Spirit

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.