The Athenaeum Wizardry

The Athenaeum Wizardry is an American adventure-fantasy comic book series created by Kelly Nasee, being published by Moonlake Comics since April 15th, 1996.

Synopsis
Stephanie Carson is a nerdy bookworm student who gets a part-time job working at a library known as the Athenaeum as she learns that it is a magical library where anything goes as she becomes a wizard in training, dealing with dark threats both from and after the library.

Main

 * Stephanie Carson - a shy and nerdy teenager who gets an internship at the Athenaeum as she gets involved in magic and protecting it from dark threats.

Supporting

 * Edith Vanai - a mysterious librarian who leads the Athenaeum as she is a skilled wizard as she decides to mentor Stephanie into using the magical energies from the Athenaeum for good.
 * Ichabod - an aging goblin who Edith rescued during her exploits in the Athenaeum as he, feeling indebted to her, takes a job as her assistant, taking a nurturing relationship to Stephanie.
 * Max Jackson - a goofy and eccentric teenager who is Stephanie's best friend as he is unaware of what the library actually is.
 * Cindy Harper - a popular student who seems to be shallow and vain as she soon turns out to be needing a true friend as Stephanie decides to eventually befriend her.
 * Tom Sawyer - a rebellious fictional character who was also turned alive as, unlike Moriarty, he has no inference in leaving the Athenaeum as he befriends Stephanie and occasionally gives her advice.
 * Jason Carson - Stephanie's single dad who wants her to live a normal life, seeing her working at the Athenaeum as a way for that, not knowing how dangerous it is.
 * Deus - one of the High Three Wizards who both mentored Edith and helped make the Athenaeum as he believes Stephanie is tied to the fate of magic itself.
 * Primus and Arae - the other two High Three Wizards who are mysterious and hidden in the shadows as they often communicate with Deus in the shadows.
 * Courtney Wayne - a selfish and snotty teenager who is only interested in popularity as she sees Stephanie as a freak.
 * Destiny Hart - a rude and spoiled teenager who, while not as much as Courtney, mistreats Stephanie as she has been friends with Courtney since they were younger.
 * Samantha "Santa" Claus - a slightly snarky wizard who turns out to have been the actual Santa that the stories are based on, using a form changing spell to take the form of a jolly fat man, as she soon encounters Stephanie, being revealed to be the daughter of the original Santa.

Antagonists

 * Xarin Eclea - a sinister wizard who has the inability to age as he helped create the Athenaeum before getting corrupted by its power as he makes it his goal to merge himself with the Athenaeum and turn Stephanie into his apprentice.
 * Dorothea - a mischievous shapeshifting sprite who is stuck in the walls of the Athenaeum as she wants to escape to the real world by taking the form of Stephanie herself.
 * James Moriarty - the fictional antagonist of Sherlock Holmes who was accidentally brought to life by Stephanie using the Athenaeum's magic as he grows interested in the real world and wants to escape the Athenaeum to conquer it.
 * Samantha and Gnarl - a charismatic yet cruel fairy and an idiotic Orc who are magical travelers and con-men, traveling through wizard institutes to con people, as Sam soon gets obsessed with successfully conning Stephanie.
 * The Locked Beast - a giant dark beast that was locked inside of the basement of the Athenaeum as it is near feral and dangerous.

Issues

 * 1) First Day - Stephanie Carson gets a job at a library known as the Athenaeum as she soon I learns that it is magical as she tries to get used to it.
 * 2) Accidental Magic - Trying to practice her magical abilities, Stephanie accidentally brings the book villain Mortiary to life as she soon has to catch him with the help of Edith.
 * 3) Doppelgänger Mayhem - After having to both stock books at the Athenaeum and agreeing to watch a movie with Max, Stephanie finds a shapeshifting creature to take her spot at stocking books. Yet things get worse when the creature, Dorothea, goes rogue.
 * 4) Face Your Fears - After getting nervous around magic, Stephanie gets brought by Edith and Ichabod to a locked up beast to face her fears as soon things get chaotic quickly.
 * 5) A New Mentor Pt. 1 - Stephanie finds a mysterious wizard known as Xarin as he decides to train her as soon Edith learns of it and tries to split them.
 * 6) A New Mentor Pt. 2 - Now learning that Xarin is far more villainous than she thought, Stephanie now has to fix her mistake of leading him to the center of the Athenaeum.
 * 7) Cleaning Day - It is cleaning day at the Athenaeum as Stephanie tries to hang out and know about Ichabod.
 * 8) A Visitor - A legendary wizard who helped create the Athenaeum comes to visit as Edith tries to make Stephanie look good for it.
 * 9) Horrifying Halloween - It is Halloween as Stephanie decides to bring her friends to the Athenaeum just for a fun spook but things get worse when the Locked Beast returns and actually breaks free, as well as revealing the Athenaeum's weirdness to Stephanie's friends.
 * 10) Gold Ring Rush - A gold ring belonging to Ichabod goes missing as he asks Stephanie to help find it for him.
 * 11) Norse Longing - TBD
 * TBD