The Hours Before Dawn

<p>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 <strong>MURDER BY THE NUMBERS</strong>! A bewildering power outage brings security guards Ross Clifton and Jeff Albright face-to-face with <strong>THE THING IN UNIT 57</strong>! After picking up a mysterious hitchhiker during a northern Michigan blizzard Robert Sanberg discovers something is very <strong>OUT OF PLACE</strong>! 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 <strong>BENEATH THE SURFACE</strong>! Two years after Edgar Holt makes a deal with an eccentric flea market vendor for an elixir to save his life the payment for <strong>IMMORTALIS</strong> comes due in blood! Police Detectives Ralph Mayhew and Ethan Stolliday uncover the dark and supernatural designs of a serial killer as they pursue <strong>THE THIEF OF YEARS</strong>! 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 <strong>I TOLD YOU COMICS BOOKS WERE BAD FOR YOU!</strong> These stories and more await inside...</p>