Spirit 8 pages 4 & 5 pencils

Back in the late 2000's, DC relaunched Will Eisner's Spirit with Darwyn Cooke handling both writing and penciling chores and J. Bone providing finished inks. Like Eisner's stories, the series featured great stylized title pages incorporating "Spirit" into the art, and this one, featuring the Spirit, Silk Satin, and the Octopus, was my favorite of the Cooke run. Bone's inks were done over blueline copies of Cooke's pencils, and I bought the inked version of this page from Albert Moy around 2008. I was later able to get Darwyn to sign the page at Heroes Con before his untimely passing.

I'm unsure how many of Cooke's original pencil pages from the series were ever sold, but to this day I've only seen a handful of them surface. I was therefore quite surprised to see these pencils turn up at the most recent ComicLink featured auction and am thrilled to be able to reunite it with the inked version, which can be seen here.