The Spirit Volume 2: 200 Dailies
by Eisner, Will
- Used
- Fine
- Paperback
- Condition
- Fine
- Seller
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flushing, New York, United States
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About This Item
Park Forest, Illinois: Ken Pierce, 1980. The Spirit is a fictional American masked crime-fighter, created by writer-artist Will Eisner in 1940, who starred in a Sunday-newspaper comic-book insert. His namesake, seven-page weekly series is considered one of the comic-art medium's most significant works, with Eisner creating or popularizing many of the styles, techniques, and storytelling conventions used by comics professionals decades later. The Spirit chronicled the adventures of a masked vigilante who fought crime with the blessing of the city's police commissioner, an old friend. Despite the Spirit's origin as a detective named Denny Colt, his real identity was virtually unmentioned again and for all intents and purposes he was simply "The Spirit". The stories ranged through a wide variety of styles, from straightforward crime drama and film noir to lighthearted adventure, from mystery and horror to comedy and love stories, often with hybrid elements that twisted genre and expectations. The feature was the lead item of a 16-page, tabloid-sized, newsprint comic book sold as part of eventually 20 Sunday newspapers with a combined circulation of as many as five million copies. "The Spirit Section", as it was colloquially called, premiered June 2, 1940, and continued until October 5, 1952.[1] It generally included two other, four-page strips (initially Mr. Mystic and Lady Luck), plus filler material. Eisner worked as editor, but also wrote and drew most entries generally, after the first few months, with such uncredited "ghost" collaborators as writer Jules Feiffer and artists Jack Cole and Wally Wood, though with Eisner's singular vision for the character as a unifying factor.. 2nd. Soft Cover. Fine. Illus. by b/w Illustrations.
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- Seller
- Michael Diesman (US)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 051169
- Title
- The Spirit Volume 2: 200 Dailies
- Author
- Eisner, Will
- Illustrator
- b/w Illustrations
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Edition
- 2nd
- Publisher
- Ken Pierce
- Place of Publication
- Park Forest, Illinois
- Date Published
- 1980
- Keywords
- COMIC STRIPS
- Bookseller catalogs
- Comic Strips;
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Michael Diesman
payment must accompany order. returns allowed if not as described
About the Seller
Michael Diesman
Biblio member since 2004
flushing, New York
About Michael Diesman
book and record seller
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