Hellboy: Weird Tales

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Format Limited series Number of issues 8 Artist(s) Various Creator Mike Mignola		Genre Horror Writer(s) Various Publisher Dark Horse Comics

Publication date February 2003 - April 2004 Main characters Hellboy, Kate Corrigan, Abe Sapien, Liz Sherman, Roger, Lobster Johnson Similar Hellboy: Conqueror Worm, Hellboy: The Troll Witch and, BPRD: Hollow Earth and, Hellboy: Wake the Devil, Hellboy: Darkness Calls

Hellboy: Weird Tales is a Dark Horse Comics bimonthly eight-issue comic book limited series that offered a variety of guest writers and artists the chance to give their own take on the Hellboy characters created by Mike Mignola whilst he was in Prague working on the first Hellboy movie. The issues were published bi-monthly to alternate with a series of B.P.R.D. one-shots and were collected in two trade paperback volumes.

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Issue #1

Published February 26, 2003 cover by John Cassaday.

Issue #2

Published April 23, 2003 cover by Jason Pearson.

Issue #3

Published June 25, 2003 cover by Alex Maleev.

Issue #4

Published August 27, 2003 cover by Leinil Francis Yu.

Issue #5

Published October 15, 2003 cover by J.H. Williams III.

Issue #6

Published December 10, 2003 cover by Frank Cho.

Issue #7

Published February 11, 2004 cover by Phil Noto.

Issue #8

Published April 14, 2004 cover by Michael William Kaluta.

Collected editions

The series has been collected into two trade paperbacks and one hardcover edition:

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Volume 1 (collects Hellboy: Weird Tales #1-4, February 2003, ISBN 978-1-56971-622-9)

Volume 2 (collects Hellboy: Weird Tales #5-8, October 2004, ISBN 978-1-56971-953-4)

HC - Hardcover (collects Hellboy: Weird Tales #1-8 (Volume 1 & 2) and the "How Koshchei Became Deathless" and "Baba Yaga's Feast" back-ups from Hellboy: The Wild Hunt #2-4, December 2014, ISBN 978-1-61655-510-8)