Hellboy/BPRD Story Checklist

[Bippo]

I made this attached story checklist shortly after noticing Hellboy volume 2 referencing Hellboy volume 3 ("Wake the Devil" to "The Chained Coffin"). I've only recently started reading Hellboy and BPRD so it was to help me with reading order and for buying other stories. I also made a short character listing for each so I can later pick up a story again for a particular character.

It's missing some info. Particularly what characters star in which prose stories since I have only read one short prose story thus far. There's probably some other mistakes and possibly missing stories, because I noticed Hellboy.com doesn't list the short comic and prose story in the Sourcebook and Roleplaying game.

It's Word file (.doc) so it potentially might not show up right for some (I have an .rtf version if needed). It's designed in Landscape view with 0.75" margins.

Can anybody help fill it in a bit? Thanks.

Also are the crossover stories canon? I've been considering dividing it up by canon or non-canon and comic or prose instead of how I have it now. For non-canon I have Hellboy Jr., crossovers, and the movie novelization (obviously).

EDIT: Updated my list Feb 15
Fixed several mistakes, added more upcoming stories, and added character listings for most prose stories (apperances still unknown: "Cartoon", "Where Their Fire is Not Quenched", "The Wish Hounds")

[kid cthulhu]

Hey, Bippo, a while ago I made a list of HB/BPRD stories in chronological order. I think this covers just about all of 'em.



The complete Hellboy: stories in chronological order

~ indicates "essential stories" (in most cases meaning by Mike Mignola and/or within continuity)








Lobster Johnson: The Killer in my Skull (from Box Full of Evil #1) 1938
~ Pancakes (from the 1999 Dark Horse Presents annual) (RHoD tpb) 1947
Midnight Cowboy (from Weird Tales #2) 1947
Haunted (from Weird Tales #4) 1953
A Mother Cries at Midnight (from Odd Jobs) 1953
Unfinished Business (from Odder Jobs) 1953
~ The Nature of the Beast (from DH Presents #151) (RHoD tpb) 1954
~ King Vold (from The Right Hand of Doom tpb) (RHoD tpb) 1956
~ The Penanggalan (from Wizard special) 1958
~ The Corpse (from The Corpse and The Iron Shoes) (CC&O tpb) 1959
~ The Iron Shoes (from The Corpse and The Iron Shoes) (CC&O tpb) 1961
~ The Troll Witch (from Book of Witchcraft) 1963
A Love Story (from Weird Tales #7) 1964
~ The Baba Yaga (from The Chained Coffin and Others tpb) 1964
The Goon (untitled crossover issue) 1965
~ Heads (from Abe Sapien: Drums of the Dead) (RHoD tpb) 1967
Hot (from Weird Tales #2) 1967
~ Goodbye Mister Tod (from Gary Gianni's MonsterMen) (RHoD tpb) 1979
Shattered (from Weird Tales #5) 1979
Sacred Crows (from Odd Jobs) 1981
~ The Varcolac (DH Insider; re-presented in the RHoD tpb) 1982
Love is Scarier than Death (from Weird Tales #5) 1983
Medusa's Revenge (from Odd Jobs) 1983
Family Story (from Weird Tales #3) 1984
A Night at The Beach (from Odd Jobs) 1985
Flight Risk (from Weird Tales #2) 1986
The Lost Army (novel) 1986
~ A Christmas Underground (from the Hellboy Christmas Special) (CC&O tpb) 1989
The Kabanha (from the rpg sourcebook) 1990
The Vampire Brief (from Odder Jobs) 1991
~ Dr. Carp's Experiment (from Book of Hauntings) 1991
Command Performance (from Weird Tales #6) 1991
A Grim Fairy Tale (from Odd Jobs) 1992
~ The Ghoul (from Book of The Dead) 1992
~ Makoma 1993
~ Seed of Destruction 1994
Down In The Flood (from Odder Jobs) 1994
~ The Wolves of Saint August (from Dark Horse Presents #88 - 91) (CC&O tpb) 1994
Big Top Hellboy (from Weird Tales #1) 1994
~ The Chained Coffin (from Dark Horse Presents #100/2) (CC&O tpb) 1995
From An Enchanter Fleeing (from Odder Jobs) 1995
Demon Politics (from Odd Jobs) 1995
Savage Dragon (#34, 35) 1996
~ Wake the Devil 1996
On Earth As It Is In Hell (novel) 1996
~ Almost Colossus (CC&O tpb) 1996
Ghost/Hellboy (#1, 2) 1997
~ Abe Sapien vs Science (from Box Full of Evil #2) 1997
Jigsaw (from Odd Jobs) 1997
The Glass Road (from Odder Jobs) 1997
The Bones of Giants (novel) 1997
Delivered (from Odd Jobs) 1998
~ The Right Hand of Doom (from 1998 Dark Horse Presents annual) (RHoD tpb) 1998
~ Abe Sapien: Drums of the Dead 1998
Painkiller Jane/Hellboy 1998
Toy Soldier (from Weird Tales #8) 1998
Act of Mercy (from Odder Jobs) 1999
~ Box Full of Evil (RHoD tpb) 1999
~ Batman/Hellboy/Starman 1999
A Full and Satisfying Life (from Odder Jobs) 1999
Still Born (from Weird Tales #3) 2000
Saint Hellboy (from Odder Jobs) 2000
Newford Spook Squad (from Odder Jobs) 2000
Sleepless In Manhattan (from Odder Jobs) 2000
The Dakini (from the rpg sourcebook) 2001
Cool Your Head (from Weird Tales #5) 2001
Tasty Teeth (from Odder Jobs) 2001
Brotherhood of The Gun (from Odder Jobs) 2001
~ Conqueror Worm 2001
~ BPRD: Hollow Earth 2002
~ The Third Wish (SP tpb) 2002
BPRD: The Soul of Venice 2003
BPRD: Dark Waters 2003
BPRD: Night Train 2003
BPRD: There's Something Under My Bed 2003
~ BPRD: Born Again (from Wizard special) 2004
~ BPRD: Plague of Frogs 2004
~ BPRD: The Dead '04 / '05
~ The Island (SP tpb) 2005
~ BPRD: The Black Flame 2005
~ BPRD: The Universal Machine 2006
~ Darkness Calls '06 / '07


RHoD tpb - The Right Hand of Doom trade paperback
CC&O tpb - The Chained Coffin & Others trade paperback
SP tpb - Strange Places trade paperback
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[Bippo]

Cool. I sorted by first publication date (series starting first month), but a chronological list should serve well too.

There are some missing from your's though. The only I immediately notice are Long Distance Caller (one of the Weird Tales with Johann and Kate) and BPRD: Another Day at the Office, which I guess are somewhere chronologically between Hollow Earth and the Dead.

Are you any familiar with the prose stories? I especially want to find out which characters are a part of what stories in Odd Jobs and Odder Jobs, which might be my first prose purchases. My favorite characters are Johann and Liz.

[kid cthulhu]

Yeah, I purposely left out quite a bit of the Weird Tales stuff. Some of it just didn't really fit into the whole world of HB and was done for pure fun. And Mist-the-Soul-Gatherer has compiled quite an extensive list of stories and what order they appear in, including the short stories from the prose anthologies. I'll add those to my short and sweet list here at some point.

[Maija]

Yeah, the Weird Tales stories are not considered part of the Hellboy canon, which is why they're "weird". The artists/writers who did them got to have a free-for-all.

[Bippo]

I figured the Weird Tales might not be canon. I have only read a couple so far and skimmed through a bit to record what characters appear. The prose stories are given restrictions so I assume they are. Are Odd Jobs and Odder Jobs like the Weird Tales of the prose stories?

One comic story that many would miss is "The Kabanha" short comic from the Sourcebook and Roleplaying Game. It's co-written by Mike Mignola and takes place in Delhi sometime in 1990. Though Mignola co-writes what makes it questionably canon is it stars Hellboy and a then new BPRD field agent named Orson Gaines, who seems to be created solely for this book as do Ubel and Arnwolf von Braun, cojoined twins whom Gaines has been tracking. Are Gaines and the von Braun twins mentioned anywhere else?

The short prose story in the same book is "The Dakini" by Christopher Golden (wrote "Hellboy: The Lost Army"). In the beginning Hellboy and Abe are watching "The Iron Giant" on DVD so I guess it takes place somewhere between 2000-2001 (between its DVD release and "Conqueror Worm").

Can anybody add what characters appear in what prose stories? I hope Johann is somewhere in one of the Odder Jobs stories. :D

[Mist the Soul-Gatherer]

Originally Posted by kid cthulhu

Yeah, I purposely left out quite a bit of the Weird Tales stuff. Some of it just didn't really fit into the whole world of HB and was done for pure fun. And Mist-the-Soul-Gatherer has compiled quite an extensive list of stories and what order they appear in, including the short stories from the prose anthologies. I'll add those to my short and sweet list here at some point.

Thanks, Kid-
Wow-what a great list of titles you compiled. Very cool!!

Bippo,
Here's the list of all the stories from the Odd Jobs and Odder Jobs anthologies. To my knowledge, Orson Gaines and the twins he's chasing only appear in the RPG story. I've not come across them anywhere else.
Sorry to disappoint, but Johann doesn't arrive at the BPRD until after Hellboy has left, so he doesn't appear in any of the Odd/Odder Job stories. He and Hellboy have never met. If you've been looking through the Source Book and enjoy RPG, Lady Hellgirl and I welcome you play the character of your choice in our latest RPG, The Crystal Skull of Doom. Players can join in anytime, we always have characters coming and going.

Da List, orginally published with kid cthulhu as part of dating "undisclosed cases", hence the "documentation":

1947

Hellboy encounters the ghost La Llorna, the “weeping woman,” in Roswell, New Mexico. It is her fate to forever search for her lost children, whom she drowned in the Santa Fe River. Although a spirit, she manifests herself to Hellboy in physical form, and HB sees her throw herself into the river. Hellboy jumps in and rescues her, only to have her disappear when he leaves her for a moment to get his coat from the riverbank to keep her warm. Fray Angelico, a priest at Loretto Chapel near Roswell tells Trevor Bruttenholm and Hellboy “…this special child (Hellboy) has been blessed” by the way La Llorna appeared to him.

Documentation: A Mother Cries at Midnight, Odd Jobs
Direct reference to the incident happening just before Hellboy and Prof. Bruttenholm leave New Mexico. Note: In this narrative 1947 is given as the year they leave, not 1952.
However, the encounter with La Llorna could still have happened in 1947, even if HB remained until 1952.

1953

Hellboy is called to Roswell, New Mexico to help his friend J. Robert Oppenheimer try to save the life of 7-year old Malcolm MacDougal, son of Jamie MacDougal, one of the research scientists who worked on the atomic bomb, and also a friend of Hellboy’s. The child has been lured away from home by the spirit La Llorna and has been missing for over a week. La Llorna returns Hellboy’s good deed for rescuing her from the river in 1947 and agrees to take him to the boy, who is close to death. Before Hellboy can get him to the Los Alamos Hospital, Malcolm MacDougal dies in Hellboy’s arms.

Documentation: A Mother Cries at Midnight, Odd Jobs
Direct reference to the case happening eight years after the explosion of Fat Man (1945).

1953

Camp Pennington Army Base, Grand Mound, Iowa, near the end of the Korean War. Hellboy kills a succubus he failed to “put down” in Bulgaria in an undocumented case. The female demon was seducing, and then killing, lonely soldiers on the base.

Documentation: Unfinished Business, Odder Jobs
Direct reference to case happening during the Korean War, and that 35,000 US GI’s had been killed. That is the death total cited by google, so this case happened towards the end of the war in 1953. Direct reference also made to the location being Iowa.

1978

Balanbanya Rumania. Undocumented case. Hellboy pounds the crap out of the flesh-eating fiend, Dyavo Mahr.

1981

West Buxton, Main. Hellboy and his partner “The Finn” defeat the evil spirit of the mass murderer “Moses” that inhabited the body of a scarecrow. Hellboy lit one of his flares, tied it to the wire Moses had tried to strangle him with, swung it around his head like a “South American bolo”, and threw it at Moses, setting the scarecrow’s body on fire.
The evil spirit flew out of the body and was carried away by a flock of crows.

Documentation: Sacred Crows, Odd Jobs
This is sketchy at best, but Hellboy is sitting in a bar, recounting what happened a year earlier and he has with him a severed mummified head in a cooler that has no relationship to this case. Hellboy says it was “human” “About two thousand years ago.” Assuming it was Egyptian, mummification continued until the Greco-Roman period of 395 A.D. Placing this case in 1981, would have dated the head at about 19 B.C. Other references include an “Old Roy Orbison song” and an Emmylou Harris song on the jukebox.
Roy’s popularity was in the 1960s and Emmylou’s debut album was in 1975.
Interesting Aside: “Sacred Crows” takes place exactly one year after the actual case and is a story within a story. Hellboy and “The Finn” meet in a bar to toast the memory of a third operative who was killed on this job. Hellboy is quite drunk throughout the bar portions of the narrative. To my knowledge this is the only time he has been noticeably inebriated in public. (If anyone knows of other incidents, please let me know). I feel that this is a reaction not only to the loss of a colleague and friend on the job-he’s lost many throughout his career-but also to the loss of Anastasia Bransfield. Based on intuition, I’ve dated this case as 1981.
Anyone wishing to reclassify it please do so.

1983

Hellboy defeats Medusa and saves the inhabitants of “an unnamed [Greek] island to the east of Tghira” who have been terrorized by Medusa and her army of living stone statues.

Documentation: Medusa’s Revenge, Odd Jobs
Dates approx. Reference to Anastasia Bransfield written in a way that suggests breakup was still relatively fresh and reference to Dr. Manning at Fairfield office [Prof. Bruttenholm resigned at Director prior to 1986].

1985

Coney Island, Brooklyn, N.Y. Hellboy, Abe and Kate Corrigan break up a cult that offers human sacrifices to Sea Creatures that look like “demented humanoid sharks.” Abe and Hellboy take out the Creatures after Abe uses Hellboy as bait to attract them.

Documentation: A Night at The Beach, Odd Jobs
Dates are approx. as reference is made to Kate Corrigan having an office at NYU and teaching classes while working with the B.P.R.D. She became a consultant in 1984. Not too much happened in 1985, so I placed this case within those years.

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[Mist the Soul-Gatherer]

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1991

New Orleans. Hellboy has been sent to “put down” the vampire Antoine Castelaine. But Castelaine has become a local celebrity, advertising in the Times Picayune for “Vampire Lovers” to “Meet and Share Blood With a Real Vampire.” Antoine has gotten a restraining order against Hellboy. If HB tries to put a stake through Castelaine’s heart, he’ll be arrested. A Voodoo Woman tells Hellboy to see her nephew, Little Augie, a lawyer who runs late night TV commercials hawking his services. Augie and HB sue Castelaine for misrepresentation, claiming he’s not a real vampire. In court, Castelaine must prove his credibility, so he changes into a bat. Hellboy leaps up, snags Castelaine and crushes him in the RHOD. There is no law in New Orleans against exterminating a bat. To express his gratitude, HB appears in one of Little Augie’s TV commercials. He’s the big red guy who says “Thanks, Little Augie.”

Documentation: The Vampire Brief, Odder Jobs
One of the police protecting Castelaine is an old friend of Hellboy’s who says, “Welcome to the nineties” to explain this turn of events. “Welcome” indicates just entering the 90’s, so the year could be 1990 or 1991. Not a lot is documented for ’91, so I placed the case in that year.

1992

New York. Hellboy and Liz Sherman defeat a Cailleach Bheur, “one of the most dangerous and unpleasant members “ of the fairy family when Liz sets him on fire. Hellboy and Liz rescue two children kidnapped by the Cailleach Bheur.

Documentation: A Grim Fairy Tale, Odd Jobs
Reference is made to Prof. Brutttenholm, who is alive and on this case, as being “well into his nineties.” This may be inaccurate, and writer may have meant to say “well into his eighties.” In any event, the Professor dies in 1994, so the case could not have taken place after that.

1994

Late March-April, Ipswich, Massachusetts. Hellboy, Liz Sherman and Abe Sapien are sent to investigate the drowning deaths of 3 men in the floodwaters of the Ipswich River and the disappearances of 4 women. During a late night investigation in which Abe dives into the river, the team encounters mesmerizing lights that lead couples into the river where fish-like creatures drown the men and “ take the women elsewhere.” Upon seeing Abe, the creatures speak to him in a language Abe doesn’t understand, then disappear. Only Hellboy knows what they’ve said: “ We’ve taken our mates from this town for generations. We didn’t realize they belong to you now.” Abe Sapien was not pleased.

Documentation: Down In The Flood, Odder Jobs
Written by Scott Allie!!! Direct reference is made to the case happening “In the spring of 1994” Professor Bruttenholm is also mentioned as being alive, and Liz refers to it being too “early in the year” with “too much of a chill in the breeze” for riverbank romance, setting the time frame between mid-March and end of April.
Scott, can you explain what appears to be an inaccuracy? You wrote
“Hellboy’s appearance on the cover of Life Magazine had instantly transformed him from monster to celebrity, but Professor Bruttenholm had yet to arrange such an opportunity for Abe.”
Was the Life Magazine cover celebrating 1994 as the year Hellboy turns 50, and he was on the cover of the January ‘94 issue, or did Life celebrate HB’s “birthday” and he’d have been on the December ‘94 cover? If the latter, the Life cover hadn’t come out yet when this case took place.

Jan.-Feb. 1995

Hellboy and Special Agent Lou Jorgensen are sent to Dawson Corner, Maine to investigate a deadly fog that is seeping in from the Other Side. Any living beings who inhale it go insane and kill themselves. Hellboy enlists the aid of the Spirits of the Dead of Dawson Corner to repair the leak.

Documentation: From An Enchanter Fleeing, Odder Jobs
Jorgensen makes direct reference to having seen Hellboy on the cover of Life Magazine and on TV. The 50th birthday story would have been in the December 1994 issue, so I’m placing this case a month or two later.

1995

Washington, D.C. Hellboy is summoned by Commander Freedom (Torch of Liberty), now a well-known US Senator to “call out” and destroy demons that have inhabited and taken control of the bodies of a dozen members of the US Senate. After removing and killing the demons, Hellboy realizes the problem is greater than he first thought. Almost all of the “movers and shakers” in the US government are invested with demons. Hellboy resolves to remove and kill them all, starting with the oval office.

Documentation: Demon Politics, Odd Jobs
Reference is made to Hellboy having known Commander Freedom for “over fifty years.”Hellboy celebrated his 50th birthday in 1994.

1997

Jerusalem. Hellboy and Father Tommy Guerrra work together to confront the Whore of Babylon at the Garden of Gethsemane.

1997

Paris, France, Hellboy stomps to death the head of the sadistic alchemist Moro, whose body was drawn & quartered in 1650 but whose head lived on and was believed by Nazi Occultists to be an arcane artifact of great power. Von Krupt tried to obtain the head during the Occupation but the French Resistance thwarted his attempt.

Documentation: Jigsaw, Odd Jobs
Hellboy references the head of Von Klempt, “ More kraut head cheese, like Von Klempt.” Hellboy’s first meeting with Von Klempt’s head is in Wake the Devil, 1996.

1997

The Sahara desert around al Jawf. Libya. Liz Sherman calls Hellboy to help her investigate the paranormal deaths of an archeological team that were horribly burned to death by “Fire Dogs” that guard a portal into Hell uncovered by the expedition.
These huge balls of fire that bark have left the portal to hunt, burning everything they come in contact with, and creating a glass road of melted sand in their wake.
HB has understood ancient writings on the walls of the portal, so he knows he can’t kill the dogs. He must lure them back into the portal and “take them home.” He and Liz find the dogs in the desert, and in a wild chase up the glass road, Liz’s Jeep stays just ahead of the pack as they race to the portal. Hellboy pushes Liz into the sand, because even she could burn up, as he rages against the dogs. Engulfed in flames, he forces them farther into the portal. Just when Liz thinks HB is trapped in Hell, he lifts her out of the sand. “They took a little persuading,” he says. “They were bad dogs.”

Documentation: The Glass Road, Odder Jobs; and Historical Events
Reference to Hellboy having nightmares, so this case could not have been before 1994. However, Saudi Archeological records indicate, “In 1986 and 1997, Saudi-sponsored expeditions uncovered shaped pieces of flint and bone implements that confirmed that humans had inhabited this region as long as 750,000 years ago. With these finds, al-Jawf became one of the oldest known inhabited sites in modern Saudi Arabia.”
--From an article written by free-lance writer and historian, David W. Tschanz in 1998. He has led more than half a dozen trips to al-Jawf for the Arabian Natural History Association of Dhahran.
The fact that an expedition was in the area in 1997 makes it highly likely this case happened at that time, and some of the archeological team met a horrible fate. Of course the Saudi government would not have allowed Tschanz to mention it. .
Other Interesting Asides:
• In the remote northern frontier region on the edge of the Great Nafud Desert, Al-Jawf and the nearby ruins of Dumat Al-Jandal, were important cities during the Nabataean, Roman and early Islamic periods.
• Outside Sakaka, the regional capital of the northern province of Al-Jouf, lies Saudi Arabia’s equivalent of Stonehenge. The cluster of sandstone stele, known as Al-Rajajil, have stood here for more than 6,000 years; but most now lean at random angles.
• Al-Jawf's inhabitants chafed under the Assyrian yoke and rebelled several times, but each time the Assyrians crushed them. On one occasion the Assyrians carried al-Jawf's idols off to Mesopotamia. In a society that made no distinction between the statue and the god itself, this was a devastating act of psychological warfare, as it left al-Jawf's population believing they were bereft of divine protection. (Easy pickins for the Boys from Pandemonium to put up their portal).

(And this is just such a humorous coincidence!)
• During another rebellion in the seventh century BC, the Assyrian king Esarhaddon had the ringleaders brought to his capital. His punishment was typical of those the Assyrians recorded, partly in order to inspire fear in their opponents: "I put dog collars on them and bound them to the left side of the Metalworker's Gate in Nineveh”

1998

South America. Hellboy and Father Tommy Guerra work together against the death squads of Itzpaplotl.

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[Mist the Soul-Gatherer]

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1998

NY. Hellboy encounters “Mick” a giant talking rat in New York City’s Alphabet City. Mick, who runs an extensive import-export business, has stolen the gun Commander Freedom (Torch of Liberty) gave to Hellboy to get Hellboy’s attention. Mick and Hellboy strike a deal-- the rat will supply the B.P.R.D. with all their Occult and Paranormal reference needs in exchange for getting his company a government insurance package to cover the high cost of benefits for Mick’s employees. As Hellboy says, “Only in New York.”

Documentation: Delivered, Odd Jobs
Reference is made to Mick carrying DVD’s. DVD’s were not available until 1995 (source: google) and Odd Jobs was printed in 1999. Not too much happened in 1998, so it seemed like a good place to put this case. If anyone gives a rat’s ### about the date, they can take it up with Mick.

1999

Japan. Hellboy and Father Tommy Guerra team up to face Aragami, the fury of wild violence, the God of Battle, slayer of 872 men.

1999

Undocumented case involving Hellboy, Abe and the Grottendieck Stone Thrower.

1999

Rumania. Hellboy is summoned back to the mining village of Balanbanya by Dyavo Mahr, a “fiend of the night with a penchant for human flesh.” Hellboy “ pounded the crap out of him in 1978”, and now Dyavo wants a rematch. He has kidnapped some local children to get HB’s attention. Once in the monster’s lair, Hellboy is surprised to see Dyavo is frail, ancient and dying. Desiring a death with honor, Mahr wants Hellboy to kill him. Summing all his strength Dyavo feebly attacks HB, who in a humane gesture, tells the fiend, “You’re too dangerous to live” and takes him out with one quick shot.

Documentation: Act of Mercy, Odder Jobs
Direct reference to the Dyavo Mahr case in 1978. Hellboy says a lot has happened over the “last twenty years or so,” dating this case at approx. 1999.

1999-2000

Denver, Colorado. Undocumented case. Hellboy and the B.P.R.D.’s youngest Agent, 18-year old psychic Joey Priven, investigate a destructive ghost in a department store.

1999-2000

On the way back from the Denver case, Hellboy and Agent Joey Priven are diverted to Santa Rosa, California, where something has slaughtered, dismembered and eaten about half the male students at Rio Vista Catholic Boarding Academy. Using Joey’s psychic abilities, Hellboy deduces one of the boys has summoned up a Manticore, a Greek monster with the body of a lion, the head of a man and a mouth filled with gigantic teeth.
Joey senses the Manticore is being summoned again, and rushes towards where it will appear. Caught up in the psychic experience, Joey can’t escape the Manticore who devours him before Hellboy can reach him. Enraged, Hellboy attacks the Manticore who wounds HB with poison quills from its tail, then leaps back into its own dimension, killing the boy who summoned it as it goes. It is one of the worst cases ever recorded by the B.P.R.D.

Documentation: A Full And Satisfying Life, Odder Jobs
There is almost nothing in this case that can be used to place it along a timeline with the exception of Hellboy quoting Professor Bruttenholm to Joey Priven in a way that suggests time has helped HB to manage the pain of his loss and the hurt is not as fresh as it was in the first years after Bruttenholm’s passing. For that reason alone I placed it 6 years after the Professor’s death.

2000

Brooklyn N.Y. Hellboy extracts the Nona Strega, a Sicilian witch, who has taken possession of Father Tommy Guerra’s Grandma Lucia.

Documentation for all four Father Tommy Guerra cases: Saint Hellboy, Odder Jobs
Dates can be deduced for each case from information supplied in the narrative by working off of the Jerusalem case, year given as 1997.


2000

Newford. Hellboy and Liz Sherman are on loan to help Sam Cray, head of the Newford Police Department’s Paranormal Task Force, in this crossover case. Water & Sewer Department workers have gone missing and no one knows what happened to them. Hellboy, Liz, Sam and his partner head for the sewers where Hellboy battles a huge multi-tentacled monster (again!) and finally takes ‘em out with the Samaritan at such close range even HB can’t miss. They all go out for Peking Ravioli.

Documentation: Newford Spook Squad, Odder Jobs
Written by Charles de Lint, author of the “Newford” series. Newford is “the town where everything’s magic.” Sort of Harry Potter-esque. Reference is made in this case to “that Life Magazine cover way back when.” I’m interpreting that to be about 6 years back when, and placed this case in 2000, as nothing seems to have happened that year in the HB timeline.

2000

At the New York City headquarters of the B.P.R.D, Hellboy can’t sleep. He’s plagued by the old dream of the priest, the nun, the old woman, and the Demon who calls him his favorite son. So he goes for a midnight walk through Central Park where he encounters an Undine in Turtle Pond and its sidekick, an Imp, A huge, deadly water monster with three rows of giant shark-like teeth, the Undine “clouds the mind” so it appears to look like whatever image you’re thinking of. As HB watches in horror, the Undine destroys a hi-rise, burying its occupants under tons of debris. Liz, Abe and Kate arrive along with police and paramedics. The B.P.R.D. team sets a trap for the Undine. HB is able to break free of the mind control, and in a vicious, bloody battle he kills the Undine and Liz captures the Imp.

Documentation: Sleepless In Manhattan, Odder Jobs
Hellboy mentions he was watching Survivor on TV. Survivor’s first season was 2000 (source, google).

2001

Bucharest, Romania, sometime between January & March. Hellboy and Kate are on a mission to rescue children kidnapped by Tooth Fairies, who are actually mean little buggers with very sharp teeth who murder young children and feed on the calcium found in their bones. In 1226 a pact between Pope Honorius and the King of the Tooth Fairies allowed the Fairies to take the teeth children put under their pillows, leaving a silver coin in exchange. The murders stopped. But kids have stopped believing in Tooth Fairies, and the killings have begun again. Deep inside an ancient burial crypt, HB is attached by thousands of Tooth Fairies as he’s rescuing the children. He quickly yanks a loose tooth out of the mouth of one of the kids and throws it into a far corner. All of the Fairies race after it. HB then pulls out a double Vulcan 64 grenade, tosses it into their mist and blows them away, saving the children.

Documentation: Tasty Teeth, Odder Jobs
Written by Guillermo Del Toro & Mathew Robbins.
There is very little hard evidence to place this case. I’m placing it in early 2001 based on three references.
1) HB remembers something Professor Bruttenholm used to tell him and smiles,
suggesting time has helped him to manage the pain of his loss and the hurt is not
as fresh as it was in the first years after Bruttenholm’s passing
2) HB tells Kate he’s “freezing” down un the crypt
3) Kate is in the Land Rover sipping slivovitz, a potent colorless brandy with warming effects

Oct.-Nov. 2001

On his way to spending some vacation time in Sedona, Arizona, Hellboy stops off at an Old West Ghost Town tourist attraction and becomes involved with real ghosts that only he can see. Texas Ranger Tom McMurdo and his posse are long gone, but they’ve come back to claim the spirit of outlaw Billy Quintaine, trapped within the Old Saloon because Billy refuses to believe he’s dead. Hellboy performs an “intervention” forcing Billy to face reality, so McMurdo can “take him in” in a final blaze of glory. Billy’s release also releases Hellboy from the Ghost World and back into present day.

Documentation: Brotherhood Of The Gun, Odder Jobs.
Hellboy makes direct reference to the fact that “we’re into the next century…the twenty-first…” Osama bin Ladin, 9-11, Iraq and the anthrax scare are also mentioned. “Odder Jobs” was published in 2004, and a few writers were obviously not aware that after 2001 HB was on the bottom of the ocean. So even though HB says “ we’re a few years in” (to the 21Century) I prefer to think it’s just one of HB’s typos in writing up his report, and he meant to say “we’re a year in”, so I’ll place this case in October or early November 2001, just before “Conqueror Worm” which now had to happen at the very end of 2001.

[kid cthulhu]

I would love to get a copy of the sourcebook for the RPG solely for the purpose of these two stories, but it's proven to be rather hard to track down these days. Should have nabbed it up when it was readily available.

I also went back and added these two stories as well as the Odd Jobs and Odder Jobs tales. I've decided to get rid of the question marks after the dates we're unsure of, cuz, well, let's face it - I'd say we're as much experts on it as most anyone else. :o

[Mist the Soul-Gatherer]

Originally Posted by kid cthulhu

I would love to get a copy of the sourcebook for the RPG solely for the purpose of these two stories, but it's proven to be rather hard to track down these days. Should have nabbed it up when it was readily available.

Kid-
Sourcebook is still in stock through sjgames.com/hellboy
direct link: www.warehouse23.com/item.html?id=SJG8111

Hope this helps-
H

[Bippo]

Buy.com and Amazon.com still have a few of the softcover version pretty cheap (~$15), but you'd be taking a gamble on the condition of the book if that's important to you. I ordered through Amazon.com and it was perfect, but a few of the collections had some damage like minor scratches and bent corners. Ordering full price through the publisher or a collectible site is the safe way to go for a M/NM collector.

If you're looking for the hardcover version, good luck with that. There is one listed as new in the Amazon marketplace, which would be from Comicsnow.com

I ordered it mostly for the character bios and descriptions of various mage and lore for the series (the sourcebook part). I didn't know about the exclusive stories until I began reading it. The short comic is not listed in any product description I've seen, only the story by Golden. It'd be nice if someday Mignola himself released a sourcebook or encyclopedia of characters or something simple along the lines of the Spawn Bible released by McFarlane and Capullo 10 years ago.

[ADamUnRama]

Hey Bippo that list is ggggggggggggggggggggggreat. Thank you, what about hellboy series wise? Like I think the Island was #20(?) is that right?

I have the numbered list of BPRD, now they are putting '#21 in a series', does HB have the same?

[Bippo]

Originally Posted by ADamUnRama

Hey Bippo that list is ggggggggggggggggggggggreat. Thank you, what about hellboy series wise? Like I think the Island was #20(?) is that right?

I have the numbered list of BPRD, now they are putting '#21 in a series', does HB have the same?

Thanks, but I don't know what you mean by #20 and #21.

I'll update my list some time soon. I notice I made a mistake on "Almost Colossus" and I'll start filling in prose character appearances as best I can without having read them.

[ADamUnRama]

Originally Posted by Bippo

Thanks, but I don't know what you mean by #20 and #21.

In BPRD they were adding "Number 21 in series" and I thought They were doing that in Hellboy, but am not sure. . . Maybe not, you seem pretty on top of it. So probably not