B.P.R.D.: Hollow Earth and Other Stories

B.P.R.D.: Hollow Earth
and Other Stories

Trade Paperback Cover
Publication information
Publisher Dark Horse Comics
Format Trade Paperback
Genre Action/adventure, horror
Publication date January 29, 2003
Main character(s) Kate Corrigan · Johann Kraus · Lobster Johnson · Roger · Abe Sapien · Liz Sherman
Creative team
Writer(s) Mike Mignola · Christopher Golden · Tom Sniegoski · Brian McDonald
Artist(s) Mike Mignola · Ryan Sook · Matthew Dow Smith · Derek Thompson
Inker(s) Curtis Arnold
Letterer(s) Clem Robins · Dan Jackson · Pat Brosseau
Colorist(s) Dave Stewart · James Sinclair
Creator(s) Mike Mignola
Editor(s) Scott Allie
Collected editions
B.P.R.D.: Hollow Earth and Other Stories ISBN 978-1-56971-862-9

B.P.R.D.: Hollow Earth and Other Stories is the first trade paperback collection in the B.P.R.D. series created by Mike Mignola which collects the first three-issue mini-series along with various other back-up features.

Contents

Publication history

Hollow Earth

The first B.P.R.D. mini-series was written by Mike Mignola, Christopher Golden and Tom Sniegoski with art by Ryan Sook and Curtis Arnold and was published from January to June 2002.[1][2][3][4]

Hellboy novelist Golden and his long-time writing partner Sniegoski wrote the story with regular input from Mignola. Sook was chosen to draw the book following a meeting with Mignola at a convention in Oakland, CA in 1995 and saw it as a chance to have a book all to himself although Arnold joined as inker when schedules started running tight halfway through production.[1]

The story features Dr. Kate Corrigan, Abe Sapien, Roger the Homunculus, and new-comer Johann Kraus on a mission to rescue Liz Sherman. Hellboy also makes appearances via flashbacks.[1]

B.P.R.D. Promo

A three-page newspaper-format teaser for the series called B.P.R.D.. It was published in Dark Horse Extra from December 2001 to February 2002, featuring the first appearance of Johann Kraus.

The Killer in My Skull

Lobster Johnson made his first appearance in this story by Mike Mignola, Matthew Dow Smith and Ryan Sook (in his first contribution to the series) which was originally published as a back-up feature in Hellboy: Box Full of Evil #1 (September 1999).[5]

In the story Johnson and his sidekick investigate a series of bizarre deaths which appear to have been committed using telekinesis.[1]

Abe Sapien versus Science

Abe Sapien made a solo appearance in this story by Mike Mignola and Matthew Dow Smith originally published in 1999 as a back-up feature in Hellboy: Box Full of Evil #2 (September 1999).[6]

In the story Sapien rescues and reanimates Roger the homunculus when B.P.R.D. scientist Dr. Roddel threatens to dissect him just as Abe recalls he threatened to do with him when he was first discovered.[1]

Drums of the Dead

Abe Sapien made his first solo appearance in this story by Brian McDonald and Derek Thompson originally published as the main feature in the one-shot Abe Sapien: Drums of the Dead (March 4, 1998) with new Hellboy short story Heads by Mike Mignola as the back up feature.[7]

Series editor Scott Allie had been in discussions with Brian McDonald about his next project after the success of Harry the Cop and Hellboy creator Mike Mignola had been considering using Derek Thompson on a Hellboy and so it naturally evolved that the two friends should end up working together on this project.[1]

In the story weird deaths in the South Seas expose an ancient tragedy linked to the transatlantic slave trade.[1]

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