When I was a boy... I could fly 
- — Lucas Hart
Seekers into the Mystery #1 is an issue of the series Seekers into the Mystery (Volume 1) with a cover date of January, 1996.
Synopsis for "Book One: The Pilgrimage of Lucas Hart. Chapter One: The Little Man with the Knives"
Lucas Hart recounts his life: dreaming of flying as a boy, becoming enamored of film, and moving to Hollywood after his English professor Seth Rosenbloom criticizes his skills as a novelist. In 1987, Hart has broken up with his wife and daughter and begins experience torment from The Little Man with the Knives: a personification of all his anxieties and fears. He adjust to life with his new girlfriend Rhonda and local tramp Charlie Limbo but has a mental breakdown one day when a pitch to studio executives goes wrong. As he passes out late in the night, he realizes that he can fly again like when he was a child and encounters Charlie in the clouds.
Appearing in "Book One: The Pilgrimage of Lucas Hart. Chapter One: The Little Man with the Knives"
Featured Characters:
- Lucas Hart (Flashback and main story)
Supporting Characters:
- Charlie Limbo (Flashback only)
- Rhonda (First appearance) (Flashback only)
- Seth Rosenbloom (First appearance) (Flashback only)
Antagonists:
- The Little Man with the Knives (Flashback only)
- Stan (First appearance) (Flashback only)
Other Characters:
- Lucille Ball (Mentioned only)
- Viola Clark (First appearance) (Flashback only)
- Joseph Conrad (Mentioned only)
- Charles Dickens (Mentioned only)
- Fyodor Dostoevsky (Mentioned only)
- F. Scott Fitzgerald (Mentioned only)
- Aimee Hart (First appearance) (In a photograph only) (Flashback only)
- Jennifer Hart (First appearance) (In a photograph only) (Flashback only)
- Jesus (Mentioned only)
- Julius Caesar (Mentioned only)
- Herman Melville (Mentioned only)
- Brigette Nielsen (Mentioned only)
- Ricky Ricardo (Mentioned only)
- Beatrice Ross (First appearance) (Flashback only) (Cameo)
- Elliott Ross (Mentioned only)
- Aaron Spelling (Mentioned only)
- Steven Spielberg (Mentioned only)
- Meryl Streep (Mentioned only)
- Leo Tolstoy (Mentioned only)
- Adrian Zmed (Mentioned only)
Locations:
- Childhood
- Wisconsin (Flashback only)
- Racine (Flashback only)
- 1987
- California (Flashback only)
- Los Angeles (Flashback only)
- Hollywood (Flashback only)
- Los Angeles (Flashback only)
- California (Flashback only)
- United States of America
- North Carolina
- Chapel Hill, North Carolina (Mentioned only)
- North Carolina
- Vatican City (Mentioned only)
See Also