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Series: The Spirit

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Publisher: Harvey

Title: The Spirit
Issue: 2
Page Count: 68
Publish Date: March 1967
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Contributors: Editor: Leon Harvey

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Story Title: [ no title ] - cover
Features:Spirit
Pages:1
Pencils:Will Eisner
Inks:Will Eisner
Letters:Joe Rosen
Genre:adventure


Story Title: Octopus: The Life Story of the King of Crime - comic story
Features:Spirit
Pages:7
Pencils:Will Eisner
Inks:Will Eisner
Genre:adventure
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.


Story Title: The Spirit Answers Your Mail - text story
Pages:2
Pencils:George Tuska ?
Inks:George Tuska ?
Letters:typeset
Characters:The Spirit
Synopsis:The Spirit answers mail from his friends and enemies.


Story Title: Plaster of Paris - comic story
Features:Spirit
Pages:7
Pencils:Will Eisner
Inks:Will Eisner
Colors:Jules Feiffer
Letters:Abe Kanegson
Genre:adventure
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.


Story Title: The Deadly Comic Book - comic story
Features:Spirit
Pages:7
Pencils:Will Eisner
Inks:Will Eisner
Letters:Abe Kanegson
Genre:adventure
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.


Story Title: The Spirit Lab [The Man From MSD] - comic story
Features:Spirit
Pages:2
Pencils:Will Eisner
Inks:Will Eisner
Letters:Joe Rosen
Genre:adventure
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.


Story Title: Rudy the Barber - comic story
Features:Spirit
Pages:7
Pencils:Will Eisner
Inks:Will Eisner
Genre:adventure
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.


Story Title: The Story of Sam, the Saucer That Wanted To Fly - comic story
Features:Spirit
Pages:7
Pencils:Will Eisner
Inks:Will Eisner
Genre:drama; fantasy
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.


Story Title: Sam Chapparell - comic story
Features:Spirit
Pages:7
Pencils:Will Eisner
Inks:Will Eisner
Genre:adventure
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.


Story Title: La Cucaracha - comic story
Features:Spirit
Pages:7
Pencils:Will Eisner
Inks:Will Eisner
Genre:adventure
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.


Story Title: The Halloween Spirit of 1948--Ellen Meets Hazel - comic story
Features:Spirit
Pages:7
Pencils:Will Eisner
Inks:Will Eisner
Genre:adventure
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.


Story Title: Here's The Preview of the Next Issue - promo (ad from the publisher)
Pages:1
Pencils:Will Eisner
Inks:Will Eisner
Letters:Joe Rosen


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