Dead Boy Detectives (2013) #1

Writing by Toby Litt, Mark Buckingham. Art by Mark Buckingham, Gary Erskine. Cover by Mark Buckingham.

From the pages of THE SANDMAN! As fans of storybook detectives, Edwin Paine (died 1916) and Charles Rowland (died 1990) will take on any and all mysteries – including their own untimely deaths! The dead boys head back to St. Hilarions, where bullying headmasters continue to rule the school. But when they investigate the lingering mysteries of their own deaths, they meet a young girl named Crystal whose tech skills and strange link to the undead earn her a place as a new detective.

32 pages. FC. Cover price $2.99. Note: reference image.