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Issue Details

Issue #7
Published [July] 2002
Cover Price $49.95
Pages 224
Editing Dale Crain; Nick Napolitano
Notes Credits mostly assembled by Cat Yronwode and Lou Mougin. Lou Fine's assistants in 1943 included Alex Kotzky and Joe Kubert (three months).

Cover Details

Characters Spirit; Commissioner Doyle
Genre adventure
Pencils Will Eisner
Inks Will Eisner
Colors Digital Chameleon
Notes Credits mostly assembled by Cat Yronwode and Lou Mougin. Lou Fine's assistants in 1943 included Alex Kotzky and Joe Kubert (three months).

2 page foreword, introduction, preface, afterword "A Midnight Tale"

Characters Midnight; Doc Wackey; Gabby
Genre fact
Script R. C. Harvey
Pencils Jack Cole
Inks Jack Cole
Colors Digital Chameleon
Letters typeset
Notes cover to Smash Comics 68, two Midnight splash pages and one Plastic Man splash page reprinted to illustrate Eisner's influence on Jack Cole.
Reprinted from Smash Comics (Quality Comics, 1939 series) #68 [cover]

2 page Joe Dope illustration "World War II Portfolio"

Characters Joe Dope
Genre propaganda
Script Will Eisner
Pencils Will Eisner
Inks Will Eisner
Colors Digital Chameleon
Reprinted WW II era instructional posters

8 page Spirit story "Marathon Dancers"

Characters Dolan; Ellen; Lowery
Synopsis Ellen enters a dance marathon contest and gets accused of murder.
Genre adventure
Pencils Lou Fine
Inks Robin King?
Colors Digital Chameleon
Reprinted from Spirit, The (Register and Tribune Syndicate, 1940 series) #7/4/1943

8 page Spirit story "Three Wishes"

Characters Ebony, Liza Belle
Genre adventure
Script Manly Wade Wellman
Pencils Lou Fine
Inks Robin King?
Colors Digital Chameleon
Reprinted from Spirit, The (Register and Tribune Syndicate, 1940 series) #7/11/1943

8 page Spirit story "The House of Darkness"

Characters Dolan; Trigger Thomson; Mrs. Olcott
Genre adventure
Script Bill Woolfolk
Pencils Lou Fine
Inks Robin King?
Colors Digital Chameleon
Reprinted from Spirit, The (Register and Tribune Syndicate, 1940 series) #7/18/1943

8 page Spirit story "Framed"

Characters Ebony; Dolan
Genre adventure
Script Bill Woolfolk
Pencils Lou Fine
Inks Robin King?
Colors Digital Chameleon
Reprinted from Spirit, The (Register and Tribune Syndicate, 1940 series) #7/25/1943

8 page Spirit story "The Maestro"

Characters Intro-The Maestro; Ebony; Dolan; Pierpont; Hot Licks Lazlo;
Genre adventure
Script Manly Wade Wellman
Pencils Lou Fine
Inks Quality staff
Colors Digital Chameleon
Notes Ebony feature
Reprinted from Spirit, The (Register and Tribune Syndicate, 1940 series) #8/1/1943

8 page Spirit story "Shipyard Sabotage"

Characters Dolan; Ebony
Genre adventure
Script Bob Powell?
Pencils Lou Fine
Inks Quality staff
Colors Digital Chameleon
Reprinted from Spirit, The (Register and Tribune Syndicate, 1940 series) #8/8/1943

8 page Spirit story "The Last Gang In Rotten Row"

Characters Ellen; Ebony; Dolan
Genre adventure
Script Will Eisner
Pencils Will Eisner
Inks Quality Staff
Colors Digital Chameleon
Reprinted from Spirit, The (Register and Tribune Syndicate, 1940 series) #8/15/1943

8 page Spirit story "On the Ferris Wheel"

Characters Ebony; Pierpont; Clarrisa
Genre adventure
Script Bill Woolfolk
Pencils Lou Fine
Inks Quality Staff
Notes Ebony feature
Reprinted from Spirit, The (Register and Tribune Syndicate, 1940 series) #8/22/1943

8 page Spirit story "Broadway Lily"

Characters Mayor Blast; Dolan; Ebony; Broadway Lily
Genre adventure
Script Bill Woolfolk
Pencils Lou Fine
Inks Quality Staff
Colors Digital Chameleon
Reprinted from Spirit, The (Register and Tribune Syndicate, 1940 series) #8/29/1943

8 page Spirit story "The Art of Making Love Ardently"

Characters Ellen; Ebony; Dolan; Derwood Graves; Cuthbert Van Gimmick
Synopsis An Old beau of Ellen's returns
Genre adventure
Script Manly Wade Wellman
Pencils Lou Fine
Inks Quality Staff
Colors Digital Chameleon
Reprinted from Spirit, The (Register and Tribune Syndicate, 1940 series) #9/5/1943

8 page Spirit story "Woman Crooks"

Characters Ellen; Ebony; Dolan; Maisie; Number One
Synopsis When the Spirit goes up against a gang of women crooks, Ellen has to rescue him.
Genre adventure
Colors Digital Chameleon
Reprinted from Spirit, The (Register and Tribune Syndicate, 1940 series) #9/12/1943

8 page Spirit story "Killer Sykes"

Characters Dolan; Ebony,
Genre adventure
Script Manly Wade Wellman?
Pencils Lou Fine
Inks Quality Staff
Colors Digital Chameleon
Reprinted from Spirit, The (Register and Tribune Syndicate, 1940 series) #9/19/1943

8 page Spirit story "Murder on the Job"

Characters Ebony; Dolan
Genre adventure
Script Bill Woolfolk
Pencils Lou Fine
Inks Quality Staff
Colors Digital Chameleon
Reprinted from Spirit, The (Register and Tribune Syndicate, 1940 series) #9/26/1943

8 page Spirit story "Case of the Southpaw Maiden"

Characters Ebony; PS; Bertram; Dolan; Quincy Gilpin
Synopsis The Spirit gives Ebony a murder case to handle alone.
Genre adventure
Script Bill Woolfolk?
Pencils Lou Fine?
Inks Quality staff
Colors Digital Chameleon
Notes Ebony feature
Reprinted from Spirit, The (Register and Tribune Syndicate, 1940 series) #10/3/1943

8 page Spirit story "Ellen Dolan, Murderess"

Characters Ellen; Dolan
Genre adventure
Script Manly Wade Wellman?
Pencils Lou Fine
Inks Quality Staff
Colors Digital Chameleon
Reprinted from Spirit, The (Register and Tribune Syndicate, 1940 series) #10/10/1943

8 page Spirit story "The Magic Drums of the Shonokins"

Characters Ellen; Dolan; Ebony
Genre adventure
Script Manly Wade Wellman
Pencils Lou Fine
Inks Quality Staff
Colors Digital Chameleon
Notes based on Wellman Weird Tales story
Reprinted from Spirit, The (Register and Tribune Syndicate, 1940 series) #10/17/1943

8 page Spirit story "Who Killed Gloria Drake?"

Characters Dolan; Ebony; Ellen
Genre adventure
Script Bill Woolfolk
Pencils Lou Fine
Inks Quality Staff
Colors Digital Chameleon
Reprinted from Spirit, The (Register and Tribune Syndicate, 1940 series) #10/24/1943

8 page Spirit story "Death in the Lion Cage"

Characters Ebony; Dolan
Genre adventure
Script Manly Wade Wellman?
Pencils Lou Fine
Inks Quality Staff
Colors Digital Chameleon
Reprinted from Spirit, The (Register and Tribune Syndicate, 1940 series) #10/31/1943

8 page Spirit story "Fronie Pettigrew"

Characters Ellen; Ebony; Dolan
Genre adventure
Script Manly Wade Wellman?
Pencils Lou Fine
Inks Quality staff
Colors Digital Chameleon
Reprinted from Spirit, The (Register and Tribune Syndicate, 1940 series) #11/7/1943

8 page Spirit story "Vance McVane"

Characters Dolan
Genre adventure
Pencils Lou Fine?
Inks Quality staff
Colors Digital Chameleon
Reprinted from Spirit, The (Register and Tribune Syndicate, 1940 series) #11/14/1943

8 page Spirit story "On Guard!"

Characters Ellen; Ebony; Dolan
Genre adventure
Script Bill Woolfolk
Pencils Lou Fine
Inks Quality staff
Colors Digital Chameleon
Reprinted from Spirit, The (Register and Tribune Syndicate, 1940 series) #11/21/1943

8 page Spirit story "The Killer Nurse"

Characters Ellen; Ebony; Dolan
Genre adventure
Script Manly Wade Wellman?
Pencils Lou Fine
Inks Quality staff
Colors Digital Chameleon
Reprinted from Spirit, The (Register and Tribune Syndicate, 1940 series) #11/28/1943

8 page Spirit story "The Auction"

Characters Dolan; Ebony; Ellen
Genre adventure
Script Bill Woolfolk
Pencils Lou Fine
Inks Quality staff
Colors Digital Chameleon
Reprinted from Spirit, The (Register and Tribune Syndicate, 1940 series) #12/5/1943

8 page Spirit story "Train Wreck"

Characters Dolan; Ebony; Ellen
Genre Adventure
Pencils Lou Fine?
Inks Quality staff
Colors Digital Chameleon
Reprinted from Spirit, The (Register and Tribune Syndicate, 1940 series) #12/12/1943

8 page Spirit story "Druce's Time Bomb"

Characters Ebony, Dolan
Genre adventure
Script Bill Woolfolk
Pencils Quality staff
Inks Quality staff
Colors Digital Chameleon
Reprinted from Spirit, The (Register and Tribune Syndicate, 1940 series) #12/19/1943

8 page Spirit story "Cloak and Coffin"

Characters Ebony; Dolan
Genre adventure
Script Manly Wade Wellman
Pencils Robin King?
Inks Robin King?
Colors Digital Chameleon
Reprinted from Spirit, The (Register and Tribune Syndicate, 1940 series) #12/26/1943