As soon as we say the words “comic books”, one of two logos are likely to pop up in your minds; or maybe both. DC and Marvel Comics have become the standard-bearers of superheroes worldwide; but they’re not the only ones in the fantasy-realising business. The American Comic Book industry is much more than those two companies. There is a litany of independent publishers whose work is gaining more and more mainstream appreciation as time passes. Dynamite Entertainment’s adult comic series The Boys is the latest pop-culture phenomenon, thanks to Amazon’s relentless pursuit of bolstering their content library. But before we became familiar with Homelander and The Seven, there was Hellboy; a half-demon Paranormal Investigator, and the flagship character of America’s third-biggest comic book publisher, Dark Horse Comics. Mike Mignola’s brainchild has single-handedly kept Dark Horse afloat, thanks to his ingenious world-building and the mythic lore surrounding the Cambion. Every time you see Hellboy on the pages of a comic book, you know you’re going to get a history lesson in folklore and cosmic horror unlike any you’ve ever experienced before. When he first surfaced in 1993, his foe was the obscure 19th-century Russian mystic known as Grigori Rasputin. Over the years, Big Red has faced off against many occult/mystic figures from world mythology and literature. Hecate, Gabriel, Cthulu, Kali; Mignola has touched upon some of the most benevolent- and destructive- deities from every source he could find. And the best infernal nightmare that Mike could’ve cooked up for his comics happens to be Hellboy himself! Big Red’s nearly 30-year existence hasn’t been one of self-discovery; well, technically anyway, because upon his birth his fate had been decided. This video is going to explore Hellboy’s true name; and the terrible purpose that he bears along with it.
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All Hellboy films were mediocre and never turned a profit at the box office
Hellboy is an interesting character such as not Marvel ro DC related characters
The films fully underpowered him
Hellboy is another of my favorite heroes! He's just that cool!
Anthony is really good at narrating!
Love Hellboy!
off course he is immortal he's a demon 😪
Thor did absolutely zero of those things. You didn't even read those comics, did you?
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Seriously you had to push your politics? My god can we have anything that isn't hiding an agenda. Your literally shoe horned your "conservatives are the evil guys" crap into this break down🤦 I am neither conservative nor liberal. What i am is tired of people ruining EVERYTHING with their agendas!!
Seems like a good fight for the Doomslayer
Hey guys love the horror comic history of hellboy can you guys do the Origins of Dylan Dog
Anungun Rama Son Of The Fallen
Wow yall are pumping out videos like crazy
Mr Ron Pearlman is ugly enough to play ANY monster role.
Love it I need more 🙏🏼 imagine hell boy and spawn team up to Concour all evil realms even ones in other dimensions 😏 I need more. Give me more 🤟🏼🤟🏼
Hellboy is literally a king 🔥😈👑
Sooooo !!! Did he have a child or children ???
Love the Ron Perlman hellboy, and I really liked the look for the new actor too, too bad the story sucked
I’m going with Anunung Rama Hellboy over King Thor or Galactus. Herald King Thor is going to be a fight but neither of those is a start and end all life in a universe type being. The Phoenix force on the other hand is.
Not sure if “obscure” is the right term for Rasputin, I mean yeah, the Hellboy version is clearly historical fiction so maybe that version could be obscure, but Rasputin is pretty famous and therefore well known, don’t think obscure is the right word, maybe infamous.
What would happen if Hellboy fights ghost rider
It's pronounced heck ahh tay or heck ahh tea.
"Marvel and DC aren't the only one's in the fantasy-realizing comic business"
Huh. Could'a fooled me. Lot of the time, it seems like anybody else's stuff is seen as 'sub-par', and gets forgotten instantly.
I still haven't watched the new hellboy. Like legit I'm that loyal to the orginals that I boycotted the new hellboy completely. He will never be the true hellboy to me.
Marvel is now saying Thor's real mom is the Phoenix Force
Sad David's hellboy movie wasn't that good his hellboy has potential but we'll never see it again
The one without Ron Pearlamn sucked so much I had to stop watching it
Oh you grew up in a conservative family, oh my you poor poor thing.
Lol Hellboy Is great but I highly doubt it’s the one comic keeping Dark Horse afloat when Starwars has its leading comics published by them
The movies would have been fire
The second you tried to say growing up in a conservative family ment your life was decided for you and you went against it is the second you lost all respect. Utter bull shit
Hellboy=Surtur
AFAIK the vampire woman he meets in hell isn’t Nyharlethotep. No named Lovecraft deities appear in hellboy, just beings similar to them in the ogdru-hem.
The vampire lady is hellboy’s ex wife from hellboy in Mexico
1:42 malevolent*