Criminologist Denny Colt let the world believe he was dead in order to continue his war against crime as the masked vigilante known only as The Spirit. Throughout his career, he fought some of the world"s deadliest villains with nothing more than his wits, his fists and his tongue planted firmly in his cheek. The blue-suit-clad, fedora-wearing crime fighter created by the legendary Will Eisner starred in hundreds of newspaper adventure stories that thrilled readers worldwide. This latest volume in the series reprints the Spirit comics from July 3 to December 25, 1949, one of the series" greatest periods.