Hellboy The Complete Short Stories Volume 1 [Paperback]

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 fromThe 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 ofThe Wild Hunt, the basis for Neil Marshall's 2019 filmHellboy.

In 1994 Mike Mignola released the firstHellboyseries,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 & 2present 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 Mignola's early masterpiece, The Corpse.

The two volumes ofThe Complete Short Storiestogether with the four volumeHellboy Omnibusseries collect all of Mignola's award-winning Hellboy stories in chronological order for a definitive reading experience.Mike Mignola's fascination with ghosts and monsters began at an early age; readingDraculaat age twelve introduced him to Victorian literature and folklore, from which he has never recovered. Starting in 1982 as a bad inker for Marvel Comics, he swiftly evolved into a not-so-bad artist. By the late 1980s, he had begun to develop his own unique graphic style, with mainstream projects likeCosmic OdysseyandBatman: Gotham by Gaslight. In 1994, he published the l“