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“Crimeville’s always been a lousy scum stain.” – Kid Maroon, the world’s only hard-boiled boy detective.
Mickey Spillane’s Mike Hammer meets Encyclopedia Brown in the hard-boiled detective adventure KID MAROON, where big city crime and corruption can only be cracked by the Kid – or can it?
Two years ago, Walden Maroon outgrew his small town slice of Americana known as Tiny Falls, his loving parents, and the low stakes mysteries involving missing butterflies and stolen cookies.
Since then, he’s dwelled within the gritty, gangster-ridden cesspit of a city known as Crimeville, where murders, vice, and corruption are the city’s bread and butter. Where the unholy trinity of Greed, Squalor, and Despair permeates both the air the citizens breathe and the ground on which they walk – and die.
But at 12 years old, Kid is weary. When a string of horrific killings and arsons spring up in the streets, can he crack the case with his quick wits and slingshot? Or does Kid Maroon secretly yearn for what he’s never gotten to be … a kid?
From bestselling writer Christopher Cantwell (Iron Man, Doctor Doom, The Blue Flame, Halt and Catch Fire) and star artist Victor Santos (Polar, Violent Love)!
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The Creative Team
Christopher Cantwell
Writer
Christopher Cantwell is an Eisner-nominated comic book writer of such titles as DOCTOR DOOM and IRON MAN for Marvel Comics, STAR TREK: DEFIANT for IDW, PLASTIC MAN NO MORE! for DC Comics, and original books such as SHE COULD FLY (Berger Books), BRIAR (Boom! Studios), and THE BLUE FLAME (Vault). He is also the co-creator, Executive Producer and showrunner of the critically acclaimed television series HALT AND CATCH FIRE, and is also currently serving as EP & showrunner of THE TERROR: DEVIL IN SILVER, set to air on AMC in 2025.
Victor Santos
Artist
“Not only is Santos an artist to watch, he’s one who is already shaping the way we view comic art in the 21st century.” -Bleeding Cool
Eisner and Harvey nominee creator and co-creator of graphic novels like Filthy Rich, Rashomon, Bad Girls, Against Hope or Violent Love. His work has been published in countries like USA, Spain, France, Italy and recently China and Japan. He has collaborated with companies like Netflix, Fnac, Porsche, the Corvus Belli game company and artists like Deadmau5.
His Polar quadrilogy, published by Dark Horse, has been adapted as an original Netflix movie production with Mads Mikkelsen and Vanessa Hudgens, while a number of his other works have been optioned and are in different stages of development. He is also currently working on new different IPs created by him for mediums like comics, TV and cinema.
Mattia Iacono
Colorist