![]() ![]() Hellboy fans can find a whole new side of Mignola, and a whole new hero, in Baltimore.” ![]() The seeds of a larger universe Mike Mignola and I have been creating are sown in these pages, and I’m really excited that people will be able to get the story of Lord Baltimore in these two omnibuses. “Baltimore is the story of Lord Henry Baltimore, whose encounter with an ancient vampire on a bloody WW1 battlefield triggers a hideous plague, a lifelong vendetta, the rise of darkness and evil and the return to power of the Father of All Monsters, a being called The Red King. Don’t accept our summary, though-co-creator Golden puts it much more succinctly: ![]() As part of their “#Hellboy25” week, Paste is thrilled to reveal the upcoming omnibus collection of one of Mignola’s non-Hellboy projects: Baltimore, co-written with novelist Christopher Golden, and illustrated in the first half by Ben Stenbeck and colorist Dave Stewart.īeginning life as the illustrated novel Baltimore, or, The Steadfast Tin Soldier and the Vampire, the Baltimore comic series follows the titular Lord Henry Baltimore as he tirelessly pursues the vampire scourge that has ravaged Europe in the early 1900s. ![]() Mike Mignola’s devilish signature creation lit up shelves 25 years ago with the launch of Hellboy: Seed of Destruction, and publisher Dark Horse Comics has no intentions of letting that anniversary go uncelebrated. ![]()
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