Dynamite Entertainment has announced Seduction of the Innocent, a new dark period crime series from Ande Parks and Esteve Polls, launching in December.

The story will be written by Parks (Capote in Kansas, Green Arrow), with art by Polls (The Lone Ranger, The Death of Zorro), and an issue #1 cover by Francesco Francavilla.  An homage to True Crime comics from the 1950s, the story is set in San Francisco in 1953. Young FBI agent Thomas Jennings has just arrived in town, and is thrown into a case where the city’s crime lords are being murdered, and replaced by something even more horrifying.  

“The story is, at its core, about loss of innocence. It's about seduction, but not sexual seduction,“ said Parks. “ It's about the seduction of violence and power. It's about a good man struggling to hold onto the values that have always defined him as he battles things so evil that he can't really comprehend them.”

Dark Horse Comics and Kitchen Sink Books filed jointly for a “Seduction of the Innocent” trademark in August, Bleeding Cool reported.  A Dynamite spokesperson addressed potential questions about conflicts over the mark.  “Dark Horse Comics, Kitchen Sink Books and Dynamite have a solid working relationship and are producing two vastly different projects under the Seduction of the Innocent title,” he said. “Ours is a series, and Dark Horse and Kitchen Sink Books will announce their plans in due course.”

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