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Hellboy: The Complete Short Stories Volume 1 Paperback - 2018

Name: Hellboy: The Complete Short Stories Volume 1
Price: 20.55 USD
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Author: Mignola, Mike
ISBN: 9781506706641

by Mike Mignola; Mike Mignola (Illustrator); Richard Corben (Illustrator)

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From the publisher

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 2019 film Hellboy.

In 1994 Mike Mignola released the first Hellboy series, Seed of Destruction, as Hellboy faced his supposed destiny as Beast of the Apocalypse. Before that, he'd spent fifty years fighting monsters as a somewhat carefree member of the Bureau for Paranormal Research and Defense. The Complete Short Stories Volumes 1 & 2 present those early adventures.

"The Crooked Man" and "Double Feature of Evil," both of which earned Mignola and his legendary collaborator Richard Corben Eisner Awards, are collected with the complete "Hellboy in Mexico" saga, featuring collaborations with Corben, Mick McMahon, Gabriel Ba, and Fabio Moon, as well as one of Mignola's early masterpiece, "The Corpse."

The two volumes of The Complete Short Stories together with the four volume Hellboy Omnibus series collect all of Mignola's award-winning Hellboy stories in chronological order for a definitive reading experience.

Details

Title Hellboy: The Complete Short Stories Volume 1
Author Mike Mignola; Mike Mignola (Illustrator); Richard Corben (Illustrator)
Binding Paperback
Pages 368
Volumes 1
Language ENG
Publisher Dark Horse Books
Publication date 2018-06-26
Illustrated Yes
Features Illustrated
ISBN 9781506706641 / 1506706649
Weight 1.76 lbs (0.80 kg)
Dimensions 10.2 x 6.8 x 0.8 in (25.91 x 17.27 x 2.03 cm)
Category Graphic Novels
Library of Congress subjects FICTION / Occult & Supernatural, COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS / Fantasy
Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2018003811
Dewey Decimal Code FIC

About the author

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.