Greyshirt (disambiguation)

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Greyshirt or Grayshirt may refer to:

Greyshirt is a comic book character in Alan Moore's Tomorrow Stories, published by Wildstorm, under the America's Best Comics imprint. The character was co-created by Moore and Rick Veitch. The character is a pastiche of Will Eisner's The Spirit. The name draws obvious inspiration from the British pulp hero, Blackshirt.

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