Issue | #1 |
Published | 1982 |
Cover Price | 10.95 USD |
Pages | 140 |
Editing | Cat Yronwode |
Notes | ISBN 0 87816 003 5 |
Genre | adventure; humor |
Pencils | Will Eisner |
Inks | Will Eisner |
Reprinted | from Spirit, The (Quality Comics, 1944 series) #18 (November 1949) |
Script | Jules Feiffer |
Genre | Bio |
Script | Cat Yronwode |
Letters | Typeset |
Pencils | Will Eisner (spot illos) |
Inks | Will Eisner (spot illos) |
Notes | Eisner's high school artwork |
Genre | sitcom |
Script | Will Eisner |
Pencils | Will Eisner |
Inks | Will Eisner |
Notes | sample strips, 1935 |
Characters | Harry Carey |
Genre | detective; humor |
Script | Will Eisner |
Pencils | Will Eisner |
Inks | Will Eisner |
Notes | sample strips from 1935 |
Characters | The Flame |
Genre | superhero |
Script | Will Eisner |
Pencils | Will Eisner |
Inks | Will Eisner |
Notes | sample strips from 1935 |
Script | Will Eisner |
Pencils | Will Eisner |
Inks | Will Eisner |
Notes | spot illos, 1934 |
Genre | Bio |
Script | Cat Yronwode |
Letters | Typeset |
Genre | western |
Reprinted | from Western Picture Stories (Centaur, 1937 series) #1 |
Characters | Harry Karry |
Genre | detective; humor |
Script | Will Eisner |
Pencils | Will Eisner |
Inks | Will Eisner |
Reprinted | from Wow Comics (Henie Publishing Co., 1936 series) #3 (September 1939) |
Characters | The Hawk (insert); Hunchback of Notre Dame (insert) |
Genre | adventure; period |
Script | Will Eisner |
Pencils | Will Eisner |
Inks | Will Eisner |
Reprinted | from Jumbo Comics (Fiction House, 1938 series) #4 (December 1938) |
Characters | The Hawk (insert); Wilton of the West (insert) |
Genre | adventure; western |
Script | Will Eisner |
Pencils | Will Eisner |
Inks | Will Eisner |
Reprinted | from Jumbo Comics (Fiction House, 1938 series) #6 (February 1939) |
Characters | Yarko |
Genre | Magician; Detective |
Script | Will Eisner |
Pencils | Will Eisner |
Inks | Will Eisner |
Reprinted | from Wags (Australia) #? |
Characters | Hammer Donovan; Killer Moarelli |
Synopsis | A detective fired for excessive violence is brought back to end a crazed gang leader's murder spree |
Genre | detective |
Script | Will Eisner |
Pencils | Will Eisner |
Inks | Will Eisner |
Notes | cited by Jules Feiffer in the Great Comic Book Heroes-7 page story printed 1/4 size on 2 pages |
Reprinted | from Detective Picture Stories (Centaur, 1936 series) #4 |
Characters | The Hawk |
Genre | period |
Script | Will Eisner |
Pencils | Will Eisner |
Inks | Will Eisner |
Notes | page 43, page 49, page 58 |
Reprinted | from Wags (Australia) #? |
Characters | Black X |
Genre | spy |
Script | Will Eisner |
Pencils | Will Eisner |
Inks | Will Eisner |
Reprinted | from Smash Comics (Quality Comics, 1939 series) #14 (September 1940) |
Characters | Uncle Sam |
Genre | war; occult |
Script | Will Eisner |
Pencils | Will Eisner, Lou Fine |
Inks | Will Eisner, Lou Fine |
Notes | one full-size and four 1/4 size splashes |
Reprinted | from National Comics (Quality Comics, 1940 series) #3 (September 1940); from Uncle Sam Quarterly (Quality Comics, 1941 series) #1 (Fall 1941) |
Genre | Bio |
Script | Cat Yronwode |
Letters | Typeset |
Characters | Spirit; Ebony; autoplane |
Synopsis | A man who has lived forever threatens to kill all the Earth's children to give himself more breathing space. |
Genre | adventure; humor |
Script | Will Eisner |
Pencils | Will Eisner |
Inks | Will Eisner |
Colors | Joe Kubert? |
Letters | Sam Rosen |
Reprinted | from Spirit, The (Register and Tribune Syndicate, 1940 series) #10/19/1941 |
Characters | Spirit, Ellen, Dusk |
Genre | adventure; humor |
Script | Will Eisner |
Pencils | Will Eisner |
Inks | Will Eisner |
Letters | Sam Rosen |
Notes | one full-size and four 1/4 size splashes |
Reprinted | from Spirit, The (Register and Tribune Syndicate, 1940 series) #1/12/1941; from Spirit, The (Register and Tribune Syndicate, 1940 series) #12/1/1940; from Spirit, The (Register and Tribune Syndicate, 1940 series) #12/8/1940; from Spirit, The (Register and Tribune Syndicate, 1940 series) #1/5/1941; from Spirit, The (Register and Tribune Syndicate, 1940 series) #10/26/1941 |
Characters | Spirit |
Genre | adventure; humor |
Script | Will Eisner |
Pencils | Will Eisner |
Inks | Will Eisner |
Letters | Sam Rosen |
Notes | page 2 |
Reprinted | from Spirit, The (Register and Tribune Syndicate, 1940 series) #11/2/1941 |
Characters | Spirit; Ebony; Dolan |
Genre | Bio |
Script | Norman Abbott |
Pencils | Will Eisner (spot illos) |
Inks | Will Eisner (spot illos) |
Notes | promotional piece for the Spirit Sunday insert |
Reprinted | from Philadelphia Record 10/13/41 |
Characters | Spirit |
Genre | adventure; humor |
Script | Will Eisner |
Pencils | Will Eisner |
Inks | Will Eisner |
Notes | January strips incorrectly dated 1941 in text |
Reprinted | from 10/13/41,12/10-11/4, 1/1-15/42 |
Characters | Will Eisner |
Genre | adventure; humor |
Script | Will Eisner |
Pencils | Will Eisner |
Inks | Lou Fine |
Notes | self portrait of Eisner at the drawing board |
Reprinted | from Spirit, The (Register and Tribune Syndicate, 1940 series) #5/3/1942 |
Genre | Bio |
Script | Cat Yronwode |
Letters | Typeset |
Synopsis | Four 1/4 page editorial cartoons |
Genre | editorial |
Script | Will Eisner |
Pencils | Will Eisner |
Inks | Will Eisner |
Reprinted | from The Flaming Bomb 1/21/43, 8/27/42, others |
Characters | Pvt Dogtag |
Genre | humor |
Script | Will Eisner |
Pencils | Will Eisner |
Inks | Will Eisner |
Notes | four strips |
Reprinted | from the Flaming Bomb 9/10/42,12/31/42,1/13/43,2/11/43 |
Characters | Joe Dope |
Genre | fact; humor |
Script | Will Eisner |
Pencils | Will Eisner |
Inks | Will Eisner |
Notes | six posters concerning military maintenance |
Reprinted | from 1942-45 |
Characters | General Poop |
Genre | humor |
Script | Will Eisner |
Pencils | Will Eisner |
Inks | Will Eisner |
Notes | 8 daily samples for a proposed comic strip c. 1945 |
Characters | Joe Dope |
Genre | fact; humor |
Script | Will Eisner |
Pencils | Will Eisner |
Inks | Will Eisner |
Notes | 2 page story run on one |
Reprinted | from Army Motors v5,#12 (3/45) |
Genre | Bio |
Script | Cat Yronwode |
Letters | Typeset |
Genre | adventure; humor |
Script | Will Eisner |
Pencils | Will Eisner |
Inks | Will Eisner; Jerry Grandenetti* |
Letters | Abe Kanegson |
Reprinted | from Spirit, The (Register and Tribune Syndicate, 1940 series) #10/9/1949 [splash page] |
Characters | Spirit; Satin; Hildie; |
Genre | adventure; humor |
Script | Will Eisner; Jules Feiffer |
Pencils | Will Eisner |
Inks | Will Eisner |
Letters | Abe Kanegson |
Reprinted | from Spirit, The (Register and Tribune Syndicate, 1940 series) #6/12/1949 |
Genre | adventure; humor |
Pencils | Will Eisner |
Inks | Will Eisner |
Reprinted | from Spirit, The (Register and Tribune Syndicate, 1940 series) #6/26/1949 |
Genre | adventure; humor |
Pencils | Will Eisner |
Inks | Will Eisner |
Reprinted | from Spirit, The (Register and Tribune Syndicate, 1940 series) #9/19/1948 |
Characters | Skinny Bones |
Genre | adventure; humor |
Pencils | Will Eisner |
Inks | Will Eisner |
Notes | no Spirit on cover |
Reprinted | from Spirit, The (Quality Comics, 1944 series) #22 (August 1950) |
Characters | Spirit |
Genre | adventure; humor |
Pencils | Will Eisner |
Inks | Will Eisner |
Reprinted | from Spirit, The (Quality Comics, 1944 series) #18 (November 1949) |
Characters | P'Gell, Spirit |
Synopsis | Spirit figure not by Eisner? |
Genre | adventure; humor |
Pencils | Will Eisner |
Inks | Will Eisner |
Reprinted | from Spirit, The (Quality Comics, 1944 series) #21 (June 1950) |
Characters | Ebony |
Synopsis | Cover to the sheet music from Robbins Music Co 1947. |
Genre | adventure; humor |
Pencils | Will Eisner |
Inks | Will Eisner |
Colors | none ? |
Characters | Skip Sudden |
Genre | adventure |
Pencils | Will Eisner; John Spranger |
Inks | Alex Kotzky |
Letters | Martin DeMuth |
Notes | unpublished cover for Trade Name Comics, 1947 |
Characters | Ruff and Reddy |
Genre | adventure; children |
Pencils | Will Eisner |
Inks | Jerry Grandenetti |
Letters | Abe Kanegson |
Notes | unpublished cover for Sears Roebuck Comics, 1948 |
Characters | Captain Cutlass |
Genre | adventure; period; pirate |
Pencils | Will Eisner |
Inks | Jerry Grandenetti |
Notes | unpublished cover for Pirate Comics 1948 |
Pencils | Will Eisner |
Inks | Will Eisner |
Notes | cover for political pamphlet |
Pencils | Will Eisner |
Inks | Klaus Nordling |
Notes | cover for political pamphlet |
Genre | sports |
Pencils | Will Eisner |
Inks | Will Eisner |
Notes | cover for souvenir program |
Characters | Nubbin |
Genre | children |
Script | Will Eisner |
Pencils | Will Eisner |
Inks | Alex Kotzky |
Notes | unpublished daily comic strips 1946 |
Characters | Nubbin; Ol' Gaffer; Dr Fission |
Genre | children |
Script | Will Eisner |
Pencils | Will Eisner |
Inks | Alex Kotzky |
Notes | unpublished daily comic strips 1947 |
Characters | Nubbin; Ol' Gaffer |
Genre | children |
Script | Will Eisner |
Pencils | Will Eisner |
Inks | Alex Kotzky |
Notes | unpublished Sunday page, 1946 |
Characters | Nubbin; Ol' Gaffer |
Genre | children |
Script | Will Eisner |
Pencils | Will Eisner (as Alek Kott) |
Inks | Alex Kotzky |
Notes | unpublished comic book insert, 1947. Same story as above but cut up into a different format |
Characters | Pop Flye |
Genre | sports |
Script | Jules Feiffer |
Pencils | Will Eisner |
Inks | Tex Blaisdell |
Notes | page number unknown |
Reprinted | from Baseball Comics (Will Eisner, 1949 series) #1 (Spring 1949) |
Characters | Nubbin; John Law; Melba-Girl Detective |
Genre | children |
Pencils | Will Eisner |
Inks | Will Eisner |
Notes | unpublished cover for proposed comic book, 1948 |
Characters | Nubbin; John Law |
Genre | detective |
Pencils | Will Eisner |
Inks | Will Eisner |
Notes | unpublished splash for "Sand Blue"- Eventually became a Spirit story |
Characters | John Law |
Genre | detective |
Pencils | Will Eisner |
Notes | unpublished cover for John Law, Detective, 1948 |
Characters | John Law; Nubbin |
Genre | detective |
Pencils | Will Eisner |
Inks | Will Eisner |
Notes | unpublished cover, Sunday Comics 1948 |
Characters | John Law |
Genre | detective |
Pencils | Will Eisner |
Inks | Will Eisner |
Notes | unpublished cover John Law Detective, 1948 |
Characters | Spirit |
Genre | adventure; humor |
Pencils | Will Eisner |
Inks | Will Eisner |
Notes | splash page for Spirit story, same art as two previous pages |
Reprinted | from Spirit, The (Register and Tribune Syndicate, 1940 series) #3/12/1950 |
Characters | John Law |
Genre | detective |
Script | Will Eisner |
Pencils | Will Eisner |
Inks | Will Eisner |
Notes | splash page for unpublished John Law story, 1948 |
Characters | Spirit |
Genre | adventure; humor |
Script | Will Eisner |
Pencils | Will Eisner |
Inks | Will Eisner |
Notes | Spirit splash, same art as previous page |
Reprinted | from Spirit, The (Register and Tribune Syndicate, 1940 series) #1/15/1950 |
Characters | John Law, Spirit |
Genre | detective |
Script | Will Eisner |
Pencils | Will Eisner |
Inks | Will Eisner |
Notes | 2 page John Law splash, redone as 1 page Spirit splash |
Reprinted | from Spirit, The (Register and Tribune Syndicate, 1940 series) #1/29/1950 |
Genre | Bio |
Script | Cat Yronwode |
Letters | Typeset |
Notes | illustrations for RCA promotional disks |
Characters | Connie Rod |
Genre | humor; ad |
Script | Will Eisner |
Pencils | Will Eisner |
Inks | Will Eisner |
Notes | cover for Fram oil filter promo comic |
Reprinted | from Hoods Up (American Visuals Corporation, 1953 series) #3 (May 1953) |
Characters | Joe Dope |
Genre | fact; humor |
Script | Will Eisner |
Pencils | Will Eisner |
Inks | Will Eisner |
Reprinted | from P.S. Magazine: The Preventive Maintenance Monthly (Aberdeen Proving Ground, 1951 series) #9 (October 1952) |
Script | Will Eisner |
Pencils | Will Eisner |
Inks | Will Eisner |
Reprinted | from P.S. Magazine: The Preventive Maintenance Monthly (Aberdeen Proving Ground, 1951 series) #11 (February 1953) |
Characters | Connie Rod |
Genre | fact; humor |
Script | Will Eisner |
Pencils | Will Eisner |
Inks | Will Eisner |
Notes | 2 pages from a longer story |
Reprinted | from P.S. Magazine: The Preventive Maintenance Monthly (Aberdeen Proving Ground, 1951 series) #18 (1954) |
Characters | Joe Dope; Connie Rod; Sgt Shortpants |
Synopsis | Joe gets called back o duty in Korea and ends up in his old outfit |
Genre | fact; humor |
Script | Will Eisner |
Pencils | Will Eisner |
Inks | Will Eisner |
Notes | strips for camp newspapers, 1951 |
Characters | Rip Roscoe |
Genre | humor; detective; ad |
Script | Will Eisner |
Pencils | Will Eisner |
Inks | Will Eisner |
Notes | commercial strip for AT&T 1976 |
Synopsis | assorted gag cartoons |
Genre | Gags |
Script | Will Eisner |
Pencils | Will Eisner |
Inks | Will Eisner |
Genre | Bio |
Script | Cat Yronwode |
Letters | Typeset |
Characters | Spirit |
Genre | adventure; humor |
Pencils | Will Eisner |
Inks | Will Eisner |
Reprinted | from The Spirit, the First 93 Dailies, 1977 |
Characters | Spirit |
Genre | adventure; humor |
Pencils | Will Eisner |
Inks | Chuck Kramer |
Reprinted | from Spirit, The (Harvey, 1966 series) #1 (October 1966) |
Characters | Spirit |
Synopsis | originally published in the Herald Tribune |
Genre | adventure; humor |
Pencils | Will Eisner |
Inks | Chuck Kramer |
Reprinted | from the Spirit 1/9/66 |
Characters | Spirit |
Genre | adventure; humor |
Pencils | Will Eisner |
Inks | Will Eisner |
Reprinted | from Snarf (Kitchen Sink Press, Inc., 1972 series) #3 (November 1972) |
Characters | Spirit |
Genre | adventure; humor |
Pencils | Will Eisner |
Inks | Will Eisner |
Reprinted | from Spirit, The (Kitchen Sink Press, Inc., 1973 series) #1 (January 1973) |
Characters | Spirit |
Genre | adventure; humor |
Pencils | Will Eisner |
Inks | Will Eisner |
Reprinted | from Spirit, The (Kitchen Sink Press, Inc., 1973 series) #2 (September 1973) |
Characters | Spirit |
Genre | adventure; humor |
Pencils | Will Eisner |
Inks | Richard Corben |
Reprinted | from Spirit, The (Warren, 1974 series) #3 (August 1974) |
Characters | Spirit; Ebony |
Genre | adventure; humor |
Pencils | Will Eisner |
Reprinted | from Spirit, The (Warren, 1974 series) #7 (April 1975) |
Characters | Spirit |
Genre | adventure; humor |
Pencils | Will Eisner |
Reprinted | from Tintin |
Characters | Spirit |
Genre | adventure; humor |
Pencils | Will Eisner |
Reprinted | from Tintin |
Characters | Spirit |
Genre | adventure; humor |
Pencils | Will Eisner |
Reprinted | from Spirit, The (Warren, 1974 series) #5 (December 1974) |
Characters | Spirit |
Genre | adventure; humor |
Pencils | Will Eisner |
Notes | 4 cover roughs for Spirit #9, the first 2 with no resemblance to the finished cover |
Characters | Spirit |
Genre | adventure; humor |
Pencils | Will Eisner |
Inks | Ken Kelley |
Reprinted | from Spirit, The (Warren, 1974 series) #9 (August 1975) |
Characters | Spirit |
Genre | adventure; humor |
Pencils | Will Eisner |
Inks | Will Eisner |
Notes | 4 cover roughs for Spirit #11, all rejected |
Characters | Spirit [Denny Colt] |
Genre | adventure; humor |
Script | Will Eisner |
Pencils | Will Eisner |
Inks | Will Eisner |
Notes | 2 pages from longer book |
Reprinted | from Spirit Casebook of True Haunted Houses and Ghosts (1976) |
Characters | Richard Nixon |
Script | Will Eisner |
Pencils | Will Eisner |
Inks | Will Eisner |
Notes | political cartoon |
Reprinted | from New York Times 8/16/76 |
Characters | Spirit; Batman |
Genre | adventure; humor |
Pencils | Will Eisner (Batman by Jerry Robinson) |
Inks | Will Eisner (Batman by Jerry Robinson) |
Notes | incidental artwork for convention programs, etc |
Characters | Spirit; P'Gell |
Genre | adventure; humor |
Pencils | Will Eisner |
Inks | Will Eisner |
Notes | cover |
Reprinted | from Spirit Portfolio (1977) |
Characters | Spirit |
Genre | adventure; humor |
Pencils | Will Eisner |
Inks | Will Eisner |
Reprinted | from Spirit, The (Kitchen Sink Press, Inc., 1977 series) #26 (December 1980) |
Characters | Spirit, P'Gell, Carrion, Ellen Dolan, Ebony, Satin, Dolan |
Genre | adventure; humor |
Pencils | Peter Poplaski |
Inks | Will Eisner, Milton Caniff, John Pound, Richard Corben,Leslie Carbaga,Denis Kitchen, Peter Poplaski |
Reprinted | from Spirit, The (Kitchen Sink Press, Inc., 1977 series) #30 (August 1981) |
Characters | Bludd |
Genre | detective |
Script | Will Eisner |
Pencils | Will Eisner |
Inks | Will Eisner |
Notes | 2 pages from Chap 3 and chap 6 |
Reprinted | from Life On Another Planet (Spirit #21, 7/79 and #26, 12/80) |
Characters | Spirit; Dolan; Ellen; Ebony |
Genre | adventure; humor |
Pencils | Will Eisner |
Inks | Will Eisner |
Reprinted | from National Cartoonists Society portfolio (1980) |
Genre | Bio |
Script | Cat Yronwode |
Letters | Typeset |
Script | Will Eisner |
Pencils | Will Eisner |
Inks | Will Eisner |
Reprinted | from City, A Narrative Portfolio 1980 |
Script | Will Eisner |
Pencils | Will Eisner |
Inks | Will Eisner |
Reprinted | from Spirit, The (Kitchen Sink Press, Inc., 1977 series) #27 (February 1981) |
Script | Will Eisner |
Pencils | Will Eisner |
Inks | Will Eisner |
Letters | Will Eisner |
Notes | 3 pages |
Reprinted | from Contract with God, A (Baronet Publishing, 1978 series) #nn |
Script | Will Eisner |
Pencils | Will Eisner |
Inks | Will Eisner |
Letters | Will Eisner |
Reprinted | from Contract with God, A (Baronet Publishing, 1978 series) #nn |
Script | Will Eisner |
Pencils | Will Eisner |
Inks | Will Eisner |
Letters | Will Eisner |
Notes | 4 pages |
Reprinted | from Contract with God, A (Baronet Publishing, 1978 series) #nn |
Script | Will Eisner |
Pencils | Will Eisner |
Inks | Will Eisner |
Letters | Will Eisner |
Reprinted | from Contract with God, A (Baronet Publishing, 1978 series) #nn |