# Joe Golem

Joe Golem is a novel and comic book series created by Mike Mignola and Christopher Golden. It began with a promotional short story, Joe Golem and the Copper Girl, followed by an illustrated novel, Joe Golem and the Drowning City in 2012, both published by St. Martin's Press. The series was expanded as a comic book series published by Dark Horse Comics from 2015 to 2019. The series follows Joe, an occult detective in New York City during the 1960s and '70s. The Joe Golem series is set in The Outerverse, a shared universe with Baltimore (a 2007 novel by Mignola and Golden and its comic book continuation), and other series.

## Comics

In 2015 Dark Horse Comics began the comic series Joe Golem: Occult Detective. The first ten issues were set in the decade preceding the events of the original novel, while the next ten retell the novel. Joe Golem is a series of miniseries, with each miniseries having its own numbering, but each issue also has an ongoing overall numbering on the inside front cover.

### Issues

| Number in Series | Issue | Release Date | Arc | Story | Art | Colors | Cover |
| 1 | #1 | November 4, 2015 | The Rat Catcher | Mike Mignola and Christopher Golden | Patric Reynolds | Dave Stewart | Dave Palumbo |
| 2 | #2 | December 2, 2015 | The Rat Catcher | Mike Mignola and Christopher Golden | Patric Reynolds | Dave Stewart | Dave Palumbo |
| 3 | #3 | January 6, 2016 | The Rat Catcher | Mike Mignola and Christopher Golden | Patric Reynolds | Dave Stewart | Dave Palumbo |
| 4 | #1 | February 3, 2016 | The Sunken Dead | Mike Mignola and Christopher Golden | Patric Reynolds | Dave Stewart | Dave Palumbo |
| 5 | #2 | March 2, 2016 | The Sunken Dead | Mike Mignola and Christopher Golden | Patric Reynolds | Dave Stewart | Dave Palumbo |
| 6 | #1 | May 31, 2017 | The Outer Dark | Mike Mignola and Christopher Golden | Patric Reynolds | Dave Stewart | Dave Palumbo |
| 7 | #2 | June 28, 2017 | The Outer Dark | Mike Mignola and Christopher Golden | Patric Reynolds | Dave Stewart | Dave Palumbo |
| 8 | #3 | July 26, 2017 | The Outer Dark | Mike Mignola and Christopher Golden | Patric Reynolds | Dave Stewart | Dave Palumbo |
| 9 | #1 | December 20, 2017 | Flesh and Blood | Mike Mignola and Christopher Golden | Patric Reynolds | Dave Stewart | Dave Palumbo |
| 10 | #2 | January 31, 2018 | Flesh and Blood | Mike Mignola and Christopher Golden | Patric Reynolds | Dave Stewart | Dave Palumbo |
| 11 | #1 | September 12, 2018 | The Drowning City | Mike Mignola and Christopher Golden | Peter Bergting | Michelle Madsen | Dave Palumbo |
| 12 | #2 | October 10, 2018 | The Drowning City | Mike Mignola and Christopher Golden | Peter Bergting | Michelle Madsen | Dave Palumbo |
| 13 | #3 | November 14, 2018 | The Drowning City | Mike Mignola and Christopher Golden | Peter Bergting | Michelle Madsen | Dave Palumbo |
| 14 | #4 | December 12, 2018 | The Drowning City | Mike Mignola and Christopher Golden | Peter Bergting | Michelle Madsen | Dave Palumbo |
| 15 | #5 | January 9, 2019 | The Drowning City | Mike Mignola and Christopher Golden | Peter Bergting | Michelle Madsen | Dave Palumbo |
| 16 | #1 | May 15, 2019 | The Conjurors | Mike Mignola and Christopher Golden | Peter Bergting | Michelle Madsen | Dave Palumbo |
| 17 | #2 | June 12, 2019 | The Conjurors | Mike Mignola and Christopher Golden | Peter Bergting | Michelle Madsen | Dave Palumbo |
| 18 | #3 | July 17, 2019 | The Conjurors | Mike Mignola and Christopher Golden | Peter Bergting | Michelle Madsen | Dave Palumbo |
| 19 | #4 | August 14, 2019 | The Conjurors | Mike Mignola and Christopher Golden | Peter Bergting | Michelle Madsen | Dave Palumbo |
| 20 | #5 | October 2, 2019 | The Conjurors | Mike Mignola and Christopher Golden | Peter Bergting | Michelle Madsen | Dave Palumbo |

### Collected editions

The comic book series has been collected in hardcover volumes.
| Volume | Title | Collects | Special Features | Published | ISBN |
| 1 | The Rat Catcher and The Sunken Dead | The Rat Catcher The Sunken Dead | 10-page sketchbook | July 20, 2016 | 9781616559649 |
| 2 | The Outer Dark | The Outer Dark Flesh and Blood | 10-page sketchbook | May 23, 2018 | 9781506703954 |
| 3 | The Drowning City | The Drowning City | 10-page sketchbook | June 19, 2019 | 9781506709451 |
| 4 | The Conjurors | The Conjurors | 10-page sketchbook | February 26, 2020 | 9781506714134 |
Furthermore, in October 2022 the whole series was collected in one hardcover book, the Joe Golem: Occult Detective Omnibus (ISBN 9781506729084) with 536 pages including the back matter with covers and a sketchbook.