From the publisher:

Will Eisner's masterwork continues through one of its greatest periods in WILL EISNER'S THE SPIRIT ARCHIVES VOL. 22, collecting the Spirit Sections from January though June 1951 and featuring such classic stories as "Death is my Destiny," "The Octopus is Back" and "The Hero!"

By 1951, a decade after launching The Spirit comic book, Eisner was losing interest in his creation. In the episodes from the first half of that year that are collected in the twenty-second volume of DC's roundup of The Spirit's entire run, Eisner's stories and artwork remain solid. A number of long-running characters, such as archfoes the Octopus and Mr. Carrion, and the much-married adventuress P'Gell, return to take what would be essentially their final bows. In one of Eisner's occasional efforts to spice up the series by transporting the hero to exotic locales, a multiepisode sequence sees the Spirit stranded in the Far East. --Gordon Flagg, Booklist