Dead Boy Detectives #1

Two ghostly faces — one pale and wide-eyed, the other shadowed and bruised — stare out from within a magnifying glass held up against a moody backdrop of bare trees and a looming house, setting a quietly unsettling tone that perfectly suits a detective story with supernatural undertones. This German-language Vertigo collection, Band 1: Die Ängste von Schuljungen, brings together the work of Toby Litt, Mark Buckingham, Gary Erskine, Russ Braun, Victor Santos, and Andrew Pepoy for Panini Deutschland's 2014 release. It's an intriguing package for fans of mystery with a ghostly edge.