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Issue Details

Issue #23
Published February 1980
Cover Price 1.75 USD
Pages 60
Editing Will Eisner; Dennis Kitchen; Cat Yronwode
Notes wrap-around cover

Cover Details

Genre adventure; humor
Pencils Will Eisner
Inks Will Eisner
Notes wrap-around cover
Reprinted in Will Eisner Color Treasury (Kitchen Sink Press, Inc., 1981 series) #1

2 page text article "Spirit checklist Part 2"

Script Cat Yronwode
Letters Typeset
Notes indexes Spirit sections 212-385; 1944-47

8 page Spirit story "Silk Satin"

Characters Silk Satin (intro)
Genre adventure; humor
Script Will Eisner
Pencils Will Eisner
Inks Will Eisner
Letters Sam Rosen
Notes 1st pre-war Spirit reprint. Compare with section 498, reprinted in Spirit 51
Reprinted from Spirit, The (Register and Tribune Syndicate, 1940 series) #3/16/1941

7 page Spirit story "The End of the World"

Characters Pierpont (intro?)
Synopsis 3 scientists plant an atom bomb in Wildwood Cemetary.
Genre adventure; humor
Script Will Eisner
Pencils John Spranger
Inks Will Eisner, Bob Palmer
Letters Martin deMuth
Reprinted from Spirit, The (Register and Tribune Syndicate, 1940 series) #2/3/1946

7 page Spirit story "No Spirit Story Today"

Characters Will Eisner
Synopsis Eisner is captured by one of his own villains. A great commentary on fans, parents and violence.
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) #6/8/1947

16 page Life on Another Planet story "Bludd"

Genre science fiction
Script Will Eisner
Pencils Will Eisner
Inks Will Eisner
Notes Chapter 5

7 page Spirit story "Nickles Nerser"

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) #2/5/1950

7 page Outer Space story "Heat on the Moon"

Characters Dolan; Ellen
Genre science fiction
Script Jules Feiffer
Pencils Will Eisner
Inks Al Wenzel?
Letters Ben Oda?
Notes story alternates between Moon and Central City
Reprinted from Spirit, The (Register and Tribune Syndicate, 1940 series) #8/17/1952 [misdated 8/16/52]