The Peril of the Brutal Dark: An Ezra Cain Mystery
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The Peril of the Brutal Dark: An Ezra Cain Mystery

Released by DC Comics

2026
Contains 1 issue

THE NEW NOIR SERIES FROM CHRIS CONDON AND JACOB PHILLIPS! 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. 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 it and its plot to overthrow America!

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