Plot
Collects Hellboy and the B.P.R.D.: 1956 issues #1-#5.
Follow Hellboy's adventures with the B.P.R.D. before Seed of Destruction!
Pressure is mounting within the Bureau for Paranormal Research and Defense to uncover the Soviets' secret plans for recovered Nazi occult weapons. But a suspicious cover-up leads one agent off the radar in search of answers. meanwhile, demonic Soviet occult leader Varvara pushes her team to follow her own whims, and Hellboy is sent on the mission that led to his infamous misadventures in Mexico. But even more clandestine plots are at work--both inside the B.P.R.D. and out!
This trade paperback collects Hellboy and the B.P.R.D.: 1956 issues #1-#5, the one-shot Hellboy vs. Lobster Johnson: The Ring of Death, and bonus sketchbook material. Joining Mike Mignola and Chris Roberson, three stellar artists (Yishan Li of Buffy: The High School Years, Michael Avon Oeming of Attack on Titan, and Mike Norton of Battlepug and Revival) follow three adrenaline-fueled storylines that intertwine toward an explosive finale! Also includes the double-barreled one-shot featuring Hellboy as a villain in a Lobster Johnson luchador movie, with art by Mike Norton and Paul Grist!