Here’s some spooky fun news from Oni Press: the publisher will release Dave Baker’s underground comic Halloween Boy in 2026 as Halloween Boy, Vol. 1: Last of the Halloween Boys.
As originally revealed at Boing Boing, the collection will include the initial five issues of the series in a single hardcover, for the first time. It will also include a new cover by Baker, and is the first full-length comics work from Baker since the fantastic. Mary Tyler MooreHawk.
“Halloween Boy is my attempt at making a two-fisted adventurer for the post-superhero age,” Baker said via press release provided to Comic Book Club. “Does the book feature megalomaniacal villains, inter-planetary warfare, and classic pulp-inspired escapades? You bet. But, it’s also a deeply personal reflection on family, fraternity, and purpose. The comics medium has been obsessively deconstructing and dismantling how we view what a hero is for the past forty years. I think there’s value in that, and some of those tendencies can even be seen in this project. However, when it came to creating The Demon Who Lives, I really wanted to re-construct the heroic iconography that lured me into this great medium as a child. To repurpose, remix, and rebuild the best aspects of these types of stories in a hyper-earnest and sincere way. Hopefully, The Man of a Thousand Fates means half as much to other people as he does to me. Afterall, the fate of the universe hangs in the balance.”
In the series, we focus on — who else — Halloween Boy, who is “an adventurer without a past and a combatant of the impossible. Halloween Boy traverses the galaxies taking on impossible quests and defending the innocent in an effort to live up to the legacy of his long-lost father…until his adventures unlock ugly secrets about his origins and his father’s true motives. Can Halloween Boy now face both the truth of the past – and his father himself?!”
Added Hunter Gorinson, President and Publisher of Oni Press, “As anyone who has experienced Mary Tyler MooreHawk knows by now, Dave Baker is one of the most potently creative voices making and creating comics to emerge within this decade. Dave’s work is like riding a psychic vortex through eight decades of comics history – where Golden Age archetypes, underground comix, postmodern fiction, and, above all, some ripping good yarns all combine into a new kind of intensely calculated storytelling that defies the typical whims of space and time. HALLOWEEN BOY is a brawling, bloody dose of 21st century pulp fiction with a brain buried underneath all of its bruises. Call your comic shop — because The Demon Who Lives is coming!”
Halloween Boy, Vol. 1: Last of the Halloween Boys will hit stores on May 26, 2026. You can check out preview below.
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