WILL EISNERS SPIRIT ARCHIVES HC VOL 06 ***OOP***

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New HC – retail 49.99 – The Spirit Archives 6 (January-July 1943; w Will Eisner, Manly Wade Wellman, William Woolfolk, et al.; a Will Eisner, Lou Fine, Jack Cole, et al.). [From DC Comics: DC Comics continues its comprehensive, Eisner Award-winning collection of Eisner’s most famous creation, the Spirit, with THE SPIRIT ARCHIVES Volume 6, a 224-page hardcover reprinting the newspaper Spirit sections from January 3 to July 27, 1943. Volume 6 brings back the heady, frantic days of World War II, when Will Eisner, like so many young Americans, was called upon to serve his country. For the duration of the war, his creation, the Spirit, needed to be passed along to his assistants. But what a Who’s Who of assistants it was: Lou Fine, one of the most highly respected draftsmen ever to have worked in comics; Jack Cole, creator of Plastic Man and one of comics’ true geniuses; noted novelists Manly Wade Wellman and William Woolfolk; and many others! In their capable hands, with America embroiled in the conflict, the Spirit began to take on Axis foes as well as the usual cast of colorful thugs, crooks and killers. Volume 6 also features an introduction by Eisner describing his work for the Army and his role in the development of comics as an educational tool—including an 8-page gallery of his military comics’ work during and after the war years!]