Hellboy: Weird Tales

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Some of the best writers and artists in comics team up to present stories of giant bats, demon children, jetpacks, haunted circuses, and rusted out spaceships. It's old-fashioned pulp fun featuring one of the greatest heroes of modern comics! Join Hellboy creator Mike Mignola and a slew of talented collaborators for this spooky selection of truly weird tales, collected for the first time in paperback! Collects Hellboy- Weird Tales Volume 1 and 2.

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This entertaining collection is accessible to even the Hellboy neophyte, and highly recommended for adventure comics lovers.Publisher Weekly, about Hellboy Weird Tales Volume 1

"This sturdy hardcover collects eight issues of pulpy goodness, as stories are told of Hellboy, jetpacks, and his universe by Mignola and friends.The talent alone makes this an easy buy for fans, but the stories are fun and varied."Omnivoracious

Author Bio

MIKE MIGNOLA's fascination with ghosts and monsters began at an early age; reading Dracula at age twelve introduced him to Victorian literature and folklore, from which he has never recovered. Starting in 1982 as a bad inker for Marvel Comics, he swiftly evolved into a not-so-bad artist. By the late 1980s, he had begun to develop his own unique graphic style, with mainstream projects like Cosmic Odyssey and Batman- Gotham by Gaslight. In 1994, he published the first Hellboy series through Dark Horse. As of this writing there are thirteen Hellboy graphic novels (with more on the way), several spinoff titles (B.P.R.D., Lobster Johnson, Abe Sapien, and Sir Edward Grey- Witchfinder), prose books, animated films, and two live-action films starring Ron Perlman. Along the way he worked on Francis Ford Coppola's film Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992), was a production designer for Disney's Atlantis- The Lost Empire (2001), and was the visual consultant to director Guillermo del Toro on Blade II (2002), Hellboy (2004), and Hellboy II- The Golden Army (2008). Mike's books have earned numerous awards and are published in a great many countries. Mike lives somewhere in Southern California with his wife, daughter, and cat. The author lives in Southern California.