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The Spirit
Series · 5 books · 2007-2010

Books in series

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The Spirit, Book One

2007

Written by Darwyn Cooke and Jeph Loeb Art by Darwyn Cooke & J. Bone Cover by Darwyn Cooke The first volume of the award-winning series is collected in trade paperback, featuring BATMAN/THE SPIRIT and THE SPIRIT #1-6!
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#2

The Spirit, Vol. 2

2009

Follows the efforts of Denny Colt, a private detective who survived death to continue his fight against crime as The Spirit, as he fights Octagon, a network of criminals, and other villains with help from such characters as P'Gell, who wants revenge on her husband's murderer, and CIA agent Silk Satin.
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#3

The Spirit, Vol. 3

2009

A new graphic novel spotlighting the hero of the upcoming movie, The Spirit, directed by legendary comics creator Frank Miller and based on the timeless creations of comics visionary Will Eisner. Armed with his wits and fists, Denny Colt protects the seedy streets of Central City from all manner of vile enemies and femme fatales as the domino-masked hero The Spirit! This volume features all-new, present-day adventures starring the titular champion from a bevy of all-star creators and includes an 8-page tale from best-selling novelist Glen David Gold ( Carter Beats the Devil ).
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#4

The Spirit, Vol. 4

2009

Beat pavement with The Spirit in this new collection of the character's ongoing series. Featuring stand-alone stories any reader can leap right in to, this volume sees The Spirit taking a much-needed break from crime-fighting before stumbling upon a caper while on vacation! In another, The Spirit hits Cambodia to chase somebody murdering the former members of an Army platoon, one by one. It's a noir murder mystery in the Spirit style! And when somebody starts poisoning the Central City food supply, The Spirit jumps headlong into a race against time to track down the terrorist!
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#5

The Spirit, Vol. 5

2010

A new graphic novel spotlighting the timeless creation of comics visionary Will Eisner! Armed with his wits and fists, Denny Colt protects the seedy streets of Central City from all manner of vile enemies and femme fatales as the domino-masked hero The Spirit! This volume features all-new, present-day adventures written by the producer of BATMAN BEGINS & THE DARK KNIGHT, and THE SPIRIT movie, Michael Uslan and his SPIRIT co-producer, F.J. DeSanto illustrated by comics superstar Justiniano & other top talents.

Authors

Dean Motter
Dean Motter
Author · 15 books

Dean Motter is an illustrator, designer and writer who worked for many years in Toronto, Canada, New York City, and Atlanta. Motter is best known as the creator and designer of Mister X, one of the most influential "new-wave" comics of the 1980s. Dean then took up the Creative Services Art Director's post at Time Warner/DC Comics, where he oversaw the corporate and licensing designs of America’s most beloved comic book characters such as Superman, Batman and Wonder Woman. In his off-hours he went on to create and design the highly acclaimed, retro-futuristic comic book series, Terminal City—and its sequels, Aerial Graffiti. and Electropolis.

Darwyn Cooke
Darwyn Cooke
Author · 24 books

Darwyn Cooke was an Eisner Award winning comic book writer, artist, cartoonist and animator, best known for his work on the comic books Catwoman, DC: The New Frontier and Will Eisner's The Spirit. In 1985, Cooke published his first comic book work as a professional artist in a short story in New Talent Showcase #19, but economic pressure made him leave the career and he worked in Canada as a magazine art director, graphic and product designer for the next 15 years. In the early 1990s Cooke decided to return to comics, but found little interest for his work at the major publishers. Eventually he was hired by Warner Bros. Animation after replying to an ad placed by animator Bruce Timm. He went on to work as a storyboard artist for Batman: The Animated Series and Superman: The Animated Series, and in 1999 he animated the main title design for Batman Beyond. He then worked as a director for Sony Animation's Men in Black: The Series for a year. DC Comics then approached Cooke about a project which he had submitted to the publisher years earlier which eventually became Batman: Ego, a graphic novel published in 2000. The critical success of that project led to Cooke taking on more freelance work, such as X-Force, Wolverine/Doop and Spider-Man's Tangled Web for Marvel Comics and Just Imagine... Stan Lee for DC. In 2001, Cooke and writer Ed Brubaker teamed up to revamp the Catwoman character. They started with a 4 issue serial "Trail of the Catwoman" in Detective Comics #759-762 in which private detective Slam Bradley attempts to investigate the death of Selina Kyle (AKA Catwoman). The story led into a new Catwoman title in late 2001 by Brubaker and Cooke, in which the character's costume, supporting cast and modus operandi were all redesigned and redeveloped. Cooke would stay on the series, which was met with critical and fan acclaim, up until issue #4. In 2002 he would write and draw a prequel, the Selina's Big Score graphic novel which detailed what had happened to the character directly before her new series. Cover to DC: The New Frontier #6. Cover to DC: The New Frontier #6. Cooke's next project was the ambitious DC: The New Frontier (2004), a six issue miniseries which sought to tell an epic storyline bridging the gap between the end of the golden and the start of the silver age of comic books in the DC Universe. The story, which was set in the 1950s, featured dozens of super-hero characters and drew inspiration from the comic books and movies of the period as well as from Tom Wolfe's non-fiction account of the start of the US Space Program The Right Stuff. The major DC characters are introduced in "The New Frontier" in the same order that DC originally published them, even down to the correct month and year in the story's timeline. In 2005, Cooke won an Eisner Award for "Best Limited Series", and a Joe Shuster Award for "Outstanding Canadian Comic Book Cartoonist" for his work on the series. Most recently, Cooke contributed to DC's artist-centric anthology project Solo. His issue (#5, June, 2005) featured several different stories in different styles with a framing sequence featuring the Slam Bradley character. In 2006, Solo #5 won an Eisner Award for "Best Single Issue." In July 2005, it was announced that in 2006 Cooke and writer Jeph Loeb would produce a Batman/Spirit crossover, to be followed shortly afterwards by an ongoing Spirit series written and drawn by Cooke. Batman/The Spirit was ultimately published in November 2006, followed in December by the first issue of Cooke's The Spirit. In June 2007, Cooke and J. Bone won a Joe Shuster Award for "Outstanding Canadian Comic Book Artists" for their work on "Batman/The Spirit", and Cooke won "Outstanding Canadian Comic Book Cartoonist" for his work on "The Spirit". In July 2006, it was announced that Warner Bros. Animation and DC Comics would release a series of direct-to-DVD animated movies based on important DC com

Michael Avon Oeming
Michael Avon Oeming
Author · 40 books

Michael Avon Oeming is an American comic book creator, both as an artist and writer. His 1998 comic book Bulletproof Monk was made into a film of the same name. The previous mentioned collaborations are The Mice Templar from Image Comics, which he draws and co-authors with Bryan J.L. Glass,[1] and Powers from Icon Comics which he draws, and sometimes co-authors, with Brian Bendis. His creator-owned projects include Rapture, on which he collaborated with his wife, Taki Soma,[2] and The Victories, both for Dark Horse Comics. As of 2010, he is employed as a staff member of Valve Corporation, working on Left 4 Dead, Team Fortress 2 and Portal 2 webcomics.

Sergio Aragonés
Sergio Aragonés
Author · 24 books
Sergio Aragonés Domenech is a cartoonist and writer best known for his contributions to Mad Magazine and creator of the comic book Groo the Wanderer.
Michael E. Uslan
Michael E. Uslan
Author · 18 books

Michael E. Uslan (born June 2, 1952) is a producer of the Batman movies and was the first instructor to teach an accredited course on comic book folklore at any university. Uslan is best known as a producer of all of the modern Batman films to date, starting with Tim Burton's 1989 film, and continuing to 2012's The Dark Knight Rises and also including various feature-length films based on the Batman: The Animated Series and The Batman.

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