Mignolaverse

Hellborne

-Fake Hellboy comic prop by Mike Mignola for Hellboy I

-Concept art for Hellboy’s revolver and BPRD signal belt

-Johann and Hellboy’s larger gun for Hellboy II

-An introduction to the Hellboy section of the exhibit

-I’m an idiot and thought this artist’s name would be legible and didn’t write it down. If you know who painted it please message me!

-An original page of Seed of Destruction by Mike Mignola! 

Abe Sapien began his life as Langdon Everett Caul, a Victorian scientist and businessman who became involved with the Oannes Society, an occult organization who believed in life and all knowledge having come from the sea. After retrieving a strange jellyfish-like deity from an underwater ruin, Caul and the other members performed an arcane ritual that inadvertently ended with the creature’s release and Caul being turned into an ichthyo sapien. Believing him to be Oannes reborn, the society sealed the developing icthyo sapien’s body in a tube of water in the hidden laboratory beneath a Washington, D.C.. hospital until such time as he was fully formed. Forced to abandon the site by the outbreak of the American Civil War, the Society never found occasion to return for Caul, and there he stayed until he was found by workmen in November 1978. With no memory of his life before, the icthyo sapien received a new name. Abe Sapien was taken to the Bureau for Paranormal Research and Defense (BPRD) for a gruelling round of research by curious BPRD scientists, and was saved from vivisection by an empathetic Hellboy. Thereafter, Abe entered the ranks of the BPRD as a valued field agent. He first appeared in Hellboy: Seeds of Destruction (March 22, 1994).

If you’re looking for a fun one-shot comic outside of the whole big-two universe of books–because who doesn’t need a breather from them every now and then–than Lobster Johnson: Garden of Bones is definitely the book for you. Maybe it’ll be your gateway into the Mignolaverse.

…The twists, connections, hints and clues [in BLACK FLAME] are intriguing enough to keep old and new readers engaged for a long time to come.