Hellverine #5
☆ Be the first to review + Add to your collection — Join freeHellverine #5 serves as the climactic turning point of the ongoing series' opening arc, depicting Akihiro's direct confrontation with Mephisto in Hell and his definitive psychological break from the demon lord's control — a moment that locks in his identity as an independent anti-hero rather than a puppet of Hell. The issue also delivers the cameo debut of Hell Hulk, a brand-new demonic creature created by Benjamin Percy and Raffaele Ienco, whose introduction seeds the next major story arc and adds a genuinely novel monster to Marvel's supernatural corner. As the fifth chapter of Hellverine's first ongoing series — itself the product of a mini-series that proved fan demand was strong enough to sustain a continuing title — the issue marks a creative milestone in Percy's multi-year effort to build a coherent supernatural mythology around Wolverine's family line.
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The ongoing Hellverine series launched in December 2024, announced in August of that year after the four-issue 2024 mini-series sold well enough for Marvel to greenlight a continuing title, with Percy and Ienco retained as the creative team. Percy had been writing both Wolverine and Ghost Rider simultaneously when he co-created the Hellverine concept in the 2023 'Ghost Rider/Wolverine: Weapons of Vengeance' crossover, and the character's rapid expansion — from crossover cameo to mini-series to ongoing — followed a trajectory Percy himself compared to Cosmic Ghost Rider's breakthrough. Issue #5 falls within the first collected volume of the ongoing, later reprinted as Hellverine Vol. 1: Lost Highways (August 2025).
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- Published April 2, 2025 by Marvel Comics; cover-dated June 2025; story titled 'The Mephisto Conspiracy.'
- Written by Benjamin Percy; art by Raffaele Ienco; colors by Bryan Valenza; letters by Travis Lanham; main cover by Kendrick 'Kunkka' Lim.
- Central plot: Mephisto drags Akihiro (Hellverine) to Hell and offers him a choice between eternal servitude or torture; Akihiro uses a demonic cipher from the Book of Lamentation to gain full control over Bagra-ghul and force Mephisto to cast him out.
- Hell Hulk — a new demonic creature engineered in Mephisto's laboratories by the villain Severith — makes his first-ever appearance (cameo) in this issue, introduced via a dossier shown to Akihiro by Dr. Spivey of Project Hellfire; his first full appearance follows in Hellverine #6 (May 2025).
- The Alessandro Cappuccio 'Spoiler Variant' cover for this issue constitutes Hell Hulk's first cover appearance in Marvel Comics.
- Three variant covers were published: a 1:25 ratio incentive by David Yardin, a standard variant by Sumit Kumar, and the Cappuccio Hell Hulk spoiler variant.
- The issue is part of Hellverine's first ongoing series (Vol. 2), which launched December 2024 as part of Marvel's X-Men: From the Ashes publishing initiative, following the 2024 four-issue limited series.
- The story arc begun in this issue was later collected in Hellverine Vol. 1: Lost Highways, a trade paperback released August 2025.
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Reprinted in Hellverine #1 (2025), Hellverine #1 (2025)
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