Gustav, P.I., Paranormal Investigator

Malcolm Bourne and Ken Meyer Jr. brought a delightfully offbeat premise to NBM in 1998 with Gustav, P.I., Paranormal Investigator, a single-issue comic that introduced a private eye who solves mysteries with a supernatural twist. Bourne's witty scripts and Meyer Jr.'s expressive, atmospheric art made for a charmingly quirky one-shot, blending noir detective tropes with ghostly encounters. While brief, it stands as a memorable, self-contained oddity in the independent comics landscape of the late 1990s.