Many great comic artists have worked on multiple books, but only rarely is a character and artist so linked that one is not uttered without the other. He's not just THE SPIRIT-- He's Will Eisner's The Spirit. Conversely, there's never a discussion of Eisner's creativity without mention of his long-running masterwork. Created specifically for the Sunday comic section in 1940, THE SPIRIT appeared in many different comics, and has had his own series of one type or another in every decade since the 1940s. This volume begins the complete Quality Comics series, which ran for 22 issues over six years (1944-1950), his first regular comic book run ! This first volume contains strip reprints from 1943-1944, and most of the artwork is done by Lou Fine, filling in while Will Eisner was in the military during World War Two.