''Joe Golem'' is a novel and comic book series created by

Mike Mignola Mike Mignola (; born September 16, 1960) is an American comics artist and writer best known for creating ''Hellboy'' for Dark Horse Comics, part of a shared universe of titles including ''B.P.R.D.'', '' Abe Sapien'', '' Lobster Johnson'', '' Wit ...

and Christopher Golden. It began with a promotional short story, ''Joe Golem and the Copper Girl'', followed by an illustrated novel, ''Joe Golem and the Drowning City'' in 2012, both published by

St. Martin's Press St. Martin's Press is a book publisher headquartered in Manhattan, New York City, in the Equitable Building. St. Martin's Press is considered one of the largest English-language publishers, bringing to the public some 700 titles a year under si ...

. The series was expanded as a comic book series published by

Dark Horse Comics Dark Horse Comics is an American comic book, graphic novel, and manga publisher founded in Milwaukie, Oregon by Mike Richardson in 1986. The company was created using funds earned from Richardson's chain of Portland, Oregon comic book shops known ...

from 2015 to 2019. The series follows Joe, an

occult detective Occult detective fiction is a subgenre of detective fiction that combines the tropes of the main genre with those of supernatural, fantasy and/or horror fiction. Unlike the traditional detective who investigates murder and other common crimes ...

in New York City during the 1960s and '70s. The ''Joe Golem'' series is set in ''The Outerverse'', a

shared universe A shared universe or shared world is a fictional universe from a set of creative works where more than one writer (or other artist) independently contributes a work that can stand alone but fits into the joint development of the storyline, chara ...

with ''Baltimore'' (a 2007 novel by Mignola and Golden and its comic book continuation), and other series.

Comics

In 2015

began the comic series ''Joe Golem: Occult Detective''. The first ten issues were set in the decade preceding the events of the original novel, while the next ten retell the novel. ''Joe Golem'' is a series of miniseries, with each miniseries having its own numbering, but each issue also has an ongoing overall numbering on the inside front cover.

Issues

Collected editions

The comic book series has been collected in hardcover volumes.

References

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