![]() ![]() I was not drawing anything that was meant to be an ongoing series character. ![]() ![]() Your first drawing of him was in '91 and looks much different than the modern guy.Ī. Hellboy actually dates to before that first Seed of Destruction issue. Check it out below as well as a conversation with Mignola about Hellboy's origins and where he's going from here. You don't have to go very far to read the complete first issue, though. And Dark Horse is making it easy for fans new and old to get their fix with a Hellboy Day digital bundle of every Hellboy comic - all 2,201 pages featuring the prophesied "beast of the apocalypse" - for $50 now through 3 a.m. Over the course of two decades, Mignola has built an entire universe full of horror, noir, pulp and high-adventure around Hellboy, supernatural characters in the Bureau for Paranormal Research and Defense, and others who've come into contact with the brusque superhero over the years in comics or movies.įans will be celebrating this legacy on Saturday as part of "Hellboy Day" in various comic shops across the country - Mignola himself will be stopping by Meltdown Comics in Los Angeles. "It's strange because on one hand I still think of Hellboy as my new project, but it is two-thirds of my career at this point," says Mignola, 53, who debuted the big red cat-loving guy with the cut-off horns and the Right Hand of Doom in March 1994 with Dark Horse Comics' Hellboy: Seed of Destruction No. Hellboy has been around for 20 years, and in a way he's not yet a grownup for his comic-book creator Mike Mignola. ![]()
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