{"id":1567,"date":"2019-08-26T07:58:49","date_gmt":"2019-08-26T14:58:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/?p=1567"},"modified":"2019-08-26T12:09:52","modified_gmt":"2019-08-26T19:09:52","slug":"205-the-spirit-becomes-an-outlaw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/205-the-spirit-becomes-an-outlaw\/","title":{"rendered":"205 &#8211; The Spirit Becomes an Outlaw"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"802\" src=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/the-spirit-1024x802.png\" alt=\"Panels from The Spirit story in Police Comics #12, October 1942\" class=\"wp-image-1568\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/the-spirit-1024x802.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/the-spirit-300x235.png 300w, https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/the-spirit-768x602.png 768w, https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/the-spirit.png 1294w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption>Panels from The Spirit story in Police Comics #12, October 1942<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>In August 1942, Quality Comics started reprinting <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Will_Eisner\">Will Eisner<\/a>&#8216;s &#8220;The Spirit&#8221; stories in Police Comics #10, which is the first time the character appears in a comic book.  But the Spirit&#8217;s distinctive style started to exert itself a couple issues later in Police Comics #12 (October 1942) where we see comic narration appearing in stylized street signs and the character literally leaping between comic book panels.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Though Denny Colt became the Spirit in #10, he became an official outlaw in #12 when he was framed for murder.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In August 1942, Quality Comics started reprinting Will Eisner&#8216;s &#8220;The Spirit&#8221; stories in Police Comics #10, which is the first time the character appears in a comic book. But the Spirit&#8217;s distinctive style started to exert itself a couple issues later in Police Comics #12 (October 1942) where we see comic narration appearing in stylized [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1568,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[236,49,256,69],"class_list":["post-1567","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-236","tag-quality-comics","tag-the-spirit","tag-will-eisner"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1567","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1567"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1567\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1619,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1567\/revisions\/1619"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1568"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}