The Sandman Universe: Dead Boy Detectives (2023) #1

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The Sandman Universe: Dead Boy Detectives Vol 1 #1
February, 2023
Rated M for Mature (18+)
Publisher	DC Black Label
Executive Editor	Marie Javins
Cover Artists	Nimit Malavia
Variant Cover Artists
Cover Variant #1	Tyler Crook
Cover Variant #2	Alex Eckman-Lawn
Cover Variant #3	Filipe Andrade
Cover Variant #4	Yoshitaka Amano
Writers	Pornsak Pichetshote
Pencilers	Jeff Stokely
Inkers	Jeff Stokely
Colorists	Miquel Muerto
Letterers	Hassan Otsmane-Elhaou
Editors	Andrea Shea Chris Conroy
Next Issue	The Sandman Universe: Dead Boy Detectives # 2

... when Thessaly would have her vengeance and be free... and no soul caught in the middle would ever be the same.

—Narrator

The Sandman Universe: Dead Boy Detectives #1 is an issue of the series The Sandman Universe: Dead Boy Detectives (Volume 1) with a cover date of February, 2023. It was published on December 27, 2022.

Appearing in the 1st Story

Featured Characters:

• Dead Boy Detectives
  • Charles Rowland
  • Edwin Paine (Narrator)
• Thessaly

Supporting Characters:

• Crystal Palace (First appearance; unnamed) (Flashback only) (Cameo)
• Thai Ghosts (First appearance)
  • Dom the Ghost Doctor (First appearance) (Destroyed)
  • Jai Sirikul (First appearance)
  • Melvin the Snake Ghost (First appearance)
  • Tanya the Nak Mother Ghost (First appearance)
• Timmy (Dead Boy Detectives' client) (First appearance)

Antagonists:

• The Krasue (First appearance) (Flashback and main story)
• St. Hilarion's bullies (First appearance; unnamed) (Flashback only) (Cameo)
• "The Summoner" (First appearance; unnamed) (Silhouette only) (Cameo)

Other Characters:

• Death (Flashback only) (Cameo)
• Ryan (The Krasue's victim) (Single appearance) (Dies in flashback)
• "Swords of Arkhane" crew (Single appearance)
  • Unnamed actress (Single appearance)
  • Unnamed "Arkhane" actor (Single appearance)
  • Unnamed director (Single appearance)
  • Unnamed supervillain actor (Single appearance)
• Demons (Mentioned only)
• Dragons (Mentioned only)
• God (Mentioned only)
• Gods of Olympus (Mentioned only)
• Ryan's father (Unnamed) (Mentioned only)
• Ryan's mother (Unnamed) (Mentioned only)
• Sherlock Holmes (Mentioned only)
• Sam Spade (Mentioned only)

Locations:

• Earth 0
  • 1913
    • England (Flashback only)
      • London (Flashback only)
        • St. Hilarion's (First appearance) (Flashback only)
  • 1987
    • England
      • London (Flashback only)
        • St. Hilarion's (First appearance) (Flashback only)
  • 2014
    • England (Flashback only)
      • Von Hoverkraft Mansion (First appearance; unnamed) (Flashback only)
        • The Tree House (First appearance) (Flashback only) (Cameo)
  • 2022
    • • United States of America
        • Los Angeles (Flashback and main story)
          • Hollywood
          • Los Feliz
            • Dom's Mansion (First appearance)
            • Thai Temple (First appearance)
            • The Summoner's House (First appearance)
      • Greece
        • Thessaly (Mentioned only)
    • Thailand (Mentioned only)
    • The Moon (Mentioned only)

Items:

• Death's Ankh (Flashback only) (Cameo)
• Thessaly's Necklace
• "Things That Weren't Stones" (First appearance; unnamed)

Concepts:

• Magic
  

Notes

• This issue is reprinted in The Sandman Universe: Dead Boy Detectives.
• The Dead Boy Detectives' story continues from Books of Magic (Volume 3) #23.
• Thessaly's story continues from The Sandman Universe: Nightmare Country #6.
• This story reveals that the events of Dead Boy Detectives (Volume 2) also happened in the continuity of Prime Earth following the the unknotting of the timeline.

See Also

• Cover gallery for the The Sandman Universe: Dead Boy Detectives series
• Images from The Sandman Universe: Dead Boy Detectives Vol 1 1

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