In a contemporaneous review of the first book, Kim Thompson of "The Comics Journal" described "Detectives Inc.: A Remembrance of Threatening Green" as "a disastrously mawkish and disjointed attempt to lash together pulp fiction (in this case, a detective story) with a serious theme." Conversely, Peter Gillis of "Comics Feature" found it "tense and powerful and draws one into its action…. creators assert (and show) that two detectives, the divorced wife, two lovers separated by death from their common object of passion and others, can be just as exciting, as powerful, as dramatic an ensemble as the Avengers or the Justice League of America.”