Hellboy: Wake the Devil #3

(August 1996)

Hellboy 9 (Table of Contents: 1)

credits, title page / 1 page (report information)

Letters

Kevin Nowlan (logo); Cary Grazzini (design); typeset

Indexer Notes

The inside front cover is title page with logo, credits and indicia.

Wake the Devil [Chapter Three] (Table of Contents: 2)

Hellboy / comic story / 22 pages (report information)

Script

Mike Mignola

Pencils

Mike Mignola

Inks

Mike Mignola

Colors

James Sinclair (guides); Dave Stewart [as David Stewart] (separations)

Letters

Pat Brosseau; Mike Mignola (see Notes)

Genre

adventure; horror-suspense

Characters

Hellboy; Vladimir Giurescu; Hecate (first appearance in Hellboy series); Grigori Rasputin (origin); Ilsa Haupstein; Baba Yaga (cameo; flashback; first appearance in Hellboy series); Liz Sherman; Sidney Leach; Bud Waller (death); Roger the Homunculus (introduction); Leopold Kurtz; Prof. Dr. Karl Ruprect Kroenen; Roderick Zinco; Prof. Dr. Herman von Klempt

Synopsis

Hellboy fights off Hecate's minions and then a weakened Giurescu. Rasputin tells Ilsa of his supernatural rebirth. At another Romanian castle, Liz's BPRD team discovers an inert homunculus to whom she is drawn; her pyrokinetic touch brings him to life. Zinco brings Kroenen the preserved head of Von Klempt in Norway. Hellboy rigs Castle Giurescu to explode.

Reprints

• in Hellboy - Au nom du diable (Dark Horse France, 1996 ? series) (1996)
• in Hellboy: Despierta al Demonio (NORMA Editorial, 1996 series) (1996)
• in Hellboy (Dark Horse, 1994 series) #[2] - Wake the Devil (May 1997)
which is reprinted
• in Hellboy (Egmont Polska, 2001 series) #[4] - Obudzić diabła ([listopad] 2002)
• in Hellboy (Cross Cult, 2002 series) #2 - Der Teufel erwacht (2002)
• in Hellboy (NORMA Editorial, 2002 series) #[2] - Despierta al Demonio (Junio 2003)
• in Hellboy Library Edition (Dark Horse, 2008 series) #1 - Seed of Destruction and Wake the Devil (May 2008)
• in Hellboy: Edición Integral (NORMA Editorial, 2011 series) #1 (Enero 2011)
• in Hellboy Kompendium (Cross Cult, 2016 series) #1 (September 2016)
• in Hellboy Omnibus (Dark Horse, 2018 series) #1 - Seed of Destruction (May 2018)

Indexer Notes

Mignola hand-drew some display lettering and balloons. // Leach and Waller's first names are given in this issue. Roger is named in Hellboy: Almost Colossus. // Copyright 1996 Michael Mignola per indicia.

Silent as the Grave [Part 3]: "The Wind Is Up: Hark! How It Howls! Methinks Till Now, I Never Heard a Sound So Dreary: Doors Creak, and Windows Clap, and Night's Foul Bird in the Spire Screams Loud!" (Table of Contents: 3)

The MonsterMen / comic story / 8 pages (report information)

Script

Gary Gianni

Pencils

Gary Gianni

Inks

Gary Gianni

Colors

James Sinclair (guides); Dave Stewart [as David Stewart] (separations)

Letters

Sean Konot

Genre

adventure; horror-suspense

Characters

Benedict; Lawrence St. George; Sunset Lane; Huck [full name unknown] (introduction); St. George's butler [name unknown] (introduction); Inspector Lava

Synopsis

Benedict and the jib-bic do battle. The next morning, St. George is visited in his home, an ocean liner stuck into a country hillside, first by Benedict — who fears "the return of Gooseflesh" — and then by Lava. Benedict masquerades as St. George due to the bizarre creature now growing on the filmmaker's head.

Reprints

• in Corpus Monstrum (Hieronymus Press, 2002 series) #1 (July 2002)

Indexer Notes

Subtitle is from Robert Blair's poem "The Grave". // Copyright 1996 Gary Gianni per indicia.

[Letters Pages] (Table of Contents: 4)

Hellmail / letters page / 2 pages (report information)

Script

Scott Allie

Pencils

Gary Gianni; ?

Inks

Gary Gianni; ?

Letters

Cary Grazzini (design); typeset

Synopsis

Allie provides replies and additional commentary.

Indexer Notes

Letter writers are Mark Wray, Tara Kelly, Andrew Kaplan, Jacob Gilbert, and Bryan Kaeser. // Coming Next Issue box has black-&-white art from MonsterMen story in #4; head shot of Vlad Dracula from unknown source is also printed.

Mike Mignola's Hellboy Bust (Table of Contents: 5) (Expand) /

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

[Back Cover] (Table of Contents: 6) (Expand) /

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