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'''''Hellboy: Wake the Devil''''' is a five-issue [[comic book]] [[limited series|mini-series]] in the ''[[Hellboy]]'' franchise, conceived and illustrated by [[Mike Mignola]] and published by [[Dark Horse Comics]]. Various elements and section of plot were later used in the [[Hellboy Animated|animated film]] ''[[Hellboy: Blood and Iron]]''.{{Fact|date=October 2008}}
'''''Hellboy: Wake the Devil''''' is a five-issue [[comic book]] [[limited series|mini-series]] in the ''[[Hellboy]]'' franchise, conceived and illustrated by [[Mike Mignola]] and published by [[Dark Horse Comics]]. Various elements and section of plot were later used in the [[Hellboy Animated|animated film]] ''[[Hellboy: Blood and Iron]]''.{{Fact|date=October 2008}}

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Hellboy: Wake the Devil
Cover to the trade paperback
Art by Mike Mignola
Publication information
PublisherDark Horse Comics
ScheduleMonthly
FormatMini-series
Genre
Publication dateJune - October 1996
No. of issues5
Creative team
Created byMike Mignola
Written byMike Mignola
Artist(s)Mike Mignola
Letterer(s)Pat Brosseau
Colorist(s)James Sinclair
Editor(s)Scott Allie
Collected editions
Hellboy: Wake the DevilISBN 1-59307-095-0

Hellboy: Wake the Devil is a five-issue comic book mini-series in the Hellboy franchise, conceived and illustrated by Mike Mignola and published by Dark Horse Comics. Various elements and section of plot were later used in the animated film Hellboy: Blood and Iron.[citation needed]

Plot

After a murder in a New York City wax museum, Hellboy and additional B.P.R.D. agents are sent to investigate a series of abandoned sites in Romania linked to the legend of Vladimir Giurescu, a vampire nobleman whose missing body has been tied to the murder, initially reported to have been the work of the Nazi scientists Ilsa Haupstein, Leopold Kurtz and Karl Ruprecht Kroenen who are preparing the return of their occult master Rasputin, along with the appearance of Hecate. During the investigations by Liz Sherman, Bud Waller and Sidney Leach, they stumble upon an old lab where Roger the Homunculus makes his first appearance.

Collected editions

It was collected as the second Hellboy trade paperback with a new epilogue:

  • Wake the Devil (4-issue mini-series, 1997, Dark Horse Comics, tpb, 144 pages, 1997, ISBN 1-56971-226-3,[1] 2004, ISBN 1-59307-095-0}[2]

Notes

  1. ^ Dark Horse Comics > Profile > Hellboy: Wake the Devil TPB
  2. ^ Dark Horse Comics > Profile > Hellboy Volume 2: Wake the Devil TPB

References

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