The Best of the Spirit

Will Eisner

Dc Comics, 2005 - Fiction - 192 pages

DC Comics is proud to present its first-ever collection celebrating the greatest stories by comics mastermind Will Eisner starring one of the most indelible characters ever created - The Spirit! 'The best of spirit' reprints 22 Spirit sections from 1940-1950, featuring famous first appearances, classic confrontations, human interest tales, and all those magnificent splash pages! Eisner's blue-suit-clad, fedora-wearing crimefighter starred in hundreds of newspaper adventure stories that thrilled readers with Eisner's groundbreaking style. Eisner was a master of utilizing the comics format to its greatest strengths, and his Spirit stories are some of his finest examples! This volume also features an introduction by New York Times best-selling novelist Neil Gaiman.

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Denny Colt, a young criminologist, believed to have lost his life in a fight against crime, was buried in a state of suspended animation. He awoke one day in Wildwood Cemetery to carry on his struggle ...

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I'd heard of The Spirit, and specifically, its important place in comic book history, but I always suspected it would be kind of a letdown. It was, but not in the way I'd suspected. The letdown had ...

About the author

Will Eisner is a world-renowned comicbook artist whose career spans more than 60 years. Among his creations are"Sheena of the Jungle, The Spirit" newspaper strip, and many others.

Bibliographic information

• Title: The Best of the Spirit; Spirit (DC Comics)
• Author: Will Eisner
• Publisher: Dc Comics, 2005
• Original from: the University of Michigan
• Digitized: Nov 15, 2007
• Length: 192 pages
• Subjects: Comics & Graphic Novels / General; Comics & Graphic Novels / Superheroes; Fiction / General