The Spirit #3
In "The Strange Case of Mrs. Paraffin," a woman confesses to murdering her husband, but the investigator, Dolan, finds her story impossible to believe—especially when he learns she made him drink a chemical that dissolved him entirely. The mystery deepens as Dolan grapples with the chilling logic of a crime that defies both reason and memory.
In "The Embezzler," Quadrant J. Stet, a man losing his sight, faces a desperate race to raise $5,000 for an operation—just as that exact amount vanishes from his firm’s accounts. With the Spirit still recovering on crutches, the case unfolds as a tense mystery where every clue could point to guilt or innocence, and the truth may be as blurred as Stet’s fading vision.
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↩ Reprints The Spirit #3/7/1948 (1948), The Spirit #5/16/1948 (1948), The Spirit #3/27/1949 (1949), The Spirit #6/5/1949 (1949), The Spirit #10/23/1949 (1949), The Spirit #11/13/1949 (1949), The Spirit #11/27/1949 (1949), The Spirit #12/18/1949 (1949)
Reprinted in Comic Reader #107 (1974), Serie-nytt [delas?] #2/1976 (1976), Der Spirit #[nn] (1977), Colecção "Spirit" #1 (1977), Seriefokus #1/1980 (1980), Spirit #1 (1981), Spirit #2 (1981), Will Eisner Color Treasury #[nn] (1981), The Art of Will Eisner #[nn] (1982), El Spirit #7
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