Sherlock Holmes always seemed to be a character that comic book companies attempted to make work in comics (DC even gave Holmes his own title in 1975!) and never had any success with, sales-wise at least.Behind the creepy Ken Barr cover is a really nice pin-up by Frank Thorne, who also provides the companion piece for an intro written by Archie Goodwin. After that is a full-length Sherlock Holmes story, adapting The Hound of the Baskervilles, by Doug Moench and Val Mayerik. As much as I liked Mayerik's work, Thorne's is so good that I wish he had illustrated the rest of the book. Moench does a nice job adapting the dry Holmes' dialogue into decent comics' storytelling.
All in all, a nice try. And Marvel wasn't quite done with Holmes, not just yet...
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