Welcome to the Maynard
Published on 22. July 2025
Book
Paperback/Softback
120 pages
978-1-5067-4491-9 (ISBN)
Description
From the celebrated creators behind Starman and Super Friends comes this magical comics tale of crime and theft in the world of hospitality.
Welcome to the Maynard! A grand hotel full of luxury and style…but where the guests are all wizards, witches and mythical creatures!
Enter a world of magic, mystery, thrills and fun.
Join Pippin (Pip) Dale as she begins her new job as a bellhop (and trainee house detective) at the exclusive Maynard Hotel for Wizards (and folks of a magical ilk). This opulent, amazing hotel exists right under the noses of everyday San Francisco, where real magicians, witches, mystical characters and fantastic creatures all come to stay.
However, Pip’s working days aren’t merely full of amazing sights and magical experiences, they come with thrills and dangers too. She must try to catch a magical hotel thief, although their strange choice of thefts suggests that murder is the ultimate goal. Can Pip solve the mystery of who the thief’s target is in time to save the intended victim? And at the same time, she must go about her other duties at the hotel almost all of which involve spells, enchantment, and drama of one kind or another.
Helping her are many fun and funny hotel employees, all of them with magic running through their veins too. The Maynard is a unique, special hotel where the strange and mystical come to stay. It truly a place like no other, especially now Pip is on the case to liven things up even more.
So check in, sit back and enjoy the fun. Welcome to the Maynard!
Collects Welcome to the Maynard #1–#4.
Welcome to the Maynard! A grand hotel full of luxury and style…but where the guests are all wizards, witches and mythical creatures!
Enter a world of magic, mystery, thrills and fun.
Join Pippin (Pip) Dale as she begins her new job as a bellhop (and trainee house detective) at the exclusive Maynard Hotel for Wizards (and folks of a magical ilk). This opulent, amazing hotel exists right under the noses of everyday San Francisco, where real magicians, witches, mystical characters and fantastic creatures all come to stay.
However, Pip’s working days aren’t merely full of amazing sights and magical experiences, they come with thrills and dangers too. She must try to catch a magical hotel thief, although their strange choice of thefts suggests that murder is the ultimate goal. Can Pip solve the mystery of who the thief’s target is in time to save the intended victim? And at the same time, she must go about her other duties at the hotel almost all of which involve spells, enchantment, and drama of one kind or another.
Helping her are many fun and funny hotel employees, all of them with magic running through their veins too. The Maynard is a unique, special hotel where the strange and mystical come to stay. It truly a place like no other, especially now Pip is on the case to liven things up even more.
So check in, sit back and enjoy the fun. Welcome to the Maynard!
Collects Welcome to the Maynard #1–#4.
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Milwaukie
United States
Target group
Young adult
US School Grade: From Eighth Grade to Twelfth Grade, Interest Age: From 13 to 17 years
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 257 mm
Width: 168 mm
Thickness: 8 mm
Weight
340 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-5067-4491-9 (9781506744919)
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An Englishman residing in Las Vegas, I am a writer of comic books and graphic novels. And a couple of films. My most noted comics work is Starman for DC Comics, currently being collected in the New York Times best selling series of six Starman Omnibuses. I now work for Marvel Comics, a tenure that began with (now collected) runs on Fantastic Four and All-New Invaders. I am currently writing Scarlet Witch and Squadron Supreme.