Interestingly, in the Spirit story, Ebony and the other black males are caricatured / negatively stereotyped but the young black female is portrayed more realistically / more attractively.
By crashryan
You're right, Superman, it jumps out at you the moment yousee the art. The girl is drawn even more realistically--and sympathetically--than Ellen Dolan and The Spirit, the only other non-caricatures. The girl's poses in the last three panels of page 3 are so lively and believable that you can imagine the artist thinking, "At last! I get to draw a real person!" I wonder who the artist is. This doesn't have the Lou Fine vibe of many strips from this period.
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The Spirit 1944-11-19 - Philadelphia Record | Published
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