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Issue Details

Issue #2
Published March 1967
Frequency quarterly
Cover Price 0.25 USD
Pages 68
Editing Leon Harvey

Cover Details

Genre Adventure
Pencils Will Eisner
Inks Will Eisner

7 page Spirit story "Octopus: The Life Story of the King of Crime"

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

2 page text story "The Spirit Answers Your Mail"

Characters The Spirit
Synopsis The Spirit answers mail from his friends and enemies.
Script Marilyn Mercer?
Letters typeset

7 page Spirit story "Plaster of Paris"

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

7 page Spirit story "The Deadly Comic Book"

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

2 page Spirit story "The Spirit Lab [The Man From MSD]"

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.

7 page Spirit story "Rudy the Barber"

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

7 page Spirit story "The Story of Sam, the Saucer That Wanted To Fly"

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

7 page Spirit story "Sam Chapparell"

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"]

7 page Spirit story "La Cucaracha"

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

7 page Spirit story "The Halloween Spirit of 1948--Ellen Meets Hazel"

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"]