The Hours Before Dawn

Incarcerated at a high-security mental facility, Raymond Schalk knows intimate details of a recent spree of serial murders, and claims it was he who committed MURDER BY THE NUMBERS! A bewildering power outage brings security guards Ross Clifton and Jeff Albright face-to-face with THE THING IN UNIT 57! After picking up a mysterious hitchhiker during a northern Michigan blizzard, Robert Sanberg discovers something is very OUT OF PLACE! Dwight Alan Stedman suddenly confesses to the murder of several youths fifty years ago, claiming they are back from the dead for revenge, but only he can see what's really BENEATH THE SURFACE! Two years after Edgar Holt makes a deal with an eccentric flea market vendor for an elixir to save his life, the payment for IMMORTALIS comes due in blood! Police Detectives Ralph Mayhew and Ethan Stolliday uncover the dark and supernatural designs of a serial killer as they pursue THE THIEF OF YEARS! Writer/artist Jason Carmichael is the hottest ticket in comic books, but one of his characters doesn't like the plot of the latest issue. See, I TOLD YOU COMICS BOOKS WERE BAD FOR YOU! These stories and more await inside...