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Issue Details

Issue #40
Published April 1983
Cover Price 2.95 USD
Pages 68
Editing Will Eisner; Dennis Kitchen; Cat Yronwode

Cover Details

Genre adventure; humor
Pencils Will Eisner
Inks Will Eisner
Colors Pete Poplaski

7 page Spirit story "Bebop"

Characters Ebony; Teebo (intro); Tailgate Smear (intro)
Genre adventure; humor
Script Will Eisner
Pencils Will Eisner
Inks Will Eisner; Jerry Grandenetti
Letters Martin de Muth
Reprinted from Spirit, The (Register and Tribune Syndicate, 1940 series) #4/20/1947

7 page Spirit story "Ev'ry Li'l Bug"

Characters Ebony; "Evry Little Bug" (complete song with music); Ellen; Dolan
Synopsis The IRS is after the Spirit for taxes so Ebony tries to help out by writing a song.
Genre adventure; humor
Script Will Eisner; Music by Bill Harr
Pencils Will Eisner
Inks Will Eisner; Jerry Grandenetti
Letters Martin de Muth
Reprinted from Spirit, The (Register and Tribune Syndicate, 1940 series) #4/27/1947

3 page story "Ev'ry Li'l Bug (full piano score)"

Script Will Eisner; Music by Bill Harr
Pencils Will Eisner
Inks Will Eisner
Notes printed 1/4 size

15 page Shop Talk text article "Joe Kubert"

Script Will Eisner
Pencils Joe Kubert (spot illos)
Inks Joe Kubert (spot illos)
Letters Typeset
Notes 8 pages of Kubert illos in color

7 page Spirit story "Johnny Marsten"

Characters Dolan
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) #6/30/1940

13 page Big City story "The Block"

Genre soap

7 page Spirit story "Whiffenpoof"

Characters Robert Merrill; "Ev'ry Little Bug"; Ebony; Ellen; Dolan
Synopsis Ebony gets Robert merril to sing his song on the radio.
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) #6/29/1947