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"The Spirit [was] the world's first truly middle class superhero. This is a guy who was not out to save the world from alien invasions or from a huge supervillain's plot to take over the USA, but who was pretty much there to make his neighborhood a better and safer place to live. There was a charm and poignancy to the character and his mission even though, in the course of any story, he may get the crap beat out of him." — Michael Uslan
1940 - 1952: The Comic
"They gave me an adult audience, and I wanted to write better things than superheroes. Comic books were a ghetto. I sold my part of the enterprise to my associate and then began The Spirit. They wanted an heroic character, a costumed character. They asked me if he'd have a costume. And I put a mask on him and said, 'Yes, he has a costume!'" — Will Eisner Buy the Graphic Novels by Will Eisner
Here's the entire 20-volume set!
2007: DC's new ongoing comic book series!
"I can honestly say that this came completely out of left field for me," Darwyn Cooke told Newsarama. "I was actually starting work on my creator-owned original graphic novel when Mark called up, and asked if I'd be interested in a Spirit ongoing. I was floored by the proposition... I've been a Spirit fan since age 14 and I can honestly say that he was the only licensed character in the industry that could have got me to change course. It was kinda Al Pacino, y'know - 'Just when I think I'm out, they pull me back in!!!'"
Will Eisner's The Spirit, Vol. 1
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2008: Will Eisner's The Spirit (a Frank Miller film)
"When (Uslan) invited me to do this, first I said I can't do this and then I said I can't let anybody else touch it," said Miller, who became friends with Eisner before latter's death. "I intend to be extremely faithful to the heart and soul of the material, but it won't be nostalgic. It will be much scarier than people expect."
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