Hell's Bastard Son

A sinister figure from Marvel's Clive Barker's Hellraiser universe, Hell's Bastard Son debuted in the 1992 Dark Holiday Special, inhabiting a world populated by Pinhead and other denizens of the Hellraiser mythos.

Few characters announce themselves quite like Hell's Bastard Son — a name that leaves absolutely nothing to the imagination. Born from the darkest corner of Marvel's early-'90s Clive Barker licensing era, this figure debuted in the 1992 Dark Holiday Special courtesy of creators Frank Lovece and Mike Okamoto, stepping into a world already populated by some of horror comics' most iconic presences: Pinhead, Elliott Spencer, and the unsettling likes of Balberith and Aggregate. With appearances spread across the Pinhead series and that memorable holiday one-shot, Hell's Bastard Son is a rare, compact piece of the Copper/Modern Age Hellraiser comics universe — the kind of deep-cut discovery that reminds serious collectors just how wild and ambitious that brief Marvel horror experiment really was.