num_pages: 368
description: The ultimate introduction to this supernatural hero features 16 standalone stories with Mignolas greatest collaboratorsstories that can be read in any order.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 hed spent fifty years fighting monsters as a somewhat carefree member of the Bureau for Paranormal Research and Defense. The Complete Short Stories Volumes 1 &amp; 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 Mignolas early masterpiece The Corpse. This 368-page volume covers Hellboys 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.
language: English
title: Hellboy: The Complete Short Stories, Volume 1
publisher: Dark Horse Books