Golden Age Classics the Spirit Hardcover Volume 01 (NM)

The Spirit is a fictional masked crime fighter created by cartoonist Will Eisner, who fights crime withthe blessing ofthe city's police commissioner Dolan, an old friend. Despitethe 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."the 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 elementsthat twisted genre and reader expectations. Quality Comics was an American comic book publishing companythat operated from 1937 to 1956 and was largely influential in creatingthe Golden Age of comic books. From 1940-1950, printer Everett M. "Busy" Arnold reprinted Eisner's Spirit stories under his Quality Comics banner. Comic book stories fromthe 1940s and 1950s may depict some ethnic and racial prejudicesthat were once commonplace in American culture. Such depictions were wrongthen and are wrong today. While not representingthe publisher's view of today's society,these stories are printed asthey were originally created, because to do otherwise would bethe same as claimingthese prejudices never existed. Collectsthe Spirit #1-4 (1944 to Spring 1946).