Hellboy: The Chained Coffin and Others
| Hellboy: The Chained Coffin and Others |
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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 | August 5, 1998 |
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| Creative team | |
| Writer(s) | Mike Mignola |
| Artist(s) | Mike Mignola |
| Letterer(s) | Pat Brosseau |
| Colorist(s) | |
| Creator(s) | Mike Mignola |
| Editor(s) | Scott Allie |
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| 'Hellboy: The Chained Coffin and Others' | |
Hellboy: The Chained Coffin and Others is the third trade paperback collection in the Hellboy series created by Mike Mignola published by Dark Horse Comics on August 5, 1998 which collects various mini-series, one-shots and back-up features featuring fictional paranormal detective Hellboy.
This story by Mike Mignola based on the Irish folktale Teig O'Kane and the Corpse was originally serialized in two-page instalments in Capital City's Advance Comics #75-#82 and was reprinted in full for the first time in the one-shot The Corpse and the Iron Shoes (January 1, 1996) along with back-up feature Iron Shoes.
Mignola has stated that when he first completed the story he thought that the limitations of the two-page format meant that it was the worst he had ever written, but feedback from people he respects has caused him to change his mind and he now believes it is one of the best.
In the story Hellboy travels to Ireland in 1959, where a young couple enlist his support after their child Alice is replaced with a changeling. Hellboy is entrusted with the corpse of Tam O'Clannie and told he must give it a Christian burial by daybreak to recover the missing child. Hellboy battles with malicious fairy (and future nemesis) Gruagach and aquatic nightmare Jenny Greenteeth before finally laying the corpse to rest and recovering the baby.
The story was later reprinted in the one-shot Hellboy: The Corpse (March 24, 2004) published to tie-in with the release of the first Hellboy film with behind-the-scenes art from a sequence it inspired.
This story by Mike Mignola was created as a back-up feature for the one-shot release of The Corpse as according to Mignola he didn't want to expand that story any further and he liked the sound of the title The Corpse and the Iron Shoes (January 1, 1996).
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