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Issue Details

Issue #1
Published April 1974
Cover Price 1.00 USD
Pages 76
Editing Will Eisner; Bill DuBay
Notes Cover based on Eisner splash for 3/16/50.

Cover Details

Pencils Basil Gogos (painting)
Inks Basil Gogos (panting)
Colors Basil Gogos (painting)
Notes Cover based on Eisner splash for 3/16/50.

7 page Spirit story "The Last Trolley"

Synopsis Hop aboard a $100,000 ride into mystery. Travel Death's twisted track to Raven's Point. For The Spirit, it could be a one-way trip!
Script Will Eisner
Pencils John Spranger; Bob Palmer (splash)
Inks Will Eisner; Bob Palmer (splash)
Letters Martin deMuth
Notes rewritten?
Reprinted from Spirit, The (Register and Tribune Syndicate, 1940 series) #3/24/1946

7 page Spirit story "Escape"

Synopsis The Spirit never sleeps. Neither does the criminal mind. Watch as three escaped convicts find that the world is a prison for those who would flaunt justice!
Script Will Eisner
Pencils Will Eisner
Inks Will Eisner; Jerry Grandenetti
Letters Abe Kanegson?
Reprinted from Spirit, The (Register and Tribune Syndicate, 1940 series) #4/13/1947

7 page Spirit story "L'il Adam"

Characters Al Slapp; Li'l Adam; Elmer Hay; Hector Ghoul
Synopsis Classic comic strip characters come to life! A world of stick figures is the strange setting! Murder is the heinous crime! And The Spirit is baffled!
Script Will Eisner
Pencils Will Eisner; Jules Feiffer (most of pg 6)
Inks Will Eisner; Jerry Grandenetti
Letters Abe Kanegson
Notes Parodies of Lil Abner, Dick Tracy and Little Orphan Annie included.
Reprinted from Spirit, The (Register and Tribune Syndicate, 1940 series) #7/20/1947

7 page Spirit story "The Criminal"

Characters Klink
Synopsis A cop is shot! The Spirit is wounded! Tough gangland figures are held at bay! And behind it all is one Mr. Sawbuck ... a seven year old boy!
Script Will Eisner
Pencils Will Eisner
Inks Will Eisner; Jerry Grandenetti
Letters Abe Kanegson
Reprinted from Spirit, The (Register and Tribune Syndicate, 1940 series) #11/2/1947

7 page Spirit story "El Spirito"

Synopsis The Spirit has witnessed many strange things on rainy nights. But tonight is the first time he has ever followed a ghost ... straight to his own watery grave!
Script Will Eisner
Pencils Will Eisner
Inks Will Eisner; Jerry Grandenetti
Colors Rich Corben
Letters Abe Kanegson
Notes Splash page redrawn.
Reprinted from Spirit, The (Register and Tribune Syndicate, 1940 series) #2/1/1948

7 page Spirit story "The Killer"

Synopsis Henry the war-hero is back ... and no one wants him. No one, that is, until he kills his wife and her leering lover. Then he belongs to The Spirit!
Script Will Eisner
Pencils John Spranger
Inks Will Eisner; Bob Palmer
Letters Martin deMuth
Reprinted from Spirit, The (Register and Tribune Syndicate, 1940 series) #12/8/1946

7 page Spirit story "Granule of Time"

Characters Intro-Silken Floss
Synopsis A hostile visitor from the year 2400! One Dr. Lateur and his incredible Theory of Molecular Arrangement. Into this melee comes The Spirit!
Script Will Eisner
Pencils Will Eisner
Inks Will Eisner; Jerry Grandenetti
Letters Martin deMuth
Reprinted from Spirit, The (Register and Tribune Syndicate, 1940 series) #3/2/1947

7 page Spirit story "The Partner"

Synopsis The Spirit! Slaughtered by Slinko Joe Daws. Now there's no one to save a helpless Central City from the nefarious clutches of Slimy Skinch and Co.!
Script Will Eisner
Pencils Will Eisner
Inks Will Eisner; Jerry Grandenetti
Letters Abe Kanegson?
Reprinted from Spirit, The (Register and Tribune Syndicate, 1940 series) #1/26/1947