Hellboy: Weird Tales

Hellboy: Weird Tales is a Dark Horse Comics bimonthly eight-issue comic book limited series that offered a variety of guest writers and artists the chance to give their own take on the Hellboy characters created by Mike Mignola whilst he was in Prague working on the first Hellboy movie. The issues were published bi-monthly to alternate with a series of and were collected in two trade paperback volumes.

Issues

Issue #1

Published February 26, 2003. Cover by John Cassaday.

Issue #2

Published April 23, 2003. Cover by Jason Pearson.

Issue #3

Published June 25, 2003. Cover by Alex Maleev.

Issue #4

Published August 27, 2003. Cover by Leinil Francis Yu.

Issue #5

Published October 15, 2003. Cover by J.H. Williams III.

Issue #6

Published December 10, 2003, Cover by Frank Cho.

Issue #7

Published February 11, 2004 cover by Phil Noto.

Issue #8

Published April 14, 2004 cover by Michael William Kaluta.

Collected editions

The series has been collected into two trade paperbacks and one hardcover / trade paperback edition:

Volume 1 (collects Hellboy: Weird Tales #1-4, December 17, 2003, )
Volume 2 (collects Hellboy: Weird Tales #5-8, October 27, 2004, )
Hellboy: Weird Tales (Hardcover, collects Hellboy: Weird Tales #1-8 (Volume 1 & 2) and the "How Koshchei Became Deathless" and "Baba Yaga's Feast" back-ups from ' #2-4, December 26, 2014, )

Hellboy: Weird Tales (Trade paperback, collects Hellboy: Weird Tales #1-8 (Volume 1 & 2, except "Toy Soldier") and the "How Koshchei Became Deathless" and "Baba Yaga's Feast" back-ups from ' #2-4, December 20, 2022, )

Awards

The character Hellboy in Hellboy: Weird Tales was nominated for the 2003 "Favourite Hero" Wizard Fan Award.
John Cassady won the 2004 "Best Artist/Penciller/Inker" Eisner Award in part for his work on this title.