San Diego Comic-Con News: Dynamite Entertainment has acquired the rights to create comic books featuring Will Eisner’s classic crime-fighting hero The Spirit. While the publisher has yet to provide details about the new Spirit comic, the plan is to begin publishing the new Dynamite Spirit ongoing series sometime during 2014, which marks the 75th anniversary of Eisner’s Spirit, a murdered cop named Denny Colt, who was brought back to life to fight crime, and who first appeared in Quality Comics in 1939.
The Spirit also appeared in newspapers in a special comic supplement that reached over five million readers via the Tribune syndicate in the 1940s, later found a home at Harvey Comics, Kitchen Sink Press, and finally DC Comics, which published deluxe reprints of Eisner’s original material as well as ongoing original Spirit comic that featured art by Darwyn Cooke (Parker).
The acquisition of The Spirit should work well for Dynamite, which already has a large stable of noir-tinged 1930s and 1940s pulp heroes such as The Shadow, The Green Hornet, and The Spider (see "Cullen Bunn to Write New 'Masks' Crossover for Dynamite" to check out the crossover that Dynamite has planned for its pulp hero crime-fighters--will Denny Colt join in the fun?).
In Time for 75th Anniversary of the Eisner's Iconic Character
Posted by ICv2 on July 22, 2014 @ 9:16 am CT
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