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Issue: BPRD: Hollow Earth [B.P.R.D.: Hollow Earth] #1
Publication Date: January 2002
 
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Publisher: FlagDark Horse
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Volume:
Pages: 36
ISBN:
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Price: $4.50 CAD
$2.99 USD
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Content Items: 8 (1 story, 1 cover)
Editor(s): Scott Allie; Mike Carriglitto (assistant)
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: Color
Dimensions: Standard Modern Age U. S. (6.6" x 10.1")
Paper Stock: Glossy cover; Matte interior
Binding: Saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: Limited Series
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Cover, Front
Original Artwork
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Adult Image
Title Page
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Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Mike Mignola
Mike Mignola
Dave Stewart
Lia Ribacchi (typography)
Subject Matter
occult
B.P.R.D.
Abe Sapien; Roger the Homunculus; Johann Kraus
Reprinting
FlagB.P.R.D.: Plague of Frogs #1 published February 2011
as Book One Hollow Earth and Other Stories [Cover Reprint (on Interior Page) on Interior Page(s)]
 
Miscellaneous
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Cover is redrawn nearly exactly for collected editions.
B.P.R.D.

Credits  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Mike Mignola (clip art)
Mike Mignola (clip art)
Lia Ribacchi (design; typography)
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Miscellaneous
1
The inside front cover presents the credits, indicia, logo, and clip art of B.P.R.D. insignia.
Hollow Earth [Part 1]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Mike Mignola; Christopher Golden; Tom Sniegoski
Ryan Sook
Ryan Sook
Dave Stewart
Clem Robins
Subject Matter
occult
B.P.R.D.
Liz Sherman; Kate Corrigan; Johann Kraus (see notes); Hellboy (flashback only); Tom Manning; Abe Sapien; Roger the Homunculus; other B.P.R.D. operatives
Abe Sapien receives a vision of former agent Liz Sherman pleading for help. The BPRD sends a team including new recruit Johann Kraus to her last known whereabouts, a remote arctic monastery.
Reprinting
FlagB.P.R.D. #[1] [1st Printing] published January 2003
as Hollow Earth [Story on Interior Page(s)]
FlagAIDP #1 [unnamed variant] published March 2004
as Las Tierras Huecas Parte 1 [Story on Interior Page(s)]
FlagAIDP #1 [unnamed variant] published March 2004
as [untitled] [Illustration on Interior Page(s)]Detalle de la pág. 10; viñeta 3
FlagB.P.R.D.: Plague of Frogs #1 published February 2011
as Hollow Earth [Story on Interior Page(s)]
 
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Title from inside front cover. Story begins: "The Ural Mountains, above the Arctic Circle." Johann Kraus first appeared in a prologue to this story that ran in Dark Horse Extra (Dark Horse, 1998 series) #42-44, reprinted in the Hollow Earth collection; this is his first appearance in a comic book.
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Letters Page  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Scott Allie [as Scott Stuart Allie]
Mike Mignola (next issue cover art clip)
Mike Mignola (next issue cover art clip)
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Lia Ribacchi (layout; typography)
Subject Matter
Hellmail
Around the release of this issue, we should be sending out…
Allie provides replies and additional commentary.
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Miscellaneous
2
Letter writers are Chad Woody; Michael Ring; Dietmar Althaus; Paul Dale Roberts; Sacha; Dave Land; Matthew Gunn; Derek Fridolfs. The Next Issue box has artwork from cover to #2.
Things from Another World

Advertisement  on  Interior Page(s)
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tpeset
Subject Matter
Things from Another World
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Ad for comics, movies and other collectibles.
Dark Horse January [2002]

Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
? (promo copy)
various
various
various
typeset
Subject Matter
Dark Horse Comics
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Miscellaneous
1
Upcoming titles hype page. Comics list from January 2 - January 30, 2002.
Go, Go, Go Astro Boy!

Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Randy Stradley
Osamu Tezuka
Osamu Tezuka
typeset
Subject Matter
Horepower
Astro Boy
Randy Stradley discusses the life and work of Astro Boy creator Osamu Tezuka and its importance to comics history. He announces the upcoming Dark Horse collections of the original Astro Boy comics, never seen before in the USA.
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Miscellaneous
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Stradley essay; Dark Horse publisher credits; Comic Shop of the Month: Bookery Fantasy, Fairborn, OH.
Inside back cover.
No Wetsuit Required

Advertisement  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
? (ad copy)
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?
typeset
Subject Matter
Disney Videos
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Miscellaneous
1
Ad for Disney's Atlantis the Lost Empire dvds.

Back cover.

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