San Diego Comic Con Comics #2 - First Appearance of Hellboy, Printings and Contents

Identification plate

Series: San Diego Comic Con Comics (Dark Horse, 1992 series)
Issue: #2
Publication date: August 1993
Key date: August 1993
On-sale date: August 19, 1993
Indicia publisher: Dark Horse Comics Inc.
Price: 0.00 FREE
Pages: 36

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Why this issue matters

First appearance of Hellboy - the earliest non-flashback appearance on record for this character.

First appearance of Monkeyman - the earliest non-flashback appearance on record for this character.

First appearance of Axwell Tiberius - the earliest non-flashback appearance on record for this character.

First appearance of Ann O'Brien - the earliest non-flashback appearance on record for this character.

The evidence

Claims here come from the story records for this issue, listed under Sources at the bottom of the file. Character hubs with full evidence tables are coming to this site.

Seq	Story	Type	Pages	Credits	Characters
0	One Fine Day Downtown	cover	1	pencils: Don Martin; inks: Don Martin; colors: Don Martin
1	A letter from the publisher	text article	0.5	script: Mike Richardson
2	Contents	table of contents	0.5	letters: typeset
3	Danger Unlimited	comic story	4	script: John Byrne; pencils: John Byrne; inks: John Byrne; letters: John Byrne	Miss Mirage [Connie Carson]; Thermal [Calvin Carson]; Doc Danger [Robert Carson]; Hunk [Worley]; Belabet
4	Steel Rain	comic story	4	script: Paul Chadwick; pencils: Paul Chadwick; inks: Paul Chadwick; letters: Bill Spicer	Concrete, Ronald Lithgow
5	The Shocking Case of the Brief Journey	comic story	4	script: Arthur Adams; pencils: Arthur Adams; inks: Arthur Adams; letters: L. L. Buhalis	Monkeyman First, Ann O'Brien First, Axwell Tiberius First
6	Sin City	comic story	3	script: Frank Miller; pencils: Frank Miller; inks: Frank Miller; letters: Frank Miller
7	-	illustration	2	pencils: Geof Darrow; inks: Geof Darrow	Rusty the Boy Robot, Big Guy
8	Don Martin's Doctor Dork	comic story	2	script: Don Martin; pencils: Don Martin; inks: Don Martin; letters: Don Martin	General George Armstrong Custer
9	Mom 'n' Me	comic story	2	script: Rick Geary; pencils: Rick Geary; inks: Rick Geary; letters: Rick Geary
10	Madman Comics Pinup	promo (ad from the publisher)	1	pencils: Mike Allred; inks: Mike Allred	Madman, Frank Einstein
11	Mike Mignola's Hellboy	comic story	4	script: Mike Mignola, John Byrne; pencils: Mike Mignola; inks: Mike Mignola; letters: John Byrne, Mike Mignola	Hellboy First
12	State of the Art	comic story	4	script: Frank Miller; pencils: Dave Gibbons; inks: Dave Gibbons; letters: Dave Gibbons	Martha Washington
13	Gothik Pinup	illustration	1	pencils: James O'Barr; inks: James O'Barr
14	Grendel Pinup	illustration	1	pencils: Matt Wagner; inks: Matt Wagner	Grendel, Hunter Rose
15	1993 San Diego Comic Convention Comittee	credits, title page	1	letters: typeset

Where to read it

Collection	Year
Sin City: The Babe Wore Red and Other Stories #[nn]	1994	On eBay ›
Happy Birthday, Martha Washington #1	1995	On eBay ›
Think Like a Mountain ISBN 978-1-59307-559-0;1-59307-559-6	2006	On eBay ›
Art Adams' Creature Features #[nn] ISBN 1-56971-214-X	1996	On eBay ›
Seed of Destruction and Wake the Devil ISBN 978-1-59307-910-9	2008	On eBay ›
Seed of Destruction ISBN 1-56971-038-4	1994	On eBay ›
The Life and Times of Martha Washington in the Twenty-First Century #[nn] ISBN 978-1-59307-654-2	2009	On eBay ›
Hellboy: Seed of Destruction #[nn] ISBN 1-56971-051-1	1995	On eBay ›
Concrete: Short Stories 1990-1995 #[nn] ISBN 1569710996	1996	On eBay ›
Danger Unlimited #[nn] ISBN 1-56971-111-9	1995	On eBay ›
Danger Unlimited #[nn] ISBN 1-56971-058-9	1995	On eBay ›

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Series context

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Sources

Grand Comics Database, issue record (CC BY-SA 4.0)

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