The Spirit

Why can't they just let him rest in peace?

PeeDee said:

The Spirit/Batman crossover was kinda' fun, though.

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Don't know much about The Spirit. (Inserting shrugging smiley because there isn't any of them that appear to say "I'm a doofus.")

But are you referring to the Gotham City Limits three parter from about a year ago? I really liked that story. My copies are out of my reach at the moment so I don't know whether I'm recalling the name of The Spirit character correctly. Some such Spectre-style dude popped up in the story, I was ignorant of his history but there was enough context for the story to work. I liked the effect of everything I was familiar with in Batman's world seeming to go irreversibly to hell in that tale -- the suspense worked well on me.

The Spirit is the creation of Will Eisner. Dude the Eisner Award is named after.

Many consider him to be ahead of his time (which is one of those annoying, ridiculous things people say that means nothing at all). Mostly it was his page design that revolutionized comics. Prior to him it was pretty much the standard Archie comics layout. Then he came a long and messed with panel arrangement, breaking the sides of panels, and, horror-of-horrors, ditching panels entirely and having characters just hand on the page.

The Spirit is masked vigilante. You can see more here...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Spirit

I believe DC recently got the rights to work him.