20 Absolutely Masterful First Pages Of Comics
4. The Spirit: The Elevator
Eisner's Spirit intro pages are often celebrated as masterpieces, the closest thing early comics had to a Citizen Kane, and if this list evaluated first pages collectively rather than individually, The Spirit would probably come in first.
This representative splash page has all Eisner's trademarks, a dizzyingly creative use of the series title, further experimentation with the graphic form (the use of that elevator would continue through the remaining six pages) and a fantastic two-line exchange that gives us the premise and kicks off the tension.