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Issue: B.P.R.D. #1
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Issues: #1 of 14 Issues (15 Printings)
Title: Hollow Earth & Other Stories
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Publisher: FlagDark Horse
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Volume: 1
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17 (5 stories, 1 cover) from base issue
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Publication Type: Trade Paperback
Color: color
Dimensions: Standard Modern Age US
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Binding: softcover
Publishing Format: Collected Edition
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Illustration  on  Cover, Front from base issue
Credits
Penciller(s): Mike Mignola
Inker(s): Mike Mignola
Colorist(s): Dave Stewart
Letterer(s): Lia Ribacchi; Lani Schreibstein (Design); typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: occult
Feature(s): BPRD
Character(s): Abe Sapien; Roger the Homunculus; Johann Kraus
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Reprint Notes: from BPRD: Hollow Earth and Other Stories (Dark Horse, 2003 series) #[nn] [art, with new typography]
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Cover is redrawn by Mignola nearly exactly from his cover to BPRD: Hollow Earth (Dark Horse, 2002 series) #1.
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Title & Indicia Pages

Credits  on  Interior Page(s) from base issue
Credits
Letterer(s): Lia Ribacchi; Lani Schreibstein (Design); typeset
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Pages: 2
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BPRD: Hollow Earth #2 cover

Cover Reprint (on Interior Page)  on  Interior Page(s) from base issue
Credits
Penciller(s): Mike Mignola
Inker(s): Mike Mignola
Letterer(s): Lia Ribacchi
Subject Matter
Genres: occult
Feature(s): BPRD
Character(s): Abe Sapien; Roger the Homunculus; Johann Kraus
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Pages: 1
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Hollow Earth credits

Credits  on  Interior Page(s) from base issue
Credits
Penciller(s): Mike Mignola (inset)
Inker(s): Mike Mignola (inset)
Colorist(s): Dave Stewart (inset)
Letterer(s): Lia Ribacchi (Design); typeset
Subject Matter
Character(s): King of Fear
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Reprint Notes: from BPRD: Hollow Earth and Other Stories (Dark Horse, 2003 series) #[nn] [exact page]
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Pages: 1
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Hollow Earth

Story  on  Interior Page(s) from base issue
Credits
Writer(s): Mike Mignola; Christopher Golden; Tom Sniegoski
Penciller(s): Ryan Sook
Inker(s): Ryan Sook; Curtis Arnold [as Curtis P. Arnold]
Colorist(s): Dave Stewart
Letterer(s): Clem Robins
Editor(s): Scott Allie; Mike Carriglitto (assistant, original publication)
Subject Matter
Genres: occult
Feature(s): BPRD
Character(s): 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 BPRD 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.
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Pages: 66
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Hollow Earth notes

Text Article  on  Interior Page(s) from base issue
Credits
Writer(s): Scott Allie
Letterer(s): Lia Ribacchi (Design); typeset
Subject Matter
Synopsis: Allie describes how the BPRD: Hollow Earth miniseries came together.
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Reprint Notes: from BPRD: Hollow Earth and Other Stories (Dark Horse, 2003 series) #[nn]
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Pages: 1
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Hollow Earth [prologue]

Story  on  Interior Page(s) from base issue
Credits
Writer(s): Mike Mignola; Christopher Golden; Tom Sniegoski
Penciller(s): Ryan Sook
Inker(s): Ryan Sook
Colorist(s): Dave Stewart
Letterer(s): Dan Jackson
Subject Matter
Genres: occult
Feature(s): BPRD
Character(s): Kate Corrigan; Johann Kraus
Synopsis: We learn how Johann became a disembodied ectoplasmic being.
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The Killer in My Skull and Abe Sapien versus Science credits

Credits  on  Interior Page(s) from base issue
Credits
Letterer(s): Lia Ribacchi (Design); typeset
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The Killer in My Skull and Abe Sapien versus Science notes

Text Article  on  Interior Page(s) from base issue
Credits
Writer(s): Scott Allie
Letterer(s): Lia Ribacchi (Design); typeset
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Reprint Notes: from BPRD: Hollow Earth and Other Stories (Dark Horse, 2003 series) #[nn]
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Pages: 1
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The Killer in My Skull

Story  on  Interior Page(s) from base issue
Credits
Writer(s): Mike Mignola
Penciller(s): Matt Smith
Inker(s): Ryan Sook
Colorist(s): Dave Stewart
Letterer(s): Pat Brosseau
Subject Matter
Genres: occult
Feature(s): BPRD; Lobster Johnson
Character(s): Lobster Johnson [The Lobster] (first appearance)
Synopsis: The Lobster and his aide investigate the deaths of scientists who worked for Zinco-Davis Laboratories.
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Pages: 10
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Abe Sapien versus Science

Story  on  Interior Page(s) from base issue
Credits
Writer(s): Mike Mignola
Penciller(s): Matt Smith
Inker(s): Mike Mignola
Colorist(s): Dave Stewart
Letterer(s): Pat Brosseau
Subject Matter
Genres: occult
Feature(s): BPRD; Abe Sapien
Character(s): Roger the Homunculus; Abe Sapien
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.
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Pages: 8
Disclose 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).
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Abe Sapien: Drums of the Dead cover

Cover Reprint (on Interior Page)  on  Interior Page(s) from base issue
Credits
Penciller(s): Mike Mignola
Inker(s): Mike Mignola
Letterer(s): Lia Ribacchi (Design); typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: occult
Feature(s): BPRD; Abe Sapien
Character(s): Abe Sapien; Hellboy
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Reprint Notes: from Abe Sapien: Drums of the Dead (Dark Horse, 1998 series) #[nn] [grayscaled]
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Pages: 1
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Drums of the Dead credits & notes

Credits  on  Interior Page(s) from base issue
Credits
Writer(s): Scott Allie
Letterer(s): Lia Ribacchi (Design); typeset
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Reprint Notes: from BPRD: Hollow Earth and Other Stories (Dark Horse, 2003 series) #[nn]
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Drums of the Dead

Story  on  Interior Page(s) from base issue
Credits
Writer(s): Brian McDonald
Penciller(s): Derek Thompson
Inker(s): Derek Thompson
Colorist(s): James Sinclair
Letterer(s): Pat Brosseau
Subject Matter
Genres: occult
Feature(s): BPRD; Abe Sapien
Character(s): Abe Sapien; Tom Manning; Garrett Omatta (first appearance)
Synopsis: Abe Sabien 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.
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Pages: 22
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BPRD sketchbook

Foreword, Introduction, Preface, Afterword  on  Interior Page(s) from base issue
Credits
Writer(s): Scott Allie
Penciller(s): Mike Mignola; Ryan Sook
Inker(s): Mike Mignola; Ryan Sook
Colorist(s): Ryan Sook
Letterer(s): Lia Ribacchi (Design); typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Feature(s): BPRD
Character(s): Roger the Homunculus; Johann Kraus; Abe Sapien; Kate Corrigan; Liz Sherman
Synopsis: Allie provides notes to production artwork from Mignola and Sook.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 9
Disclose Notes: Mignola artwork is uncolored sketches in ink, while Sook artwork consists of pencils, inked sketches, and color studies.
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Hellboy backlist

Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s) from base issue
Credits
Penciller(s): Mike Mignola
Inker(s): Mike Mignola
Colorist(s): Dave Stewart
Letterer(s): Cary Grazzini ? (Design); typeset
Subject Matter
Character(s): Hellboy; Lobster Johnson; Roger the Homunculus
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Pages: 1
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back cover

Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s) from base issue
Credits
Writer(s): Scott Allie ?
Penciller(s): Mike Mignola
Inker(s): Mike Mignola
Colorist(s): Dave Stewart
Letterer(s): Lia Ribacchi; Lani Schreibstein (Design); typeset
Subject Matter
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.
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Pages: 1

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