Max Allan Collins was hailed in 2004 by
Publisher's Weekly as "a new breed of writer". A frequent
Mystery Writers of America nominee in both fiction and non-fiction categories, he has earned an uprecedented 18
Private Eye Writers of America nominations, winning for his
Nathan Heller novels,
True Detective (1983) and
Stolen Away (1991)
Terry Beatty is the artist and co-creator of Ms Tree. Further collaborations with Collins include
Mike Mist, Mickey Spillane's Mike Danger and
Johnny Dynamite. Beatty has been the primary inker of the animated-style
Batman comics, including a four-year stint inking Chris Jone's pencils on
The Batman Strikes! From 2012 - 2017, Beatty was the artist for the Sunday Episodes of the King Features comic strip,
The Phantom.