Johann Kraus

Johann Kraus was a psychic medium whose physical body was destroyed during a séance gone catastrophically wrong, leaving his ectoplasmic essence trapped in a containment suit. He later joined the B.P.R.D. as a ghostly advisor and field agent.

A ghost in a containment suit, Johann Kraus is one of the most distinctive presences in Dark Horse's richly atmospheric Hellboy universe. Debuting in 2001 courtesy of Christopher Golden and Ryan Sook, this Modern Age creation carved out a lasting niche across more than two decades of publication, most prominently in the acclaimed B.P.R.D. family of titles — including B.P.R.D.: Hell on Earth and B.P.R.D.: King of Fear. He shares his pages with some of the bureau's most beloved figures: Abe Sapien, Liz Sherman, and Kate Corrigan among them, placing him squarely at the heart of the supernatural drama that makes this corner of comics so compulsively readable. With 44 catalog appearances spanning 21 years, Johann is exactly the kind of character that rewards deep-dive readers — a singular figure whose eerie, otherworldly nature makes every issue he graces feel a little stranger and more wonderful.