Ben H :: Cooke, Darwyn

Spirit 8 pages 4 & 5 pencils

Artist: Darwyn Cooke (Penciller)

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Artwork Details

Title:	Spirit 8 pages 4 & 5 pencils
Artist:	Darwyn Cooke (Penciller)
Media Type:	Pencil
Art Type:	Interior Page
For Sale Status:	NFS
Views:	119
Likes on CAF:	6 7
Favorited on CAF:	1
Comments:	3
Added to Site:	9/25/2025
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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.

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	Ben H ( 19 ) Premium Gallery Owner
Joined:	December 2007
Last Login:	January 2026
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Country:	UNITED STATES
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Raj Patel
Member Since 2021

1 - Posted on 9/25/2025

This is an absolutely amazing spread by a legend. Congratulations on getting this grail!

Marcus Wai
Member Since 2005

1 - Posted on 9/26/2025

So cool! Darwyn pays homage to the Eisner style that often played with the title. Each letter is a panel with a scene in it much like the title of TV shows of the late 60's - 70's had. It's got the big city, the violence, the femme fatale, peril, the villain, and the big action!

Kin Wong
Member Since 2007

1 - Posted on 10/26/2025

I was considering making a run for this (love all the inventive layouts they did for this run, and having a different image in each letter was fantastic), but glad to see it ended up where it did. I wondered why only the pencils were being auctioned off, and it's fitting that they're reunited with the inks. Huge congrats!

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