Will Eisner's "The Spirit" has widely been acclaimed as the prototype of the modern comic. Eisner deftly wove elements of adventure stories, detective film-noir, and broad slaprstick into a distinctive visual style that is still emulated in comics created today. According to Will Eisner.Com:

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"WHO IS… THE SPIRIT? From his eerie headquarters under Wildwood Cemetery, masked criminologist Denny Colt — believed by many to be dead — secretly fights crime as The Spirit!' From his home in Central City to the far-flung corners of the world and beyond, The Spirit attracts the most seductive and dangerous femmes fatale and wages a neverending war against streetwise crooks, criminal master-minds and otherworldly beings… with only quick wits, sharp humour and his two gloved fists.