Dynamite Entertainment has announced the full creative team for their upcoming July 2015 launch of Will Eisner’s The Spirit. Each chapter of the initial twelve-issue story arc will feature Matt Wagner as writer, interior artist Dan Schkade, and colorist Brennan Wagner. The ongoing monthly cover artist will be Eric Powell, while the July debut #1 issue will be offered with variant cover artwork by writer Matt Wagner himself, as well as Alex Ross and John Cassaday.

The February announcement that Dynamite Entertainment would bring back Will Eisner’s legendary crimefighter Denny Colt, The Spirit, in the eponymous series generated significant fan buzz, as did the announcement that Matt Wagner, the award-winning comic book creator of Grendel and Mage (as well as writer of such mainstream successes as Batman/Superman/Wonder Woman: Trinity, The Shadow: Year One, Batman: The Monster Men, and Zorro). With the addition of artist Dan Schkade and colorist Brennan Wagner, the action-packed and intrigue-laden epic strives to honor the vital and prestigious legacy of one of comicdom’s most talented and influential creators, as well as introduce a new generation of readers to the character.

Set in the classic period of The Spirit’s golden age, the 1940s, the first 12-issue story arc follows the strip’s most beloved characters, Commissioner Dolan, his daughter Ellen, Ebony White and Sammy as they attempt to uncover why The Spirit has been missing (and presumed dead) for the past two years. Has the famous blue-masked hero finally fallen victim to one of the malicious felons or beautiful femme fatales from his lengthy rogues’ gallery of enemies?  In the words of Central City’s most prominent headlines: “Who Killed The Spirit?”

Will Eisner’s The Spirit #1 will be solicited in Diamond Comic Distributors’ Previews catalog and will also be available for individual customer purchase through digital platforms courtesy of Comixology, Dynamite Digital, iVerse, and Dark Horse Digital.