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Issue Details

Issue #9
Published April 1985
Cover Price 2.95 USD
Pages 44
Editing Dennis Kitchen
Notes original color begins

Cover Details

Genre adventure; humor
Pencils Will Eisner
Inks Will Eisner
Colors Pete Poplaski
Notes original color begins

7 page Spirit story "Distinguished Men Prefer Borshbelt's Buttermilk"

Genre adventure; humor
Script Will Eisner
Pencils John Spranger
Inks Will Eisner/Bob Palmer
Colors Bob Palmer?
Letters Martin deMuth
Notes Spirit appears in only one panel
Reprinted from Spirit, The (Register and Tribune Syndicate, 1940 series) #8/18/1946

7 page Spirit story "Smuggler's Cove"

Characters A-P.S., Ebony (feature)
Genre adventure; humor
Script Will Eisner
Pencils John Spranger
Inks Will Eisner/Bob Palmer
Colors Bob Palmer?
Letters Martin deMuth
Notes no dialogue, story is narrated entirely by an unrelated radio broadcast
Reprinted from Spirit, The (Register and Tribune Syndicate, 1940 series) #8/25/1946

7 page Spirit story Olga Bustle in "Outcast"

Characters A-Mr Dusk (last seen 8/16/42)
Genre adventure; humor
Script Will Eisner
Pencils John Spranger
Inks Will Eisner/Bob Palmer
Colors Bob Palmer?
Letters Martin deMuth
Notes parody of Jane Russell in "The Outlaw"
Reprinted from Spirit, The (Register and Tribune Syndicate, 1940 series) #9/1/1946

7 page Spirit story "The Vortex"

Genre adventure; humor
Script Will Eisner
Pencils John Spranger
Inks Will Eisner/Bob Palmer
Colors Bob Palmer?
Letters Martin deMuth
Notes Cat Yronwode says this is the grisliest story Eisner ever wrote
Reprinted from Spirit, The (Register and Tribune Syndicate, 1940 series) #9/8/1946

7 page Spirit story "Back To School"

Characters A-P.S., Brains Tidewater (incorrectly called Brown), Ebony (feature), I-Boss Bubble
Genre adventure; humor
Script Will Eisner
Pencils John Spranger
Inks Will Eisner/Bob Palmer
Colors Bob Palmer?
Letters Martin deMuth
Reprinted from Spirit, The (Register and Tribune Syndicate, 1940 series) #9/15/1946