28 SPIRIT SECTIONS from The Philadelphia Record (1942-1944)
$
900
Description
28 SPIRIT SECTIONS from The Philadelphia Record (1942-1944)
Although these were created for American newspapers up until 1952, the pre-1946 specimens are much harder to find as they were often given over to the WWII paper drives. All 28 SPIRIT sections come from the PHILADELPHIA RECORD and are "golden age" sized, as opposed to the "bed-sheet" size of the Chicago Sun and some other papers. Everyone will have different favorite sections, but I would judge there to be at least half a dozen iconic covers. Forced perspectives, coppers, rain, building logos, problematic race representation - the whole range of SPIRIT is represented with this lot.
I don't have the D.C. Archives volumes for notes but I do know Manly Wade Wellman contributed to the writing of many of these installments while the franchise's creator, Will Eisner, was serving in the US military during World War II.
If you think of each one coming down thru the decades separately this lot has a cumulative age of over 2,000 years.
August 23, 1942
September 20, 1942
September 27, 1942
October 4, 1942
October 18, 1942
December 27, 1942
April 18, 1943
January 9, 1944
January 23, 1944
January 30, 1944
February 6, 1944
February 13, 1944
February 27, 1944
March 5, 1944* (possible trim - a little shorter than the others, could have also just been an odd lot or end run that week)
March 12, 1944
March 26, 1944
April 2, 1944
April 9, 1944
April 30, 1944
May 28, 1944 (2 corners clipped)
June 4, 1944
June 25, 1944
July 9, 1944
July 16, 1944
August 6, 1944
August 27, 1944
September 3, 1944
September 10, 1944