The Spirit - 1945-Up

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The Spirit by Will Eisner  (1330-) 1st Appearance June 2nd 1940, 1st Daily October 13, 1941 - The Spirit was the ultimate breakthrough is cartoon storytelling.  The Spirit was presented as a full-story insert in the newspaper sections of the 40's.  Will Eisner, the Spirit's creator,  used the freedom of space to let his imagination run free.   The result was a comic strip that went beyond the traditional comic panel and broke new ground in storyboards, lettering and content.  Centered around a hard-boiled masked detective named Denny Colt, the Spirit was much more than a detective series.    Eisner used his storytelling to explore the boundaries of whimsy, science and parapsychology.   Each week's offering was an exploration into an new aspect of the human condition.   The genious of Eisner was that he could entertain so successfully while weaving his allegories.  Eisner wrote the Spirit throughout the run of the strip with an interlude for his war committment 1943-45.  A roster of cartooning all-stars contributed to the Spirit's success which included names like Jules Feiffer, Lou Fine, Jack Cole and Wally Wood.    The strip would die in the 1950's due to the economics surrounding the ambitious insert format, but that death was never complete.  Like the main character, the strip would resurrect in comic-book and magazine format a number of times.  To this day, collectors are lucky enough to be able to find anthologies of the Spirit's adventures on comics shop shelves.  The market for The Spirit is very good.  All versions sell well, although collectors will favor the episodes that were actually drawn by Eisner.  Dailies sell as fast as sunday even at high premium.
Newspaper Comics Links ---> The Spirit - 1940 to 1942 The Spirit - 1943 to 1944 The Spirit - 1945-Up
The Spirit - Dailies
A note about the following Spirit Selections:  The Spirit was published  in Newspapers of the 1940's and 50's in a number of formats.  The most common is comic-book size (CB) pre-trimmed and folded.   This format usually included side-strips like Mr. Mystic & Lady Luck.  Other formats included Tabloid-size (T) pre-trimmed and folded (Rarest and the most desirable), and untrimmed on fulls (2F).   The untrimmed fulls (2F) would contain 8 comic story pages arranged on 2 full-size newspaper comic pages.    Depending on Orientation, they may or may not be able to be folded and trimmed into comic book size.  Sometimes the reverse would not contain Mr. Mystic or the other normal side-strips.   Unless noted, the 2F size listed below cannot be folded into comic size.   Note that "CB" format sections are graded by Comic Book standards.   All other formats are graded by newspaper standards.

Sunday Comics
Item # Date-#-size* Condition* Price Notes
S1330-0165 1945/01/07 - CB FN-VF $25.00 Giveaway version w/Lady Luck, Intellectual Amos, Jonesy
S1330-0166 1945/01/14 - CB FN-VF $25.00 Giveaway version w/Lady Luck, Intellectual Amos, Jonesy
S1330-0167 1945/01/14 - CB FR $5.00 w/Lady Luck & Intellectual Amos, Jonesy
S1330-0168 1945/01/21 - CB FN-VF $25.00 Giveaway version w/Lady Luck, Intellectual Amos, Jonesy
S1330-0169 1945/01/21 - CB FR $5.00 w/Lady Luck & Intellectual Amos
S1330-0170 1945/01/28 - CB FN-VF $25.00 Giveaway version w/Lady Luck, Intellectual Amos, Jonesy
S1330-0171 1945/02/04 - CB FN-VF $25.00 Giveaway version w/Lady Luck, Intellectual Amos, Jonesy
S1330-0172 1945/02/04 - CB FR $5.00 w/Lady Luck & Intellectual Amos
S1330-0173 1945/02/11 - CB FN-VF $25.00 Giveaway version w/Lady Luck, Intellectual Amos, Jonesy
S1330-0174 1945/02/18 - CB FN-VF $25.00 Giveaway version w/Lady Luck, Intellectual Amos, Jonesy
S1330-0175 1945/02/18 - CB FR $5.00 w/Lady Luck & Intellectual Amos
S1330-0176 1945/02/25 - CB FN-VF $25.00 Giveaway version w/Lady Luck, Intellectual Amos, Jonesy
S1330-0177 1945/02/25 - CB FR $5.00 w/Lady Luck & Intellectual Amos
S1330-0178 1945/03/04 - CB FR $5.00 w/Lady Luck & Intellectual Amos, Jonesy
S1330-0179 1945/03/11 - CB FR $5.00 w/Lady Luck & Intellectual Amos, Jonesy
S1330-0180 1945/03/18 - CB FR $5.00 w/Lady Luck & Intellectual Amos
S1330-0181 1945/03/25 - CB FR $5.00 w/Lady Luck & Intellectual Amos, Jonesy
S1330-0182 1945/04/01 - CB P-FR $4.00 w/Lady Luck & Intellectual Amos, Jonesy
S1330-0183 1945/04/08 - CB FR $5.00 w/Lady Luck & Intellectual Amos
S1330-0184 1945/04/15 - CB FR $5.00 w/Lady Luck & Intellectual Amos, Jonesy
S1330-0185 1945/04/22 - CB FR $5.00 w/Lady Luck & Intellectual Amos, Jonesy
S1330-0186 1945/04/29 - CB FR $5.00 w/Lady Luck & Intellectual Amos
S1330-0187 1945/05/06 - CB FR $5.00 w/Lady Luck & Flatfoot Burns
S1330-0188 1945/05/13 - CB VG $5.00 w/Jonesy
S1330-0189 1945/05/13 - CB FR $5.00 w/Lady Luck & Flatfoot Burns
S1330-0190 1945/05/20 - CB FR $5.00 w/Lady Luck & Flatfoot Burns
S1330-0191 1945/05/27 - CB FR $5.00 w/Lady Luck & Flatfoot Burns, Jonesy
S1330-0192 1945/06/03 - CB FR $5.00 w/Lady Luck & Flatfoot Burns, Jonesy
S1330-0193 1945/06/10 - CB FR $5.00 w/Lady Luck & Flatfoot Burns, Jonesy
S1330-0194 1945/06/17 - CB FR $5.00 w/Lady Luck & Flatfoot Burns, Jonesy
S1330-0195 1945/06/24 - CB FR $5.00 w/Lady Luck & Flatfoot Burns, Jonesy
S1330-0196 1945/07/01 - CB FR $5.00 w/Lady Luck & Flatfoot Burns, Jonesy
S1330-0197 1945/07/08 - CB FR $5.00 w/Lady Luck & Flatfoot Burns, Jonesy
S1330-0198 1945/07/15 - CB FR $5.00 w/Lady Luck & Flatfoot Burns, Jonesy
S1330-0199 1945/07/22 - CB FN-VF $25.00 w/Lady Luck, Flatfoot Burns
S1330-0200 1945/07/22 - CB FR $5.00 w/Lady Luck & Flatfoot Burns, Jonesy
S1330-0201 1945/07/29 - CB FN $15.00 w/Lady Luck, Flatfoot Burns
S1330-0202 1945/07/29 - CB FR $5.00 w/Lady Luck & Flatfoot Burns, Jonesy
S1330-0203 1945/08/05 - CB FR $5.00 w/Lady Luck & Flatfoot Burns, Jonesy
S1330-0204 1945/08/12 - CB FR-G $7.00 w/Lady Luck, Flatfoot Burns
S1330-0205 1945/08/12 - CB FR $5.00 w/Lady Luck & Flatfoot Burns, Jonesy
S1330-0206 1945/08/19 - CB FR $5.00 w/Lady Luck & Flatfoot Burns, Jonesy
S1330-0207 1945/08/26 - CB FR $5.00 w/Lady Luck & Flatfoot Burns, Jonesy
S1330-0208 1945/09/02 - CB FR $5.00 w/Lady Luck & Flatfoot Burns, Jonesy
S1330-0209 1945/09/09 - CB VG $16.00 w/Lady Luck, Flatfoot Burns, Jonesy
S1330-0210 1945/09/09 - CB FR $5.00 w/Lady Luck & Flatfoot Burns
S1330-0211 1945/09/16 - CB FR $5.00 w/Lady Luck & Flatfoot Burns
S1330-0212 1945/09/30 - CB FR $5.00 w/Lady Luck & Flatfoot Burns
S1330-0213 1945/10/14 - CB FR $5.00 w/Lady Luck & Flatfoot Burns
S1330-0214 1945/10/21 - CB FR $5.00 w/Lady Luck & Flatfoot Burns
S1330-0215 1945/10/28 - CB FR $5.00 w/Lady Luck & Flatfoot Burns
S1330-0216 1945/11/11 - CB FR $5.00 w/Lady Luck & Flatfoot Burns, Jonesy
S1330-0217 1945/11/18 - CB FR $5.00 w/Lady Luck & Flatfoot Burns, Jonesy
S1330-0218 1945/11/25 - CB FR $5.00 w/Lady Luck & Flatfoot Burns, Jonesy
S1330-0219 1945/12/02 - CB FR $5.00 w/Lady Luck & Flatfoot Burns, Jonesy
S1330-0220 1945/12/09 - CB FR $5.00 w/Lady Luck & Flatfoot Burns, Jonesy
S1330-0221 1945/12/16 - CB FR $5.00 w/Lady Luck & Flatfoot Burns, Jonesy
S1330-0223 1946/03/10 - CB FR $5.00 w/Lady Luck & Flatfoot Burns, Jonesy
S1330-0251 1950/01/01 - T VG/G-VG/VG $150.00 Spirit Girls Flashback, w/Heigh-De-Ho by Hy High Jr.
S1330-0252 1950/01/08 - T VG/G-VG/VG $200.00 1st Sand Saref, w/Heigh-De-Ho by Hy High Jr.
S1330-0253 1950/01/15 - T VG/G-VG/VG $150.00 2nd Sand Saref, w/Heigh-De-Ho by Hy High Jr.
S1330-0254 1950/02/19 - T FR-G/FR-G/VG $80.00 Half Dead Mr. Lox, w/Heigh-De-Ho by Hy High Jr.
S1330-0255 1950/02/26 - T G-VG/G-VG/VG $85.00 w/Heigh-De-Ho by Hy High Jr.
S1330-0257 1950/03/19 - T G-VG/G-VG/VG $85.00 w/Heigh-De-Ho by Hy High Jr.
S1330-0258 1950/04/09 - T G-VG/G-VG/VG $85.00 w/Heigh-De-Ho by Hy High Jr.
S1330-0260 1950/06/11 - T G/G/VG $60.00 w/Heigh-De-Ho by Hy High Jr.
S1330-0261 1950/07/02 - T VG/VG/VG $65.00 w/Heigh-De-Ho by Hy High Jr.
S1330-0262 1950/08/13 - T VG/G-VG/VG $85.00 w/Heigh-De-Ho by Hy High Jr.
S1330-0263 1951/06/17 - T FR-G/FR-G/VG $65.00 w/Heigh-De-Ho by Hy High Jr.

3Daily Comics Sets
Item Title Date-# Size* Condition* Price Notes
D1330-0001 Spirit, The 1942/05 - 26 5C G $26.00 by Will Eisner
D1330-0002 Spirit, The 1942/07 - 27 5C G $27.00 by Will Eisner
D1330-0003 Spirit, The 1942/08 - 26 5C G $26.00 by Will Eisner
D1330-0004 Spirit, The 1942/09 - 26 5C G $26.00 by Will Eisner
D1330-0005 Spirit, The 1942/10 - 27 5C G $27.00 by Will Eisner
D1330-0006 Spirit, The 1942/11 - 24 5C G $24.00 by Will Eisner
D1330-0007 Spirit, The 1943/02 - 24 5C G $24.00 by Will Eisner
D1330-0008 Spirit, The 1943/03 - 26 5C G $26.00 by Will Eisner
D1330-0009 Spirit, The 1943/04 - 26 5C G $26.00 by Will Eisner
D1330-0010 Spirit, The 1943/05 - 26 5C G $26.00 by Will Eisner
D1330-0011 Spirit, The 1943/06 - 26 5C G $26.00 by Will Eisner
D1330-0012 Spirit, The 1943/07 - 27 5C G $27.00 by Will Eisner
D1330-0013 Spirit, The 1943/08 - 26 5C&4C G $26.00 by Will Eisner
D1330-0014 Spirit, The 1943/09 - 26 4C G $26.00 by Will Eisner
Newspaper Comics Links ---> The Spirit - 1940 to 1942 The Spirit - 1943 to 1944 The Spirit - 1945-Up
The Spirit - Dailies

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