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In 1977, when I was 10 years old, I was an avid reader of The Spirit Magazine, a collection of reprints of Will Eisner’s classic 1940s stories published by Kitchen Sink Press. For some reason, I felt moved to dash off a letter of comment regarding the casting of a Spirit movie that was then under discussion (“James Garner as the Spirit, please”). I sent it to the publisher, a fellow named Denis Kitchen, who ran it in the next issue. It was the first time I saw my name in print, and I kind of liked it.

More than 30 years later, when I had some more to say about transmedia adaptations of comic book properties, I felt moved to dash ...

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