Baker Street (comics)

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Baker Street
Publication information
Publisher Caliber Comics
Format Limited series
Genre
Publication dateMarch 1989 - February 1991
No. of issues10
Creative team
Created by Gary Reed
Guy Davis
Written by Gary Reed (1-5)
Guy Davis
Penciller(s) Guy Davis
Inker(s) Vince Locke
Alan Oldham
Guy Davis
Letterer(s) Dan McKinnon
Vince Locke
Kathy Thomas
Editor(s)Bryan Andrews
Deb McKinnon
Chester Jacques
Gary Reed
Collected editions
Honour Among Punks: The Complete Baker Street Graphic Novel ISBN   1-59687-802-9

Baker Street is a ten-issue comic book series created by Gary Reed and Guy Davis, and published by Caliber Comics between 1989 and 1991.

Contents

Publication history

The series consists of two story arcs "Honour Among Punks" written by Reed and Davis and "Children of the Night" written by Davis alone, who also provided the bulk of the art (with some early fill-in inking).

Plot

Baker Street features an alternative Sherlock Holmes world where the values and class system of Victorian era England carried over into a late 20th century where World War II never occurred. The story mainly concerns a group of punks attempting to solve a series of murders reminiscent of the Jack the Ripper killings of the late 19th century.

Collected editions

Ten issues were published and collected in two trade paperbacks (one for each story arc) by Caliber:

and then as a single volume:

Awards

See also

Notes

  1. 1990 Harvey Award Nominees and Winners, the Comic Book Awards Almanac

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