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In 1940, a comic book insert called The Spirit, by Will Eisner, began appearing in Sunday newspapers. A unique concept, The spirit told a complete story in seven pages each week. Eisner, a master of the form, made The Spirit a classic, and here, 18 of his stories from the post-World War II era are reprinted. Enter the world of The Spirit - a world of light and dark shadow, passion and greed, humor and fantasy - a unique world not seen before or since in comics!
"He was an early master of the German expressionist approach in comic books. His world seemed more real than the world of other comic book men. He was a cartoonist other cartoonists swiped from."
-Jules Feiffer
"What Will Eisner created was a self-contained world of larger-than-life saints and sinners as uniquely of its period as that of Hammett... or Ring Lardner."
-The Guardian, England
"There is no one quite like Will Eisner. There never has been, and on my more pessimistic days, I doubt there ever will be."
-Alan Moore, writer, Watchmen
