Hellboy: The Third Wish #2

(August 2002)

Hellboy 22 (Table of Contents: 1)

credits, title page / 1 page (report information)

Pencils

Mike Mignola

Inks

Mike Mignola

Letters

typeset

Indexer Notes

Inside front cover has logo, credits, indicia, and illustration of Mohlomi's totem bell.

The Third Wish [Part 2] (Table of Contents: 2)

Hellboy / comic story / 28 pages (report information)

Script

Mike Mignola

Pencils

Mike Mignola

Inks

Mike Mignola

Colors

Dave Stewart

Letters

Clem Robins

Genre

adventure; horror-suspense

Characters

Hellboy; three mermaid sisters [unnamed]; the Bog Roosh; the Baba Yaga (image); Hecate (image); Dagda [called Daaagda] (see Notes); Gruagach; Sir Edward

Synopsis

While Hellboy is held captive by the Bog Roosh, who wishes to forestall the apocalypse toward her own ends by killing him, a convocation of creatures including the bitter Gruagach debate his situation.

Reprints

• in Hellboy (NORMA Editorial, 2002 series) #[6] - El Tercer Deseo/El Asombroso Cabeza de Tornillo (Septiembre 2003)
• in Hellboy (Egmont Polska, 2001 series) #[8] - Trzecie życzenie i inne opowieści ([luty] 2005)
• in Hellboy (Dark Horse, 1994 series) #6 - Strange Places (April 2006)
which is reprinted
• in Hellboy Library Edition (Dark Horse, 2008 series) #3 - Conqueror Worm and Strange Places (September 2009)
• in Hellboy (Cross Cult, 2002 series) #7 - Seltsame Orte (Mai 2006)
• in Hellboy: Edición Integral (NORMA Editorial, 2011 series) #2 (Diciembre 2011)
• in Hellboy Omnibus (Dark Horse, 2018 series) #2 - Strange Places (June 2018)

Indexer Notes

Daaagda's name is later standardized as Dagda. // Story continues in Hellboy: The Island (Dark Horse, 2005 series) #1, also reprinted in the Strange Places collections.

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 3)

Hellmail / letters page / 3 pages (report information)

Script

Scott Allie [as Scott Stuart Allie] (signed)

Pencils

various

Inks

various

Colors

various

Letters

typeset

First Line of Dialogue or Text

There's no telling when the next Hellmail will be, since Mike is in L.A. working on the Hellboy film…

Synopsis

Allie provides replies and additional commentary.

Indexer Notes

Letter writers are Michael Liska, Maarten Bouw, James King, Thom, Rick Cortes, BOP, Scott, The Other Brian, Robogeek, Ben Gutteridge, Erwin Heinek, Mike Oeming, Neil Hill, Simon Cooper, Jaci Slotnik. Also included are small reproductions of Gary Gianni's cover to Corpus Monstrum (Hieronymus Press, 2002 series) #1 and a panel from The Amazing Screw-On Head (Dark Horse, 2002 series) #1.

Hellboy [Backlist] (Table of Contents: 4) (Expand) /

Hellboy / promo (ad from the publisher) / 1 page (report information)

[Floating] (Table of Contents: 5)

Hellboy / illustration / 1 page (report information)

Pencils

Mike Mignola

Inks

Mike Mignola

Characters

Hellboy

Indexer Notes

Inside back cover has illustration of Hellboy floating that follows narratively from the last story page of this issue.

[Mohlomi's Staff] (Table of Contents: 6)

Hellboy / illustration / 1 page (report information)

Pencils

Mike Mignola

Inks

Mike Mignola

Reprints

• from Hellboy: The Third Wish (Dark Horse, 2002 series) #1 (July 2002)

Indexer Notes

Illustration of Mohlomi's staff and totem bell appears on back cover above barcode.