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In 1947, Eisner collaborated with his World War II service friend Bill Harr, who composed a melody for Eisner's lyrics. Mystic and Lady Luck), plus filler material. The movie begins with The Spirit hearing about a plan set by his arch enemy The Octopus, The Spirit heads out to stop him. Kitchen Sink also published a series of original Spirit stories in The Spirit: The New Adventures (March–November 1998), including contributions from Alan Moore, Dave Gibbons, Paul Chadwick, Neil Gaiman, Joe R. Lansdale and Paul Pope.[44]. [39] The Spirit also makes a cameo in Vampirella #50 (April 1976), in the eight-page story "The Thing in Denny Colt's Grave". While elements of this basic costume occasionally vary (depending on the Spirit's circumstances and where he is in the world), he is always depicted wearing his blue domino mask and blue leather gloves. [25] An adult Ebony appears as an office worker in a one-off Spirit story that appeared January 9, 1966, in the New York Herald Tribune. Eisner also eventually used ghostwriters, generally in collaboration with him.
Eisner's final Spirit story appeared in the sixth issue of The Amazing Adventures of the Escapist, from Dark Horse Comics, published on April 20, 2005. Mystic. Octopus and his henchmen open fire, but all henchmen die in the crossfire and Octopus loses an arm. And I put a mask on him and said, 'Yes, he has a costume! The Octopus who kills anyone unfortunate enough to see his face who has other plans.
"[46] In 2017, the Spirit and fellow venerable crimefighter the Green Hornet shared a five-issue series, Green Hornet ’66 Meets the Spirit.[47]. On December 25, 2008, Lionsgate released a live action movie directed by comic writer/artist (and former friend of Eisner's) Frank Miller.
The Spirit is able to track down the location of Octopus's hideout, he takes out a few of his men and eventually reaches Silken Floss. Octopus appears in 84 issues.
He first appeared June 2, 1940,[1] as the main feature of a 16-page, tabloid-sized, newsprint comic book insert distributed in the Sunday edition of Register and Tribune Syndicate newspapers; it was ultimately carried by 20 Sunday newspapers, with a combined circulation of five million copies during the 1940s. The Octopus is a villain waiting to become a big Kingpin of the crime world.
[10] As The Comics Journal editor-publisher Gary Groth wrote, "By the late '40s, Eisner's participation in the strip had dwindled to a largely supervisory role. A hero born, murdered, and born again.
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Origin The story changed continually, but certain themes remained constant: the love between the Spirit and Dolan's feisty protofeminist daughter Ellen; the annual "Christmas Spirit" stories; and the Octopus (a psychopathic criminal mastermind who was never seen, except for his distinctive purple gloves).[23].
"They gave me an adult audience", Eisner said in 1997, "and I wanted to write better things than superheroes. Sand Saref - Enemy.
The Octopus
Issue 30 of the Kitchen Sink series (July 1981) features "The Spirit Jam", with a script from Eisner and a few penciled pages, plus contributions from 50 artists, including Fred Hembeck, Trina Robbins, Steve Leialoha, Frank Miller, Harvey Kurtzman, Howard Cruse, Brian Bolland, Bill Sienkiewicz, John Byrne, and Richard Corben. The imprint First Wave, launched in January 2010, featured the Spirit, pulp heroes Doc Savage and The Avenger, and DC's Rima the Jungle Girl, the Blackhawks, and a Golden Age incarnation of Batman into a DC "pulpverse" overseen by writer Brian Azzarello.
Evil-doer Mystic" and "Lady Luck" in a 16-page Sunday supplement (colloquially called "The Spirit Section") that was eventually distributed in 20 newspapers with a combined circulation of as many as five million copies. The four issues were collected in a hardcover graphic novel. I always regarded comics as a legitimate medium, my medium.
In the story "Wiffenpoof" (June 29, 1947), real-life operatic singer Robert Merrill was depicted singing the tune. The Octopus is the main antagonist inthe comic book seriesThe Spirit and the movie based on the series. The movie version of the Octopus developed a taste for dual wielding weapons and elaborate clothing, he is almost never shown without his trusy assistant, Silken Floss. Reprints
[26], The song "Ev'ry Little Bug" (with lyrics written by Eisner) appears regularly between 1946 and 1950.
[8], The character's name, he said in that interview, came from Arnold: "When 'Busy' Arnold called, he suggested a kind of ghost or some kind of metaphysical character. [3] Arnold compiled a presentation piece with existing Quality Comics material.
'"[7], The character and the types of stories Eisner would tell, Eisner said in 1978, derived from his desire, ...to do short stories.
After recovering from the beating the Spirit gave him, the Octopus is next seen trading the two cases with Sand. The publisher additionally published the one-shot Will Eisner's 3-D Classics featuring The Spirit (Dec. He became a reoccurring villain for the Spirit, especially in the later stories. Sammy first appeared in "The Ballgame", published July 31, 1949, part of a six-episode arc set in the South Seas, in which Ebony does not appear.
In "late '39, just before Christmas time", Eisner recalled in 1979,[4] "Arnold came to me and said that the Sunday newspapers were looking for a way of getting into this comic book boom". The Spirit chronicles the adventures of a masked vigilante who fights crime with the blessing of the city's police commissioner Dolan, an old friend.
The last thing we see of him is his finger crawling towards Silken Floss. Denis Kitchen, the Eisner estate's agent, said in a July 8, 2006 online interview that a radio series had been in development: "It was pitched to the estate by a couple of producers, one of whom is very experienced with NPR, so we have been back and forth on how that would work. Jackson was Miller's first choice for the role and was cast in May 2007. Take your favorite fandoms with you and never miss a beat. In 1973, Denis Kitchen's Kitchen Sink Press published two issues of The Spirit (also known as Underground Spirit), consisting primarily of reprints with original front and back covers, and featuring introductions by Maurice Horn and John Benson. ", "Backing into Jules Feiffer: An Exclusive Q&A", "Matt Wagner To Write Will Eisner's The Spirit For Dynamite", "Il trailer del film di Spirit mai realizzato da Brad Bird / The Trailer for the Spirit Movie Never Made by Brad Bird", Graphic Storytelling and Visual Narrative, The Plot: The Secret Story of The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Spirit_(comics_character)&oldid=978524828#Other_characters, Articles with unsourced statements from February 2020, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, ← The first Clayface was debuted by Bill Finger and Bob Kane. Another way the Octopus kept his face hidden was the fact that he was a master of disguise.
Origin. He is also shown to be a scientific genius, able to clone his hechmen, create a poison that could disintegrate people and create a serum which makes the drinker invulnerable. The series updated some concepts, with Ellen's Internet skills helping to solve a case, and Ebony White stripped of his racial stereotype characteristics. The Spirit would stop him before it's too late. Eisner, the overall editor, wrote and drew most Spirit entries, with the uncredited assistance of his studio of assistants and collaborators, though with Eisner's singular vision a unifying factor.[2]. Eisner later admitted to consciously stereotyping the character, but said he tried to do so with "responsibility", and argued that "at the time humor consisted in our society of bad English and physical difference in identity". Dr. Cobra Denny’s corpse was used as a test subject. The Spirit then gives the Octopus a beating, crushing him under a large statue. I said, 'Well, I don't know what you mean.,' and he said, 'Well, you can figure that out—I just like the words "the Spirit."'
and I said, 'Naw, that's not any good,' and he said, 'Well, then, call it the Spirit; there's nothing like that around.' The henchmen tells of Sand’s involvement in the mixing up of the chests and the villains decide a trade is in order.
Sam was told he could make the character what he wanted. It is also revealed that the Octopus has set up a trade with Sand Saref, trading the Golden Fleece for Heracles's blood. He first appeared June 2, 1940, as the main feature of a 16-page, tabloid-sized, newsprint comic book insert distributed in the Sunday edition of Register and Tribune Syndicate newspapers; it was ultimately carried by 20 Sunday newspapers, with a combined circulation of five million copies during the 1940s. He screamms out in victory but just as he is about to take a sip, the vase is shot by Sand Saref. And Abe Kanegson, who was my best friend in the office, was a jack-of-all-trades but mostly did lettering and backgrounds after Jerry left. During the fight one of Octopus's henchmen shoots the Spirit , which leaves him unable to fight.
In 1976, Tempo Books published The Spirit Casebook of True Haunted Houses and Ghosts, in which the Spirit plays the EC host, introducing "true" stories of haunted houses.
In the 1990s and 2000s, Kitchen Sink Press and DC Comics also published new Spirit stories by other writers and artists. Anyway, I agreed to do the Sunday comic book and we started discussing the deal [which] was that we'd be partners in the "Comic Book Section", as they called it at that time. [14], Eisner's rumpled, masked hero (with his headquarters under the tombstone of his supposedly deceased true identity, Denny Colt) and his gritty, detailed view of big-city life (based on Eisner's Jewish upbringing in New York City) both reflected and anticipated the noir outlook of movies and fiction in the 1940s.
Full Name Powers/Skills [1] It generally included two other four-page strips (initially Mr. He was always depicted wearing a pair of purple gloves with three stripes. In an accompanying feature article in issue of the New York Herald Tribune, Eisner's former office manager Marilyn Mercer wrote, "Ebony never drew criticism from Negro groups (in fact, Eisner was commended by some for using him), perhaps because, although his speech pattern was early Minstrel Show, he himself derived from another literary tradition: he was a combination of Tom Sawyer and Penrod, with a touch of Horatio Alger hero, and color didn't really come into it".
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