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Dead Boy Detectives by Toby Litt & Mark Buckingham
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Edwin Paine and Charles Roland have a lot in common - they're both English schoolboys who love a good detective story, and they've been known to dabble in mystery-solving themselves. They're also both dead, a condition which has proven to be less of a hindrance than one might think. From the pages of THE SANDMAN, Neil Gaiman's intrepid dead schoolboys head back to the horror that is St. Hilarions School; the place where they both were murdered. This volume collects Toby Litt and Mark Buckingham's Dead Boy Detectives #1-12, as well as well as the short stories "Run Ragged" from Witching Hour #1, Ghosts #1 and Time Warp #1.
159 pages
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Volume 1
Dead Boy Detectives Vol. 1: Schoolboy Terrors
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Neil Gaiman's inimitable sleuths from THE SANDMAN: SEASON OF MISTS star in their own manga digest. THE DEAD BOY DETECTIVES, guest-starring Death of the Endless, is brought to life by award-winning artist Jill Thompson (THE SANDMAN: BRIEF LIVES, Scary Godmother). Based on the overwhelming success of her first manga digest, DEATH: AT DEATH'S DOOR, Thompson has crafted an amazing original mystery that will appeal to both SANDMAN fans and shojou manga enthusiasts. Charles Rowland and Edwin Paine, the dead British teenagers who are always on the run from Death, travel stateside to solve a missing persons case. Our intrepid heroes have been contacted by young Annika Abernathy, a student at a posh International Academy in Chicago. It seems that Annika's best friend has vanished. For Rowland and Paine to investigate the case properly, they decide to enroll as students at the school. And since it's an all-girls academy, the duo is forced to go undercover-in drag. Secret passages, food fights, and far too many fashionistas abound as the Dead Boy Detectives solve the case and learn a lot about life from the precocious daughters of international ambassadors and famous rock stars.
138 pages
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Volume 2
Dead Boy Detectives Vol. 2: Ghost Snow
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Edwin Paine and Charles Roland have a lot in common - they’re both English schoolboys who love a good detective story, and they’ve been known to dabble in mystery-solving themselves. They’re also both dead, a condition which has proven to be less of a hindrance than one might think. Springing from the pages of Neil Gaiman’s THE SANDMAN comes Toby Litt and Mark Buckingham’s DEAD BOY DETECTIVES VOL. 2: GHOST SNOW, collecting issues #7-12 of the acclaimed series and featuring art from celebrated collaborators Ryan Kelly, Russ Braun, and Al Davison as well as a special sketchbook section from Buckingham.
142 pages
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Volume 3
The Dead Boy Detectives
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Neil Gaiman's inimitable sleuths from THE SANDMAN: SEASON OF MISTS star in their own Manga Digest.THE DEAD BOY DETECTIVES, guest-starring Death of the Endless, is brought to life by award-winning artist Jill Thompson (THE SANDMAN: BRIEF LIVES, Scary Godmother). Based on the overwhelming success of her first Manga Digest, DEATH: AT DEATH'S DOOR, Thompson has crafted an amazing original mystery that will appeal to both SANDMAN fans and shojou Manga enthusiasts.Charles Rowland and Edwin Paine, the dead British teenagers who are always on the run from Death, travel stateside to solve a missing persons case. Our intrepid heroes have been contacted by young Annika Abernathy, a student at a posh International Academy in Chicago. It seems that Annika's best friend has vanished. For Rowland and Paine to investigate the case properly, they decide to enroll as students at the school. And since it's an all-girls academy, the duo is forced to go undercover - in drag. Secret passages, food fights, and far too many fashionistas abound as the Dead Boy Detectives solve the case and learn a lot about life from the precocious daughters of international ambassadors and famous rock stars.
22 pages
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Issue 1
The Dead Boy Detectives (2014-) #1
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The dead boys head back to St. Hilarion's, 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.
20 pages
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Issue 2
The Dead Boy Detectives (2014-) #2
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While trying to protect their new acquaintance—the techno-savvy sleuth Crystal—from suffering the same fate at the hands of familiar bullies, Charles and Edwin begin to unravel the mysteries surrounding their own untimely demises.
21 pages
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Issue 3
The Dead Boy Detectives (2014-) #3
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Dead British schoolboys Charles and Edwin finally locate their old bones, but what secrets do they hold? New detective Crystal is the only one who can find out by way of her major tech skills. But it might involve a trip inside a computer game called Yonda, where all is not as bright and colorful as it seems.
22 pages
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Issue 4
The Dead Boy Detectives (2014-) #4
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Were Charles and Edwin total fools when they followed Crystal back to their hellish alma mater, St. Hilarion's, to investigate their own murders? All they've done is put Crystal in danger of having her soul stripped out of her by the demon-possessed master Nath. If the boys fail to rescue her, all three of them will burn.
21 pages
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Issue 5
The Dead Boy Detectives (2014-) #5
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Back at her parents' swanky house, after causing the destruction at St. Hilarion's, Crystal bonds with Charles over a high tech investigation of his mysterious family history. Feeling distinctly unwanted, Edwin huffs off to begin his very own investigation-of the spooky, cat-infested house across the way. What he finds there is a portal into his own past that will turn his whole world upside down.
22 pages
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Issue 6
The Dead Boy Detectives (2014-) #6
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Lovestruck Charles is trying to find something to say about Crystal's cosplay (apart from "wow"). His ghostly detective partner, Edwin, returns from his investigation in the cat-crazy house with a mad story about two girls trapped halfway in and halfway out of a mirror. "We absolutely must rescue them, Charles. They've been there for decades…"
22 pages
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Issue 7
The Dead Boy Detectives (2014-) #7
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Charles Rowland and Edwin Paine spirit their new friend away from London and accept the invitation from Charles's long-lost sister Clementine to visit her and her science-boffin daughter, Miranda, deep in weird and wild East Anglia.
23 pages
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Issue 8
The Dead Boy Detectives (2014-) #8
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After Charles and Crystal pledge to help one another in their investigations, the duo set out to prove that Charles's father did not murder Charles's mother, and to find out whether Crystal really can bring her lost friend Rosa back from beyond the grave.
22 pages
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Issue 9
The Dead Boy Detectives (2014-) #9
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Charles and Crystal go to investigate a suspicious death. But will the melodramatic ghosts still haunting those creaky floorboards make a swift exit, revel in a few more moments in the spotlight, or take revenge for being upstaged?
23 pages
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Issue 10
The Dead Boy Detectives (2014-) #10
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For years, Crystal has been determined to discover what really happened to her best friend, Rosa. Did Crystal really see Rosa ripped out of reality and stolen away into a snowy otherworld? Or was she, as her parents said, "just completely banjaxed" by Rosa's death?
20 pages
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Issue 11
The Dead Boy Detectives (2014-) #11
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The case of the Ballerina's Tutu has been a headscratcher for Crystal, Charles, and Edwin. Now it's time to gather everyone and announce the solution. But what if the truth may hurt—even destroy?
24 pages
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Issue 12
The Dead Boy Detectives (2014-) #12
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After her whirlwind adventures with Charles and Edwin, Crystal's supernatural entanglements can't be shrugged off—particularly when Charles is looking to get as entangled as metaphysically possible.

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