Item Biography
"The Wild Hunt, Part 3 of 8"
*Hellboy returns to the home of Alice Monaghan, the baby whom he rescued from Gruagach some 45 years prior (see Hellboy: The Corpse). He finds her grown to a fine woman who has an affinity with the fairies of the Tuatha de Danaan. Alice leads Hellboy to a meeting with Queen Mab, who gives Hellboy an inkling of the dark forces aligning themselves against him. Meanwhile, Gruagach attends Nimue, the newly resurrected Queen of Blood, as she gets some vengeance out of the way before raising her army of darkness for the war against mankind. *Source: Warlock
**Hellboy sets out across the bleak hills of Ireland to find out what the recent omens he's experienced have been referring to -- while the newly resurrected Queen of Blood rises to take control of the witches of England, torturing the ones who betrayed her, and preparing the rest for an even more bloody campaign against the race of man. **Source: darkhorse.com
Issue number 39 in the comprehensive numbering of the Hellboy series.
Written by Mike Mignola, illustrated by Duncan Fegredo, colors by Dave Stewart, and lettering by Clem Robins with cover art by Mignola. 18 pages.
"How Koshchei Became Deathless, Part 2 of 2"
*Koshchei, favored and protected by the Dragon, is murdered in his bed and dismembered, the pieces put into sacks and taken to the woods for the carrion. The assassins tragically cross paths with the Dragon on their mission, and he takes Koshchei's remains home. Out of love for his former servant, the Dragon reanimates Koshchei, but keeps his soul apart in a vessel so that his body can never know death again. The soul is hidden in an egg, inside a duck, inside a rabbit, inside a goat, which is hidden in the bowels of the tree Yggdrasil on a hidden island beyond the edge of the world. Koshchei takes his vengeance first on his assassins, then his wife's lover, then lastly on his wife. *Source: Warlock
Written by Mike Mignola, illustrated by Guy Davis, colors by Dave Stewart, and lettering by Clem Robins. 6 pages.