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Influential comics creator Will Eisner passed away on Monday.

Eisner, 87, had been recovering from quadruple bypass heart surgery.

Below is an excerpt from the obituary from the Lakeland (Fla.) Ledger:

"Eisner started making comics in the 1930s. He was the first to use "silent" balloonless panels to emphasize emotions, by focusing the reader's attention on finely wrought facial expressions. He addressed subjects considered unthinkable in comic books and rarely seen at the time in newspaper comics: spousal abuse, tax audits, urban blight and graft.

"His first graphic novel, A Contract with God, published in 1978, combined comic books and literary novels.

At its height, The Spirit, created in 1940, had a weekly circulation of 5 million with 20 newspapers inserting it into Sunday editions. The supplement consisted of a comic book with three self-contained stories, and The Spirit became the most popular.

In the comic written and illustrated by Eisner, the title character was a coroner named Denny Colt, believed murdered by a mad scientist's potion but actually buried alive. He protected the fictional Central City, which was based on New York.

Eisner was drafted during World War II, and the Army had him create "Joe Dope" to teach Jeep maintenance to soldiers with a bumbling comic character.
After the war, he went back to The Spirit and continued the series until 1952. The Army also hired him for more instruction manuals, which he produced until the 1970s.

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Taken from Comics Continuum.

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