Harry Dickson #1

Based on Jean Ray's beloved pulp detective, this 2023 Dupuis album launches the "Mysteras" storyline with a cover by Onofrio Catacchio that immediately sets the mood: two sharp-suited men — one raising a pistol, the other crouching warily — are dwarfed by the enormous glowing-eyed shadow of a menacing figure looming across a moonlit window behind them. The cool blue palette and art deco atmosphere capture exactly the kind of eerie, gaslit suspense that made Harry Dickson a cult figure in European pulp fiction. With a writing team that includes Doug Headline, Luana Vergari, and The House of Boom! adapting Ray's source material, this opening volume looks like a thoroughly atmospheric introduction to the "American Sherlock Holmes" and whatever supernatural threat those burning red eyes represent.