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

Hellboy
Hellboy by Mike Mignola
Publication information
Publisher	Dark Horse Comics
First appearance	Dime Press #4 (March 1993) – first Hellboy prototype appearance, cover only San Diego Comic Con Comics #2 (August 1993) – first full Hellboy appearance, black and white only Next Men #21 (December 1993) – first appearance in a regularly published title, first color appearance
Created by	Mike Mignola
In-story information
Alter ego	Anung un Rama
Species	Cambion (half-human, half-demon)
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, Big Red, Red Monkey, Big Red Man, Red, Man-Beast, Mane, One Hell of a Superhero, The Guy That’s Going to Bring About the End of the World, Lonely Hero, Agent Hellboy, H.B.
Abilities	Superhuman strength, endurance, stamina, durability, and longevity Accelerated healing Extensive knowledge of the supernatural 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 Hand-to-hand combat

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 three live-action feature films. Two starring Ron Perlman in 2004 and 2008 in the title role, and one in 2019 which starred David Harbour, as well as two straight-to-DVD animated films, and three video games – Asylum Seeker, The Science of Evil, and as a playable character in Injustice 2.

A well-meaning half-Demon (or Cambion) 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 East Bromwich 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-like man with a tail, horns (which he files off, leaving behind circular stumps on his forehead that evoke the appearance of goggles), cloven hooves for feet (just regular feet in the movies where he always wears leather boots), 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». He also has been raising cats for the few years and saving terrified babies either from monsters or their moms. For example, when Hellboy saved his kittens from their mama.

Fictional character biography[edit]

Hellboy, or «Anung Un Rama» as he was called, was conceived on October 5,^[1] 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 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 rite, the child appears on Earth in a fireball at what remains 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.^[2]

Taken by the United States Armed Forces to an Air Force base in New Mexico, Hellboy is raised by Professor Bruttenholm in as normal a home environment as possible (and as a Catholic), 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».^[3] 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 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 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 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, 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 counter-productive, 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 is taken to Hell by the archdemon, 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.

6 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.^[4] 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 (which in his hands becomes a flaming sword) 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 has been shrugging off his whole life. Hellboy later returns in the mini-series BPRD: The Devil You Know, revived and joining Liz and Abe in the final arc of the series. After defeating Rasputin again, he and Hecate see the fall of the Ogdru Jahad and get back the Right Hand of Doom from the Osiris Club, killing them. Despite their efforts, however, Ragnarok is fulfilled and most of humanity is destroyed. In the end, Hellboy and Hecate fuse together to create a new world on Earth.

Powers and abilities[edit]

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.^[5] 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.^[6] 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 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, which in the Guillermo del Toro films was named the «Good Samaritan», and which was forged from the recycled iron from a church bell; Hellboy freely admits, however, to being a lousy shot with it, 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[edit]

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[edit]

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.^[7]

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.^[7]

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[edit]

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».^[8]

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.^[9]

Issues[edit]

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, 1995	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
—	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 the Hellboy: The Science of Evil video 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	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
—	Hellboy Winter Special (2016)	January 27, 2016	«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
Mike Mignola and Scott Allie	Tim Sale
«Wandering Souls»	Hellboy and the B.P.R.D.: 1953
Mike Mignola and Chris Roberson	Michael Walsh
«Mood Swings»
Chelsea Cain	Michael Avon Oeming
«Kung Pao Lobster»		Out-of-continuity story
Dean Rankine
—	Hellboy Winter Special (2017)	January 25, 2017	«The Great Blizzard»	Sebastián Fiumara Geof Darrow (variant)
Mike Mignola and Chris Roberson	Christopher Mitten	Dave Stewart
«God Rest Ye Merry»	The Visitor: How & Why He Stayed
Mike Mignola and Chris Roberson	Paul Grist	Bill Crabtree
«The Last Witch of Fairfield»
Mike Mignola and Scott Allie	Sebastián Fiumara	Dave Stewart
—	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»	Mike Mignola Gabriel Bá (variant) Fábio Moon (variant)
Mike Mignola	Ben Stenbeck	Dave Stewart
«Lost Ones»	B.P.R.D.: Vampire (2nd Edition)
Fábio Moon and Gabriel Bá	Dave Stewart
«The Empty Chair»
Tonci Zonjic
—	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[edit]

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
#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 Hellboy Library Edition – Hellboy in Hell
#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.[edit]

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	January 7, 2015	Alex Maleev
#3	February 4, 2015
#4	March 4, 2015
#5	April 1, 2015
#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
#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
#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	Brian Churilla	Paolo Rivera
#18	October 11, 2017
#19	November 8, 2017
#20	Burning Season	February 21, 2018	Paolo Rivera (pencils) Joe Rivera (inks)
#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	December 26, 2019
#23	January 23, 2019
#24	February 27, 2019
#25	March 27, 2019
—	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
September 18, 2019
October 23, 2019
—	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
October 28, 2020
—	The Seven Wives Club	November 11, 2020	Mike Mignola	Adam Hughes	Dave Stewart	Mike Mignola
—	Her Fatal Hour & The Sending	December 2, 2020	Mike Mignola	Tiernen Trevallion	Dave Stewart	Tiernen Trevallion
—	The Secret of Chesbro House	July xx, 2021	Mike Mignola, Chris Robinson	Shawn McManus	Dave Stewart	Shawn McManus
August 11, 2021
—	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
—	1957- Falling Sky	May 04, 2022	Mike Mignola, Chris Robinson	Shawn Martinbrough	Dave Stewart	Laurence Campbell
—	Night of the Cyclops	May 25, 2022	Mike Mignola, Olivier Vitane	Olivier Vitane	Olivier Vitane	Olivier Vitane
—	Old Man Whittier	June 22, 2022	Mike Mignola	Gabriel Hernández Walta	Dave Stewart	Gabriel Hernández Walta
—	Time is a River	July 20, 2022	Mike Mignola	Márk László	Dave Stewart	Márk László
—	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[edit]

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

One Shots[edit]

• Hellboy Winter Special (2016) ^[10]
• Hellboy Winter Special 2017 ^[11]
• Hellboy Winter Special 2018 ^[12]
• Hellboy Winter Special (2019) ^[13]
• Hellboy – Krampusnacht ^[14]
• Hellboy vs. Lobster Johnson – The Ring of Death ^[15]

Trade Paperbacks: Hellboy[edit]

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[edit]

All Hellboy in Hell comics are collected in trade paperbacks.

Number	Title	Collects	Published	ISBN
1	The Descent[16]	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.[edit]

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[17]	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[18]	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[19]	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[20]	9781506728452

Library editions[edit]

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[edit]

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[edit]

• 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[edit]

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

Great Salt Lake Comic-Con pamphlet[edit]

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[edit]

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[edit]

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. It was also reprinted in The Comic’s Buyers Guide #1069, along with an interview with creator Mike Mignola.^[21]

Hellboy travels to an American ghost town, where he encounters a mangy mutt that transforms into Anubis, the Ancient Egyptian god of mummification.^[22]

The story was collected in the trade paperback Hellboy: Seed of Destruction.^[23]

Next Men[edit]

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[edit]

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).^[24]

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.^[22]

The story was collected in the trade paperback Hellboy: Seed of Destruction.^[23]

Celebrate Diversity[edit]

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).^[25] The ad was collected in the trade paperback The Art of Hellboy.

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

In other media[edit]

Live-action films[edit]

Hellboy (2004)[edit]

The film was directed and co-written by Guillermo del Toro and 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.

Hellboy II: The Golden Army (2008)[edit]

A sequel, Hellboy II: The Golden Army, was shot in Budapest by Guillermo del Toro and released in 2008, with Perlman and Blair returning.^[26] Jones also returned as Abe Sapien (undubbed this time), and also in two other roles: The Angel of Death and The Chamberlain.^[27] 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 Kraus 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.

Cancelled third film[edit]

A sequel for Hellboy II: The Golden Army was in development in 2009, entitled Hellboy III: Dark Worlds. Guillermo del Toro was slated to return as the film’s director and writer. 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.

However, in July 2019, Perlman said that he would still love to finish the trilogy with del Toro, ignoring the reboot and that he thought it could happen if financing could be found.^[28]

Hellboy (2019)[edit]

In May 2017, a reboot, titled Hellboy: Rise of the Blood Queen, was announced by Hellboy creator Mike Mignola, revealing that the project was 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.^[29] In August 2017, Ian McShane was cast as Trevor Bruttenholm.^[30] Mila Jovovich was cast as Nimue the Blood Queen. On August 10, 2017, the Hellboy reboot dropped the Rise of the Blood Queen title and is simply titled 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 pulled out to allow an Asian actor to be cast instead.^[31][32] The film takes inspiration from Darkness Calls, The Wild Hunt, The Storm and the Fury, and Hellboy in Mexico.^{[33][34][35][36][37][38][39]} Hellboy was released on April 12, 2019.^[40]

Hellboy: The Crooked Man (TBA)[edit]

In February 2023, Millennium Media announced plans for a new live-action reboot titled Hellboy: The Crooked Man, the first in a potential series of films. Production is scheduled to begin in March 2023 in Bulgaria with Brian Taylor directing from a script by Mignola and Christopher Golden, based on the 2008 comic of the same name. The film is to be co-produced between Nu Boyana and Campbell Grobman Film and is presented by Millennium Media in association with Dark Horse Entertainment.^[41] Taylor expressed his intentions to «reset» the film series and depict a younger and wandering version of Hellboy with a folk horror influence similar to the comics; Taylor also confirmed that the film would be R-rated in order to embrace the «dark and scary and violent and adult» elements of the comics.^[42] The following month, Jack Kesy was announced to portray Hellboy,^[43] and Jefferson White and Adeline Rudolph were cast as Tom Ferrell and Bobbie Jo Song.^[44]

Animated films[edit]

On November 9, 2005, IDT Entertainment issued a press release^[45] 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 on October 28, 2006, and the second aired on 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 from 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).

In 2021, Iranian short animation, Hellboy: Frozen is in development and tells a new story with a new villain named Amacus in Morocco.

Novels and anthologies[edit]

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.

1. Hellboy: The Lost Army (written by Christopher Golden, cover and other illustrations by Mike Mignola, 1997)
2. 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)
3. Hellboy: The Bones of Giants (written by Christopher Golden, cover and other illustrations by Mike Mignola, 2001)
4. 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)
5. Hellboy: On Earth As It Is In Hell (written by Brian Hodge, cover by Mike Mignola, September 2005)
6. Hellboy: Unnatural Selection (written by Tim Lebbon, cover by Mike Mignola, March 2006)
7. Hellboy: The God Machine (written by Thomas E. Sniegoski, cover by Mike Mignola, July 2006)
8. Hellboy: The Dragon Pool (written by Christopher Golden, cover by Mike Mignola, March 2007)
9. Hellboy: Emerald Hell (written by Tom Piccirilli, cover by Mike Mignola, February 2008)
10. Hellboy: The All-Seeing Eye (written by Mark Morris, cover by Mike Mignola, October 2008)
11. 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)
12. Hellboy: The Fire Wolves (written by Tim Lebbon, cover by Mike Mignola, April 2009)
13. Hellboy: The Ice Wolves (written by Mark Chadbourn, cover by Duncan Fegredo, September 2009)
14. Hellboy: An Assortment of Horrors (2017)^[46]

Video games[edit]

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 with David Gasman voicing Hellboy.^{[citation needed]}

On April 6, 2005, Hellboy movie director Guillermo del Toro announced on his official site^[47] that he had made a deal with the 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 with Ron Perlman reprising his role.^[48] 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 and Liz Sherman. Two additional levels and Lobster Johnson as a playable character (voiced by Bruce Campbell) as DLC were developed but were unreleased.

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 Bruce Barker,^[49] as part of the «Fighter Pack 2». The character was released for download on Tuesday, November 14, 2017. He is brought to the Injustice universe by Brainiac who decides to add him to his collection as he is fascinated by Hellboy’s human-like mind and personality despite being a demon. In his ending, Hellboy escapes from Brainiac’s collection and defeats him. As a result, he is asked to assist in rounding up local supervillains before eventually returning to the B.P.R.D. but finds his work there unfulfilling and ends up retiring to Africa.

Hellboy appeared as a playable character in Brawlhalla.^[50]

A Hellboy roguelike video game, titled Hellboy: Web of Wyrd, is currently in the works by developer Upstream Arcade. It is scheduled for a release on Microsoft Windows, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X/S.^[51]

Tabletop games[edit]

In 2002, Hellboy Sourcebook and Roleplaying Game was published by Steve Jackson Games using their GURPS role-playing system, in both softcover and hardback.

Mantic Games released a Hellboy: The Board Game in 2019, after a successful crowdfunding campaign.^[52]

In 2020, Mantic Games followed up the boardgame with another Hellboy Kickstarter campaign, this time for a new Hellboy roleplaying game, using D&D 5E as a base for the game rules. The roleplaying game is aiming for a March 2021 release.^[53][54]

Awards[edit]

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».^[55]

In March 2009, Hellboy won two categories in the fan voted Project Fanboy Awards for 2008: «Best Indy Hero» and «Best Indy Character».^[56]

In 2011, Hellboy was ranked 25th of the Top 100 Comic Book Heroes by IGN.^[57]

Merchandise[edit]

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.^[58]

See also[edit]

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

References[edit]

• Weiner, Steve; Victoria Blake; Jason Hall (December 2006). Hellboy: The Companion. Dark Horse Comics. ISBN 978-1-59307-655-9.
• Masters, Phil; Jonathan Woodward (August 2002). Hellboy Sourcebook and Roleplaying Game. Steve Jackson Games. ISBN 978-1-55634-654-5.
• Mignola on Hellboy’s Extended Universe. Comic Book Resources. March 3, 2008.
• NYCC: Hellboy Dominates 2008

External links[edit]

• Official website
• Hellboy Zone. Dark Horse Comics.
• Hellboy at Don Markstein’s Toonopedia.
• Hellboy at the Comic Book DB (archived from the original)
• Hellboy videogame at the Konami website

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

Hellboy
Hellboy by Mike Mignola
Publication information
Publisher	Dark Horse Comics
First appearance	Dime Press #4 (March 1993) – first Hellboy prototype appearance, cover only San Diego Comic Con Comics #2 (August 1993) – first full Hellboy appearance, black and white only Next Men #21 (December 1993) – first appearance in a regularly published title, first color appearance
Created by	Mike Mignola
In-story information
Alter ego	Anung un Rama
Species	Cambion (half-human, half-demon)
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, Big Red, Red Monkey, Big Red Man, Red, Man-Beast, Mane, One Hell of a Superhero, The Guy That’s Going to Bring About the End of the World, Lonely Hero, Agent Hellboy, H.B.
Abilities	Superhuman strength, endurance, stamina, durability, and longevity Accelerated healing Extensive knowledge of the supernatural 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 Hand-to-hand combat

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 three live-action feature films. Two starring Ron Perlman in 2004 and 2008 in the title role, and one in 2019 which starred David Harbour, as well as two straight-to-DVD animated films, and three video games – Asylum Seeker, The Science of Evil, and as a playable character in Injustice 2.

A well-meaning half-Demon (or Cambion) 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 East Bromwich 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-like man with a tail, horns (which he files off, leaving behind circular stumps on his forehead that evoke the appearance of goggles), cloven hooves for feet (just regular feet in the movies where he always wears leather boots), 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». He also has been raising cats for the few years and saving terrified babies either from monsters or their moms. For example, when Hellboy saved his kittens from their mama.

Fictional character biography[edit]

Hellboy, or «Anung Un Rama» as he was called, was conceived on October 5,^[1] 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 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 rite, the child appears on Earth in a fireball at what remains 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.^[2]

Taken by the United States Armed Forces to an Air Force base in New Mexico, Hellboy is raised by Professor Bruttenholm in as normal a home environment as possible (and as a Catholic), 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».^[3] 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 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 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 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, 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 counter-productive, 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 is taken to Hell by the archdemon, 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.

6 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.^[4] 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 (which in his hands becomes a flaming sword) 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 has been shrugging off his whole life. Hellboy later returns in the mini-series BPRD: The Devil You Know, revived and joining Liz and Abe in the final arc of the series. After defeating Rasputin again, he and Hecate see the fall of the Ogdru Jahad and get back the Right Hand of Doom from the Osiris Club, killing them. Despite their efforts, however, Ragnarok is fulfilled and most of humanity is destroyed. In the end, Hellboy and Hecate fuse together to create a new world on Earth.

Powers and abilities[edit]

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.^[5] 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.^[6] 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 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, which in the Guillermo del Toro films was named the «Good Samaritan», and which was forged from the recycled iron from a church bell; Hellboy freely admits, however, to being a lousy shot with it, 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[edit]

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[edit]

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.^[7]

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.^[7]

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[edit]

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».^[8]

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.^[9]

Issues[edit]

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, 1995	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
—	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 the Hellboy: The Science of Evil video 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	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
—	Hellboy Winter Special (2016)	January 27, 2016	«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
Mike Mignola and Scott Allie	Tim Sale
«Wandering Souls»	Hellboy and the B.P.R.D.: 1953
Mike Mignola and Chris Roberson	Michael Walsh
«Mood Swings»
Chelsea Cain	Michael Avon Oeming
«Kung Pao Lobster»		Out-of-continuity story
Dean Rankine
—	Hellboy Winter Special (2017)	January 25, 2017	«The Great Blizzard»	Sebastián Fiumara Geof Darrow (variant)
Mike Mignola and Chris Roberson	Christopher Mitten	Dave Stewart
«God Rest Ye Merry»	The Visitor: How & Why He Stayed
Mike Mignola and Chris Roberson	Paul Grist	Bill Crabtree
«The Last Witch of Fairfield»
Mike Mignola and Scott Allie	Sebastián Fiumara	Dave Stewart
—	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»	Mike Mignola Gabriel Bá (variant) Fábio Moon (variant)
Mike Mignola	Ben Stenbeck	Dave Stewart
«Lost Ones»	B.P.R.D.: Vampire (2nd Edition)
Fábio Moon and Gabriel Bá	Dave Stewart
«The Empty Chair»
Tonci Zonjic
—	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[edit]

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
#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 Hellboy Library Edition – Hellboy in Hell
#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.[edit]

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	January 7, 2015	Alex Maleev
#3	February 4, 2015
#4	March 4, 2015
#5	April 1, 2015
#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
#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
#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	Brian Churilla	Paolo Rivera
#18	October 11, 2017
#19	November 8, 2017
#20	Burning Season	February 21, 2018	Paolo Rivera (pencils) Joe Rivera (inks)
#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	December 26, 2019
#23	January 23, 2019
#24	February 27, 2019
#25	March 27, 2019
—	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
September 18, 2019
October 23, 2019
—	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
October 28, 2020
—	The Seven Wives Club	November 11, 2020	Mike Mignola	Adam Hughes	Dave Stewart	Mike Mignola
—	Her Fatal Hour & The Sending	December 2, 2020	Mike Mignola	Tiernen Trevallion	Dave Stewart	Tiernen Trevallion
—	The Secret of Chesbro House	July xx, 2021	Mike Mignola, Chris Robinson	Shawn McManus	Dave Stewart	Shawn McManus
August 11, 2021
—	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
—	1957- Falling Sky	May 04, 2022	Mike Mignola, Chris Robinson	Shawn Martinbrough	Dave Stewart	Laurence Campbell
—	Night of the Cyclops	May 25, 2022	Mike Mignola, Olivier Vitane	Olivier Vitane	Olivier Vitane	Olivier Vitane
—	Old Man Whittier	June 22, 2022	Mike Mignola	Gabriel Hernández Walta	Dave Stewart	Gabriel Hernández Walta
—	Time is a River	July 20, 2022	Mike Mignola	Márk László	Dave Stewart	Márk László
—	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[edit]

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

One Shots[edit]

• Hellboy Winter Special (2016) ^[10]
• Hellboy Winter Special 2017 ^[11]
• Hellboy Winter Special 2018 ^[12]
• Hellboy Winter Special (2019) ^[13]
• Hellboy – Krampusnacht ^[14]
• Hellboy vs. Lobster Johnson – The Ring of Death ^[15]

Trade Paperbacks: Hellboy[edit]

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[edit]

All Hellboy in Hell comics are collected in trade paperbacks.

Number	Title	Collects	Published	ISBN
1	The Descent[16]	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.[edit]

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[17]	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[18]	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[19]	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[20]	9781506728452

Library editions[edit]

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[edit]

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[edit]

• 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[edit]

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

Great Salt Lake Comic-Con pamphlet[edit]

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[edit]

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[edit]

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. It was also reprinted in The Comic’s Buyers Guide #1069, along with an interview with creator Mike Mignola.^[21]

Hellboy travels to an American ghost town, where he encounters a mangy mutt that transforms into Anubis, the Ancient Egyptian god of mummification.^[22]

The story was collected in the trade paperback Hellboy: Seed of Destruction.^[23]

Next Men[edit]

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[edit]

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).^[24]

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.^[22]

The story was collected in the trade paperback Hellboy: Seed of Destruction.^[23]

Celebrate Diversity[edit]

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).^[25] The ad was collected in the trade paperback The Art of Hellboy.

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

In other media[edit]

Live-action films[edit]

Hellboy (2004)[edit]

The film was directed and co-written by Guillermo del Toro and 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.

Hellboy II: The Golden Army (2008)[edit]

A sequel, Hellboy II: The Golden Army, was shot in Budapest by Guillermo del Toro and released in 2008, with Perlman and Blair returning.^[26] Jones also returned as Abe Sapien (undubbed this time), and also in two other roles: The Angel of Death and The Chamberlain.^[27] 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 Kraus 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.

Cancelled third film[edit]

A sequel for Hellboy II: The Golden Army was in development in 2009, entitled Hellboy III: Dark Worlds. Guillermo del Toro was slated to return as the film’s director and writer. 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.

However, in July 2019, Perlman said that he would still love to finish the trilogy with del Toro, ignoring the reboot and that he thought it could happen if financing could be found.^[28]

Hellboy (2019)[edit]

In May 2017, a reboot, titled Hellboy: Rise of the Blood Queen, was announced by Hellboy creator Mike Mignola, revealing that the project was 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.^[29] In August 2017, Ian McShane was cast as Trevor Bruttenholm.^[30] Mila Jovovich was cast as Nimue the Blood Queen. On August 10, 2017, the Hellboy reboot dropped the Rise of the Blood Queen title and is simply titled 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 pulled out to allow an Asian actor to be cast instead.^[31][32] The film takes inspiration from Darkness Calls, The Wild Hunt, The Storm and the Fury, and Hellboy in Mexico.^{[33][34][35][36][37][38][39]} Hellboy was released on April 12, 2019.^[40]

Hellboy: The Crooked Man (TBA)[edit]

In February 2023, Millennium Media announced plans for a new live-action reboot titled Hellboy: The Crooked Man, the first in a potential series of films. Production is scheduled to begin in March 2023 in Bulgaria with Brian Taylor directing from a script by Mignola and Christopher Golden, based on the 2008 comic of the same name. The film is to be co-produced between Nu Boyana and Campbell Grobman Film and is presented by Millennium Media in association with Dark Horse Entertainment.^[41] Taylor expressed his intentions to «reset» the film series and depict a younger and wandering version of Hellboy with a folk horror influence similar to the comics; Taylor also confirmed that the film would be R-rated in order to embrace the «dark and scary and violent and adult» elements of the comics.^[42] The following month, Jack Kesy was announced to portray Hellboy,^[43] and Jefferson White and Adeline Rudolph were cast as Tom Ferrell and Bobbie Jo Song.^[44]

Animated films[edit]

On November 9, 2005, IDT Entertainment issued a press release^[45] 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 on October 28, 2006, and the second aired on 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 from 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).

In 2021, Iranian short animation, Hellboy: Frozen is in development and tells a new story with a new villain named Amacus in Morocco.

Novels and anthologies[edit]

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.

1. Hellboy: The Lost Army (written by Christopher Golden, cover and other illustrations by Mike Mignola, 1997)
2. 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)
3. Hellboy: The Bones of Giants (written by Christopher Golden, cover and other illustrations by Mike Mignola, 2001)
4. 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)
5. Hellboy: On Earth As It Is In Hell (written by Brian Hodge, cover by Mike Mignola, September 2005)
6. Hellboy: Unnatural Selection (written by Tim Lebbon, cover by Mike Mignola, March 2006)
7. Hellboy: The God Machine (written by Thomas E. Sniegoski, cover by Mike Mignola, July 2006)
8. Hellboy: The Dragon Pool (written by Christopher Golden, cover by Mike Mignola, March 2007)
9. Hellboy: Emerald Hell (written by Tom Piccirilli, cover by Mike Mignola, February 2008)
10. Hellboy: The All-Seeing Eye (written by Mark Morris, cover by Mike Mignola, October 2008)
11. 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)
12. Hellboy: The Fire Wolves (written by Tim Lebbon, cover by Mike Mignola, April 2009)
13. Hellboy: The Ice Wolves (written by Mark Chadbourn, cover by Duncan Fegredo, September 2009)
14. Hellboy: An Assortment of Horrors (2017)^[46]

Video games[edit]

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 with David Gasman voicing Hellboy.^{[citation needed]}

On April 6, 2005, Hellboy movie director Guillermo del Toro announced on his official site^[47] that he had made a deal with the 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 with Ron Perlman reprising his role.^[48] 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 and Liz Sherman. Two additional levels and Lobster Johnson as a playable character (voiced by Bruce Campbell) as DLC were developed but were unreleased.

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 Bruce Barker,^[49] as part of the «Fighter Pack 2». The character was released for download on Tuesday, November 14, 2017. He is brought to the Injustice universe by Brainiac who decides to add him to his collection as he is fascinated by Hellboy’s human-like mind and personality despite being a demon. In his ending, Hellboy escapes from Brainiac’s collection and defeats him. As a result, he is asked to assist in rounding up local supervillains before eventually returning to the B.P.R.D. but finds his work there unfulfilling and ends up retiring to Africa.

Hellboy appeared as a playable character in Brawlhalla.^[50]

A Hellboy roguelike video game, titled Hellboy: Web of Wyrd, is currently in the works by developer Upstream Arcade. It is scheduled for a release on Microsoft Windows, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X/S.^[51]

Tabletop games[edit]

In 2002, Hellboy Sourcebook and Roleplaying Game was published by Steve Jackson Games using their GURPS role-playing system, in both softcover and hardback.

Mantic Games released a Hellboy: The Board Game in 2019, after a successful crowdfunding campaign.^[52]

In 2020, Mantic Games followed up the boardgame with another Hellboy Kickstarter campaign, this time for a new Hellboy roleplaying game, using D&D 5E as a base for the game rules. The roleplaying game is aiming for a March 2021 release.^[53][54]

Awards[edit]

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».^[55]

In March 2009, Hellboy won two categories in the fan voted Project Fanboy Awards for 2008: «Best Indy Hero» and «Best Indy Character».^[56]

In 2011, Hellboy was ranked 25th of the Top 100 Comic Book Heroes by IGN.^[57]

Merchandise[edit]

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.^[58]

See also[edit]

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

References[edit]

• Weiner, Steve; Victoria Blake; Jason Hall (December 2006). Hellboy: The Companion. Dark Horse Comics. ISBN 978-1-59307-655-9.
• Masters, Phil; Jonathan Woodward (August 2002). Hellboy Sourcebook and Roleplaying Game. Steve Jackson Games. ISBN 978-1-55634-654-5.
• Mignola on Hellboy’s Extended Universe. Comic Book Resources. March 3, 2008.
• NYCC: Hellboy Dominates 2008

External links[edit]

• Official website
• Hellboy Zone. Dark Horse Comics.
• Hellboy at Don Markstein’s Toonopedia.
• Hellboy at the Comic Book DB (archived from the original)
• Hellboy videogame at the Konami website

This page is about the character. For the comic serial, see Hellboy (series).

Hellboy is the child of the demon Azzael and the witch Sarah Hughes, a former Bureau for Paranormal Research and Defense agent and the unwilling Harbinger of the Apocalypse, Anung Un Rama.

History[]

Discovery[]

The creature which would become known as Hellboy first appeared the night of December 23, 1944, when the evil mystic Grigori Rasputin summoned Hellboy to Earth with the help of the Third Reich.

Baby Hellboy appeared miles away in a churchyard in Outer Hebrides, Scotland where he met a crack team of American soldiers lead by 1st Sgt. George Whitman sent to investigate the mysterious Nazi ritual.

They were accompanied by Professor Trevor Bruttenholm of the Bureau for Paranormal Research and Defense (B.P.R.D.), Professor Malcolm Frost, Lady Cynthia Eden-Jones, and the Torch of Liberty, a WWII-era costumed superhero.

Bruttenholm befriended the creature, christening him Hellboy. The child was raised in secret by the U.S. government and trained to be a paranormal investigator.

Childhood[]

After he appeared in a church on an island off the coast of Scotland, Hellboy was taken to an air force base in New Mexico where he grew up under the guidance of Trevor Bruttenholm and the fledgling B.P.R.D. Hellboy interacted with personnel at the base such as U.S. General Norton Ricker, and the dog, Mac. In 1952, when he was eight, Hellboy officially joined the Bureau for Paranormal Research and Defense as a full time agent.

Early Career[]

Hellboy aged greatly in body, although somewhat less in mind: while appearing to be a full-grown middle-aged man, he still had the rebellious fire and attitude of an adolescent. He became adept in many supernatural and paranormal subjects such as possession, haunting, exorcism, enchantments, holy amulets, and sacred artifacts. He eventually became a full-fledged field agent of the B.P.R.D. under Trevor Bruttenholm. In the years following World War II and the demise of the Nazi regime, Hellboy traveled the world, encountering and defeating numerous supernatural beings and disturbances such as werewolves, vampires, and encounters with the deranged Nazi scientist Herman Von Klempt (see World’s Greatest Paranormal Investigator) Hellboy also encounters minor deities, mythological creatures, and beings of folklore. He had a notable encounter with the Baba Yaga (see The Baba Yaga). In the year 1952, Hellboy was granted honorary human status by the United Nations.

Two years later, Hellboy was approached by the Osiris Club to slay the Saint Leonard worm, an alligator-like monster. This battle was in fact a test of Hellboy’s true virtue, resulting in lilies that grew from his spilled blood, which seemed to confirm his good nature (see The Nature of the Beast). A short time later, Professor Bruttenholm sent Hellboy to help a Professor Edmond Aickman with the King Vold myth. Aickman was obsessed with a possible reward, and manipulated Hellboy into begrudgingly completing Vold’s chosen tasks (see King Vold).

In 1959 Hellboy was in Ireland and embarked on a mission to rescue a baby, Alice Monaghan. In order to do so, he had to bear a corpse to its final resting place. Overseeing the assignment was the King of the Daoine Sidhe, who would harbor interest in Hellboy in the near future (see The Corpse).

In 1979 Hellboy was sent to aid a once famous physical medium, Mister Tod. Tod, using drugs to enter a trance, accidentally released a cosmic monster which created a body for itself with Tod’s ectoplasm (see Goodbye Mister Tod). This was Hellboy’s first encounter with the spirit of an Ogdru Hem; he was able to defeat the creature with an herb. In 1982 tracked down the infamous Countess Ilona Kakosy, a vampire. Hellboy slayed her after she tried to distract him with a disturbing vision (see The Vârcolac).

In 1991, Hellboy is called in to assist fellow Bureau agent Pauline Raskine. The B.P.R.D. was investigating a newly discovered hidden basement in a mansion owned by former a Doctor Carp. Carp was a Grand Master of the Golden Lodge, a temple of the Heliopic Brotherhood of Ra located in New York. Hellboy has knowledge of the H.B.R. and refers to them as crazy. Upon entering the room Hellboy was magically warped through time to the year 1902, where he had to contend with the sadistic Doctor. Carp managed to get a sample of Hellboy’s demonic blood to use on a chimpanzee, turning the ape into a bloodthirsty monster (see Dr. Carp’s Experiment).

The Cavendish Hall affair[]

Main article: Seed of Destruction

However, it wasn’t until the groundbreaking Cavendish Hall mission that Hellboy truly met a challenge which posed an extreme threat to him or his fellow agents Abe Sapien and Elizabeth Sherman, a woman with uncontrollable pyrokinetic abilities. It began when Hellboy met with his mentor Trevor Bruttenholm, who was trying to tell Hellboy a crucial memory disturbing the Professor. Suddenly, Bruttenholm was mysteriously killed when a spawning of frogs entered the room, and an angry Hellboy faced off with a humanoid frog monster.

A mission was sent to the haunted Cavendish Hall mansion, consisting of Hellboy, Abe and Liz to question the elderly Mrs. Cavendish, whose well-known family heritage Bruttenholm mentioned as he tried to remember what to tell Hellboy seconds before his death. Mrs. Cavendish was a widow who lost her three sons a few months before, when they, along with Trevor Bruttenholm, together explored the Arctic in search of a legendary temple. She said it was her family’s curse that every male in the line, starting with Elihu Cavendish, became obsessed with retrieving something from the Arctic. Many would never came back.

In truth, the Cavendish boys along with Bruttenholm, made it to a secret temple in the Arctic. There they had come across Grigori Rasputin, who had been hibernating for years in service to a terrible cosmic monstrosity, the Ogdru Jahad. Rasputin had become the creatures’ only hope of entering our world in order for them to unleash the Apocalypse on Earth. A dormant Ogdru Hem, Sadu-Hem one of the 369 children of the Ogdru Jahad, was accidentally awoken by the team. It’s breath transformed the three Cavendish brothers, and their guide while Bruttenholm was able to kept by Rasputin, after reading his mind and discovering his link with Hellboy. They boarded a ship and when they arrived in America, Bruttenholm was allowed to escape with a fragile memory, in order to lure Hellboy to Cavendish Hall.

Hellboy and his partners elected to stay the night at Cavendish Hall, to further explore any possible clues. Unbeknownst to the agents, the revived Rasputin had been manipulating events in order to draw Hellboy closer to him, intent on forcing Hellboy to fulfill his purpose as the Harbinger of Armageddon. Rasputin was the one who had summoned Hellboy to this world back in 1944, and had been patiently waiting for his chance to return and retake control of his ‘son.’

Upon discovering the presence of Rasputin, who had willingly revealed himself that evening in a vain attempt to coerce Hellboy’s loyalty, Hellboy refused this destiny. Having been raised by his mentor in the ways of good, he then tried to slay the now furious Rasputin.

Abe Sapien managed to kill Rasputin by throwing a harpoon through his chest. However, he was actually being possessed by the spirit of Elihu Cavendish. The ghost of Cavendish desired vengeance against Rasputin for the murder of his family. Liz Sherman awoke from her trance and summoned a firestorm that killed Sadu-Hem. Hellboy succeeded in rejecting his purpose and delaying the End of Days. Rasputin’s body was destroyed and his spirit was forced to flee, vowing that Hellboy would fulfill his purpose in the end, whether he wanted to or not.

More Career Highlights[]

What follows are a few worthy-of-note adventures of Hellboy and his partners following the Cavendish Hall incident:

• 1994, Griart, The Balkans: Hellboy and Kate Corrigan visited a town decimated by the angry ghosts of werewolves. It became a revenge mission after Father Kelly, Hellboy’s associate, was murdered by a living werewolf. Kate’s first sighting of a ghost occurred during this mission. (see The Wolves of Saint August)
• 1995, Scotland: Hellboy returned to the ruined church where he first appeared in the world, and had a dream-vision of his origin: His mother, as a young woman, had cavorted with the demon Prince Azzael, and on Walpurgisnacht (a night of great significance to witches) conceived Hellboy. (see The Chained Coffin)
• 1998, Lizarza, Spain: Hellboy met with Adrian Frost, the son of Malcolm Frost. Hellboy related his life story to Frost, and the two realized that Hellboy’s stone right hand was the key to triggering the Apocalypse. Hellboy has decided keep the hand lest someone else retrieve it and use it. (see The Right Hand of Doom)

The Giurescu Affair[]

Main article: Wake the Devil

In 1997, the second major turning point in Hellboy’s journey of discovery regarding his original purpose on Earth began as a mission 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.

The legend went that whenever Giurescu was injured in battle, his servants would bring his body back to his home castle, where the rays of the full moon would mystically revive him back to full health. In 1882, Giurescu, posing as a foreign nobleman, attempted to start a secret evil empire to conquer England. This caught the attention of the Nazi party during the 1940s, who then sent a delegation lead by Ilsa Haupstein to recruit the immortal vampire to their cause. The meeting went badly, resulting in Hitler ordering the arrest and murder of Giurescu’s vampiric followers, nicknamed his “family.” He and his ‘family’ were beheaded and stabbed through the heart with stakes, and then burned; their ashes sent to Hitler.

However, this was not the end for Vladimir Giurescu. In 1997, a former Nazi named Howard Steinman/Hans Ubler was shot to death inside his own museum, and a crate marked “Giurescu Lot #666” was taken. It is assumed that Ubler had stolen the remains of Giurescu during his Nazi days and had hidden the deceased vampire inside the museum for the last few decades. Now it appeared that Giurescu’s followers, lead by Ilsa Haupenstein, had come to rescue their master and bring his remains to Castle Giurescu, where the next full moon would revive him.

The problem was that Castle Giurescu had never been found, for its location has always been hidden. B.P.R.D. agent Kate Corrigan made three rough guesses at possible locations of the castle, and three groups of agents were sent to each location in case one of them is the real deal. Hellboy went solo to the first site, while Agent Clark and Abe Sapien went to the second site, and Liz Sherman, Bud Waller, and rookie agent Sidney Leach investigated the third site.

Hellboy arrived in time to discover that Ilsa had already prepared for the resurrection ceremony, but he was distracted by an encounter with the harpy-like Women of Thessaly. Meanwhile, Rasputin’s spirit had returned, and he succeeded in transforming Ilsa into the reincarnation of the goddess Hecate, who battled with Hellboy. When Hellboy was captured and left to die chained to a pole, the revived Giurescu charged him, only to be killed in an explosion when Hellboy cracked the pole in half and struck the vampire’s horse. In fury, the iron maiden which formerly was Ilsa Haupenstein swallowed up Hellboy, trapping him within an alternate dimension.

He encountered a group of beings who claim to be Chaos itself, and told Hellboy that the time had finally come for him to embrace his purpose. His true name, “Anung Un Rama,” was revealed for the first time, and the two sawed-off horns atop Hellboy’s forehead began to regrow as a crown of fire appeared above him.

Hellboy, however, managed to overcome the transformation, telling the spirits, “screw you!” and snapping off his newly-regrown horns; an act which represents Hellboy’s devotion to the cause of good and that he truly is a well-meaning being, despite his origins or purpose. This moment of defiance instantly returned him back to our world, where he met Kate Corrigan. Backup never arrived due to an accident at the airport, and Kate revealed to a shocked Hellboy that during his adventures the other two teams had met their own misfortunes:

Liz Sherman accidentally revived a human-sized homunculus which drained her power and killed Bud Waller before fleeing. Liz felt extreme guilt over the incident. At the same time, Abe Sapien and Agent Clark had visited a church in the belief that they would meet Hellboy there due to the presence of his tracking device.

But it was revealed to be a trap set up by Rasputin, who wanted revenge against Abe for stabbing the mystic through the chest in their last encounter during the Cavendish Hall affair. Clark was killed in the process, but Abe managed to survive. The skeletal remains of Vladimir Giurescu were recovered by the B.P.R.D. while Hellboy and his fellow agents were airlifted home, exhausted by their recent mission.

Meanwhile, Rasputin’s other henchmen Karl Ruprect Kroenen and Leopold Kurtz attempted to follow the will of Rasputin in castle in Norway. The two Nazi scientiests had been entrusted with the task of creating an Army for Giurescu to lead in a campaign to destroy mankind, thus bringing about Rasputin’s planned “Ragna Rok” apocalypse. However due to Kroenen’s disobedience in resurrecting Nazi scientist Herman Von Klempt, whom Rasputin despised, and the accidental killing of Kurtz the undead mystic struck the C.E.O. of the Zinco Corporation, Roderick Zinco blind. While Zinco panicked, he accidentally hit a button which destroyed the fortress. However, Kurtz and Kroenen were somehow able to survive, probably thanks to Rasputin, and recently reappeared in the B.P.R.D. story Russia.

Almost Colossus[]

Main article: Almost Colossus

After losing her powers to the homunculus, Liz Sherman underwent treatment by Dr. Olasz at the Wauer Institute. Meanwhile, Hellboy and Kate Corrigan investigate a missing cross and several missing corpses. The culprit was the homunculus, praying for God to kill him. Instead, the homunculus met his older brother, who told him of his creator and of their plans to overthrow mankind. Hellboy and Kate discovered the homunculus’ lair where they were attacked by his brother’s crude homunculi henchmen. Kate was captured and the homunculus’s brother planned to use her to build an enormous homunculus body for him to inhabit. Kate was rescued, but the evil brother used the giant body to attack Hellboy. The first homunculus then seemingly gave in to his brother’s wishes, becoming part of the giant body. But he used the pyrokinesis taken from Liz to destroy his evil brother’s new body. They rushed to the Wauer Institute and arrived just moments after Liz died. Then the homunculus, now dubbed «Roger», returned Liz’s pyrokinetic powers to her, restoring her life at the cost of his own.

The Little Box of Evil[]

Main article: Box Full of Evil

In 1999, Hellboy and Abe investigated the castle of Count Guarino after a mysterious attack. On this mission, the warlock Igor Bromhead released Ualac, a minor demon trapped in a box by St. Dunstan. Ualac was able to teach Bromhead Hellboy’s secret name, Anung Un Rama, and temporarily paralyze him. Abe was shot by a chimpanzee, the former count now transformed. Ualac claimed the Crown of the Apocalypse (which sits invisibly on Hellboy’s head) before attempting to take Hellboy’s stone right hand. Hellboy was able to break free thanks to advice from the Daoine Sidge and killed his enemy’s mortal body. Bromhead and Ualac were claimed by the demon Astaroth, who also took Hellboy’s crown down to Hell.

The Conqueror Worm Affair[]

Main article: Conqueror Worm (story)

This was a landmark moment in Hellboy’s multi-layered career. With the help of fellow agents Roger and Abe Sapien, among others, he faced off against an unprecedented threat: a cosmic entity bound with a Nazi scientist who had been floating through space for decades and was now the vessel for the monstrous creature’s arrival on Earth. This beast was an alleged offspring of the Ogdru-Jahad, which the Nazis had tried to communicate with back in the 40’s. This mission to stop the ‘worm,’ now controlled by Grigori Rasputin, culminated in an intense sacrifice from Roger the Homunculus, who risked his very life to try and imprison the worm’s spirit within himself.

With assistance from the ghost of famed television-serial hero Lobster Johnson, Hellboy managed to drive away the Worm’s consciousness, and a wounded Roger was given aid by B.P.R.D. agents. Hellboy now felt deep guilt over his profession, due to him having been given by Manning prior to the mission a device to kill Roger, should he become dangerous again. Then, with a heavy heart, Hellboy announced his resignation to Kate Corrigan, before leaving to try and find out once and for all the truth behind the supposed fate that would always haunt him.

Hellboy Alone[]

Main article: The Third Wish, The Island

Hellboy went to Africa in 2004, where he met with an African witch-doctor named Mohlomi. When the spirits of Africa warned him that he had one last night to sleep in their land, Mohlomi brought him to the coast where he claimed that the sea was calling to Hellboy. He ended up being captured by a trio of mermaids who drive a magic nail into his forehead and bring him to the Bog Roosh, a powerful sea witch who meant to prevent the Apocalypse by dismembering Hellboy and hiding the Right Hand of Doom. Hellboy is traded to Bog Roosh in exchange for granting the three mermaids, her granddaughters, their wishes. Although the first two are killed by their wishes, the third lives as she wished only to return the spear of her deceased father. The ghost of the mermaid’s father returns and admonishes her for kidnapping Hellboy, an innocent man, in exchange for attempting to redeem his honor. Feeling guilty, she returns in secret to rescue Hellboy. Hellboy kills the Bog Roosh and disperses the source of her power, the captured souls of drowned sailors. However her granddaughter becomes the new Bog Roosh to replace her. The granddaughter removes the magic nail from Hellboy’s forehead, but he is plunged into a coma and ends up adrift at sea for two years.

Two years later, Hellboy washed up on an unknown deserted island. There, he accidentally resurrected an ancient mystic and learned the secret history of the universe. Through the mystic’s blood, Urgo-Hem was resurrected and briefly killed Hellboy, before the latter returned to life and defeated the monster. After rebuking Hecate one more time on embracing his destiny, he set sail away from the island and headed for England.

The Baba Yaga’s Revenge[]

Main article: Darkness Calls

In 2007, Hellboy returned to England and stayed with his friend Harry Middleton, who had died years before. While out on a walk, he was accosted by witches who took him to Italy. They explained that Igor Bromhead had subdued Hecate in an attempt to become the king of witches, but they refused and wanted Hellboy to lead them instead. Hellboy rejects them and leaves.

The infuriated witches then accept the Baba Yaga’s bargain to turn him over to her, and he is plunged into her Russian dimension to be tormented and killed as revenge for shooting out her eye back in 1964. As Hellboy battles the witch’s minions, he receives aid from other Russian supernatural beings such as the Leshii, Perun, a domovoi, and a little girl named Vasilisa. Frustrated, the Baba Yaga sends her champion, Koshchei the Deathless, to kill Hellboy in exchange for giving him the death he had longed for. Vasilisa shows Hellboy the way out of the Baba Yaga’s world, but Koshchei kills her and she leaves behind two gifts to aid Hellboy’s escape. The Baba Yaga expends all her magical power to enhance Koschei’s strength and finally kill Hellboy, but she ultimately fails and is left virtually powerless.

Once Hellboy returns to the real world, he tracks down Igor Bromhead. There, he finds the warlock transformed into a monster as the power of Hecate proved too much for him to control. Bromhead begs him to put him out of his misery and Hellboy obliges, killing him.

A Secret Legacy[]

Main article: The Wild Hunt

Hellboy is staying at the house of the deceased Capobianco sisters when he receives an invitation from the Osiris Club to meet with him in England. They invite him to join them on the Wild Hunt, a hunting party composed of British elites, as a band of rogue giants have begun terrorizing the British countryside. This turns out to be a trap as the Wild Hunt turns on Hellboy in the middle of their expedition, claiming they would never allow the Devil to sit on the throne of England. After awakening from the attempted assassination, Hellboy encounters the giants, who had killed the Wild Hunt while he was unconscious. Although a bird offers him a chance to escape stealthily, Hellboy rejects it and deliberately picks a fight with the giants to vent out his frustration and anger at being assassinated. In his bloodlust he massacres the giants and awakened his latent demonic powers. Shocked that he enjoyed brutalising the giants, he flees.

Forty-seven hours later, Hellboy moves to Ireland and reunites with Alice Monaghan, a woman who he had saved from the fey folk when she was still a baby in 1963. Hellboy and Alice had met in a dream prior to his invitation, attending the funeral of the fairy king Dagda. Alice then takes Hellboy to meet with Queen Mab, who tells Hellboy that she sees one chance for him to escape his apocalyptic destiny and warns him that the Gruagach of Lough Leane had resurrected Nimue, Merlin’s former apprentice and the Queen of Blood, to rule over the leaderless witches. It was Gruagach’s conspirators who had murdered King Dagda, and with the Queen of Blood they plan to wage war on the human race, amassing an army of forgotten magical beings to take back the surface world. After Mab leaves, Hellboy and Alice are led into a trap of goblins, one of whom manages to poison Alice. A trio of bird spirits arrive and take the two of them to a mysterious castle beseiged by demons. The birds direct Hellboy to kill Eligos, the demon knight guarding the bridge, so that they could enter. Hellboy and Eligos do battle, but Hellboy is on the backfoot until he receives aid from an imp who tells him of Eligos’ weakness. With Eligos beaten, Hellboy and his company finally enter the castle and Alice is cured. They then learn that the castle belonged to the witch Morgan le Fay.

Hellboy and Alice learn from Morgan le Fay that Hellboy’s witch mother Sarah Hughes was a direct descendant of her and Arthur’s son Mordred, thus making Hellboy the rightful king of England. Morgan presents Hellboy with Excalibur and urges him to pull it out, thus raising an army of Britain’s noble dead in order to combat the Queen of Blood’s forces. Hellboy is reluctant to accept another heavy destiny on his shoulders and takes some time to think, but Astaroth appears and attempts to goad Hellboy into pulling out the sword as well, but for his own motives. Astaroth believes in a prophecy that Hellboy would usurp Hell’s ruling class and awaken its sleeping army to break down the walls of Hell, allowing the liberated slaves of demonkind to reign on Earth. After battling another twisted illusion of himself, Vasilisa appears and urges Hellboy to believe in Alice’s faith in him, as opposed to all the dark portents that his enemies have told him. Hellboy at last pulls Excalibur from the stone, transporting himself and Alice back to Ireland.

The Final Battle[]

Main article: The Storm, The Fury

With Excalibur claimed, Hellboy and Alice follow reports of dead noble men rising from their graves, confirming Morgan’s prophecy. On the road they are attacked by a monstrous knight, a champion of the Queen of Blood who boasts that Nimue had murdered Queen Mab and her allies. After Hellboy kills him, the two stumble upon a tavern in the woods and rest. A storm builds outside as Nimue gathers her forces for the war against mankind, and the army of the noble dead masses outside the tavern awaiting Hellboy’s command. Hellboy rejects leading them and goes off into the woods alone to face Nimue his way. On the way there he stumbles upon Gruagach, who was cast out by Nimue, hanging from a noose as Merlin cursed him with immortality to witness the Apocalypse. Astaroth appears again, mocking Hellboy for rejecting his destiny one last time before disappearing. Finally, the Baba Yaga appears and offers to transport Hellboy past Nimue’s vast army of monsters at the cost of his eye, payment at last for him shooting her eye out.

Hellboy arrives at Nimue’s tower just in time to witness her being possessed by the Ogdru Jahad, transforming her into a dragon. The Ogdru Jahad spreads the storm across all of Great Britain, wreaking havoc to prepare for the end times. Hellboy and the Ogdru Jahad do battle, but he slowly loses to the dragon. Vasilisa appears to him one last time and asks if he is ready to meet his end. Hellboy admits that he is ready, and Vasilisa hands him a sword made from Nimue’s crown to slay the dragon. Meanwhile at the tavern, Alice hands Excalibur to a blessed World War I soldier named George Washbrook, who regains his youth and uses the Holy Grail to invigorate the army of the noble dead and lead them to battle against the Queen of Blood’s army at Vigrid, the prophesied battlefield of Ragnarok at the base of Nimue’s tower. Alice flees into the forest, encountering the supernatural Wild Hunt led by King Vold, only to be transported to Vigrid after the two armies had slaughtered each other. The tavern barkeep reveals herself to be Mab’s spirit and points Alice to the tower where Hellboy fights the Ogdru Jahad and delay the Apocalypse. Alice reaches the top of the tower just in time to witness Hellboy defeat Nimue and the Ogdru Jahad. Before the two could celebrate, Nimue’s ghost appears and tears out Hellboy’s heart, killing him as she is dragged into Hell. Alice weeps for Hellboy, but England is saved from annihilation.

Hellboy in Hell[]

Main article: Hellboy in Hell (series)

Powers and Abilities[]

Powers[]

Cambion Physiology: Hellboy’s superhuman abilities would seem to stem from his demonic heritage. While his specific powers and abilities have never been explicitly listed, Hellboy is much stronger and more physically durable than an ordinary human.

• Superhuman Strength: Although the true extent of his strength is unclear and possibly limitless, Hellboy possesses a strength level of at least Class 5. He has tossed opponents weighing at least four to five hundred pounds, hurled a large broken tree at a giant, thrown a harpoon through a monster along with the ship mast, and lifted a chunk of rubble to crush his opponent.

• Superhuman Speed: While he’s not much of a speedster, Hellboy’s shown to be pretty fast for a creature his size. He could quickly purse a vampire from outside of a castle to the underground and appear right in front of a human after causing the human to flee.
  • Superhuman Reflexes: Hellboy’s reflexes are far greater than any normal human being, being able to catch a demon in its fly form before it escaped and snatch missiles out of the air. He’s also reacted to several floating heads at once, a surprise charge from a super gorilla, and a blast from Grigori Rasputin.
  • Superhuman Agility: Hellboy possesses agility, balance, and coordination which surpass even the finest human athlete. He’s dodged attacks from humans, a giant werewolf, an entire army of zombies and he can dodge lightning, bullets, and lasers. Its agility is thirty times the speed of sound.

• Superhuman Durability: Hellboy is shown to be capable of withstanding wounds that would be fatal to ordinary humans without being incapacitated, as well as recovering from injuries at an incredible rate. He has been shown to withstand great impact forces, high caliber bullets, exposure to extremes of both temperatures and falls from great heights. He has been savagely beaten by large monsters on several occasions and survived, often with relatively minor injuries. Hellboy has also demonstrated immunity to the powers of August Breccan, granted to him by demons.

• Superhuman Endurance: Hellboy has consistently displayed enormous amounts of endurance. He can fall thousands of feet and walk it off like it’s nothing and shake off injuries after being crushed and beaten by a giant. On one occasion, Hellboy directly charged an MG-42 machine gun and took numerous bullets to the chest before destroying the gun. On another, he was impaled by a massive spearhead through the chest, but smashed the handle and charged the attacker, leaving the spearhead buried in the tree behind him. Despite being shot in the face two times by a double-barrel shotgun, Hellboy got up and walked to the home of his shooter, all without passing out.

• Superhuman Stamina: While certainly not limitless, Hellboy’s stamina has been shown to exceed that of normal and highly athletic humans. Hellboy’s stamina is part of what keeps him going in a long battle and the factor that backs up his stubbornness as he refuses to go down in a fight.

• Enhanced Sight: Hellboy has been noted to have advanced sight, allowing him to see farther than average humans. The extent of his sight ability seems to be limited to distance, but he’s shown to not have too much trouble seeing in the dark or in minimal-light situations.

• Accelerated Healing: Although he can be damaged like any living thing, Hellboy possesses a «healing factor» (much like the Marvel Comics character Wolverine) that allows him to recover from wounds at an incredible rate. One example of this was when he recovered after being in close proximity to his concussion grenade.
  • Decelerated Aging: Hellboy seems to age differently from normal humans. At the time that young Hellboy tried his favorite food, “pamcakes” for the first time, he was technically two years old but appeared to be far older, around age six. In 1954 he already appeared to be a full-grown adult but was in reality about ten years old. His rapid physical maturation is in contrast to his physical rate of aging, which seems to be much slower than normal. Throughout the sixty-year span of his life, Hellboy seems to have ceased to age ever since reaching physical maturity.
  • Immortality: Despite being taken out many times and eventually stopped at one point, Hellboy has survived blows that would kill any ordinary human. Possibly because he could fulfill his duty as the bringer of the apocalypse, Hellboy seems to have escaped death at nearly every turn. As he’s described to be «as deathless as Koshchei», Hellboy can’t die unless he believes he should.
  • Thermal Resistance: Thanks to his demonic heritage and accelerated healing, Hellboy’s body is quite resistant against high temperatures and fire. In the movies, he is depicted as being fireproof, and he is even more resilient against heat or burns than his comic book counterpart, to the point he became immune to all forms of fire and burns, including Liz Sherman’s flames, and electrocution.

• Demonic Transformation: Hellboy assumes an even more demonic form under special circumstances, either artificially or when under emotional duress. In this form, Hellboy’s stumps become full-grown horns. After coming to terms with his heritage, Hellboy seems to be able to transform at will, while also sprouting wings. Hellboy becomes much stronger and gains access to his latent magic. In his full-demon form, Hellboy was able to effortlessly slaughter Hell’s most powerful inhabitants.
  • Size-Shifting: Hellboy can increase his size to the point where he’s very larger such as Leviathan and Behemoth.
  • Hell-Fire Manipulation: While in his demonic form, Hellboy has the power to control the fires of Hell. With the power of Hellfire, Hellboy can create and manipulate massive devastating infernos from his body that obliterate anything in their path.
  • Electrokinesis: In his demonic form, Hellboy has the power to command lightning from the sky and strike down whoever he wishes.
  • Flight: When transformed into his demonic form, Hellboy sprouts wings which grant him the power of flight. However, it’s unknown whether he uses wings or magic to achieve this feat.

Abilities[]

• Hand-to-Hand Combatant (Master): Although proficient with handguns, Hellboy often chooses to engage in close combat where he can utilize his incredible strength to defeat his enemies. He has also displayed skill with swords and other improvised weapons. He quite likely mastered all forms of Earth’s martial arts, and a little further.
• Occult Knowledge: His decades of experience as a paranormal investigator has given him expertise in folklore, magical rituals, the use of charms and curses, paranormal creatures and other related topics.
• Innate Multilingualism: Due to his demon heritage, Hellboy was born with the ability to read, comprehend, and understand a number of ancient, magic and demonic languages. All parts of his intellect are super-human, making him an incredible strategist and an expert in all occult knowledge.
• Superhuman intellect: Hellboy’s intelligence is incredible, being the best paranormal investigator since he was 8 years old.
• Master strategist: Hellboy is the best strategist on earth. Due to his destiny, he is capable of leading all the hell’s instable army (more than 200 billions monsters) with perfection. He can create the best plans and can improvise very well too.
• Riders Aptitude: During the vision presented to him in the 2019 reboot film. Hellboy could be seen riding a massive dragon across an infernal wasteland made of the human world. Showing apt mount taming skills.

Personality[]

Hellboy is often described as a likeable, gruff person with much panache and witty humor in his attitude. He is easily angered by the (often defective) gadgets he uses, but has a genuinely good heart and love for other humans, despite his demonic origins. A living oxymoron, Hellboy is a force for good, with an iron will and a desire to do the right thing. He has continuously stated his disinterest in his supposed ‘purpose,’ and tries to hide his conflicted feelings beneath the wisecracking facade of an adventurous tough-guy who would just as soon knock back a cold beer and light a stogie, than battle demons and evil spirits.

The ‘Right Hand of Doom’[]

Main Article: Right Hand of Doom.

Weapons and Equipment:[]

In addition to his natural gifts, Hellboy carries a variety of items, such as holy relics, horseshoes, and herbs in his utility belt, as well as a variety of grenades and other demolition tools; these often come in handy when fighting supernatural beasts. He also typically carries a sidearm of some sort.

• Hellboy carried a handgun given to him by a WWII era superhero named The Torch of Liberty. This gun was lost in the ocean, but was later replaced by a 1941 US Army-issue M1911A1 .45 caliber pistol provided by the ghost of Harry Middleton.
• Hellboy often carries many charms and knick-knacks on his belt, which he often uses as either tools to resurrect the dead, protect him or his friends from evil entities, heal, etc. A commonly shown item among these various possessions is a Catholic Rosary.
• On Hellboy’s belt is a tracking device which is constantly linked to B.P.R.D. headquarters, in order to keep track of Hellboy’s whereabouts. After the events at Hunte Castle he no longer wore this belt. (Hellboy:Conqueror Worm)
• On the Giurescu mission, Hellboy used a rocket pack to make a tricky landing over the Castle. However, this “new and improved” model proved to be a wash when, upon ignition, exploded and engulfed a predictably pissed Hellboy.
• Hellboy is almost always seen wearing a large and heavy jacket that reaches well below his knees. The pockets of this jacket are typically filled with many of the charms and totems mentioned above, granting him even greater paranormal protection. His original jacket bore the B.P.R.D. logo on its sleeve, but after he quit the Bureau this logo vanished, indicating that he either removed it or the jacket he is currently wearing is a new one altogether. His jacket has been heavily damaged many times, yet it always shows up repaired with each new story, indicating that Hellboy might have some skill in weaving.
• Hellboy briefly wielded the sword Excalibur, from Arthurian Legend. Supposedly, wielding this sword marks him as the rightful King of England, and will allow him to lead an army of England’s noble dead. He was able to draw the sword from the stone due to being a direct decedent of King Arthur.
• In the Guillermo del Toro films, Hellboy is also equipped with a large pistol, the Good Samaritan, which uses specially modified bullets to combat supernatural beings. It often runs out of ammo, and is prone to jamming. It is said that a bullet of this weapon can hurt anything.
• In the film Hellboy 2, Hellboy wields Big Baby, a six round shotgun-like weapon, using it to kill the Forest God

Origins and Destiny[]

Hellboy’s destiny has been a common and persistent theme in the series, and becomes more and more complicated with every story arc. The first thing we knew about Hellboy was that he was destined to be the Beast of the Apocalypse. Bearing the Right Hand of Doom, which came from one of the Watchers who made the Ogdru Jahad, Hellboy possesses the one thing capable of waking the terrible beasts from their prison and unleashing them to end the days of man. For a long time, this has been the main focus of his destiny, and the thing he has constantly avoided.

During the Wild Hunt story arc, however, his destiny took another interesting turn. It had already been revealed that Hellboy is the son of Azzael, a major demon, and Sarah Hughes, a witch who spent most of her life in repentance after summoning him. Sarah had two human children besides Hellboy, a nun and a pastor, both of whom died a swift death trying to protect their mother from Azzael in the hopes of breaking his claim over her. Azzael would not be denied, he hooked his chains into the body of Sarah Hughes and dragged her down to Hell.

Sarah Hughes is a descendant of the traitor Sir Mordred, who died while slaying King Arthur. Mordred himself was the bastard son of King Arthur and Morgana Le Fay, who was Arthur’s sister. Mordred had three sons, who were all executed, and a daughter who was hidden away. Through this daughter, Mordred’s bloodline continued up to Sarah, her human children, and Hellboy himself. This makes Hellboy a descendant of King Arthur, and thus, the lawful King of England. Through this, it has been said that he was destined to wear a crown all along, be it in Hell or on Earth, and that his destiny as Arthur’s descendant is to pull the sword Excalibur from the stone, and lead Britain’s army of the dead — another part of Hellboy’s destiny of which he doesn’t seem too sure about.

Allies and Enemies[]

Allies[]

• Abraham Sapien: An amphibious humanoid of mysterious origin, this fellow agent can breathe underwater thanks to a set of gills. Hellboy first sympathized with Abe and saved him from dissection by the B.P.R.D. scientists, the two became best friends with a brother relationship. In field work Abe was first like a sidekick to Hellboy until becoming an equal in the Bureau.
• Elizabeth Sherman: A pyrokinetic, brooding, somber woman has the psychic ability to create and manipulate fire. However, she suffers from guilt and a lack of self-confidence over her unstable and often downright dangerous ability. When she was a child, she accidentally killed her parents with her powers, and has since always been haunted by her failures and mistakes. In the 2004 film, she is portrayed as as having a romantic relationship with Hellboy and is pregnant with his twin children. However, their relationship in the comics is simply that of good friends.
• Johann Kraus: A German medium who was displaced from his body, although his body was destroyed his ectoplasmic form remained.
• Benjamin Daimio: To be added…
• Alice Monaghan: To be added…
• Sydney Leach: …….
• Roger: An abnormally large, artificial man created from blood and herbs mixed in a jar with horse manure. Roger was discovered by Liz Sherman’s party during the Guirescu Affair, and was accidentally revived inside the secret laboratory he was built in by Sherman, who had curiously reached into a hole in his chest. Her fiery abilities sparked the creature to life, and the startled, frightened and confused homunculus lashed out and killed Agent Waller. However, at a later time the creature, to be named Roger eventually, was confronted by Hellboy and the beast helped revive a seriously injured Liz Sherman. Roger was rewarded with Agent status, and became a close partner of Hellboy during the Conqueror Worm mission.
• Trevor Bruttenholm: Hellboy’s mentor and adoptive father. Pronounced “Broom,” the Professor was killed by a plague of frogs summoned by Grigori Rasputin, as a way to entice Hellboy into investigating the strange murder and falling right into the deranged mystic’s plans.
• Thomas Manning: The head of the B.P.R.D. and Hellboy’s boss. He is the one who usually briefs Hellboy and his fellow agents on their new missions.
• Kate Corrigan: One of Hellboy’s most beloved teammates, Kate is an expert agent and motherly figure of the B.P.R.D. She is often on hand to give support and strong-willed advice, as well as criticism. An expert of the occult, Kate is a very dear friend and partner of Hellboy.
• Angel the Vampire (apocryphal): In the Angel/Buffy comic The City of Despair, Hellboy and a Predator make cameos as gladiators in another dimension where Buffy and Angel have to fight each other in the end. Hellboy also makes appearances in two other Angel comics: Past Lives, The Book of Carthage. (Dark Horse Comics)

Enemies[]

• Grigori Rasputin: The former infamous «Mad Monk» of Tsarist Russia, he is now an undead mystic who claims to be the official messenger of the terrible cosmic entity, the Ogdru Jahad, and is completely devoted to bringing about the end of days, by any means. He was under the employ of the Nazis in the mid-forties when he summoned Hellboy to Earth, intending him to be the leader of Rasputin’s forces in the coming apocalypse. He and his ‘creation’ first met during the Cavendish mission, and has since been manipulating numerous events, to further his motives. He had a romantic relationship with Ilsa Haupenstein. He is considered to be Hellboy’s archenemy.
• Herman von Klempt: A deranged Nazi scientist who is in fact a disembodied head which is kept alive inside a jar of liquid. His gruesome experiments with helpless village girls introduced him to Hellboy, who would become his greatest adversary in his twisted plans. Under his control is an army of gigantic gorillas, controlled through a mental device implanted within the ape’s brains. They do the brunt of Von Klempt’s work, and are in fact slightly sympathetic creatures, due to their mindless control under the mad Von Klempt.
• The Baba Yaga: This powerful and ancient witch, who resides in a chicken-legged house, has been on this Earth for centuries, and has a personal hatred for Hellboy after he shot out her left eye. Rasputin refers to Baba Yaga as his grandmother, and she has a tender, maternal relationship with the mystic.
• Ilsa Haupstein: This Nazi woman was a deeply loyal follower of Grigori Rasputin, and had a romantic attraction to him. Seduced into believing Rasputin’s prophecy of the Ogrdu Jahad’s complete destruction of Earth and rebirth as a beautiful paradise free of conflict or moral sins, she was convinced to enter a metal torture device, which transformed Ilsa into the malevolent goddess Hecate. This evil entity swallowed up Hellboy, transporting him to an eerie realm where he confronted his purpose and experienced the re-growth of his horns.
• Hecate: Hellboy first encounters the witch goddess Hecate after defeating Vladimir Giurescu for the first time. Hecate informs Hellboy that they are tied to the apocalypse and that they will either die together or live through it together to see the new world. Hellboy defeats Hecate, but she lives on in an iron body fueled by the blood and bones of Ilsa Haupstein.

Appearances in other Media[]

Hellboy (2004–2008 film franchise)[]

The 2004 film directed by Guillermo del Toro helped bring a larger awareness of the character into the public eye, and resulted in the birth of many more fans.

The plot focused primarily on the origin of Hellboy, depicting in a prologue his summoning to Earth by Grigori Rasputin and his rescue from the forces of evil by a young Trevor Bruttenholm. In the modern day, Hellboy is now a paranormal investigator for the Bureau for Paranormal Research and Defense. He finds himself not only having to battle an army of multiplying Sammael creatures which threaten to overtake mankind, but to also face the temptations of the resurrected Rasputin, who has come to finally fulfill Hellboy’s purpose…

The sequel, titled Hellboy II: The Golden Army, was released in July 2008, and features the return of many cast members such as Ron Perlman, Selma Blair, Doug Jones, Jeffrey Tambor and John Hurt (in a flashback sequence as Professor Trevor Bruttenholm). The film concerns the secret communities of fairy tale creatures (who have been rejected and ignored by an increasingly science-minded humanity), who then start a rebellion against humankind, and the B.P.R.D. is the only hope to stop this growing war.

Hellboy Animated[]

Hellboy has also enjoyed success in animated medium, starring in a series of feature-length animated movies released directly to DVD, and starring the voice talents of the live-action movie’s actors (Ron Perlman, Selma Blair and Doug Jones being the most prominent).
To date only two films have been released: Hellboy Animated: Sword of Storms and Hellboy Animated: Blood and Iron, while a third feature titled Hellboy Animated: The Phantom Claw was in development, but has since been abandoned. This animated continuity of the Hellboy universe is also expanded on in a short graphic-novella series published by Dark Horse Comics, consisting (so far) of the comic collections Hellboy Animated: Phantom Legs (exclusive to the Sword of Storms DVD), Hellboy Animated: The Black Wedding and Hellboy Animated: The Judgement Bell.

Hellboy (2019 film)[]

The 2019 film is an R-rated reboot directed by Neil Marshall and stars David Harbour as Hellboy (Guillermo del Toro was not offered the full writer-director capacity he had in the first two films, and Ron Perlman refused to return without del Toro’s involvement); the film is primarily an adaptation of the Darkness Calls, The Wild Hunt, and The Storm and Fury arcs, and features Hellboy combating Nimue.

David Harbour has stated the film will be a «character piece, and feature mature themes and complicated subjects that will warrant the R-rating», and, to better prepare for the role of Hellboy, has been not only researching the character, but also texting Mike Mignola about his history, as well as what he might think about certain subjects; Harbour has also refrained from imitating Ron Perlman’s depiction of Hellboy by depicting him as a «teenager», describing him as «younger, rougher and struggling with the idea of whether or not he’s a good person». Mignola also described Harbour’s take on Hellboy as «being more dramatic, gritty and emotionally explosive than Perlman’s».

For the horned version of Hellboy, makeup designer Joel Harlow decided to make it an «amped up version» of Hellboy’s normal look, stating «we created a look that was a more amped up version of the facial features that make him Hellboy: we gave him a larger jaw, a heavier brow, more vibrant yellow eyes, larger teeth and, of course, extremely large horns».

Video Games[]

Injustice 2[]

Hellboy appears in Netherrealm Studios’ game Injustice 2 as a DLC character voiced by Bruce Barker. In his single-player ending, it is revealed that Brainiac had brought him to the DC universe in order to add him to his «special collection», to which Hellboy responds by beating him down. After that, his popularity rises after defeating Braniac, and he is offered positions from numerous individuals but quickly becomes bored, stating that ‘it’s not his thing’. When he returned back to his universe and the Bureau, it wasn’t the same. Hellboy soon decided to retire from his job and takes refuge in Africa.

Hellboy also appeared in Injustice 2 Mobile.

Brawlhalla

Hellboy appears in Blue Mammoth Games’ game Brawlhalla as an Epic Crossover skin for Cross.

Behind the Scenes[]

Hellboy was created by comic artist Mike Mignola, and is published in comic books by Dark Horse Comics Inc. He first appeared in San Diego Comic-Con Comics #2, and was soon given the lead role in his own comic book series written and drawn by Mignola, with assistance from John Byrne at first.

The character was well-received by comic readers and critics alike, and the character’s popularity has risen tremendously due to his appearances in other media, most notably the two live-action films Hellboy (2004) and Hellboy II: The Golden Army (see below), both directed by Guillermo del Toro, a devoted fan of the comic. To date, Hellboy remains Mignola’s most beloved and recognizable creation.

Trivia[]

• According to Mignola, Hellboy’s personality was primarily based off of his father, a worker who often came home with many injuries, but always shrugged them off with dry humor.
• Originally, Hellboy was to be a member of a superhero team Mignola conceived, but the artist abandoned the team-concept when he failed to come up with suitable names for the other heroes.
• Lauded Mexican filmmaker Guillermo del Toro, who is an acknowledged major fan of Mignola’s work, wrote the introduction to the hardcover edition of the Conqueror Worm arc. Del Toro would later go on to direct two of three live-action Hellboy films that exist today.
• Hellboy’s name was born out of what began as a private joke to Mignola, who had randomly come up with the word, saying that he found the name “hilarious.”
• The Hellboy comic books, as well as the general artistic style of Mignola’s work, was tremendously influenced by the art of famed comic-book illustrator Jack Kirby, as well as influences by Gustav Dore, H. P. Lovecraft, and even Bram Stoker’s famed novel Dracula, which is one of Mignola’s favorites.
• In the film, Hellboy is often referred as demon by other characters, despite in comics, his true nature was a half-demon though it is hard to pinpoint due to the strange circumstances of his birth.
• Hellboy’s aim with guns is terrible, but his throwing one is perfect.

External links[]

• Hellboy at Wikipedia
• The Official Hellboy site
• Hellboy on the Injustice Wiki
• Hellboy on the VS Battles Wiki
• Hellboy on the Heroes Wiki

This page is about the character. For the comic serial, see Hellboy (series).

Hellboy is the child of the demon Azzael and the witch Sarah Hughes, a former Bureau for Paranormal Research and Defense agent and the unwilling Harbinger of the Apocalypse, Anung Un Rama.

History[]

Discovery[]

The creature which would become known as Hellboy first appeared the night of December 23, 1944, when the evil mystic Grigori Rasputin summoned Hellboy to Earth with the help of the Third Reich.

Baby Hellboy appeared miles away in a churchyard in Outer Hebrides, Scotland where he met a crack team of American soldiers lead by 1st Sgt. George Whitman sent to investigate the mysterious Nazi ritual.

They were accompanied by Professor Trevor Bruttenholm of the Bureau for Paranormal Research and Defense (B.P.R.D.), Professor Malcolm Frost, Lady Cynthia Eden-Jones, and the Torch of Liberty, a WWII-era costumed superhero.

Bruttenholm befriended the creature, christening him Hellboy. The child was raised in secret by the U.S. government and trained to be a paranormal investigator.

Childhood[]

After he appeared in a church on an island off the coast of Scotland, Hellboy was taken to an air force base in New Mexico where he grew up under the guidance of Trevor Bruttenholm and the fledgling B.P.R.D. Hellboy interacted with personnel at the base such as U.S. General Norton Ricker, and the dog, Mac. In 1952, when he was eight, Hellboy officially joined the Bureau for Paranormal Research and Defense as a full time agent.

Early Career[]

Hellboy aged greatly in body, although somewhat less in mind: while appearing to be a full-grown middle-aged man, he still had the rebellious fire and attitude of an adolescent. He became adept in many supernatural and paranormal subjects such as possession, haunting, exorcism, enchantments, holy amulets, and sacred artifacts. He eventually became a full-fledged field agent of the B.P.R.D. under Trevor Bruttenholm. In the years following World War II and the demise of the Nazi regime, Hellboy traveled the world, encountering and defeating numerous supernatural beings and disturbances such as werewolves, vampires, and encounters with the deranged Nazi scientist Herman Von Klempt (see World’s Greatest Paranormal Investigator) Hellboy also encounters minor deities, mythological creatures, and beings of folklore. He had a notable encounter with the Baba Yaga (see The Baba Yaga). In the year 1952, Hellboy was granted honorary human status by the United Nations.

Two years later, Hellboy was approached by the Osiris Club to slay the Saint Leonard worm, an alligator-like monster. This battle was in fact a test of Hellboy’s true virtue, resulting in lilies that grew from his spilled blood, which seemed to confirm his good nature (see The Nature of the Beast). A short time later, Professor Bruttenholm sent Hellboy to help a Professor Edmond Aickman with the King Vold myth. Aickman was obsessed with a possible reward, and manipulated Hellboy into begrudgingly completing Vold’s chosen tasks (see King Vold).

In 1959 Hellboy was in Ireland and embarked on a mission to rescue a baby, Alice Monaghan. In order to do so, he had to bear a corpse to its final resting place. Overseeing the assignment was the King of the Daoine Sidhe, who would harbor interest in Hellboy in the near future (see The Corpse).

In 1979 Hellboy was sent to aid a once famous physical medium, Mister Tod. Tod, using drugs to enter a trance, accidentally released a cosmic monster which created a body for itself with Tod’s ectoplasm (see Goodbye Mister Tod). This was Hellboy’s first encounter with the spirit of an Ogdru Hem; he was able to defeat the creature with an herb. In 1982 tracked down the infamous Countess Ilona Kakosy, a vampire. Hellboy slayed her after she tried to distract him with a disturbing vision (see The Vârcolac).

In 1991, Hellboy is called in to assist fellow Bureau agent Pauline Raskine. The B.P.R.D. was investigating a newly discovered hidden basement in a mansion owned by former a Doctor Carp. Carp was a Grand Master of the Golden Lodge, a temple of the Heliopic Brotherhood of Ra located in New York. Hellboy has knowledge of the H.B.R. and refers to them as crazy. Upon entering the room Hellboy was magically warped through time to the year 1902, where he had to contend with the sadistic Doctor. Carp managed to get a sample of Hellboy’s demonic blood to use on a chimpanzee, turning the ape into a bloodthirsty monster (see Dr. Carp’s Experiment).

The Cavendish Hall affair[]

Main article: Seed of Destruction

However, it wasn’t until the groundbreaking Cavendish Hall mission that Hellboy truly met a challenge which posed an extreme threat to him or his fellow agents Abe Sapien and Elizabeth Sherman, a woman with uncontrollable pyrokinetic abilities. It began when Hellboy met with his mentor Trevor Bruttenholm, who was trying to tell Hellboy a crucial memory disturbing the Professor. Suddenly, Bruttenholm was mysteriously killed when a spawning of frogs entered the room, and an angry Hellboy faced off with a humanoid frog monster.

A mission was sent to the haunted Cavendish Hall mansion, consisting of Hellboy, Abe and Liz to question the elderly Mrs. Cavendish, whose well-known family heritage Bruttenholm mentioned as he tried to remember what to tell Hellboy seconds before his death. Mrs. Cavendish was a widow who lost her three sons a few months before, when they, along with Trevor Bruttenholm, together explored the Arctic in search of a legendary temple. She said it was her family’s curse that every male in the line, starting with Elihu Cavendish, became obsessed with retrieving something from the Arctic. Many would never came back.

In truth, the Cavendish boys along with Bruttenholm, made it to a secret temple in the Arctic. There they had come across Grigori Rasputin, who had been hibernating for years in service to a terrible cosmic monstrosity, the Ogdru Jahad. Rasputin had become the creatures’ only hope of entering our world in order for them to unleash the Apocalypse on Earth. A dormant Ogdru Hem, Sadu-Hem one of the 369 children of the Ogdru Jahad, was accidentally awoken by the team. It’s breath transformed the three Cavendish brothers, and their guide while Bruttenholm was able to kept by Rasputin, after reading his mind and discovering his link with Hellboy. They boarded a ship and when they arrived in America, Bruttenholm was allowed to escape with a fragile memory, in order to lure Hellboy to Cavendish Hall.

Hellboy and his partners elected to stay the night at Cavendish Hall, to further explore any possible clues. Unbeknownst to the agents, the revived Rasputin had been manipulating events in order to draw Hellboy closer to him, intent on forcing Hellboy to fulfill his purpose as the Harbinger of Armageddon. Rasputin was the one who had summoned Hellboy to this world back in 1944, and had been patiently waiting for his chance to return and retake control of his ‘son.’

Upon discovering the presence of Rasputin, who had willingly revealed himself that evening in a vain attempt to coerce Hellboy’s loyalty, Hellboy refused this destiny. Having been raised by his mentor in the ways of good, he then tried to slay the now furious Rasputin.

Abe Sapien managed to kill Rasputin by throwing a harpoon through his chest. However, he was actually being possessed by the spirit of Elihu Cavendish. The ghost of Cavendish desired vengeance against Rasputin for the murder of his family. Liz Sherman awoke from her trance and summoned a firestorm that killed Sadu-Hem. Hellboy succeeded in rejecting his purpose and delaying the End of Days. Rasputin’s body was destroyed and his spirit was forced to flee, vowing that Hellboy would fulfill his purpose in the end, whether he wanted to or not.

More Career Highlights[]

What follows are a few worthy-of-note adventures of Hellboy and his partners following the Cavendish Hall incident:

• 1994, Griart, The Balkans: Hellboy and Kate Corrigan visited a town decimated by the angry ghosts of werewolves. It became a revenge mission after Father Kelly, Hellboy’s associate, was murdered by a living werewolf. Kate’s first sighting of a ghost occurred during this mission. (see The Wolves of Saint August)
• 1995, Scotland: Hellboy returned to the ruined church where he first appeared in the world, and had a dream-vision of his origin: His mother, as a young woman, had cavorted with the demon Prince Azzael, and on Walpurgisnacht (a night of great significance to witches) conceived Hellboy. (see The Chained Coffin)
• 1998, Lizarza, Spain: Hellboy met with Adrian Frost, the son of Malcolm Frost. Hellboy related his life story to Frost, and the two realized that Hellboy’s stone right hand was the key to triggering the Apocalypse. Hellboy has decided keep the hand lest someone else retrieve it and use it. (see The Right Hand of Doom)

The Giurescu Affair[]

Main article: Wake the Devil

In 1997, the second major turning point in Hellboy’s journey of discovery regarding his original purpose on Earth began as a mission 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.

The legend went that whenever Giurescu was injured in battle, his servants would bring his body back to his home castle, where the rays of the full moon would mystically revive him back to full health. In 1882, Giurescu, posing as a foreign nobleman, attempted to start a secret evil empire to conquer England. This caught the attention of the Nazi party during the 1940s, who then sent a delegation lead by Ilsa Haupstein to recruit the immortal vampire to their cause. The meeting went badly, resulting in Hitler ordering the arrest and murder of Giurescu’s vampiric followers, nicknamed his “family.” He and his ‘family’ were beheaded and stabbed through the heart with stakes, and then burned; their ashes sent to Hitler.

However, this was not the end for Vladimir Giurescu. In 1997, a former Nazi named Howard Steinman/Hans Ubler was shot to death inside his own museum, and a crate marked “Giurescu Lot #666” was taken. It is assumed that Ubler had stolen the remains of Giurescu during his Nazi days and had hidden the deceased vampire inside the museum for the last few decades. Now it appeared that Giurescu’s followers, lead by Ilsa Haupenstein, had come to rescue their master and bring his remains to Castle Giurescu, where the next full moon would revive him.

The problem was that Castle Giurescu had never been found, for its location has always been hidden. B.P.R.D. agent Kate Corrigan made three rough guesses at possible locations of the castle, and three groups of agents were sent to each location in case one of them is the real deal. Hellboy went solo to the first site, while Agent Clark and Abe Sapien went to the second site, and Liz Sherman, Bud Waller, and rookie agent Sidney Leach investigated the third site.

Hellboy arrived in time to discover that Ilsa had already prepared for the resurrection ceremony, but he was distracted by an encounter with the harpy-like Women of Thessaly. Meanwhile, Rasputin’s spirit had returned, and he succeeded in transforming Ilsa into the reincarnation of the goddess Hecate, who battled with Hellboy. When Hellboy was captured and left to die chained to a pole, the revived Giurescu charged him, only to be killed in an explosion when Hellboy cracked the pole in half and struck the vampire’s horse. In fury, the iron maiden which formerly was Ilsa Haupenstein swallowed up Hellboy, trapping him within an alternate dimension.

He encountered a group of beings who claim to be Chaos itself, and told Hellboy that the time had finally come for him to embrace his purpose. His true name, “Anung Un Rama,” was revealed for the first time, and the two sawed-off horns atop Hellboy’s forehead began to regrow as a crown of fire appeared above him.

Hellboy, however, managed to overcome the transformation, telling the spirits, “screw you!” and snapping off his newly-regrown horns; an act which represents Hellboy’s devotion to the cause of good and that he truly is a well-meaning being, despite his origins or purpose. This moment of defiance instantly returned him back to our world, where he met Kate Corrigan. Backup never arrived due to an accident at the airport, and Kate revealed to a shocked Hellboy that during his adventures the other two teams had met their own misfortunes:

Liz Sherman accidentally revived a human-sized homunculus which drained her power and killed Bud Waller before fleeing. Liz felt extreme guilt over the incident. At the same time, Abe Sapien and Agent Clark had visited a church in the belief that they would meet Hellboy there due to the presence of his tracking device.

But it was revealed to be a trap set up by Rasputin, who wanted revenge against Abe for stabbing the mystic through the chest in their last encounter during the Cavendish Hall affair. Clark was killed in the process, but Abe managed to survive. The skeletal remains of Vladimir Giurescu were recovered by the B.P.R.D. while Hellboy and his fellow agents were airlifted home, exhausted by their recent mission.

Meanwhile, Rasputin’s other henchmen Karl Ruprect Kroenen and Leopold Kurtz attempted to follow the will of Rasputin in castle in Norway. The two Nazi scientiests had been entrusted with the task of creating an Army for Giurescu to lead in a campaign to destroy mankind, thus bringing about Rasputin’s planned “Ragna Rok” apocalypse. However due to Kroenen’s disobedience in resurrecting Nazi scientist Herman Von Klempt, whom Rasputin despised, and the accidental killing of Kurtz the undead mystic struck the C.E.O. of the Zinco Corporation, Roderick Zinco blind. While Zinco panicked, he accidentally hit a button which destroyed the fortress. However, Kurtz and Kroenen were somehow able to survive, probably thanks to Rasputin, and recently reappeared in the B.P.R.D. story Russia.

Almost Colossus[]

Main article: Almost Colossus

After losing her powers to the homunculus, Liz Sherman underwent treatment by Dr. Olasz at the Wauer Institute. Meanwhile, Hellboy and Kate Corrigan investigate a missing cross and several missing corpses. The culprit was the homunculus, praying for God to kill him. Instead, the homunculus met his older brother, who told him of his creator and of their plans to overthrow mankind. Hellboy and Kate discovered the homunculus’ lair where they were attacked by his brother’s crude homunculi henchmen. Kate was captured and the homunculus’s brother planned to use her to build an enormous homunculus body for him to inhabit. Kate was rescued, but the evil brother used the giant body to attack Hellboy. The first homunculus then seemingly gave in to his brother’s wishes, becoming part of the giant body. But he used the pyrokinesis taken from Liz to destroy his evil brother’s new body. They rushed to the Wauer Institute and arrived just moments after Liz died. Then the homunculus, now dubbed «Roger», returned Liz’s pyrokinetic powers to her, restoring her life at the cost of his own.

The Little Box of Evil[]

Main article: Box Full of Evil

In 1999, Hellboy and Abe investigated the castle of Count Guarino after a mysterious attack. On this mission, the warlock Igor Bromhead released Ualac, a minor demon trapped in a box by St. Dunstan. Ualac was able to teach Bromhead Hellboy’s secret name, Anung Un Rama, and temporarily paralyze him. Abe was shot by a chimpanzee, the former count now transformed. Ualac claimed the Crown of the Apocalypse (which sits invisibly on Hellboy’s head) before attempting to take Hellboy’s stone right hand. Hellboy was able to break free thanks to advice from the Daoine Sidge and killed his enemy’s mortal body. Bromhead and Ualac were claimed by the demon Astaroth, who also took Hellboy’s crown down to Hell.

The Conqueror Worm Affair[]

Main article: Conqueror Worm (story)

This was a landmark moment in Hellboy’s multi-layered career. With the help of fellow agents Roger and Abe Sapien, among others, he faced off against an unprecedented threat: a cosmic entity bound with a Nazi scientist who had been floating through space for decades and was now the vessel for the monstrous creature’s arrival on Earth. This beast was an alleged offspring of the Ogdru-Jahad, which the Nazis had tried to communicate with back in the 40’s. This mission to stop the ‘worm,’ now controlled by Grigori Rasputin, culminated in an intense sacrifice from Roger the Homunculus, who risked his very life to try and imprison the worm’s spirit within himself.

With assistance from the ghost of famed television-serial hero Lobster Johnson, Hellboy managed to drive away the Worm’s consciousness, and a wounded Roger was given aid by B.P.R.D. agents. Hellboy now felt deep guilt over his profession, due to him having been given by Manning prior to the mission a device to kill Roger, should he become dangerous again. Then, with a heavy heart, Hellboy announced his resignation to Kate Corrigan, before leaving to try and find out once and for all the truth behind the supposed fate that would always haunt him.

Hellboy Alone[]

Main article: The Third Wish, The Island

Hellboy went to Africa in 2004, where he met with an African witch-doctor named Mohlomi. When the spirits of Africa warned him that he had one last night to sleep in their land, Mohlomi brought him to the coast where he claimed that the sea was calling to Hellboy. He ended up being captured by a trio of mermaids who drive a magic nail into his forehead and bring him to the Bog Roosh, a powerful sea witch who meant to prevent the Apocalypse by dismembering Hellboy and hiding the Right Hand of Doom. Hellboy is traded to Bog Roosh in exchange for granting the three mermaids, her granddaughters, their wishes. Although the first two are killed by their wishes, the third lives as she wished only to return the spear of her deceased father. The ghost of the mermaid’s father returns and admonishes her for kidnapping Hellboy, an innocent man, in exchange for attempting to redeem his honor. Feeling guilty, she returns in secret to rescue Hellboy. Hellboy kills the Bog Roosh and disperses the source of her power, the captured souls of drowned sailors. However her granddaughter becomes the new Bog Roosh to replace her. The granddaughter removes the magic nail from Hellboy’s forehead, but he is plunged into a coma and ends up adrift at sea for two years.

Two years later, Hellboy washed up on an unknown deserted island. There, he accidentally resurrected an ancient mystic and learned the secret history of the universe. Through the mystic’s blood, Urgo-Hem was resurrected and briefly killed Hellboy, before the latter returned to life and defeated the monster. After rebuking Hecate one more time on embracing his destiny, he set sail away from the island and headed for England.

The Baba Yaga’s Revenge[]

Main article: Darkness Calls

In 2007, Hellboy returned to England and stayed with his friend Harry Middleton, who had died years before. While out on a walk, he was accosted by witches who took him to Italy. They explained that Igor Bromhead had subdued Hecate in an attempt to become the king of witches, but they refused and wanted Hellboy to lead them instead. Hellboy rejects them and leaves.

The infuriated witches then accept the Baba Yaga’s bargain to turn him over to her, and he is plunged into her Russian dimension to be tormented and killed as revenge for shooting out her eye back in 1964. As Hellboy battles the witch’s minions, he receives aid from other Russian supernatural beings such as the Leshii, Perun, a domovoi, and a little girl named Vasilisa. Frustrated, the Baba Yaga sends her champion, Koshchei the Deathless, to kill Hellboy in exchange for giving him the death he had longed for. Vasilisa shows Hellboy the way out of the Baba Yaga’s world, but Koshchei kills her and she leaves behind two gifts to aid Hellboy’s escape. The Baba Yaga expends all her magical power to enhance Koschei’s strength and finally kill Hellboy, but she ultimately fails and is left virtually powerless.

Once Hellboy returns to the real world, he tracks down Igor Bromhead. There, he finds the warlock transformed into a monster as the power of Hecate proved too much for him to control. Bromhead begs him to put him out of his misery and Hellboy obliges, killing him.

A Secret Legacy[]

Main article: The Wild Hunt

Hellboy is staying at the house of the deceased Capobianco sisters when he receives an invitation from the Osiris Club to meet with him in England. They invite him to join them on the Wild Hunt, a hunting party composed of British elites, as a band of rogue giants have begun terrorizing the British countryside. This turns out to be a trap as the Wild Hunt turns on Hellboy in the middle of their expedition, claiming they would never allow the Devil to sit on the throne of England. After awakening from the attempted assassination, Hellboy encounters the giants, who had killed the Wild Hunt while he was unconscious. Although a bird offers him a chance to escape stealthily, Hellboy rejects it and deliberately picks a fight with the giants to vent out his frustration and anger at being assassinated. In his bloodlust he massacres the giants and awakened his latent demonic powers. Shocked that he enjoyed brutalising the giants, he flees.

Forty-seven hours later, Hellboy moves to Ireland and reunites with Alice Monaghan, a woman who he had saved from the fey folk when she was still a baby in 1963. Hellboy and Alice had met in a dream prior to his invitation, attending the funeral of the fairy king Dagda. Alice then takes Hellboy to meet with Queen Mab, who tells Hellboy that she sees one chance for him to escape his apocalyptic destiny and warns him that the Gruagach of Lough Leane had resurrected Nimue, Merlin’s former apprentice and the Queen of Blood, to rule over the leaderless witches. It was Gruagach’s conspirators who had murdered King Dagda, and with the Queen of Blood they plan to wage war on the human race, amassing an army of forgotten magical beings to take back the surface world. After Mab leaves, Hellboy and Alice are led into a trap of goblins, one of whom manages to poison Alice. A trio of bird spirits arrive and take the two of them to a mysterious castle beseiged by demons. The birds direct Hellboy to kill Eligos, the demon knight guarding the bridge, so that they could enter. Hellboy and Eligos do battle, but Hellboy is on the backfoot until he receives aid from an imp who tells him of Eligos’ weakness. With Eligos beaten, Hellboy and his company finally enter the castle and Alice is cured. They then learn that the castle belonged to the witch Morgan le Fay.

Hellboy and Alice learn from Morgan le Fay that Hellboy’s witch mother Sarah Hughes was a direct descendant of her and Arthur’s son Mordred, thus making Hellboy the rightful king of England. Morgan presents Hellboy with Excalibur and urges him to pull it out, thus raising an army of Britain’s noble dead in order to combat the Queen of Blood’s forces. Hellboy is reluctant to accept another heavy destiny on his shoulders and takes some time to think, but Astaroth appears and attempts to goad Hellboy into pulling out the sword as well, but for his own motives. Astaroth believes in a prophecy that Hellboy would usurp Hell’s ruling class and awaken its sleeping army to break down the walls of Hell, allowing the liberated slaves of demonkind to reign on Earth. After battling another twisted illusion of himself, Vasilisa appears and urges Hellboy to believe in Alice’s faith in him, as opposed to all the dark portents that his enemies have told him. Hellboy at last pulls Excalibur from the stone, transporting himself and Alice back to Ireland.

The Final Battle[]

Main article: The Storm, The Fury

With Excalibur claimed, Hellboy and Alice follow reports of dead noble men rising from their graves, confirming Morgan’s prophecy. On the road they are attacked by a monstrous knight, a champion of the Queen of Blood who boasts that Nimue had murdered Queen Mab and her allies. After Hellboy kills him, the two stumble upon a tavern in the woods and rest. A storm builds outside as Nimue gathers her forces for the war against mankind, and the army of the noble dead masses outside the tavern awaiting Hellboy’s command. Hellboy rejects leading them and goes off into the woods alone to face Nimue his way. On the way there he stumbles upon Gruagach, who was cast out by Nimue, hanging from a noose as Merlin cursed him with immortality to witness the Apocalypse. Astaroth appears again, mocking Hellboy for rejecting his destiny one last time before disappearing. Finally, the Baba Yaga appears and offers to transport Hellboy past Nimue’s vast army of monsters at the cost of his eye, payment at last for him shooting her eye out.

Hellboy arrives at Nimue’s tower just in time to witness her being possessed by the Ogdru Jahad, transforming her into a dragon. The Ogdru Jahad spreads the storm across all of Great Britain, wreaking havoc to prepare for the end times. Hellboy and the Ogdru Jahad do battle, but he slowly loses to the dragon. Vasilisa appears to him one last time and asks if he is ready to meet his end. Hellboy admits that he is ready, and Vasilisa hands him a sword made from Nimue’s crown to slay the dragon. Meanwhile at the tavern, Alice hands Excalibur to a blessed World War I soldier named George Washbrook, who regains his youth and uses the Holy Grail to invigorate the army of the noble dead and lead them to battle against the Queen of Blood’s army at Vigrid, the prophesied battlefield of Ragnarok at the base of Nimue’s tower. Alice flees into the forest, encountering the supernatural Wild Hunt led by King Vold, only to be transported to Vigrid after the two armies had slaughtered each other. The tavern barkeep reveals herself to be Mab’s spirit and points Alice to the tower where Hellboy fights the Ogdru Jahad and delay the Apocalypse. Alice reaches the top of the tower just in time to witness Hellboy defeat Nimue and the Ogdru Jahad. Before the two could celebrate, Nimue’s ghost appears and tears out Hellboy’s heart, killing him as she is dragged into Hell. Alice weeps for Hellboy, but England is saved from annihilation.

Hellboy in Hell[]

Main article: Hellboy in Hell (series)

Powers and Abilities[]

Powers[]

Cambion Physiology: Hellboy’s superhuman abilities would seem to stem from his demonic heritage. While his specific powers and abilities have never been explicitly listed, Hellboy is much stronger and more physically durable than an ordinary human.

• Superhuman Strength: Although the true extent of his strength is unclear and possibly limitless, Hellboy possesses a strength level of at least Class 5. He has tossed opponents weighing at least four to five hundred pounds, hurled a large broken tree at a giant, thrown a harpoon through a monster along with the ship mast, and lifted a chunk of rubble to crush his opponent.

• Superhuman Speed: While he’s not much of a speedster, Hellboy’s shown to be pretty fast for a creature his size. He could quickly purse a vampire from outside of a castle to the underground and appear right in front of a human after causing the human to flee.
  • Superhuman Reflexes: Hellboy’s reflexes are far greater than any normal human being, being able to catch a demon in its fly form before it escaped and snatch missiles out of the air. He’s also reacted to several floating heads at once, a surprise charge from a super gorilla, and a blast from Grigori Rasputin.
  • Superhuman Agility: Hellboy possesses agility, balance, and coordination which surpass even the finest human athlete. He’s dodged attacks from humans, a giant werewolf, an entire army of zombies and he can dodge lightning, bullets, and lasers. Its agility is thirty times the speed of sound.

• Superhuman Durability: Hellboy is shown to be capable of withstanding wounds that would be fatal to ordinary humans without being incapacitated, as well as recovering from injuries at an incredible rate. He has been shown to withstand great impact forces, high caliber bullets, exposure to extremes of both temperatures and falls from great heights. He has been savagely beaten by large monsters on several occasions and survived, often with relatively minor injuries. Hellboy has also demonstrated immunity to the powers of August Breccan, granted to him by demons.

• Superhuman Endurance: Hellboy has consistently displayed enormous amounts of endurance. He can fall thousands of feet and walk it off like it’s nothing and shake off injuries after being crushed and beaten by a giant. On one occasion, Hellboy directly charged an MG-42 machine gun and took numerous bullets to the chest before destroying the gun. On another, he was impaled by a massive spearhead through the chest, but smashed the handle and charged the attacker, leaving the spearhead buried in the tree behind him. Despite being shot in the face two times by a double-barrel shotgun, Hellboy got up and walked to the home of his shooter, all without passing out.

• Superhuman Stamina: While certainly not limitless, Hellboy’s stamina has been shown to exceed that of normal and highly athletic humans. Hellboy’s stamina is part of what keeps him going in a long battle and the factor that backs up his stubbornness as he refuses to go down in a fight.

• Enhanced Sight: Hellboy has been noted to have advanced sight, allowing him to see farther than average humans. The extent of his sight ability seems to be limited to distance, but he’s shown to not have too much trouble seeing in the dark or in minimal-light situations.

• Accelerated Healing: Although he can be damaged like any living thing, Hellboy possesses a «healing factor» (much like the Marvel Comics character Wolverine) that allows him to recover from wounds at an incredible rate. One example of this was when he recovered after being in close proximity to his concussion grenade.
  • Decelerated Aging: Hellboy seems to age differently from normal humans. At the time that young Hellboy tried his favorite food, “pamcakes” for the first time, he was technically two years old but appeared to be far older, around age six. In 1954 he already appeared to be a full-grown adult but was in reality about ten years old. His rapid physical maturation is in contrast to his physical rate of aging, which seems to be much slower than normal. Throughout the sixty-year span of his life, Hellboy seems to have ceased to age ever since reaching physical maturity.
  • Immortality: Despite being taken out many times and eventually stopped at one point, Hellboy has survived blows that would kill any ordinary human. Possibly because he could fulfill his duty as the bringer of the apocalypse, Hellboy seems to have escaped death at nearly every turn. As he’s described to be «as deathless as Koshchei», Hellboy can’t die unless he believes he should.
  • Thermal Resistance: Thanks to his demonic heritage and accelerated healing, Hellboy’s body is quite resistant against high temperatures and fire. In the movies, he is depicted as being fireproof, and he is even more resilient against heat or burns than his comic book counterpart, to the point he became immune to all forms of fire and burns, including Liz Sherman’s flames, and electrocution.

• Demonic Transformation: Hellboy assumes an even more demonic form under special circumstances, either artificially or when under emotional duress. In this form, Hellboy’s stumps become full-grown horns. After coming to terms with his heritage, Hellboy seems to be able to transform at will, while also sprouting wings. Hellboy becomes much stronger and gains access to his latent magic. In his full-demon form, Hellboy was able to effortlessly slaughter Hell’s most powerful inhabitants.
  • Size-Shifting: Hellboy can increase his size to the point where he’s very larger such as Leviathan and Behemoth.
  • Hell-Fire Manipulation: While in his demonic form, Hellboy has the power to control the fires of Hell. With the power of Hellfire, Hellboy can create and manipulate massive devastating infernos from his body that obliterate anything in their path.
  • Electrokinesis: In his demonic form, Hellboy has the power to command lightning from the sky and strike down whoever he wishes.
  • Flight: When transformed into his demonic form, Hellboy sprouts wings which grant him the power of flight. However, it’s unknown whether he uses wings or magic to achieve this feat.

Abilities[]

• Hand-to-Hand Combatant (Master): Although proficient with handguns, Hellboy often chooses to engage in close combat where he can utilize his incredible strength to defeat his enemies. He has also displayed skill with swords and other improvised weapons. He quite likely mastered all forms of Earth’s martial arts, and a little further.
• Occult Knowledge: His decades of experience as a paranormal investigator has given him expertise in folklore, magical rituals, the use of charms and curses, paranormal creatures and other related topics.
• Innate Multilingualism: Due to his demon heritage, Hellboy was born with the ability to read, comprehend, and understand a number of ancient, magic and demonic languages. All parts of his intellect are super-human, making him an incredible strategist and an expert in all occult knowledge.
• Superhuman intellect: Hellboy’s intelligence is incredible, being the best paranormal investigator since he was 8 years old.
• Master strategist: Hellboy is the best strategist on earth. Due to his destiny, he is capable of leading all the hell’s instable army (more than 200 billions monsters) with perfection. He can create the best plans and can improvise very well too.
• Riders Aptitude: During the vision presented to him in the 2019 reboot film. Hellboy could be seen riding a massive dragon across an infernal wasteland made of the human world. Showing apt mount taming skills.

Personality[]

Hellboy is often described as a likeable, gruff person with much panache and witty humor in his attitude. He is easily angered by the (often defective) gadgets he uses, but has a genuinely good heart and love for other humans, despite his demonic origins. A living oxymoron, Hellboy is a force for good, with an iron will and a desire to do the right thing. He has continuously stated his disinterest in his supposed ‘purpose,’ and tries to hide his conflicted feelings beneath the wisecracking facade of an adventurous tough-guy who would just as soon knock back a cold beer and light a stogie, than battle demons and evil spirits.

The ‘Right Hand of Doom’[]

Main Article: Right Hand of Doom.

Weapons and Equipment:[]

In addition to his natural gifts, Hellboy carries a variety of items, such as holy relics, horseshoes, and herbs in his utility belt, as well as a variety of grenades and other demolition tools; these often come in handy when fighting supernatural beasts. He also typically carries a sidearm of some sort.

• Hellboy carried a handgun given to him by a WWII era superhero named The Torch of Liberty. This gun was lost in the ocean, but was later replaced by a 1941 US Army-issue M1911A1 .45 caliber pistol provided by the ghost of Harry Middleton.
• Hellboy often carries many charms and knick-knacks on his belt, which he often uses as either tools to resurrect the dead, protect him or his friends from evil entities, heal, etc. A commonly shown item among these various possessions is a Catholic Rosary.
• On Hellboy’s belt is a tracking device which is constantly linked to B.P.R.D. headquarters, in order to keep track of Hellboy’s whereabouts. After the events at Hunte Castle he no longer wore this belt. (Hellboy:Conqueror Worm)
• On the Giurescu mission, Hellboy used a rocket pack to make a tricky landing over the Castle. However, this “new and improved” model proved to be a wash when, upon ignition, exploded and engulfed a predictably pissed Hellboy.
• Hellboy is almost always seen wearing a large and heavy jacket that reaches well below his knees. The pockets of this jacket are typically filled with many of the charms and totems mentioned above, granting him even greater paranormal protection. His original jacket bore the B.P.R.D. logo on its sleeve, but after he quit the Bureau this logo vanished, indicating that he either removed it or the jacket he is currently wearing is a new one altogether. His jacket has been heavily damaged many times, yet it always shows up repaired with each new story, indicating that Hellboy might have some skill in weaving.
• Hellboy briefly wielded the sword Excalibur, from Arthurian Legend. Supposedly, wielding this sword marks him as the rightful King of England, and will allow him to lead an army of England’s noble dead. He was able to draw the sword from the stone due to being a direct decedent of King Arthur.
• In the Guillermo del Toro films, Hellboy is also equipped with a large pistol, the Good Samaritan, which uses specially modified bullets to combat supernatural beings. It often runs out of ammo, and is prone to jamming. It is said that a bullet of this weapon can hurt anything.
• In the film Hellboy 2, Hellboy wields Big Baby, a six round shotgun-like weapon, using it to kill the Forest God

Origins and Destiny[]

Hellboy’s destiny has been a common and persistent theme in the series, and becomes more and more complicated with every story arc. The first thing we knew about Hellboy was that he was destined to be the Beast of the Apocalypse. Bearing the Right Hand of Doom, which came from one of the Watchers who made the Ogdru Jahad, Hellboy possesses the one thing capable of waking the terrible beasts from their prison and unleashing them to end the days of man. For a long time, this has been the main focus of his destiny, and the thing he has constantly avoided.

During the Wild Hunt story arc, however, his destiny took another interesting turn. It had already been revealed that Hellboy is the son of Azzael, a major demon, and Sarah Hughes, a witch who spent most of her life in repentance after summoning him. Sarah had two human children besides Hellboy, a nun and a pastor, both of whom died a swift death trying to protect their mother from Azzael in the hopes of breaking his claim over her. Azzael would not be denied, he hooked his chains into the body of Sarah Hughes and dragged her down to Hell.

Sarah Hughes is a descendant of the traitor Sir Mordred, who died while slaying King Arthur. Mordred himself was the bastard son of King Arthur and Morgana Le Fay, who was Arthur’s sister. Mordred had three sons, who were all executed, and a daughter who was hidden away. Through this daughter, Mordred’s bloodline continued up to Sarah, her human children, and Hellboy himself. This makes Hellboy a descendant of King Arthur, and thus, the lawful King of England. Through this, it has been said that he was destined to wear a crown all along, be it in Hell or on Earth, and that his destiny as Arthur’s descendant is to pull the sword Excalibur from the stone, and lead Britain’s army of the dead — another part of Hellboy’s destiny of which he doesn’t seem too sure about.

Allies and Enemies[]

Allies[]

• Abraham Sapien: An amphibious humanoid of mysterious origin, this fellow agent can breathe underwater thanks to a set of gills. Hellboy first sympathized with Abe and saved him from dissection by the B.P.R.D. scientists, the two became best friends with a brother relationship. In field work Abe was first like a sidekick to Hellboy until becoming an equal in the Bureau.
• Elizabeth Sherman: A pyrokinetic, brooding, somber woman has the psychic ability to create and manipulate fire. However, she suffers from guilt and a lack of self-confidence over her unstable and often downright dangerous ability. When she was a child, she accidentally killed her parents with her powers, and has since always been haunted by her failures and mistakes. In the 2004 film, she is portrayed as as having a romantic relationship with Hellboy and is pregnant with his twin children. However, their relationship in the comics is simply that of good friends.
• Johann Kraus: A German medium who was displaced from his body, although his body was destroyed his ectoplasmic form remained.
• Benjamin Daimio: To be added…
• Alice Monaghan: To be added…
• Sydney Leach: …….
• Roger: An abnormally large, artificial man created from blood and herbs mixed in a jar with horse manure. Roger was discovered by Liz Sherman’s party during the Guirescu Affair, and was accidentally revived inside the secret laboratory he was built in by Sherman, who had curiously reached into a hole in his chest. Her fiery abilities sparked the creature to life, and the startled, frightened and confused homunculus lashed out and killed Agent Waller. However, at a later time the creature, to be named Roger eventually, was confronted by Hellboy and the beast helped revive a seriously injured Liz Sherman. Roger was rewarded with Agent status, and became a close partner of Hellboy during the Conqueror Worm mission.
• Trevor Bruttenholm: Hellboy’s mentor and adoptive father. Pronounced “Broom,” the Professor was killed by a plague of frogs summoned by Grigori Rasputin, as a way to entice Hellboy into investigating the strange murder and falling right into the deranged mystic’s plans.
• Thomas Manning: The head of the B.P.R.D. and Hellboy’s boss. He is the one who usually briefs Hellboy and his fellow agents on their new missions.
• Kate Corrigan: One of Hellboy’s most beloved teammates, Kate is an expert agent and motherly figure of the B.P.R.D. She is often on hand to give support and strong-willed advice, as well as criticism. An expert of the occult, Kate is a very dear friend and partner of Hellboy.
• Angel the Vampire (apocryphal): In the Angel/Buffy comic The City of Despair, Hellboy and a Predator make cameos as gladiators in another dimension where Buffy and Angel have to fight each other in the end. Hellboy also makes appearances in two other Angel comics: Past Lives, The Book of Carthage. (Dark Horse Comics)

Enemies[]

• Grigori Rasputin: The former infamous «Mad Monk» of Tsarist Russia, he is now an undead mystic who claims to be the official messenger of the terrible cosmic entity, the Ogdru Jahad, and is completely devoted to bringing about the end of days, by any means. He was under the employ of the Nazis in the mid-forties when he summoned Hellboy to Earth, intending him to be the leader of Rasputin’s forces in the coming apocalypse. He and his ‘creation’ first met during the Cavendish mission, and has since been manipulating numerous events, to further his motives. He had a romantic relationship with Ilsa Haupenstein. He is considered to be Hellboy’s archenemy.
• Herman von Klempt: A deranged Nazi scientist who is in fact a disembodied head which is kept alive inside a jar of liquid. His gruesome experiments with helpless village girls introduced him to Hellboy, who would become his greatest adversary in his twisted plans. Under his control is an army of gigantic gorillas, controlled through a mental device implanted within the ape’s brains. They do the brunt of Von Klempt’s work, and are in fact slightly sympathetic creatures, due to their mindless control under the mad Von Klempt.
• The Baba Yaga: This powerful and ancient witch, who resides in a chicken-legged house, has been on this Earth for centuries, and has a personal hatred for Hellboy after he shot out her left eye. Rasputin refers to Baba Yaga as his grandmother, and she has a tender, maternal relationship with the mystic.
• Ilsa Haupstein: This Nazi woman was a deeply loyal follower of Grigori Rasputin, and had a romantic attraction to him. Seduced into believing Rasputin’s prophecy of the Ogrdu Jahad’s complete destruction of Earth and rebirth as a beautiful paradise free of conflict or moral sins, she was convinced to enter a metal torture device, which transformed Ilsa into the malevolent goddess Hecate. This evil entity swallowed up Hellboy, transporting him to an eerie realm where he confronted his purpose and experienced the re-growth of his horns.
• Hecate: Hellboy first encounters the witch goddess Hecate after defeating Vladimir Giurescu for the first time. Hecate informs Hellboy that they are tied to the apocalypse and that they will either die together or live through it together to see the new world. Hellboy defeats Hecate, but she lives on in an iron body fueled by the blood and bones of Ilsa Haupstein.

Appearances in other Media[]

Hellboy (2004–2008 film franchise)[]

The 2004 film directed by Guillermo del Toro helped bring a larger awareness of the character into the public eye, and resulted in the birth of many more fans.

The plot focused primarily on the origin of Hellboy, depicting in a prologue his summoning to Earth by Grigori Rasputin and his rescue from the forces of evil by a young Trevor Bruttenholm. In the modern day, Hellboy is now a paranormal investigator for the Bureau for Paranormal Research and Defense. He finds himself not only having to battle an army of multiplying Sammael creatures which threaten to overtake mankind, but to also face the temptations of the resurrected Rasputin, who has come to finally fulfill Hellboy’s purpose…

The sequel, titled Hellboy II: The Golden Army, was released in July 2008, and features the return of many cast members such as Ron Perlman, Selma Blair, Doug Jones, Jeffrey Tambor and John Hurt (in a flashback sequence as Professor Trevor Bruttenholm). The film concerns the secret communities of fairy tale creatures (who have been rejected and ignored by an increasingly science-minded humanity), who then start a rebellion against humankind, and the B.P.R.D. is the only hope to stop this growing war.

Hellboy Animated[]

Hellboy has also enjoyed success in animated medium, starring in a series of feature-length animated movies released directly to DVD, and starring the voice talents of the live-action movie’s actors (Ron Perlman, Selma Blair and Doug Jones being the most prominent).
To date only two films have been released: Hellboy Animated: Sword of Storms and Hellboy Animated: Blood and Iron, while a third feature titled Hellboy Animated: The Phantom Claw was in development, but has since been abandoned. This animated continuity of the Hellboy universe is also expanded on in a short graphic-novella series published by Dark Horse Comics, consisting (so far) of the comic collections Hellboy Animated: Phantom Legs (exclusive to the Sword of Storms DVD), Hellboy Animated: The Black Wedding and Hellboy Animated: The Judgement Bell.

Hellboy (2019 film)[]

The 2019 film is an R-rated reboot directed by Neil Marshall and stars David Harbour as Hellboy (Guillermo del Toro was not offered the full writer-director capacity he had in the first two films, and Ron Perlman refused to return without del Toro’s involvement); the film is primarily an adaptation of the Darkness Calls, The Wild Hunt, and The Storm and Fury arcs, and features Hellboy combating Nimue.

David Harbour has stated the film will be a «character piece, and feature mature themes and complicated subjects that will warrant the R-rating», and, to better prepare for the role of Hellboy, has been not only researching the character, but also texting Mike Mignola about his history, as well as what he might think about certain subjects; Harbour has also refrained from imitating Ron Perlman’s depiction of Hellboy by depicting him as a «teenager», describing him as «younger, rougher and struggling with the idea of whether or not he’s a good person». Mignola also described Harbour’s take on Hellboy as «being more dramatic, gritty and emotionally explosive than Perlman’s».

For the horned version of Hellboy, makeup designer Joel Harlow decided to make it an «amped up version» of Hellboy’s normal look, stating «we created a look that was a more amped up version of the facial features that make him Hellboy: we gave him a larger jaw, a heavier brow, more vibrant yellow eyes, larger teeth and, of course, extremely large horns».

Video Games[]

Injustice 2[]

Hellboy appears in Netherrealm Studios’ game Injustice 2 as a DLC character voiced by Bruce Barker. In his single-player ending, it is revealed that Brainiac had brought him to the DC universe in order to add him to his «special collection», to which Hellboy responds by beating him down. After that, his popularity rises after defeating Braniac, and he is offered positions from numerous individuals but quickly becomes bored, stating that ‘it’s not his thing’. When he returned back to his universe and the Bureau, it wasn’t the same. Hellboy soon decided to retire from his job and takes refuge in Africa.

Hellboy also appeared in Injustice 2 Mobile.

Brawlhalla

Hellboy appears in Blue Mammoth Games’ game Brawlhalla as an Epic Crossover skin for Cross.

Behind the Scenes[]

Hellboy was created by comic artist Mike Mignola, and is published in comic books by Dark Horse Comics Inc. He first appeared in San Diego Comic-Con Comics #2, and was soon given the lead role in his own comic book series written and drawn by Mignola, with assistance from John Byrne at first.

The character was well-received by comic readers and critics alike, and the character’s popularity has risen tremendously due to his appearances in other media, most notably the two live-action films Hellboy (2004) and Hellboy II: The Golden Army (see below), both directed by Guillermo del Toro, a devoted fan of the comic. To date, Hellboy remains Mignola’s most beloved and recognizable creation.

Trivia[]

• According to Mignola, Hellboy’s personality was primarily based off of his father, a worker who often came home with many injuries, but always shrugged them off with dry humor.
• Originally, Hellboy was to be a member of a superhero team Mignola conceived, but the artist abandoned the team-concept when he failed to come up with suitable names for the other heroes.
• Lauded Mexican filmmaker Guillermo del Toro, who is an acknowledged major fan of Mignola’s work, wrote the introduction to the hardcover edition of the Conqueror Worm arc. Del Toro would later go on to direct two of three live-action Hellboy films that exist today.
• Hellboy’s name was born out of what began as a private joke to Mignola, who had randomly come up with the word, saying that he found the name “hilarious.”
• The Hellboy comic books, as well as the general artistic style of Mignola’s work, was tremendously influenced by the art of famed comic-book illustrator Jack Kirby, as well as influences by Gustav Dore, H. P. Lovecraft, and even Bram Stoker’s famed novel Dracula, which is one of Mignola’s favorites.
• In the film, Hellboy is often referred as demon by other characters, despite in comics, his true nature was a half-demon though it is hard to pinpoint due to the strange circumstances of his birth.
• Hellboy’s aim with guns is terrible, but his throwing one is perfect.

External links[]

• Hellboy at Wikipedia
• The Official Hellboy site
• Hellboy on the Injustice Wiki
• Hellboy on the VS Battles Wiki
• Hellboy on the Heroes Wiki

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Издатель	Dark Horse Comics
Первое появление	Dime Press # 4 (март 1993): первое появление прототипа Хеллбоя, только обложка San Diego Comic Con Comics # 2 (август 1993): первое полное появление Хеллбоя, только черно-белое Next Men # 21 (декабрь 1993): первое появление в регулярно публикуемом заголовке, первое появление в цвете
Создано	Майком Миньолой
In- информация о сюжете
Альтер-эго	Анунг ун Рама
Виды	Камбион (полу- человек, полу- демон )
Место происхождения	Ист Бромвич, UK
Принадлежность к команде	BPRD
Партнерство	Эйб Сапиен Лиз Шерман Иоганн Краусс
Известные псевдонимы	Разрушитель Миров, Великий Зверь, Зверь Апокалипсиса, Правая Рука Судьбы, Сын Павшего, Брат Красный, Большой Красный, Красная Обезьяна, Большой Красный Человек, Красный, Человек-зверь, Грива, Адский супергерой, Парень, который приведет к концу света, Одинокий герой, Агент Хеллбой, Глупый уродливый демон-обезьяна, HB
Способности	Сверхчеловеческая сила, выносливость, прочность, выносливость и долголетие Фактор ускоренного исцеления Обширные знания о сверхъестественном Деснице Судьбы (которая служит ключом к Конец света ) Врожденная способность понимать магические языки Невосприимчивость к огню и молнии

Хеллбой — вымышленный супергерой, созданный писателем-художником Майк Миньола. Персонаж впервые появился в San Diego Comic-Con Comics # 2 (август 1993 ) и с тех пор появлялся в различных одноименных мини-сериалах, один- кадры и межфирменные кроссоверы. Персонаж экранизирован в трех игровых фильмах. Две звезды Рон Перлман в 2004 и 2008 в главной роли, и один в 2019, где снялся Дэвид Харбор, а также два анимационных фильма прямо на DVD и три видеоигры — Asylum Seeker, The Science of Evil и в качестве игрового персонажа. в Injustice 2.

Доброжелательный полу- Демон (или Камбион ), чье настоящее имя Анунг Ун Рама («и на его чело установлено венцом пламени «), Хеллбой был вызван из Ада на Землю в младенчестве нацистскими оккультистами (порождая его ненависть к Третий рейх ). Он был обнаружен на вымышленном острове Внешние Гебриды союзными войсками ; среди них был профессор Тревор Бруттенхольм, который сформировал Бюро по исследованию и защите паранормальных явлений США (B.P.R.D.). Со временем Хеллбой превратился в большого краснокожего взрослого человека с хвостом, рогами (которые он подпиливает, оставляя на лбу круглые обрубки), раздвоенными копытами вместо ступней и огромной правой рукой, сделанной из камня (» Правая рука судьбы »). Он был описан как пахнущий жареным арахисом. Хотя он и немного грубоват, он не проявляет никакой злобности, которая, как считалось, присуща классическим демонам, и обладает ироническим чувством юмора. Говорят, это из-за того, что он воспитывался под руководством профессора Бруттенхольма, который вырастил его как обычного мальчика.

Хеллбой работает на BPRD, международное неправительственное агентство, и на себя против темных сил, включая нацистов и ведьм, в серии сказок, в которых есть свои уходит своими корнями в фольклор, журналы по прессе, старинные приключения, ужас Лавкрафта и фантастику ужасов. В более ранних историях он назван «величайшим исследователем паранормальных явлений в мире».

Содержание

• 1 Биография вымышленного персонажа
• 2 Силы и способности
  • 2.1 Правая рука судьбы
• 3 Концепция и создание
• 4 История публикаций
  • 4.1 Проблемы
  • 4.2 Проблемы: Хеллбой в аду
  • 4.3 Проблемы: Хеллбой и BPRD
  • 4.4 Оригинальные графические романы: Хеллбой
• 5 One Shots
  • 5.1 Торговля в мягкой обложке: Хеллбой
  • 5.2 Торговля в мягкой обложке: Хеллбой в аду
  • 5.3 Торговые книги в мягкой обложке: Хеллбой и BPRD
  • 5.4 Библиотечные издания
  • 5.5 Омнибусные издания
  • 5.6 Прочие торговые книги в мягкой обложке
  • 5.7 Другие публикации
    • 5.7.1 Брошюра о комиксах о Великом Солт-Лейк-Сити
    • 5.7. 2 Dime Press
    • 5.7.3 San Diego Comic-Con Comics
    • 5.7.4 Next Men
    • 5.7.5 Руководство покупателя комиксов
    • 5.7.6 Празднуйте разнообразие
• 6 В других СМИ
  • 6.1 Живые боевики
    • 6.1.1 Хеллбой (2004)
    • 6.1.2 Хеллбой II: Золотая армия (2008)
    • 6.1.3 Хеллбой (2019)
  • 6.2 Анимационные фильмы
  • 6.3 Романы и антологии
  • 6.4 Видеоигры
  • 6.5 Настольные игры
• 7 Награды
• 8 Товары
• 9 См. lso
• 10 Ссылки
• 11 Внешние ссылки

Биография вымышленного персонажа

Хеллбой, или «Анунг ун Рама», как его называли, был зачат 5 октября 1617 года, в день его рождения. мать, Сара Хьюз, человек женщина, лежала на смертном одре. При жизни Сара была ведьмой, которая получила свои силы от того, что была супругой архидемона, Аззаэля, эрцгерцога ада и «биологического» отца Хеллбоя. Забрав тело Сары в ад, когда она пыталась раскаяться на смертном одре в церкви в Ист-Бромвич, Англия, Аззаэль сжег ее, чтобы их ребенок родился, и отрубил новорожденному. правая рука, чтобы заменить его «правой рукой судьбы», реликвией, связанной с Огдру Джахадом. Когда другие князья Ада узнали о его действиях, Аззаэль отослал своего полудемонического ребенка, в то время как он был лишен своих сил и заключен в ледяную тюрьму (как Люцифер в Данте в Божественная комедия ).

«Безумный монах» Григорий Распутин вызывает ребенка на Землю в последние месяцы Второй мировой войны на острове Тармагант, недалеко от побережья Шотландия, получившая задание нацистов изменить ход проигрышной войны («Проект Рагна Рок »). Как прямой результат этого ритуала, ребенок появляется на Земле в огненном шаре у остатков разрушенной Бромвичской церкви 23 декабря 1944 года. Оказывается, он не дьявол в традиционном смысле, а является дьявольское существо, ребенок был назван «Хеллбой» профессором Тревором «Метлой» Бруттенхольмом.

доставлен вооруженными силами США на базу ВВС в Нью-Мексико Хеллбой воспитывается профессором Тревором Бруттенхольмом в максимально нормальной домашней обстановке (и как католик ), а в армии США где Бюро исследований и защиты паранормальных явлений (BPRD) — частная организация, занимающаяся борьбой с оккультными угрозами. Благодаря успеху своей первой миссии в 1952 году, Хеллбой получает статус «почетного человека» от Организации Объединенных Наций и становится членом BPRD как «величайший в мире исследователь паранормальных явлений». Таким образом, Хеллбой регулярно взаимодействует с людьми, в первую очередь с сотрудниками правоохранительных органов, военными и различными «учеными странностей», большинство из которых открыто не реагируют на его странную внешность.

Став взрослым, физически повзрослев за несколько лет, но медленно старея с юношеским умом, Хеллбой становится основным агентом BPRD, наряду с другими человеческими и квази-человеческими агентами, включая Кейт Корриган, профессор фольклора в Нью-Йоркском университете ; Эйб Сапиен, амфибия гуманоид (Ichthyo sapiens); и Лиз Шерман, юная пирокинетка. Все кардинально меняется для Хеллбоя во время событий Seed of Destruction, когда он ищет профессора Бруттенхольма после того, как тот исчез во время экспедиции в Арктику. Он находит своего приемного отца только для того, чтобы стать свидетелем его смерти от рук чудовища-лягушки Лавкрафта. Поиск приводит Хеллбоя, Эйба и Лиз в особняк Кавендиш-холла, который является ловушкой, установленной Распутиным, чтобы заманить Хеллбоя в объятия его собственной «судьбы» с помощью Саду-Хема; один из порождений Огдру Джахада. Управляемый духом одного из предков Кавендиша, Эйб пронзает Распутина. Затем огненная буря Лиз сжигает тело Распутина вместе с телом Саду-Хема и разрушает Кавендиш-холл. Вскоре после этого, во время посещения Бромвичской церкви, Хеллбой получает представление о своем зачатии более 300 лет назад и узнает, что у него есть двое сводных братьев и сестер-людей; монахиня и священник, чьи духи преследуют церковь после их смерти, пытаются помешать Аззаэлю потребовать Сару.

Во время событий Хеллбой: Разбуди дьявола путешествие Хеллбоя к самопознанию приводит его в Румынию, чтобы расследовать кражу древнего ящика с трупом наполеоновского офицера Владимира Джуреску. который на самом деле был вампиром до того, как был «убит» по приказу ужасающего Адольфа Гитлера. Выявлено, что виновницей кражи является Ильза Хаупштейн, одна из выживших членов Проекта Рагна Рок, которая была воскрешена из анабиоза и затем помогла в воскрешении Джуреску. Найдя замок Джуреску после разделения с другими поисковыми группами, Хеллбой узнает, что источником перерождения Джуреску является древняя богиня Геката. Хотя Хеллбой уничтожает первоначальное тело Гекаты, он снова сталкивается с ней после того, как Распутин непреднамеренно предоставляет ей заключенное в оболочку тело железной девы Ильзы. Геката проглатывает Хеллбоя, но он возвращается в свою реальность после того, как осуждает темную цель, для которой он был рожден.

Хеллбой позже узнает, что Лиз умирает после потери своих способностей, когда она случайно возродила гомункула во время поиска Джуреску в другом месте, найдя Роджера в событиях Хеллбой: Почти Колосс, убеждая гомункула спасти жизнь Лиз. После событий Хеллбой: Правая рука судьбы, узнав о его каменной руке и назвав его предвестником Апокалипсиса, Хеллбой сопровождает Эйба, чтобы выследить чернокнижника Игоря Бромхеда в Box Full of Зло. Но это оказалось ловушкой, которую устроили Бромхед и демон Уалак, чтобы захватить Хеллбоя, чтобы последний мог забрать обычно невидимую Корону Апокалипсиса Хеллбоя для увеличения своей силы. Но это действие, однако, оказывается контрпродуктивным, поскольку позволяет Хеллбою больше не контролироваться его настоящим именем, Анунг Ун Рама (как один из переводов этого имени, букв. «и на его челе находится корона пламени»; после кражи его короны имя уже не является точным), и он убивает смертное тело Уалака до того, как демон, и корона уносится в ад архидемоном, Астаротом, который позже оказывается дядей Хеллбоя по отцовской линии.

После Хеллбой: Червь-завоеватель, которому помогает призрак Лобстера Джонсона, Роджера и Эйба, разочарованный Хеллбой уходит из Бюро до того, как он позже получает новых агентов в Иоганне Краусе, духе немецкого медиума, содержащегося в скафандре; и капитан Бен Даймио, солдат специальных операций, ставший ольмекским оборотнем-ягуаром. Оттуда Хеллбой решает выяснить правду о своем существовании раз и навсегда. Но, как показано в Хеллбой: Странные места, Хеллбой оказывается на острове, где он нечаянно воскресил древнего мистика, получившего знания о тайной истории создания Огдру Джахада и Десницы Судьбы..

6 лет спустя, когда открывается Hellboy: Darkness Calls, поиски Хеллбоя приводят его в Англию, где он оказывается в центре вакуума власти, вызванного тем, что Бромхед вывел из строя Гекату в Италии. Отказавшись служить ведьмам в качестве их королей, Хеллбой оказывается в измерении Бабы Яги, ведьмы, с которой он столкнулся в прошлом и оказывается союзником Распутина. Сумев победить чемпиона Бабы Яги Кощея, Хеллбой возвращается в свою реальность, и его приводят к Бромхеду после того, как он стал чудовищным и в агонии от попытки взять силы Гекаты в свои руки. Хеллбой милостиво убивает Бромхеда, прежде чем вернуться в Англию во время событий Хеллбой: Дикая Охота, где он встречает Алису Монаган, молодую женщину, которую он спас в младенчестве от феи по имени Груагач, которая воскресила сумасшедшую колдунью. Нимуэ, чтобы заполнить пустоту, оставленную Гекатой.

В это время Хеллбой встречает дух Морганы ле Фэй, которая раскрывает Хеллбою как имена его родителей, так и то, что Сара Хьюз была ее потомком, который называет Хеллбоя последним живым наследником to Артур Пендрагон и законный король Англии. Но поскольку он также узнает от Астарота, что ему суждено убить Сатану и стать новым Королем Ада, Хеллбой не хочет владеть Экскалибуром (который в его руках становится пылающий меч ) и армия нежити британской знати собралась, чтобы противостоять армии Нимуэ. Поэтому, заручившись помощью Бабы Яги с его глазом в качестве платы за рану, которую он нанес ей во время их первой встречи, Хеллбой решает сразиться с Нимуэ один на один в событиях Хеллбой: Буря и ярость. Но после битвы с Нимуэ, которая была одержима Огдру Джахадом, Хеллбой был убит ведьмой в ее последние минуты. Как показано в Хеллбой в аду, Хеллбой оказывается в ловушке ада, где он встречает то, что осталось от его демонических родственников и душ проклятых, и в конечном итоге смиряется с судьбой, которую он игнорировал. вся жизнь. Позже Хеллбой возвращается в мини-сериале BPRD: The Devil You Know, возрождается и присоединяется к Лиз и Эйбу в заключительной арке сериала. После очередного поражения Распутина он и Геката видят падение Огдру Джахада и возвращают Десницу Рока из Клуба Осириса, убивая их. Однако, несмотря на их усилия, Рагнарок доволен, и большая часть человечества уничтожена. В конце концов, Хеллбой и Геката сливаются вместе, чтобы создать новый мир на Земле.

Силы и способности

Обладая своим демоническим наследием, а также обширными физическими тренировками и бодибилдингом, Хеллбой обладает сверхчеловеческой силой, превышающей базовый предел в 1 тонну, выносливостью, степенью устойчивости к травмам., и лечебный фактор, который позволяет ему быстро исцеляться практически от всех телесных повреждений, а также делает его невосприимчивым ко всем болезням. У него также есть врожденная способность понимать древние и магические языки. Степень его силы неясна, но он снес большое дерево и швырнул его в противника и поднял массивные камни. Он также подбирал и бросал противников весом от четырех до пятисот фунтов. Хеллбой обладает высокой устойчивостью к травмам. Он может выдержать мощные удары, которые могут серьезно повредить или убить человека. Он выжил, когда его много раз выстрелили в грудь из пулемета MG 42, прежде чем уничтожить его. Он выжил, когда его проткнули через грудь мечом, жестоко избили оборотнем, избили до бессознательного состояния тяжелыми железными щипцами, упали с огромной высоты, раздавили валунами и многое другое. В киноверсии утверждается, что Хеллбой невосприимчив ко всем формам огня и ожогов, включая пламя Лиз Шерман и поражение электрическим током. Несмотря на его способность быстро оправляться от, казалось бы, смертельных ран, он далеко не неуязвим и может быть ранен или окровавлен обычным оружием. Баба Яга мертвое русское дворянство раскрывает, что Хеллбоя нельзя убить даже сверхъестественными средствами, и что он кажется таким же бессмертным, как и ее воин Кощеи Бессмертный. В фильмах Хеллбой продемонстрировал навыки некромантии, оживив труп человека, чтобы оно могло указывать ему направление.

Хеллбой в возрасте очень отличается от людей. В рассказе «Блины» ему два года, но кажется, что ему от 6 до 10 человеческих лет. В «Природа зверя», действие которого происходит в 1954 году, десятилетний Хеллбой кажется полностью взрослым. Однако его быстрое физическое созревание контрастирует с его реальной скоростью старения, которая, кажется, намного медленнее, чем у людей. На протяжении шестидесятилетнего промежутка времени, изображенного в комиксах, он не стареет выше плато физической зрелости. Этот мистический процесс старения похож на других демонов и сверхъестественных существ, населяющих мир Хеллбоя. Продолжительность жизни демона или полудемона, поскольку мать Хеллбоя была человеком, не указывается в комиксах и, кажется, колеблется от десятилетий до многих тысяч лет. В фильмах процесс старения Хеллбоя описывается BRPD как «обратный собачий год ».

В дополнение к своим естественным физическим способностям, Хеллбой носит на поясе и куртке множество предметов, которые можно использовать против различных сверхъестественных сил. Известно, что он носит святые реликвии, подковы, различные травы и ручные гранаты. Хотя он обычно носит с собой крупногабаритный револьвер, который в фильмах Гильермо дель Торо назывался «Добрый самаритянин » и который был выкован из переработанного железа из церковного колокола ; Хеллбой, однако, открыто признает, что плохо стреляет с ним, и часто предпочитает сражаться в рукопашной, предпочитая использовать физическое оружие ближнего боя, такое как мечи, копья, и свой массивный каменный кулак вместо огнестрельного оружия.. Отсутствие у Хеллбоя формальной боевой подготовки и образования компенсируется его десятилетиями опыта в качестве исследователя паранормальных явлений, хотя столкновения с незнакомыми угрозами часто вынуждали его прибегать к импровизации и использовать свой ум.

Правая рука судьбы

Как показано в «Странных местах», правая рука Хеллбоя изначально была правой рукой Анума, одного из «великих духов», которые охраняли растущую Землю и создали Огдру Джахад. Запечатав Огдру Джахад, Анум был уничтожен своими собратьями-духами. Лишь его правая рука осталась нетронутой, поскольку она хранилась и сохранялась многими расами на протяжении всей истории, включая первую расу людей. Правая рука Судьбы в конечном итоге оказалась во владении Аззаэля, прежде чем он привил ее новорожденному Хеллбою.

Как рука, создавшая и связавшая Огдру Джахад, это также ключ, который будет «освобождать и командовать» ими; другими словами, это катализатор, который вызовет Рагнарока. В самих комиксах никогда не упоминается, как Правая Рука Судьбы на самом деле выполняла бы эти задачи; они только объясняют, что это так, и кто-то или что-то намеревается это сделать, с согласия Хеллбоя или без него. В фильме показано, что он работает как ключ: если дважды повернуть его в особом обелиске, закрепленном Распутиным, то «Огдру Джахад» освободится. Стало ясно, что рука не обязательно должна быть прикреплена к Хеллбою для выполнения своих обязанностей. Было высказано предположение, что если Хеллбой умрет, пока к нему прикреплена Рука, это станет бесполезным. Поэтому он пришел к выводу, что единственный способ предотвратить его попадание в чужие руки — это сохранить и защитить его.

Концепция и создание

Хеллбой зародился в 1991 году с рисунка, который Майк Миньола сделал для рекламной брошюры о демоне Comic-Con о Грейт-Солт-Лейк-Сити. с именем «Адский мальчик» на поясе. Первоначально Миньола не собирался делать что-то серьезное с концепцией, но в конце концов решил, что ему нравится это имя.

Позже Миньола заинтересовался созданием комикса, принадлежащего его создателю, поскольку он чувствовал, что имеет больше смысла создавать его собственные персонажи для историй, которые он хотел рассказать, вместо того, чтобы пытаться втиснуть в эти истории существующих персонажей. Миньола пояснил: «Типы историй, которые я хотел создать, я имел в виду до того, как создал Hellboy. Это не значит, что я создал Hellboy и сказал:« Эй, а что теперь делает этот парень? » Я знал, какие истории хочу делать, но мне просто нужен был главный парень ». Первоначально он создал Хеллбоя как часть команды из пяти человек, но отказался от этой идеи, когда понял, что не может придумать какие-либо названия команд, которые ему нравятся.

Как и другие американские супергерои комиксов, такие как Бэтмен, Человек-паук, Росомаха, Железный человек, Сорвиголова и Спаун, Хеллбой постоянно мучается знанием своего прошлого. Один из примеров — в «Разбуди дьявола», где он описывает свой образ мышления после «Семени разрушения», говоря: «Мне нравится не знать. Я прожил пятьдесят два года, не зная. Я хорошо сплю, не зная».

История публикаций

До того, как Хеллбой был независимо опубликован в Dark Horse Comics, концепция была первоначально представлена ​​совету директоров DC Comics, которому она понравилась, но понравилась не нравится идея с участием «ада».

Ранние истории были задуманы и нарисованы Миньолой по сценарию, написанному Джоном Бирном, а некоторые более поздние истории были созданы другими создателями, помимо Миньолы, включая Кристофер Голден, Гай Дэвис, Райан Сук и Дункан Фегредо. Растущие обязательства со стороны франшизы Hellboy означали, что one-shot В Часовне Молоха 2008 года был первым комиксом о Хеллбое, который Миньола предоставил сценарий и оформление со времен Острова в 2005 году.

Проблемы

Hellboy имеет внутреннюю нумерацию на внутренней стороне обложки своих выпусков. Ниже перечислены истории комиксов по их внутренней нумерации.

Выпуск	Название	Дата	История	Искусство	Цвета	Обложка	Коллекция	Примечания
#1	Семя разрушения	Март 1994 г.	Майк Миньола (рассказ). Джон Бирн (сценарий)	Майк Миньола	Марк Чиарелло	Майк Миньола	Хеллбой — Том 1:. Семя разрушения Издание библиотеки Хеллбоя — Том 1
#2	апрель 1994 г.
#3	май 1994 года
#4	июнь 1994 года
#5	Волки святого Августа	ноябрь 1995 года	Майк Миньола	Джеймс Синклер	Майк Миньола	Хеллбой — Том 3:. Прикованный гроб и другие Издание библиотеки Хеллбоя — Том 2	Волки Святого Августа впервые появились в Dark Horse Presents. Здесь он перепечатан и расширен.
#6	Труп и железные башмаки	Январь 1996 г.	Майк Миньола	Мэтью Холлингсворт. и Джеймс Синклер	Майк Миньола	Труп изначально появился в каталоге Advance Comics. Это перепечатано здесь.
#7	Разбуди дьявола	июнь 1996	Майк Миньола	Джеймс Синклер	Майк Миньола	Хеллбой — Том 2:. Wake the Devil Hellboy Library Edition — Volume 1
#8	июль 1996 г.
#9	август 1996 г.
№ 10	сентябрь 1996 г.
№ 11	октябрь 1996 г.
# 12	Почти Колосс	30 июля 1997 г.	Майк Миньола	Джеймс Синклер	Майк Миньола	Хеллбой — Том 3 :. Прикованный гроб и другие Библиотека Хеллбоя, издание — Том 2
# 13	25 июня 1997 г.
# 14	Рождественское подполье. (в Рождественский выпуск Хеллбоя )	3 декабря 1997 г.	Майк Миньола	Дэйв Стюарт	Гэри Джанни	Это была антология одного кадра с изображением. работ Майка Миньолы, Гэри Джанни. и Стива Перселла.
# 15	Коробка, полная зла	11 августа 1999 г.	Майк Миньола	Дэйв Стюарт	Майк Миньола	Хеллбой — Том 4:. Правая рука судьбы Ад oy Library Edition — Volume 2
# 16	8 сентября 1999 г.
# 17	Conqueror Worm	9 мая 2001 г.	Майк Миньола	Дэйв Стюарт	Майк Миньола	Хеллбой — Том 5:. Червь-завоеватель Издание библиотеки Хеллбоя — Том 3
# 18	13 июня 2001 г.
# 19	11 июля 2001 г.
# 20	8 августа 2001 г.
# 21	Третье желание	24 июля 2002 г.	Майк Миньола	Дэйв Стюарт	Майк Миньола	Хеллбой — Том 6:. Странные места Издание библиотеки Хеллбоя — Том 3
# 22	21 августа 2002 г.
# 23	Остров	22 июня 2005 г.	Майк Миньола	Дэйв Стюарт	Майк Миньола
# 24	27 июля 2005 г.
# 25	Макома	1 февраля 2006 г.	Майк Миньола	Ричард Корбен. с Майк Миньола	Дэйв Стюарт	Майк Миньола	Хеллбой — Том 7:. Ведьма-тролль и другие Издание библиотеки Хеллбоя — Том 4
# 26	1 марта, 2006	Ричард Корбен
# 27	Зов тьмы	2 мая 2007 г.	Майк Миньола	Дункан Фегредо	Дэйв Стюарт	Майк Миньола	Хеллбой — Том 8:. Зов тьмы Издание библиотеки Хеллбоя — Том 5
# 28	30 мая 2007 г.
# 29	27 июня 2007 г.
# 30	25 июля 2007 г.
# 31	29 августа 2007 г.
# 32	7 ноября 2007 г.
—	Они Которые спускаются в море на кораблях	август 2007 г.	Майк Миньола. и Джошуа Дайсарт	Джейсон Шон Александр	Дэйв Стюарт	Майк Миньола	Хеллбой — Том 10:. Кривой человек и другие Библиотека Хеллбоя — Том 4	Совместно издано Konami для продвижения видеоигра Hellboy: The Science of Evil
# 33	The Crooked Man	2 июля 2008 г.	Майк Миньола	Ричард Корбен	Дэйв Стюарт	Ричард Корбен	Хеллбой — Том 10:. Кривой человек и другие Библиотека Хеллбоя E dition — Volume 4
# 34	13 августа 2008 г.
# 35	24 сентября 2008 г.
# 36	В часовне Молоха	29 октября, 2008	Майк Миньола	Дэйв Стюарт	Майк Миньола
# 37	Дикая охота	3 декабря 2008 г.	Майк Миньола	Дункан Фегредо	Дэйв Стюарт	Майк Миньола	Хеллбой — Том 9:. Дикая Охота Библиотека Хеллбоя Издание — Том 5
# 38	7 января 2009 г.	РЕЗЕРВНАЯ ИСТОРИЯ . «Как Кощея стал бессмертным». ИСТОРИЯ . Майк Миньола. АРТ . Гай Дэвис
# 39	11 февраля 2009 г.
# 40	4 марта 2009 г.	ИСТОРИЯ КОПИРОВАНИЯ . «Баба Пир Яги «. ИСТОРИЯ . Майк Миньола. АРТ . Гай Дэвис
# 41	12 августа 2009 г.	Имеет резервную копию MonsterMen от Гэри Джанни. Не является частью Вселенной Хеллбоя.
# 42	9 сентября 2009 г.
# 43	14 октября 2009 г.	ИСТОРИЯ РЕЗЕРВНОГО КОПИРОВАНИЯ . «Похороны Кэтрин» Бейкер «. ИСТОРИЯ . Скотт Элли. АРТ . Патрик Рейнольдс
№ 44	11 ноября 2009 г.
№ 45	Невеста ада	23 декабря 2009 г.	Майк Миньола	Ричард Корбен	Дэйв Стюарт	Майк Миньола	Хеллбой — Том 11:. Невеста ада и другие Издание библиотеки Хеллбоя — Том 6
# 46	Хеллбой в Мексике	5 мая 2010 г.	Майк Миньола	Ричард Корбен	Дэйв Стюарт	Ричард Корбен. Майк Миньола (вариант)
# 47	Буря	7 июля 2010 г.	Майк Миньола	Дункан Фегредо	Дэйв Стюарт	Майк Миньола	Хеллбой — Том 12:. Буря и ярость Библиотека Хеллбоя, издание — Том 6
# 48	4 августа 2010 г.
# 49	1 сентября 2010 г.
# 50	Двойная особенность Зло	17 ноября 2010 г.	Майк Миньола	Ричард Корбен	Дэйв Стюарт	Майк Миньола. Ричард Корбен (вариант)	Хеллбой — Том 11:. Невеста ада и другие Издание библиотеки Хеллбоя — Том 6
# 51	Спящие и мертвые	декабрь 29, 2010	Майк Миньола	Скотт Хэмптон	Дэйв Стюарт	Майк Миньола. Скотт Хэмптон (вариант)
# 52	2 февраля 2011 г.	Майк Миньола
# 53	Бастер Окли исполняет свое желание	13 апреля 2011 г.	Майк Миньола	Кевин Новлан	Кевин Новлан. Дэйв Стюарт (вариант обложки)	Кевин Новлан. Майк Миньола (вариант)
# 54	Человек	11 мая 2011 года	Майк Миньола	Ричард Корбен	Дэйв Стюарт	Ричард Корбен	BPRD: Быть человеком
# 55	Ярость	1 июня 2011 г.	Майк Миньола	Дункан Фегредо	Дэйв Стюарт	Майк Миньола. Франческо Франкавилла (вариант)	Хеллбой — Том 12:. Буря и ярость Библиотека Хеллбоя — Том 6
# 56	13 июля, 2011	Майк Миньола
# 57	10 августа 2011 г.
—	Hellboy Winter Special. (2016)	27 января 2016 г.	» Разбитые сосуды «	Дэйв Стюарт	Тим Сейл. Майк Миньола (вариант). Бен Стенбек (вариант). Майкл Эйвон Эминг (вариант)	BPRD: The Дьявол, которого ты знаешь — Том 1: Мессия
Майк Миньола. и Скотт Элли	Тим Сейл
«Блуждающие души»	Хеллбой и BPRD: 1953
Майк Миньола. и Крис Роберсон	Майкл Уолш
«Колебания настроения»
Челси Кейн	Майкл Эйвон Эминг
«Кунг Пао Лобстер»		Рассказ непрекращающийся
Дин Рэнкин
—	Hellboy Winter Special. (2017)	25 января 2017 года	«Великая метель»	Себастьян Фьюмара. Геоф Дэрроу (вариант)
Майк Миньола. и Крис Роберсон	Chr истофер Миттен	Дэйв Стюарт
«Боже, покой, веселый»	Посетитель: как и почему он остался
Майк Миньола. и Крис Роберсон	Пол Грист	Билл Крэбтри
«Последняя ведьма Фэрфилда»
Майк Миньола. и Скотт Элли	Себастьян Фьюмара	Дэйв Стюарт
—	Крампуснахт	20 декабря 2017 г.	Майк Миньола	Адам Хьюз	Дэйв Стюарт	Адам Хьюз. Майк Миньола (вариант)
—	Hellboy Winter Special. (2018)	12 декабря 2018	«С Новым годом, Ава Галлучи»	Майк Миньола. Габриэль Ба (вариант). Фабио Мун (вариант)
Майк Миньола	Бен Стенбек	Дэйв Стюарт
«Заблудшие»	BPRD: Вампир (2-е издание)
Фабио Мун и Габриэль Ба	Дэйв Стюарт
«Пустой стул»
Тончи Зонджич
—	Хеллбой против Лобстера Джонсона:. Кольцо смерти	29 мая, 2019	Майк Миньола. и Крис Роберсон	Майк Нортон	Дэйв Стюарт	Паоло Ривера	Хеллбой и BPRD: 1956	РЕЗЕРВНАЯ ИСТОРИЯ . «По Мексике». ИСТОРИЯ . Майк Миньола и Крис Роберсон. ART . Пол Грист. ЦВЕТА . Билл Крэбтри

Проблемы: Хеллбой в аду

«Хеллбой в аду» — законченный сериал со своей нумерацией.

Выпуск	Название	Дата	История и искусство	Цвета	Обложка	Коллекция
#1	Спуск	5 декабря 2012 г.	Майк Миньола	Дэйв Стюарт	Майк Миньола	Хеллбой в аду — Том 1:. The Descent Hellboy Library Edition – Hellboy in Hell
#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 Hellboy Library Edition – Hellboy in Hell
#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 BPRD

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)
#2	January 7, 2015	Alex Maleev
#3	February 4, 2015
#4	March 4, 2015
#5	April 1, 2015
#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
#11	The Black Sun	September 21, 2016	Mike Mignola. and Chris Roberson	Steph en 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
#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	Brian Churilla	Paolo Rivera
#18	October 11, 2017
#19	November 8, 2017
#20	Burning Season	February 21, 2018	Paolo Rivera (pencils). Joe Rivera (inks)
#21	1956	November 28, 2018	Mike Mignola. and Chris Roberson	Yishan Li. Mike Norton. and Michael Avon Oeming	Dave Stewart	Dave Johns on	Hellboy and the B.P.R.D.:. 1956
#22	December 26, 2019
#23	January 23, 2019
#24	February 27, 2019
#25	March 27, 2019
—	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 Vagru and Others
—	Saturn Returns	August 21, 2019	Mike Mignola. and Scott Allie	Christopher Mitten	Brennan Wagner	Christopher Mitten
September 18, 2019
October 23, 2019
—	Long Night at Goloski Station	October 30, 2019	Mike Mignola	Matt Smith	Dave Stewart	Mike Mignola
—	The Return of Effie Kolb	February 19, 2020	Mike Mignola	Zach Howard	Dave Stewart	Zach Howard
October 28, 2020

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

One Shots

• Hellboy Winter Special
• Hellboy Winter Special 2017
• Hellboy Winter Special 2018
• Хеллбой — Крампуснахт
• Хеллбой против Лобстера Джонсона — Кольцо смерти

Обменяйтесь в мягкой обложке: Хеллбой

Хеллбой комиксы собраны в торговых мягких обложках.

Номер	Заголовок	Собирает	Опубликовано	ISBN
1	Seed of Destruction	Seed of Destruction. (мини-сериал из 4 выпусков) Хеллбой Майка Миньолы. (промо из San Diego Comic-Con Comics # 2) Хеллбой Майка Миньолы:. World’s Величайший исследователь паранормальных явлений. (промо из Руководства покупателя комиксов № 1070)	Оригинальная обложка: . 1 октября 1994 г.	9781569713167
Ограниченное издание в твердой обложке: . 1 марта, 1995	9781569710517
Стандартная обложка: . 4 февраля 2004 г.	9781593070946
2	Wake the Devil	Wake the Devil. (мини-сериал из 5 выпусков)	Оригинальная обложка: . 11 июня 1997 г.	9781569712269
Стандартная обложка: . 4 февраля 2004 г.	9781593070953
3	Прикованный гроб и От ее	Труп. (сериал короткометражный) Железные башмаки. (рассказ) Баба Яга. (рассказ) Рождественский андерграунд. (из Рождественский выпуск Хеллбоя ) Прикованный гроб. (из Dark Horse Presents # 100–2) Волки из Святой Август. (из Dark Horse Presents # 88–91) Почти Колосс. (мини-сериал из двух выпусков)	Оригинальная обложка: . 5 августа 1998 г.	9781569713495
Стандартная обложка: . 4 февраля 2004 г.	9781593070915
4	Правая рука судьбы	Блинчики. (рассказ) Природа зверя. (из Dark Horse Presents # 151) Король Волд. (рассказ) Головы. (рассказ) До свидания, мистер Тод. (рассказ) Варколак. (сериал короткометражный) Правая рука судьбы. (рассказ) Коробка, полная зла. (мини-сериал из 2 выпусков)	Оригинальная обложка: . 26 апреля 2000 г.	9781569714898
Стандартная обложка: . февраль y 4, 2004	9781593070939
5	Conqueror Worm	Conqueror Worm. (мини-сериал из 4 выпусков)	Оригинальная обложка: . 27 февраля 2002 года	9781569716991
Стандартная обложка: . 4 февраля 2004 г.	9781593070922
6	Странные места	Третье желание. (мини-сериал из двух выпусков) Остров. (2 -выпуск мини-сериала)	26 апреля 2006 г.	9781593074753
7	Ведьма-тролль и другие	Пенанггалан. (рассказ) Гидра и Лев. ( рассказ) Тролль-ведьма. (рассказ) Доктор. Эксперимент Карпа. (рассказ) Вурдалак. (рассказ) Вампир из Праги. (рассказ) Макома. (Мини-сериал из 2 выпусков)	3 октября 2007 г.	9781593078607
8	зов тьмы	зов тьмы. (мини-сериал из 6 выпусков)	16 мая 2008 г.	9781593078966
9	Дикая охота	Дикая охота. (мини-сериал из 8 выпусков)	10 марта 2010 г.	9781595824318
10	Кривой человек и другие	Кривой человек. (Мини-сериал из 3 выпусков) Спускающиеся в море на кораблях. (один кадр) В часовне Молоха. (один кадр) Крот. (рассказ)	9 июня 2010 г.	9781595824776
11		Хеллбой в Мексике. (один кадр) Двойная особенность зла. (один кадр) Спящие и мертвые. (мини-сериал из двух выпусков) Невеста ада. (один кадр) Наследие Уиттьера. (рассказ) Бастер Окли исполняет свое желание. (один кадр)	5 октября 2011 г.	9781595827401
12	Буря и буря Ярость	Буря. (мини-сериал из 3 выпусков) Ярость. (мини-сериал из 3 выпусков)	7 марта 2012 г.	9781595828279
—	Хеллбой в Мексике	Хеллбой в Мексике. (один кадр) Дом живых мертвецов. (оригинальный графический роман) Хеллбой против ацтекской мумии. (рассказ) Хеллбой выходит замуж. (рассказ) Человек в гробу. (рассказ) Человек в гробу 2: Матч-реванш. (рассказ)	13 апреля 2016 г.	9781616558970

Торговля в мягкой обложке: Хеллбой в аду

Все комиксы «Хеллбой в аду» собраны в торговых книгах в мягкой обложке.

Номер	Название	Собирает	Опубликовано	ISBN
1	Спуск	Хеллбой в аду №1–5	14 мая 2014 г.	9781616554446
2	Карта смерти	Хеллбой в аду # 6–10 Ворский экзорцист. (рассказ)	5 октября 2016 года	9781506701134

Торговля в мягкой обложке: Хеллбой и BPRD

Все, Хеллбой и B.P.R.D. комиксы собраны в торговых книгах в мягкой обложке.

Название	Собирает	Опубликовано	ISBN
1952	1952. (арка из 5 выпусков)	12 августа 2015 года	9781616556600
1953	Призрачная рука. (рассказ) Rawhead and Bloody Bones. (рассказ) Ведьмин Дерево. (рассказ) Келпи. (рассказ) Блуждающие души. (рассказ) За гранью Заборы. (дуга из 3 выпусков)	10 августа 2016	9781616559670
1954	Зеркало. (рассказ) Черное солнце. (2 -issue arc) The Unreasoning Beast. (один выстрел) Ghost Moon. (дуга из двух выпусков)	10 января 2018 г.	9781506702070
1955	Тайная природа. (один выстрел) Оккультный интеллект. (арка из 3 выпусков) Сезон горения. (один выстрел)	июнь 6, 2018	9781506705316
1956	1956. (арка из 5 вопросов) Хеллбой против Лобстера Джонсона: Кольцо смерти. (один выстрел)	17 сентября 2019 г.	9781506711058

Редакции библиотеки

Эти издания собирают рассказы в том размере, в котором они были нарисованы изначально.

Том	Собирает	Опубликованный	ISBN
1	Seed of Destruction Wake the Devil	7 мая 2008 г.	9781593079109
2	Прикованный гроб и другие Правая рука судьбы	8 октября 2008 г.	9781593079895
3	Червь-завоеватель Странные места	23 сентября, 2009	9781595823526
4	Кривой человек и другие Тролль-ведьма и другие	15 июня 2011 года	9781595826589
5	Тьма зовет Дикая охота	11 июля 2012 г.	9781595828866
6	Буря и ярость Невеста ада и другие	12 июня 2013 г.	9781616551339
Хеллбой. в аду	The Descent The Death Card The Magician and the Snake	4 октября 2017 г.	9781506703633

Omnibus editions

Эти издания собирают полная серия Хеллбой в хронологическом порядке.

Том	Собирает	Опубликован	ISBN
Hellboy Omnibus Volume 1: Seed of Destruction	Seed of Destruction (мини-сериал из 4 выпусков) Разбуди дьявола (мини-сериал из 5 выпусков) Волки Святого Августа (рассказ) Прикованный гроб (рассказ) Почти Колосс (	9 мая 2018 г.	9781506706665
Hellboy Omnibus Volume 2: Strange Places	Conqueror Worm (мини-сериал из 4 выпусков) Третье желание (2-выпуск мини-сериал) Остров (мини-сериал из двух выпусков) В безмолвное море (OGN) Правая рука судьбы (рассказ) Коробка, полная зла (рассказ) Быть человеком (рассказ)	20 июня 2018 г.	9781506706672
Хеллбой Омнибус, том 3: Дикая охота	Зов тьмы (6- выпуск мини-сериала) Дикая Охота (мини-сериал из 8 выпусков) Буря (мини-сериал из 3 выпусков) Ярость (мини-сериал из 3 выпусков) Крот (рассказ)	18 июля 2018 г.	9781506706689
Hellboy Omnibus Volume 4: Hellboy in Hell	The Descent (Hellboy in Hell # 1–4) Три золотых кнута (Hellboy in Hell # 5) Карта смерти (Хеллбой в аду №6) Собаки Плутона (Хеллбой в аду №7–8) Испанская невеста (Хеллбой в аду №9) По ком звонит колокол (Хеллбой в аду # 10) Ворский экзорцист (рассказ) Волшебник и змея (рассказ)	5 сентября, 2018	9781506707495

Том	Собирает	Опубликовано	ISBN
Полные рассказы, том 1	Труп (рассказ) Железные башмаки (рассказ) Блины (рассказ) Природа зверя (рассказ) Король Волд (рассказ) Пенанггалан (рассказ) Кривой человек (мини-сериал из 3 выпусков) Хеллбой в Мексике (один кадр) Двойной фильм зла ( один выстрел) Хеллбой против ацтекской мумии (рассказ) Хеллбой женится (рассказ) Человек в гробу (рассказ) Человек в гробу 2: Матч-реванш (рассказ) Полуночный цирк ( OGN) Дом живых мертвецов (OGN)	5 июня 2018 г.	9781506706641
Полный сборник рассказов, том 2	Гидра и лев (рассказ) Тролль-ведьма (рассказ) Баба Яга (рассказ) Спящие и мертвые (рассказ) Головы (рассказ) Прощайте, мистер Тод (рассказ) Варколак (рассказ) Вампир из Праги (рассказ) Невеста ада ( один выстрел) Наследие Уиттьера (рассказ) Бастер Окли исполняет свое желание (один выстрел) Спускающиеся в море на кораблях (один кадр) Рождественское подполье (рассказ) Доктор. Эксперимент Карпа (рассказ) Вурдалак (рассказ) В часовне Молоха (один кадр) Макома (мини-сериал из 2 выпусков)	Август 28, 2018	9781506706658

Прочие книги в мягкой обложке

• Хеллбой: Странные сказки, Том 1 (февраль 2003 г.) — Обложка Майка Миньолы. Собирает Hellboy: Weird Tales # 1–4. ISBN 978-1-56971-622-9.
• Hellboy: Weird Tales, Volume 2 (октябрь 2004 г.) — обложка Майка Миньолы. Собирает Hellboy: Weird Tales # 5–8. ISBN 978-1-56971-953-4.
• Хеллбой-младший (январь 2004 г.) — Автор Майк Миньола, Билл Рэй и др. al. Собирает Хеллбой-младший на Хэллоуин, Хеллбой-младший №1–2, а также оригинальные материалы. ISBN 978-1-56971-862-9.
• Ghost / Hellboy Special (июнь 1997 г.) — Автор Майк Миньола. Собирает Ghost / Hellboy # 1–2. ISBN 978-1-56971-273-3.
• Savage Dragon / Hellboy (2002) — Обложка Майка Миньолы. Коллекционирует Savage Dragon № 34–35.
• Искусство Хеллбоя (март 2003 г.) — Автор Майк Миньола. Книги Темной Лошади. ISBN 1-56971-910-1.
• Хеллбой: Товарищ (май 2008 г.) — Автор Стив Вайнер, Джейсон Холл. Книги Темной Лошади. ISBN 978-1-59307-655-9.
• Хеллбой: Маски и монстры (октябрь 2010 г.) — Автор Майк Миньола, Джеймс Робинсон, Скотт Бенефиэль, Хасен Родригес. Собирает Бэтмен / Хеллбой / Звездный человек №1–2, Призрак / Хеллбой №1–2. Книги Темной Лошади. ISBN 1-59582-567-3.

Другие появления

Помимо комикса Хеллбой и связанных с ним спин-оффов, Хеллбой появлялся в других публикациях:

Брошюра Comic-Con о Грейт-Солт-Лейк-Сити

Имя персонажа «Адский мальчик» было включено в рисунок Майка Миньолы, изображающий персонажа-демона на черно-белой иллюстрации, с позже известным именем появляется на пряжке ремня демона. Это изображение, сопровождаемое краткой биографией Майка Миньолы и его последнего творения, появилось в брошюре в 1991 году. Это первое опубликованное упоминание позже признанного имени. Это изображение было перепечатано в The Art of Hellboy. Это изображение также было использовано для создания статуи «Первый Хеллбой» Мондо Тиса, как в черно-белом, так и в полноцветном исполнении.

Dime Press

Прототипное воплощение Хеллбоя появилось на обложке малоизвестного итальянского фан-журнала Dime Press # 4 (Glamour International Production, 1993) с надписью «Hellboy © Mignola 93», написанной на нижняя часть крышки. Обложка, проиллюстрированная Миньолой и итальянским художником, изображает Хеллбоя в процессе нападения на «дьявольскую» версию итальянского персонажа комиксов НФ Натана Невер (с крыльями летучей мыши и острым хвостом). Мари в то время была одним из художников, которые работали над Натаном Невер, и первые два года жизни этого комикса были главной темой журнала для фанатов. За исключением обложки, в фэнзине больше нет упоминаний о Хеллбое. Показанный персонаж все еще находился на стадии наброска, и хотя он был близок к окончательному дизайну Хеллбоя, у него была серая кожа и одежда, не обычная для персонажа.

Комиксы San Diego Comic-Con

«Хеллбой» Майка Миньолы Майка Миньолы и Джона Бирна представлял собой первое полное появление персонажа и представлял собой четырехстраничную черно-белую историю с примерно Тираж 1500 книг. Он был опубликован Dark Horse Comics в San Diego Comic-Con Comics # 2 (август 1993) для распространения на San Diego Comic-Con съезде, проходившем в Сан-Диего, Калифорния. Он также был перепечатан в The Comic’s Buyers Guide # 1069, вместе с интервью с создателем Майком Миньолой.

Хеллбой отправляется в американский город-призрак, где он встречает паршивую собачку, которая превращается в Анубис, древнеегипетский бог мумификации.

История была собрана в торговой книге в мягкой обложке Хеллбой: Семя разрушения.

Следующие люди

Хеллбой появляется в качестве гостя в фильме Джона Бирна «Следующие люди №21»; это первое американское появление в полноцветной камео.

Руководство покупателя комиксов

Фильм Майка Миньолы «Хеллбой: величайший в мире исследователь паранормальных явлений» Майка Миньолы и Джона Бирна показал следующее сольное появление персонажа. Он был опубликован Dark Horse Comics в специальном четырехстраничном мини-комиксе для распространения в Comics Buyer’s Guide # 1070 (20 мая 1994 г.).

In история Хеллбой сражается с бестелесной головой нацистского ученого Германом фон Клемптом и его марионеточным приспешником Брутом Гориллой, чтобы спасти пленную девушку от процесса переноса питательных жидкостей доктором.

Это была история. собранные в торговой книге в мягкой обложке Хеллбой: Семя разрушения.

Празднуйте разнообразие

Привет, меня зовут Хеллбой Майк Миньола, это была одностраничная панельная реклама, рассказывающая о вымышленном происхождении персонажа. Он был опубликован Diamond Comic Distributors в приложении к каталогу коллекционного издания Celebrate Diversity (октябрь 1994 г.). Объявление было собрано в торговой мягкой обложке The Art of Hellboy.

Хеллбой: Первые 20 лет был опубликован 1 апреля 2014 года.

В других СМИ

Живые боевики

Рон Перлман и Дэвид Харбор в роли Хеллбоя

Хеллбой (2004)

Режиссером и соавтором сценария фильма был Гильермо дель Торо, а в главной роли Рон Перлман — Хеллбой ( фаворит как дель Торо, так и Миньола на эту роль), Сельма Блер в роли Лиз Шерман, Руперт Эванс в роли ФБР Специальный агент Джон Майерс (персонаж, созданный для фильма), Джон Хёрт в роли профессора Тревор Бруттенхольм, Дуг Джонс в роли Эйба Сапиена (озвучивает некредитованный Дэвид Хайд Пирс ), Карел Роден в роли Григорий Распутин и Джеффри Тэмбор в роли старшего специального агента ФБР Том Мэннинг. В фильме Хеллбой изображен живущим в БПРД с дюжиной кошек и ограниченным доступом к внешнему миру, и считается городской легендой широкими массами.

Хеллбой II: Золотая армия (2008)

Продолжение, Хеллбой II: Золотая армия, было снято в Будапеште Гильермо дель Торо и выпущен в 2008 году, когда вернулись Перлман и Блэр. Джонс также вернулся в роли Эйба Сапиена (на этот раз не назван), а также в двух других ролях: Ангел смерти и Чемберлен. Revolution Studios планировала снимать фильм (который Columbia Pictures было распространять), но студия закрылась еще до съемок. Юниверсал Студиос затем поднял его. Сюжет — это переход к фольклору, а не к действию, с тяжелым европейским подтекстом. В команду был добавлен персонаж Иоганна Краусса, озвученный Сетом Макфарлейном. Персонаж Гомункул Роджер не был, но он был вписан в сюжет как очень заметный персонаж в ранних набросках сценария. Персонаж агента Майерса из первого фильма не возвращается, его отсутствие объясняется тем, что Лиз отмечает, что Хеллбой перевел его в Антарктиду из ревности. Хеллбой также показывает себя внешнему миру в этом фильме, и выясняется, что Лиз беременна его детьми, близнецами. 11 ноября 2008 года фильм «Хеллбой II: Золотая армия» был выпущен на DVD.

Возможный третий фильм

Продолжение «Хеллбой II: Золотая армия» под названием «Хеллбой III: Темные миры» находилось в разработке в 2009 году. Гильермо дель Торо должен был вернуться в качестве режиссера и сценариста фильма. Рон Перлман, Дуг Джонс, Сет МакФарлейн, Сельма Блэр и Джеффри Тэмбор должны были повторить свои роли. В сиквеле Хеллбой будет жить своей обычной жизнью как отец для своих двух новорожденных близнецов с Лиз Шерман, но ему также придется столкнуться с чрезвычайно могущественным врагом, который хочет править и принести тьму на Землю.. В 2017 году было объявлено, что сиквел был отменен из-за сложности финансирования фильма, и вместо этого произошла перезагрузка.

Однако в июле 2019 года Перлман сказал, что он все еще хотел бы закончить трилогию с дель Торо, игнорируя перезагрузку, и что он думал, что это может произойти, если удастся найти финансирование.

Хеллбой (2019)

В мае 2017 года создатель Хеллбоя Майк Миньола объявил о перезагрузке под названием Hellboy: Rise of the Blood Queen, из которой выяснилось, что режиссером проекта должен был стать Нил Маршалл и звезда Дэвид Харбор в качестве главного персонажа. Миньола также заявил, что у фильма будет рейтинг R, в отличие от предыдущих частей. В августе 2017 года Ян МакШейн получил роль Тревора Бруттенхольма. Мила Йовович получила роль Кровавая королева Нимуэ. 10 августа 2017 года перезагрузка Hellboy упала с титулом Rise of the Blood Queen и называется просто Hellboy. 16 августа 2017 года Саша Лейн получила роль Элис Монаган. 21 августа 2017 года Эд Скрейн был брошен на роль майора Бен Даймио, однако, обнаружив, что Даймио изображается в комиксах как японско-американский персонаж, Скрейн ушел в разрешить вместо этого быть актером из Азии. В основе фильма лежат Зов тьмы, Дикая охота, Буря и ярость и Хеллбой в Мексике. «Хеллбой» был выпущен 12 апреля 2019 года.

Анимационные фильмы

9 ноября 2005 года IDT Entertainment выпустила пресс-релиз, в котором сообщалось, что компания лицензировала права на разработать «анимационный контент для телевидения и домашних развлечений» на основе комикса «Хеллбой». Рон Перлман (Хеллбой), Сельма Блер (Лиз Шерман), Дуг Джонс (Эйб Сапиен) и Джон Хёрт (профессор Тревор » Broom «Bruttenholm») озвучили своих персонажей. Актриса Пери Гилпин присоединилась к актерскому составу в роли профессора Кейт Корриган.

Первые два 75-минутных мультфильма, Меч бурь и Кровь и железо, были показаны на Cartoon Network перед выпуском на DVD. Первый вышел 28 октября 2006 года, а второй — 17 марта 2007 года.

Обе истории имеют больше общего с комиксом «Хеллбой», чем с фильмом — Эйб Сапиен не экстрасенс, например, а оформление и цветовая палитра больше заимствованы из оригинальных работ Миньолы. DVD Sword of Storms был выпущен 6 февраля 2007 года; он содержит документальный материал, комментарии и комикс о Хеллбое «Призрачные конечности». «Кровь и железо» также содержит комикс «Тоска».

После первого выпуска в некоторых магазинах предлагались эксклюзивные раздачи с копиями DVD Hellboy Animated: Blood and Iron:

• Best Buy : 7-дюймовая фигурка Хеллбоя
• Walmart : 80-страничный дайджест под названием The Judgment Bell
• Transworld: A 64-page Hellboy Digest
• Infinity: A Лобстер Джонсон магнит
• Circuit City — Хеллбой «Bust Up»

1 июля 2008 года был выпущен ограниченный тираж DVD-диска «Hellboy 2 Pak», который содержал оба фильма и 7-дюймовую фигуру.

Третий анимационный фильм о Хеллбое, Призрачный коготь, был приостановлен. Тэд Стоунс, режиссер и сценарист фильмов, снятых напрямую в видео, говорит, что в фильме будет сниматься Лобстер Джонсон и будут присутствовать некоторые знакомые персонажи, но Эйба и Лиз не будет в фильме. фильм (по крайней мере, не в качестве главных героев).

Романы и антологии

Кристофер Голден написал несколько романов о персонаже, первые два из которых, «Утраченная армия» и «Кости гигантов», являются частью официальный канон истории Хеллбоя. События обоих этих романов перечислены в официальной хронологии комикса, представленной в Hellboy: The Companion. В частности, персонаж Анастасии Брансфилд с золотым пером также был описан в компаньоне, хотя на самом деле никогда не появлялся в комиксе.

• Хеллбой: Затерянная армия (автор Кристофер Голден, обложка и другие иллюстрации Майк Миньола, 1997)
• Хеллбой: Странные Джобс (редактор Кристофер Голден, среди авторов: Стивен Р. Биссетт, Грег Рука, Нэнси А. Коллинз и Поппи З. Брайт ; вступление — Майк Миньола. Милуоки: Dark Horse Comics, Inc., ISBN 1-56971-440-1, декабрь 1999 г.)
• Хеллбой: Кости гигантов (написано Кристофером Голденом, обложка и другие иллюстрации Майка Миньолы, 2001)
• Хеллбой: Оддер Джобс (редактор Кристофер Голден, среди авторов: Фрэнк Дарабонт, Гильермо дель Торо, Чарльз де Линт, Грэм Джойс, Шарин МакКрамб, Джеймс Камбиас и Ричард Дин Старр, октябрь 2004 г.)
• Хеллбой: На Земле, как она есть в аду (автор Брайан Ходж, обложка Майка Миньолы, Сентябрь 2005 г.)
• Хеллбой: Уннатура l Выбор (автор Тим Леббон, обложка Майка Миньолы, март 2006 г.)
• Хеллбой: Бог-машина (автор Томас Э. Сниегоски, обложка Майка Миньола, июль 2006 г.)
• Хеллбой: Пруд Дракона (сценарий Кристофера Голдена, обложка Майка Миньолы, март 2007 г.)
• Хеллбой: Изумрудный ад (автор сценария Том Пичкирилли, обложка Майка Миньолы, февраль 2008 г.)
• Хеллбой: Всевидящее око (написано Марком Моррисом, обложка Майка Миньолы, октябрь 2008 г.)
• Хеллбой: Необычная работа (от редактора Кристофер Голден, среди авторов: Джо Р. Лэнсдейл, Чайна Мивилль, Барбара Хэмбли, Кен Бруен, Эмбер Бенсон и Тэд Уильямс, июль 2008 г.)
• Хеллбой: Огненные волки (написанный Тим Леббон, обложка Майка Миньолы, апрель 2009)
• Хеллбой: Ледяные волки (автор Марк Чадборн, обложка Дункана Фегредо, сентябрь 2009 г.)
• Хеллбой: Ассортимент ужасов (2017)

Видеоигры

Видеоигра Hellboy под названием Hellboy: Dogs of the Night, разработанная Cryo Interactive, была выпущена в 2000 году. для Microsoft Windows. Он был портирован на PlayStation как Hellboy: Asylum Seeker с Дэвидом Гасманом, озвучивающим Хеллбоя.

6 апреля 2005 года режиссер фильма «Хеллбой» Гильермо дель Торо объявил на своем официальном сайте, что заключил сделку с разработчиком Konami на создание новой видеоигры Hellboy, основанной на киноверсии персонажа и его мира, с новыми монстрами, новыми злодеями и новая сюжетная линия. Герман фон Клемпт и его военная обезьяна Кригаффе № 10 должны были появиться. 9 мая 2006 года стало известно, что игра Hellboy появится летом 2007 года на PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 и PlayStation Portable. Игра была выпущена в Северной Америке 24 июня 2008 года под названием Hellboy: The Science of Evil с Роном Перлманом, повторяющим его роль. Он разработан Krome Studios и опубликован Konami Digital Entertainment, Inc. Помимо однопользовательской кампании, в которой игрок может играть за Хеллбоя, в игре также есть совместная игра с персонажами Эйб Сапиен и Лиз Шерман. Два дополнительных уровня и Лобстер Джонсон в качестве игрового персонажа (озвучивает Брюс Кэмпбелл ) в качестве DLC были разработаны, но не были выпущены.

Видеоигра Hellboy под названием Hellboy II: The Golden Army — Tooth Fairy Terror была выпущена для iPhone компанией Monday Creative 14 января 2009 года.

Hellboy — это играбельный персонаж из DLC в Injustice 2, озвученный Брюсом Баркером, как часть «Fighter Pack 2». Персонаж был выпущен для загрузки во вторник, 14 ноября 2017 года. Во вселенную Injustice его привез Брэйниак, который решает добавить его в свою коллекцию, так как он очарован человеческим разумом и личностью Хеллбоя, несмотря на то, что он демон. В его концовке Хеллбой убегает из коллекции Брэйниака и побеждает его. В результате его просят помочь в облаве на местных суперзлодеев, прежде чем в конечном итоге вернуться в B.P.R.D. но находит там свою работу неудовлетворительной и в конечном итоге уходит на пенсию в Африку.

Хеллбой появился в качестве игрового персонажа в Brawlhalla.

Настольные игры

В 2002 году были опубликованы Справочник по Хеллбою и ролевая игра. Автор: Steve Jackson Games с использованием своей ролевой системы GURPS, как в мягкой, так и в твердой обложке.

Mantic Games выпустила Hellboy: The Board Game в 2019 году после успешной краудфандинговой кампании.

В 2020 году Mantic Games продолжила настольную игру с еще одной кампанией Hellboy Kickstarter, на этот раз для новой ролевой игры Hellboy, использующей DD 5E в качестве основы для правил игры. Ролевая игра выйдет в марте 2021 года.

Награды

Мини-сериал «Хеллбой: Червь-завоеватель» выиграл в 2002 году премию Эйснера в категории «Лучшая ограниченная серия», а «Искусство Хеллбоя» выиграло премию Эйснера в 2004 году в категории «Лучшая книга по комиксам». Миньола выиграл 2000 Harvey Award в категории «Лучший художник» по фильму «Хеллбой: Коробка, полная зла». «Хеллбой: Зов тьмы» выиграл 2007 Eagle Award за «Американский любимый цветной комикс».

Персонаж Хеллбой был номинирован на звание «Любимый персонаж комиксов» на Премии Орла в 2004 и 2005 годах. Среди других номинаций на премию Eagle Award — «Любимая история комиксов, опубликованная в 2007 году» за фильм «Хеллбой: Зов тьмы» и «Любимый герой комиксов».

Автор комиксов Алан Мур перечислил Хеллбоя на своей странице рекомендаций, в частности, Разбуди дьявола (том 2), назвав это «умелой огранкой и закрепкой камня, которые мы можем видеть Острое современное чутье Миньолы в действии ».

В марте 2009 года Хеллбой выиграл две категории в наградах Project Fanboy за 2008 год:« Лучший герой Инди »и« Лучший персонаж Инди ».

В 2011 году Хеллбой занял 25-е место из 100 лучших героев комиксов по версии IGN.

Merchandise

22 мая 2017 года Dark Horse Comics, XXX Distillery LLC и Prestige Imports LLC официально выпустили Hellboy Hell. Water Cinnamon Whisky, небольшая партия, виски с естественным вкусом.

См. Также

• The Amazing Screw-On Head, еще один комикс от Dark Horse, написанный и нарисованный Майком Миньолой.

Ссылки

• Вайнер, Стив ; Виктория Блейк; Джейсон Холл (декабрь 2006 г.). Хеллбой: Товарищ. Комиксы Dark Horse. ISBN 978-1-59307-655-9.
• Мастерс, Фил; Джонатан Вудворд (август 2002 г.). Справочник «Хеллбой» и ролевая игра. Стив Джексон Игры. ISBN 978-1-55634-654-5.
• Миньола в Расширенной вселенной Хеллбоя. Ресурсы по комиксам. 3 марта 2008 г.
• NYCC: Hellboy Dominates 2008

Внешние ссылки

• Официальный сайт
• Hellboy Zone. Dark Horse Comics.
• Hellboy в Toonopedia Дона Маркштейна.
• Hellboy в Comic Book DB (архив из оригинальной )
• видеоигры Hellboy в Konami сайт