Issue Details

Issue	#2
Published	August 1993
Pages	36
Editing	Kris Young
Notes	Was a Free Giveaway at the 1993 San Diego Comic Con.; First appearance of Hellboy.

Cover Details - "One Fine Day Downtown"

Genre	Humor; Superhero
Pencils	Don Martin
Inks	Don Martin
Notes	Was a Free Giveaway at the 1993 San Diego Comic Con.; First appearance of Hellboy.

4 page Danger Unlimited story "Danger Unlimited"

Genre	Superhero
Script	John Byrne
Pencils	John Byrne
Inks	John Byrne

4 page Concrete story "Steel Rain"

Characters	Concrete
Genre	Superhero
Script	Paul Chadwick
Pencils	Paul Chadwick
Inks	Paul Chadwick
Letters	Bill Spicer
Reprinted	in Concrete (Dark Horse, 2005 series) #5 (May 2006)

4 page Monkeyman and O'Brien story "The Shocking Case of the Brief Journey"

Characters	Axwell Tiberius [Monkeyman] (introduction); Ann O'Brien (introduction)
Synopsis	Monkeyman and O'Brien run from a dinosaur.
Genre	Science Fiction; Adventure
Script	Art Adams
Pencils	Art Adams
Inks	Art Adams
Letters	L. Lois Buhalis
Notes	This is the first published appearance of Monkeyman and O'Brien.
Reprinted	in Art Adams' Creature Features (Dark Horse, 1996 series) #[nn] [colored]

3 page Sin City story "The Customer is Always Right"

Genre	Crime Fiction
Script	Frank Miller
Pencils	Frank Miller
Inks	Frank Miller

2 page Don Martin's Doctor Dork story "Doctor Dork"

Genre	Humor
Script	Don Martin
Pencils	Don Martin
Inks	Don Martin
Letters	Don Martin

2 page Mom 'n' Me story "Mom 'n' Me"

Genre	Humor
Script	Rick Geary
Pencils	Rick Geary
Inks	Rick Geary
Letters	Rick Geary

4 page Hellboy story "Mike Mignola's Hellboy"

Characters	Hellboy (introduction); Anubis (first appearance in Hellboy series)
Synopsis	Hellboy fights Anubis, Egyptian god of mummification, at a deserted gas station.
Genre	Occult; Adventure
Script	Mike Mignola (plot); John Byrne (words)
Pencils	Mike Mignola
Inks	Mike Mignola
Letters	John Byrne; Mike Mignola (see Notes)
Notes	This is Hellboy's first published appearance. // Mignola drew balloons, display lettering, and sound effects; Byrne lettered the dialogue with font based on his hand lettering. Neither is credited. // Story title is made official in the bibliography of Hellboy: The Companion.
Reprinted	in Hellboy: Seed of Destruction (Dark Horse, 1994 series) #[nn] [colored]; in Hellboy: Seed of Destruction (Dark Horse, 1995 series) #[nn] [colored]; in Hellboy: Seed of Destruction (Dark Horse, 1997 series) #[nn] [colored]; in Hellboy: Seed of Destruction (Dark Horse, 2003 series) #1 [colored]; in Hellboy Seed of Destruction and Wake the Devil (Dark Horse, 2008 series) #[nn] [colored]

4 page Martha Washington Goes to War story "State of the Art"

Genre	Superhero
Script	Frank Miller
Pencils	Dave Gibbons
Inks	Dave Gibbons

1 page Gothik illustration "Gothik"

Genre	Superhero
Pencils	James O'Barr
Inks	James O'Barr

1 page Grendel illustration "Grendel"

Genre	Superhero
Pencils	Matt Wagner
Inks	Matt Wagner