Mike Shayne Private Eye

Mike Shayne Private Eye, a short-lived three-issue series from Thorpe & Porter that began in 1962, adapted the hardboiled detective novels of Brett Halliday into painted comic book form. With covers and interior art by Edd Ashe, the series offered a gritty, visually rich take on the Miami-based sleuth’s cases. Though brief, it stands as a curious artifact of the early 1960s British comic market’s embrace of American crime fiction.