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Issue: The Spirit #9/8/1940
Publication Date: September 1940
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Issues: #9/8/1940 of 645 Issues (1047 Printings)
Title:
Variant: Washington DC Sunday Star
Rating:
Publisher: FlagRegister and Tribune Syndicate
Brand: none
Indicia Publisher: none
On Sale Date: (not set)
Volume:
Pages: 16
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: none entered
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 3 (3 stories, 1 cover)
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color
Dimensions: most originally newspaper broadsheet; then most standard Golden Age US (when cut and folded from broadsheet size); some newspaper tabloid size
Paper Stock: newsprint
Binding: cut-and-assemble-it-yourself (broadsheet to Golden Age US); loose pages (original broadsheet or original tabloid or unstapled assembled Golden Age US)
Publishing Format: was ongoing series
Format Notes:  
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Original Artwork
Digital Edition
Adult Image
Title Page
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Cover, Front
Original Artwork
Digital Edition
Adult Image
Title Page
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Notation
Marked Image
Pencilling above masthead.
 
 
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Return of Orang

Story  on  Interior Page(s) with IFC and Front Cover
Credits
Writer(s): Will Eisner
Penciller(s): Will Eisner
Inker(s): Will Eisner
Colorist(s): Joe Kubert
Letterer(s): Sam Rosen
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure
Feature(s): Spirit
Character(s): The Spirit; Orang; Ellen Dolan; Commissioner Dolan; Ebony White; Sarah Hardy; Dr. Hardy; Aaka
First Line: Yes, Ebony, all I found on the dock was his clothes and the gun he shot himself with... the bubbles in the water were the only sign of Orang, the ape who could think like a human!
Synopsis: Orang survives his suicide attempt.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagSpirit: The Origin Years #4 published November 1992
as The Return of Orang [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagWill Eisner's The Spirit Archives #1 [unnamed variant] published July 2000
as The Return of Orang, the Ape that Is Human [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 7
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A Hundred Diamonds

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ? [as Ford Davis]
Penciller(s): Chuck Mazoujian
Inker(s): Chuck Mazoujian
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure
Feature(s): Lady Luck
Character(s): Lady Luck [Brenda Banks]; Count Faubert [Shiner Foley]; Hastings
First Line: It's the most daring theft I ever heard of... imagine!
Synopsis: One hundred diamonds are stolen from the White Hope Bracelet.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 4
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Defending the Phillippines

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ? [as W. Morgan Thomas]
Penciller(s): Bob Powell (signed)
Inker(s): Bob Powell (signed)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): Mr. Mystic
Character(s): Mr. Mystic; Colonel Waters; Kwi Suma
First Line: It's pretty late... I wonder who it is?
Synopsis: Colonel Waters asks Mr. Mystic to help defend some new fortifications that are being built in the Philippines.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 5

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