Peril of the Brutal Dark: An Ezra Cain Mystery, The #1 Variant
This page covers the Variant edition of Peril of the Brutal Dark: An Ezra Cain Mystery, The #1, published by DC and released February 25, 2026. The issue is written by Chris Condon with artwork by Sean Phillips. Values and details shown here apply specifically to this edition; first-print pricing and the complete cover gallery are on the main issue page.
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CHRIS CONDON AND JACOB PHILLIPS INTRODUCE A NEW NOIR ICON! 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 them and their plot to overthrow America! Writer Chris Condon and artist Jacob Phillips, creators of the hit series That Texas Blood and The Enfield Gang Massacre, introduce us to a private eye whose business is exposing our deepest secrets...but on this job, he’ll learn that some mysteries are better off buried!
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