The Spirit 1974 #1 - back issue - $15.00
Hop aboard a $100,000 ride into mystery. Travel Death's twisted track to Raven's Point. For The Spirit, it could be a one-way trip!
The Spirit never sleeps. Neither does the criminal mind. Watch as three escaped convicts find that the world is a prison for those who would flaunt justice!
Classic comic strip characters come to life! A world of stick figures is the strange setting! Murder is the heinous crime! And The Spirit is baffled!
A cop is shot! The Spirit is wounded! Tough gangland figures are held at bay! And behind it all is one Mr. Sawbuck... a seven-year old boy!
The Spirit has witnessed many strange things on rainy nights. But tonight is the first time he has ever followed a ghost ... straight to his own watery grave!
Henry the war-hero is back ... and no one wants him. No one, that is, until he kills his wife and her leering lover. Then he belongs to The Spirit!
A hostile visitor from the year 2400! One Dr. Lateur and his incredible Theory of Molecular Arrangement. Into this melee comes The Spirit!
The Spirit! Slaughtered by Slinko Joe Daws. Now there's no one to save a helpless Central City from the nefarious clutches of Slimy Skinch and Co.!
On-sale date from Comic Reader (Street Enterprises, 1973 series) #103, January - February 1974.
- - Cover based on Eisner splash for 3/16/50.
- - Introductory text with illustration and photograph of Will Eisner.
- The Last Trolley - rewritten?
- Li'l Adam - Parodies of Li'l Abner, Dick Tracy and Little Orphan Annie included.
- El Spirito - Splash page redrawn.
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