Professor Doktor Karl Ruprecht von Krönen

A sinister presence haunting the edges of Mike Mignola and John Byrne's dark mythology, Professor Doktor Karl Ruprecht von Krönen made his mark in the Modern Age pages of Hellboy, published by Cross Cult. With a name that drips with old-world menace, this figure shares his shadowy world with some of comics' most iconic paranormal investigators — Hellboy himself, Abe Sapien, Liz Sherman, and Langdon Everett Caul among them. Rare in the catalog with only three appearances, von Krönen is the kind of deep-cut character that rewards the dedicated reader who wants to explore every dark corner of Mignola's extraordinary universe.