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CREATOR

Name: VIZ Media (Japanese comics corporation based in the USA).
Personal dates: Founded 1986 in California by Japanese born Seiji Horibuchi. Ongoing.
Other creations: Too numerous to mention here. Please look under VIZ in the Creators section.
Successors: None.
Comments: The corporation publishes Manga stories and uses a variety of logos; the one to the left is one of many.

MAIN STORY

The series premiered in 2006. Stopped in 2008 after 8 issues.

The stories are mostly independent detective mysteries set in London during the Victorian age. Among the diverse main characters are the 17-year old nobleman Cain C. Hargreaves and his 10-year old half-sister Mary Weather Hargreaves. Cain's hobby is collecting dangerous toxins thus giving him the nickname Earl of Poisons.

Initially, the series was published in 5 volumes in Japan from 1991 to 1994 under the American title The Cain Saga.