Series

Hellboy series in reading order

The Hellboy series has 12 books.

Published between 1994 and 2011. The publication order differs from the reading order — both are below.

Hellboy is Mike Mignola's comic series, published by Dark Horse since 1994, about a demon summoned to Earth in 1944 who grows up to investigate the occult for the Bureau for Paranormal Research and Defense. It anchors a shared universe that includes B.P.R.D. and Hellboy and the B.P.R.D., and those later series fill in earlier years of his life — so publication order and chronological order are not the same.

All 12 books, in reading order

Hellboy in publication order

  1. Hellboy, Vol. 1: Seed of Destruction (1994) — Mike Mignola
  2. Hellboy, Vol. 4: The Right Hand of Doom (2000) — Mike Mignola
  3. Hellboy, Vol. 5: Conqueror Worm (2002) — Mike Mignola
  4. Hellboy, Vol. 6: Strange Places (2002) — Mike Mignola
  5. Hellboy, Vol. 2: Wake the Devil (2003) — Mike Mignola
  6. Hellboy, Vol. 3: The Chained Coffin and Others (2004) — Mike Mignola
  7. Hellboy, Vol. 7: The Troll Witch and Others (2006) — Richard Corben / Mike Mignola / P. Craig Russell
  8. Hellboy, Vol. 8: Darkness Calls (2006) — Mike Mignola
  9. Hellboy, Vol. 9: The Wild Hunt (2008) — Duncan Fegredo / Mike Mignola
  10. Hellboy, Vol. 10: The Crooked Man and Others (2010) — Joshua Dysart / Richard Corben / Jason Shawn Alexander / Duncan Fegredo / Mike Mignola
  11. Hellboy, Vol. 11: The Bride of Hell and Others (2011) — Richard Corben / Kevin Nowlan / Scott Hampton / Mike Mignola
  12. Hellboy, Vol. 12: The Storm and The Fury (2011) — Duncan Fegredo / Dave Stewart / Mike Mignola

All 12 books total 1,949 pages.

The Books Oracle — track the series you are partway through, and see what to read next.