Ms. Tree's Thrilling Detective Adventures

From 1983 onward, Eclipse Comics published Ms. Tree's Thrilling Detective Adventures, a three-issue series that solidified the hard-boiled, noir-tinged world of its title character. Most closely associated with writer Max Allan Collins and artist Terry Beatty, these issues expanded on the gritty, modern private-eye stories that had already made Ms. Tree a standout in the comic book landscape. A key chapter in the character's long-running saga, this series matters for its focused, pulp-inspired storytelling and its place in the independent comics boom of the early 1980s.