{"product_id":"the-spirit-volume-4","title":"THE SPIRIT Volume 4","description":"\u003cp\u003eEisner was back from military duty and \u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ecreated all-new covers\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003c\/em\u003e-- and good ones -- for all five of these issues. Inside you'll find more wonderful classic Spirit adventures, four in each issue. Most scripts are by \u003cstrong\u003eManly Wade Wellman\u003c\/strong\u003e, since many of these stories were first published in the Spirit weekly during the final years of the war, 1944-45, when Eisner was still in the service. Artists on the stories themselves include Lou Fine and Jack Cole, Eisner's fill-in artists during the war. Back up features include Flatfoot Burns by \u003cstrong\u003eAl Stahl\u003c\/strong\u003e and Jonesy one-pagers by \u003cstrong\u003eBernard Dribble\u003c\/strong\u003e.\n\nSince the Spirit sections in the newspapers were weekly, meaning 52 new stories a year...and these comics were only published quarterly, collecting just five stories every 3 months...you can do the math to see why even though in 1948 they were still collecting wartime stories sans Eisner's input, while he was in the service.\n\nFrom 1940-1950, printer Everett M. \"Busy\" Arnold reprinted Spirit stories under his Quality Comics banner, first individually from 1940-1947 as one of the features in 92 issues of Police Comics (one story per issue) and from 1944-1950 as 22 issues of \u003cem\u003eThe Spirit \u003c\/em\u003e(5 per issue, mostly).\n\nThe Spirit, a masked crime fighter created by cartoonist \u003cstrong\u003eWill Eisner\u003c\/strong\u003e, fights crime with the blessing of the city’s police commissioner Dolan, an old friend. Despite the Spirit’s origin as detective\/criminologist Denny Colt, his real identity was rarely referred to after his first appearance, and for all intents and purposes he was simply \"The Spirit.\"\n\nThe stories are presented in a wide variety of styles, from straight forward crime drama and noir to lighthearted adventure, from mystery and horror to comedy and love stories, often with hybrid elements that twisted genre and reader expectations.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"vendor-unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":59643594375454,"sku":"SPIR04","price":32.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0999\/0684\/7006\/files\/spir04-spirit-vol-4-book.jpg?v=1784517814","url":"https:\/\/shop.budsartbooks.com\/products\/the-spirit-volume-4","provider":"Bud's Art Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}