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Ghost/Hellboy

FieldValue
imageGhost Hellboy Special.jpg
captionSpecial cover by Mike Mignola
formatMiniseries
limitedy
issues2
Horrorfirst
Adventurey
multigenrey
publisherDark Horse Comics
dateMay–June 1996
main_char_team{{flatlist
writersMike Mignola
pencillersScott Benefiel
inkersJason Rodriguez
letterersSean Konot
coloristsPamela Rambo
creators{{flatlist
editorsScott Allie
TPBGhost/Hellboy Special
ISBN978-1-56971-273-3
subcatDark Horse Comics
sortGhost/Hellboy/
addpubcat1Hellboy titles
addpubcat2Dark Horse Comics limited series
  • Ghost
  • Hellboy
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  • Mike Mignola Ghost/Hellboy is a Dark Horse Comics two-issue crossover comic book miniseries written by Mike Mignola with art by Scott Benefiel published May to June 1996 featuring fictional heroes Ghost and Hellboy.

Creation

Story writer Mignola created rough layouts or thumbnails, rather than a detailed script, in which as well as working out the action he also detailed the light and dark composition of the page for pencil artist Benefiel and inker Rodriguez to work from, which gave the work the Hellboy atmosphere.

Publication history

Ghost #12 included three full-color preview pages from Ghost/Hellboy #1.

Comics

Issue #1

The first issue (May 1, 1996) featured a cover by Mike Mignola and two black-and-white preview pages for Hellboy: Wake the Devil.

In the story Hellboy and B.P.R.D. psychic Josephine T. Gant travel to Arcadia to hunt down Ghost, but the tables are turned when Ghost receives a vision from someone calling himself Peace who tells her that Hellboy is her enemy and the key to releasing her from her suffering is the Right Hand of Doom.

Issue #2

The second issue (June 1, 1996) featured a cover by Mike Mignola.

In the story Ghost delivers Hellboy to the being calling himself Peace on a mystical plane, but when he reveals himself to be Alal the Destroyer, who has been lying to her all along, the vengeful spirit and the world's greatest paranormal investigator must team up to avert the impending apocalypse.

Collected editions

The two issues were compiled and reprinted in the Ghost/Hellboy Special (June 25, 1997), which also included a two-page sketchbook of some of the thumbnail layouts and the preliminary character sketches Mignola provided for Benefiel to work from.

References

References

  1. "Ghost/Hellboy #1". Dark Horse Comics.
  2. "Ghost/Hellboy #1". Hellboy.com.
  3. "Ghost/Hellboy #2". Dark Horse Comics.
  4. "Ghost/Hellboy #2". Hellboy.com.
  5. "Ghost/Hellboy Special". Dark Horse Comics.
  6. "Ghost/Hellboy Special". Hellboy.com.
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