The
Spirit Archives Vol 6
DC Comics continues its comprehensive, Eisner Award-winning
collection of Eisner's most famous creation, the Spirit, with THE SPIRIT ARCHIVES Volume
6, a 224-page hardcover reprinting the newspaper Spirit sections from January 3 to July
27, 1943.
Volume 6 brings back the heady, frantic days of World War
II, when Will Eisner, like so many young Americans, was called upon to serve his country.
For the duration of the war, his creation, the Spirit, needed to be passed along to his
assistants. But what a Who's Who of assistants it was: Lou Fine, one of the most highly
respected draftsmen ever to have worked in comics; Jack Cole, creator of Plastic Man and
one of comics' true geniuses; noted novelists Manly Wade Wellman and William Woolfolk; and
many others! In their capable hands, with America embroiled in the conflict, the Spirit
began to take on Axis foes as well as the usual cast of colorful thugs, crooks and
killers.
Volume 6 also features an introduction by Eisner describing
his work for the Army and his role in the development of comics as an educational tool -
including an 8-page gallery of his military comics' work during and after the war years!
THE SPIRIT ARCHIVES Volume 6 is a 224-page hardcover
$42.45 USA / $63.65 Can

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