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Issue: The Spirit #[1] Public Domain
Publication Date: January 1944
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Issues: #[1] of 22 Issues
Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating:
Publisher: FlagQuality Comics
Brand: A Vital BookView Brand Images
Indicia Publisher: Vital Publications, Inc.
On Sale Date: 03/24/1944
Volume: none
Pages: 52
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency: none
Content Items: 7 (6 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): George Brenner
Disclose Notes: This issue has a contents page, which lists all the titles of the stories contained therein.
On sale date is Library of Congress copyright record publication date. Registered as "Eisner (Will) Spirit, wanted dead or alive!"
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color
Dimensions: standard Golden Age US
Paper Stock: glossy cover; newsprint interior
Binding: saddle-stitched
Publishing Format:  
Format Notes:  
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reprinted as a Content Item in another Issue.
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[untitled]

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Penciller(s): Lou Fine
Inker(s): Lou Fine
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): The Spirit
Character(s): The Spirit [Denny Colt]; Ebony White
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagMillennium Edition: The Spirit 1 #[nn] published July 2000
as [untitled] [Illustration on Cover, Front]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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Wanted for Murder

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Manly Wade Wellman ?
Penciller(s): Lou Fine [as Will Eisner] (signed)
Inker(s): Quality staff
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): Martin DeMuth
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): The Spirit
Character(s): The Spirit [Denny Colt]; Ebony White; Police Commissioner Eustace P. Dolan; Ellen Dolan (Commissioner's daughter, cameo); Grace Gilbert (Secret Service agent, death); Y. Brambro (villain)
Synopsis: The murder of a Secret Service Operative leads the Spirit into the den of a gang counterfeiting 1804 silver dollars.
Reprinting
From Content Item: FlagThe Spirit #4/11/1943 [unnamed variant] published April 1943
was The Dollars of 1804 [Story on Interior Page(s) with IFC and Front Cover]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 8
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Tony Zacco, Public Enemy #1

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Manly Wade Wellman ?
Penciller(s): Lou Fine [as Will Eisner] (signed)
Inker(s): Alex Kotzky
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): Martin DeMuth
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): The Spirit
Character(s): The Spirit [Denny Colt]; Police Commissioner Eustace P. Dolan; Colonel Evers; Tony Zacco [aka Sergeant Zaccarelli] (villain, death); unnamed Nazi Captain (villain, death); Karl (villain, Nazi soldier, death)
Synopsis: Commissioner Dolan sends the Spirit to Europe to track down a wanted felon, Tony Zacco, whom he finds serving honorably in the U.S. military....and he dies in that role....as a hero!
Reprinting
From Issue: FlagThe Spirit #5/23/1943 [unnamed variant] published May 1943
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 8
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Dressed to Kill

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Bill Woolfolk
Penciller(s): Lou Fine [as Will Eisner] (signed)
Inker(s): Alex Kotzky
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): Martin DeMuth
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): The Spirit
Character(s): The Spirit [Denny Colt]; Ebony White; Police Commissioner Eustace P. Dolan; Ellen Dolan (Policewoman Sergeant in the story); unnamed female kidnapper (villain); Culley (villain)
Synopsis: Dolan informs the Spirit that he is creating a new force of policewomen, over whom Ellen has been appointed as the Sergeant in Charge!
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From Content Item: FlagThe Spirit #5/16/1943 [unnamed variant] published May 1943
was Policewoman Ellen [Story on Interior Page(s) with IFC and Front Cover]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 8
Disclose Notes: Story title taken from the Millennium Edition.
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A Clock Stops

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Manly Wade Wellman ?
Penciller(s): Lou Fine [as Will Eisner] (signed)
Inker(s): John Belfi ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): Martin DeMuth
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): The Spirit
Character(s): The Spirit [Denny Colt]; Ebony White; Police Commissioner Eustace P. Dolan; Father Time (cameo); Olsen (clock dealer, death, mention only); clock collector (villain)
Synopsis: Dolan, the Spirit and Ebony look into the murder of a watchkeeper, who had a grandfather clock that is involved in a mysterious legend, and nearly results in more deaths.
Reprinting
From Content Item: FlagThe Spirit #4/18/1943 [unnamed variant] published April 1943
was The Grandfather Clock [Story on Interior Page(s) with IFC and Front Cover]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 8
Disclose Notes: The DC Millennium Edition reports the story as being illustrated by Jack Cole.
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The Eyes Have It

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Manly Wade Wellman ?
Penciller(s): Lou Fine [as Will Eisner] (signed)
Inker(s): Alex Kotzky ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): Martin DeMuth
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): The Spirit
Character(s): The Spirit [Denny Colt]; Ebony White (cameo); Police Commissioner Eustace P. Dolan; Kayo Harrigan (boxer); Sailor Brown (boxer); Evil-Eye Manders (villain); Lefty Lewis (villain); McGuire (villain, fight manager)
Synopsis: The Spirit investigates not only the fight game, but the machinations of Evil-Eye Manders, whose stare causes strange things to happen to people....including the Spirit!
Reprinting
From Content Item: FlagThe Spirit #4/4/1943 published April 1943
was Evil Eye Manders [Story on Interior Page(s) with IFC and Front Cover]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 8
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Yellow Eyes Janus

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Will Eisner
Penciller(s): Will Eisner (signed); Lou Fine
Inker(s): Robin King ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): Martin DeMuth
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): The Spirit
Character(s): The Spirit [Denny Colt]; Police Commissioner Eustace P. Dolan; Jason Brodway (death); Joe Dulkan (soldier, death); Harry Saunders; Ruth Malone (Dulkan's one-time girl); "Yellow-Eyes" Janus (villain, death)
Synopsis: Jason Broadway and soldier Joe Dulan....two people so well liked and popular that no one would ever think of killing them...end up dead, and Dolan & the Spirit investigate a lead, a lead that almost leads to their deaths!
Reprinting
From Content Item: FlagThe Spirit #5/2/1943 [unnamed variant] published May 1943
was Yellow Eyes Janus [Story on Interior Page(s) with IFC and Front Cover]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 8

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