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 - Collects 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." -


 * The Sandman Universe: Dead Boy Detectives - Collects vol. 3 #1-6. "Charles Rowland and Edwin Paine have been detectives for decades—and best friends even longer. But their investigation into a Thai American girl’s disappearance from her Los Angeles home puts them on a collision course with new and terrifying Thai ghosts that could give even a dead boy nightmares! Even scarier than the ghosts? Though neither wants to admit it, the boys might be growing apart. And perilously close to the boys’ adventure, Thessaly the witch finds herself held hostage by dangerous magics—both a threat to her life and an insult to her ego that will simply not go unanswered…" - - (forthcoming, November 2023)


 * 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
 * The Sandman Universe: Dead Boy Detectives TP: 07 Nov 2023

Links

 * DC Comics - Publisher's Website