Detective Brayde

Stepping out of the gritty shadows of Image Comics' mid-nineties horror boom, Detective Brayde made their debut in Curse of the Spawn #5 in 1996, courtesy of creators Alan McElroy and Dwayne Turner. This is the dark, unflinching corner of the Spawn universe where law enforcement and nightmare intersect, and Brayde navigates that world alongside a compelling cast of cops and investigators — Officer Deke, Sam Burke, Detective Ray Sparks, and others who populate these mean, macabre streets. With only a handful of appearances concentrated in Curse of the Spawn's brief but atmospheric run, Brayde is exactly the kind of deep-cut character that rewards the dedicated collector digging into the richly layered world Image built around its flagship antihero in the nineties.