Hellboy Tpb - The Companion

Awards: Mike Mignola: Winner 2002 Eisner Award Best Limited Series for Hellboy: Conqueror Worm, Mike Mignola: Winner 2000 Harvey Award Best Artist for Mike Mignola (Hellboy: Box Full of Evil), Mike Mignola: Winner 2003 Eisner Award Best Humor Publication for The Amazing Screw-On Head, Mike Mignola: Winner 2004 Eisner Award Best Comics-Related Book for The Art of Hellboy Corresponding with the release of the second Hellboy film, Dark Horse presents the definitive guide to the Hellboy universe, including a timeline mapping out the events in over a decade's worth of comics and novels--and several millennia of in-comic continuity! Written by Steve Weiner (The Will Eisner Companion), Victoria Blake (The Oregonian, NPR) and Jason Hall (Beware the Creeper; Trigger; Detective Comics) and densely illustrated with classic images from the comics as well as a handful of new drawings from Mignola, this volume offers thorough documentation of the Hellboy universe, compiling the many complex pieces that make up the life of the World's Greatest Paranormal Investigator into an easily understandable format and condensing Mignola's masterful storytelling into an encyclopedic reference guide--including previously unrevealed secrets! From the hidden history of Abe Sapien to the secret origin of the world, this complete compendium is every hardcore Hellboy fan's key to the mind of Mike Mignola, and the ultimate introduction for anyone looking to begin their journey in the weird and wondrous world he has created.