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Issue Details

Issue #31
Published October 1981
Cover Price 2.00 USD
Pages 60
Editing Will Eisner; Dennis Kitchen; Cat Yronwode
Notes wrap- around cover; Letter from Frank Miller in this issue

Cover Details

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

2 page text article "Eisner Checklist Part 3"

Script Cat Yronwode
Letters Typeset
Notes index to various Eisner projects from the 50's and 60's

8 page Spirit story "Wanted For Murder.. Denny Colt"

Characters Ebony; Dolan
Synopsis Flashback to pre-Spirit days. Denny Colt is arrested for murder in South America.
Genre adventure; humor
Script Will Eisner
Pencils Will Eisner (layouts); Lou Fine
Inks Lou Fine
Letters Sam Rosen
Reprinted from Spirit, The (Register and Tribune Syndicate, 1940 series) #7/5/1942

7 page Spirit story "Siberian Dagger"

Characters Niechevo (Intro); Murmansk Manny (Intro); Orcha Chornya; Ellen
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) #1/27/1946

7 page Shop Talk text article "Harvey Kurtzman interview"

Pencils Harvey Kurtzman (spot illos)
Inks Harvey Kurtzman (spot illos)
Letters Typeset

7 page Spirit story "Just One Word Made Me a Man"

Characters Ebony; Pierpont; Brains; PS
Genre adventure; humor
Script Will Eisner
Pencils Will Eisner
Inks Will Eisner; Jerry Grandenetti
Letters Abe Kanegson
Notes Charles Atlas parody.
Reprinted from Spirit, The (Register and Tribune Syndicate, 1940 series) #1/18/1948

8 page Big City story "Stoops"

Genre soap
Script Will Eisner
Pencils Will Eisner
Inks Will Eisner
Letters Will Eisner

7 page Spirit story "The Barber"

Genre adventure; humor
Script Jules Feiffer
Pencils Will Eisner
Inks Will Eisner
Reprinted from Spirit, The (Register and Tribune Syndicate, 1940 series) #10/22/1950