Comics by kind

Mystery comics

Clues, detectives, secret doors and cases to crack: comics where you solve it along with them. Here are 5 of them, youngest first.

Each series links to its books in order with a checklist, and says whose age it is. Checked November 12, 2026.

Agent Moose books in order by Mo O'Hara and Jess Bradley
Ages 6–9 · Peabody's own estimate 3 books. Short comic panels with big pictures and a lot of puns, so a child can follow the plot with little reading.
InvestiGators books in order by John Patrick Green
Ages 7–10 · Peabody's own estimate 9 books. Full-color comic panels with short speech bubbles and a pun or wordplay joke on nearly every page.
Lunch Lady books in order by Jarrett J. Krosoczka
Ages 7–10 · the publisher's age 10 books. Short comics with a lot of white space, a few words per bubble and one joke after another.
Lightfall books in order by Tim Probert
Ages 8–12 · Peabody's own estimate 4 books. Detailed comic panels with short speech bubbles, a lot of invented places and a long story that builds.
Space Boy books in order by Stephen McCranie
Ages 10+ · the publisher's age 23 books. Long, quiet comic pages with a lot of talking and feelings, and a big story that builds over many volumes.

Agent Moose books in order by Mo O'Hara and Jess Bradley