DC’s Spooky Stories for Kids Box Set

Author Various
Illustrated by Various
Paperback
$39.99 US
On sale Jul 01, 2025 | 563 Pages | 9781799503514
Mischief and mayhem abound in four of DC’s spookiest graphic novels for kids!
  • Deadman Tells the Spooky Tales
  • The Mystery of the Meanest Teacher: A Johnny Costantine Graphic Novel
  • We Found a Monster
  • Zatanna and the House of Secrets


Deadman is ready to share some spine-tingling adventures and things that go bump in the night in Deadman Tells the Spooky Tales. Mystery of the Meanest Teacher stars thirteen-year-old Johnny Constantine and his new teacher who may be more dangerous than any of the angry demons he’s escaped before. We Found a Monster features a young boy and his growing creature collection he’ll need to keep secret from the townspeople at all costs! Welcome to the magical, mystical, topsy-turvy world of Zatanna and the House of Secrets, where Zatanna embarks on a journey of self-discovery and adventure!  

No tricks and all treat, middle grade readers will delight in these four graphic novels collected together for the first time just for spooky season!
Deadman Tells the Spooky Tales bios: 
Franco Aureliani is an Eisner Award-winning writer and artist who last worked on Superman of Smallville for DC Books for Young Readers. Other greatest hits include the Dino-Mike book series, Patrick the Wolf Boy, and Aw Yeah Comics!, as well as critically acclaimed comics like Superman Family Adventures, and the New York Times bestselling, multi-Eisner Award-winning series Tiny Titans and Super Powers for DC Comics. He has also worked on Grimmiss Island and Itty Bitty Hellboy with Dark Horse Comics. Franco is also one of the principal owners of Aw Yeah Comics retail stores. When he is not working on comics, Franco can be found shaping young minds as a high school teacher. 

The Mystery of the Meanest Teacher: A Johnny Costantine Graphic Novel bios:  
Ryan North is the writer responsible for Dinosaur Comics, the Eisner and Harvey award-winning Adventure Time comics, the #1 bestselling anthology series Machine of Death, and the New York Times bestselling and Eisner-Award winning Unbeatable Squirrel Girl series for Marvel. He's adapted Kurt Vonnegut's SLAUGHTERHOUSE-FIVE into a graphic novel, turned Shakespeare into NYT-bestselling choose-your-own-path books, and his book HOW TO INVENT EVERYTHING is nothing less than a complete cheat sheet for civilization. He lives in Toronto. 

  
Derek Charm is an Eisner Award-winning comics artist and illustrator living in New York. He was the artist on the Jughead and Jughead's Time Police comics series for Archie Comics, The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl for Marvel, and Star Wars Adventures for Lucasfilm/IDW Publishing. Outside of comics, he has done illustration and design work for Random House, Marc Jacobs, and DreamWorks Animation. 

We Found a Monster bios:  
Kirk Scroggs is an author-illustrator best known for the Snoop Troop books, It Came from Beneath the Playground and Attack of the Ninja Potato Clones, as well as the series Tales of a Sixth-Grade Muppet and Wiley & Grampa's Creature Features. 

Zatanna and the House of Secrets bios: 
Matthew Cody is the acclaimed children’s author of several popular books including the award-winning Supers of Noble’s Green trilogy: Powerless, Super, and Villainous. He lives in Manhattan with his wife and son.  

Yoshi Yoshitani is a California based illustrator inspired by fairytales and bright patterns. Yoshi uses their own multiethnic background to inform their work, creating bold graphic mythologies for the new mixed generation. Originally a concept artist for video games, Yoshi now freelances and creates band posters, book covers, and comics. 

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Mischief and mayhem abound in four of DC’s spookiest graphic novels for kids!
  • Deadman Tells the Spooky Tales
  • The Mystery of the Meanest Teacher: A Johnny Costantine Graphic Novel
  • We Found a Monster
  • Zatanna and the House of Secrets


Deadman is ready to share some spine-tingling adventures and things that go bump in the night in Deadman Tells the Spooky Tales. Mystery of the Meanest Teacher stars thirteen-year-old Johnny Constantine and his new teacher who may be more dangerous than any of the angry demons he’s escaped before. We Found a Monster features a young boy and his growing creature collection he’ll need to keep secret from the townspeople at all costs! Welcome to the magical, mystical, topsy-turvy world of Zatanna and the House of Secrets, where Zatanna embarks on a journey of self-discovery and adventure!  

No tricks and all treat, middle grade readers will delight in these four graphic novels collected together for the first time just for spooky season!

Author

Deadman Tells the Spooky Tales bios: 
Franco Aureliani is an Eisner Award-winning writer and artist who last worked on Superman of Smallville for DC Books for Young Readers. Other greatest hits include the Dino-Mike book series, Patrick the Wolf Boy, and Aw Yeah Comics!, as well as critically acclaimed comics like Superman Family Adventures, and the New York Times bestselling, multi-Eisner Award-winning series Tiny Titans and Super Powers for DC Comics. He has also worked on Grimmiss Island and Itty Bitty Hellboy with Dark Horse Comics. Franco is also one of the principal owners of Aw Yeah Comics retail stores. When he is not working on comics, Franco can be found shaping young minds as a high school teacher. 

The Mystery of the Meanest Teacher: A Johnny Costantine Graphic Novel bios:  
Ryan North is the writer responsible for Dinosaur Comics, the Eisner and Harvey award-winning Adventure Time comics, the #1 bestselling anthology series Machine of Death, and the New York Times bestselling and Eisner-Award winning Unbeatable Squirrel Girl series for Marvel. He's adapted Kurt Vonnegut's SLAUGHTERHOUSE-FIVE into a graphic novel, turned Shakespeare into NYT-bestselling choose-your-own-path books, and his book HOW TO INVENT EVERYTHING is nothing less than a complete cheat sheet for civilization. He lives in Toronto. 

  
Derek Charm is an Eisner Award-winning comics artist and illustrator living in New York. He was the artist on the Jughead and Jughead's Time Police comics series for Archie Comics, The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl for Marvel, and Star Wars Adventures for Lucasfilm/IDW Publishing. Outside of comics, he has done illustration and design work for Random House, Marc Jacobs, and DreamWorks Animation. 

We Found a Monster bios:  
Kirk Scroggs is an author-illustrator best known for the Snoop Troop books, It Came from Beneath the Playground and Attack of the Ninja Potato Clones, as well as the series Tales of a Sixth-Grade Muppet and Wiley & Grampa's Creature Features. 

Zatanna and the House of Secrets bios: 
Matthew Cody is the acclaimed children’s author of several popular books including the award-winning Supers of Noble’s Green trilogy: Powerless, Super, and Villainous. He lives in Manhattan with his wife and son.  

Yoshi Yoshitani is a California based illustrator inspired by fairytales and bright patterns. Yoshi uses their own multiethnic background to inform their work, creating bold graphic mythologies for the new mixed generation. Originally a concept artist for video games, Yoshi now freelances and creates band posters, book covers, and comics. 

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