark
The Spirit -
11.
The Miami Beach Rumble
Spirit -
12.
The Big Job
Spirit -
13.
Patrolman Dolan
Spirit -
14.
Staple Springs
Spirit -
15.
The Rainmaker
Spirit -
16.
The Million Dollar Robbery
Spirit -
17.
Mayor Dolan
Spirit -
18.
The Great Galactic Mystery
Spirit -
19.
A Different Face
Spirit -
20.
L'Espirit
Spirit -
21.
The Incident of the Sitting Duck
Spirit -
22.
Assassins Incorporated, Part One
Spirit -
23.
Assassins Incorporated Part Two
Spirit -
24.
Sammy Falls in Love
Spirit -
25.
What Are You Really Like?
Spirit -
26.
Five Hundred Papers
Spirit -
27.
The Golden Lily
Spirit -
28.
Rube Potter
Spirit -
29.
The Ballad of Greenly Sleeve
Spirit -
30.
Matt Slugg
Spirit -
31.
Marry The Spirit
Spirit -
32.
Outer Space
Outer Space -
33.
Mission...the Moon
Outer Space -
34.
A DP on the Moon
Outer Space -
35.
Heat
Outer Space -
36.
Rescue
Outer Space -
37.
The Last Man (on Planet Moon)
Outer Space -
38.
The Man in the Moon
Outer Space -
39.
The Osiris Jewel
Denny Colt Alias the Spirit -
40.
Return from the Moon
Space Report -
41.
The Spirit Back on Earth
Denny Colt Alias the Spirit -
42.
Denny Colt, UFO Investigator
Outer Space
This issue was modified by, among others
- Ray Bottorff Jr
- Merlin Haas
- Katy Hayhurst
- Bob Hughes
- Tony R. Rose
- Karsten S.
- Jason Sacks
- Adam Spector
- Jim Stangas
- Jim Van Dore
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