| Issue | #1 |
| Published | July 2004 |
| Cover Price | 17.95 USD |
| Pages | 132 |
| Editing | Scott Allie |
| Notes | #1 on spine only. Cover is redrawn by Mignola nearly exactly from his cover to BPRD: Hollow Earth (Dark Horse, 2002 series) #1. Inside covers are solid black. |
| Characters | Abe Sapien; Roger the Homunculus; Johann Kraus |
| Genre | Occult |
| Pencils | Mike Mignola |
| Inks | Mike Mignola |
| Colors | Dave Stewart |
| Letters | Lia Ribacchi; Lani Schreibstein (Design); typeset |
| Notes | Spine reads #1. Cover is redrawn by Mignola nearly exactly from his cover to BPRD: Hollow Earth (Dark Horse, 2002 series) #1. Inside covers are solid black. |
| Reprinted | from BPRD: Hollow Earth and Other Stories (Dark Horse, 2003 series) #[nn] [art, with new typography] |
| Letters | Lia Ribacchi; Lani Schreibstein (Design); typeset |
| Characters | Abe Sapien; Roger the Homunculus; Johann Kraus |
| Genre | Occult |
| Pencils | Mike Mignola |
| Inks | Mike Mignola |
| Letters | Lia Ribacchi |
| Reprinted | from BPRD: Hollow Earth (Dark Horse, 2002 series) #2 [grayscaled] |
| Characters | King of Fear |
| Pencils | Mike Mignola (inset) |
| Inks | Mike Mignola (inset) |
| Colors | Dave Stewart (inset) |
| Letters | Lia Ribacchi (Design); typeset |
| Reprinted | from BPRD: Hollow Earth (Dark Horse, 2002 series) #3 [detail only]; from BPRD: Hollow Earth and Other Stories (Dark Horse, 2003 series) #[nn] [exact page] |
| Characters | Liz Sherman; Kate Corrigan; Johann Kraus; Hellboy (flashback only); Tom Manning; Abe Sapien; Roger the Homunculus; Trevor Bruttenholm (flashback only); other B.P.R.D. operatives; the King of Fear (first appearance) |
| Synopsis | New recruit Johann Kraus, a medium of pure ectoplasm, joins the Bureau for Paranormal Research and Defense just as Abe Sapien -- who in the wake of Hellboy's departure wonders if the B.P.R.D. is still home -- receives a vision of former agent Liz Sherman pleading for help. Abe, Johann, and Roger travel to her last known whereabouts, a remote arctic monastery, underneath which they fight ancient Hyperborean creatures controlled by the King of Fear to retrieve Liz's fiery essence and reunite it with her body. Hellboy's first meetings with Abe and Liz are revealed in flashback. |
| Genre | Occult |
| Script | Mike Mignola; Christopher Golden; Tom Sniegoski |
| Pencils | Ryan Sook |
| Inks | Ryan Sook; Curtis Arnold [as Curtis P. Arnold] |
| Colors | Dave Stewart |
| Letters | Clem Robins |
| Editing | Scott Allie; Mike Carriglitto (assistant, original publication) |
| Reprinted | from BPRD: Hollow Earth (Dark Horse, 2002 series) #1; from BPRD: Hollow Earth (Dark Horse, 2002 series) #2; from BPRD: Hollow Earth (Dark Horse, 2002 series) #3 |
| Synopsis | Allie describes how the BPRD: Hollow Earth miniseries came together. |
| Script | Scott Allie |
| Letters | Lia Ribacchi (Design); typeset |
| Reprinted | from BPRD: Hollow Earth and Other Stories (Dark Horse, 2003 series) #[nn] |
| Characters | Kate Corrigan; Johann Kraus (origin; first appearance) |
| Synopsis | We learn how Johann became a disembodied ectoplasmic being. |
| Genre | Occult |
| Script | Mike Mignola; Christopher Golden; Tom Sniegoski |
| Pencils | Ryan Sook |
| Inks | Ryan Sook |
| Colors | Dave Stewart |
| Letters | Dan Jackson |
| Reprinted | from Dark Horse Extra (Dark Horse, 1998 series) #42; Dark Horse Extra (Dark Horse, 1998 series) #43; Dark Horse Extra (Dark Horse, 1998 series) #44 |
| Letters | Lia Ribacchi (Design); typeset |
| Reprinted | from BPRD: Hollow Earth and Other Stories (Dark Horse, 2003 series) #[nn] |
| Script | Scott Allie |
| Letters | Lia Ribacchi (Design); typeset |
| Reprinted | from BPRD: Hollow Earth and Other Stories (Dark Horse, 2003 series) #[nn] |
| Characters | Lobster Johnson [The Lobster] (first appearance) |
| Synopsis | The Lobster and his aide investigate the deaths of scientists who worked for Zinco-Davis Laboratories. |
| Genre | Occult; Period |
| Script | Mike Mignola |
| Pencils | Matt Smith |
| Inks | Ryan Sook |
| Colors | Dave Stewart |
| Letters | Pat Brosseau |
| Reprinted | from Hellboy: Box Full of Evil (Dark Horse, 1999 series) #1 |
| Characters | Abe Sapien; Roger the Homunculus |
| Synopsis | B.P.R.D. scientists have no luck reviving the inert Roger, so Abe gives it a try, recalling how the scientists were prepared to dissect him before he himself was revived years earlier. |
| Genre | Occult; Period |
| Script | Mike Mignola |
| Pencils | Matt Smith |
| Inks | Mike Mignola |
| Colors | Dave Stewart |
| Letters | Pat Brosseau |
| Notes | The events of this story follow those in Hellboy: Almost Colossus (Dark Horse, 1997 series) and precede Hellboy: Conqueror Worm (Dark Horse, 2001 series). |
| Reprinted | from Hellboy: Box Full of Evil (Dark Horse, 1999 series) #2 |
| Characters | Abe Sapien; Hellboy |
| Genre | Occult; Period |
| Pencils | Mike Mignola |
| Inks | Mike Mignola |
| Letters | Lia Ribacchi (Design); typeset |
| Reprinted | from Abe Sapien: Drums of the Dead (Dark Horse, 1998 series) #[nn] [grayscaled] |
| Script | Scott Allie |
| Letters | Lia Ribacchi (Design); typeset |
| Reprinted | from BPRD: Hollow Earth and Other Stories (Dark Horse, 2003 series) #[nn] |
| Characters | Abe Sapien; Tom Manning; Garrett Omatta (first appearance) |
| Synopsis | Abe Sapien and psychic Garrett Omatta are sent by the B.P.R.D. to investigate shark attacks and apparent possession aboard a ship that travels an old slave-trade route. |
| Genre | Occult; Period |
| Script | Brian McDonald |
| Pencils | Derek Thompson |
| Inks | Derek Thompson |
| Colors | James Sinclair |
| Letters | Pat Brosseau |
| Reprinted | from Abe Sapien: Drums of the Dead (Dark Horse, 1998 series) #1 |
| Characters | King of Fear; Roger the Homunculus; Johann Kraus; Abe Sapien; Kate Corrigan; Liz Sherman |
| Synopsis | Allie provides notes to production artwork from Mignola and Sook. |
| Script | Scott Allie |
| Pencils | Mike Mignola; Ryan Sook |
| Inks | Mike Mignola; Ryan Sook |
| Colors | none; Ryan Sook |
| Letters | Lia Ribacchi (Design); typeset |
| Notes | Mignola artwork is uncolored sketches in ink, while Sook artwork consists of pencils, inked sketches, and color studies. |
| Reprinted | from BPRD: Hollow Earth and Other Stories (Dark Horse, 2003 series) #[nn] |
| Characters | Hellboy; Lobster Johnson; Roger the Homunculus |
| Pencils | Mike Mignola |
| Inks | Mike Mignola |
| Colors | Dave Stewart |
| Letters | Cary Grazzini ? (Design); typeset |
| Synopsis | The back cover hypes the contents above a bar code with ISBN, the price, the Dark Horse Comics logo, and the B.P.R.D. insignia. |
| Script | Scott Allie ? |
| Pencils | Mike Mignola |
| Inks | Mike Mignola |
| Colors | Dave Stewart |
| Letters | Lia Ribacchi; Lani Schreibstein (Design); typeset |
| Reprinted | from BPRD: Hollow Earth and Other Stories (Dark Horse, 2003 series) #[nn] [with new typography] |