{"product_id":"hellboy-and-the-b-p-r-d-1952-isbn-9781616556600","title":"Hellboy and the B.P.R.D: 1952","description":"A bizarre series of murders and rumors of something worse lead Professor Bruttenholm to send a young Hellboy to a Brazilian village on his first mission. Hellboy and a small group of agents uncover something terrible in the shadows of a sixteenth-century Portuguese fortress . . .  \u003ci\u003eHellboy\u003c\/i\u003e creator Mike Mignola teams with acclaimed artist Alex Maleev.MIKE MIGNOLA's fascination with ghosts and monsters began at an early age; reading Dracula at age twelve introduced him to Victorian literature and folklore, from which he has never recovered. Starting in 1982 as a bad inker for Marvel Comics, he swiftly evolved into a not-so-bad artist. By the late 1980s, he had begun to develop his own unique graphic style, with mainstream projects like \u003ci\u003eCosmic Odyssey\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eBatman: Gotham by Gaslight.\u003c\/i\u003e In 1994, he published the first \u003ci\u003eHellboy\u003c\/i\u003e series through Dark Horse. As of this writing there are twelve \u003ci\u003eHellboy\u003c\/i\u003e graphic novels (with more on the way), several spinoff titles (\u003ci\u003eB.P.R.D., Lobster Johnson, Abe Sapien\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eSir Edward Grey: Witchfinder\u003c\/i\u003e), prose books, animated films, and two live-action films starring Ron Perlman. Along the way he worked on Francis Ford Coppola's film \u003ci\u003eBram Stoker's Dracula\u003c\/i\u003e (1992), was a production designer for Disney's \u003ci\u003eAtlantis: The Lost Empire\u003c\/i\u003e (2001), and was the visual consultant to director Guillermo del Toro on \u003ci\u003eBlade II\u003c\/i\u003e (2002), \u003ci\u003eHellboy\u003c\/i\u003e (2004), and \u003ci\u003eHellboy II: The Golden Army\u003c\/i\u003e (2008). Mike's books have earned numerous awards and are published in a great many countries. Mike lives somewhere in Southern California with his wife, daughter, and cat. The author lives in Los Angeles CA.","brand":"Dark Horse Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46300818800869,"sku":"NP9781616556600","price":19.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781616556600.jpg?v=1742921629","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/hellboy-and-the-b-p-r-d-1952-isbn-9781616556600","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}