Issue | #1 |
Published | February 2003 |
Cover Price | $2.99 US |
Pages | 36 |
Editing | Scott Stuart Allie [as Scott Allie]; Matt Dryer (assistant editor) |
Notes | art looks like it was colourized directly from pencils |
Characters | Lobster Johnson; Abraham Sapien; Hellboy; Elizabeth Sherman; Roger |
Genre | occult; horror |
Pencils | John Cassaday |
Inks | none ? |
Colors | Dan Jackson |
Letters | Kevin Nowlan (Hellboy logo); ? (Weird Tales logo) |
Notes | art looks like it was colourized directly from pencils |
Reprinted | in Hellboy: Weird Tales (Dark Horse, 2003 series) #1 |
Genre | occult; horror |
Letters | typeset |
Notes | inside front cover indicia/credits page |
Characters | Elizabeth Sherman; Abraham Sapien; Hellboy |
Synopsis | B.P.R.D. agents try to deal with a ghost circus. |
Genre | occult; horror |
Script | John Cassaday |
Pencils | John Cassaday |
Inks | none ? |
Colors | Dan Jackson |
Letters | Dan Jackson |
Notes | title on credits page is BIG-TOP HELLBOY; art looks like it was colourized directly from pencils |
Reprinted | in Hellboy: Weird Tales (Dark Horse, 2003 series) #1 |
Notes | colour house ads for Dark Horse horror comics & Blackburne Covenant; March 2003 Dark Horse shipping list |
Characters | Professor Doctor Karl Ruprect Kroenen |
Synopsis | Colour pinup of Dr. Kroenen and a giant robot. |
Genre | occult; horror |
Pencils | TyRuben Ellingson |
Inks | TyRuben Ellingson |
Colors | TyRuben Ellingson ? |
Notes | title taken from credits page |
Reprinted | in Hellboy: Weird Tales (Dark Horse, 2003 series) #1 |
Characters | Hellboy; Dr. Kate Corrigan; Elizabeth Sherman; Abraham Sapien; Roger; Grigori Efimovich Rasputin |
Synopsis | Hellboy spends a day at the Boardwalk, then has pancakes later. |
Genre | occult; horror |
Script | Andi Watson |
Pencils | Andi Watson |
Inks | Andi Watson |
Colors | Andi Watson ? |
Letters | Andi Watson ? |
Reprinted | in Hellboy: Weird Tales (Dark Horse, 2003 series) #1 |
Characters | Baba Yaga; Iosif Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili [before he became Joseph Stalin]; Maria; Father Fadeev |
Synopsis | A Georgian seminary student tries to stop Baba Yaga from preying on children. |
Genre | occult; horror |
Script | Fabian Nicieza |
Pencils | Stefano Raffaele |
Inks | Stefano Raffaele |
Colors | Elena Sanjust |
Letters | Michael Heisler |
Notes | title on credits page is CHILDREN OF THE BLACK MOUND |
Reprinted | in Hellboy: Weird Tales (Dark Horse, 2003 series) #1 |
Characters | Lobster Johnson; Crimson Hood |
Synopsis | Lobster Johnson tries to recapture a top-secret weapon from a Nazi villain. |
Genre | super-hero |
Script | John Cassaday |
Pencils | John Cassaday |
Inks | John Cassaday |
Colors | Dan Jackson |
Letters | Dan Jackson |
Notes | title taken from credits page; first episode of a serialized story in the style of a 1930s colour Sunday newspaper adventure strip |
Reprinted | in Hellboy: Weird Tales (Dark Horse, 2003 series) #2 |
Characters | Elizabeth Sherman; Dr. Kate Corrigan |
Genre | occult; horror |
Script | Scott Stuart Allie; Jim Beard; Simon Petersen |
Pencils | Jason Pearson |
Inks | Jason Pearson |
Colors | Dave Stewart |
Letters | typeset |
Notes | letter column; includes a preview of the cover art for issue #2 of this series |
Characters | Mr. Benedict; Abraham Sapien; Cal McDonald; Hellboy; Brandon Waite; The Goon; Roger |
Script | Scott Stuart Allie [as Scott Allie] |
Pencils | Ben Templesmith; Michael Avon Oeming [as Mike Avon Oeming] |
Inks | Ben Templesmith; Michael Avon Oeming [as Mike Avon Oeming] |
Letters | typeset |
Notes | inside back cover promotional editorial for Dark Horse horror comics |
Characters | Hellboy |
Genre | occult; horror |
Pencils | Michael Mignola [as Mike Mignola] (signed) |
Inks | Michael Mignola [as Mike Mignola] (signed) |
Letters | typeset |
Notes | back cover ad: Hellboy movie (Columbia Pictures) |