Baker Street (comics)

Baker Street
Publication information
Publisher	Caliber Comics
Format	Limited series
Genre	Alternate history
Publication date	March 1989 - February 1991
Number of issues	10
Creative team
Writer(s)	Gary Reed (1-5) Guy Davis
Penciller(s)	Guy Davis
Inker(s)	Vince Locke Alan Oldham Guy Davis
Letterer(s)	Dan McKinnon Vince Locke Kathy Thomas
Creator(s)	Gary Reed Guy Davis
Editor(s)	Bryan Andrews Deb McKinnon Chester Jacques Gary Reed
Collected editions
Honour Among Punks: The Complete Baker Street Graphic Novel	ISBN 1-59687-802-9

Baker Street is a ten-issue comic book series created by Gary Reed and Guy Davis, and published by Caliber Comics between 1989 and 1991.

Publication history

The series consists of two story arcs "Honour Among Punks" written by Reed and Davis and "Children of the Night" written by Davis alone, who also provided the bulk of the art (with some early fill-in inking).

Plot

It features an alternative Sherlock Holmes world where the values and class system of Victorian era England carried over into a late 20th Century where World War II never occurred. The story mainly concerns a group of punks attempting to solve a series of murders reminiscent of the Jack the Ripper killings of the late 19th century.

Collected editions

Ten issues were published and collected in two trade paperbacks (one for each story arc) by Caliber:

Honour Among Punks (collects Baker Street #1-5, 175 pages, 1993, ISBN 0-941613-42-9)
Children of the Night (collects Baker Street #6-10, 178 pages, 1993, ISBN 0-941613-43-7)

and then as a single volume:

Honour Among Punks (iBooks, 352 pages, 2003, paperback, ISBN 0-7434-5904-0, hardcover, ISBN 0-7434-7993-9)
Honour Among Punks: The Complete Baker Street Graphic Novel (Milk and Cookies Press, paperback, 368 pages, 2008, ISBN 1-59687-802-9)

Awards

1990: Nominated for "Best New Series" Harvey Award^[1]

Notes

↑ 1990 Harvey Award Nominees and Winners, the Comic Book Awards Almanac

References

'Baker Street' at the Grand Comics Database
'Baker Street' at the Comic Book DB

External links

Sherlock Holmes works in media other than screen, books and games

Stage	Sherlock Holmes (1899 play) The Burglar and the Lady (1905 play) Baker Street (1965 musical) Sherlock Holmes: The Musical (1988)

Radio	The New Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1939–47) BBC Radio (1989–98) The Newly Discovered Casebook of Sherlock Holmes (1999) The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (2002–10)

Music	"The Tiger of San Pedro" The Tale of the Giant Rat of Sumatra (1974 parody album) Sherlock Holmes (2009 soundtrack) Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows (2011 soundtrack)

Art	Statue in London

Comics	Baker Street Victorian Undead

Other works	221B Baker Street (board game)

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