Hellboy (character)

This article is about the fictional comics character. For other uses, see Hellboy (character) (disambiguation).

Hellboy
Hellboy, by Mike Mignola.
Publication information
Publisher	Dark Horse Comics
First appearance	Dime Press #4 (Mar. 1993): 1st Hellboy prototype app., cover only San Diego Comic Con Comics #2 (Aug. 1993): 1st full Hellboy app., black & white only Next Men #21 (Dec. 1993): 1st app. in a regularly published title, 1st color app.
Created by	Mike Mignola
In-story information
Alter ego	Anung un Rama
Place of origin	East Bromwich, UK
Team affiliations	B.P.R.D.
Partnerships	Abe Sapien Liz Sherman Johann Kraus
Notable aliases	World Destroyer, Great Beast, Beast of the Apocalypse, Right Hand of Doom, Son of the Fallen One, Brother Red, Red, Man-Beast, Mane
Abilities	Superhuman strength and endurance Healing factor Longevity Extensive knowledge of the supernatural Invulnerable Right Hand of Doom (which serves as the key to the end of the world) Innate capability to comprehend magical languages Immunity to fire and lightning

Hellboy is a fictional superhero created by writer-artist Mike Mignola. The character first appeared in San Diego Comic-Con Comics #2 (August 1993), and has since appeared in various eponymous miniseries, one-shots and intercompany crossovers. The character has been adapted into two live-action feature films in 2004 and 2008 that starred Ron Perlman in the title role, and two straight-to-DVD animated films, as well as three video games – Asylum Seeker, The Science of Evil, and recently as a playable character in Injustice 2.

A well-meaning 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 on October 5th (given as his birth date by Mike Mignola) by Nazi occultists (spawning his hatred for Nazis). He was discovered by the Allied Forces; amongst 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, red-skinned adult with a tail, horns (which he files off, leaving behind circular stumps on his forehead), cloven hooves for feet, 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, 1617, the day his birth-mother Sarah Hughes was on her deathbed. In life, Sarah was a witch who gained her powers from being a consort of the demon Azzael, a duke of Hell who is 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 tied to the Ogdru Jahad. 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 ritual, the child appears on Earth in a fireball at what remained of the ruined Bromwich Church on December 23, 1944. 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 and the United States Army where the Bureau for Paranormal Research and Defense (BPRD), a private organization dedicated to combating occult threats, begins. 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, and various "scholars of the weird", most of whom are not presented as overtly reacting to his strange appearance.

As an adult, having matured physically within years and aging slowly while having a teenaged 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 for Hellboy during the events of Seed of Destruction when he finds Professor Bruttenholm after he disappears in an expedition in the Arctic, and witnesses his adopted father's 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 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's journey of self-discovery 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, he faces her again after Rasputin unintentionally provides her with Ilsa's iron-maiden encased body. Hecate swallows Hellboy, but he returns to his own reality after he denounces the dark purpose he was born to perform.

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 the Hellboy: The Right Hand of Doom, gaining insight about his stone hand and being referenced 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 so that the latter can claim Hellboy's normally invisible Crown of the Apocalypse. But this act allows Hellboy to no longer be controlled by his true name as he kills Ualac's mortal body before the demon and the crown are taken to Hell by the demon Astaroth, who is later revealed to be Hellboy's paternal uncle.

In the aftermath of Hellboy: Conqueror Worm, assisted by the ghost of Lobster Johnson, Roger, and Abe, a disillusioned Hellboy resigns from the Bureau before it later gains new agents in Johann Kraus, the spirit of a German medium kept in a containment suit; and Captain Ben Daimio, a special operations soldier that became an Olmec were-jaguar. From there, Hellboy decides to find out the truth of his existence once and for all. But, as revealed in Hellboy: Strange Places, Hellboy ends up being stranded on an island where he inadvertently resurrected an ancient mystic who gained knowledge of the secret history of the creation of Ogdru Jahad and the Right Hand of Doom.

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 Baba Yaga, a witch whom he encountered in the past and happens to be an ally of Rasputin's. Managing to defeat Baba Yaga's champion Koshchei, 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 during the events of Hellboy: The Wild Hunt where he encounters Alice Monaghan, a young woman he saved as a baby from a fairy named Gruagach who has revived the lunatic sorceress Nimue to fill the void left by Hecate.

During that time, Hellboy encounters the spirit of Morgana le Fay who reveals to Hellboy both the names of his parents and that Sarah Hughes was her descendant, which names Hellboy as the last living heir to Arthur Pendragon and the rightful king of England. But as he also learns from Astaroth that he is destined to kill Satan and become the new king of Hell, Hellboy is reluctant to wield Excalibur and the army of undead British nobility amassed to face Nimue's army. Therefore, enlisting Baba Yaga's assistance with his eye as payment for the injury he did to her in their first meeting, Hellboy decides to face Nimue one-on-one in the events of Hellboy: The Storm and the Fury. But in the aftermath of his battle with Nimue, who was possessed by Ogdru Jahad at the time, Hellboy is killed by the witch in her final moments. As revealed in Hellboy in Hell, Hellboy ends up trapped in Hell, where he encounters what's left of his demonic kin and the souls of the damned, and ultimately comes to terms with the destiny he's been shrugging off his whole life.

Powers and abilities

Afforded by his demonic heritage as well as extensive physical training and bodybuilding, Hellboy possess 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. 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.

Hellboy ages very differently from humans. In the story Pancakes he is two years old but appears to be somewhere between 6 and 10 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, are left undefined within the comics and seem to range from decades to many thousands of years. In the movies, Hellboy's aging process is described by BRPD as "reverse dog years".

In addition to his natural physical abilities, Hellboy carries 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. Though he commonly carries an oversized revolver, Hellboy freely admits to being a lousy shot and often fights 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 "greater spirits" 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 many races throughout history, including 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 which 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; it is only ever announced that this is the case and that someone or something intends to do it with or without Hellboy's consent. The film shows it working like a key: being turned twice in a special obelisk secured by Rasputin would release the Ogdru Jahad. It is made clear that it is not necessary for the arm to be attached to Hellboy to perform its duties. It has been suggested that if Hellboy dies while the Hand is attached to him, it would become useless. He has therefore concluded that the only way to prevent its falling into the wrong hands is to keep and protect it.

Concept and creation

Hellboy originated with a drawing Mike Mignola did at a comic book convention of a demon with the name "Hellboy" written on his belt. The demon itself bears virtually no resemblance to Hellboy, and Mignola had no intention of doing anything serious with the concept, but later 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, Spider-Man, Wolverine, 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

See also: List of Hellboy comics

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 the 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		April, 1994
#3		May, 1994
#4		June, 1994
#5	The Wolves of Saint August	November, 1994	Mike Mignola		James Sinclair	Mike Mignola	Hellboy - Volume 3: The Chained Coffin and Others Hellboy Library Edition - Volume 2	The Wolves of Saint August originally appeared in Dark Horse Presents. It is reprinted and expanded here.
#6	The Corpse and the Iron Shoes	January, 1996	Mike Mignola		Matthew Hollingsworth and James Sinclair	Mike Mignola		The Corpse originally appeared in the Advance Comics catalog. It is reprinted here.
#7	Wake the Devil	June, 1996	Mike Mignola		James Sinclair	Mike Mignola	Hellboy - Volume 2: Wake the Devil Hellboy Library Edition - Volume 1
#8		July, 1996
#9		August, 1996
#10		September, 1996
#11		October, 1996
#12	Almost Colossus	July 30, 1997	Mike Mignola		James Sinclair	Mike Mignola	Hellboy - Volume 3: The Chained Coffin and Others Hellboy Library Edition - Volume 2
#13		June 25, 1997
#14	A Christmas Underground (in the Hellboy Christmas Special)	December 3, 1997	Mike Mignola		Dave Stewart	Gary Gianni		This was a one-shot anthology featuring the work of Mike Mignola, Gary Gianni and Steve Purcell.
#15	Box Full of Evil	August 11, 1999	Mike Mignola		Dave Stewart	Mike Mignola	Hellboy - Volume 4: The Right Hand of Doom Hellboy Library Edition - Volume 2
#16		September 8, 1999
#17	Conqueror Worm	May 9, 2001	Mike Mignola		Dave Stewart	Mike Mignola	Hellboy - Volume 5: Conqueror Worm Hellboy Library Edition - Volume 3
#18		June 13, 2001
#19		July 11, 2001
#20		August 8, 2001
#21	The Third Wish	July 24, 2002	Mike Mignola		Dave Stewart	Mike Mignola	Hellboy - Volume 6: Strange Places Hellboy Library Edition - Volume 3
#22		August 21, 2002
#23	The Island	June 22, 2005	Mike Mignola		Dave Stewart	Mike Mignola
#24		July 27, 2005
#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		March 1, 2006				Richard Corben
#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		May 30, 2007
#29		June 27, 2007
#30		July 25, 2007
#31		August 29, 2007
#32		November 7, 2007
#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		August 13, 2008
#35		September 24, 2008
#36	In the Chapel of Moloch	October 29, 2008	Mike Mignola		Dave Stewart	Mike Mignola
#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		January 7, 2009						BACKUP STORY How Koshchei Became Deathless STORY Mike Mignola ART Guy Davis
#39		February 11, 2009
#40		March 4, 2009						BACKUP STORY Baba Yaga's Feast STORY Mike Mignola ART Guy Davis
#41		August 12, 2009						Features a MonsterMen backup by Gary Gianni. Not a part of the Hellboy Universe.
#42		September 9, 2009
#43		October 14, 2009						BACKUP STORY The Burial of Katharine Baker STORY Scott Allie ART Patric Reynolds
#44		November 11, 2009
#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)
#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		August 4, 2010
#49		September 1, 2010
#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)
#52		February 2, 2011				Mike Mignola
#53	Buster Oakley Gets His Wish	April 13, 2011	Mike Mignola	Kevin Nowlan	Kevin Nowlan Dave Stewart (variant cover)	Kevin Nowlan Mike Mignola (variant)
#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		July 13, 2011				Mike Mignola
#57		August 10, 2011

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
#2	Pandemonium	January 2, 2013
#3	Family Ties	February 6, 2013
#4	Death Riding an Elephant	March 6, 2013
#5	The Three Gold Whips	December 4, 2013
#6	The Death Card	May 14, 2014				Hellboy in Hell - Volume 2: The Death Card
#7	The Hounds of Pluto	August 26, 2015
#8		September 23, 2015
#9	The Spanish Bride	May 4, 2016
#10	For Whom the Bell Tolls	June 1, 2016

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
1952
#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		January 7, 2015				Alex Maleev
#3		February 4, 2015
#4		March 4, 2015
#5		April 1, 2015
1953
#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
#8	Beyond the Fences	February 24, 2016	Mike Mignola and Chris Roberson	Paolo Rivera (pencils) Joe Rivera (inks)		Paolo Rivera
#9		March 23, 2016
#10		April 27, 2016
1954
#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		October 19, 2016
#13	The Unreasoning Beast	November 23, 2016		Patric Reynolds
#14	Ghost Moon	March 8, 2017		Brian Churilla
#15		April 12, 2017
1955
#15	Secret Nature	August 9, 2017	Mike Mignola and Chris Roberson	Shawn Martinbrough	Dave Stewart	Shawn Martinbrough
#16	Occult Intelligence	September 13, 2017		Brian Churilla		Paolo Rivera

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		Duncan Fegredo			October 23, 2013	9781616552381
Into the Silent Sea	Mike Mignola and Gary Gianni	Gary Gianni			April 19, 2017	9781506701431

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
			Hardcover Limited Edition: March 1, 1995	9781569710517
			Standardized cover: February 4, 2004	9781593070946
2	Wake the Devil	Wake the Devil (5-issue miniseries)	Original Cover: June 11, 1997	9781569712269
			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
			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
			Standardized cover: February 4, 2004	9781593070939
5	Conqueror Worm	Conqueror Worm (4-issue miniseries)	Original Cover: February 27, 2002	9781569716991
			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

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	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)	June 5, 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)	July 3, 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 31, 2018	9781506706689
Hellboy Omnibus Volume 4: Hellboy in Hell	The Descent (Hellboy in Hell #1-5) The Death Card (Hellboy in Hell #6-10) The Magician and the Snake (short story) The Hounds of Pluto (short story) The Three Gold Whips (one shot) The Exorcist of Vorsk (short story)	Winter 2019

Volume	Collects	Published	ISBN
Complete Short Stories, Volume 1	The Corpse (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 Yag (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)	Fall 2018

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 spin-offs, 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.

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, show 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 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 the San Diego Comic-Con convention held in San Diego, California.

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; 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 characters 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.

Hellboy: The First 20 Years was published 1 April 2014.

In other media

Film

Ron Perlman as Hellboy

Hellboy (2004)

Main article: Hellboy (film)

Guillermo del Toro co-wrote and directed a Hellboy feature film in 2004, sharing the credit with the original screenwriter Peter Briggs following Writers Guild of America arbitration. Del Toro, a fan of Mike Mignola's work, had previously written the preface to Hellboy: Conqueror Worm.

The film starred Ron Perlman as Hellboy (the favorite of both del Toro and Mignola for the role), Selma Blair as Liz Sherman, Rupert Evans as FBI Special Agent John Myers (a character created for the film), John Hurt as Professor Trevor Bruttenholm, Doug Jones as Abe Sapien (voiced by an uncredited David Hyde Pierce), Karel Roden as Grigori Rasputin, and Jeffrey Tambor as FBI Senior Special Agent Tom Manning. The film depicts Hellboy as living at the BPRD with a dozen cats and limited access to the outside world, and considered an urban legend by the general populace.

The film received generally positive reviews, and a fair performance at the box office. However, the film debuted in theaters while The Passion of the Christ was still playing, and, according to del Toro's DVD commentary, some theaters would re-title the film on their signs, or outright refuse to play it to avoid running a "devil" movie against The Passion of the Christ.

Yvonne Navarro wrote the novelization for the Hellboy movie which was published by Pocket Star Books in 2004.

Hellboy II: The Golden Army (2008)

Main article: Hellboy II: The Golden Army

A sequel, Hellboy II: The Golden Army, was shot in Budapest by Guillermo del Toro and released in 2008, with Perlman and Blair returning. Jones also returned as Abe Sapien (undubbed this time), and also in two other roles: The Angel of Death and The Chamberlain. Revolution Studios had planned on making the film (which Columbia Pictures was to distribute), but the studio went out of business before filming. Universal Studios then picked it up. The plot is a shift to more folklore rather than action, with heavy European overtones. The character of Johann Krauss was added to the team, voiced by Seth MacFarlane. The character Roger the Homunculus was not, but he was written into the plot as a very prominent character in early drafts of the script. The character of Agent Myers from the first film does not return, his absence being explained by Liz remarking that Hellboy had him transferred to Antarctica out of jealousy. Hellboy also reveals himself to the outside world in this film, and Liz is revealed to be pregnant with his children, twins. On November 11, 2008, Hellboy II: The Golden Army was released on DVD.

Canceled sequel

Main article: Hellboy II: The Golden Army § Sequel

A sequel for Hellboy: The Golden Army was in development in 2009, entitled Hellboy III: Dark Worlds, with Guillermo del Toro slated to return as the film's director and writer as well as Ron Perlman, Doug Jones, Seth MacFarlane, Selma Blair and Jeffrey Tambor were set to reprise their roles. In the sequel, Hellboy would live his normal life as a father for his two newborn twins with Liz Sherman, but also has to face an extremely powerful enemy who wishes to rule and bring the darkness upon Earth. In 2017, it was announced that the sequel was canceled due to the difficulty of funding the film, and a reboot would happen instead.

Reboot

Main article: Hellboy (2019 film)

In May 2017, a reboot, titled Hellboy: Rise of the Blood Queen, was announced by Hellboy creator Mike Mignola on his personal Facebook page revealing that the project is set to be directed by Neil Marshall and star David Harbour as the titular character. Mignola also stated that the film would have an R rating unlike previous installments. It is expected to be released in 2019. In August 2017, Ian McShane was cast as Trevor Bruttenholm. Mila Jovovich was cast as the film's primary antagonist, Nimue the Blood Queen. On August 10, 2017, the Hellboy reboot dropped the Rise of the Blood Queen title and is now simply referred to as Hellboy. On August 16, 2017, Sasha Lane was cast as Alice Monaghan. On August 21, 2017, Ed Skrein was cast as Major Ben Daimio. However, upon discovering that Daimio was portrayed in the comic books as a Japanese-American character, Skrein announced a week later that he was pulling out to allow an actor of Asian heritage to be cast instead.

Animation

Main article: Hellboy Animated

On November 9, 2005, IDT Entertainment issued a press release announcing that the company had licensed the rights to develop "animated content for television and home entertainment" based on the Hellboy comic. Ron Perlman (Hellboy), Selma Blair (Liz Sherman), Doug Jones (Abe Sapien) and John Hurt (Professor Trevor "Broom" Bruttenholm) have all voiced their respective characters. Actress Peri Gilpin joined the cast as Professor Kate Corrigan.

The first two 75-minute animated movies, Sword of Storms and Blood and Iron, were aired on Cartoon Network before being released on DVD. The first one aired October 28, 2006, and the second aired March 17, 2007.

Both stories have much more in common with the comic book Hellboy rather than the film — Abe Sapien is not psychic, for example, and the artwork and color palette is derived more closely to Mignola's original artwork. The DVD of Sword of Storms was released on February 6, 2007; it contains documentary material commentary and a Hellboy comic, "Phantom Limbs". Blood and Iron similarly contains a comic called "The Yearning".

After the initial release, some stores included exclusive giveaways with copies of the Hellboy Animated: Blood and Iron DVD:

• Best Buy: A 7" Hellboy figure.
• Walmart: An 80-page digest titled The Judgment Bell.
• Transworld: A 64-page Hellboy Digest.
• Infinity: A Lobster Johnson magnet.
• Circuit City - A Hellboy "Bust Up".

A "Hellboy 2 Pak" limited edition DVD set was released July 1, 2008, that contained both films and a 7" figure.

A third animated Hellboy film, The Phantom Claw, has been put on hold. Tad Stones, director and writer of the direct-to-video movies, says the film will star Lobster Johnson and will have some familiar characters, but Abe and Liz will not be in the film (at least not as main characters).

Novels and anthologies

Christopher Golden has written several novels about the character, the first two of which, The Lost Army and The Bones of Giants, are part of the official Hellboy story canon. The events of both these novels are listed in the comic's official timeline featured in Hellboy: The Companion. In particular, the Golden-penned character of Anastasia Bransfield was also described in the companion, despite having never actually appeared in a comic.

• Hellboy: The Lost Army (written by Christopher Golden, cover and other illustrations by Mike Mignola, 1997)
• Hellboy: Odd Jobs (by editor Christopher Golden, writers include Stephen R. Bissette, Greg Rucka, Nancy A. Collins, and Poppy Z. Brite; with an introduction by Mike Mignola. Milwaukie: Dark Horse Comics, Inc., ISBN 1-56971-440-1, December 1999)
• Hellboy: The Bones of Giants (written by Christopher Golden, cover and other illustrations by Mike Mignola, 2001)
• Hellboy: Odder Jobs (by editor Christopher Golden, writers include Frank Darabont, Guillermo del Toro, Charles de Lint, Graham Joyce, Sharyn McCrumb, James Cambias, and Richard Dean Starr, October 2004)
• Hellboy: On Earth As It Is In Hell (written by Brian Hodge, cover by Mike Mignola, September 2005)
• Hellboy: Unnatural Selection (written by Tim Lebbon, cover by Mike Mignola, March 2006)
• Hellboy: The God Machine (written by Thomas E. Sniegoski, cover by Mike Mignola, July 2006)
• Hellboy: The Dragon Pool (written by Christopher Golden, cover by Mike Mignola, March 2007)
• Hellboy: Emerald Hell (written by Tom Piccirilli, cover by Mike Mignola, February 2008)
• Hellboy: The All-Seeing Eye (written by Mark Morris, cover by Mike Mignola, October 2008)
• Hellboy: Oddest Jobs (by editor Christopher Golden, writers include Joe R. Lansdale, China Miéville, Barbara Hambly, Ken Bruen, Amber Benson, and Tad Williams, July 2008)
• Hellboy: The Fire Wolves (written by Tim Lebbon, cover by Mike Mignola, April 2009)
• Hellboy: The Ice Wolves (written by Mark Chadbourn, cover by Duncan Fegredo, September 2009)
• Hellboy: An Assortment of Horrors (2017)

Video games

A Hellboy video game called Hellboy: Dogs of the Night, developed by Cryo Interactive, was released in 2000 for Microsoft Windows. It was ported to PlayStation as Hellboy: Asylum Seeker.

On April 6, 2005, Hellboy movie director Guillermo del Toro announced on his official site that he had made a deal with developer Konami to create a new Hellboy video game based on the movie version of the character and his world, featuring new monsters, new villains, and a new storyline. Herman von Klempt and his war ape Kriegaffe #10 were slated to make appearances. On May 9, 2006, it was revealed that the Hellboy game would appear in the summer of 2007, on PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, and PlayStation Portable. The game was released in North America on June 24, 2008 with the name Hellboy: The Science of Evil. It is developed by Krome Studios, and published by Konami Digital Entertainment, Inc. As well as single player campaign where the player gets to play as Hellboy the game also features co-op play, featuring the characters Abe Sapien, Liz Sherman, and Lobster Johnson.

A Hellboy video game called Hellboy II: The Golden Army - Tooth Fairy Terror was released for the iPhone by Tuesday Creative on January 14, 2009.

Hellboy is a playable DLC character in Injustice 2, voiced by Michael-Leon Wooley as part of the "Fighter Pack 2". The character was released for download on Tuesday, November 14, 2017.

Appearances in popular culture

• Hellboy appears as a "borrowed character" in author Kim Newman’s Anno Dracula series, specifically in the novella Andy Warhol's Dracula (2004) where he joins the ranks of Blade, John Shaft, Travis Bickle, the Punisher, Paul Kersey (of Death Wish), Scooby-Doo, and Shaggy in hunting down Johnny Pop, a vampire drug dealer.
• Hellboy has made guest appearances in Erik Larsen's long running comic book series, The Savage Dragon.
• Hellboy makes a one-panel cameo appearance during a hallucination sequence in Frank Miller's Sin City: Hell and Back.
• Hellboy made a cameo as a trick or treater in the last page of the Sam & Max story "Belly of the Beast".
• Hellboy also appears in an issue of Eric Powell's Eisner Award-winning series The Goon.
• Hellboy made a one-panel cameo appearance, along with several other borrowed characters, in the Shi/Cyblade crossover The Battle for Independents from Image Comics.
• Hellboy appeared in Madman Comics #5 (January 1995).
• Abe Sapien, a popular character from Hellboy, appears in John Byrne's Babe 2 #2.
• In Kevin Smith's film Dogma (1999), one of the Stygian Triplets is seen wearing a Hellboy T-shirt.
• In one of the ending themes for Sayonara, Zetsubou-Sensei, the animation and graphic style is the same one used in the Hellboy comic books.
• A large poster of Hellboy appears in a comic shop in the 2010 movie Kick-Ass.
• Hellboy makes somewhat of a cameo in the fifth volume of Requiem Chevalier Vampire, as a number of servants bear a striking resemblance to him.
• Hellboy appeared in the Mad episode "Garfield of Dreams / I Hate My Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" voiced by Fred Tatasciore, where he advertises his magical Left Hand of Doom which can solve all lefty problems.
• An action figure heavily resembling Hellboy can be seen on the teenagers nightstand in the Justice League Unlimited episode "Wake The Dead".
• Yu-Gi-Oh! creator Kazuki Takahashi and Mike Mignola swapped renditions of their respective characters-i.e. a Takahashi take on Hellboy and a Mignola take on Yugi Mutoh-for a special issue of the magazine Shonen Jump.
• In the movie Blade II the character of Scud played by Norman Reedus wears a B.P.R.D. emblem T-shirt. Ron Perlman acted in, and Guillermo del Toro directed Blade II and the two Hellboy movies.
• Hellboy is featured in To Hold The Bridge, a collection of short stories by Garth Nix; In Strange Fishing in the Western Highlands, Hellboy is an essential ally of Dr. Malcolm MacAndrew's druidic soldier father.
• Hellboy is a DLC character in Injustice 2, as part of the Fighter Pack 2.

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".

Acclaimed comics writer Alan Moore (V for Vendetta, Watchmen) 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, the Dark Horse Comics character, Hellboy, won two categories in the fan voted Project Fanboy Awards for 2008: "Best Indy Hero" and "Best Indy Character".

See also

• The Amazing Screw-On Head, another comic book from Dark Horse written and drawn by Mike Mignola.

References

• Weiner, Steve; Victoria Blake; Jason Hall (December 2006). Hellboy: The Companion. Dark Horse Comics. ISBN 978-1-59307-655-9. http://www.darkhorse.com/profile/profile.php?sku=12-367. 
• Masters, Phil; Jonathan Woodward (August 2002). Hellboy Sourcebook and Roleplaying Game. Steve Jackson Games. ISBN 1-55634-654-9. 
• Mignola on Hellboy's Extended Universe. Comic Book Resources. March 3, 2008.
• NYCC: Hellboy Dominates 2008

External links

• Official website
• Hellboy Zone. Dark Horse Comics.
• Hellboy at Don Markstein's Toonopedia.
• Hellboy at the Comic Book DB
• Hellboy videogame at the Konami website

Mike Mignola's Hellboy
Characters	Trevor Bruttenholm • Kate Corrigan • Ben Daimio • Hellboy • Johann Kraus • Lobster Johnson • Tom Manning • Roger • Abe Sapien • Liz Sherman • Daryl the Windigo • Alice Monaghan
Villains	Ogdru Jahad • Grigori Rasputin • Herman von Klempt • Karl Ruprecht Kroenen • Ogdru Hem • Gruagach • Frog monsters
Groups	Bureau for Paranormal Research and Defense (BPRD) • Project Ragna Rok
Publications	Batman/Hellboy/Starman • Ghost/Hellboy • Hellboy Christmas Special • Hellboy Junior • Hellboy: Weird Tales
Collected editions	Hellboy	Seed of Destruction • Wake the Devil • The Chained Coffin and Others • The Right Hand of Doom • Conqueror Worm • Strange Places • The Troll Witch and Others • Darkness Calls • The Wild Hunt • The Crooked Man and Others • The Bride of Hell and Others • The Storm and the Fury
	B.P.R.D.	1946 • 1947 • 1948 • Being Human • Vampire
	B.P.R.D. Plague of Frogs	'Hollow Earth & Other Stories • The Soul of Venice & Other Stories • Plague of Frogs • The Dead • War on Frogs • The Black Flame • The Universal Machine • Garden of Souls • Killing Ground • The Warning • The Black Goddess • King of Fear
	B.P.R.D. Hell on Earth	New World • Gods and Monsters • Russia • The Devil's Engine & The Long Death • The Pickens County Horror and Others
	Lobster Johnson	The Iron Prometheus • The Burning Hand
	Abe Sapien	The Drowning • The Devil Does Not Jest and Other Stories
	Abe Sapien	In the Service of Angels • Lost and Gone Forever
Films	Hellboy • Hellboy II: The Golden Army
Animated	Sword of Storms • Blood and Iron
Video games	Asylum Seeker • The Science of Evil
Other	Good Samaritan • Hellboy Universe