Sherlock Time

Plot

The first collaboration between the legendary creative duo of Oesterheld and Breccia is an SF crime/adventure serial in which a mysterious figure saves Argentine retiree Julio Luna when a too-good-to-be-true real estate deal … is. Together, they travel through time and space, solve supernatural crimes, investigate cursed objects, and more!

In 1958, established Argentine comics creators Héctor Germán Oesterheld and Alberto Breccia worked together on their first significant series. In Sherlock Time, retiree Julio Luna buys a beautiful home for much too good a deal. There have been strange disappearances, but the trap is far stranger than a simple haunting in San Isidro. Fortunately for Luna, a mysterious man saves him in the nick of … Sherlock Time! The two team up, outwitting aliens, solving seemingly-supernatural crimes, and investigating cursed objects. These episodic adventures, ranging from SF to horror to mystery, ran concurrently with Oesterheld’s legendary comics serial The Eternaut, and set the stage for their masterpiece, Mort Cinder. Of Sherlock Time, Argentine author Juan Sasturain (who also wrote Perramus, which Breccia would go on to draw) concluded: “rarely has a story made us so fully happy.”

Black-and-white illustrations throughout.