Oni Press is starting this year’s New York Comic Con with a bang. On Wednesday, the pop culture mecca’s retail day, Oni announced it had acquired Dave Baker’s acclaimed Halloween Boy series for publication. According to Oni officials, the first volume, “Last of the Halloween Boys,” is scheduled to be published in 2026.
Most recently, Baker was the creator of the widely acclaimed (and Eisner Award-nominated) Mary Tyler Moorhawk. He is the writer, artist, and letterer of Halloween Boy and its signature duotone style.
“Halloween Boy is my attempt to create a two-fisted adventurer for the post-superhero era. This book will feature megalomaniac villains, interplanetary wars, and classic pulp-inspired adventures? Absolutely,” Baker says of the title. “But it’s also a deeply personal reflection on family, camaraderie, and purpose. The comic book medium has spent the last 40 years relentlessly deconstructing and deconstructing our view of what a hero is. I think there’s value in that, and I see some of that trend in this project. But The Demon Who When it came to creating “The Man of a Thousand Destinies,” I wanted to reimagine the heroic iconography that drew me to this great medium as a child, reusing, remixing, and reinventing the best aspects of this kind of story in a very serious and honest way.Hopefully, “The Man with a Thousand Destinies” will mean half as much to others as it did to me.The fate of the universe hangs in the balance.”
Oni boss Hunter Golinson echoed similar sentiments, praising the series’ pulp-inspired work. To date, Baker has published seven volumes of Halloween Boy, each volume containing about 44 pages of story. Oni’s Last of the Hollywood Boys combines the first five volumes into one hardcover release.
“As anyone who lived through Mary Tyler Moorhawk knows, Dave Baker is one of the most potent creative voices in comics production and creation to emerge within the last decade. It’s like riding on a vortex of modernity, where Golden Age archetypes, underground comics, postmodern fiction, and most of all, some ripped threads are all combined into a new kind of fiercely calculated storytelling. It ignores the typical vagaries of space and time,” Golinson added. “HALLOWEEN BOY is a brawling and gory piece of 21st century pulp fiction, with a brain buried beneath the wound. Call your comic shop, because The Demon Who Lives is coming!”
New York Comic Con 2025 will be held from October 9th (Thursday) to October 12th (Sunday) at the Jacob K. Javits Center in New York.
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