Hellboy first appeared in San Diego Comic Con Comics August 1993 and John Byrne's Next Men #21, December 1993. Hellboy is a demon, who has raised with a humans. Hellboy works in Bureau for Paranormal Research and Defence, so he fight against the powers and creatures of his own kind.
Illustrator and scriptwriter Mike Mignola has mixed old tales and real people to his own world. Mignola has a great sense of drama; action, mystery, and humor comes all in smooth rhythm. The best in Hellboy comics is palpable sense of magic, same kind as the H.P. Lovecraft's and Edgar Allan Poe's stories. Hellboy is one of the remarcable comic book series of Modern Age. Lobster Johnson is Mignola's other same kind series. Lobster first appeared in Hellboy: Box Full of Evil #1.
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Hellboy Trade Paperbacks:
- Hellboy: Seed of Destruction, 1994 (Mike Mignola - John Byrne)
- Hellboy: Wake the Devil, 1996 (Mike Mignola - James Sinclair)
- Hellboy: The Chained Coffin and Others, 1998 (Mike Mignola - Dave Stewart)
- Hellboy: Conqueror Worm, 2001 (Mike Mignola - Dave Stewart)
- Hellboy: The Right Hand of Doom, 2003 (Mike Mignola - Dave Stewart)
- Hellboy: Strange Places, 2006 (Mike Mignola)
- Hellboy: The Troll Witch and Others, 2007 (Mike Mignola)
- Hellboy: Darkness Calls, 2008 (Mike Mignola - Duncan Fegredo)
- Hellboy: The Wild Hunt, 2010 (Mike Mignola - Duncan Fegredo)
Other Hellboy publications:
- Hellboy: Library Edition Vol. 1.-3.
- Hellboy: Weird Tales Vol. 1-2, 2003-2004
- Hellboy Junior, 1997-1999
- Ghost/Hellboy Special, 1996
- Savage Dragon/Hellboy (Savage Dragon #34-#35)
- The Art of Hellboy, 2003
- Hellboy: The Companion, 2008
- Goon Vol 3: Heaps of Ruination
- Abe Sapien: The Drowning
- Essential Painkiller Jane Vol 2: Hellboy And Friends
- The Starman Omnibus Volume 4.
- Hellboy: They That Go Down to the Sea in Ships
- Hellboy: The Crooked Man
- Hellboy: In the Chapel of Moloch
- Baba Yaga's Feast
- Hellboy: The Golden Army (WonderCon publication)
B.P.R.D. series publications:
- B.P.R.D. Volume 1: Hollow Earth and Other Stories, 2003
- B.P.R.D. Volume 2: The Soul of Venice and Other Stories, 2004
- B.P.R.D. Volume 3: Plague of Frogs, 2005
- B.P.R.D. Volume 4: The Dead, 2005
- B.P.R.D. Volume 5: The Black Flame, 2006
- B.P.R.D. Volume 6: The Universal Machine, 2007
- B.P.R.D. Volume 7: Garden of Souls, 2008
- B.P.R.D. Volume 8: Killing Ground, 2008
- B.P.R.D. Volume 9: 1946, 2008
- B.P.R.D. Volume 10: The Warning, 2009
- B.P.R.D. Volume 11: The Black Goddess, 2009
Lobster Johnson publications:
- Hellboy: Box Full of Evil (1999)
- Hellboy: Conqueror Worm (2001)
- B.P.R.D.: Night Train (2003)
- B.P.R.D.: Killing Ground (2007)
- Lobster Johnson: The Iron Prometheus (2007-2008)
- Lobster Johnson: Iron Prometheus (TPB, 2008)
The original book is always better than the movie. The familiar phrase, and keeps always the case, including the case of Hellboy. Guillermo del Toro has directed two movies about Hellboy, first in 2004, starring Ron Pearlman (Hellboy), Selma Blair (Liz Sherman), Doug Jones (Abe Sapien), John Hurt (Broom Bruttenholm), Ladislav Beran (Kroenen) and Biddy Hodson (Ilsa Haupstein). Hellboy II: The Golden Army came in 2008. It is rumored, that in third Hellboy-movie Rasputin and Kroenen will return, and also Lobster Johnson is seen on the film.
Hellboy Sourcebook and Roleplaying Game available on eBay! DVD case, video games, CD soundtracks, artbooks, original art by Mike Mignola and John Byrne, rare sketch art, first prints, lost pages, variant covers, full run lot, Hellboy wallpapers, movie posters, HeroClix, resin statues, vinyl busts, PVC figurine kits, toys, plush dolls, keychains, shirts, towels, mousepads, cosplay costumes, leather wrist watches, necklaces, ComiCon rings, mugs, bags, buttons, wristbands and other collectibles!
Hellboy is also available in diffirent video games (PC, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, iPhone). Hellboy: Seed of Destruction (4 issues in March to June 1994, written by John Byrne) has also inspired a Tannhäuser board game.
