Hellboy Universe Essentials: Witchfinder

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The perfect jumping-on point for the Witchfinder series has arrived! Hellboy Universe Essentials- Witchfinder chronicles one of Sir Edward Grey's first cases as an agent of the queen, an occult mystery that takes Grey from the sparkling echelons of Victorian London to its dark underbelly in his inaugural clash with the city's most infamous secret society- The Heliopic Brotherhood of Ra. Hellboy universe creator Mike Mignola has hand-picked this series of Hellboy Universe Essentials adventures for new readers. Dive into the world of Sir Edward Grey, Witchfinder with story by Mignola, art by Ben Stenbeck, and colors by Dave Stewart! Collects Witchfinder- In the Service of Angels #1-#5.

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.

"Mignola has a great sense of the macabre and fantastic. This book is dark both in story and art (thanks to the wonderful Ben Stenbeck), has a fast pace, and new twists on every page." -Kirkus