Hellboy: The Complete Short Stories Volume 1
By: Mike Mignola
Contributors: Fegredo, Duncan, artist; Corben, Richard, artist; McMahon, Mike, artist; Moon, Fábio, artist; Bá, Gabriel, artist; Mignola, Mike; Mignola, Mike; Mignola, Mike; Mignola, Mike; Mignola, Mike; Mignola, Mike; Mignola, Mike; Mignola, Mike; Mignola, Mike; Mignola, Mike
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: Dark Horse Books
Published: 2018
Language: eng
Number of pages: 366
ISBN-13: 9781506706641
Work titles: Comic books
Description: "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.  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 B©Ł, and F©Łbio 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"--
Notes: Chiefly illustrations.
Table of contents: title: Pancakes / art by Mike Mignola; title: The midnight circus / art by Duncan Fegredo; title: The nature of the beast / art by Mike Mignola; title: King Vold / art by Mike Mignola; title: Hellboy in Mexico / art by Richard Corben; title: Hellboy versus the Aztec mummy / art by Mike Mignola; title: Hellboy gets married / art by Mick McMahon; title: The coffin man / art by Fábio, Moon; title: The coffin man 2: the rematch / art by Gabriel Bá,; title: House of the living dead / art by Richard Corben; title: The crooked man / art by Richard Corben; title: The penanggalan / art by Mike Mignola; title: The corpse / art by Mike Mignola; title: Double feature of evil / art by Richard Corben; title: The iron shoes / art by Mike Mignola.