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Hellboy

206 appearances · Copper/Modern Age · 1993–2025 · 2 key issues
Who is Hellboy?

A demon summoned to Earth by Nazi occultists during World War II, the infant creature was intercepted by Allied forces and raised by Professor Trevor Bruttenholm to become a paranormal investigator for the Bureau for Paranormal Research and Defense.

Few characters have burned as brightly or as distinctly as Hellboy, the big red paranormal investigator who crashed onto the scene in San Diego Comic Con Comics #2 in 1993, conjured into existence by the singular vision of Mike Mignola and John Byrne. A Dark Horse icon born at the dawn of the Modern Age, he's spent over three decades haunting some of comics' most atmospheric pages — from Dark Horse Presents to the sprawling saga of Hellboy: The Wild Hunt — racking up 190 catalog appearances and a pair of collector-coveted key issues along the way. He keeps remarkable company, sharing his strange world with the likes of Abe Sapien, Trevor Bruttenholm, and Langdon Everett Caul, a roster that hints at just how rich and layered Mignola's mythology runs. If you've never fallen into Hellboy's ink-drenched, folklore-haunted corner of comics, you're in for one of the medium's most rewarding deep dives.

San Diego Comic Con Comics
#2
★ First appearance
San Diego Comic Con Comics #2
Aug 1993

Trivia

  • Hellboy's trajectory stands as a remarkable indie-to-mainstream success story — what began as a small comics feature in the early 1990s grew into one of Dark Horse's most important breakout properties, a distinction it held before later hits like The Walking Dead came along.en.wikipedia.org
  • Rather than anchoring the character to a single monthly series after the initial launch, the Hellboy line took a notably flexible publishing approach, building its universe through miniseries, one-shots, and later intercompany crossovers — a structural choice that fundamentally shaped how the character was both crafted and consumed by readers over time.en.wikipedia.org
  • Mike Mignola has written more of Hellboy's comics than any other writer in our catalog — 54 issues.

Top series

Covers through the years — 1994–2023

Hellboy: Seed of Destruction #2 1994
Hellboy: Seed of Destruction #2
Ghost #12 1996
Ghost #12
Savage Dragon #51 1998
Savage Dragon #51
Hellboy #[4] 2000
Hellboy #[4]
The Dark Horse Book of Hauntings #[nn] 2003
The Dark Horse Book of Hauntings #[nn]
B.P.R.D. #4 2005
B.P.R.D. #4
Hellboy: The Wild Hunt #1 2008
Hellboy: The Wild Hunt #1
Hellboy: The Wild Hunt #2 2009
Hellboy: The Wild Hunt #2
B.P.R.D. Hell on Earth #2 2012
B.P.R.D. Hell on Earth #2
Archie vs. Predator #1 2015
Archie vs. Predator #1
Artist's Edition #43 2016
Artist's Edition #43
Archie vs. Predator #[nn] 2019
Archie vs. Predator #[nn]
Young Hellboy: The Hidden Land #4 2021
Young Hellboy: The Hidden Land #4
Young Hellboy: Assault on Castle Death #4 2023
Young Hellboy: Assault on Castle Death #4

Appearances (151–206 of 206, oldest first)

Hellboy: Krampusnacht (2017)
Hellboy Omnibus (2018)
Hellboy Edição Histórica (2008)
#9
Hellboy: Seed of Destruction #1 25th Anniversary (2019)
Free Comic Book Day 2019: General (2019)
Archie vs. Predator (2019)
B.P.R.D.: 1946-1948 (2020)
Hellboy and the B.P.R.D.: Her Fatal Hour and the Sending (2020)
Hellboy and the B.P.R.D.: 1952-1954 (2021)
Madman Library Edition (2021)
Young Hellboy: The Hidden Land (2021)
Hellboy Universe: The Secret Histories (2021)
Hellboy: The Bones of Giants (2021)
B.P.R.D. Omnibus (2022)
#1
Young Hellboy: Assault on Castle Death (2022)
Hellboy: The Silver Lantern Club (2022)
The Sword of Hyperborea (2022)
Castle Full of Blackbirds (2022)
Hellboy and the B.P.R.D.: The Return of Effie Kolb and Others (2022)
Koshchei in Hell (2022)
#3
Hellboy in Love (2022)
#4
Frankenstein: New World (2023)
#1
Free Comic Book Day 2023: General [The Umbrella Academy / The Witcher] (2023)
Miss Truesdale and the Fall of Hyperborea (2023)
Hellboy and the B.P.R.D.: 1957 – From Below (2023)
Giant Robot Hellboy (2023)
Hellboy Winter Special: The Yule Cat (2023)
Hellboy (2002)
#21
Tripwire Magazine (2001)
#61
Panya: The Mummy’s Curse (2024)
Free Comic Book Day 2024: General [Hellboy / Stranger Things] (2024)
Hellboy Artists Collection: Richard Corben (2024)
All Star Photonik (2023)
#1
Headless Horseman Halloween Annual (2023)
Serpent in the Garden (2024)
#1
Shadow of the Golden Crane (2025)
Bowling with Corpses and Other Strange Tales from Lands Unknown (2025)
Beasts of Burden Omnibus (2025)