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'Spirit' Comic Creator Will Eisner Dies

NPR | By Renee Montagne
Published January 4, 2005 at 11:00 PM CST

Comic book legend Will Eisner died Monday at the age of 87. The artist was best known for his Sunday strip The Spirit, but most may recognize his style from the buxom ladies he painted on the nose of fighter planes in World War II. Hear NPR's Renee Montagne.

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