History ComicBook / MsTree

* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: Ms. Tree regularly gets into legal trouble when she resorts to violence, including jail time and time in a psychiatric facility.

* TomboyishName: Ms. Tree is very definitely female, but her first name is ''Michael'', not Michelle.

* IDontLikeTheSoundOfThatPlace: "The Devil's Punchbowl" in te story of the same name.

%%* TomboyishName: It's ''Michael'' Tree, not Michelle.
* TortureCellar: The SerialKiller in "Horror Hotel" has a torture cellar in the basement of the eponymous hotel.

%%* AirVentPassageway: "New Year's Evil"
%%* BadassLongcoat: Ms. Tree's trademark trenchcoat.

%%* FriendOnTheForce: Lt. Rafe Valer
%%* GayAesop: "Skeleton in the Closet" ends with one of these.
%%* GenderBlenderName: Michael Tree

* IDontLikeTheSoundOfThatPlace: "The Devil's Punchbowl"

%%* PregnantBadass
%%* PrisonEpisode: "Prisoner in Cell Block Hell"
%%* PrivateDetective
%%* PrivateEyeMonologue

%%* SomeoneToRememberHimBy

%%* StraightGay: Bryan Hand

%%* TortureCellar: "Horror Hotel"

* AirVentPassageway: "New Year's Evil"
* Sandbox/ApparentlyUnrelatedMurders: In one story several men are murdered. Aside from having all attended the same school, there's no connection between the victims... until it's discovered that at a rowdy party they once all got drunk and gang-raped a girl. Since few people knew about the gang-rape, there wasn't anything to connect them to each other.
* BadassLongcoat: Ms. Tree's trademark trenchcoat.

* FriendOnTheForce: Lt. Rafe Valer
* GayAesop: "Skeleton in the Closet" ends with one of these.
* GenderBlenderName: Michael Tree

%%* Reality Ensues: As noted above, Michael's penchant for trigger happy violence gets her arrested and committed for a while.

%%* StatuesqueStunner: Michael, of course.

* HollywoodSatanism: In "The Devil's Punchbowl", Tree investigated a murdered girl who joined a satanic church and was found dead with a inverted pentagram on her body. She was predisposed to suspect the church of course, but her discussion with a freelance reporter who met up with her about this case showed her how many allegations about satanists causing trouble are often overblown. In the end, Tree discovered the girl's murderer was actually an insane Christian fanatic who was posing as a local anti-Satanist activist to cover-up his crimes.

* PregnantBadass
* PrisonEpisode: "Prisoner in Cell Block Hell"
* PrivateDetective
* PrivateEyeMonologue

* RealityEnsues: As noted above, Michael's penchant for trigger happy violence gets her arrested and committed for a while.

* SomeoneToRememberHimBy

* StatuesqueStunner: Michael, of course.
* StraightGay: Bryan Hand
* TomboyishName: It's ''Michael'' Tree, not Michelle.
* TortureCellar: "Horror Hotel"

* MostCommonSuperpower: When a killer forces Michael to strip, he's stunned to distraction because, "''They're'' so big..."

* JailBait: The ReallySeventeenYearsOld porn star at the centre of "Runaway II" storyline. Dan Green is given the double-edged duty of protecting her.

* MostCommonSuperpower: When a killer forces Michael to strip, he's stunned to distraction because, "''They're so big...''"

* SomethingToRememberHimBy

* MaybeMagicMaybeMundane: A woman was either possessed by the spirit of her serial-killer great-grandfather, or was suffering madness from having witnessed the double murder of her parents when she was little. Even Michael wonders.

* MaybeMagicMaybeMundane: A woman was either possessed by the spirit of her serial-killer great-grandfather, or was suffering madness from having witnessed the double murder of her parents when she was little. Even Michael wonders which is the truth.

''Ms. Tree'' was the best-known comic book creation of author Max Allan Collins prior to his graphic novel, ''ComicBook/RoadToPerdition''. Terry Beatty was the series' artist. The character first appeared in ''Eclipse Magazine'' #1 (May, 1981), the debut publication of Eclipse Enterprises. Subsequent appearances in anthology comics were deemed successful enough. Resulting in the ongoing series ''Ms. Tree's Thrilling Detective Adventures'', later shortened to ''Ms. Tree''. While there were a couple of changes in publisher, said series lasted for 50 issues (February, 1983-July, 1989). The character was then revived in ''Ms. Tree Quarterly'' by Creator/DCComics, which run for 10 issues (Summer, 1990- Spring, 1993). The paperback novel ''Deadly Beloved'' followed in 2007. The character hasn't seen recent use in her original medium.

* MamaBear: Do not threaten Michael's children.

* ManlyGay: Bryan Hand, former SAS trooper and mercenary.

** Muerta means dead in Spanish, not Death (that's Muerte).

* PunnyName: Ms.Tree. Mystery. Get it?

* ApparentlyUnrelatedMurders: In one story several men are murdered. Aside from having all attended the same school, there's no connection between the victims... until it's discovered that at a rowdy party they once all got drunk and gang-raped a girl. Since few people knew about the gang-rape, there wasn't anything to connect them to each other.

* WordOfGay: Creator Max Allan Collins had always said that one of the regular cast was gay. It was several years before it was finally revealed in story that it was Mr Hand.

''Ms. Tree'' was the best-known comic book creation of author Max Allan Collins prior to his graphic novel, ''{{Road to Perdition}}''. Terry Beatty was the series' artist. The character first appeared in ''Eclipse Magazine'' #1 (May, 1981), the debut publication of Eclipse Enterprises. Subsequent appearances in anthology comics were deemed successful enough. Resulting in the ongoing series ''Ms. Tree's Thrilling Detective Adventures'', later shortened to ''Ms. Tree''. While there were a couple of changes in publisher, said series lasted for 50 issues (February, 1983-July, 1989). The character was then revived in ''Ms. Tree Quarterly'' by Creator/DCComics, which run for 10 issues (Summer, 1990- Spring, 1993). The paperback novel ''Deadly Beloved'' followed in 2007. The character hasn't seen recent use in her original medium.