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Maze Agency
''The Maze Agency'' is an American mystery comic book series created by Mike W. Barr and first published in 1988. It revolves around a pair of detectives (Jennifer Mays and Gabriel Webb) and their adventures solving puzzling murders. ''The Maze Agency'' was a 1989 nominee for the Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards for Best New Series.
== Publication history ==
''The Maze Agency'' was first published by Comico Comics for 7 issues in 1988-1989, and shortly before that company ceased operations, it moved to Innovation Comics for another 16 issues (8-23), plus an annual and a special continuing the numbering and running to 1991. Alpha Productions released a single Maze Agency story in the anthology comic, The Detectives #1 in 1993, as well as a prose story in Noir #1 in 1994. Caliber Comics brought it back in 1997/1998 as a three-issue miniseries.〔''The Maze Agency'' #1-3 (Caliber Press, July–September 1997).〕 IDW Publishing printed a three issue miniseries in 2005/2006. They also reprinted #1-5 of the original series in trade paperback. A second prose story appeared in the anthology, "Sex, Lies and Private Eyes," published by Moonstone in 2009.
== Fair-Play Whodunits ==
''The Maze Agency'' is notable for being one of the few mystery comic books to "play fair" with the reader — i.e. giving out sufficient clues for the reader to solve the mystery. However, in a February 2004 interview, creator and writer Mike W. Barr admitted that "Some of the ''Maze'' stories, frankly, are not fair-play whodunits to the reader, in that the story is possibly too complex for the reader to solve."〔Mike W. Barr interview, ''Back Issue!'' (February 2004).〕 He cited as comparison an anecdote wherein the two creators of Ellery Queen were giving an interview, and one said "Ellery Queen is always fair to the reader," to which the other replied, "Ellery Queen is always fair to the reader if the reader is a genius." As Mike W. Barr is a fan of the series of Ellery Queen mysteries, the comic has much the same feel, sharing qualities such as the occasional "challenge to the reader" to solve the mystery, and an incorrect solution being offered by a character before the real answer is revealed. Barr even used Ellery as a guest star in ''Maze Agency'' #9.〔"The English Channeler Mystery: A Problem in Deduction," ''The Maze Agency'' #9 (Innovation, February 1990).〕
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