The Hellboy Universe Publishing Order

[Middenway]

This is an old list that used to be posted on the Dark Horse forums. The list consists of the core Hellboy Universe comics with an additional section for the Hellboy Universe novels, and just for the hell of it, there's a section for the Baltimore stories as well.

CONTENTS:

1. Core Comics of the Hellboy Universe by Publishing Order
Due to post limitations, this list will be divided up into sections.

I. 1993-2010
II. 2011-Present
III. Future Projects

2. Library Editions and Omnibuses
This section lists which trades are in which book.


3. Novels of the Hellboy Universe by Publishing Order
Please note, I don't collect the novels myself. I rely on other people for this information.


4. Stories of the Baltimore Universe by Publishing Order
This section lists the novel and the later comics of the Baltimore Universe.


5. Upcoming Issues
This section lists the upcoming issues according to the solicitations.


6. Upcoming Trade Paperbacks
This just lists various collections that are in the making.


7. Useful Links
At the suggestion of Kees_L, this section links to other useful lists out there.


8. Solicitations
The latest solicitation information.

May 2013
June 2013
July 2013
August 2013

9. Dark Horse Digital Store Availability
A list of which stories are available on the Dark Horse Digital Store.

I. 1993-2010
II. 2011-Present
III. Out-of-Continuity Stories

[Middenway]

I'm choosing to define core comics as stories that are or will be collected in the primary Hellboy Universe trade paperbacks. This list will not include cross-overs, guest appearances, Hellboy Junior comics or RPG comics.

Publishing order is based on the first appearance of the first issue or part of that comic, thus The Corpse goes before The Chained Coffin as it ran as a multi-part series before it was collected with The Iron Shoes.

This list is useful as a reading order for the Hellboy Universe, especially for newcomers. You get the story elements as they evolve, a healthy balance of pre-1994 Hellboy stories and post-1994 Hellboy stories, no spoilers, and best of all you can see Mignola growing as an artist and storyteller.

Finally, the colours correlate to the spines of the trade paperbacks the stories are collected in.

Red is Hellboy
Olive is B.P.R.D.
Grey is B.P.R.D. Hell on Earth
Blue is Lobster Johnson
Green is Abe Sapien
Brown is Sir Edward Grey, Witchfinder

1993
AUGUST 19 ― Hellboy Promo #1 Hellboy 1

1994
MARCH 1 ― Seed of Destruction Hellboy 1
MAY 20 ― Hellboy Promo #2 Hellboy 1
AUGUST 1 ― The Wolves of Saint August Hellboy 3

1995
MARCH ― The Corpse Hellboy 3
AUGUST 2 ― The Chained Coffin Hellboy 3

1996
JANUARY 1 ― The Iron Shoes Hellboy 3
JUNE 1 ― Wake the Devil Hellboy 2

1997
JUNE 25 ― Almost Colossus Hellboy 3
DECEMBER 3 ― A Christmas Underground Hellboy 3

1998
MARCH 4 ― Drums of the Dead B.P.R.D. 1
MARCH 4 ― Heads Hellboy 4
AUGUST 5 ― The Baba Yaga Hellboy 3
AUGUST 26 ― The Right Hand of Doom Hellboy 4

1999
AUGUST 1 ― The Vârcolac Hellboy 4
AUGUST 4 ― Goodbye Mr. Tod Hellboy 4
AUGUST 11 ― Pancakes Hellboy 4
AUGUST 11 ― Box Full of Evil Hellboy 4
AUGUST 11 ― The Killer in My Skull B.P.R.D. 1
SEPTEMBER 8 ― Abe Sapien versus Science B.P.R.D. 1

2000
FEBRUARY 16 ― The Nature of the Beast Hellboy 4
APRIL 26 ― King Vold Hellboy 4

2001
MAY 9 ― Conqueror Worm Hellboy 5
DECEMBER 5 ― B.P.R.D. Promo B.P.R.D. 1

2002
JANUARY 30 ― Hollow Earth B.P.R.D. 1
JULY 24 ― The Third Wish Hellboy 6

2003
MAY 14 ― The Soul of Venice B.P.R.D. 2
JULY 23 ― Dark Waters B.P.R.D. 2
AUGUST 27 ― Dr. Carp's Experiment Hellboy 7
SEPTEMBER 17 ― Night Train B.P.R.D. 2
NOVEMBER 19 ― There's Something Under My Bed B.P.R.D. 2

2004
MARCH ― The Penanggalan Hellboy 7
MARCH ― Born Again B.P.R.D. 4
MARCH 3 ― Plague of Frogs B.P.R.D. 3
JULY 7 ― The Troll-Witch Hellboy 7
AUGUST 25 ― Another Day at the Office B.P.R.D. 2
NOVEMBER 3 ― The Dead B.P.R.D. 4

2005
JUNE 1 ― The Ghoul (or Reflections on Death and The Poetry of Worms) Hellboy 7
JUNE 22 ― The Island Hellboy 6
AUGUST 31 ― The Black Flame B.P.R.D. 5

2006
FEBRUARY 1 ― Makoma (or A Tale Told by a Mummy in the New York City Explorers' Club on August 16, 1993) Hellboy 7
APRIL 12 ― The Universal Machine B.P.R.D. 6
DECEMBER 13 ― The Hydra and the Lion Hellboy 7

2007
FEBRUARY 23 ― They That Go Down to the Sea in Ships Hellboy 10
MARCH 14 ― Garden of Souls B.P.R.D. 7
MAY 2 ― Darkness Calls Hellboy 8
AUGUST 8 ― Killing Ground B.P.R.D. 8
SEPTEMBER 5 ― The Iron Prometheus Lobster Johnson 1
OCTOBER 3 ― The Vampire of Prague Hellboy 7

2008
JANUARY 9 ― 1946 B.P.R.D. 9
FEBRUARY 6 ― The Drowning Abe Sapien 1
MARCH 5 ― Revival B.P.R.D. 12 "Chapter 2"
MAY 3 ― The Mole Hellboy 10
MAY 3 ― Bishop Olek’s Devil B.P.R.D. 9
MAY 3 ― Out of Reach - B.P.R.D. 10 "Prologue"
JUNE 11 ― War on Frogs #1 B.P.R.D. 12 "Chapter 1"
JUNE 25 ― The Ectoplasmic Man B.P.R.D.: Being Human
JULY 2 ― The Crooked Man Hellboy 10
JULY 9 ― The Warning B.P.R.D. 10
AUGUST 13 ― Witchball! Hellboy 10
OCTOBER 29 ― In the Chapel of Moloch Hellboy 10
NOVEMBER 5 ― Murderous Intent Witchfinder 1
DECEMBER 3 ― The Wild Hunt Hellboy 9
DECEMBER 10 ― War on Frogs #2 B.P.R.D. 12 "Chapter 3"

2009
JANUARY 7 ― How Koshchei Became Deathless -Uncollected-
JANUARY 14 ― The Black Goddess B.P.R.D. 11
MARCH 4 ― Baba Yaga's Feast -Uncollected-
JUNE 6 ― And What Shall I Find There? B.P.R.D. 13
JUNE 10 ― War on Frogs #3 B.P.R.D. 12 "Chapter 5"
JULY 1 ― In the Service of Angels Witchfinder 1
JULY 8 ― 1947 B.P.R.D. 13
OCTOBER 14 ― The Burial of Katharine Baker Witchfinder 1
OCTOBER 28 ― The Haunted Boy Abe Sapien 2
DECEMBER 9 ― War on Frogs #4 B.P.R.D. 12 "Chapter 4"
DECEMBER 23 ― The Bride of Hell Hellboy 11

2010
JANUARY 6 ― King of Fear B.P.R.D. 14
MAY 5 ― Hellboy in Mexico (or A Drunken Blur) Hellboy 11
JUNE 30 ― The Abyssal Plain Abe Sapien 2
JULY 7 ― The Storm Hellboy 12
AUGUST 11 ― New World B.P.R.D. Hell on Earth 1
OCTOBER 11 ― The Whittier Legacy Hellboy 11
NOVEMBER 17 ― Double Feature of Evil: Sullivan's Reward & The House of Sebek Hellboy 11
DECEMBER 29 ― The Sleeping and the Dead Hellboy 11

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2011
JANUARY 12 ― Gods B.P.R.D. Hell on Earth 2
FEBRUARY 2 ― Lost and Gone Forever Witchfinder 2
MARCH 4 ― Seattle B.P.R.D. Hell on Earth 1
APRIL 6 ― The Dead Remembered B.P.R.D.: Being Human
APRIL 13 ― Buster Oakley Gets His Wish Hellboy 11
MAY 11 ― Being Human B.P.R.D.: Being Human
JUNE 1 ― The Fury Hellboy 12
JULY 1 ― Casualties B.P.R.D.: Being Human
JULY 13 ― Monsters B.P.R.D. Hell on Earth 2
SEPTEMBER 21 ― Russia B.P.R.D. Hell on Earth 3
SEPTEMBER 28 ― The Devil Does Not Jest Abe Sapien 2
NOVEMBER 2 ― House of the Living Dead -Uncollected OGN-
DECEMBER 21 ― Hellboy versus the Aztec Mummy -Uncollected, short story-

2012
JANUARY 11 ― The Burning Hand Lobster Johnson 2
FEBRUARY 1 ― An Unmarked Grave B.P.R.D. Hell on Earth 3
FEBRUARY 15 ― The Long Death B.P.R.D. Hell on Earth 4
FEBRUARY 22 ― Tony Masso’s Finest Hour -Uncollected, short story-
MARCH 28 ― The Pickens County Horror B.P.R.D. Hell on Earth 5
MAY 16 ― The Devil’s Engine B.P.R.D. Hell on Earth 4
MAY 30 ― The Transformation of J.H. O'Donnell B.P.R.D. Hell on Earth 5
JUNE 27 ― Exorcism -Uncollected, 2 issues-
AUGUST 22 ― The Prayer of Neferu -Uncollected, one shot-
AUGUST 29 ― The Return of the Master B.P.R.D. Hell on Earth 6
SEPTEMBER 19 ― Caput Mortuum -Uncollected, one shot-
OCTOBER 17 ― 1948 B.P.R.D.: 1948
DECEMBER 5 ― Hellboy in Hell #1-4 -Uncollected-

2013
JANUARY 9 ― The Abyss of Time B.P.R.D. Hell on Earth 5
MARCH 13 ― Sledgehammer 44 -Uncollected, 2 issues-
MARCH 20 ― A Cold Day in Hell -Uncollected, 2 issues-
MARCH 27 ― Vampire -Published, 2 of 5 issues-
APRIL 3 ― Dark and Terrible -Published, 2 of 3 issues-
MAY 15 ― Wasteland -Published, 1 of 3 issues-

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2013
MAY 22 ― Satan Smells a Rat -Unpublished, one shot-
JULY 3 ― The New Race of Man -Unpublished, 2 issues-
JULY 17 ― A Scent of Lotus -Unpublished, 2 issues-
AUGUST ― Lake of Fire -Unpublished, 5 issues-
OCTOBER 23 ― The Midnight Circus -Unpublished, OGN-
UNKNOWN ― Untitled B.P.R.D. story drawn by James Harren -Unpublished, 5 issues-
UNKNOWN ― Untitled Abe Sapien story by Scott Allie with art by Sebastian Fiumara -Unpublished, 2 issues-

2014
FEBRUARY ― Get the Lobster! -Unpublished, 5 issues-


No Known Release Date
With so little information known about these titles, there's bound to be some overlap. These don't necessarily represent seperate projects.
Untitled ― B.P.R.D. story by Cameron Stewart
Untitled ― 3rd Witchfinder miniseries by new writer (a novelist known for their Victorian fiction)
Untitled ― 3-issue Sledgehammer 44 story drawn by Laurence Campbell
Hellboy in Hell #5
Hellboy in Hell #6
Hellboy in Hell #7-8 (two-part story)


Possible/Rumoured Projects
Untitled ― Hellboy OGN set in Mexico
Untitled ― Another Hellboy story set in Mexico
Untitled ― Story drawn by Sean Gordon Murphy
Untitled ― 5-issue story written by Mike Mignola about a rarely seen character
Untitled ― 5-issue story written by Mike Mignola about another rarely seen character
Untitled ― Story drawn by Peter Snejbjerg

[Middenway]

This is just to help people locate certain stories using the list above.


HELLBOY LIBRARY EDITIONS
Hellboy ― Volume 1 includes:
Hellboy 1: Seed of Destruction
Hellboy 2: Wake the Devil

Hellboy ― Volume 2 includes:
Hellboy 3: The Chained Coffin and Others
Hellboy 4: Right Hand of Doom

Hellboy ― Volume 3 includes:
Hellboy 5: Conqueror Worm
Hellboy 6: Strange Places

Hellboy ― Volume 4 includes:
Hellboy 7: The Troll Witch and Others
Hellboy 10: The Crooked Man and Others*

*Does not include The Mole

Hellboy ― Volume 5 includes:
Hellboy 8: Darkness Calls
Hellboy 9: The Wild Hunt

+ The Mole

Hellboy ― Volume 6 includes:
Hellboy 12: The Storm and the Fury
Hellboy 11: The Bride of Hell and Others


B.P.R.D. OMNIBUSES
B.P.R.D. Plague of Frogs ― Volume 1 includes:
B.P.R.D. 1: Hollow Earth and Other Stories
B.P.R.D. 2: The Soul of Venice and Other Stories
B.P.R.D. 3: Plague of Frogs

B.P.R.D. Plague of Frogs ― Volume 2 includes:
B.P.R.D. 4: The Dead
B.P.R.D. 12: War on Frogs
B.P.R.D. 5: The Black Flame

B.P.R.D. Plague of Frogs ― Volume 3 includes:
B.P.R.D. 6: The Universal Machine
B.P.R.D. 7: Garden of Souls
B.P.R.D. 8: Killing Ground

B.P.R.D. Plague of Frogs ― Volume 4 includes:
B.P.R.D. 10: The Warning
B.P.R.D. 11: The Black Goddess
B.P.R.D. 14: King of Fear

[new_onslaught]

This is just to help people locate certain stories using the list above.


HELLBOY LIBRARY EDITIONS
Hellboy ― Volume 1 includes:
Hellboy 1: Seed of Destruction
Hellboy 2: Wake the Devil

Hellboy ― Volume 2 includes:
Hellboy 3: The Chained Coffin and Others
Hellboy 4: Right Hand of Doom

Hellboy ― Volume 3 includes:
Hellboy 5: Conqueror Worm
Hellboy 6: Strange Places

Hellboy ― Volume 4 includes:
Hellboy 7: The Troll Witch and Others
Hellboy 10: The Crooked Man and Others*

*Does not include The Mole

Hellboy ― Volume 5 includes:
Hellboy 8: Darkness Calls
Hellboy 9: The Wild Hunt

+ The Mole

BPRD OMNIBUSES
BPRD: Plague of Frogs ― Volume 1 includes:
BPRD 1: Hollow Earth and Other Stories
BPRD 2: The Soul of Venice and Other Stories
BPRD 3: Plague of Frogs

BPRD: Plague of Frogs ― Volume 2 includes:
BPRD 4: The Dead
BPRD 12: War on Frogs
BPRD 5: The Black Flame

BPRD: Plague of Frogs ― Volume 3 includes:
BPRD 6: The Universal Machine
BPRD 7: Garden of Souls
BPRD 8: Killing Ground

BPRD: Plague of Frogs ― Volume 4 includes:
BPRD 10: The Warning
BPRD 11: The Black Goddess
BPRD 14: King of Fear

Hi everyone! I'm thinking of starting reading Hellboy, but I'm really confused about the reading order of the trades. This thread is really helpful, but I've got some questions. What I don't get the most is why in the HC collections of both Hellboy and BPRD the TPBs are not collected in order. For example BPRD: Plague of Frogs ― Volume 2 includes
BPRD 4: The Dead
BPRD 12: War on Frogs
BPRD 5: The Black Flame

Why is that? Are they read better that way? Also I don't see BPRD 9 and 13 collected. Are they gonna be collected in a future volume? Thanks in adavance guys!

[Bosco685]

1993
AUGUST 19 ― Hellboy Promo #1 - Hellboy 1

Sorry to ask a question as a "new guy," but what is this mentioned above? Is this the Comic Buyers's Guide insert that led into Seed of Destruction?

Thanks for the clarification.

[Kees_L]

Sorry to ask a question as a "new guy," but what is this mentioned above? Is this the Comic Buyers's Guide insert that led into Seed of Destruction?

Thanks for the clarification.

No, it would be the San Diego Comics #2 issue, dated August 1993, featuring the Hellboy VS Anubis story, as reprinted in the Hellboy: Seed of Destruction TPB.

The Comic Buyer's Guide insert came with a CBG #1070, dated May 1994, so effectively like 9 months later.

[Bosco685]

No, it would be the San Diego Comics #2 issue, dated August 1993, featuring the Hellboy VS Anubis story, as reprinted in the Hellboy: Seed of Destruction TPB.

The Comic Buyer's Guide insert came with a CBG #1070, dated May 1994, so effectively like 9 months later.

Thanks Kees for the clarification. I was new to San Diego Comic-Con Comics #2 being listed as a promo appearance. Especially since it was a 4-page story versus that prototype appearance on the cover of Dime Press #4. But it makes sense since it was a handout promo.

What's interesting is in Hellboy Library HC #1, Mignola publishes a one-page letter stating the next two stories are the very first Hellboy published work - and it is SDCC #2 and the Comic Buyers' Guide insert. Supposedly that content pre-dated Seed of Destruction, but was then published later.

[Kees_L]

Thanks Kees for the clarification. I was new to San Diego Comic-Con Comics #2 being listed as a promo appearance. Especially since it was a 4-page story versus that prototype appearance on the cover of Dime Press #4. But it makes sense since it was a handout promo.

Ehm, you mean it makes sense for you to being unaware of it, because it would have been a handout promo?
I'd say it would be likely for anybody to not being aware of either the promo due to not attending the San Diego Con, both as remaining unaware of the cover to the Italian magazine I would think? Let alone the Freedonia/Dark Horse 'Legend' trading cards set featuring a card of Hellboy? Or either the Next Men Hellboy appearance? Or the Hellboy with a coat plus weird writings on the wall poster?
Because they'd all have been published prior to the first issue of Hellboy: Seed Of Destruction coming out?

What's interesting is in Hellboy Library HC #1, Mignola publishes a one-page letter stating the next two stories are the very first Hellboy published work - and it is SDCC #2 and the Comic Buyers' Guide insert. Supposedly that content pre-dated Seed of Destruction, but was then published later.

No, published prior, as the TPB content would be reprinted material.
Eventhough any of the work on either any Hellboy stuff or specifically the Seed of Destruction-like material, might have been started on prior or next to creating any of the other Hellboy-containing stuff that would have gotten published before it, except expectedly the Dime Press cover since that appears to being like really early?
Or what about the coat - potentially becoming like a signature attribute for Hellboy but not within Seed that much yet? Eventhough the coat-poster would be preceding Seed #1, mr Mike describes the poster as for introducing the coat onto Hellboy, eventhough the coat would hardly seem to being apparent in Seed of Destruction all-too-predominantly. Whereas the Anubis-story does feature Hellboy-with coat foremostly if I'm not mistaken?
So it would appear that publication date or either release date doesn't necessarily equate to any of the actual material to be either preceding or following eachother up all that strictly it seems to me.
I believe mr Mike described repeatedly how he had been dreaming of being to be doing at least this one solid story before he'd die, like all of his own, at least as soon as after completing the art but also apparently much of the storytelling to Batman: Sanctum, a LotDK story which he'd been pretty pleased with for a result, a story which was published no earlier than november 1993.
Whereas the unlikely Hellboy appearance of Hellboy VS Nathan Never for the Dime Press cover would have been made in 1992 already - although published later than that, namely in March 1993. And there would be an even older Hellboy convention sketch done at the San Diego Con in 1991, as reprinted in the Art of Hellboy and also the Seed TPB if I'm not mistaken - a fun goofy drawing looking like Hellboy even less than the Dime Press one. A goofy drawing being to stick with mr Mike eversince 1991 somehow resulting in what would be to be the thing he'd be doing like all on his own - as soon as the 'Legend' deal at Dark Horse would prove to being a 'go' somewhere in 1993.
And even then stuff would still be to shift, since right up to the last couple of months nearing the deadline - Seed shifted from being a back-up story into being a lead story, spread over four issues.
And eversince the period between 1991 until Seed becoming a reality in 1994, some images and even stories concerning Hellboy or either Hellboy-like images, had been popping up or seeping through. And why not really? Since it would have been a thing for mr Mike to be working on like more or less, with knowing what Hellboy or either the Seed-story would be to become, or either not knowing such all that much.

I think of it as photos of yourself prior to getting a haircut or prior to going on some defining trip or moving to a whole new place: you would not yet really be the person you'd be becoming later on, but still it would be you in the photo - reality or factuality or photography can be funny that way, I suppose?

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BALTIMORE - VOLUME 2: THE CURSE BELLS (Hardcover)
Written by: Mike Mignola and Christopher Golden
Art by: Ben Stenbeck
Colours by: Dave Stewart
Cover by: Mike Mignola

On sale June 13 (144 pages, $24.99)

A horrific ritual will create havoc on a small European town, as Lord Baltimore takes on the twisted blessing of vampiric nuns and an insane warlock!
• By award–winning writers Mike Mignola and Christopher Golden.
• New York Times bestseller!
"Crisp, clean & drenched in blood!" —Comic Attack


B.P.R.D. HELL ON EARTH: THE LONG DEATH #3 (of 3)
Written by: Mike Mignola and John Arcudi
Art by: James Harren
Colours by: Dave Stewart
Cover by: Duncan Fegredo

On sale April 18 (32 pages, $3.50)

In a frozen camp full of slaughtered agents, two monstrous, long-running characters go head to head in a life-and-death battle!
• From the pages of Hellboy!
• The Wendigo vs. the Jaguar God!
"Eighty issues in, and B.P.R.D. is still going strong." —Comic Book Resources


B.P.R.D. HELL ON EARTH: THE PICKENS COUNTY HORROR #2 (of 2)
Written by: Mike Mignola and Scott Allie
Art by: Jason Latour
Colours by: Dave Stewart
Cover by: Becky Cloonan

On sale April 25 (32 pages, $3.50)

A reclusive vampire clan and a deadly mist create one of the most disastrous missions our heroes have ever faced!
• The most horrific B.P.R.D. in years!
"The world has taken a turn for the apocalyptic — which makes the series title Hell on Earth an apt one." —USA Today


LOBSTER JOHNSON: THE BURNING HAND #4 (of 5)
Written by: Mike Mignola and John Arcudi
Art by: Tonči Zonjić
Colours by: Dave Stewart
Cover by: Dave Johnson
Variant Cover by: Mike Mignola

On sale April 11 (32 pages, $3.50)

As dead gangsters bloody the floor of his secret hideout, crime-fighter Lobster Johnson goes head to head with the powerful Nazi boss—the Black Flame!
• From the pages of Hellboy!
• Art by Tonči Zonjić (Who Is Jake Ellis?)
• Mike Mignola's Year of Monsters!
"The mark of a truly successful comic book artist is the ability to take away all the dialogue balloons and have the reader still be able to follow the story purely through the emotions of the art. And Zonjić does just this perfectly." —Major Spoilers

[Bosco685]

I remember there used to be a Hellboy.com chronological appearances section. This had pictures of each book cover, and then a summary of the content. Also, if the book contained 1st appearances of characters or not.

What happened to this content when the webmaster left? Did she take all the content with her?

[Kees_L]

I remember there used to be a Hellboy.com chronological appearances section.

If you're asking where [url]www.hellboy.com[\url] (as being the official webspace to things Hellboy) has gone, I'd say it's gone (per 2009), having turned into www.theartofmikemignola.com.

I'd say there has also since long been an official forum space, hosted through CBR, being this forum, being not an ordinary CBR forum, but an officially hosted one, as being specified as such, by both CBR as well as the priorly mentioned Mignola site?

This forum will be hosting a slew of information already (try the search function and you will see this forum combined with the initial Drawing Board one dating back to 1997 at least as far as I could tell).
Examples being for instance this Chronological Reading Order list, although there'll be lots of other stuff.

Or try the links as given through the official Mignola site, among which the All Things Hellboy site.

Of course the Dark Horse website will be a great source for all Hellboy-related publications plus cover pics, edition info and even previews.

Another official source for any Hellboy reading would be the Hellboy Companion, made under guidance of the people publishing the Hellboy books, published by Dark Horse as of 2008.

Although I would really think that nothing will be presenting the books or the Hellboy-related continuity as properly or as powerfully or as vitally as just the stories themselves.
Complete with all the first appearances both as any later ones. Stories presenting themselves as only they could.

As if aside of the books, one effectively wouldn't really be needing anything else, except some good lighting or at least enough of the time of day, decent posture, if not some refreshments, a little music and that would be that: joyful bliss eternal.

[Bosco685]

If you're asking where [url]www.hellboy.com[\url] (as being the official webspace to things Hellboy) has gone, I'd say it's gone (per 2009), having turned into www.theartofmikemignola.com.

Thanks Kees. I appreciate all that information.

This was a very nicely laid out visual chronological library, and didn't require much searching at all to piece everything together. I guess when Mignola was changing the site over, the content went with the old site. What a shame.

But I do need to get a copy of the Hellboy Companion.

As if aside of the books, one effectively wouldn't really be needing anything else, except some good lighting or at least enough of the time of day, decent posture, if not some refreshments, a little music and that would be that: joyful bliss eternal.

You sure aren't kidding. But it would be nice to have the old content back. It made it easy to piece together the publication run, with clarifications from Mignola.

[Gary_B]

But I do need to get a copy of the Hellboy Companion.

Yes you do. There is a wealth of good information contained in that book and tons of great illustrations.