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Issue Details

Issue #nn [1]
Published 1944
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 52
Editing George Brenner
Notes This issue has a contents page, which lists all the titles of the stories contained therein.

Cover Details

Characters The Spirit; Ebony
Genre superhero
Pencils Lou Fine
Inks Lou Fine
Notes This issue has a contents page, which lists all the titles of the stories contained therein.
Reprinted in Millennium Edition: The Spirit 1 (DC, 2000 series) #nn (July 2000)

8 page Spirit story "Wanted For Murder"

Characters The Spirit; Ebony; Commissioner Dolan; Ellen Dolan (cameo); Brambro (villain)
Synopsis The murder of a Secret Service Operative leads the Spirit into the den of a gang counterfeiting 1804 silver dollars.
Genre superhero
Script Manly Wade Wellman?
Pencils Lou Fine
Inks Quality staff
Letters Martin DeMuth
Reprinted from Spirit, The (Register and Tribune Syndicate, 1940 series) #4/11/1943; in Millennium Edition: The Spirit 1 (DC, 2000 series) #nn (July 2000)

8 page Spirit story "Tony Zacco, Public Enemy #1"

Characters The Spirit; Commissioner Dolan; Tony Zacco (villain)
Synopsis Commissioner Dolan sends the Spirit to Europe to track down a wanted felon, Tony Zacco, whom he finds serving honorably in the U.S. military....and he dies in that role....as a hero!
Genre superhero
Script Manly Wade Wellman?
Pencils Lou Fine
Inks Quality staff
Letters Martin DeMuth
Reprinted from Spirit, The (Register and Tribune Syndicate, 1940 series) #5/23/1943; in Millennium Edition: The Spirit 1 (DC, 2000 series) #nn (July 2000)

8 page Spirit story "Dressed to Kill"

Characters The Spirit; Ebony; Commissioner Dolan; Ellen Dolan; Culley (villain)
Synopsis Dolan informs the Spirit that he is creating a new force of policewomen, over whom Ellen has been appointed as the Sergeant in Charge!
Genre superhero
Script Bill Woolfolk
Pencils Lou Fine
Inks Quality Staff
Letters Martin DeMuth
Reprinted from Spirit, The (Register and Tribune Syndicate, 1940 series) #5/16/1943; in Millennium Edition: The Spirit 1 (DC, 2000 series) #nn (July 2000)

8 page Spirit story "A Clock Stops"

Characters The Spirit; Ebony; Commissioner Dolan
Synopsis Dolan, the Spirit and Ebony look into the murder of a watchkeeper, who had a grandfather clock that is involved in a mysterious legend, and nearly results in more deaths.
Genre superhero
Script Manly Wade Wellman?
Pencils Lou Fine
Inks Quality staff
Letters Martin DeMuth
Notes The DC Millennium Edition reports the story as being illustrated by Jack Cole.
Reprinted from Spirit, The (Register and Tribune Syndicate, 1940 series) #4/18/1943; in Millennium Edition: The Spirit 1 (DC, 2000 series) #nn (July 2000)

8 page Spirit story "The Eyes Have It"

Characters The Spirit; Ebony (cameo); Commissioner Dolan; Evil-Eye Manders (villain)
Synopsis The Spirit investigates not only the fight game, but the machinations of Evil-Eye Manders, whose stare causes strange things to happen to people....including the Spirit!
Genre superhero
Script Manly Wade Wellman?
Pencils Lou Fine
Inks Quality staff
Letters Martin DeMuth
Reprinted from Spirit, The (Register and Tribune Syndicate, 1940 series) #4/4/1943; in Millennium Edition: The Spirit 1 (DC, 2000 series) #nn (July 2000)

8 page Spirit story "Manhunt"

Characters The Spirit; Commissioner Dolan; "Yellow-Eyes" Janus (villain)
Synopsis The murders of Jason Broadway and soldier Joe Dulan....two people so well liked and popular that no one would ever think of killing them...end up dead, and Dolan & the Spirit investigate a lead, a lead that almost leads to their deaths!
Genre superhero
Script Will Eisner
Pencils Will Eisner, Lou Fine
Inks Quality staff
Letters Martin DeMuth
Reprinted from Spirit, The (Register and Tribune Syndicate, 1940 series) #5/2/1943; in Millennium Edition: The Spirit 1 (DC, 2000 series) #nn (July 2000)