Hellboy: Wake the Devil
| Hellboy: Wake the Devil |
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Cover to the trade paperback
Art by Mike Mignola |
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| Publication information | |
| Publisher | Dark Horse Comics |
| Schedule | Monthly |
| Format | Mini-series |
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| Publication date | June - October 1996 |
| No. of issues | 5 |
| Creative team | |
| Created by | Mike Mignola |
| Written by | Mike Mignola |
| Artist(s) | Mike Mignola |
| Letterer(s) | Pat Brosseau |
| Colorist(s) | James Sinclair |
| Editor(s) | Scott Allie |
| Collected editions | |
| Hellboy: Wake the Devil | ISBN |
Hellboy: Wake the Devil is a five-issue comic book mini-series in the Hellboy franchise, conceived and illustrated by Mike Mignola and published by Dark Horse Comics. Various elements and section of plot were later used in the animated film Hellboy: Blood and Iron.
The comic opens on the northern coast of Norway, inside the Arctic Circle, where a Zinco helicopter is landing in front of the castle that was seen at the end of Seed of Destruction. The head of the company, Roderick Zinco, breaks into the castle and is confronted by Karl Kroenen, Ilsa Haupstein and Leopold Kurtz but Zinco explains that he saw Grigori Rasputin on his private beach and left behind the words Ragna Rock and disappeared, Zinco promises them that they can use anything he has.
One year later, in SoHo, New York City the Nazis kill the curator of a wax museum. At the B.P.R.D Headquarters in Fairfield, Connecticut, Tom Manning and Kate Corrigan brief the agents about the life of Vladimir Giurescu and the fact that he could never die because when the full moon shines down on him at Castle Giurescu he heals himself. In 1944, Heinrich Himmler proposed project Vampir Sturm and a Nazi delegation, led by Ilsa Haupstein was sent to recruit Giurescu, after meeting with Hitler, Hitler ordered the arrest and execution of the Giurescu family. They revealed that the museum curator, Howard Steinman, real name Hans Ubler, could have smuggled Giurescu's body out of Germany before his corpse was burnt and that someone could have the intention to take the corpse to Castle Giurescu to re-animate his corpse, but there are three possibilities as to where Castle Giurescu is, so Tom Manning splits them up into three groups. Hellboy on his own, Clark with Abe Sapien, and Bud Waller with Liz Sherman and Leach.
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