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Issue: Hellboy: Wake the Devil #2 [8]
Publication Date: July 1996
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Issues: #2 [8] of 5 Issues
Title:
Variant: unnamed
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Publisher: FlagDark Horse
Brand: Dark Horse Comics; LegendView Brand Images
Indicia Publisher: Dark Horse Comics Inc.
On Sale Date: (not set)
Volume: none
Pages: 36
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: 76156894424200211
Price: $4.15 CAD
$2.95 USD
Indicia Frequency: none
Content Items: 7 (2 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): Scott Allie
Disclose Notes: 8th issue of Hellboy per title page. Printed in Canada.
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: Color (cover and interiors)
Dimensions: Standard Modern Age U.S.
Paper Stock: Glossy (cover); Matte (interior)
Binding: Saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: Limited Series
Format Notes:  
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Original Artwork
Digital Edition
Adult Image
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Cover, Front
Original Artwork
Digital Edition
Adult Image
Title Page
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Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Penciller(s): Mike Mignola
Inker(s): Mike Mignola
Colorist(s): James Sinclair
Letterer(s): Kevin Nowlan (logo); Cary Grazzini (design); typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure, horror, occult
Feature(s): Hellboy
Character(s): Hellboy; Unmensch
Reprinting
In Issue: FlagHellboy #[2] published June 2003
In Issue: FlagHellboy: Edición Integral #1 published January 2011
In Content Item: FlagHellboy #[2] [First Printing; First Cover] published May 1997
as Hellboy: Wake the Devil #2 cover [Cover Reprint (on Interior Page) on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagHellboy Library Edition #1 published May 2008
as [untitled] [Cover Reprint (on Interior Page) on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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Hellboy 8

Credits  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Letterer(s): Kevin Nowlan (logo); Cary Grazzini (design); typeset
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: The inside front cover is title page with logo, credits and indicia.
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Wake the Devil [Chapter Two]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Mike Mignola
Penciller(s): Mike Mignola
Inker(s): Mike Mignola
Colorist(s): James Sinclair (guides); Dave Stewart [as David Stewart] (separations)
Letterer(s): Pat Brosseau; Mike Mignola (see Notes)
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure, horror, occult
Feature(s): Hellboy
Character(s): Hellboy; Unmensch; Ilsa Haupstein; Klaus Werner von Krupt (flashback); Grigori Rasputin; Prof. Dr. Karl Ruprect Kroenen (flashback; cameo); Leopold Kurtz (flashback; cameo); Ogdru-Jahad [the Dragon; Seven Beasts]; Elder Giurescu [Vladimir Giurescu's father; unnamed] (introduction; death); Vladimir Giurescu (flashback; origin)
Synopsis: Hellboy's battle with the Unmensch lands him beneath Castle Giurescu, where the vampire's skeletal, half-dead father recounts his son's transformation. Above, Ilsa Haupstein is visited by the spirit of Rasputin, while elsewhere a mysterious congregation reads from scripture warning of the Ogdru-Jahad.
Reprinting
In Issue: FlagHellboy #[2] published June 2003
In Issue: FlagHellboy: Edición Integral #1 published January 2011
In Content Item: FlagHellboy: Despierta al Demonio #[nn] published January 1996
as Despierta al Demonio Capítulo Dos [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagHellboy #[2] [First Printing; First Cover] published May 1997
as Chapter Two [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagHellboy Library Edition #1 published May 2008
as Chapter Two [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 22
Disclose Notes: Mignola hand-drew some display lettering and balloons. // The Unmensch is named in this issue. // Copyright 1996 Michael Mignola per indicia.
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Silent as the Grave [Part 2]: "Methinks I Hear a Voice Begin, Ye Ravens, Cease Your Croaking Din, It Sends a Peal of Hollow Groans, Thus Speaking from Among the Bones."

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Gary Gianni
Penciller(s): Gary Gianni
Inker(s): Gary Gianni
Colorist(s): James Sinclair (guides); Dave Stewart [as David Stewart] (separations)
Letterer(s): Sean Konot
Subject Matter
Feature(s): The MonsterMen
Character(s): Lawrence St. George; Benedict [full name unknown] (introduction); Julia Adler (image only); Crulk; Sunset Lane
Synopsis: Sunset follows Crulk, who summons a gigantic winged beast from the shoebox. It attacks the car of St. George and his associate, Benedict, in downtown Los Angeles; Benedict identifies the beast as a jib-bic.
Reprinting
In Issue: FlagCorpus Monstrum #1 published July 2002
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 8
Disclose Notes: Subtitle is from Thomas Parnell's poem "A Night-Piece on Death". Benedict is named in Part 5. // Copyright 1996 Gary Gianni per indicia.
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Letters Pages

Letters Page  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Scott Allie
Penciller(s): Gary Gianni
Inker(s): Gary Gianni
Letterer(s): Cary Grazzini (design); typeset
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Hellmail
Synopsis: Allie replies to letters on earlier Hellboy stories.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
Disclose Notes: Letter writers are Rune Karolius, Percy Yap, Charles J. Sperling, Matt Tauber, and David Small. // Coming Next Issue box has black-&-white art from MonsterMen story in #3.
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The Back Issues

Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Mike Mignola
Inker(s): Mike Mignola
Colorist(s): various (grayscaled)
Letterer(s): Kevin Nowlan (logo); Cary Grazzini (design); typeset
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Hellmail
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: The inside back cover advertises the Hellboy backlist with cover reproductions.
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Back Cover

Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Mike Mignola
Inker(s): Mike Mignola
Colorist(s): Cary Grazzini ?
Letterer(s): Cary Grazzini (design); typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure, horror, occult
Feature(s): Hellboy
Character(s): Hellboy; Vladimir Giurescu
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: The back cover has a detail of Giurescu from cover to #1 against previously published promo art of Hellboy, with blurb from The Comics Journal.

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