The Abandoned Comic Book Factory of Akron

About this book:

Deep in the rust belt, a forgotten printing press refuses to die. When county surveyor Arthur Pendelton steps into the abandoned Apex Lithograph plant, he discovers machines running on no power, fresh ink still wet on the rollers, and comic pages emerging from a press that should have been dead for forty years. The art is beautiful, haunting, and disturbingly familiar—because it's depicting Arthur himself, captured in perfect detail in the very next panel he hasn't read yet.

*Apex Industrial Syndicate—Issue #0—Circulation: Unknown.*

This is the mystery at the heart of *The Abandoned Comic Book Factory of Akron*, where an impossible machine is printing a story that doesn't end on the page. As Arthur is drawn deeper into the factory's shadows, he finds himself caught between gutters, walking the line between reality and the four-color dreams of a forgotten city. What happened in 1974? Who is the unfinished hero? And why does the press refuse to stop telling his story?

Equal parts industrial gothic, small-town mystery, and love letter to the Golden Age of comics, this novel will haunt anyone who's ever wondered what happens to the stories we abandon. If you believe every ruined building has a secret, and every blank page holds a world waiting to be inked, then step inside the factory. The press is running, the panels are filling, and the next issue features you.