Free Spirit (comics)

Free Spirit is a fictional character in the Marvel Comics universe. She first appeared in Captain America vol. 1 #431 (September 1994), she was created by Mark Gruenwald and Dave Hoover.

Fictional character biography

As a graduate student Cathy Webster participates in an unsanctioned psychology experiment involving subliminal recordings. She is subliminally programmed to hate all men, and her body is subjected to "mutagenic radiation". The radiation enhances her body to peak human conditioning similar to Captain America. Cathy eventually overcomes her brainwashing and discovers the woman in charge of the experiment, a criminal scientist named Superia. She also crosses paths with the criminal Baron Zemo and the morally ambiguous Diamondback. Captain America takes Cathy and another hero, Jack Flag under his wing and trains them both. The duo also inherits Captain America's network of computer operatives called the "Captain America Hotline" when he temporarily loses his powers due to the breakdown of the Super Soldier Serum in his bloodstream.

Free Spirit

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Spirit Airlines

Spirit Airlines, Inc. (NASDAQ: SAVE) is an American low-cost carrier headquartered in Miramar, Florida. Spirit operates scheduled flights throughout the U.S. as well as the Caribbean, Mexico, and Latin America. Major focus cities include: Fort Lauderdale, Dallas/Fort Worth, Detroit, Las Vegas, Chicago, Houston, Atlantic City, and Myrtle Beach. As of 2016, Spirit remains the only airline in the United States with a 2-Star Skytrax airline rating.

History

Early years (1964-2006)

The company initially started as Clipper Trucking Company in 1964. The airline service was founded in 1980 in Macomb County, Michigan, (by Ned Homfeld) as Charter One, a Detroit-based charter tour operator providing travel packages to entertainment destinations such as Atlantic City, Las Vegas, and the Bahamas. In 1990, Charter One began scheduled service from Boston and Providence, R.I., to Atlantic City. On May 29, 1992, Charter One brought jet equipment into the fleet, changed its name to Spirit Airlines and inaugurated service from Detroit to Atlantic City.

Free Spirit (U.S. TV series)

Free Spirit is an American fantasy sitcom that aired on ABC during the 1989–1990 television season. The series stars Corinne Bohrer as a witch who moves in with a recently divorced father to help care for his three children. Originally produced by ELP Communications, Free Spirit aired from September 22, 1989, to January 14, 1990.

Overview

Free Spirit follows the misadventures of a mischievous and vivacious witch named Winnie Goodwinn (Corinne Bohrer). Winnie is hired as a live-in housekeeper by recently divorced lawyer Thomas J. Harper (Franc Luz). Winnie also looks after Thomas' three children, 16-year-old Robb (Paul Scherrer), 13-year-old Jessie (Alyson Hannigan) and youngest son Gene (Edan Gross), who are still adjusting to their parents' divorce and their move from New York City to suburban Connecticut. Thomas has no idea that Winnie is a witch, but all three children are aware of her secret since it was Gene who was responsible for summoning her.

Although Winnie is a good witch and doesn't mean any harm, her powers frequently get her and the family into trouble. Winnie has to scramble to get out of various situations while keeping Thomas from learning that she is a witch.

Spirit (comics)

The Spirit is a fictional masked crimefighter created by cartoonist Will Eisner. He first appeared June 2, 1940 as the main feature of a 16-page, tabloid-sized, newsprint comic book insert distributed in the Sunday edition of Register and Tribune Syndicate newspapers; it was ultimately carried by 20 Sunday newspapers, with a combined circulation of five million copies during the 1940s. "The Spirit Section", as the insert was popularly known, continued until October 5, 1952. It generally included two other, four-page strips (initially Mr. Mystic and Lady Luck), plus filler material. Eisner was the editor, but also wrote and drew most entries—after the first few months, he had the uncredited assistance of writer Jules Feiffer and artists Jack Cole and Wally Wood, though Eisner's singular vision for the character was a unifying factor.

From the 1960s to 1980s, a handful of new Eisner Spirit stories appeared in Harvey Comics and elsewhere, and Warren Publishing and Kitchen Sink Press variously reprinted the newspaper feature in black-and-white comics magazines and in color comic books. In the 1990s and 2000s, Kitchen Sink Press and DC Comics also published new Spirit stories by other writers and artists.