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