The Spirit
originally ran from Sunday 2 June, 1940 until Sunday 5
October, 1952, as a weekly feature, created by Will Eisner.
Since the late 1960s,
Spirit stories have been reprinted regularly worldwide,
and the character appearing in several new
adventures.
For a brief history of
the original series, click here.This site
also covers the main characters and
contributors of The Spirit feature, and
looks at some of the major storylines
that have appeared.
Because many of the
reprints of The Spirit that have
appeared over the past twenty years have been in black
and white (The Spirit was a colour
feature), a number of the illustrations that appear on
the following pages are in monochrome.
With the news that DC
Comics have started to
reprint all of the weekly stories in chronological order
in a series of hardback volumes, a new generation of fans
should be able to enjoy one of the most memorable
American comic book series.
One of the most useful
resources is Cat Yronwode's The Spirit Checklist ,
an updated version of which can be downloaded from here.
If you want to send
comments or questions about this site, click here. You can
email the writer of these web pages by clicking here. The homepage of the writer can be accessed
by clicking here.
Updates
To see
earlier updates, click here.
1 August
2001 Added a new page on the CFA-APA issue on The Spirit. Updated the bookshop page so that it now includes The Spirit Archives Volume 5. Also, altered The Spirit Checklist (Adobe Acrobat version) so that it now includes bookmarks and a clickable index!
28 July
2001 There are preview images of Greyshirt: Indigo Sunset now available. Plus volume 5 of The Spirit Archives will be released on 22 August (With thanks
to Eric Swainsbury).
24 July
2001 There is a fascinating interview with Will Eisner by Michael Chabon from San Diego at the Comic Book Resources site.
21 July
2001 Updated The Spirit Checklist and the links page. Lots of Eisner news: there is a preview of the brand new John Law, Detective series by Gary Chaloner! And The Spirit Archives volumes 1 & 2 won the Best Archival Collection/Project at the 2001 Will Eisner awards at San Diego!
24 June
2001 The downloads page has been updated so that you can now download the screensavers, desktop theme and sounds can be downloaded directly! A further cover has been added to the draft covers page (With thanks
to Eric Swainsbury). Also removed the webring page.
3 June
2001 Updated the bookshop page so that it now includes the NBM english language version of Moby Dick, and the new book looking at Jack Cole and Plastic Man by Art Spiegelman. Also, added some new links! And volume 5 of The Spirit Archives is finally being solicited!
14 May
2001 Updated the bookshop page so that it now includes french and german titles! Also, the official Will Eisner site is now up!
13 May
2001 Updated the webring page. Also removed the postcard page until further notice. New on the order lists is Dark Horse Maverick 2001, which includes some work by Will Eisner as well as Denis Kitchen!
6 May
2001 Updated the wallpaper page with fifteen new images!
3 May
2001 Two new pages of cover scans added: Daily Spirit reprints by Aprill and Real Free Press; Daily Spirit reprints by Ken Pierce and the Harvey Comics series! Also added a new page which looks at draft covers by Will Eisner(With thanks
to Eric Swainsbury); and updated the bookshop page which now includes Will Eisner's Shop Talk!
30 April
2001 Congratulations to Will Eisner for winning Best Graphic Album of Original Work for Last Day in Vietnam at the 2001 Harvey Awards! Also congratulations to Will Eisner, Dale Crain and the rest of the DC Archives team for winning the award for Best Domestic Reprint for The Spirit Archives.
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The Spirit,
and all related characters and images are © 1998 - 2000
Will Eisner. All images used on these pages are intended
for the purposes of review and are not intended in any
way to infringe upon the work of Mr Eisner. For further
copyright information, click here.
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