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Mike Mignola's First Hellboy From 1991 Sells For $5000 on eBay

In 1991, Mike Mignola attended the Great Salt Lake Comic Convention and a short biography appeared of him in the convention booklet.

Mike Mignola's First Hellboy From 1991 Sells For $5000 on eBay

It also featured a sketch of a new character.

Mike Mignola's First Hellboy From 1991 Sells For $5000 on eBay

This was the first published Hellboy drawing, something that would be redesigned and reshaped into the character that would launch the Legends line from Dark Horse Comics, and lead to cartoons, games and three major movies.

And a copy just sold on eBay for $5000 – a copy with a chunk taken out of the cover.

If you live in the area, if you attended, if you know anyone who did – and is a bit of a hoarder – you could be quids in. And here's a first sketch of the character, picked up by someone at the show…

Mike Mignola's First Hellboy From 1991 Sells For $5000 on eBay

 

 

 


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Founder of Bleeding Cool. The longest-serving digital news reporter in the world, since 1992. Author of The Flying Friar, Holed Up, The Avengefuls, Doctor Who: Room With A Deja Vu, The Many Murders Of Miss Cranbourne, Chase Variant. Lives in South-West London, works from Blacks on Dean Street, shops at Piranha Comics. Father of two. Political cartoonist.
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