Eisner's "Spirit" comics deals with The Spirit, a masked crime fighter who faked his death in order to fight crime. His chief villain is the Octopus. Eisner was one of the first comic artists to eschew working for Marvel or DC in order to retain creative rights to his comics. He's also credited as inventing the graphic novel. Basically, he was doing what Frank Miller did like twenty years before he did.

Says Miller: '"Will was a dear friend, a mentor, and translating his vision to the screen will be a labor of love."'

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