The Peril of the Brutal Dark: an Ezra Cain Mystery #4 Preview

 

 

Ezra's old professor may accuse the private detective of living out his Dashiell Hammett. But what Professor John Morris experienced inside a temple to Hephaestus twenty-eight years ago belongs in the pages of Weird Tales magazine. Ezra thought he glimpsed one of his former professor's automaton-soldiers outside the Clockmaker's Union. Yet the building's owner, Hans Huber, claims to be a sympathetic veteran of The Great War who makes prosthetic legs. 

Every time Ezra succumbs to sleep these days, Professor Morris' fantastic tale merges with Ezra's memories of his fighter crashing behind enemy lines. And then, there's the Anvil of Hephaestus that John Morris found. The relic went missing the same night Karl Meyer disappeared. Once again, war is spreading across Europe in November 1941. Is Hans Huber using the Anvil to create more soldiers like the guardians of the Greek God's temple? And why did Karl Meyer give up his job at the museum to work for people who frightened him?

Here's all the info from DC Connect: 

The Peril of the Brutal Dark: an Ezra Cain Mystery #4 Preview

Writer: Chris Condon

Artist: Jacob Phillips

Cover Artist: Jacob Phillips

Variant Cover Artist: Duncan Fegredo

Publisher: DC Comics

Price: $3.99/$4.99 Card Stock

Issue Length: 32 Pages

Release Date: May 27, 2026

 

Ambush on the Brooklyn Bridge!

A DC Vertigo series!

 

The Brooklyn Bridge is as good a place as any for Ezra to take a clandestine meeting with Karl Meyer, the man who could help him bust this case wide open. But mechanical monsters lie in wait, and Ezra’s life is put right on the line. He knows too much now, and the only way to stay alive is to act fast. What he finds at the Clockworkers’ Union might mean he’s already too late!

 

 

Now, let's take a look inside:

 

 

 

Thanks to DC Comics for sharing this preview with us.

 

For what happened last time, see my review of The Peril of the Brutal Dark: an Ezra Cain Mystery #3.

For what happened before that, see my review of The Peril of the Brutal Dark: an Ezra Cain Mystery #2. 

For how this series started, see my review of The Peril of the Brutal Dark: an Ezra Cain Mystery #1.