With THE SCORPION, writers Matt Wagner - and Steven T. Seagle continue to breathe rich new life into pulp genre conventions.

This third volume in the series has a film-noir feel, with hard-boiled detectives, 1930s-style parties, and a vigilante hero who wears a trench coat, a fedora, and a gas mask. Behind The Sandman's mask is mild-mannered Wesley Dodds. The Vamp is a woman who lures men to her bed and then kills them.

Wesley Dodds encounters a brash young pilot called Blackhawk and enters the seedy world of pulp publishing.

This volume follows Wesley Dodds through two new cases of serial murderers, each more grisly than the last.

Wesley Dodds dreams of grisly murders as young socialites are found drained of blood. Then, in "The Scorpion," a whip-wielding madman has targeted the Sandman. And in "Dr. Death," the elderly in Manhattan are dying under mysterious circumstances, and it's up to the Sandman to stop the murderer!