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Issue Details

Issue	#1
Published	April 1983
Cover Price	1.50 USD 1.75 CAD
Pages	36
Editing	catherine yronwode

Cover Details - "Will Eisner's"

Characters	John Law
Genre	Detective
Pencils	Will Eisner
Inks	Will Eisner

1 page Nubbin story

Characters	John Law; Nubbin
Genre	children
Script	Will Eisner
Pencils	Will Eisner
Inks	Will Eisner
Notes	Partially inked splash page to "Sand Blue", that was eventually discarded. Most of the stories were later converted to Spirit stories.

11 page John Law story "Meet John Law"

Characters	John Law
Genre	detective
Script	Will Eisner
Pencils	Will Eisner
Inks	Will Eisner
Colors	Klaus Janson
Letters	Abe Kanegson
Notes	Early life of John Law and his enemy/lover Sand Saref.

6 page Nubbin the Shoeshine Boy story "The Strange, Ghastly Affair of the Half Dead Mr. Lox"

Characters	Nubbin; John Law
Genre	children
Script	Will Eisner
Pencils	Will Eisner
Inks	Will Eisner
Colors	Klaus Janson
Letters	Abe Kanegson

8 page John Law story "Ratt Gutt"

Characters	John Law
Genre	detective
Script	Will Eisner
Pencils	Will Eisner
Inks	Will Eisner
Colors	Klaus Janson
Letters	Abe Kanegson

2 page text article "The Coach's Bench"

Characters	John Law
Script	catherine yronwode
Pencils	Will Eisner
Inks	Will Eisner
Letters	Typeset
Notes	Text article with illustrated title header.

Cover Details - "The Adventures of Nubbin the Shoeshine Boy"

Characters	Nubbin; John Law; Melba (inset)
Genre	Children
Pencils	Will Eisner
Inks	Will Eisner
Notes	Unfinished cover to the unpublished "Adventures of Nubbin the Shoeshine Boy".

1 page John Law illustration "Will Eisner's Sunday Comics"

Characters	John Law; Nubbin
Genre	Detective
Pencils	Will Eisner
Inks	Will Eisner
Notes	Unpublished splash page for Sunday Comics (1948).

Cover Details - "Will Eisner's John Law Detective"

Characters	John Law; Sand Saref
Genre	Detective
Pencils	Will Eisner
Inks	Will Eisner
Notes	Unpublished cover for "John Law Detective" (1948). Art is part of the Sunday Comics splash with added elements. Discarded in favor of this issues cover. Later used as a SPIRIT splash.

1 page The Spirit illustration "The Spirit splash pages"

Characters	The Spirit
Genre	Detective
Script	Will Eisner
Pencils	Will Eisner
Inks	Will Eisner
Notes	Four Spirit splash pages that adapted the unpublished John Law stories.

Cover Details - "Will Eisner's John Law Detective"

Characters	John Law; Sand Saref
Genre	Detective
Pencils	Will Eisner
Notes	Pencilled cover rough for John Law Detective (1948), inked in 1983 and used on this book.