Hellboy’s allies’ stories told in “B.P.R.D.”

The early tales of the B.P.R.D. (following their appearances in “Hellboy” comics) are collected in a hardcover edition from Dark Horse. The Bureau of Paranormal Research and Development investigates the supernatural mysteries that are beyond the expertise of regular agents. When Hellboy quits the team, Abe Sapien and Liz Sherman must run the team and protect the world from a growing menace of a strange invasion of frogs.

Mike Mignola teams with co-writers Christopher Golden (Baltimore), Geoff Johns (Blackest Night), Tom Sniegoski (Buffy the Vampire Slayer), and others in this hardcover collection that contains 12 issues of the earliest B.P.R.D. tales.

Artists include Ryan Sook (X-Factor), who has a very Mignolaesque style; Cameron Stewart (Seaguy), Scott Kolins (The Flash), and Guy Davis, who would become the series’ longest-running artist.

The second “Plague of Frogs” hardcover collection contains “The Dead” #1-5; “War on Frogs” #1-5; “The Black Flame” #1-6; and “Born Again” and “Revival.” This hardcover introduces John Arcudi as a co-writer, creating what’s probably the classic B.P.R.D. team of Mignola, Arcudi and Davis.

The B.P.R.D. tales not yet collected in hardcover are available as softcover collections. Volumes read recently include:

B.P.R.D.: The Universal Machine (collects The Universal Machine 5-issue limited series): The B.P.R.D. team attempts to resurrect Roger the homunculus.

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