Dark Horse Comics will be celebrating the 30th Anniversary of Mike Mignola’s Hellboy in style at this year’s San Diego Comic-Con International with four new exclusives featuring everyone’s favorite paranormal investigator. Fans visiting Dark Horse’s booth at SDCC can purchase the Hellboy Seed of Destruction #1 30th Anniversary Convention Exclusive Variant, The Goon, Hellboy, and Usagi Yojimbo Anniversary Print painted by Eric Powell, The Hellboy 30th Anniversary Pinfinity Set, and a Hellboy Letterpress Set.
Hellboy Seed of Destruction #1 30th Anniversary Convention Exclusive Variant is a special edition of the first issue of Hellboy that depicts his arrival on earth in the midst of WWII, the return of his adoptive father from a failed Arctic expedition, and Hellboy’s first encounter with Mike Mignola’s infamous frog monsters. This special edition of Hellboy: Seed of Destruction #1 is printed as uncolored line art and features an updated line art cover, a bonus section with more than 20 sketches, and digital codes for Seed of Destruction #1-4!
Mike Mignola, Stan Sakai, and Eric Powell each draw their iconic characters on The Goon, Hellboy, and Usagi Yojimbo Anniversary Print, which is painted by Powell. Measuring 18 inches x 24 inches and limited to 300 units, this gorgeous commemorative piece showcases three of comics most enduring creator-owned heroes.
The augmented reality Hellboy 30th Anniversary Pinfinity Set features three detailed enamel pins depicting Mike Mignola’s iconic artwork including: Hellboy 30th Anniversary, Crowned Knight Skeleton, and Giant Robot Hellboy. Fans can explore the legendary comic series like never before by scanning the pins with the Pinfinity app to unlock comic pages, animated content, and more.
In artwork, chiaroscuro is the use of strong contrast in light and dark. Few artists have mastered the technique as skillfully as Mike Mignola, whose work is as effective in black and white as it is in color. This is why Dark Horse has partnered with The Press Room in Austin, TX on a run of specialty crafted Hellboy Letterpress Print Sets. This bundle of five (5) 4-inch by 6-inch prints features black and white Hellboy illustrations by Mike Mignola printed on an original 1955 Vandercook 219AB press on heavy 100lb cover stock. Limited to just 666 sets available, this gorgeous collection comes complete with a hand-numbered, letterpress printed, red belly-band.
The Hellboy Seed of Destruction #1 30th Anniversary Convention Exclusive Variant is a limited Edition of 1500 copies for $25 and is limited to 5 copies per person per day. Limited to 300 copies, The Goon, Hellboy, and Usagi Yojimbo Anniversary Print is $50. The Hellboy 30th Anniversary Pinfinity Set and the Hellboy Letterpress Set are both $40.
About Dark Horse
Founded in 1986 as an offshoot of his comics retail chain, Mike Richardson launched Dark Horse Comics with the goal of creating a welcoming environment for comics professionals. The company strives to be an example of how integrity and innovation can broaden a unique storytelling medium and transform a company with humble beginnings into an industry giant. Dark Horse has published modern masters such as Yoshitaka Amano, Margaret Atwood, Brian Michael Bendis, Paul Chadwick, Geof Darrow, Colleen Doran, Janet Evanovich, Neil Gaiman, Dave Gibbons, Faith Erin Hicks, Kazuo Koike, Matt Kindt, Jeff Lemire, Kentaro Miura, Moebius, Chuck Palahniuk, Eric Powell, Stan Sakai, and Gerard Way, as well as Hall of Fame legends Will Eisner, Jack Kirby, Steve Ditko, and Richard Corben. The company also set the industry standard for quality licensed comics, graphic novels, collectibles, and art books, based on properties such as Star Wars, Stranger Things, Avatar: The Last Airbender, The Legend of Korra, Minecraft, The Legend of Zelda, Super Mario, Dragon Age, James Cameron’s Avatar, Game of Thrones, Mass Effect, The Witcher, and Halo. Dark Horse established an entertainment division in 1989, finding immediate success with company-owned projects The Mask and TimeCop. Current hits from Dark Horse Entertainment include The Umbrella Academy on Netflix and Resident Alien on SyFy. Additionally, Dark Horse has a long tradition of establishing new creative talent throughout all of its divisions.
In 2022, Dark Horse Media, LLC was established as the parent company of all three divisions, and became part of Embracer Group AB, forming the tenth operative group, strengthening the company’s transmedia capabilities.
About Mike Mignola
Mike Mignola’s fascination with ghosts and monsters began at an early age; reading Dracula at age twelve introduced him to Victorian literature and folklore, from which he has never recovered. Starting in 1982 as a bad inker for Marvel Comics, he swiftly evolved into a not-so-bad artist. By the late 1980s, he had begun to develop his own unique graphic style, with mainstream projects like Cosmic Odyssey and Batman:Gotham by Gaslight. In 1994, he published the first Hellboy series through Dark Horse.There are thirteen Hellboy graphic novels (with more on the way), several spin-off titles (B.P.R.D., Lobster Johnson, Abe Sapien, and Sir Edward Grey: Witchfinder), prose books,animated films, and two live-action films starring Ron Perlman. Along the way he worked on Francis Ford Coppola’s film Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1992), was a production designer for Disney’s Atlantis: The Lost Empire (2001), and was the visual consultant to director Guillermo del Toro on Blade II (2002), Hellboy (2004), and Hellboy II: The Golden Army (2008). Mike’s books have earned numerous awards and are published in a great many countries. Mike lives in Southern California with his wife, daughter, and cat.
