Hellboy: Weird Tales #2

(April 2003)

Hellboy Weird Tales (Table of Contents: 1)

credits, title page / 1 page (report information)

Script

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Pencils

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Inks

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Letters

typeset

Indexer Notes

Inside front cover indicia/credits page.

Flight Risk (Table of Contents: 2)

Hellboy / comic story / 8 pages (report information)

Script

Joe Casey (credited)

Pencils

Steve Parkhouse (credited)

Inks

Steve Parkhouse (credited)

Colors

Steve Parkhouse ? (credited)

Letters

Steve Parkhouse ? (credited)

First Line of Dialogue or Text

Nevada, U.S.A.

Genre

adventure; horror-suspense

Characters

Blanche; Hellboy; Lloyd McCay

Synopsis

Lloyd McCay tries to set a new altitude record for freestyle jet-packing.

Reprints

• in Hellboy: Weird Tales (Dark Horse, 2003 series) #1 (November 2003)
• in Hellboy: Weird Tales (Dark Horse, 2014 series) #[nn] (November 2014)

Hot (Table of Contents: 3)

Hellboy / comic story / 8 pages (report information)

Script

Randy Stradley (credited)

Pencils

Seung Beom Kim (credited)

Letters

Michelle Madsen (credited)

First Line of Dialogue or Text

Shuzenji, Japan, Winter, 1967.

Genre

adventure; horror-suspense

Characters

Hennessey; Hellboy; Dasho

Synopsis

Hellboy meets a "hot" demon-woman at a Japanese hot spring resort.

Reprints

• in Hellboy: Weird Tales (Dark Horse, 2003 series) #1 (November 2003)
• in Hellboy: Weird Tales (Dark Horse, 2014 series) #[nn] (November 2014)

Indexer Notes

B&W pencil art story

Curse of the Haunted Doily (Table of Contents: 4)

B.P.R.D. / comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Script

Mark Ricketts (credited)

Pencils

Eric Wight (credited)

Inks

Eric Wight (credited)

Colors

Michelle Madsen (credited)

Letters

Michelle Madsen (credited)

First Line of Dialogue or Text

Dear Katie,

Genre

adventure; horror-suspense; fantasy-supernatural; superhero

Characters

Dr. Kate Corrigan; Mrs. Corrigan; Abraham Sapien; Johann Kraus

Synopsis

Spoof story about Kate Corrigan being haunted by the ghost of her mother.

Reprints

• in Hellboy: Weird Tales (Dark Horse, 2003 series) #1 (November 2003)
• in Hellboy: Weird Tales (Dark Horse, 2014 series) #[nn] (November 2014)

Indexer Notes

Title on credits page is CURSE OF THE HAUNTED DOILEY.

Midnight Cowboy (Table of Contents: 5)

Hellboy / comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Script

Eric Powell (credited)

Pencils

Eric Powell (credited)

Inks

Eric Powell (credited)

Colors

Eric Powell (credited); Robin Powell

Letters

Michelle Madsen (credited)

First Line of Dialogue or Text

Late 1947.

Genre

adventure; horror-suspense

Characters

General Norton Ricker; Hellboy; Mac; Trevor Bruttenholm

Synopsis

A young Hellboy and his dog get in trouble with some alien toxic waste.

Reprints

• in Hellboy: Weird Tales (Dark Horse, 2003 series) #1 (November 2003)
• in ETC Comics (ETC, 2004 series) #2/2005 ([februari] 2005)
• in Hellboy: Weird Tales (Dark Horse, 2014 series) #[nn] (November 2014)

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 6) (Expand) /

promo (ad from the publisher) / 2 pages (report information)

Doc Hollow's Grand Vibro-Destructo Machine, Episode 2: (Table of Contents: 7)

Lobster Johnson / comic story / 2 pages (report information)

Script

John Cassaday (credited)

Pencils

John Cassaday (credited)

Inks

John Cassaday (credited)

Colors

Dan Jackson

Letters

Dan Jackson

First Line of Dialogue or Text

On the trail of the Crimson Hood,

Genre

superhero; detective-mystery; fantasy-supernatural

Characters

Lobster Johnson

Synopsis

Lobster Johnson finds out the location of the Crimson Hood's secret hideout.

Reprints

• in Hellboy: Weird Tales (Dark Horse, 2003 series) #2 (October 2004)
• in Hellboy: Weird Tales (Dark Horse, 2014 series) #[nn] (November 2014)

Indexer Notes

Title taken from credits page. Second episode of a serialized story in the style of a 1930s colour Sunday newspaper adventure strip.

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 8)

Hellmail / letters page / 2 pages (report information)

Script

Brian McLachlan; Scott Stuart Allie; Mike Fernando; Stefan Lisowski; Matt Dunn; Marald van Haasteren; Jared Moraitis; Neil Hill; Dorian Holley; Kola Krauze; Kenny Wong

Pencils

Jason Pearson; Michael Avon Oeming; Alex Maleev

Inks

Jason Pearson; Michael Avon Oeming; Alex Maleev

Colors

?

Letters

typeset

Genre

adventure; horror-suspense

Characters

Elizabeth Sherman; Roger; Hellboy

Indexer Notes

Letter column. On inside back cover & facing page; includes previews for issues #3 & #4 of this series & B.P.R.D. The Soul of Venice.