Dead Boy Detectives



Dead Boy Detectives is published by DC Comics under the Black Label imprint. Current price per issue is $3.99.

Last Issue

 * The Sandman Universe: Dead Boy Detectives #5: 25 Apr 2023

Current Issue

 * The Sandman Universe: Dead Boy Detectives #6: 23 May 2023

Next Issue

 * none

Status
A new six-issue Sandman Universe series started December 2022.

Main Characters

 * Edwin Paine


 * Charles Rowland

The Sandman Presents: Dead Boy Detectives
Issues #1-4.

Trade Paperbacks

 * The Sandman Presents: Dead Boy Detectives - Collects vol. 1 #1-4. -


 * Dead Boy Detectives, vol. 1: Schoolboy Terrors - Collects vol. 2 #1-6. "Charles and Edwin begin to unravel the mysteries of their own demise while trying to protect tech-savvy sleuth Crystal from a similar fate." -


 * Dead Boy Detectives, vol. 2: Ghost Snow - Collect vol. 2 #7-12. "Charles and Crystal set out to prove that Charles’s father did not murder his mother, and to find out whether Crystal really can bring her friend back from the grave." -


 * Dead Boy Detectives by Toby Litt & Mark Buckingham - Collects vol. 2 #1-12, plus stories from Ghosts #1, Time Warp #1, & The Witching Hour #1. -

Hardcovers

 * The Dead Boy Detectives Omnibus - Collects vol. 1 #1-4, vol. 2 #1-12 & the Dead Boy Detectives OGN, plus The Sandman #25, The Children's Crusade #1-2, and stories from Free Country: A Tale of the Children's Crusade, Vertigo: Winter's Edge #3, Ghosts #1, Time Warp #1, & The Witching Hour #1. - - (forthcoming, October 2023)

Creative Team
Based on characters created by Neil Gaiman.

Volume 2
Writer: Toby Litt. Artist: Gary Erskine. Writer/Artist/Covers: Mark Buckingham.

Volume 3: The Sandman Universe
Writer: Pornsak Pichetshote. Artist: Jeff Stokely. Covers: Nimit Malavia.

Publishing History

 * Volume 1: #1-4, 2001 (The Sandman Presents)
 * Volume 2: #1-12, 2014-2015
 * Volume 3: #1-6, 2022-2023 (The Sandman Universe)

Future Publication Dates

 * The Dead Boy Detectives Omnibus HC: 10 Oct 2023

Links

 * DC Comics - Publisher's Website