Issue | #2 |
Published | March 1967 |
Frequency | quarterly |
Cover Price | 0.25 USD |
Pages | 68 |
Editing | Leon Harvey |
Genre | Adventure |
Pencils | Will Eisner |
Inks | Will Eisner |
Characters | Spirit [Denny Colt]; Villain: The Octopus [Zitzbath Zark] (origin in flashback); Introduction: Mrs. Zark (the Octopus's mother); Commissioner Dolan |
Synopsis | The Spirit tries to stop the King of Crime, the Octopus. |
Genre | adventure |
Script | Will Eisner |
Pencils | Will Eisner |
Inks | Will Eisner |
Characters | The Spirit |
Synopsis | The Spirit answers mail from his friends and enemies. |
Script | Marilyn Mercer? |
Letters | typeset |
Characters | Spirit [Denny Colt]; Plaster of Paris; Inspector Gillotine; Don Macabre |
Synopsis | Inspector Guillotine asks the Spirit to help him find the criminal Don Macabre, who seems to know the Inspector's every move. The Spirit realizes that the Inspector's fiancee -- Plaster of Paris -- is actually in love with Don and is a member of his gang. |
Genre | adventure |
Script | Will Eisner |
Pencils | Will Eisner |
Inks | Will Eisner |
Colors | Jules Feiffer |
Letters | Abe Kanegson |
Reprinted | from Spirit, The (Register and Tribune Syndicate, 1940 series) #11/7/1948 |
Characters | The Spirit [Denny Colt]; an unnamed music teacher; Commissioner Dolan; Dr. Wolfgang Worry (cameo); Wrecker; Stickie |
Synopsis | A music teacher picks up an "awful book" from a book-burning pile -- actually a comic book -- and is then plagued by someone who wants the book back. |
Genre | adventure |
Script | Will Eisner |
Pencils | Will Eisner |
Inks | Will Eisner |
Letters | Abe Kanegson |
Reprinted | from Spirit, The (Register and Tribune Syndicate, 1940 series) #2/27/1949 |
Characters | The Spirit [Denny Colt]; Introduction: The Man From MSD (Moitle Schmertz's Deli) |
Synopsis | A deli worker comes to the Spirit's lab to demonstrate a new weapon in crimefighting: a salami with 86 different ways to fight crime. |
Genre | adventure |
Script | Will Eisner |
Pencils | Will Eisner |
Inks | Will Eisner |
Notes | Possibly inspired by the "Man from U.N.C.L.E." television series. |
Characters | The Spirit [Denny Colt]; Rudy (a barber); Jenny (Rudy's girlfriend); Joe (a thug) |
Synopsis | A thug starts up a numbers racket in a barber shop's back room. When the Spirit comes in for a shave, the timid barber must kill the crime fighter before he discovers a dead body in the shop. |
Genre | adventure |
Script | Will Eisner |
Pencils | Will Eisner |
Inks | Will Eisner |
Reprinted | from Spirit, The (Register and Tribune Syndicate, 1940 series) #10/22/1950 |
Characters | Sam (a plate); the Spirit [Denny Colt]; Ellen Dolan; Commissioner Dolan; |
Synopsis | A simple plate wishes to fly. He's granted his wish when the Spirit uses him to stop some crooks. But soon Sam finds that being a "flying saucer" is not the ideal life he had hoped for. |
Genre | fable |
Script | Will Eisner |
Pencils | Will Eisner |
Inks | Will Eisner |
Reprinted | from Spirit, The (Register and Tribune Syndicate, 1940 series) #9/17/1950 |
Characters | the Spirit [Denny Colt]; Sam Chapparell; Omar Trent (the town sheriff); Little Spy; Choat |
Synopsis | A robber and murderer from the old west appears in a town, looking 40 years old but is really 130. This leads the Spirit to track down the murderer when he returns to Boot Camp, a Shangri-La for criminals. |
Genre | adventure |
Script | Will Eisner |
Pencils | Will Eisner |
Inks | Will Eisner |
Reprinted | from Spirit, The (Register and Tribune Syndicate, 1940 series) #10/10/1948 [aka "Gold"] |
Characters | The Spirit [Denny Colt]; Lupo (a flea circus owner); La Cucaracha (a talking cockroach); Jack (a diner owner); Cutter (a hood); Pete Grifter (an associate of Cutter); Commissioner Dolan |
Synopsis | Lupo tells a cafe owner his life story and of his talking cockroach. |
Genre | adventure |
Script | Will Eisner |
Pencils | Will Eisner |
Inks | Will Eisner |
Reprinted | from Spirit, The (Register and Tribune Syndicate, 1940 series) #11/19/1950 |
Characters | the Spirit [Denny Colt]; Ellen Dolan; Hazel B. Macbeth (a witch); The Octopus; Weezy (the Octopus' flunky); Commissioner Dolan |
Synopsis | While playing a witch in Ellen's Halloween play for school children, Hazel P. Macbeth is charmed by the Octopus. He then asks her to steal a book on black magic the kids are using in their play for him. |
Genre | adventure |
Script | Will Eisner |
Pencils | Will Eisner |
Inks | Will Eisner |
Reprinted | from Spirit, The (Register and Tribune Syndicate, 1940 series) #10/31/1948 [aka "Halloween"] |