Originally Posted By: Joe Mama
The Spirit is one of those books I've been meaning to start getting (the Darwyn Cooke title and the hardcovers of the original series), but never do.


The first years of the strip are historically significant, but they're also pretty fucking dull. Then Eisner gets shipped off to WW2 and it gets really bad. Everyone (including Eisner) recommends starting with the post-War stuff. That's where the groundbeaking stuff that changed the medium is. In terms of quality it's decades away from the early episodes. It's like comparing Please Please Me with Abbey Road.