John Law Detective 1983 #1 - back issue - $5.00
John Law was created by Will Eisner in 1948, but not published until 1983. On-sale date agrees with Amazing Heroes #20. Printed in Canada
- - Partially inked splash page to "Sand Blue", that was eventually discarded. Most of the stories were later converted to Spirit stories.
- Meet John Law - Early life of John Law and his enemy/lover Sand Saref.
- The Coach's Bench - Text article with illustrated title header.
- The Adventures of Nubbin the Shoeshine Boy - Unfinished cover to the unpublished "Adventures of Nubbin the Shoeshine Boy".
- Will Eisner's Sunday Comics - Unpublished splash page for Sunday Comics (1948).
- Will Eisner's John Law Detective - Unpublished cover for "John Law Detective" (1948). Art is part of the Sunday Comics splash with added elements. Discarded in favor of this issue's cover. Later used as a The Spirit splash.
- The Spirit splash pages - Four Spirit splash pages that adapted the unpublished John Law stories.
- Will Eisner's John Law Detective - On back cover. Penciled cover rough for John Law Detective (1948), inked in 1983 and used on this book.
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