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Issue: B.P.R.D. #[1]
Publication Date: January 2003
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Issues: #[1] of 14 Issues (15 Printings)
Title: Hollow Earth & Other Stories
Variant: 1st Printing
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Publisher: FlagDark Horse
Brand: Dark Horse Comics [chess piece]View Brand Images
Indicia Publisher: Dark Horse Comics Inc.
On Sale Date: (not set)
Volume: 1
Pages: 132
ISBN: 1569718628
UPC/EAN: 978156971862951795
Price: $17.95 USD
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Content Items: 17 (5 stories, 1 cover)
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Publication Type: Trade Paperback
Color: color
Dimensions: Standard Modern Age US
Paper Stock:  
Binding: softcover
Publishing Format: Collected Edition
Format Notes:  
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[untitled]

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Letterer(s): Lia Ribacchi; Lani Schreibstein (Design); typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: horror, occult
Character(s): Abe Sapien; Roger the Homunculus; Johann Kraus
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagAIDP #1 [unnamed variant] published March 2004
as Las Tierras Huecas [Illustration on Cover, Front]
Reprint Notes: from BPRD: Hollow Earth and Other Stories (Dark Horse, 2003 series) #[nn] [art, with new typography]
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Cover is redrawn by Mignola nearly exactly from his cover to BPRD: Hollow Earth (Dark Horse, 2002 series) #1.
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Title & Indicia Pages

Credits  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Letterer(s): Lia Ribacchi; Lani Schreibstein (Design); typeset
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
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Pages: 2
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BPRD: Hollow Earth #2 cover

Cover Reprint (on Interior Page)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Letterer(s): Lia Ribacchi
Subject Matter
Genres: horror, occult
Character(s): Abe Sapien; Roger the Homunculus; Johann Kraus
Reprinting
From Content Item: FlagBPRD: Hollow Earth [B.P.R.D.: Hollow Earth] #2 published April 2002
was [untitled] [Illustration on Cover, Front]grayscaled
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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Hollow Earth credits

Credits  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Penciller(s): Mike Mignola (inset)
Inker(s): Mike Mignola (inset)
Colorist(s): Dave Stewart (inset)
Letterer(s): Lia Ribacchi (Design); typeset
Subject Matter
Character(s): King of Fear
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagAIDP #1 [unnamed variant] published March 2004
as Las Tierras Huecas [Créditos] [Credits on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes: from BPRD: Hollow Earth and Other Stories (Dark Horse, 2003 series) #[nn] [exact page]
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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Hollow Earth

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Editor(s): Scott Allie; Mike Carriglitto (assistant, original publication)
Subject Matter
Genres: horror, occult
Character(s): Liz Sherman; Kate Corrigan; Johann Kraus; Hellboy (flashback only); Tom Manning; Abe Sapien; Roger the Homunculus; Trevor Bruttenholm (flashback only); other B.P.R.D. operatives; the King of Fear (first appearance)
Synopsis: New recruit Johann Kraus, a medium of pure ectoplasm, joins the Bureau for Paranormal Research and Defense just as Abe Sapien -- who in the wake of Hellboy's departure wonders if the BPRD is still home -- receives a vision of former agent Liz Sherman pleading for help. Abe, Johann, and Roger travel to her last known whereabouts, a remote arctic monastery, underneath which they fight ancient Hyperborean creatures controlled by the King of Fear to retrieve Liz's fiery essence and reunite it with her body. Hellboy's first meetings with Abe and Liz are revealed in flashback.
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From Content Item: FlagBPRD: Hollow Earth [B.P.R.D.: Hollow Earth] #1 published January 2002
was Hollow Earth [Part 1] [Story on Interior Page(s)]
From Content Item: FlagBPRD: Hollow Earth [B.P.R.D.: Hollow Earth] #2 published April 2002
was Hollow Earth [Part 2] [Story on Interior Page(s)]
From Content Item: FlagBPRD: Hollow Earth [B.P.R.D.: Hollow Earth] #3 published July 2002
was Hollow Earth, Part 3 [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 66
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Hollow Earth notes

Text Article  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Letterer(s): Lia Ribacchi (Design); typeset
Subject Matter
Synopsis: Allie describes how the BPRD: Hollow Earth miniseries came together.
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In Content Item: FlagAIDP #1 [unnamed variant] published March 2004
as Las Tierras Huecas [Notas] [Text Article on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes: from BPRD: Hollow Earth and Other Stories (Dark Horse, 2003 series) #[nn]
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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Hollow Earth [prologue]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: horror, occult
Character(s): Kate Corrigan; Johann Kraus
Synopsis: We learn how Johann became a disembodied ectoplasmic being.
Reprinting
From Issue: FlagDark Horse Extra #42 published December 2001
From Issue: FlagDark Horse Extra #44 published February 2002Confirm: direction of reprint
From Content Item: FlagDark Horse Extra #43 published January 2002
was B.P.R.D. part two of three [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 3
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The Killer in My Skull and Abe Sapien versus Science credits

Credits  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Letterer(s): Lia Ribacchi (Design); typeset
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagAIDP #1 [unnamed variant] published March 2004
as El Asesino de Mi Cabeza; Abe Sapien contra la Ciencia [Créditos] [Credits on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes: from BPRD: Hollow Earth and Other Stories (Dark Horse, 2003 series) #[nn]
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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The Killer in My Skull and Abe Sapien versus Science notes

Text Article  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Letterer(s): Lia Ribacchi (Design); typeset
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagAIDP #1 [unnamed variant] published March 2004
as El Asesino de Mi Cabeza; Abe Sapien contra la Ciencia [Notas] [Text Article on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes: from BPRD: Hollow Earth and Other Stories (Dark Horse, 2003 series) #[nn]
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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The Killer in My Skull

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Penciller(s): Matt Smith
Subject Matter
Genres: horror, occult
Character(s): Lobster Johnson [The Lobster] (first appearance)
Synopsis: The Lobster and his aide investigate the deaths of scientists who worked for Zinco-Davis Laboratories.
Reprinting
From Content Item: FlagHellboy: Box Full of Evil #1 published August 1999
was The Killer in My Skull [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 10
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Abe Sapien versus Science

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Penciller(s): Matt Smith
Subject Matter
Genres: horror, occult
Character(s): Roger the Homunculus; Abe Sapien
Synopsis: B.P.R.D. scientists have no luck reviving the inert Roger, so Abe gives it a try, recalling how the scientists were prepared to dissect him before he himself was revived years earlier.
Reprinting
From Content Item: FlagHellboy: Box Full of Evil #2 published September 1999
was Abe Sapien Versus Science [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 8
Disclose Notes: The events of this story follow those in Hellboy: Almost Colossus (Dark Horse, 1997 series) and precede Hellboy: Conqueror Worm (Dark Horse, 2001 series).
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Abe Sapien: Drums of the Dead cover

Cover Reprint (on Interior Page)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Letterer(s): Lia Ribacchi (Design); typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: horror, occult
Character(s): Abe Sapien; Hellboy
Reprinting
From Content Item: FlagAbe Sapien Drums of the Dead #[nn] published March 1998
was Front Cover [Illustration on Cover, Front]grayscaled
Reprint Notes: from Abe Sapien: Drums of the Dead (Dark Horse, 1998 series) #[nn] [grayscaled]
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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Drums of the Dead credits & notes

Credits  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Letterer(s): Lia Ribacchi (Design); typeset
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagAIDP #1 [unnamed variant] published March 2004
as Los Tambores de los Muertos [Créditos y Notas] [Text Article on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes: from BPRD: Hollow Earth and Other Stories (Dark Horse, 2003 series) #[nn]
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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Drums of the Dead

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: horror, occult
Character(s): Abe Sapien; Tom Manning; Garrett Omatta (first appearance)
Synopsis: Abe Sabien and psychic Garrett Omatta are sent by the B.P.R.D. to investigate shark attacks and apparent possession aboard a ship that travels an old slave-trade route.
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From Content Item: FlagAbe Sapien Drums of the Dead #[nn] published March 1998
was Drums of the Dead [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 22
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BPRD sketchbook

Foreword, Introduction, Preface, Afterword  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Letterer(s): Lia Ribacchi (Design); typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Character(s): Roger the Homunculus; Johann Kraus; Abe Sapien; Kate Corrigan; Liz Sherman
Synopsis: Allie provides notes to production artwork from Mignola and Sook.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagAIDP #1 [unnamed variant] published March 2004
as AIDP Sketchbook [Illustration on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes: from BPRD: Hollow Earth and Other Stories (Dark Horse, 2003 series) #[nn]
Miscellaneous
Pages: 9
Disclose Notes: Mignola artwork is uncolored sketches in ink, while Sook artwork consists of pencils, inked sketches, and color studies.
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Hellboy backlist

Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Letterer(s): Cary Grazzini ? (Design); typeset
Subject Matter
Character(s): Hellboy; Lobster Johnson; Roger the Homunculus
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Pages: 1
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back cover

Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Scott Allie ?
Penciller(s): Mike Mignola
Inker(s): Mike Mignola
Colorist(s): Dave Stewart
Letterer(s): Lia Ribacchi; Lani Schreibstein (Design); typeset
Subject Matter
Synopsis: The back cover hypes the contents above a bar code with ISBN, the price, the Dark Horse Comics logo, and the B.P.R.D. insignia.
Reprinting
Reprint Notes: from BPRD: Hollow Earth and Other Stories (Dark Horse, 2003 series) #[nn]
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1

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