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| Original Title: | The Best of the Spirit |
| ISBN: | 1401207553 (ISBN13: 9781401207557) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Characters: | The Spirit |
Will Eisner
Paperback | Pages: 187 pages Rating: 3.93 | 829 Users | 104 Reviews
Describe Out Of Books The Best of the Spirit
| Title | : | The Best of the Spirit |
| Author | : | Will Eisner |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Special Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 187 pages |
| Published | : | November 1st 2005 by DC Comics |
| Categories | : | Sequential Art. Comics. Graphic Novels. Fiction. Graphic Novels Comics |
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Written by Will Eisner Art and cover by Eisner 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 THE 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 (THE SANDMAN).Rating Out Of Books The Best of the Spirit
Ratings: 3.93 From 829 Users | 104 ReviewsAssess Out Of Books The Best of the Spirit
Brilliant. Absolutely brilliant. I've read comic books since I was a kid. Some were alright, some were exciting, some stick with you because you read them at "just the right time." But Will Eisner....Will Eisner was just plain amazing. His writing runs the full gambit from slapstick goofiness to the kind of macabre that I thought only Rod Serling could bring to the ta le, and all the '40's era pulp fiction action in between. This fits right in with anyone's love of Dick Tracy, The Shadow, DocThis hasn't held up over time.
Retro Hugo Award Finalist: "The Origin of the Spirit" (June 1940)A lawman fakes his own death, then dons a mask to become the mysterious crime fighter known as The Lone Rang... I mean The Spirit. So yes, this is not a unique concept, but because Eisner executes it well, it has become one of the classics of comic art.The origin story that is nominated for the Retro Hugo Award is better than most of the comics that were produced in 1940, but it only has glimmers of the greatness The Spirit would
This is apparently where comic strips grew up (yeah, they say that about dozens of strips, I know). However, Eisner has both beautifully sinuous use of layout, a wonderfully active drawing style and a brevity of storytelling that packs more into 6 pages than most comics books do into 26 pages. This anthology tries to act as an introduction to Eisner's Spirit work - there are two tales from before WW2 (the introduction of The Spirit and the introduction of Silk Satin - these are fun, but they
Classic nostalgia read, good stuff. It's always fun to come back to Will Eisner's working/middle-class Batman character slugging his fedora'ed way through the economic doldrums and urban hellscapes of the late 1940s. There's this amazing, unique post-war feeling to all the comics after the first couple early ones. The stories and art are hard-bitten yet optimistic, bloody but not gory, grim but innocent. It makes you feel like a little boy being flattered into believing you're a tough he-man
An excellent collection, but with one major quibble. These are the best Spirit stories which do NOT include the character Ebony, his African American sidekick from the 1940s. While I can see how his portrayal might offend some readers, the fact was that in some of the stories he was shown as being intelligent and helpful, while in others he was an offensive stereotype. Omitting him entirely gives a false understanding of Eisner's creation.That said, the stories includes some brilliant ones, far
This was surprisingly good. It's my first reading of anything Spirit-related. I was expecting it to be more hype than substance, but wouldn't you know it, many of the stories are clever and all feel incredibly modern. After reading about the early days of comics (50s and earlier) I got the impression that it was mostly all trash, just thrown together for money. Granted, everyone usually throws The Spirit and Will Eisner in there as an exception to the rule, but, cynic that I am, I couldn't
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