Exclusive: Enter the Occult Cold War in This New Hellboy Miniseries
Jonathan Barkan
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Today is an exciting day as we’re bringing you an exclusive first look at Hellboy and the BPRD: 1955- Occult Intelligence, a new miniseries that Dark Horse will be releasing this coming Wednesday, September 13th! The miniseries is meant to kick off a larger storyline that will take place over several years. The “Occult Cold War” is heating up, and Occult Intelligence will weave three different stories together.
The series is written by Mike Mignola and Chris Roberson with art by Brian Churilla, coloring by Dave Stewart, and the cover comes from Paolo Rivera.
Co-writer Chris Roberson tells Dread Central, “Years ago in the pages of BPRD, it was revealed that the Soviet Union had their own occult bureau during the Cold War; and in Hellboy & The BPRD: Ghost Moon, readers learned that the British secretly had an agency that dealt in the supernatural as well. Over the course of the last few Hellboy & The BPRD miniseries, we’ve been laying the groundwork for a larger overarching storyline that will explore the occult side of the Cold War, which kicks off in Hellboy & The BPRD: Occult Intelligence when Professor Bruttenholm, Hellboy, and the rest of the Bureau agents learn that there is already an ‘Occult Cold War’ going on in the shadows and that the stakes are higher than any of them had realized.”
You can see the cover and the first several pages below!
Synopsis:
Hellboy and his fellow BPRD agents hear rumors of strange happenings while stopping over at a US Air Force base in the South Pacific, while Trevor Bruttenholm visits some of his old contacts in London from the war years, looking for answers, and Susan Xiang tests the limits of her psychic abilities with Professor Sandhu, whom readers might remember from Hellboy and the BPRD: 1953—Beyond the Fences. The three threads unravel over the course of the miniseries, until a tapestry is revealed by the end.
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