Baba Jaga

Emerging from the rich vein of folklore-drenched horror that defines Mike Mignola's Hellboy universe, Baba Jaga made her Modern Age debut in 2002, brought to the page by Mignola and Michael Groenewald for Cross Cult. She keeps extraordinary company — sharing her stories with Hellboy himself, Abe Sapien, and the enigmatic Langdon Everett Caul, among others — a rogues' gallery of the uncanny that signals just how deep into myth and shadow her corner of the comics world runs. With a presence spanning roughly a decade in the catalog, this figure drawn from one of folklore's most enduring and fearsome traditions earns her place as one of the more atmospheric presences in Hellboy's world. Four appearances may be a slim count, but in Mignola's universe, every encounter with a character like this tends to leave a mark.