Writer Chris Condon and artist Jacob Phillips, creators of the hit series That Texas Blood and The Enfield Gang Massacre , introduce us to a private eye whose business is exposing our deepest secrets… but on this job, he’ll learn that some mysteries are better off buried!
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New York City, 1941. Ezra Cain is a private investigator with a reputation for taking it on the chin if it means solving a case. But it’s his former life as an archaeology student that makes him the only man to track down an artifact that’s gone missing from the Museum of Natural History… an ancient anvil said to hold the power of the Greek god Hephaestus. If someone could harness that power, they could bend nations to their will.
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Science fiction quickly becomes Cain’s reality when a shadowy sect calling themselves the Brutal Dark appears in the city wielding resources that defy human logic. Now Ezra is the only thing that stands between them and their plot to overthrow America!
Mechanical monsters lie in wait, and Ezra’s life is put right on the line in The Peril of the Brutal Dark: An Ezra Cain Mystery #4
Duncan Fegredo Variant Cover:
The Peril of the Brutal Dark: An Ezra Cain Mystery #4
The Brooklyn Bridge is as good a place as any for Ezra to take a clandestine meeting with Karl Meyer, the man who could help him bust this case wide open. But mechanical monsters lie in wait, and Ezra’s life is put right on the line. He knows too much now, and the only way to stay alive is to act fast. What he finds at the Clockworkers ‘ Union might mean he’s already too late!
Creative Team
- Writer: Chris Condon
- Artist: Jacob Phillips
- Colorist: Jacob Phillips
- Letterer: Hassan Otsmane-Elhaou
- Cover Artist: Jacob Phillips
- Variant Cover Artists: Duncan Fegredo
- Editor: Chris Conroy
- Format: Limited Series
- Cover Price/Page Count: $6.99/40 pages
Mechanical monsters lie in wait, and Ezra’s life is put right on the line in The Peril of the Brutal Dark: An Ezra Cain Mystery #4 on shelves and digital platforms May 27, 2026 from DC Comics Black Label Imprint