History
Scrapyard Detectives was commissioned by Dr. Dan Fischer to encourage tolerance and acceptance of others and thus prevent attitudes that lead to hate crimes.
Each comic is themed on how an appreciation of diversity would help avoid a bad situation and move someone beyond preconceived notions about others.
Scrapyard Detectives has been used by Dr. Robyn A. Hill, Teacher Educator, who included the series in a free online book, Secret Origin of Good Readers. The Secret Origin of Good Readers also organizes a panel on using graphic novels to promote literacy, which has run at Comic Con International and at WonderCon.
The first three issues of Scrapyard Detectives are collected into a graphic novel titled The Scrapyard Detectives: Collected Cases, Volume One (ISBN 978-0-9797193-0-1). This 104 page collected edition also includes an origin story written by Supernatural Law creator/writer Batton Lash, which details how the three main characters met and solved their first case. The introduction to the collected edition is written by J.M. DeMatteis, and also features pinups and artwork by Michael T. Gilbert, Jack Purcell and Derek Hunter. These collected volumes were created specifically to be sold to libraries, with all proceeds going back to the Diversity Foundation to produce more single issues of the comic book series.
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