GOLDEN AGE CLASSICS THE SPIRIT SLIPCASE ED 05 (9781836665892)

Quality Comics was an American comic book publishing company that operated from 1937 to 1956 and
was largely influential in creating the 'Golden Age' of comic books. From 1940-1950, printer Everett M.
'Busy' Arnold reprinted Spirit stories under his Quality Comics banner, first individually from 1940-1947
as one of the features in 92 issues of Police Comics and from 1944-1950 as 22 issues of The Spirit.
The Spirit is a fictional masked crime fighter created by cartoonist Will Eisner, who fights crime with the
blessing of the city's police commissioner Dolan, an old friend. Despite the 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 elements that twisted genre and reader expectations.
Comic book stories from the 1940s and 1950s may depict some ethnic and racial prejudices that were once
common place in American culture. Such depictions were wrong then and are wrong today.
While not representing the publisher's view of today's society, these stories are printed as they were
originally created, because to do otherwise would be the same as claiming these prejudices never existed.