A paranoid antiquities professor goes missing, and Hellboy’s search for him takes a dangerous turn when the same person who was after the professor might be after Hellboy as well.
Mike Mignola writes and Giuseppe Manunta (le dîner de Noël, Hellé Nice, une Table pour 2) draws this new one-shot!
Hellboy's first mission! A bizarre series of murders and rumors of something worse lead Professor Bruttenholm to send a young Hellboy to a Brazilian village on his first mission. Hellboy and a small group of agents uncover something terrible in the shadows of a sixteenth-century Portuguese fortress . . . Collects the five- issue miniseries. Alex Maleev returns to Dark Horse! A magnificent introduction into the universe Hellboy occupies.—Comic Book Resources With a solid cast, worthy text and the fact that I'm absorbed by the world of the B.P.R.D. as it existed in 1952 it's no wonder that this comes highly recommended. —Unleash the Fanboy