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Hellboy Christmas Special #[nn] (1997) · The Collector

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Hellboy Christmas Special (1997)
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Dark Horse#[nn]

Hellboy Christmas Special

Hellboy Christmas Special #[nn]

A Christmas Underground / Ernie's Holiday Ditty / Toybox / A Gift for the Wicked

Publisher: Dark Horse
Cover date: December 1997
Cover price: $3.95
Pages: 52

Key issue

1st appearance of Annie Hatch
1st appearance of Hoke Hodgson

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Grand Comics Database issue 61146

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Hellboy visits an old English manor on Christmas Eve, 1989, where the dying Mrs. Hatch urges him to give her lost daughter Annie a tin box.

Credits

Writers: Gary Gianni, Mike Mignola, Steve Purcell
Pencillers: Gary Gianni, Mike Mignola, Steve Purcell
Inkers: Gary Gianni, Mike Mignola, Steve Purcell
Colorists: James Sinclair, Steve Purcell
Letterers: Mike Mignola, Pat Brosseau, Lois Buhalis, Sean Konot
Cover: Gary Gianni
Editor: Scott Allie
Cover letters: Kevin Nowlan, Mike Mignola, Cary Grazzini

Characters

Annie Hatch· 1st appearance
Hoke Hodgson· 1st appearance
Baron Grodak (introduction
Benedict
Death)
Ernie
Evelyn Margaret Hatch (introduction
Father Christmas
Hellboy
Lawrence St. George
other citizens of Toybox
Santa Claus
Suda
Unnamed creature
unnamed priest
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