The ultimate introduction to this supernatural hero features 16
standalone stories with Mignola's greatest collaborators-stories
that can be read in any order.
This 368-page volume covers Hellboy's adventures from 1947 to 1961,
reprinting stories from The Chained Coffin, The Right Hand of Doom,
The Bride of Hell, The Crooked Man, The Troll Witch, and Hellboy's
childhood adventure, The Midnight Circus, drawn by Duncan Fegredo,
artist of The Wild Hunt, the basis for Neil Marshall's film
Hellboy- The Rise of the Blood Queen.
Mike Mignola's fascination with ghosts and monsters began at an early age; reading Dracula at age twelve introduced him to Victorian literature and folklore, from which he has never recovered. Starting in 1982 as a bad inker for Marvel Comics, he swiftly evolved into a not-so-bad artist. By the late 1980s, he had begun to develop his own unique graphic style, with mainstream projects like Cosmic Odyssey and Batman- Gotham by Gaslight. In 1994, he published the first Hellboy series through Dark Horse, and several spin-off titles (B.P.R.D., Lobster Johnson, Abe Sapien, and Sir Edward Grey- Witchfinder), prose books, animated films, and two live-action films starring Ron Perlman. Along the way he worked on Francis Ford Coppola's film Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992), was a production designer for Disney's Atlantis- The Lost Empire (2001), and was the visual consultant to director Guillermo del Toro on Blade II (2002), Hellboy (2004), and Hellboy II- The Golden Army (2008), and the upcoming Hellboy- Rise of the Blood Queen . Mike's books have earned numerous awards and are published in a great many countries. Mike lives in Southern California with his wife, daughter, and cat.
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