City of Demons (2025)

Wise Acre Comics Presents: A Killer Stalks the Mob. Hollywood Hides the Truth. Los Angeles, 1924. The city is a powder keg. One side of town is draped in velvet and spotlight. The other bleeds. When a powerful crime boss’s family is targeted by a mysterious killer, he hires two private detectives—outsiders with nothing to lose—to track the killer down before an all-out mob war erupts. Their investigation leads them from smoke-filled jazz clubs to Hollywood studio lots, pulling back the curtain on the city’s darkest secrets.

City of Demons plunges into the grit of 1924 Los Angeles when a powerful figure turns up dead, and the fallout sends ripples through Hollywood’s gilded facade. Lawrence Kay is pulled into the case before dawn, and what he finds hints at a crime far stranger than a simple hit. With tempers rising between the city’s two most dangerous families and pressure mounting from every side, he turns to Lucas Short, a man trying to outrun his past, to help untangle a mystery already shifting beneath their feet. As alliances teeter and secrets stalk every corner, the two detectives step into a storm that could swallow the city whole.

With his father dead, Marcus Sullivan steps into power. By night, he plays the drunken Hollywood prince; by morning, he runs the Sullivan crime family and quietly launches his own hunt for a killer. Marcus pulls Lawrence Kay and Lucas Short into an off/the/books investigation that explodes fast. A secret speakeasy turns up a corpse. A hotel room erupts in gunfire. And the killer finally stops hiding.

In the shadows of 1924 Los Angeles, the past refuses to stay buried. As Lawrence comes face-to-face with the deadly enforcer Joel Mason, a chilling ultimatum forces him to confront not only the Boyle family’s reach, but the darkness within himself. Meanwhile, Lucas is faced with a choice that defines who he is: justice or mercy. As new clues emerge and old wounds reopen, a haunting truth begins to surface, some monsters aren’t made by the city… they’re forged by what it takes to survive it.