Dave Baker's "Halloween Boy" resurrects pulp adventure comics
Dave Baker's "Halloween Boy" is a new graphic novel that blends elements of pulp adventure comics with modern storytelling. The book follows a star-hopping adventurer grappling with his father's legacy amidst chaotic and surreal adventures. Set to be released in a hardcover edition by Oni Press on May 26, 2026, it aims to reconstruct heroic iconography in a post-superhero context.
- ▪"Halloween Boy" is a mash-up of old-school pulp adventure comics and underground comix.
- ▪The graphic novel features themes of interplanetary warfare and existential hero-myth reckoning.
- ▪Oni Press will release the hardcover edition of the first five issues on May 26, 2026.
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Dave Baker's "Halloween Boy" resurrects pulp adventure comics Gareth Branwyn 9:50 am Tue May 19, 2026 Screenshot Dave Baker's Halloween Boy Vol. 1: Last of the Halloween Boys is a super-fun and clever mash-up of old-school pulp adventure comics, underground comix, and postmodern ennui, all brewed together into a single, satisfying draught. Oni Press is collecting the first five oversized issues of Baker's self-published underground into a hardcover edition arriving May 26, 2026. If you read Baker's gloriously unhinged Mary Tyler MooreHawk, you already know "he ain't hooked up right" (as David Letterman used to say as a high compliment).
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