Contains materials originally published in single magazine form as The death-defying Doctor Mirage #1-5, The death-defying Doctor Mirage: second lives #1-4, and The death-defying Doctor Mirage #1 plus edition.

How do you solve the case of your own death? Paranormal detective Doctor Shan Fong Mirage had the ability to see and talk to the dead. Except the dead have gone silent, their spirits mysteriously vanished, including Hwen, her deceased husband. Now, Doctor Mirage must face the most challenging question of her life: Is she dead but doesn?t know it? From Eisner Award-nominated writer Magdalene ?Mags? Visaggio (Eternity Girl) and artist Nick Robles (Euthanauts) comes a gripping supernatural mystery to penetrate the veil between here and the hereafter. Collecting the complete five-issue DOCTOR MIRAGE limited series.

From Eisner Award-nominated writer Jen Van Meter (Hopeless Savages, Captain Marvel) and acclaimed artist Roberto de la Torre (Daredevil,?Age of Apocalypse) comes a deluxe, oversized hardcover of the Harvey Award nominated series taking Valiant's spirited occult adventurer beyond and back for a breathtaking, heartbreaking journey into the realms of the unknown! Doctor Mirage talks to the dead... but the only spirit Shan Fong can't find is that of her late husband, Hwen. When a big-time occultist with a classified military past hires her for a special job, Shan discovers a lead that might close the greatest mystery she's ever tackled - how to get Hwen back! Now, Doctor Mirage must enter the undiscovered country and cross all the realms of the underworld if she has any hope of rescuing the man she loves...or be forever lost beyond the earthly plane. Collecting?THE DEATH-DEFYING DOCTOR MIRAGE #1-5,?THE DEATH-DEFYING DOCTOR MIRAGE: SECOND LIVES #1-4, along with material from?THE DEATH DEFYING DOCTOR MIRAGE #1 PLUS EDITION, this prestige-sized hardcover comes packed with more than 20 pages of rarely seen art and extras!

Death was just the beginning? Doctor Mirage talks to the dead?but the only spirit Shan Fong can?t ?nd is that of her late husband, Hwen. Instead, America?s favorite semi-retired paranormal investigator is haunted and raw, using her gift to solve homicides and bring peace to the recently bereaved. But when a big-time occultist with a classi?ed military past hires her for a special job, Shan discovers a lead that might close the greatest mystery she?s ever tackled ? how to get Hwen back. Now, Doctor Mirage must enter the undiscovered country and cross all the realms of the underworld, if she has any hope of rescuing the man she loves?or be forever lost beyond the earthly plane.

"Contains materials originally published in single magazine form as The Death-Defying Dr. Mirage #1-5 and Shadowman #5"--Indicia.

In time, even the dead may die?and, now, after multiple 2015 Harvey Award nominations, the most sought-after couple in comics returns with an all-new adventure from Eisner Award-nominated writer Jen Van Meter (Hopeless Savages) and acclaimed artist Roberto de la Torre (Daredevil)! Occult investigators Shan and Hwen Mirage lived their lives in the thrall of an epic love that few will ever have?until Hwen died tragically before his time. Now, after a perilous trip through the underworld, Shan and Hwen are reunited?but Hwen is still an intangible spirit of the dead ? incapable of opening a spellbook or even touching his wife. Their options exhausted, the death-defying Doctors Mirage are about to enact a dangerous spell to restore Hwen?s solid form?and grant his ghost a second life. But, in the wrong hands, their ancient rite will become a tool of terror ? and unleash a force of pure, homicidal evil that lusts for the murder of the living and the dead alike? a torturous death that obliterates not just everything a person ever had in this world, but everything their ghost will be in the next!

If you could live forever, would you want to? Both a fascinating look at the history of our strive for immortality and an investigation into whether living forever is really all it’s cracked up to be. A fascinating work of popular philosophy and history that both enlightens and entertains, Stephen Cave investigates whether it just might be possible to live forever and whether we should want to. He also makes a powerful argument that it’s our very preoccupation with defying mortality that drives civilization. Central to this book is the metaphor of a mountaintop where one can find the Immortals. Since the dawn of humanity, everyone – whether they know it or not—has been trying to climb that mountain. But there are only four paths up its treacherous slope, and there have only ever been four paths. Throughout history, people have wagered everything on their choice of the correct path, and fought wars against those who’ve chosen differently. In drawing back the curtain on what compels humans to “keep on keeping on,” Cave engages the reader in a number of mind-bending thought experiments. He teases out the implications of each immortality gambit, asking, for example, how long a person would live if they did manage to acquire a perfectly disease-free body. Or what would happen if a super-being tried to round up the atomic constituents of all who’ve died in order to resurrect them. Or what our loved ones would really be doing in heaven if it does exist. We’re confronted with a series of brain-rattling questions: What would happen if tomorrow humanity discovered that there is no life but this one? Would people continue to please their boss, vie for the title of Year’s Best Salesman? Would three-hundred-year projects still get started? If the four paths up the Mount of the Immortals lead nowhere—if there is no getting up to the summit—is there still reason to live? And can civilization survive? Immortality is a deeply satisfying book, as optimistic about the human condition as it is insightful about the true arc of history.