The Spirit #7 (Ongoing)

(Denny Colt) is a crime-fighting fictional character created by writer-artist Will Eisner. He first appeared in Spirit Section #1 (June 2 1940), a seven-page insert into American Sunday-newspaper comics sections. The series was brought to DC, where it currently resides, by the one-shot Batman/The Spirit (January 2007). The following month, the first 32-issue ongoing series debuted. It was similar in tone to Eisner's original while updating some concepts for a 21st-century audience. Each issue usually runs a complete standalone story, backed up by a second feature in black and white by a rotating creative team. It is now enjoying its second run, albeit darker in tone, under DC's First Wave line. The first 5 issues of the new ongoing are all HQ Minutemen scans while issues #6 and #7 are GreenGiant scans, and they're just as good. By the way, the cover of issue #7 has got to be the best among this week's comics releases, but that's just my humble opinion.

'Frostbite' concludes with all-out gang war in the streets! Just how far will the Octopus go to take back control? You won't believe your eyes - and neither will the man on the receiving end of the Octopus's fury! And in the SPIRIT: BLACK & WHITE co-feature, Jan Strnad and Richard Corben bring you a Halloween treat - Central City's favorite dead man battling a werewolf! --

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