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    Default Hellboy Conqueror Worm Mummy Heads

    Hey Kids,
    This subject has probably been covered before, but I searched the forum a couple of times and I didn't find anything. So here goes: In the Conqueror Worm story arc, when Hellboy finds the cabinet of mummified heads, what do the dates and initials on their foreheads mean. I suppose it refers to prophets of some sort, but I can't figure out how. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.

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    I took them to be a classification system, like prisoners in Dachau, but there are letters there too. Well, Edward the Confessor was King of England in 1066. Would that be E.C. 1066? Seems shakey. Edgar Cayce would make a lot more sense but he didn't die until 1945.

    Good hunting.

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    I believe Mike said a few years back at SDCC that they were supposed to be the mummified heads of various Saints, and (I think) either the era in which they lived or some sort of classification system (as Tad had said) burned into their foreheads.

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    I posted who they were on the forum two incarnations before this forum. I don't have my comics with me right now, nor did I save the list from the old forum-- d'oh. :(

    If you go by the initials and try different names in a typical online encyclopedia of saints, they were easy to spot by the dates.

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    They're football players and their lifetime averages...yeah, that's the ticket. :)

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    I thought they were CBR members and the numbers were their post count at the time ;)

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    EC must be ME! (Enrico's my full given name). :)

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    JER 420 - St. Jerome
    DOM 1221 - Dominic de Guzman
    HC 1109 - ? St. Anselm (HC?)
    AMB 397 - St. Ambrose
    EC 1066 - St. Edward the Confessor
    PHI 684 - St. Philbert

    So the H.C. doesn't fit, anybody got someone better?

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    St. Anselm's the only one I could find attributed to that year. Hm...

    (One of my older brothers is named Anselmo.)

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    Quote Originally Posted by Tad
    JER 420 - St. Jerome
    DOM 1221 - Dominic de Guzman
    HC 1109 - ? St. Anselm (HC?)
    AMB 397 - St. Ambrose
    EC 1066 - St. Edward the Confessor
    PHI 684 - St. Philbert

    So the H.C. doesn't fit, anybody got someone better?
    I'm assuming since they were German that they used the German form of his name - Hansel (Dutch: from the personal name Hansel or Ansel, a form of Anselm)

    So it would be Hansel of Canterbury 1109.

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    petriacce--that was some Shirlock Holmes action there. nice.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Tad
    JER 420 - St. Jerome
    DOM 1221 - Dominic de Guzman
    HC 1109 - ? St. Anselm (HC?)
    AMB 397 - St. Ambrose
    EC 1066 - St. Edward the Confessor
    PHI 684 - St. Philbert

    So the H.C. doesn't fit, anybody got someone better?
    Between me and my brother we know everything. This must be the one my brother knows. (quoted from War of the Worlds) :p

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    Couldn't have said it better, Cure. Nice going, Petriacce!

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    Give the No Prize to Petriacce! (Where's Stan Lee when you need'im?)

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    Good job, Patrick!

    Now can you figure out Rick's full name, so I can use it on him like his mom when he's done something bad?

    "Enrico Montalban Hasenpfeffer Cortes! If I have to come down there you are going to be in more trouble than you can imagine!!!"


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