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Title: Spirit, The - Archives, Volume 12 : January 6 - June 30, 1946 by Will Eisner ISBN: 1-4012-0006-0 Publisher: DC Comics Pub. Date: 01 December, 2003 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $49.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.5 (4 reviews)
Rating: 3
Summary: Great promise of things to come
Comment: I thoroughly recommend this book to Spirit fans, but not necessarily as the ideal introduction to the Great Spirit.
This volume is The Spirit's springtime.
"The Spirit" at his greatest was characterised by excellent stories, well paced, superb viewer angles in the art-work, and wonderful tension built by the ambiguity in the relationships between the Spirit and the regular characters.
In this volume the stories are good, and the pacing and the angles are developing. The cast of characters is only in its infancy.
The masterpieces are yet to come in future volumes.
Rating: 5
Summary: return of the composer
Comment: It is already said by others here: Eisners return to the Spirit didn't pass unnoticed. You see the quality raise immediately.
His replacements during wartime where merely telling stories with pictures.
Will composes words and drawings to a never before seen unity.
Rating: 5
Summary: The most inventive streak of the most inventive of comics
Comment: For the sake of completeness, DC re-issued all the previous sets of Sunday newspaper "Spirit" supplements created while the strip's creator, Will Eisner, was off serving during the war. But those comics by other artists (issued as #5-11 in the SPIRIT ARCHIVES series) are nothing compared to what Eisner produced before the war and certainly nothing like what he produced after it. The last book in the series ended with Eisner's return to the series with his "Christmas Spirit" story for 1945; this volume is all Eisner and shows how he had become if anything even more inventive both artistically and in terms of narrative during his absence from "the Spirit." The collection introduces (and shows the exeunt) of Blubber, Ebony's Aleutian Indian replacement as the Spirit's assistant, and it also introduces the great post-war villain, Mr. Carrion (and his pet buzzard Julia). But it is most noteworthy for some of the most inventive art and narrative that have ever been produced in the comics medium , particularly in the stories "The Fly," "The Last Trolley," "Magnifying Glasses" (a brilliant comics metacommentary on perspective), "The Bucket of Blood" and "The Rubber Band." This shows the beginning of probably the best work (and certainly the most original) done in the comics medium since "Little Nemo in Slumberland."
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Title: Will Eisner's The Spirit Archives, Vol. 11 by Will Eisner ISBN: 1563899892 Publisher: DC Comics Pub. Date: 01 September, 2003 List Price(USD): $49.95 |
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Title: Spirit, The - Archives, Volume 13 : July 7 - December 29, 1946 by Will Eisner ISBN: 1401201490 Publisher: DC Comics Pub. Date: 01 May, 2004 List Price(USD): $49.95 |
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Title: Spirit Archives, Vol. 10 by Will Eisner ISBN: 1563899620 Publisher: DC Comics Pub. Date: 01 May, 2003 List Price(USD): $49.95 |
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Title: Plastic Man Archives, Vol. 5 by Jack Cole ISBN: 1563899868 Publisher: DC Comics Pub. Date: 01 October, 2003 List Price(USD): $49.95 |
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Title: Atom, The - Archives, Volume 2 by Gardner Fox ISBN: 1401200141 Publisher: DC Comics Pub. Date: 01 November, 2003 List Price(USD): $49.95 |
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