San Diego Comic Con Comics #2

(August 1993)

A letter from the publisher (Table of Contents: 1)

text article / 0.5 page (report information)

Script

Mike Richardson

Letters

typeset

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 2)

table of contents / 0.5 page (report information)

Letters

typeset

Danger Unlimited (Table of Contents: 3)

Danger Unlimited / comic story / 4 pages (report information)

Script

John Byrne

Pencils

John Byrne

Inks

John Byrne

Letters

John Byrne

First Line of Dialogue or Text

At the edge of space, a battle rages...

Genre

superhero

Characters

Miss Mirage [Connie Carson]; Thermal [Calvin Carson]; Doc Danger [Robert Carson]; Hunk [Worley]; Belabet

Reprints

• in Danger Unlimited (Dark Horse, 1995 series)
• in Danger Unlimited (Dark Horse, 1995 series) (April 1995)
• in Danger Unlimited (IDW, 2009 series) #[nn] (2009)

Steel Rain (Table of Contents: 4)

Concrete / comic story / 4 pages (report information)

Script

Paul Chadwick

Pencils

Paul Chadwick

Inks

Paul Chadwick

Letters

Bill Spicer

Genre

science fiction

Characters

Concrete; Maureen Vonnegut; Larry Munro

Reprints

• in Concrete: Short Stories 1990-1995 (Dark Horse, 1996 series) (January 1996)
• in Concrete (Dark Horse, 2005 series) #5 - Think Like a Mountain (May 2006)

The Shocking Case of the Brief Journey (Table of Contents: 5)

Monkeyman and O'Brien / comic story / 4 pages (report information)

Script

Arthur Adams

Pencils

Arthur Adams

Inks

Arthur Adams

Letters

Lois Buhalis

Genre

adventure; science fiction

Characters

Axwell Tiberius [Monkeyman] (introduction); Ann O'Brien (introduction)

Synopsis

Monkeyman and O'Brien run from a dinosaur.

Reprints

• in Art Adams' Creature Features (Dark Horse, 1996 series) (August 1996)

Indexer Notes

This is the first published appearance of Monkeyman and O'Brien.

The Customer Is Always Right (Table of Contents: 6)

Sin City / comic story / 3 pages (report information)

Script

Frank Miller

Pencils

Frank Miller

Inks

Frank Miller

Letters

?

Genre

crime

Reprints

• in Sin City: The Babe Wore Red and Other Stories (Dark Horse, 1994 series) (November 1994)
which is reprinted
• in Sin City: Booze, Broads, & Bullets (Dark Horse, 1998 series) (December 1998)
• in Big Damn Sin City (Dark Horse, 2014 series) (2014)
• in Frank Miller's Sin City (Dark Horse, 2005 series) #6 - Booze, Broads, & Bullets (March 2005)
• in Frank Miller's Sin City (Dark Horse, 2021 series) #6 - Booze, Broads, & Bullets (August 2022)

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 7)

The Big Guy and Rusty the Boy Robot / illustration / 2 pages (report information)

Pencils

Geof Darrow (signed as D →)

Inks

Geof Darrow (signed as D →)

Letters

typeset

Genre

science fiction

Characters

Rusty; Big Guy

Doctor Dork (Table of Contents: 8)

Don Martin's Doctor Dork / comic story / 2 pages (report information)

Script

Don Martin

Pencils

Don Martin (signed)

Inks

Don Martin (signed)

Letters

Don Martin

Genre

humor

Mom 'n' Me (Table of Contents: 9)

Mom 'n' Me / comic story / 2 pages (report information)

Script

Rick Geary

Pencils

Rick Geary

Inks

Rick Geary

Letters

Rick Geary

Genre

humor

Reprints

• in Stories from the 90s (Rick Geary, 2021 series) (2021)

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 10) (Expand) /

Madman [Mike Allred] / promo (ad from the publisher) / 1 page (report information)

Mike Mignola's Hellboy (Table of Contents: 11)

Hellboy / comic story / 4 pages (report information)

Script

Mike Mignola (plot); John Byrne (words)

Pencils

Mike Mignola

Inks

Mike Mignola

Letters

John Byrne; Mike Mignola (see Notes)

Genre

adventure; horror-suspense

Characters

Hellboy (introduction); Anubis (first appearance in Hellboy series)

Synopsis

Hellboy fights Anubis, Egyptian god of mummification, at a deserted gas station.

Reprints

• in Hellboy (Dark Horse, 1994 series) #[1] - Seed of Destruction (October 1994) [colored]
which is reprinted
• in Hellboy Especial (NORMA Editorial, 1999 series) (Febrero 1999)
• in Hellboy (Egmont Polska, 2001 series) #[2] - Spętana trumna i inne opowieści tom 1 ([styczeń] 2002)
• in Hellboy (NORMA Editorial, 2002 series) #[1] - Semilla de Destrucción (Abril 2002)
• in Hellboy: Edición Integral (NORMA Editorial, 2011 series) #1 (Enero 2011)
• in Hellboy Omnibus (Dark Horse, 2018 series) #1 - Seed of Destruction (May 2018)
• in Hellboy: Seed of Destruction (Dark Horse, 1995 series) #[nn] (March 1995)
• in Hellboy Library Edition (Dark Horse, 2008 series) #1 - Seed of Destruction and Wake the Devil (May 2008)
• in Ултимативна комикс колекция (Артлайн Студиос [Artline Studios], 2021 series) #1 - Хелбой: Семето на разрухата (2021)

Indexer Notes

This is Hellboy's first published appearance.
Mignola drew balloons, display lettering, and sound effects. Byrne lettered the dialogue with font based on his hand lettering. Neither is credited.
Story title is made official in the bibliography of Hellboy: The Companion.

State of the Art (Table of Contents: 12)

Martha Washington / comic story / 4 pages (report information)

Script

Frank Miller

Pencils

Dave Gibbons

Inks

Dave Gibbons

Letters

Dave Gibbons

Genre

science fiction

Reprints

• in Happy Birthday, Martha Washington (Dark Horse, 1995 series) #1 (March 1995)
which is reprinted
• in Liberty (Carlsen Comics [DE], 1992 series) #[6] - Kriegsgeister 2 (Juni 1995)
• in The Life and Times of Martha Washington in the Twenty-First Century (Dark Horse, 2009 series) (August 2009), (August 2009)

Indexer Notes

Letters: Dave Gibbons confirms lettering.

Gothik (Table of Contents: 13)

Gothik / illustration / 1 page (report information)

Pencils

James O'Barr

Inks

James O'Barr

Genre

superhero

Grendel (Table of Contents: 14)

Grendel / illustration / 1 page (report information)

Pencils

Matt Wagner (signed)

Inks

Matt Wagner (signed)

Colors

?

Genre

superhero