Netflix's new horror fantasy show Dead Boy Detectives has finally arrived - and as you can read in our review, we love it. A spin-off of the streamer's hit adaptation of The Sandman, it's a winning - and more than a little bizarre - adventure series that sees ghost boys Charles Rowland and Edwin Paine teaming up to solve mysteries with the help of friendly psychic Crystal Palace.
The Dead Boy Detectives have a long and intriguing history in comics, stretching right back to the '90s. Created by Neil Gaiman and Matt Wagner for 1991's The Sandman #25, they've continued to have a strange afterlife in comics, popping up every now and again for the odd one-shot or limited series, while never quite breaking through into the ranks of DC's better known occult heroes like John Constantine or Swamp Thing. Let's break that history down a little.
