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Issue Details

Issue #24
Published May 1980
Cover Price 1.75 USD
Pages 60
Editing Will Eisner; Dennis Kitchen; Cat Yronwode
Notes wrap-around cover. Hembeck letter and sketch on letters page

Cover Details

Genre adventure; humor
Pencils Will Eisner
Inks Will Eisner
Notes wrap-around cover. Hembeck letter and sketch on letters page
Reprinted in Will Eisner Color Treasury (Kitchen Sink Press, Inc., 1981 series) #1

2 page text article "Spirit Checklist Part 3"

Script Cat Yronwode
Letters Typeset
Notes indexes Spirit sections 386-503; 1947-50

8 page Spirit story "Boombershlag"

Genre adventure; humor
Script Will Eisner
Pencils Will Eisner
Inks Will Eisner
Letters Sam Rosen
Reprinted from Spirit, The (Register and Tribune Syndicate, 1940 series) #3/23/1941

7 page Spirit story "Beauty"

Characters Mathilda Dolan (Dolan's sister); Skinny Bones (intro); Gam (intro); "Every Little Bug" (song - intro)
Genre adventure; humor
Script Will Eisner
Pencils John Spranger
Inks Will Eisner; Bob Palmer
Letters Martin deMuth
Notes Aunt Mathilda first appeared on 3/1/42
Reprinted from Spirit, The (Register and Tribune Syndicate, 1940 series) #6/9/1946

7 page Spirit story "Cargo Octopus"

Characters Octopus (intro); Dulcet Tone; Skinny Bones; Satin
Genre adventure; humor
Script Will Eisner
Pencils John Spranger
Inks Will Eisner; Bob Palmer
Letters Martin deMuth
Reprinted from Spirit, The (Register and Tribune Syndicate, 1940 series) #7/14/1946

16 page Life On Another Planet story "Abort"

Genre science fiction
Script Will Eisner
Pencils Will Eisner
Inks Will Eisner
Notes Chapter 6

7 page Spirit story "A River of Crime"

Characters Slippery Eall (Eisner; Intro); Bellows (Kanegson; Intro); Dapperish (Grandenetti; Intro)
Genre adventure; humor
Script Will Eisner
Pencils Will Eisner
Inks Will Eisner; Jerry Grandenetti
Letters Abe Kanegson
Reprinted from Spirit, The (Register and Tribune Syndicate, 1940 series) #11/30/1947

4 page Outer Space story "Rescue"

Genre science fiction
Script Jules Feiffer
Pencils Wally Wood (1,2,4); Will Eisner (pg 3)
Inks Wally Wood (1,2,4); Al Wenzel? (pg3)
Letters Ben Oda??
Notes story length cut to 4 pages
Reprinted from Spirit, The (Register and Tribune Syndicate, 1940 series) #8/24/1952