A Killing in Comics

In Manhattan of 1948, a famous former striptease artist named Maggie Starr runs her late husband's newspaper syndicate, distributing the superhero comic <i>Wonder Guy.</i> But when the cartoon's publisher winds up dead, Maggie hunts for the killer among a cast of cartoonists, wives and mistresses, and minions of a different sort of syndicate — a crew of suspects with motives that are far from super-heroic.<br>Hailed by Mickey Spillane as &quot;a terrific writer,&quot; and by <i>Publishers Weekly</i> as &quot;the master of true-crime fiction,&quot; author Max Allan Collins is the creator of the bestselling graphic novel <i>Road to Perdition. </i>Artist Terry Beatty is the co-creator with Max Allan Collins of the long-running private-eye series, <i>Ms. Tree. </i>Their other collaborations include<i> Mike Mist, Mickey Spillane's Mike Danger,</i> and <i>Johnny Dynamite.</i>