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Issue Details

Issue #1
Published December 1997
Cover Price 3.95 USD; 5.55 CAD
Pages 52
Editing Scott Allie
Notes 14th issue of Hellboy per title page. Printed in Canada per indicia.

Cover Details - "Front Cover"

Characters Hellboy; Benedict; Suda (figure on mantle); Ernie (figure on mantle); Big Guy (figure on mantle)
Genre Occult; Christmas
Pencils Gary Gianni
Inks Gary Gianni
Letters Kevin Nowlan (logo); Mike Mignola (design); Cary Grazzini (design); typeset
Notes Copyright 1997 Gary Gianni per indicia.

1 page credits "Hellboy 14"

Letters Kevin Nowlan (logo); Mike Mignola (design); Cary Grazzini (design); typeset
Notes The inside front cover has logo, credits, and indicia.

21 page Hellboy story "A Christmas Underground"

Characters Hellboy; unnamed priest; Evelyn Margaret Hatch (introduction; death); Father Christmas (vision); Annie Hatch (introduction); unnamed creature
Synopsis Hellboy visits an old English manor on Christmas Eve, 1989, where the dying Mrs. Hatch urges him to give her lost daughter Annie a tin box.
Genre Occult; Adventure; Christmas
Script Mike Mignola
Pencils Mike Mignola
Inks Mike Mignola
Colors James Sinclair
Letters Pat Brosseau; Mike Mignola (see Notes)
Notes Copyright 1997 Michael Mignola per indicia. // Mignola hand-drew some display lettering and balloons.

1 page Toybox story "Ernie's Holiday Ditty"

Characters Ernie; Suda; other citizens of Toybox
Synopsis The Citizens of Toybox Community Glee Club sing a carol for the holidays.
Genre Horror; Holiday
Script Steve Purcell
Pencils Steve Purcell
Inks Steve Purcell
Colors Steve Purcell
Letters Lois Buhalis
Notes Copyright 1997 Steve Purcell per indicia. // Illustration is accompanied by lyrics.

1 page text story "A Strange Story"

Characters Gary Gianni (narrator); Charles Dickens (illustration)
Synopsis Gianni tells a strange story that involves writer's block, the year 1870, Charles Dickens, Christmas, and Edward Bulwer-Lytton's novel A Strange Story.
Genre Autobiography; Christmas
Script Gary Gianni
Pencils Gary Gianni
Inks Gary Gianni
Letters Mike Mignola (design); Cary Grazzini (design); typeset
Notes Copyright 1997 Gary Gianni per indicia.

2 page Bourbon Thret illustration "Christmas"

Characters Santa Claus; Bourbon Thret?
Genre Science Fiction; Christmas
Pencils Geof Darrow
Inks Geof Darrow
Colors Dave Stewart
Notes Copyright 1997 Geof Darrow per indicia. Double-page spread. // Title from inside front cover. Feature from indicia.

9 page Toybox story "Toybox"

Characters Ernie; Suda; Visitor [Santa Claus]
Synopsis Ernie and Suda seek refuge in a cottage on a holiday eve, where Ernie battles a giant spider.
Genre Horror; Holiday
Script Steve Purcell
Pencils Steve Purcell
Inks Steve Purcell
Colors Steve Purcell
Letters Lois Buhalis
Notes Copyright 1997 Steve Purcell per indicia.

12 page Corpus Monstrum story "A Gift for the Wicked"

Characters Benedict; Lawrence St. George; Hoke Hodgson (introduction); Baron Grodak (introduction; death); Santa Claus?
Synopsis Benedict, St. George, and Hodgson rid a chamber in Grodak's home of strange creatures.
Genre Occult; Adventure; Christmas
Script Gary Gianni
Pencils Gary Gianni
Inks Gary Gianni
Letters Sean Konot
Notes Copyright 1997 Gary Gianni per indicia.

1 page foreword, introduction, preface, afterword "Further Reading"

Characters Hellboy
Synopsis Mignola thanks his contributors and recommends "a few great Christmas ghost stories".
Script Mike Mignola
Pencils Mike Mignola
Inks Mike Mignola
Colors Dave Stewart
Letters Mike Mignola (design); Cary Grazzini (design); typeset
Notes Copyright 1997 Michael Mignola per indicia.

1 page Hellboy promo (ad from the publisher) "Nothing Says Christmas Like... Hellboy"

Pencils Mike Mignola; ? (photo)
Inks Mike Mignola; ? (photo)
Colors various
Letters Kevin Nowlan (logo); Mike Mignola (design); Cary Grazzini (design); typeset
Notes The last interior page advertises various Hellboy publications and merchandise with art and photos.

1 page Abe Sapien; Hellboy promo (ad from the publisher) "Coming in March"

Characters Abe Sapien; Hellboy (inset)
Genre Occult; Adventure
Pencils Mike Mignola
Inks Mike Mignola
Colors ? (graytones)
Letters Mike Mignola (design); Cary Grazzini (design); typeset
Notes The inside back cover promotes the upcoming Abe Sapien: Drums of the Dead.
Reprinted from Abe Sapien: Drums of the Dead (Dark Horse, 2008 series) #[nn] [as preview]

1 page illustration "Back Cover"

Characters Hellboy
Genre Occult; Adventure; Christmas
Pencils Mike Mignola
Inks Mike Mignola
Colors Dave Stewart ?
Letters Mike Mignola (design); Cary Grazzini (design)
Notes The back cover has a skull in a stocking hat against previously published promo art of Hellboy.