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.

In time, even the dead may dieÉ Occult investigators Shan and Hwen Mirage lived their lives in the thrall of an epic love that few will ever haveÉuntil Hwen died tragically before his time. Now, after a perilous trip through the underworld, Shan and Hwen are reunitedÉbut Hwen is still an intangible spirit of the dead Ð 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 HwenÕs solid formÉand grant his ghost a second life. But, in the wrong hands, their ancient rite will become a tool of terror Ð and unleash a force of pure, homicidal evil that lusts for the murder of the living and the dead alikeÉ a torturous death that obliterates not just everything a person ever had in this world, but everything their ghost will be in the next! 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)! Collecting THE DEATH-DEFYING DOCTOR MIRAGE: SECOND LIVES #1-4.

In time, even the dead may die? 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! 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)! Collecting THE DEATH-DEFYING DOCTOR MIRAGE: SECOND LIVES #1-4.

The living. The dead. The good. The wicked. And a husband and wife trapped in the middle, the only ones who might prevent them all from crashing together? An evil spirit, dead for decades, has usurped all the power of the enchanted scroll that Shan and Hwen Mirage needed to save their lives together. Now they have no scroll, no power, and an unstoppable enemy with the power of death at its fingertips. As this specter of doom leaps from body to body, leaving extinction in his wake, the Mirages know the only way to defeat him?win or lose, live or die?is by making the ultimate sacrifice. Jen Van Meter and Roberto de la Torre deliver the dizzying, devastating climax for Valiant?s Harvey Award-nominated adventurers?and, for the living and the dead, nothing will ever be the same!

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!

A lethal menace has been loosed on the world and everyone ? alive or dead ?is in harm?s way! Shan Fong-Mirage is married to a ghost ? the late Hwen Mirage, who she herself pulled back from the brink of eternal imprisonment in the underworld. But this team of paranormal investigators has discovered that even the unliving like Hwen can be killed?and that their own research has unwittingly freed a malevolent spirit from a centuries-old enchantment. Now innocent victims ? both among the living and dearly departed ? are being massacred. To set this right, the Mirages need to unlock another copy of the ancient spell?and only one other paranormal collector has it. And so now the good doctors must pay a house call to an old enemy?