The CSI comics are comic book tie-ins with CSI, CSI: Miami and CSI: NY TV shows. They have been published from 2003 to the present day.
The majority have been released by IDW Publishing and have been written by a range of notable authors including Jeff Mariotte, Max Allan Collins and Steven Grant. The latest was a manga-style story written by Sekou Hamilton and published by Tokyopop.
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Stories
Serial
The first of the major CSI stories, deals with Grissom and his team tracking a violent serial killer. The killer is copy-catting history's most infamous murderer: Jack the Ripper, killing Las Vegas prostitutes. To complicate matters for the team, the murderer is striking during the Ripper Mania Festival in Las Vegas, a convention for Jack the Ripper case enthusiasts. The producers of the festival attempt to work with the police.[1]
Dying in the Gutters
The story revolves around the (fictional) murder of Rich Johnston who writes a gossip column for Comic Book Resources called "Lying in the Gutters". Due to his notoriety and the fact that this takes place at a comics convention there is a long list of comic book luminaries amongst the suspects.[2]
Intern At Your Own Risk
15-year-old Kiyomi Hudson is one of five teens--and the lone girl--chosen for internship in Las Vegas' CSI Division under the tutelage of Gil Grissom and Catherine Willows. Little does she know that her first "case" concerns another brutally murdered teen girl, and that one of her fellow interns may know more than he's letting on.[3]
Publications
IDW Publishing
Usually published as limited series by IDW Publishing they are collected by IDW and Titan as trade paperbacks:
- CSI: Crime Scene Investigation:
- "Thicker Than Blood" (by Jeff Mariotte, Gabriel Rodriguez, and Ashley Wood, one-shot, 48 pages, IDW Publishing, 2003, ISBN 1932382097)
- Serial (by Max Allan Collins, Ashley Wood and Gabriel Rodriguez, 5-issue mini-series, 2003, tpb, IDW Publishing, 2003 ISBN 1-932382-02-X Titan Books, 2004 ISBN 1-84023-771-6)
- Bad Rap (by Max Allan Collins, Gabriel Rodriguez and Ashley Wood, 5-issue mini-series, 2004, tpb, IDW Publishing, 2004, ISBN 1-932382-20-8, Titan Books, 2004, ISBN 1-84023-799-6)
- Demon House (by Max Allan Collins, Ashley Wood and Gabriel Rodriguez, 5-issue mini-series, 2004, tpb, IDW Publishing, 2004, ISBN 1-932382-34-8, Titan Books, 2004, ISBN 1-84023-936-0)
- Dominos (by Kris Oprisko, Steven Perkins and Gabriel Rodriguez, 5-issue mini-series, 2005, tpb, IDW Publishing, 2005, ISBN 1-932382-43-7, Titan Books, 2005, ISBN 1-84576-056-5)
- Secret Identity (by Steven Grant, Steven Perkins and Gabriel Rodriguez, 5-issue mini-series, tpb, 2005, IDW Publishing, ISBN 1933239409)
- Dying in the Gutters (by Steven Grant and Stephen Mooney, 5-issue mini-series, 2006, tpb, IDW Publishing, March 2007, ISBN 1600100481)
- CSI: Miami: Thou Shalt Not... (by Kris Oprisko, Renato Guedes, Steven Perkins and Ashley Wood , IDW Publishing, trade paperback collects the 2004 one-shots "Smoking Gun", "Thou Shalt Not" and "Blood/Money", 2005 ISBN 1-932382-54-2 Titan Books, 2005 ISBN 1-84576-003-4) [4]
- CSI: NY: Bloody Murder (by Max Allan Collins, J. K. Woodward and Steven Perkins, 5-issue mini-series, tpb, IDW Publishing, 2006 ISBN 1-933239-80-8)
Tokyopop
To date, only one book has been released by Tokyopop, although the given story is open ended and could spawn sequels.
- Intern At Your Own Risk (by Sekou Hamilton, Steven Cummings and Megumi Cummings, single volume, 2009, manga format paperback, Tokyopop, 2009 ISBN 978-1-4278-1550-7)
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