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Hellboy / Mignolaverse

edited 2026-05-21

A complete reading and viewing order for Mike Mignola's Mignolaverse — the mainline Hellboy comics from Dark Horse (1994–2016), the interconnected B.P.R.D., Lobster Johnson, Witchfinder, Abe Sapien, and other spinoff series, the prequel Hellboy and the B.P.R.D. ongoing, six films across two live-action continuities and two animated features, and the 2023 video game. Covers both the del Toro films starring Ron Perlman and the 2019/2024 reboots, tagged by continuity so you can follow just the comics, just the films, or read the full shared universe in publication order.

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01COMIC
1994The debut four-issue Dark Horse miniseries, published March–June 1994, introducing Hellboy — the half-demon paranormal investigator raised b…
02COMIC
1996The second Hellboy miniseries, published June–October 1996 in five issues. The B.P.R.D. investigates a Romanian castle connected to Ilsa Hau…
03COMIC
1998The third Hellboy trade paperback, collecting seven short stories and one-shots published between 1995 and 1998. The title story 'The Chaine…
04COMIC
2000The fourth Hellboy trade paperback, collecting eight stories published from 1997 to 2000 including the two-part 'Box Full of Evil,' which pr…
05COMIC
2001The four-issue miniseries published May–August 2001, set in a Nazi rocket-launching base where an entity known as the Conqueror Worm — one o…
06COMIC
2006A trade paperback collecting two short miniseries: The Third Wish (July–August 2002) and The Island (June–July 2005). In The Third Wish, Hel…
07COMIC
2007The six-issue miniseries published May–November 2007, drawn by Duncan Fegredo. After returning from the island, Hellboy is approached by the…
08COMIC
2009The eight-issue miniseries drawn by Duncan Fegredo, revealing that Hellboy's mother was the witch Sarah Hughes and that Hellboy carries the…
09COMIC
2011A trade paperback collecting The Storm (July–September 2010) and The Fury (June–August 2011), both three-issue miniseries by Mike Mignola an…
10COMIC
2016Mike Mignola's ongoing series running December 2012 to July 2016, in which Mignola returns as both writer and artist for the first time sinc…