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Cover: Will Eisner
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The Spirit #17

Sep 1949 · Quality Comics · 0.10 USD
📊 ~14,053 copies sold its debut month
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The Spirit and Ebony travel to Diamond Swamp to pursue the criminal Big Jake Godley, who has eluded the Central City police beyond their jurisdiction. A mad professor at a planetarium uses a model solar system to attempt controlling the planets' movements by creating a lunar eclipse, requiring the Spirit to stop his scheme. The Spirit battles various adversaries including the professor's accomplice Flatfoot, ultimately thwarting the villain's astronomical plot while protecting Ebony from danger throughout their adventure.

Contains 6 stories
The Organ Grinder
7 pp
Untitled Humor story
1 pp · Humor
Big Jake Gooley
7 pp
Buried Treasure
4 pp · Humor, Detective-Mystery
Steeple Jack
4 pp · Humor, Detective-Mystery
Steeple Jack (first appearance, villain)
The Metal Monsters
7 pp

ComicBooks.com Value

Our Model is In Beta
Raw (Good) $49
CGC 9.4 · 1 in census $1,424*
CGC 9.2 · 2 in census $1,424
CGC 9.0 · 2 in census $702
CGC 8.5 · 2 in census $428*
CGC 8.0 $338
CGC 7.5 none in existence
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CGC 7.0 · 3 in census $224
CGC 6.5 · 1 in census $188*
CGC 6.0 · 1 in census $152
CGC 5.5 · 1 in census $131
CGC 5.0 · 3 in census $130*
CGC 4.5 · 2 in census $111*
CGC 4.0 · 2 in census $110
CGC 3.5 none in existence
CGC 3.0 · 1 in census $76*
CGC 2.5 · 1 in census $61*
* estimate — limited direct-sales data at this grade
Our model’s value — refined as new sales data arrives · CGC census counts shown where available

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Cast · 5 characters

Full credits

artist Lou Fine
letterer Martin deMuth
cover pencils, inks Will Eisner

Reprints

↩ Reprints The Spirit #8/6/1944 (1944), The Spirit #10/1/1944 (1944), The Spirit #12/10/1944 (1944), The Spirit #7/22/1945 (1945), The Spirit #7/29/1945 (1945)

Reprinted in The Spirit #17 (1949), Spirit #12 (1964)

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