Written by Mike Mignola and Chris Roberson, Illustrated by 5 Acclaimed Artists
Featuring Covers by Laurence Campbell
The year is 1957 and change is in the air. This is the year that Elvis Presley appears on The Ed Sullivan Show for the final time. It is the year that the Wham-O Company produces the first Frisbee. The year that Andrei Gromyko becomes foreign minister of the Soviet Union, that Dwight D. Eisenhower is sworn in as the President of the United States, and that Congress approves the Eisenhower Doctrine and its assistance to Communist-threatened foreign regimes. It is, in short, the perfect year for the events of Hellboy & The BPRD 1950’s comics and the Occult Cold War storyline to come to a head.
– Hellboy and the B.P.R.D.: 1957— Family Ties, featuring art by Laurence Campbell
– Hellboy and the B.P.R.D.: 1957— Forgotten Lives, featuring art by Stephen Green;
– Hellboy and the B.P.R.D.: 1957— Fearful Symmetry, featuring art by Alison Sampson
– Hellboy and the B.P.R.D.: 1957—Falling Sky, featuring art by Shawn Martinbrough)
– Hellboy and the B.P.R.D.: 1957— From Below, featuring art by Mike Norton
Before they can track down an errant copy of Gustav Strobl’s Witchcraft and Demonology, Hellboy and B.P.R.D. agent Susan Xiang are sidetracked by a beset housewife’s pleas for help in Hellboy and the B.P.R.D.: 1957— Family Ties. Unraveling the mystery of an unwanted house guest may lead the occult investigators right to where they wanted to be, but also right into demonic danger.
“We’ve done some big, sprawling stories in the pages of Hellboy and the B.P.R.D. over the years, so this time we wanted to slow things down a little and spend some quality time with a few of our favorite characters,” said Chris Roberson. “In each of these one-shots, Hellboy partners up with a different agent from the B.P.R.D. to investigate paranormal strangeness, and things are never quite what they initially appear to be.”
Hellboy and the B.P.R.D.: 1957— Family Ties will be published by Dark Horse Comics on September 15, 2021, as a full-colored 32-page comic. For more information about the Hellboy Universe, follow Dark Horse Comics on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram.