The first
Wednesday Cover of this
31 Days Has October "celebration" is from the 1994 one-shot comic,
The Nightmark Mystery Special. The character of
Gideon King, The Nightmark, was my first published creator-owned property. King was a 1940s Boston private eye who had been chosen by unnamed powers to be the Nightmark - a grim & gritty champion against supernatural evil.
Obviously, I threw just about
everything I loved into the mix -
noir private eye fiction, Lovecraft,
Kolchak, Hammett, Spillane -- but it never quite caught on. I wrote five
Nightmark comics (and actually
drew one of them) published by Alpha Productions between 1990 and '94, and revived the character in the
Shadow House series for another five issues in 1997-'98. The cover above was drawn by artist
Steven Butler, but I forget who rendered the colors....
And here's Gideon King on the cover of
Shadow House #1, painted by the great
Dan Brereton!
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