Recurring characters in the Hercule Poirot stories Recurring characters in the Hercule Poirot stories This page details the other fictional characters created by Agatha Christie in her stories about the Belgian detective, Hercule Poirot. Hastings first meets Poirot during his years as a private detective in Europe. Almost immediately after they both arrive in England, he becomes Poirot's partner, and appears in many of the novels and stories. Poirot's view of Hastings was of a man with plenty of imagination but not a great deal of brains. Hastings was capable of great bravery when the going got tough, facing death unflinchingly when confronted by the "Big Four"
Detectives Inc. follow Will Eisner's influential "A Contract with God". The Gay League's "LBGT Comics Timeline" cites the book as "featuring the first lesbian characters in mass-market comics". The books' genesis, author Don McGregor recalled, had gone back several years. "I had created "Detectives Inc." as early as 1969, as roles for Alex Simmons and myself to play in Super8 millimeter movies I was making". In the early 1970s, the two produced a crude "Detectives Inc." comic book, self-published via photocopier. In 1980, Eclipse Enterprises published "Detectives Inc.: A Remembrance of Threatening Green", the first of what would become two graphic novels