Created by Patrick Coyle Forget love, sweet love. What the world needs now is an immortal mummy private eye. Fortunately, comics creator and long-time fanboy Patrick Coyle has given us one, in the crowd-sourced, eponymously titled comic GRANT BIXBY, PRIVATE EYE. Apparently it’s taken 30 years (and a Kickstarter campaign) to bring Coyle’s dream to … Continue reading Bixby Grant
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Mike Monster
Created by Dick Briefer (1915-80) "I hate complicated cases. Dey gimme a migraine." We're way out of the woods with this one, folks. One-eyed, fedora-and-trenchcoat wearing MIKE MONSTER, billed as "the most monstrous shamus of all!" was concocted to satisfy the allegedly "red-blooded, ferocious" readers of ZANY (a would-be rival of MAD Magazine back in the … Continue reading Mike Monster
Hank Steiner (Monster Detective)
Created by Scott R. Schmidt So there are humans, and there are monsters. And they all live together in Tower City, which is conveniently separated into the Human Side and the Monster Side. Convenient, that is, for the human authorities, who view monsters as second class citizens, be they goblin, vampires, imps or whatever, relegating … Continue reading Hank Steiner (Monster Detective)