Spirit
Adapted from a comic book character
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The Spirit is a fictional masked crimefighter appearing in American comic books. Created by cartoonist Will Eisner, he first appeared as the main feature of a comic book insert in the Sunday edition of Register and Tribune Syndicate newspapers. Depending on the individual newspaper, the insert may have been of standard US comic book size, newspaper-page folded twice, or two uncut newspaper pages. The size of the comic panels would have been about the same in each case. The section was popularly referred to as "The Spirit Section", the insert ran from June 2, 1940 to October 5, 1952. The Spirit is the alias of Denny Colt, a private investigator and criminologist based in the fictional Central City, who falls into suspended animation while trying to apprehend the mad scientist Dr. Cobra.
Adaptations (1)
Spirit was adapted into a 2008 film.
The Spirit2008 · film · 103 min · dir. Frank Miller · IMDb ↗Down these mean streets a man must come. A hero born, murdered, and born again. When a Rookie cop named Denny Colt returns from the beyond as The Spirit, a hero whose mission is to fight against the bad forces from the shadows of Central City. The Octopus who kills anyone unfortunate enough to see his face who has other plans. He's going to wipe out the entire city. The Spirit tracks this cold hearted killer from the city's rundown warehouses, to the damp catacombs, to the windswept waterfront all the while facing a bevy of beautiful women who either want to seduce, love or kill the masked crusader.
