For the religious or spiritual meaning of The Spirit, see Spirit.

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. DC Comics is an American comic book and related media company. ... In comic books, first appearance refers to first comic book to feature a character. ... William Erwin Eisner (March 6, 1917 – January 3, 2005) was an acclaimed American comics writer, artist and entrepreneur. ... Ebony White and the Spirit Ebony White is a fictional character from the comics series The Spirit, created by Will Eisner. ... Alice, a fictional character based on a real character from the work of Lewis Carroll. ... William Erwin Eisner (March 6, 1917 – January 3, 2005) was an acclaimed American comics writer, artist and entrepreneur. ... A comic book is a magazine or book containing sequential art in the form of a narrative. ... This article does not cite its references or sources. ...

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 police procedural is a sub-genre of the mystery story which tries to demonstrate accurately the activities of a police force as they investigate crimes. ... This still from The Big Combo (1955) demonstrates the visual style of film noir at its most extreme. ... Mystery fiction is a distinct subgenre of detective fiction that entails the occurrence of an unknown event which requires the protagonist to make known (or solve). ... Horror fiction is, broadly, fiction in any medium intended to scare, unsettle, or horrify the reader. ... Comedy has a classical meaning (comical theatre) and a popular one (the use of humour with an intent to provoke[[ laughter in general). ... This article refers to the wide variety of writing called romantic. For literature from the European Romantic movement of the 18th and 19th centuries, see Romanticism: Art and Literature. ...

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. This article does not cite any references or sources. ... Mr. ... Lady Luck in close-up, by Klaus Nordling. ... Jules Feiffer (1958) Jules Feiffer (born January 26, 1929) is an American syndicated comic-strip cartoonist and author. ... Jack Cole (December 14, 1918 - August 15, 1958) was an American comic book artist, and illustrator best-known for his creation of the superhero; Plastic Man and for setting the style for cartoons in Playboy. ... Wallace Wally Wood (born June 17, 1927, Menahga, Minnesota, United States; died November 2, 1981), was an American writer-artist best known for his work in EC Comics and Mad. ...

Publication history

In late 1939, Everett M. "Busy" Arnold, publisher of the Quality Comics comic-book line, began exploring an expansion into newspaper Sunday supplements, Aware that many newspapers felt they had to compete with the suddenly burgeoning new medium of American comic books. Arnold compiled a presentation piece with existing Quality Comics material. An editor of The Washington Star liked George Brenner's The Clock, but not Brenner's art, and was favorably disposed toward a Lou Fine strip. Arnold, concerned over the meticulous Fine's slowness and his ability to meet deadlines, claimed it was the work of Eisner, Fine's boss at the Eisner & Iger studio, from which Arnold bought his outsourced comics work. Everett M. Busy Arnold (born May 20, 1890, Providence, Rhode Island, United States; deceased) was an early comic book entrepreneur and the publisher of Quality Comics during the 1930s and 1940s Golden Age of comic books. ... A publisher is a person or entity which engages in the act of publishing. ... Crack Comics #1 (May, 1940), featuring the Clock, previously introduced as the first masked comic book superhero. ... American comic books are typically small magazines containing fictional stories in the artistic medium of comics. ... The Washington Star was a daily newspaper published in Washington, D.C.. It was first published by Captain Joseph Borrows Tate as The Daily Evening Star on December 16, 1852. ... George Brenner was a cartoonist in the mid 1900s. ... Funny Picture Stories #1 (Nov, 1936). ... Louis Kenneth Fine (born 1914, New York City; died July 24, 1971) is an American comic book artist known for his work during the 1940s Golden Age of comic books, where his quality draftsmanship became a highly influential model to a generation of fellow comics artists. ... Eisner & Iger was a prominent comic book packager that produced comics on demand for publishers entering the new medium during its late-1930s and 1940s Golden Age. ...

In "late '39, just before Christmas time," Eisner recalled in 1979,^[2] Arnold "came to me and said that the Sunday newspapers were looking for a way of getting into this comic book boom". In a 2004 interview, he elaborated on that meeting: Christmas is an annual holiday that celebrates the birth of Jesus. ...

The new series "gave me an adult audience," Eisner said in 1997, "and I wanted to write better things than super-heroes. Comic books were a ghetto. I sold my part of the enterprise to my associate and then began The Spirit. They wanted an heroic character, a costumed character. They asked me if he'd have a costume. And I put a mask on him and said, 'Yes, he has a costume!'" ^[4]

A classic Eisner cover for The Spirit, Oct. 6, 1946. Note the innovative use of title design, the mix of color and black-and-white, and the shadowing and texturing that combine for exotic noir effect. Other Spirit stories could be whimsical, gritty, folklorish, sentimental, horrific, or mystical, yet always humanistic.

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Character history

The Spirit, referred to in one newspaper article cited below as "the only real middle-class crimefighter", was the hero persona of young detective Denny Colt. Presumed killed in the first three pages of the premiere story, Colt later revealed to his friend, Central City Police Commissioner Dolan, that he had in fact gone into suspended animation caused by one of archvillain Dr. Cobra's experiments. When Colt awakened in Wildwood Cemetery, he established a base there and, using his newfound anonymity, began a life of fighting crime wearing only a small domino mask, blue business suit, fedora hat and gloves for a costume. The Spirit dispensed justice, funding his adventures with the rewards for capturing villains. Papierkrattler masks at the Narrensprung 2005 Carnival parade, Ravensburg Germany A mask is a piece of material or kit, usually worn on the face. ... A suit, also known as a business suit, comprises a collection of matching clothing consisting of: a coat (commonly known as a jacket) a waistcoat (optional) (USA vest) a pair of trousers (USA pants) Though not part of a suit, a shirt and tie very frequently accompany it. ... A fedora, which in this case has been pinched at the front and being worn pushed back on the head, with the front of the brim bent down over the eyes. ... A glove (Middle English from Old English glof) is a type of garment which covers the hand. ... J.L. Urban, statue of Lady Justice at court building in Olomouc, Czech Republic Justice concerns the proper ordering of things and persons within a society. ...

The Spirit was based originally in New York City which soon changed to Central City, but his adventures took him around the globe. He met up with eccentrics, kooks, and beautiful but deadly femme fatales (most notably P'Gell), bringing his own form of justice to all of them. The story changed continually, but certain themes remained constant: the love between the Spirit and Dolan's feisty proto-feminist daughter Ellen; the annual "Christmas Spirit" stories; and the Octopus (a psychopathic criminal mastermind who was never seen, except for his distinctive gloves). There are several cities, real and fictional, named Central City. ... Convicted spy Mata Hari made her name synonymous with femme fatale during WWI. A femme fatale (plural: femmes fatales) is an alluring and seductive woman whose charms ensnare her lovers in bonds of irresistible desire, often leading them into compromising, dangerous and deadly situations. ... PGell is a fictional character from the comics series The Spirit, first appeared in 1947, created by Will Eisner. ... Feminism comprises a number of social, cultural and political movements, theories and moral philosophies that are concerned with cultural, political and economic practices and inequalities that discriminate against women. ... Christmas is an annual holiday that celebrates the birth of Jesus. ...

Ebony White in perspective

Eisner is sometimes criticized for his depiction of Ebony White, the Spirit's African American sidekick. He later admitted to consciously stereotyping the character, but said he tried to do so with "responsibility", and argued that "at the time humor consisted in our society of bad English and physical difference in identity." ^[5] The character developed beyond the stereotype as the series progressed, and Eisner also introduced black characters (such as the plain-speaking Detective Grey) who defied popular stereotypes. Ebony White and the Spirit Ebony White is a fictional character from the comics series The Spirit, created by Will Eisner. ... An African American (also Afro-American, Black American, or simply black) is a member of an ethnic group in the United States whose ancestors, usually in predominant part, were indigenous to Africa. ... Don Quixote and Sancho Panza unsuccessfully confront windmills. ...

In a 1966 New York Herald Tribune feature by his former office manager-turned-journalist, Marilyn Mercer wrote, "Ebony never drew criticism from Negro groups (in fact, Eisner was commended by some for using him), perhaps because, although his speech pattern was early Minstrel Show, he himself derived from another literary tradition: he was a combination of Tom Sawyer and Penrod, with a touch of Horatio Alger hero, and color didn't really come into it". ^[6] The New York Herald Tribune was a newspaper created in 1924 when the New York Tribune acquired the New York Herald. ... Detail from cover of The Celebrated Negro Melodies, as Sung by the Virginia Minstrels, 1843 The minstrel show, or minstrelsy, was an American entertainment consisting of comic skits, variety acts, dancing, and music, performed by white people in blackface or, especially after the American Civil War, African Americans in blackface. ... Tom Sawyer (born 1833?) is the title character of the Mark Twain novel The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876). ... Penrod is a novel by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Booth Tarkington, first published in 1914. ... Horatio Alger, Jr. ...

Assistants and collaborators

Like most artists working in newspaper comic strips, Eisner after a time employed a studio of assistants who, on any given week's story, might draw or simply ink backgrounds, ink parts of Eisner's main characters (such as clothing or shoes), or as eventually occurred, ghost-draw the strip entirely. Eisner also eventually used ghostwriters, generally in collaboration with him.

His studio included:^[7]

• Art assistants: Bob Powell (1940), Dave Berg (backgrounds, 1940-41), Tex Blaisdell (1940-41), Fred Kida (1941), Alexander Kostuk a.k.a. Alex Koster (1941-43), Jack Cole (1942-43), Alexander Kostuk a.k.a. Alex Koster (1941-43), Jack Keller (backgrounds, 1943), Jules Feiffer (1946-47), Manny Stallman (1947-49), Andre LeBlanc (1950), Al Wenzel (1952)

• Inkers: Alex Kotzky (1941-43), John Belfi (1942-43), Don Komisarow (1943), Robin King (year?), Joe Kubert (1943-44), Jerry Grandenetti, (1948-51), Jim Dixon (1950-51), Don Perlin (1951)

• Letterers: Martin De Muth (years?), Abe Kanegson (years?), Sam Schwartz (1951), Ben Oda (1951)

• Colorists: Jules Feiffer (years?), Chris Christiansen (1951)

• Ghost artists (pencilers): Lou Fine and Jack Cole (variously, during Eisner's World War II service, 1942-45), Jerry Grandenetti (1951), Wally Wood (1952)

• Ghostwriters/writing assistants: Toni Blum (1942), Jack Cole (years?), Manly Wade Wellman and William Woolfolk (variously, during Eisner's World War II service, 1942-45), Klaus Nordling (1946, 1951), Marilyn Mercer (1946), Abe Kanegson (1950), Jules Feiffer (1951-52)

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Latter-day Spirit comics

Harvey Comics' The Spirit #1 (Oct. 1966). Cover art by Will Eisner

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1960s

Harvey Comics reprinted several Spirit stories in two giant-size, 25-cent comic books published October 1966 and March 1967, each with new Eisner covers. Casper the Friendly Ghost in Theres Good Boos To-Night (1948). ...

The first of these two 60-page issues opened with a new seven-page retelling of the Spirit's origin by writer-penciler-inker Eisner (with inking assist by Chuck Kramer). Also new was the text feature "An Interview With the Spirit", credited to Marilyn Mercer; and writer-artist Eisner's two-page featurette "Spirit Lab: Invincible Devices". Seven 1948-1949 Spirit stories were reprinted. The second opened with a new seven-page story by writer-artist Eisner, "Octopus: The Life Story of the King of Crime," giving the heretofore unrevealed origin of the Spirit's archnemesis The Octopus, as well as his given name (Zitzbath Zark). Also new was the two-page text feature "The Spirit Answers Your Mail", and writer-artist Eisner's two-page featurette "The Spirit Lab: The Man From MSD". Reprinted were seven 1948-1950 Spirit stories.

1970s

Warren Publishing and later Denis Kitchen's Kitchen Sink Press published extensive reprints, first as large black-and-white magazines (the Warren part of the run eventually having a color section), then as trade paperbacks. The magazines often featured new Eisner covers. Warren Publishing is a magazine firm founded by James Warren, who published his first magazines in 1957 and continued in the business for decades. ... Kitchen Sink Press was a comic book publisher in from the late 1960s until the late 1990s when it went out of business. ... This article is about the magazine as a published medium. ... In comics, a trade paperback (TPB) specifically refers to the periodic collections, published in book format, of stories published in comic books, usually capturing one story arc in the series. ...

1980s

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1990s and Beyond

Kitchen Sink also published a series of original Spirit stories in 1996-97, with contributions from Alan Moore, Dave Gibbons, Paul Chadwick, and Paul Pope, among others. Alan Moore (born November 18, 1953, in Northampton) is an English writer most famous for his influential work in comics, including the acclaimed graphic novels Watchmen, V for Vendetta and From Hell. ... Dave Gibbons (born April 14, 1949) is a British writer and artist of comics. ... Paul Chadwick is an American comic book creator. ... Paul Pope (b. ...

In the mid-2000s, DC Comics began reprinting The Spirit chronologically in the company's hardcover Archive series, in an approximately 8x10-inch format, smaller than the Kitchen Sink and Warren publications. DC Comics is an American comic book and related media company. ...

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DC Comics

Promotional art by Darwyn Cooke for DC Comics' The Spirit

The DC Comics one-shot Batman/The Spirit (Jan. 2007), by writer Jeph Loeb and artists Darwyn Cooke and J. Bone brought the Spirit into the DC Universe. The first issue of the ongoing series The Spirit, written and pencilled by Cooke and inked by J. Bone, debuted the following month. Image File history File links Spiritcircle. ... Image File history File links Spiritcircle. ... Cover to Solo #5, featuring Slam Bradley. ... DC Comics is an American comic book and related media company. ... DC Comics is an American comic book and related media company. ... One Shot is a high powered action film that is produced in Sri Lanka with the highest expense. ... Joseph Jeph Loeb III (b. ... Cover to Solo #5, featuring Slam Bradley. ... Cover to the History of the DC Universe trade paperback. ...

Cooke's series remains similar in tone to Eisner's original while updating some concepts for a 21st-century audience. Ellen's familiarity with the Internet helps solve a case, for instance, and Ebony White, stripped of his minstrel characteristics, is a resourceful, streetwise kid. The 21st century is the present century of the Anno Domini (common) era, in accordance with the Gregorian calendar. ... Ebony White and the Spirit Ebony White is a fictional character from the comics series The Spirit, created by Will Eisner. ...

Most stories each run a single, 22-page issue. Cooke in a 2007 interview said omnibus issues featuring various creators are set for release in summer and December 2007.^[8] An omnibus is a book or video collecting two or more previous works by the same author or director. ... Summer is one of the four seasons of the year. ... Look up December in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ...

Legacy and influence

• The character and stories featuring Masked Man, published by Eclipse Comics, were very similar to Will Eisner's work.
• Jack Cole's Midnight was intended as a simple replacement for the original during Eisner's enlistment, but took on its own life in broader stories.
• Michael T. Gilbert created a "funny animal" version dubbed The Wraith.
• Steve Ditko's character The Question shared much of the urban visual tone of Eisner's work, as did Alan Moore's version of Ditko's character, the Watchmen anti-hero Rorschach.
• In addition, Moore's later character of Greyshirt (originally appearing in Tomorrow Stories, and later in his own limited series Greyshirt: Indigo Sunset), consciously mimicked the character and storytelling techniques of The Spirit.

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The Spirit in other media

Reprints of the Spirits adventures ran in Quality Comics and Fiction House publications shortly after their newspaper debuts. Crack Comics #1 (May, 1940), featuring the Clock, previously introduced as the first masked comic book superhero. ... Jumbo Comics #1 (Sept. ...

The character was the subject of a 1987 television movie starring Sam Jones as The Spirit and Nana Visitor. Eisner disapproved of the movie's tone of camp parody,^{[citation needed]} which resembled that of the 1960s Batman television series. Although produced as a pilot for a new series, none followed. “Telefilm” redirects here. ... Autographed picture of Sam J. Jones as Flash Gordon Sam J. Jones (born August 12, 1954 in Chicago, Illinois) is an American actor, often credited as Sam Jones. ... This article or section does not adequately cite its references or sources. ... For the baseball player Bert Campaneris, see Bert Campaneris For the bicycle component manufacturer, see Campagnolo The current version of this article or section is written in an informal style and with a personally invested tone. ... In contemporary usage, a parody is a work that imitates another work in order to ridicule, ironically comment on, or poke some affectionate fun at the work itself, the subject of the work, the author or fictional voice of the parody, or another subject. ... This article or section does not cite any references or sources. ... A television program is the content of television broadcasting. ... A television pilot is a test episode of an intended television series. ...

The Spirit was briefly mentioned in Brad Bird's animated film The Iron Giant. Brad Bird Phillip Bradley Bird (born on September 11, 1957 in Kalispell, Montana) is an American Academy Award-winning animator who is known for directing Disney/Pixars film The Incredibles (2004) and Warner Bros. ... Animation refers to the process in which each frame of a film or movie is produced individually, whether generated as a computer graphic, or by photographing a drawn image, or by repeatedly making small changes to a model (see claymation and stop motion), and then photographing the result. ... The Iron Giant is a 1999 animated science fiction film, directed by Brad Bird, produced by Warner Bros. ...

Film

Main article: The Spirit (film)

On July 19, 2006, The Hollywood Reporter said comic book writer-artist Frank Miller would write and direct the feature film The Spirit^[9], previously announced as a project in 2004.^{[10] [11]} The trade magazine reported the production company would be Odd Lot Entertainment, with executive producers including Batfilm Productions' Michael Uslan, Benjamin Melniker, and Steven Maier, and producers to include Odd Lot's Linda McDonough and Batfilm's F.J. DeSanto. Miller later confirmed this.^[12] The Spirit is the motion picture adaptation of the titular 1940s and 1950s syndicated newspaper comic-book feature The Spirit, created by Will Eisner. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... A comic book is a magazine or book containing the art form of comics. ... Frank Miller (born January 27, 1957) is an American writer, artist and film director best known for his film noir-style comic book stories. ... The Spirit is the motion picture adaptation of the titular 1940s and 1950s syndicated newspaper comic-book feature The Spirit, created by Will Eisner. ... Michael Uslan is the originator of the Batman movies and was the first professor to teach Comic Book Folklore at an accredited university. ...

Comics

• The Spirit, 22 issues, Quality Comics, 1944-50
• The Spirit, 2 issues, Boardman Books (UK), 1948-1952 (repackaged by Denis McLoughlin)
• The Spirit, 5 issues, Fiction House, 1952-54
• The Spirit, 2 issues, I.W. Publications, 1963
• The Spirit, 2 issues, Harvey Comics, 1966-67 (each contained new Eisner work)
• The Spirit, 2 issues, Kitchen Sink Press, 1972 (underground)
• The Spirit, 4 issues, Ken Pierce, 1978 (reprinting Spirit Dailies)
• The Spirit Magazine, 41 issues, Warren Publishing / Kitchen Sink #17 on, 1974-83 (black-and-white magazine)
• The Spirit, 87 issues, Kitchen Sink Comics, 1983-92 (post-WWII Spirit, complete)
• The Spirit: The Origin Years, 10 issues, Kitchen Sink Comics, 1992-93 (reprints from the beginning)
• The Spirit: New Adventures, 8 issues, Kitchen Sink Comics, 1997-98
• The Spirit, monthly series, DC Comics, 2006-ongoing

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Books

• Will Eisner Color Treasury (1981, Kitchen Sink) (ISBN 0-87816-006-X)
• Spirit Color Album (1981, Kitchen Sink) (ISBN 0-87816-002-7)
• Spirit Color Album, v2 (1983, Kitchen Sink) (ISBN 0-87816-010-8)
• Spirit Color Album, v3 (1983, Kitchen Sink) (ISBN 0-87816-011-6)
• Art of Will Eisner (1989 2nd ed, Kitchen Sink) (ISBN 0-87816-076-0)
• Outer Space Spirit (1989 Kitchen Sink) (ISBN 0-87816-012-4)
• Christmas Spirit (1995 Kitchen Sink) (ISBN 0-87816-309-3)
• Spirit Casebook (199x Kitchen Sink) (ISBN 0-87816-094-9)
• All About P'Gell: Spirit Casebook II (1998 Kitchen Sink) (ISBN 0-87816-492-8)
• The Spirit Archives: (DC Comics)
  • Volume 1 (2000) (ISBN 1-56389-673-7) through Volume 22 (2007)
• The Best of The Spirit (2005 DC Comics) (ISBN 1-4012-0755-3)
• Will Eisner: A Spirited Life (2005 M Press/Dark Horse) (ISBN 1595820116)

Footnotes

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References

• Will Eisner official site
• Comicartville: "Rare Eisner: The Making of a Genius"
• Grand Comics Database
• Andelman, Bob, Will Eisner: A Spirited Life ISBN 1-59582-011-6
• Will Eisner: A Spirited Life official site
• Feiffer, Jules, The Great Comic-Book Heroes, ISBN 1-56097-501-6
• Jones, Gerard, Men Of Tomorrow ISBN 0-434-01402-8
• Transcript, Eisner's keynote address at the 2002 University of Florida Conference on Comics and Graphic Novels' Will Eisner Symposium
• Jack Kirby Collector #16 (June 1997): Will Eisner interview
• "Will Eisner's The Spirit: Setting Up Shop", by Tom Heintjes
• The New York Times Syndicate obituary, by Sarah Boxer
• The Comics Journal #267: Excerpt, "Will Eisner: Having Something to Say" (interview)
• Alter Ego #48 (May 2005), pp. 7-25: Will Eisner interview
• Steranko, Jim, The Steranko History of Comics 2 (Supergraphics, 1972)

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External link

• IMDB: The Spirit TV pilot