Following ten years of working on in-house projects for Marvel and DC Comics, Mike Mignola (b.1960) created the Hellboy series in 1993, releasing it through the independent comic book publisher Dark Horse. The offspring of a human mother and a demon father, and born in hell, Hellboy was brought to Earth in a plot hatched by the Russian mystic Rasputin and the Nazis during World War II, and then rescued by the Allies. Thereupon, Hellboy is raised in captivity but treated as a normal child, though he possesses superhuman strength, red skin, and horns, which he files down. Despite being half demon, Hellboy joins the Bureau for Paranormal Research and Defense (B.P.R.D.), where he is tasked with fighting all manner of supernatural and otherworldly evil.
Signed and numbered to lower edge ‘Mignola 684/750’. This work is number 684 from the limited edition of 750. This was available only at San Diego Comic Con 2006.
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