Hellboy: Box Full of Evil
| Hellboy: The Right Hand of Doom |
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Trade Paperback Cover
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| Publication information | |
| Publisher | Dark Horse Comics |
| Format | Trade Paperback |
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| Publication date(s) | January 29, 2003 |
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| Creative team | |
| Created by | Mike Mignola |
| Written by | Mike Mignola |
| Artist(s) | Mike Mignola |
| Letterer(s) | Pat Brosseau |
| Colorist(s) | Dave Stewart |
| Editor(s) | Scott Allie |
| Collected editions | |
| Hellboy: The Right Hand of Doom | ISBN |
The Right Hand of Doom is the fourth trade paperback collection in the Hellboy series created by Mike Mignola published by Dark Horse Comics on February 4, 2004 which collects various mini-series, one-shots and back-up features featuring fictional paranormal detective Hellboy.
This two-page story by Mike Mignola was originally published in the 1999 Dark Horse Presents Annual and was colored for this collection.
Mignola claims he wrote this story as a joke after stating he wasn't interested in writing about a young Hellboy only for it to prove a popular success.
In the story the young Hellboy eats pancakes for the first time and the demons of Pandemonium subsequently lament that he will never return to them now.
This story by Mike Mignola was originally published in Dark Horse Presents issue 151 and was colored for this collection.
Mignola claims that this story based on the 6th century English folktale about St. Leonard of Limousin was one of the first Hellboy stories he thought of back in 1994 but it took him 5 years to write it up.
In the story Hellboy is asked by the Osiris Club to slay the Saint Leonard Worm as a test of his virtue, but his dubious success (and lilies that grow from his shed blood) make the outcome of the test unclear.
This story by Mike Mignola was created specially for this collection.
Mignola claims that this story based on the Norwegian folktales such as The Flying Huntsman and The Green Giant was completed thanks to a fan who supplied a photobook of Norway for inspiration.
In the story Professor Bruttenholm sends Hellboy to help Professor Edmond Aickman (who worked with Bruttenholm in Burma and Chengdu) research the King Vold myth.
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