The Spirit (3rd Series)

    (Fiction House, 1948, 1952-1954)
™ and ©1952 Real Adventures Publishing

Will Eisner’s The Spirit was the most exciting and revolutionary series of its time. With each new 8-page Sunday feature, Eisner would expand the possibilities of graphic storytelling with complex stories and cinematic artwork. However, by the time Eisner’s masked crimefighter changed comic book addresses from the first Spirit (Quality) comic to Fiction House in the early 1950s, Eisner had handed most of the art and writing chores to his studio. While this group included talents like Jules Feiffer, Jerry Grandenetti, Klaus Nordling and Wally Wood, the 1952-54 Spirit definitely suffered in comparison with the work Eisner himself had done only a few years before. By 1954, Denny Colt (The Spirit) had launched into outer space and then out of the newspapers altogether. The series went into hibernation until a pair of Harvey Spirit issues appeared in the mid-60s, leading to a revival which has persisted to the present day.
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  • 1
    #1
    Mar 1952
    Cover: $0.10
    W: Jules Feiffer
    Reprints from #586, 590, 596, 597; Fiction House publishes
    No copies available
  • 2
    #2
    Jun 1952
    Cover: $0.10
    W: Will Eisner, Jules Feiffer  ·  A: Will Eisner
    Reprints from #568, 573, 599, 609
    No copies available
  • 3
    #3
    Dec 1948
    Cover: $0.10
    W: Jules Feiffer  ·  A: Will Eisner
    Reprints from #600, 610, 613, 615
    No copies available
  • 4
    #4
    Cover: $0.10
    W: Will Eisner, Jules Feiffer  ·  A: Will Eisner
    Reprints from #566, 588, 607, 621; ca. 1953
    No copies available
  • 5
    #5
    Cover: $1.10
    W: Will Eisner  ·  A: Will Eisner
    Reprints from #565, 567, 580, 582; ca. 1954
    No copies available