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The Dead Boy Detectives are fictional characters that have appeared in comic books published by DC Comics' Vertigo imprint. They were created by writer Neil Gaiman and artists Matt Wagner and Malcolm Jones III in ''The Sandman'' #25 (April, 1991). The characters are the ghosts of two dead children, Charles Rowland and Edwin Paine, who, rather than enter the afterlife, stay on Earth to become detectives investigating crimes involving the supernatural. ==Concept history== The characters were created by Gaiman and Wagner during the "Season of Mists" storyline in ''Sandman'' #25. In this story their origin is given as the two characters meet for the first time. The story and characters are clearly a macabre spin on two genres of British children's fiction - boarding school literature and teenage detective stories. Gaiman revived the characters in the ''Children's Crusade'' Vertigo's first and only crossover event which ran through all that year's Vertigo annuals that were published between December 1993 and January 1994. Gaiman wrote the two ''Children's Crusade'' bookend annuals which prominently featured both characters and first gave them the official title the "Dead Boy Detectives". The characters also appeared in a ''The Books of Magic'' short story in ''Winter's Edge #3'', written by the then current writer Peter Gross. In 2001 they received their own four-issue mini-series ''Sandman Presents: Dead Boy Detectives'' by writer Ed Brubaker and penciller Bryan Talbot. They have also made appearances in the ''The Books of Magic'' ongoing series, which was also based on a Neil Gaiman work. Jill Thompson briefly depicted the characters in her graphic novel ''Death: At Death's Door'', which retold the events of "Season of Mists" from Death's perspective. In 2005, the writer/artist later produced a manga-style graphic novel starring the characters, titled ''The Dead Boy Detectives''. The pair returned in the Vertigo Anthology series, a trio of one-shots that revived DC anthology series Ghosts, Time Warp, and The Witching Hour. With a positive reception for their brief return and the revived interest in Neil Gaiman's Sandman due to the prequel, Sandman: Overture, Vertigo has announced a Dead Boy Detectives ongoing series〔http://www.vertigocomics.com/comics/dead-boy-detectives-2013/dead-boy-detectives-1〕 slated to begin at the end of 2013 written by Toby Litt and Mark Buckingham with art by Buckingham and Gary Erskine. Although the characters are children and their stories often involve other children and child-related themes, the ''The Dead Boy Detectives'' carry the "suggested for mature readers" label. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Dead Boy Detectives」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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