The Spirit once again comes up against the evil Dr. Cobra after Ellen Dolan and her fiancee help him escape from the mental ward. That's really all there is to the second story published for The Spirit. It's still entertaining and nice fast and exciting read.
This story has the first time The Spirit catches a ride with Ebony White in his cab. It seems that The Spirit hangs out in the trees and catches a ride with any cab that drives by Wildwood Cemetery because "taxis don't often pass through Wildwood Cemetery." It just so happens that Commissioner Dolan's daughter, Ellen, and her fiancee are in the taxi. They're heading to see her father and visit the mental ward.
In her first appearance in The Spirit comics, Ellen is portrayed as a bookish student of psychology who is engaged to a complete nerd by the name of Homer Creap. She has her hair up in a bun with a hat on and wears big round librarian glasses. Definitely not the Ellen that we'll come to see in the future of the series.
Also of note is that this is the first issue that The Spirit wears his mask. Also, Dr. Cobra has super-human strength and it is never explained how he got it.
The end is pretty humurous, with The Spirit taking off Ellen's glasses and pulling her hair down to reveal a blond bombshell. He then kisses her and leaves out the window. She tells Homer that she needs "a little more time to think over [their] engagement."
"The Return of Dr. Cobra" was published on June 9th, 1940.
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