The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes of the Speckled Band" as his overall favourite. Arthur Conan Doyle began writing while studying medicine at university in the late 1870s, and had his first short story, "The Mystery of Sasassa Valley", published in September 1879. After eight years, "A Study in Scarlet", Doyle's first Sherlock Holmes story, was published by Ward Lock & Co. The novel was well received, but Doyle was paid little for it, and despite a sequel novel, "The Sign of the Four", which was published in Lipincott's Monthly Magazine, he shifted his focus to short stories. In early 1891, the first editor of "The
Sherlock Holmes pastiches Ukraine, giving Arthur Conan Doyle the task to convince everyone that he was just an imaginary character. With the help of his serum, Holmes prolonged his life for several decades. In 1990s he indirectly helped Martin Mystère to capture a villain who found a formula of his serum. Leah Moore and John Reppion's "The Trial of Sherlock Holmes" (2009) and Scott Beatty's "Sherlock Holmes Year One" (2011) published by Dynamite Entertainment. Ian Edginton wrote the 2010 Wildstorm comic book limited series "Victorian Undead" which pitted Holmes against zombies. New Paradigm Studios in August 2012 debuted "Watson and Holmes" digital comic