# Hellboy

Hellboy is a superhero created by Mike Mignola and appearing in comic books published by Dark Horse Comics. The character first appeared in San Diego Comic-Con Comics #2 (August 1993), and has since appeared in various miniseries, one-shots, and intercompany crossovers. The character has been adapted into four live-action films: Hellboy (2004) and its sequel The Golden Army (2008), a 2019 reboot film, and The Crooked Man (2024). The character also appeared in two straight-to-DVD animated films and three video games – Dogs of the Night (2000), The Science of Evil (2004) and Web of Wyrd (2023).
A well-meaning Cambion (or half-Demon) whose true name is Anung Un Rama ("and upon his brow is set a crown of flame"), Hellboy was summoned from Hell to Earth as a baby by Nazi occultists (spawning his hatred for the Third Reich). He appeared in the ruins of an old church in the Outer Hebrides in front of a team assembled by the Allied Forces, among them, Professor Trevor Bruttenholm, who formed the United States Bureau for Paranormal Research and Defense (B.P.R.D.). In time, Hellboy grew to be a large, muscular, red-skinned ape/monkey-like man with a tail, horns (which he files off, leaving behind circular stumps on his forehead that resemble goggles), cloven hooves, and an oversized right hand made of stone (the "Right Hand of Doom"). He has been described as smelling of dry-roasted peanuts. Although a bit gruff, he shows none of the malevolence thought to be intrinsic to classical demons and has an ironic sense of humor. This is said to be because of his upbringing under Professor Bruttenholm, who raised him as a normal boy.
Hellboy works for the B.P.R.D., an international non-governmental agency, and for himself, against dark forces including Nazis and witches, in a series of tales that have their roots in folklore, pulp magazines, vintage adventure, Lovecraftian horror, and horror fiction. In earlier stories, he is identified as the "World's Greatest Paranormal Investigator".

## Fictional character biography

Hellboy, or "anung un Rama " as he was called, was conceived on October 5, 1574, the day his birth-mother, Sarah Hughes, a human woman, was on her deathbed. In life, Sarah was a witch who gained her powers from being a consort of the archdemon Azzael, an Archduke of Hell and Hellboy's "biological" father. Taking Sarah's body to hell when she attempted to repent on her deathbed within a church in East Bromwich, England, Azzael burned her away so their child would be born, and chopped off the newborn's right hand to replace it with the "Right Hand of Doom", a relic with the power to free the Ogdru Jahad (a destructive, seven headed dragon imprisoned in deep space) and awaken the armies of Hell to wage war against Heaven. When the other princes of Hell learned of his actions, Azzael sent his half-demon child away while he was stripped of his powers and imprisoned in ice (like Lucifer in Dante's Divine Comedy).
The child is eventually summoned to Earth in the final months of World War II by the "Mad Monk" Grigori Rasputin on Tarmagant Island, off the coast of Scotland, having been commissioned by the Nazis to change the tide of a losing war ("Project Ragna Rok"). As a direct result of this rite, the child appears on Earth in a fireball at what remains of the ruined Bromwich Church on December 23, 1944, likely guided there by the ghosts of his mother's other children. Proving not to be a devil in the traditional sense, but a devil-like creature, the child was dubbed "Hellboy" by Professor Trevor "Broom" Bruttenholm.
Taken by the United States Armed Forces to an Air Force base in New Mexico, Hellboy is raised by Professor Bruttenholm in a normal Catholic home environment, and the United States Army where he is introduced to the Bureau for Paranormal Research and Defense (BPRD), a private organization dedicated to combating occult threats. Due to the success of his first mission in 1952, Hellboy is granted "honorary human" status by the United Nations and becomes a member of the BPRD as the "world's greatest paranormal investigator". As such, Hellboy interacts regularly with humans, primarily law enforcement officials, the military, Catholic clergy, and various "scholars of the weird", most of whom are not presented as overtly reacting to his strange appearance. During one of his early missions he rescued a young girl named Alice Monaghan, who had been replaced by fairies with a changeling named Gruagach. He also went to Russia and shot out the eye of the witch Baba Yaga. Gruagach and Baba Yaga both held lifelong grudges against Hellboy over these incidents.
As an adult, having matured physically within the years yet aging slowly mentally with a teenage mind, Hellboy becomes the primary agent for the BPRD, alongside other human and quasi-human agents that include Kate Corrigan, a professor of folklore at New York University; Abe Sapien, an amphibian humanoid (Ichthyo sapiens); and Liz Sherman, a young pyrokinetic. Things change dramatically for Hellboy during the events of Seed of Destruction when he searches for Professor Bruttenholm after he disappears during an expedition in the Arctic. He finds his adopted father only to witness his death at the hands of a Lovecraftian frog monster. The search takes Hellboy, Abe, and Liz to the Cavendish Hall mansion, which is a trap established by Rasputin to lure Hellboy into an embrace of his own "destiny", with the assistance of Sadu-Hem, one of the 369 spawn of the Ogdru Jahad. Controlled by the spirit of one of the ancestral Cavendish men, Abe impales Rasputin. Liz's firestorm then incinerates Rasputin's body alongside Sadu-Hem's and destroys Cavendish Hall. Soon after, during a visit to Bromwich Church, Hellboy gets a glimpse of his conception 300+ years ago and learns he has two human half-siblings, a nun and a priest whose spirits haunt the church after their deaths, attempting to stop Azzael from claiming Sarah.
During the events of Hellboy: Wake the Devil, Hellboy, ostensibly content to return to his life of ignorance, is set back on his journey of self-discovery when a mission for the B.P.R.D leads him to Romania to investigate the theft of an ancient box containing the corpse of Vladimir Giurescu, a Napoleonic officer who was, in fact, a vampire before he was "killed" on the order of a fearful Adolf Hitler. The culprit of the theft is revealed to be Ilsa Haupstein, one of the surviving members of Project Ragna Rok, who was revived from suspended animation and then aided in Giurescu's resurrection. Finding Castle Giurescu after splitting up with the other search groups, Hellboy learns that the source of Giurescu's rebirth is the ancient goddess Hecate. Though Hellboy destroys Hecate's original body by forcing her into the sunlight, he faces her again after Rasputin unintentionally provides her with Ilsa's iron maiden-encased body. Hecate swallows Hellboy and reveals to him his ultimate purpose as destroyer of worlds, but he returns to his own reality after he denounces his supposed destiny.
Hellboy later learns that Liz is dying after losing her powers when she accidentally revived a homunculus while searching another location for Giurescu, finding Roger in the events of Hellboy: Almost Colossus as he convinces the homunculus to save Liz's life. Following the events of Hellboy: The Right Hand of Doom, gaining insight about his stone hand and being referred to as a harbinger of the Apocalypse, Hellboy is accompanied by Abe to hunt down the warlock Igor Bromhead in Box Full of Evil. But it turned out to be a trap conducted by Bromhead and the demon Ualac to capture Hellboy, using his True Name, Anung Un Rama, to restrain him, so that the latter can claim Hellboy's normally invisible Crown of the Apocalypse to increase their power. But this act, however, proves to be counterproductive, as it allows Hellboy to no longer be controlled by his true name, Anung Un Rama (as one of the translations of this name is, lit. "and upon his brow is set a crown of flame"; with the theft of his crown, the name is no longer accurate), and he kills Ualac's mortal body before the demon and the crown are taken to Hell by the archdemon Astaroth, who is later revealed to be Hellboy's paternal uncle.
In the events of Hellboy: Conqueror Worm, Hellboy is assisted by the ghost of Lobster Johnson, and Roger the Homunculus in preventing an alien entity called the Conqueror Worm from arriving on Earth through the continued machinations of the surviving members of Ragna Rok. Over the course of the story, Hellboy learns that the B.P.R.D has implanted a bomb in Roger as a failsafe in case he should turn on them. Disillusioned by this knowledge and finally ready to look deeper into his origins, Hellboy quits the BPRD.
After some time with a witch doctor in Africa, Hellboy is captured by a trio of mermaid sisters and brought underwater to a witch known as the Bog Roosh. In exchange for Hellboy, the Bog Roosh grants each sister a wish. The first two sisters are tricked by the Bog Roosh and killed by their wishes, but the third sister is clever and gets her wish, a missing piece of her father's grave. While the third sister returns to her father's grave, the Bog Roosh explains her plan to completely destroy Hellboy, thereby preventing the apocalypse. At the grave, the third sister is told by her father's ghost that the only way to honor him is to save Hellboy. She does, and when the Bog Roosh realizes she cannot prevent the apocalypse, she allows herself to be killed by Hellboy in the ensuing battle. The third sister becomes the new Bog Roosh, releasing the souls of drowned sailors from which the previous Bog Roosh drew her power. She then releases Hellboy, leaving him lost at sea.
In Hellboy: Strange Places, after several years adrift at sea and spent drinking with the ghosts of sailors, Hellboy arrives on a mysterious island. He encounters Hecate, who once again insists that they are bound together and must unite in the destruction of the world, but Hellboy, true to his values and somewhat drunk, brushes her off. He travels deeper into the island, and is attacked by a long slumbering Sadu Hem. The fight with the creature takes him into a temple at the center of the island, where the creature stabs him through the chest, seemingly killing him. While dead, Hellboy has another conversation with the Witch Doctor, who somehow resurrects him. Hellboy awakens to find his spilled blood absorbed by the corpse of a long dead mystic who was killed in the temple. Hellboy's blood resurrects him and transforms him into a more demonic looking version of Hellboy himself. The Mystic reveals to Hellboy the true nature of his Right Hand of Doom, which is actually the severed hand of one of the Angels involved in the creation of the Ogdru Jahad, and is therefore the only power in the universe capable of fully returning the Ogdru Jahad to Earth. The Mystic threatens to force all of mankind to worship the Sadu Hem, and Hellboy fights to stop him. Hellboy is ultimately able to win the fight. Rattled, Hellboy sets sail for England, much to the chagrin of Gruagach and the council of fairies who have been watching over him.
Six years later, as Hellboy: Darkness Calls opens, Hellboy's search takes him to England where he finds himself in the middle of a power vacuum caused by Bromhead incapacitating Hecate in Italy. Refusing to serve the witches as their king, Hellboy ends up in the dimension of the witch Baba Yaga. Managing to defeat Baba Yaga's champion Koshchei the Deathless, Hellboy returns to his reality and is led to Bromhead after he became monstrous and in agony from his attempt to take Hecate's powers for his own. Hellboy gives Bromhead a merciful death before returning to England.
Hellboy: The Wild Hunt opens with Hellboy receiving an invitation by the Osiris Club to join them in hunting Giants. Hellboy joins, but is betrayed by the Club and left to die. He survives, and, despite being given a means to escape, decides to engage the Giants in battle. He grows more bloodthirsty and demonic over the course of the fight, only returning to his senses when all the Giants are dead. He is found by Alice Monaghan, who, since being rescued by Hellboy in her youth, has become a close consort to the faeries of England. She takes Hellboy to meet Mab, Queen of the Faeries, who hints that his mother's ancestry entitles him to a crown. After this, Alice and Hellboy are led into a trap where Alice in nearly fatally poisoned. The two are the taken to the castle of Morgana Le Fay to save Alice.
To enter the castle, Hellboy must fight Eligos, a high-ranking demon from Hell. Hellboy is able to defeat Eligos with the help of one of his slaves, in exchange for Hellboy remembering the slave when he becomes ruler of Hell. Once inside, Morgana reveals to Hellboy that, on his mother's side, he is a descendant of Mordred, and subsequently the rightful ruler of England. She also tells him about Nimue, a long-imprisoned witch who has been freed by Grugach and wants to conquer England. She takes Hellboy to the sword Excalibur, but he does not take it. Alice tries to convince him that he should, but is unsuccessful. Soon afterwards, he is visited again by Astaroth, who reveals to him that he is destined to kill Satan and become the ruler of Hell. Hellboy fights against a demonic illusion of himself, exploding into a fireball that destroys part of the castle and seemingly kills Alice. Convinced that Alice was right, Hellboy takes up Excalibur and suddenly finds himself atop a hill, with Alice, alive and well, standing beside him.
As Hellboy: The Storm and the Fury opens, Hellboy and Alice have begun travelling throughout England, amassing an army from the noble dead of England. Soon, they are attacked by one of Nimue's soldiers. Hellboy is able to defeat the soldier, but while dying the soldier warns Hellboy that Nimue is transforming into something else. The two stop at a pub, where Hellboy decides that he no longer wants the sword, suggesting to Alice that she leave it in a lake. They share a kiss, and Hellboy asks Alice to move to America with him after he has defeated Nimue. On the way to Nimue's fortress, Hellboy has another confrontation with Astartoth, rebuking him again. He then runs into Baba Yaga, who tells him that he will only be able to reach the fortress with her magical help. In exchange, Hellboy finally sacrifices his eye to Baba Yaga. Reaching Nimue, Hellboy sees she has been completely possessed by the Ogdru Jahad and now seeks to destroy the world. The two engage in battle as storms rage across England, and Hellboy is able to defeat her using a sword given to him by the ghost of Vasilisa. As the Dragon collapses, Nimue's ghost emerges and plucks out Hellboy's heart, damning him to Hell.
Hellboy in Hell begins with Hellboy stuck in the Abyss, the outermost part of Hell, and being attacked by Eligos. He is saved by Edward Grey, a british paranormal investigator who wound up trapped in Hell and has been watching over Hellboy for many years. Soon after, Hellboy is visited by three spirits. The first takes him to see his birth in Hell and his father's imprisonment. Then he is shown Satan, who he murders as prophesied, but does not remember doing so. Finally, he is shown the sleeping army of Hell that his Right Hand has the power to awaken. After this, he is attacked by his fully demonic half brothers Lusk and Gammon who are being manipulated by Astaroth. All three are killed, and Hellboy falls again into the Abyss. He is saved again by Grey, who convinces him to commit to his new life in Hell. In between helping out lost souls, Hellboy learns gradually that the aristocracy of Hell have all gone into hiding or been killed by their slaves since his arrival, as they panicked over the thought that he might kill them all. He is poisoned by powerful spirits called the Furies, who were set on him by his half sister Gamori. The furies turn on her, dooming her to destroy the remains of Pandemonium, the capital city of Hell. Eventually, Hellboy, in fully demonic form, hunts down the last remaining rulers of Hell and destroys them all with the help of their slaves. After this, he returns to a home on the beach where he is met by three glowing shapes.
Hellboy returns, resurrected, in B.P.R.D: The Devil You Know, the final arc of the narrative. He fights alongside his original companions, Liz Sherman and Abe Sapien, against the rising Sadu Hem and a small group of demons seeking to conquer Earth. The team defeats the demon Yomyael, who is possessing a young girl named Varvara. Once free, however, Varvara reveals herself to be the daughter of their old foe Rasputin, and resurrects him. Hellboy and Rasputin battle one last time, both dying. As a ghost, Hellboy is shown the remaining path to the end of the world by Edward Grey. Agents of the B.P.R.D. are able to save a small portion of humanity, guiding them to shelter underground. On the surface, the Sadu Hem reign for a short time before the Osiris Club use Hellboy's severed Right Hand of Doom to summon the Ogdru Jahad to Earth and kill it. Once this is done, Hellboy takes back the Hand, killing the Osiris Club in the process. Finally, he sees Liz Sherman, somehow still alive, and instructs her to unleash the full brunt of her pyrokinetic abilities, burning down the world. The world gone, Hecate appears before Hellboy, once again in her Iron Maiden form. She assures him that there is nothing he could have done to prevent any of this. He tries to fight her, but realizes how tired he is of violence. He steps inside her Iron Maiden form, and his blood revives the world.

## Powers and abilities

Afforded by his demonic heritage as well as extensive physical training and bodybuilding, Hellboy possesses superhuman strength that exceeds the 1-ton base limit, endurance, a degree of resistance to injury, and a healing factor that allows him to heal quickly from virtually all bodily injuries as well as renders him immune to all diseases. He also has the innate ability to comprehend ancient and magical languages. The extent of his strength is unclear, but he has torn down a large tree and hurled it at an opponent and has lifted massive stones. He has also picked up and thrown opponents weighing at least four to five hundred pounds. Hellboy has a high degree of resilience to injury. He can withstand powerful blows that would severely injure or kill a human. He survived being shot many times in the chest with an MG 42 machine gun before destroying it. He has survived being impaled through the chest with a sword, severe werewolf mauling, being beaten unconscious with heavy iron tongs, falling from extreme heights, being crushed by boulders, and more. In the film version, it is stated that Hellboy is immune to all forms of fire and burns, including Liz Sherman's flames, and electrocution. Despite his ability to quickly recover from seemingly mortal wounds, he is far from invulnerable and can be injured or bloodied by conventional weapons. Curiously in certain instances, the spilling of Hellboy's blood causes lilies to sprout - a supernatural indicator of his true good nature. This unique property comes into play even at the culmination of Ragnarok, where Hecate spills Hellboy's blood onto the incinerated Earth to breathe life back into it. It is revealed to Baba Yaga by the dead Russian nobility that Hellboy may not be slain even through supernatural means and that he appears to be as deathless as her warrior, Koschei the Deathless. In the films, Hellboy has shown skill in necromancy, animating a man's dead body so that it could give him directions. This also happened in the 2019 reboot, where Hellboy is able to raise an entire army of the dead after embracing his power as Anung Un Rama.
Hellboy ages quite differently from human beings. In the story Pancakes he is now two-years old but appears to be somewhere between 6 and 10 in human years old. In Nature of the Beast, set in 1954, the ten-year-old Hellboy appears fully grown. His rapid physical maturation is in contrast to his actual rate of aging, however, which seems to be much slower than humans. Throughout the sixty-year span of time depicted in the comics, he does not age beyond the plateau of physical maturity. This mystical aging process is similar to the other demons and supernatural beings that populate Hellboy's world. The lifespan of a demon (or half-demon, as Hellboy's mother was human) is left undefined within the comics and seems to range from decades to many thousands of years. In the films, Hellboy's aging process is described by BRPD as "reverse dog years".
In addition to his natural physical abilities, Hellboy keeps a variety of items in his utility belt and jacket that can be used against various supernatural forces. He has been known to carry holy relics, horseshoes, various herbs, and hand grenades. He frequently carries an oversized revolver, which in the Guillermo del Toro films was named "The Samaritan", and whose construction incorporates iron that had been used to forge a church bell. However, Hellboy freely admits to having extremely poor aim with the weapon, and often favors fighting hand-to-hand, preferring to use short-ranged physical weapons like swords, spears, and his massive stone fist over firearms. Hellboy's lack of formal combat training and education is compensated for by his decades of experience as a paranormal investigator, though encounters with unfamiliar threats have often forced him to resort to improvisation and using his wits.

### Right Hand of Doom

As revealed in Strange Places, Hellboy's right hand was originally the right hand of Anum, one of the Watcher angels that watched over the burgeoning Earth and created the Ogdru Jahad. After sealing the Ogdru Jahad away, Anum was destroyed by his fellow spirits. Only his right hand remained intact as it was kept and preserved by the Hyperboreans, the first race of man. The Right Hand of Doom eventually ended up in the possession of Azzael before he grafted it onto the newborn Hellboy.
As the hand which created and bound the Ogdru Jahad, it is also the key that will "loose and command" them; in other words, it is a catalyst that will bring about Ragnarok. The comic books themselves never mention how the Right Hand of Doom would actually perform these tasks; they only explain this is the case and someone or something intends to do it, with or without Hellboy's consent. The film shows it working as a key: being turned twice in a special obelisk secured by Rasputin would release the Ogdru Jahad. Astaroth and others also told of how the Hand contains the power to awaken the great Army of Hell, an army powerful enough to shatter the boundaries between Heaven, Hell and Earth for the wielder to rule all of Creation. This prophecy had never come to pass thanks to Hellboy's consistent refusal to embrace his destiny. It is made clear it is not necessary for the arm to be attached to Hellboy to perform its duties. It has been suggested if Hellboy dies while the Hand is attached to him, it would become useless. He has, therefore, concluded the only way to prevent its falling into the wrong hands is to keep and protect it.

## Concept and creation

Hellboy originated in 1991 with a drawing Mike Mignola did for a Great Salt Lake Comic-Con promotional pamphlet of a demon with the name "Hell Boy" written on his belt. Mignola had initially no intention of doing anything serious with the concept, but eventually decided he liked the name.
Later, Mignola became interested in doing a creator-owned comic, as he felt it made more sense to create his own characters for the stories he wanted to tell, rather than trying to shoehorn existing characters into these stories. Mignola elaborated, "The kinds of stories I wanted to do I had in mind before I created Hellboy. It's not like I created Hellboy and said, 'Hey, now what does this guy do?' I knew the kinds of stories I wanted to do, but just needed a main guy." He initially created Hellboy as part of a team of five, but scrapped this idea when he realized he could not think of any team names that he liked.
Much like other American comic book superheroes, such as Batman, Wolverine, Iron Man, Daredevil, and Spawn, Hellboy is constantly tormented by the knowledge of his past. One example being in Wake the Devil where he describes his mindset since the aftermath of Seed of Destruction by saying, "I like not knowing. I've gotten by for fifty-two years without knowing. I sleep good not knowing."

## Publication history

Before Hellboy was published independently at Dark Horse Comics, the concept was initially pitched to a board of directors for DC Comics, who loved it, but did not like the idea of it involving "Hell".
The early stories were conceived and drawn by Mignola with a script written by John Byrne and some later stories have been crafted by creators other than Mignola, including Christopher Golden, Guy Davis, Ryan Sook, and Duncan Fegredo. The increasing commitments from the Hellboy franchise meant that 2008 one-shot In the Chapel of Moloch was the first Hellboy comic Mignola had provided the script and art for since The Island in 2005.

### Issues

Hellboy has an internal numbering on the inside cover of its issues. Below are the stories listed by their internal numbering for the comics.
| Issue | Title | Date | Story | Art | Colors | Cover | Collection | Notes |
| #1 | Seed of Destruction | March, 1994 | Mike Mignola (story) John Byrne (script) | Mike Mignola | Mark Chiarello | Mike Mignola | Hellboy – Volume 1: Seed of Destruction Hellboy Library Edition – Volume 1 | |
| #2 | Seed of Destruction | April, 1994 | Mike Mignola (story) John Byrne (script) | Mike Mignola | Mark Chiarello | Mike Mignola | Hellboy – Volume 1: Seed of Destruction Hellboy Library Edition – Volume 1 | |
| #3 | Seed of Destruction | May, 1994 | Mike Mignola (story) John Byrne (script) | Mike Mignola | Mark Chiarello | Mike Mignola | Hellboy – Volume 1: Seed of Destruction Hellboy Library Edition – Volume 1 | |
| #4 | Seed of Destruction | June, 1994 | Mike Mignola (story) John Byrne (script) | Mike Mignola | Mark Chiarello | Mike Mignola | Hellboy – Volume 1: Seed of Destruction Hellboy Library Edition – Volume 1 | |
| #5 | The Wolves of Saint August | November, 1995 | Mike Mignola | Mike Mignola | James Sinclair | Mike Mignola | Hellboy – Volume 3: The Chained Coffin and Others Hellboy Library Edition – Volume 2 | Originally appeared in Dark Horse Presents. Expanded here. |
| #6 | The Corpse and the Iron Shoes | January, 1996 | Mike Mignola | Mike Mignola | Matthew Hollingsworth and James Sinclair | Mike Mignola | Hellboy – Volume 3: The Chained Coffin and Others Hellboy Library Edition – Volume 2 | Originally appeared in Advance Comics catalog. |
| #7 | Wake the Devil | June, 1996 | Mike Mignola | Mike Mignola | James Sinclair | Mike Mignola | Hellboy – Volume 2: Wake the Devil Hellboy Library Edition – Volume 1 | |
| #8 | Wake the Devil | July, 1996 | Mike Mignola | Mike Mignola | James Sinclair | Mike Mignola | Hellboy – Volume 2: Wake the Devil Hellboy Library Edition – Volume 1 | |
| #9 | Wake the Devil | August, 1996 | Mike Mignola | Mike Mignola | James Sinclair | Mike Mignola | Hellboy – Volume 2: Wake the Devil Hellboy Library Edition – Volume 1 | |
| #10 | Wake the Devil | September, 1996 | Mike Mignola | Mike Mignola | James Sinclair | Mike Mignola | Hellboy – Volume 2: Wake the Devil Hellboy Library Edition – Volume 1 | |
| #11 | Wake the Devil | October, 1996 | Mike Mignola | Mike Mignola | James Sinclair | Mike Mignola | Hellboy – Volume 2: Wake the Devil Hellboy Library Edition – Volume 1 | |
| #12 | Almost Colossus | July 30, 1997 | Mike Mignola | Mike Mignola | James Sinclair | Mike Mignola | Hellboy – Volume 3: The Chained Coffin and Others Hellboy Library Edition – Volume 2 | |
| #13 | Almost Colossus | June 25, 1997 | Mike Mignola | Mike Mignola | James Sinclair | Mike Mignola | Hellboy – Volume 3: The Chained Coffin and Others Hellboy Library Edition – Volume 2 | |
| #14 | A Christmas Underground (in the Hellboy Christmas Special) | December 3, 1997 | Mike Mignola | Mike Mignola | Dave Stewart | Gary Gianni | Hellboy – Volume 3: The Chained Coffin and Others Hellboy Library Edition – Volume 2 | One-shot anthology. |
| #15 | Box Full of Evil | August 11, 1999 | Mike Mignola | Mike Mignola | Dave Stewart | Mike Mignola | Hellboy – Volume 4: The Right Hand of Doom Hellboy Library Edition – Volume 2 | |
| #16 | Box Full of Evil | September 8, 1999 | Mike Mignola | Mike Mignola | Dave Stewart | Mike Mignola | Hellboy – Volume 4: The Right Hand of Doom Hellboy Library Edition – Volume 2 | |
| #17 | Conqueror Worm | May 9, 2001 | Mike Mignola | Mike Mignola | Dave Stewart | Mike Mignola | Hellboy – Volume 5: Conqueror Worm Hellboy Library Edition – Volume 3 | |
| #18 | Conqueror Worm | June 13, 2001 | Mike Mignola | Mike Mignola | Dave Stewart | Mike Mignola | Hellboy – Volume 5: Conqueror Worm Hellboy Library Edition – Volume 3 | |
| #19 | Conqueror Worm | July 11, 2001 | Mike Mignola | Mike Mignola | Dave Stewart | Mike Mignola | Hellboy – Volume 5: Conqueror Worm Hellboy Library Edition – Volume 3 | |
| #20 | Conqueror Worm | August 8, 2001 | Mike Mignola | Mike Mignola | Dave Stewart | Mike Mignola | Hellboy – Volume 5: Conqueror Worm Hellboy Library Edition – Volume 3 | |
| #21 | The Third Wish | July 24, 2002 | Mike Mignola | Mike Mignola | Dave Stewart | Mike Mignola | Hellboy – Volume 6: Strange Places Hellboy Library Edition – Volume 3 | |
| #22 | The Third Wish | August 21, 2002 | Mike Mignola | Mike Mignola | Dave Stewart | Mike Mignola | Hellboy – Volume 6: Strange Places Hellboy Library Edition – Volume 3 | |
| #23 | The Island | June 22, 2005 | Mike Mignola | Mike Mignola | Dave Stewart | Mike Mignola | Hellboy – Volume 6: Strange Places Hellboy Library Edition – Volume 3 | |
| #24 | The Island | July 27, 2005 | Mike Mignola | Mike Mignola | Dave Stewart | Mike Mignola | Hellboy – Volume 6: Strange Places Hellboy Library Edition – Volume 3 | |
| #25 | Makoma | February 1, 2006 | Mike Mignola | Richard Corben with Mike Mignola | Dave Stewart | Mike Mignola | Hellboy – Volume 7: The Troll Witch and Others Hellboy Library Edition – Volume 4 | |
| #26 | Makoma | March 1, 2006 | Mike Mignola | Richard Corben with Mike Mignola | Dave Stewart | Richard Corben | Hellboy – Volume 7: The Troll Witch and Others Hellboy Library Edition – Volume 4 | |
| #27 | Darkness Calls | May 2, 2007 | Mike Mignola | Duncan Fegredo | Dave Stewart | Mike Mignola | Hellboy – Volume 8: Darkness Calls Hellboy Library Edition – Volume 5 | |
| #28 | Darkness Calls | May 30, 2007 | Mike Mignola | Duncan Fegredo | Dave Stewart | Mike Mignola | Hellboy – Volume 8: Darkness Calls Hellboy Library Edition – Volume 5 | |
| #29 | Darkness Calls | June 27, 2007 | Mike Mignola | Duncan Fegredo | Dave Stewart | Mike Mignola | Hellboy – Volume 8: Darkness Calls Hellboy Library Edition – Volume 5 | |
| #30 | Darkness Calls | July 25, 2007 | Mike Mignola | Duncan Fegredo | Dave Stewart | Mike Mignola | Hellboy – Volume 8: Darkness Calls Hellboy Library Edition – Volume 5 | |
| #31 | Darkness Calls | August 29, 2007 | Mike Mignola | Duncan Fegredo | Dave Stewart | Mike Mignola | Hellboy – Volume 8: Darkness Calls Hellboy Library Edition – Volume 5 | |
| #32 | Darkness Calls | November 7, 2007 | Mike Mignola | Duncan Fegredo | Dave Stewart | Mike Mignola | Hellboy – Volume 8: Darkness Calls Hellboy Library Edition – Volume 5 | |
| — | They That Go Down to the Sea in Ships | August, 2007 | Mike Mignola and Joshua Dysart | Jason Shawn Alexander | Dave Stewart | Mike Mignola | Hellboy – Volume 10: The Crooked Man and Others Hellboy Library Edition – Volume 4 | Co-published by Konami to promote Hellboy: The Science of Evil game. |
| #33 | The Crooked Man | July 2, 2008 | Mike Mignola | Richard Corben | Dave Stewart | Richard Corben | Hellboy – Volume 10: The Crooked Man and Others Hellboy Library Edition – Volume 4 | |
| #34 | The Crooked Man | August 13, 2008 | Mike Mignola | Richard Corben | Dave Stewart | Richard Corben | Hellboy – Volume 10: The Crooked Man and Others Hellboy Library Edition – Volume 4 | |
| #35 | The Crooked Man | September 24, 2008 | Mike Mignola | Richard Corben | Dave Stewart | Richard Corben | Hellboy – Volume 10: The Crooked Man and Others Hellboy Library Edition – Volume 4 | |
| #36 | In the Chapel of Moloch | October 29, 2008 | Mike Mignola | Mike Mignola | Dave Stewart | Mike Mignola | Hellboy – Volume 10: The Crooked Man and Others Hellboy Library Edition – Volume 4 | |
| #37 | The Wild Hunt | December 3, 2008 | Mike Mignola | Duncan Fegredo | Dave Stewart | Mike Mignola | Hellboy – Volume 9: The Wild Hunt Hellboy Library Edition – Volume 5 | |
| #38 | The Wild Hunt | January 7, 2009 | Mike Mignola | Duncan Fegredo | Dave Stewart | Mike Mignola | Hellboy – Volume 9: The Wild Hunt Hellboy Library Edition – Volume 5 | How Koshchei Became Deathless STORY Mike Mignola ART Guy Davis |
| #39 | The Wild Hunt | February 11, 2009 | Mike Mignola | Duncan Fegredo | Dave Stewart | Mike Mignola | Hellboy – Volume 9: The Wild Hunt Hellboy Library Edition – Volume 5 | How Koshchei Became Deathless STORY Mike Mignola ART Guy Davis |
| #40 | The Wild Hunt | March 4, 2009 | Mike Mignola | Duncan Fegredo | Dave Stewart | Mike Mignola | Hellboy – Volume 9: The Wild Hunt Hellboy Library Edition – Volume 5 | Baba Yaga's Feast STORY Mike Mignola ART Guy Davis |
| #41 | The Wild Hunt | August 12, 2009 | Mike Mignola | Duncan Fegredo | Dave Stewart | Mike Mignola | Hellboy – Volume 9: The Wild Hunt Hellboy Library Edition – Volume 5 | MonsterMen by Gary Gianni, not in Hellboy Universe. |
| #42 | The Wild Hunt | September 9, 2009 | Mike Mignola | Duncan Fegredo | Dave Stewart | Mike Mignola | Hellboy – Volume 9: The Wild Hunt Hellboy Library Edition – Volume 5 | MonsterMen by Gary Gianni, not in Hellboy Universe. |
| #43 | The Wild Hunt | October 14, 2009 | Mike Mignola | Duncan Fegredo | Dave Stewart | Mike Mignola | Hellboy – Volume 9: The Wild Hunt Hellboy Library Edition – Volume 5 | The Burial of Katharine Baker STORY Scott Allie ART Patric Reynolds |
| #44 | The Wild Hunt | November 11, 2009 | Mike Mignola | Duncan Fegredo | Dave Stewart | Mike Mignola | Hellboy – Volume 9: The Wild Hunt Hellboy Library Edition – Volume 5 | |
| #45 | The Bride of Hell | December 23, 2009 | Mike Mignola | Richard Corben | Dave Stewart | Mike Mignola | Hellboy – Volume 11: The Bride of Hell and Others Hellboy Library Edition – Volume 6 | |
| #46 | Hellboy in Mexico | May 5, 2010 | Mike Mignola | Richard Corben | Dave Stewart | Richard Corben Mike Mignola (variant) | Hellboy – Volume 11: The Bride of Hell and Others Hellboy Library Edition – Volume 6 | |
| #47 | The Storm | July 7, 2010 | Mike Mignola | Duncan Fegredo | Dave Stewart | Mike Mignola | Hellboy – Volume 12: The Storm and the Fury Hellboy Library Edition – Volume 6 | |
| #48 | The Storm | August 4, 2010 | Mike Mignola | Duncan Fegredo | Dave Stewart | Mike Mignola | Hellboy – Volume 12: The Storm and the Fury Hellboy Library Edition – Volume 6 | |
| #49 | The Storm | September 1, 2010 | Mike Mignola | Duncan Fegredo | Dave Stewart | Mike Mignola | Hellboy – Volume 12: The Storm and the Fury Hellboy Library Edition – Volume 6 | |
| #50 | Double Feature of Evil | November 17, 2010 | Mike Mignola | Richard Corben | Dave Stewart | Mike Mignola Richard Corben (variant) | Hellboy – Volume 11: The Bride of Hell and Others Hellboy Library Edition – Volume 6 | |
| #51 | The Sleeping and the Dead | December 29, 2010 | Mike Mignola | Scott Hampton | Dave Stewart | Mike Mignola Scott Hampton (variant) | Hellboy – Volume 11: The Bride of Hell and Others Hellboy Library Edition – Volume 6 | |
| #52 | The Sleeping and the Dead | February 2, 2011 | Mike Mignola | Scott Hampton | Dave Stewart | Mike Mignola | Hellboy – Volume 11: The Bride of Hell and Others Hellboy Library Edition – Volume 6 | |
| #53 | Buster Oakley Gets His Wish | April 13, 2011 | Mike Mignola | Kevin Nowlan | Kevin Nowlan Dave Stewart (variant cover) | Kevin Nowlan Mike Mignola (variant) | Hellboy – Volume 11: The Bride of Hell and Others Hellboy Library Edition – Volume 6 | |
| #54 | Being Human | May 11, 2011 | Mike Mignola | Richard Corben | Dave Stewart | Richard Corben | B.P.R.D.: Being Human | |
| #55 | The Fury | June 1, 2011 | Mike Mignola | Duncan Fegredo | Dave Stewart | Mike Mignola Francesco Francavilla (variant) | Hellboy – Volume 12: The Storm and the Fury Hellboy Library Edition – Volume 6 | |
| #56 | The Fury | July 13, 2011 | Mike Mignola | Duncan Fegredo | Dave Stewart | Mike Mignola | Hellboy – Volume 12: The Storm and the Fury Hellboy Library Edition – Volume 6 | |
| #57 | The Fury | August 10, 2011 | Mike Mignola | Duncan Fegredo | Dave Stewart | Mike Mignola | Hellboy – Volume 12: The Storm and the Fury Hellboy Library Edition – Volume 6 | |
| — | Hellboy Winter Special (2016) | January 27, 2016 | "Broken Vessels" | "Broken Vessels" | Dave Stewart | Tim Sale Mike Mignola (variant) Ben Stenbeck (variant) Michael Avon Oeming (variant) | B.P.R.D.: The Devil You Know – Volume 1: Messiah | |
| — | Hellboy Winter Special (2016) | January 27, 2016 | Mike Mignola and Scott Allie | Tim Sale | Dave Stewart | Tim Sale Mike Mignola (variant) Ben Stenbeck (variant) Michael Avon Oeming (variant) | B.P.R.D.: The Devil You Know – Volume 1: Messiah | |
| — | Hellboy Winter Special (2016) | January 27, 2016 | "Wandering Souls" | "Wandering Souls" | Dave Stewart | Tim Sale Mike Mignola (variant) Ben Stenbeck (variant) Michael Avon Oeming (variant) | Hellboy and the B.P.R.D.: 1953 | |
| — | Hellboy Winter Special (2016) | January 27, 2016 | Mike Mignola and Chris Roberson | Michael Walsh | Dave Stewart | Tim Sale Mike Mignola (variant) Ben Stenbeck (variant) Michael Avon Oeming (variant) | Hellboy and the B.P.R.D.: 1953 | |
| — | Hellboy Winter Special (2016) | January 27, 2016 | "Mood Swings" | "Mood Swings" | Dave Stewart | Tim Sale Mike Mignola (variant) Ben Stenbeck (variant) Michael Avon Oeming (variant) | | |
| — | Hellboy Winter Special (2016) | January 27, 2016 | Chelsea Cain | Michael Avon Oeming | Dave Stewart | Tim Sale Mike Mignola (variant) Ben Stenbeck (variant) Michael Avon Oeming (variant) | | |
| — | Hellboy Winter Special (2016) | January 27, 2016 | "Kung Pao Lobster" | "Kung Pao Lobster" | Dave Stewart | Tim Sale Mike Mignola (variant) Ben Stenbeck (variant) Michael Avon Oeming (variant) | | Out-of-continuity story |
| Out-of-continuity story ||
| — | Hellboy Winter Special (2017) | January 25, 2017 | "The Great Blizzard" | "The Great Blizzard" | "The Great Blizzard" | Sebastián Fiumara Geof Darrow (variant) | | |
| — | Hellboy Winter Special (2017) | January 25, 2017 | Mike Mignola and Chris Roberson | Christopher Mitten | Dave Stewart | Sebastián Fiumara Geof Darrow (variant) | | |
| — | Hellboy Winter Special (2017) | January 25, 2017 | "God Rest Ye Merry" | "God Rest Ye Merry" | "God Rest Ye Merry" | Sebastián Fiumara Geof Darrow (variant) | The Visitor: How & Why He Stayed | |
| — | Hellboy Winter Special (2017) | January 25, 2017 | Mike Mignola and Chris Roberson | Paul Grist | Bill Crabtree | Sebastián Fiumara Geof Darrow (variant) | The Visitor: How & Why He Stayed | |
| — | Hellboy Winter Special (2017) | January 25, 2017 | "The Last Witch of Fairfield" | "The Last Witch of Fairfield" | "The Last Witch of Fairfield" | Sebastián Fiumara Geof Darrow (variant) | | |
| — | Hellboy Winter Special (2017) | January 25, 2017 | Mike Mignola and Scott Allie | Sebastián Fiumara | Dave Stewart | Sebastián Fiumara Geof Darrow (variant) | | |
| — | Krampusnacht | December 20, 2017 | Mike Mignola | Adam Hughes | Dave Stewart | Adam Hughes Mike Mignola (variant) | Hellboy and the B.P.R.D.: The Beast of Vargu and Others | |
| — | Hellboy Winter Special (2018) | December 12, 2018 | "Happy New Year, Ava Galluci" | "Happy New Year, Ava Galluci" | "Happy New Year, Ava Galluci" | Mike Mignola Gabriel Bá (variant) Fábio Moon (variant) | | |
| — | Hellboy Winter Special (2018) | December 12, 2018 | Mike Mignola | Ben Stenbeck | Dave Stewart | Mike Mignola Gabriel Bá (variant) Fábio Moon (variant) | | |
| — | Hellboy Winter Special (2018) | December 12, 2018 | "Lost Ones" | "Lost Ones" | "Lost Ones" | Mike Mignola Gabriel Bá (variant) Fábio Moon (variant) | B.P.R.D.: Vampire (2nd Edition) | |
| — | Hellboy Winter Special (2018) | December 12, 2018 | Fábio Moon and Gabriel Bá | Fábio Moon and Gabriel Bá | Dave Stewart | Mike Mignola Gabriel Bá (variant) Fábio Moon (variant) | B.P.R.D.: Vampire (2nd Edition) | |
| — | Hellboy Winter Special (2018) | December 12, 2018 | "The Empty Chair" | "The Empty Chair" | "The Empty Chair" | Mike Mignola Gabriel Bá (variant) Fábio Moon (variant) | | |
| — | Hellboy vs. Lobster Johnson: The Ring of Death | May 29, 2019 | Mike Mignola and Chris Roberson | Mike Norton | Dave Stewart | Paolo Rivera | Hellboy and the B.P.R.D.: 1956 | BACKUP STORY "Down Mexico Way" STORY Mike Mignola and Chris Roberson ART Paul Grist COLORS Bill Crabtree |

### Issues: Hellboy in Hell

Hellboy in Hell is a finished series with its own numbering.
| Issue | Title | Date | Story & Art | Colors | Cover | Collection |
| #1 | The Descent | December 5, 2012 | Mike Mignola | Dave Stewart | Mike Mignola | Hellboy in Hell – Volume 1: The Descent Hellboy Library Edition – Hellboy in Hell |
| #2 | Pandemonium | January 2, 2013 | Mike Mignola | Dave Stewart | Mike Mignola | Hellboy in Hell – Volume 1: The Descent Hellboy Library Edition – Hellboy in Hell |
| #3 | Family Ties | February 6, 2013 | Mike Mignola | Dave Stewart | Mike Mignola | Hellboy in Hell – Volume 1: The Descent Hellboy Library Edition – Hellboy in Hell |
| #4 | Death Riding an Elephant | March 6, 2013 | Mike Mignola | Dave Stewart | Mike Mignola | Hellboy in Hell – Volume 1: The Descent Hellboy Library Edition – Hellboy in Hell |
| #5 | The Three Gold Whips | December 4, 2013 | Mike Mignola | Dave Stewart | Mike Mignola | Hellboy in Hell – Volume 1: The Descent Hellboy Library Edition – Hellboy in Hell |
| #6 | The Death Card | May 14, 2014 | Mike Mignola | Dave Stewart | Mike Mignola | Hellboy in Hell – Volume 2: The Death Card Hellboy Library Edition – Hellboy in Hell |
| #7 | The Hounds of Pluto | August 26, 2015 | Mike Mignola | Dave Stewart | Mike Mignola | Hellboy in Hell – Volume 2: The Death Card Hellboy Library Edition – Hellboy in Hell |
| #8 | The Hounds of Pluto | September 23, 2015 | Mike Mignola | Dave Stewart | Mike Mignola | Hellboy in Hell – Volume 2: The Death Card Hellboy Library Edition – Hellboy in Hell |
| #9 | The Spanish Bride | May 4, 2016 | Mike Mignola | Dave Stewart | Mike Mignola | Hellboy in Hell – Volume 2: The Death Card Hellboy Library Edition – Hellboy in Hell |
| #10 | For Whom the Bell Tolls | June 1, 2016 | Mike Mignola | Dave Stewart | Mike Mignola | Hellboy in Hell – Volume 2: The Death Card Hellboy Library Edition – Hellboy in Hell |

### Issues: Hellboy and the B.P.R.D.

Hellboy and the B.P.R.D. is an ongoing series of miniseries.
| Issue | Title | Date | Story | Art | Colors | Cover | Collection |
| #1 | 1952 | December 3, 2014 | Mike Mignola and John Arcudi | Alex Maleev | Dave Stewart | Alex Maleev Mike Mignola (variant) | Hellboy and the B.P.R.D.: 1952 |
| #2 | 1952 | January 7, 2015 | Mike Mignola and John Arcudi | Alex Maleev | Dave Stewart | Alex Maleev | Hellboy and the B.P.R.D.: 1952 |
| #3 | 1952 | February 4, 2015 | Mike Mignola and John Arcudi | Alex Maleev | Dave Stewart | Alex Maleev | Hellboy and the B.P.R.D.: 1952 |
| #4 | 1952 | March 4, 2015 | Mike Mignola and John Arcudi | Alex Maleev | Dave Stewart | Alex Maleev | Hellboy and the B.P.R.D.: 1952 |
| #5 | 1952 | April 1, 2015 | Mike Mignola and John Arcudi | Alex Maleev | Dave Stewart | Alex Maleev | Hellboy and the B.P.R.D.: 1952 |
| #6 | The Phantom Hand & The Kelpie | October 28, 2015 | Mike Mignola | Ben Stenbeck | Dave Stewart | Mike Mignola | Hellboy and the B.P.R.D.: 1953 |
| #7 | The Witch Tree & Rawhead and Bloody Bones | November 25, 2015 | Mike Mignola | Ben Stenbeck | Dave Stewart | Mike Mignola | Hellboy and the B.P.R.D.: 1953 |
| #8 | Beyond the Fences | February 24, 2016 | Mike Mignola and Chris Roberson | Paolo Rivera (pencils) Joe Rivera (inks) | Dave Stewart | Paolo Rivera | Hellboy and the B.P.R.D.: 1953 |
| #9 | Beyond the Fences | March 23, 2016 | Mike Mignola and Chris Roberson | Paolo Rivera (pencils) Joe Rivera (inks) | Dave Stewart | Paolo Rivera | Hellboy and the B.P.R.D.: 1953 |
| #10 | Beyond the Fences | April 27, 2016 | Mike Mignola and Chris Roberson | Paolo Rivera (pencils) Joe Rivera (inks) | Dave Stewart | Paolo Rivera | Hellboy and the B.P.R.D.: 1953 |
| #11 | The Black Sun | September 21, 2016 | Mike Mignola and Chris Roberson | Stephen Green | Dave Stewart | Mike Huddleston | Hellboy and the B.P.R.D.: 1954 |
| #12 | The Black Sun | October 19, 2016 | Mike Mignola and Chris Roberson | Stephen Green | Dave Stewart | Mike Huddleston | Hellboy and the B.P.R.D.: 1954 |
| #13 | The Unreasoning Beast | November 23, 2016 | Mike Mignola and Chris Roberson | Patric Reynolds | Dave Stewart | Mike Huddleston | Hellboy and the B.P.R.D.: 1954 |
| #14 | Ghost Moon | March 8, 2017 | Mike Mignola and Chris Roberson | Brian Churilla | Dave Stewart | Mike Huddleston | Hellboy and the B.P.R.D.: 1954 |
| #15 | Ghost Moon | April 12, 2017 | Mike Mignola and Chris Roberson | Brian Churilla | Dave Stewart | Mike Huddleston | Hellboy and the B.P.R.D.: 1954 |
| #16 | Secret Nature | August 9, 2017 | Mike Mignola and Chris Roberson | Shawn Martinbrough | Dave Stewart | Shawn Martinbrough | Hellboy and the B.P.R.D.: 1955 |
| #17 | Occult Intelligence | September 13, 2017 | Mike Mignola and Chris Roberson | Brian Churilla | Dave Stewart | Paolo Rivera | Hellboy and the B.P.R.D.: 1955 |
| #18 | Occult Intelligence | October 11, 2017 | Mike Mignola and Chris Roberson | Brian Churilla | Dave Stewart | Paolo Rivera | Hellboy and the B.P.R.D.: 1955 |
| #19 | Occult Intelligence | November 8, 2017 | Mike Mignola and Chris Roberson | Brian Churilla | Dave Stewart | Paolo Rivera | Hellboy and the B.P.R.D.: 1955 |
| #20 | Burning Season | February 21, 2018 | Mike Mignola and Chris Roberson | Paolo Rivera (pencils) Joe Rivera (inks) | Dave Stewart | Paolo Rivera | Hellboy and the B.P.R.D.: 1955 |
| #21 | 1956 | November 28, 2018 | Mike Mignola and Chris Roberson | Yishan Li Mike Norton and Michael Avon Oeming | Dave Stewart | Dave Johnson | Hellboy and the B.P.R.D.: 1956 |
| #22 | 1956 | December 26, 2019 | Mike Mignola and Chris Roberson | Yishan Li Mike Norton and Michael Avon Oeming | Dave Stewart | Dave Johnson | Hellboy and the B.P.R.D.: 1956 |
| #23 | 1956 | January 23, 2019 | Mike Mignola and Chris Roberson | Yishan Li Mike Norton and Michael Avon Oeming | Dave Stewart | Dave Johnson | Hellboy and the B.P.R.D.: 1956 |
| #24 | 1956 | February 27, 2019 | Mike Mignola and Chris Roberson | Yishan Li Mike Norton and Michael Avon Oeming | Dave Stewart | Dave Johnson | Hellboy and the B.P.R.D.: 1956 |
| #25 | 1956 | March 27, 2019 | Mike Mignola and Chris Roberson | Yishan Li Mike Norton and Michael Avon Oeming | Dave Stewart | Dave Johnson | Hellboy and the B.P.R.D.: 1956 |
| — | The Beast of Vargu | June 19, 2019 | Mike Mignola | Duncan Fegredo | Dave Stewart | Duncan Fegredo Mike Mignola (variant) | Hellboy and the B.P.R.D.: The Beast of Vargu and Others |
| — | Saturn Returns | August 21, 2019 | Mike Mignola and Scott Allie | Christopher Mitten | Brennan Wagner | Christopher Mitten | Hellboy and the B.P.R.D.: The Beast of Vargu and Others |
| — | Saturn Returns | September 18, 2019 | Mike Mignola and Scott Allie | Christopher Mitten | Brennan Wagner | Christopher Mitten | Hellboy and the B.P.R.D.: The Beast of Vargu and Others |
| — | Saturn Returns | October 23, 2019 | Mike Mignola and Scott Allie | Christopher Mitten | Brennan Wagner | Christopher Mitten | Hellboy and the B.P.R.D.: The Beast of Vargu and Others |
| — | Long Night at Goloski Station | October 30, 2019 | Mike Mignola | Matt Smith | Dave Stewart | Mike Mignola | Hellboy and the B.P.R.D.: The Return of Effie Kolb |
| — | The Return of Effie Kolb | February 19, 2020 | Mike Mignola | Zach Howard | Dave Stewart | Zach Howard | Hellboy and the B.P.R.D.: The Return of Effie Kolb |
| — | The Return of Effie Kolb | October 28, 2020 | Mike Mignola | Zach Howard | Dave Stewart | Zach Howard | Hellboy and the B.P.R.D.: The Return of Effie Kolb |
| — | The Seven Wives Club | November 11, 2020 | Mike Mignola | Adam Hughes | Dave Stewart | Mike Mignola | Hellboy and the B.P.R.D.: The Return of Effie Kolb |
| — | Her Fatal Hour & The Sending | December 2, 2020 | Mike Mignola | Tiernen Trevallion | Dave Stewart | Tiernen Trevallion | Hellboy and the B.P.R.D.: The Return of Effie Kolb |
| — | The Secret of Chesbro House | July xx, 2021 | Mike Mignola, Chris Robinson | Shawn McManus | Dave Stewart | Shawn McManus | Hellboy and the B.P.R.D.: The Secret of Chesbro House |
| — | The Secret of Chesbro House | August 11, 2021 | Mike Mignola, Chris Robinson | Shawn McManus | Dave Stewart | Shawn McManus | Hellboy and the B.P.R.D.: The Secret of Chesbro House |
| — | 1957- Family Ties | September 15, 2021 | Mike Mignola, Chris Robinson | Laurence Campbell | Dave Stewart | Laurence Campbell | Hellboy and the B.P.R.D.: 1957 |
| — | 1957- Forgotten Lives | November 24, 2021 | Mike Mignola, Chris Robinson | Steven Green | Dave Stewart | Laurence Campbell | Hellboy and the B.P.R.D.: 1957 |
| — | 1957- Falling Sky | May 04, 2022 | Mike Mignola, Chris Robinson | Shawn Martinbrough | Dave Stewart | Laurence Campbell | Hellboy and the B.P.R.D.: 1957 |
| — | Night of the Cyclops | May 25, 2022 | Mike Mignola, Olivier Vitane | Olivier Vitane | Olivier Vitane | Olivier Vitane | Hellboy and the B.P.R.D.: The Secret of Chesbro House |
| — | Old Man Whittier | June 22, 2022 | Mike Mignola | Gabriel Hernández Walta | Dave Stewart | Gabriel Hernández Walta | Hellboy and the B.P.R.D.: The Secret of Chesbro House |
| — | Time is a River | July 20, 2022 | Mike Mignola | Márk László | Dave Stewart | Márk László | Hellboy and the B.P.R.D.: The Secret of Chesbro House |
| — | 1957- Fearful Symmetry | February 8, 2023 | Mike Mignola, Chris Robinson | Alison Sampson | Dave Stewart | Laurence Campbell | *Hellboy and the B.P.R.D.: 1957 |
| — | 1957- From Below | March 8, 2023 | Mike Mignola, Chris Robertson | Mike Norton | Dave Stewart | Laurence Campbell | *Hellboy and the B.P.R.D.: 1957 |

### Original Graphic Novels: Hellboy

Special stories were created for hardcover original graphic novels.
| Title | Story | Art | Colors | Cover | Published | ISBN |
| House of the Living Dead | Mike Mignola | Richard Corben | Dave Stewart | Mike Mignola | November 2, 2011 | 9781595827579 |
| The Midnight Circus | Mike Mignola | Duncan Fegredo | Dave Stewart | Mike Mignola | October 23, 2013 | 9781616552381 |
| Into the Silent Sea | Mike Mignola and Gary Gianni | Gary Gianni | Dave Stewart | Mike Mignola | April 19, 2017 | 9781506701431 |

### One-shots

* Hellboy Winter Special (2016)
* Hellboy Winter Special 2017
* Hellboy Winter Special 2018
* Hellboy Winter Special (2019)
* Hellboy – Krampusnacht
* Hellboy vs. Lobster Johnson – The Ring of Death

### Trade paperbacks: Hellboy

All in-continuity Hellboy comics are collected in trade paperbacks.
| Number | Title | Collects | Published | ISBN |
| 1 | Seed of Destruction | Seed of Destruction (4-issue miniseries) Mike Mignola's Hellboy (promo from San Diego Comic-Con Comics #2) Mike Mignola's Hellboy: World's Greatest Paranormal Investigator (promo from Comics Buyer's Guide #1070) | Original Cover: October 1, 1994 | 9781569713167 |
| 1 | Seed of Destruction | Seed of Destruction (4-issue miniseries) Mike Mignola's Hellboy (promo from San Diego Comic-Con Comics #2) Mike Mignola's Hellboy: World's Greatest Paranormal Investigator (promo from Comics Buyer's Guide #1070) | Hardcover Limited Edition: March 1, 1995 | 9781569710517 |
| 1 | Seed of Destruction | Seed of Destruction (4-issue miniseries) Mike Mignola's Hellboy (promo from San Diego Comic-Con Comics #2) Mike Mignola's Hellboy: World's Greatest Paranormal Investigator (promo from Comics Buyer's Guide #1070) | Standardized cover: February 4, 2004 | 9781593070946 |
| 2 | Wake the Devil | Wake the Devil (5-issue miniseries) | Original Cover: June 11, 1997 | 9781569712269 |
| 2 | Wake the Devil | Wake the Devil (5-issue miniseries) | Standardized cover: February 4, 2004 | 9781593070953 |
| 3 | The Chained Coffin and Others | The Corpse (serialized short) The Iron Shoes (short story) The Baba Yaga (short story) A Christmas Underground (from the Hellboy Christmas Special) The Chained Coffin (from Dark Horse Presents #100–2) The Wolves of Saint August (from Dark Horse Presents #88–91) Almost Colossus (2-issue miniseries) | Original Cover: August 5, 1998 | 9781569713495 |
| 3 | The Chained Coffin and Others | The Corpse (serialized short) The Iron Shoes (short story) The Baba Yaga (short story) A Christmas Underground (from the Hellboy Christmas Special) The Chained Coffin (from Dark Horse Presents #100–2) The Wolves of Saint August (from Dark Horse Presents #88–91) Almost Colossus (2-issue miniseries) | Standardized cover: February 4, 2004 | 9781593070915 |
| 4 | The Right Hand of Doom | Pancakes (short story) The Nature of the Beast (from Dark Horse Presents #151) King Vold (short story) Heads (short story) Goodbye, Mister Tod (short story) The Vârcolac (serialized short) The Right Hand of Doom (short story) Box Full of Evil (2-issue miniseries) | Original Cover: April 26, 2000 | 9781569714898 |
| 4 | The Right Hand of Doom | Pancakes (short story) The Nature of the Beast (from Dark Horse Presents #151) King Vold (short story) Heads (short story) Goodbye, Mister Tod (short story) The Vârcolac (serialized short) The Right Hand of Doom (short story) Box Full of Evil (2-issue miniseries) | Standardized cover: February 4, 2004 | 9781593070939 |
| 5 | Conqueror Worm | Conqueror Worm (4-issue miniseries) | Original Cover: February 27, 2002 | 9781569716991 |
| 5 | Conqueror Worm | Conqueror Worm (4-issue miniseries) | Standardized cover: February 4, 2004 | 9781593070922 |
| 6 | Strange Places | The Third Wish (2-issue miniseries) The Island (2-issue miniseries) | April 26, 2006 | 9781593074753 |
| 7 | The Troll Witch and Others | The Penanggalan (short story) The Hydra and The Lion (short story) The Troll-Witch (short story) Dr. Carp's Experiment (short story) The Ghoul (short story) The Vampire of Prague (short story) Makoma (2-issue miniseries) | October 3, 2007 | 9781593078607 |
| 8 | Darkness Calls | Darkness Calls (6-issue miniseries) | May 16, 2008 | 9781593078966 |
| 9 | The Wild Hunt | The Wild Hunt (8-issue miniseries) | March 10, 2010 | 9781595824318 |
| 10 | The Crooked Man and Others | The Crooked Man (3-issue miniseries) They That Go Down to the Sea in Ships (one shot) In the Chapel of Moloch (one shot) The Mole (short story) | June 9, 2010 | 9781595824776 |
| 11 | The Bride of Hell and Others | Hellboy in Mexico (one shot) Double Feature of Evil (one shot) The Sleeping and the Dead (2-issue miniseries) The Bride of Hell (one shot) The Whittier Legacy (short story) Buster Oakley Gets His Wish (one shot) | October 5, 2011 | 9781595827401 |
| 12 | The Storm and the Fury | The Storm (3-issue miniseries) The Fury (3-issue miniseries) | March 7, 2012 | 9781595828279 |
| — | Hellboy in Mexico | Hellboy in Mexico (one shot) House of the Living Dead (original graphic novel) Hellboy versus the Aztec Mummy (short story) Hellboy Gets Married (short story) The Coffin Man (short story) The Coffin Man 2: The Rematch (short story) | April 13, 2016 | 9781616558970 |

### Trade paperbacks: Hellboy in Hell

All Hellboy in Hell comics are collected in trade paperbacks.
| Number | Title | Collects | Published | ISBN |
| 1 | The Descent | Hellboy in Hell #1–5 | May 14, 2014 | 9781616554446 |
| 2 | The Death Card | Hellboy in Hell #6–10 The Exorcist of Vorsk (short story) | October 5, 2016 | 9781506701134 |

### Trade paperbacks: Hellboy and the B.P.R.D.

All Hellboy and the B.P.R.D. comics are collected in trade paperbacks.
| Title | Collects | Published | ISBN |
| 1952 | 1952 (5-issue arc) | August 12, 2015 | 9781616556600 |
| 1953 | The Phantom Hand (short story) Rawhead and Bloody Bones (short story) The Witch Tree (short story) The Kelpie (short story) Wandering Souls (short story) Beyond the Fences (3-issue arc) | August 10, 2016 | 9781616559670 |
| 1954 | The Mirror (short story) Black Sun (2-issue arc) The Unreasoning Beast (one shot) Ghost Moon (2-issue arc) | January 10, 2018 | 9781506702070 |
| 1955 | Secret Nature (one shot) Occult Intelligence (3-issue arc) Burning Season (one shot) | June 6, 2018 | 9781506705316 |
| 1956 | 1956 (5-issue arc) Hellboy vs. Lobster Johnson: The Ring of Death (one shot) | September 17, 2019 | 9781506711058 |
| The Beast of Vargu and Others | The Beast of Vargu and Others (one shot) Saturn Returns (3-issue arc) Krampusnacht (one shot) Return of the Lambton Worm (short story) | June 24, 2020 | 9781506711300 |
| The Return of Effie Kolb and Others | Her Fatal Hour (short story) The Sending (short story) Long Night at Goloski Station (one shot) The Return of Effie Kolb (2-issue arc) The Seven Wives Club (one shot) | November 9, 2022 | 9781506731360 |
| 1957 | Falling Sky (one shot) Family Ties (one shot) Forgotten Lives (one shot) Fearful Symmetry (one shot) From Below (one shot) Happy New Year, Ava Galluci (short story) | July 26, 2023 | 9781506728452 |

### Library editions

These editions collect the stories in the size they were originally drawn.
| Volume | Collects | Published | ISBN |
| 1 | Seed of Destruction Wake the Devil | May 7, 2008 | 9781593079109 |
| 2 | The Chained Coffin and Others The Right Hand of Doom | October 8, 2008 | 9781593079895 |
| 3 | Conqueror Worm Strange Places | September 23, 2009 | 9781595823526 |
| 4 | The Crooked Man and Others The Troll Witch and Others | June 15, 2011 | 9781595826589 |
| 5 | Darkness Calls The Wild Hunt | July 11, 2012 | 9781595828866 |
| 6 | The Storm and the Fury The Bride of Hell and Others | June 12, 2013 | 9781616551339 |
| Hellboy in Hell | The Descent The Death Card The Magician and the Snake | October 4, 2017 | 9781506703633 |

### Omnibus editions

These editions collect the complete Hellboy series in chronological order.
| Volume | Collects | Published | ISBN |
| Hellboy Omnibus Volume 1: Seed of Destruction | Seed of Destruction (4-issue miniseries) Wake the Devil (5-issue miniseries) The Wolves of St August (short story) The Chained Coffin (short story) Almost Colossus (2-issue miniseries) | May 9, 2018 | 9781506706665 |
| Hellboy Omnibus Volume 2: Strange Places | Conqueror Worm (4-issue miniseries) The Third Wish (2-issue miniseries) The Island (2-issue miniseries) Into the Silent Sea (OGN) The Right Hand of Doom (short story) Box Full of Evil (short story) Being Human (short story) | June 20, 2018 | 9781506706672 |
| Hellboy Omnibus Volume 3: The Wild Hunt | Darkness Calls (6-issue miniseries) The Wild Hunt (8-issue miniseries) The Storm (3-issue miniseries) The Fury (3-issue miniseries) The Mole (short story) | July 18, 2018 | 9781506706689 |
| Hellboy Omnibus Volume 4: Hellboy in Hell | The Descent (Hellboy in Hell #1–4) The Three Gold Whips (Hellboy in Hell #5) The Death Card (Hellboy in Hell #6) The Hounds of Pluto (Hellboy in Hell #7–8) The Spanish Bride (Hellboy in Hell #9) For Whom the Bell Tolls (Hellboy in Hell #10) The Exorcist of Vorsk (short story) The Magician and the Snake (short story) | September 5, 2018 | 9781506707495 |
| Volume | Collects | Published | ISBN |
| Complete Short Stories, Volume 1 | The Corpse (short story) The Iron Shoes (short story) Pancakes (short story) The Nature of the Beast (short story) King Vold (short story) The Penanggalan (short story) The Crooked Man (3-issue miniseries) Hellboy in Mexico (one shot) Double Feature of Evil (one shot) Hellboy versus the Aztec Mummy (short story) Hellboy Gets Married (short story) The Coffin Man (short story) The Coffin Man 2: The Rematch (short story) The Midnight Circus (OGN) House of the Living Dead (OGN) | June 5, 2018 | 9781506706641 |
| Complete Short Stories, Volume 2 | The Hydra and the Lion (short story) The Troll Witch (short story) The Baba Yaga (short story) The Sleeping and the Dead (short story) Heads (short story) Goodbye Mister Tod (short story) The Vârcolac (short story) The Vampire of Prague (short story) The Bride of Hell (one shot) The Whittier Legacy (short story) Buster Oakley Gets His Wish (one shot) They That Go Down to the Sea in Ships (one shot) A Christmas Underground (short story) Dr. Carp's Experiment (short story) The Ghoul (short story) In the Chapel of Moloch (one shot) Makoma (2-issue miniseries) | August 28, 2018 | 9781506706658 |

### Other trade paperbacks

* Hellboy: Weird Tales, Volume 1 (February 2003) – Cover by Mike Mignola. Collects Hellboy: Weird Tales #1–4. ISBN 978-1-56971-622-9.
* Hellboy: Weird Tales, Volume 2 (October 2004) – Cover by Mike Mignola. Collects Hellboy: Weird Tales #5–8. ISBN 978-1-56971-953-4.
* Hellboy Junior (January 2004) – Written by Mike Mignola, Bill Wray, et al. Collects Hellboy Junior Halloween Special, Hellboy Junior #1–2, plus original material. ISBN 978-1-56971-862-9.
* Ghost/Hellboy Special (June 1997) – Written by Mike Mignola. Collects Ghost/Hellboy #1–2. ISBN 978-1-56971-273-3.
* Savage Dragon/Hellboy (2002) – Cover by Mike Mignola. Collects Savage Dragon #34–35.
* The Art of Hellboy (March 2003) – Written by Mike Mignola. Dark Horse Books. ISBN 1-56971-910-1.
* Hellboy: The Companion (May 2008) – Written by Steve Weiner, Jason Hall. Dark Horse Books. ISBN 978-1-59307-655-9.
* Hellboy: Masks and Monsters (October 2010) – Written by Mike Mignola, James Robinson, Scott Benefiel, Jasen Rodriguez. Collects Batman/Hellboy/Starman #1–2, Ghost/Hellboy #1–2. Dark Horse Books. ISBN 1-59582-567-3.

### Other appearances

Beyond the Hellboy comic and its associated spinoffs, Hellboy has made appearances in other publications:

#### Great Salt Lake Comic-Con pamphlet

The character name "Hell Boy" was included in a drawing by Mike Mignola of a demon character in a black and white illustration, with the later recognized name appearing on the demon's belt buckle. This image, accompanied by a short biography of Mike Mignola and his latest creation, appeared in the pamphlet in 1991. It is the first published mention of the later recognized name. This image was reprinted in The Art of Hellboy. This image was also used to create the “First Hellboy” statue by Mondo Tees, in both black and white and full color.

#### Dime Press

A prototype incarnation of Hellboy appeared on the cover of Dime Press #4 (Glamour International Production, 1993), an obscure Italian fanzine, with "Hellboy©Mignola 93" written at the bottom of the cover. The cover, illustrated by Mignola and by the Italian artist Nicola Mari, shows Hellboy in the act of attacking a "diabolic" version of the Italian SF comic book character Nathan Never (with bat wings and pointed tail). Mari at the time was one of the artists that worked on Nathan Never, and the first two years of the life of this comic were the main topic of the fanzine. With the exception of the cover, there is no other mention of Hellboy within the fanzine. The character shown was still in a draft stage, and although close to the final design of Hellboy, it had gray skin and an outfit not common to the character.

#### San Diego Comic-Con Comics

Mike Mignola's Hellboy by Mike Mignola and John Byrne featured the character's first full appearance, and was a four-page black-and-white story that had an approximately 1,500 book print run. It was published by Dark Horse Comics in San Diego Comic-Con Comics #2 (August 1993) for distribution at San Diego Comic-Con. It was also reprinted in The Comic's Buyers Guide #1069, along with an interview with creator Mike Mignola.
Hellboy travels to an American ghost town, where he encounters a mangy mutt that transforms into Anubis, the Ancient Egyptian god of mummification.
The story was collected in the trade paperback Hellboy: Seed of Destruction.

#### Next Men

Hellboy makes a guest appearance in John Byrne's Next Men #21 (Dark Horse Comics, December 1993); this is the first American appearance in a full-color cameo.

#### Comics Buyer's Guide

Mike Mignola's Hellboy: World's Greatest Paranormal Investigator by Mike Mignola and John Byrne featured the character's next solo appearance. It was published by Dark Horse Comics in a special four-page mini-comic for distribution in Comics Buyer's Guide #1,070 (May 20, 1994).
In the story Hellboy battles with the disembodied head of Nazi scientist Herman von Klempt and his puppet henchman Brutus the Gorilla to rescue a captive girl from the doctor's transference of nutrient fluids process.
The story was collected in the trade paperback Hellboy: Seed of Destruction.

#### Celebrate Diversity

Hi, My Name is Hellboy by Mike Mignola was a one-page panel ad that related the character's fictional origins. It was published by Diamond Comic Distributors in catalog supplement Celebrate Diversity collector's edition (October 1994). The ad was collected in the trade paperback The Art of Hellboy.

#### The Dark Horse Book of...

The Dark Horse Book of... was the banner title given to a series of four one-shot hardcover comic book horror anthologies produced annually by Dark Horse Comics between 2004 and 2007. Each issue contained a Hellboy story — “Dr. Carp’s Experiment” (2004), “The Troll Witch” (2005), “The Ghoul” (2006), and “The Hydra and The Lion” (2007). All four stories were collected into the trade paperback Hellboy: The Troll Witch and Others in 2007. The Dark Horse Book of... series itself was collected into The Dark Horse Book of Horror in 2017.
Hellboy: The First 20 Years was published on 1 April 2014.

## Awards

The miniseries Hellboy: Conqueror Worm won a 2002 Eisner Award for "Best Limited Series", while The Art of Hellboy won an Eisner in 2004 for "Best Comics-Related Book". Mignola won a 2000 Harvey Award for "Best Artist", based on Hellboy: Box Full of Evil. Hellboy: Darkness Calls won a 2007 Eagle Award for "Favourite Colour Comicbook – American".
The character Hellboy was nominated for "Favourite Comics Character" at the 2004 and 2005 Eagle Awards. Other Eagle Award nominations include "Favourite Comics Story published during 2007" for Hellboy: Darkness Calls, and "Favourite Comics Hero".
The comics writer Alan Moore listed Hellboy on his recommendations page, particularly Wake the Devil (Vol. 2), calling it "the skillful cutting and the setting of the stone that we can see Mignola's sharp contemporary sensibilities at work".
In March 2009, Hellboy won two categories in the fan voted Project Fanboy Awards for 2008: "Best Indy Hero" and "Best Indy Character".
In 2011, Hellboy was ranked 25th of the Top 100 Comic Book Heroes by IGN.

## Merchandise

On May 22, 2017, Dark Horse Comics, XXX Distillery LLC, and Prestige Imports LLC officially released Hellboy Hell Water Cinnamon Whiskey, a small batch, naturally-flavored whiskey.