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Issue: The Spirit #4/2/1944
Publication Date: April 1944
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Issues: #4/2/1944 of 646 Issues (1071 Printings)
Title:
Variant: Baltimore Sunday Sun
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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Pencilling above masthead.
 
 
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Who Killed Bob Sydell?

Story  on  Interior Page(s) with IFC and Front Cover
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure
Character(s): Mr. Dory; Miss Amelia; Mr. Guffing; Bob Sydell; Ellen; Cory; Mr. Grame
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagSpiritman #2 published June 1945
as Who Killed Bob Sydell? [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagThe Spirit #6 published January 1946
as Who Killed Bob Sydell? [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagWill Eisner's The Spirit Archives #8 published October 2002
as Who Killed Bob Sydell? [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 8
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April Fool!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Villains: Killer McCann (villains); Four thugs (villains, 1st appearances); April Fool (villain); Count DiChange
Synopsis: Count DiChange bumps into Killer McCann and accidentally knocks him out. McCann meets a gentleman on the street who gives him a gun and and an offer of $1000. McCann storms back in and shoots at Lady Luck only to discover it is a toy gun. He receives his check only to find it is made of rubber! Soon a gang of thugs charge onto the scene with a stick of dynamite. McCann grabs the wick of the stick and it explodes ripping off most of their clothes. McCann then asks the gentleman who he is. He tells him, he is the April Fool. Lady Luck points the blame to the real culprit, Klaus Nordling.
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In Content Item: FlagSpiritman #2 published June 1945
as April Fool [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 4
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The Fish Thieves

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Two Fishing Thugs (villains, 1st appearance); Chowderhead
Synopsis: Mr. Mystic and Chowderhead decide to go fishing. They see a boy traveling with a number of fish. He directs them to a great spot where they do well. Later they see the boy and find that his fish were stolen by two thugs. They track them down as they are seen throwing more trash onto the stream filled with refuse already. Mr. Mystic has the boy find the local game warden. He then changes Chowderhead into a bear to chase the men up a tree until the warden arrives to capture them.
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In Content Item: FlagSpiritman #2 published June 1945
as Mr. Mystic Goes Fishing [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 4

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