Hellboy fictional timeline

Hellboy fictional timeline recounts the events detailed in the Hellboy comic book series by Mike Mignola and its various spin-offs.

1930s

• 1938, New York City: Lobster Johnson and one of his assistants help the police investigate a series of murders perpetrated by a scientist whose experiments had given him telekinetic powers. (Lobster Johnson: The Killer in My Skull)
• 1939, Hunte Castle, Austria: Herman von Klempt and the [...] Space Program load a rocket with the corpse of one of their top scientists. American troops led by Lobster Johnson attack the castle, and the Nazis launch the rocket before the roof is fully retracted. The rocket makes it out, but the ensuing explosion kills everyone except for von Klempt. (Hellboy: Conqueror Worm)

1940s

• 1944, Britain: Summoned by a ritual performed by Rasputin in Scotland, Hellboy is "born" in a ruined church near the fictional village of East Bromwich in England (in Seed of Destruction).
• 1946: Hellboy eats pancakes for the first time. The demons of Pandemonium lament that he will never return to them now in a sort of mirrored reference to the abduction myth of Persephone (in Pancakes).

1950s

• 1952: Hellboy is granted honorary human status by the United Nations and becomes a field agent for the Bureau for Paranormal Research and Defense.
• 1954, Britain: Hellboy is asked by the Osiris Club to slay the Saint Leonard worm, an alligator-like monster. The battle proves to be a test of Hellboy's virtue, but his dubious success (and lilies that grow from his shed blood) make the outcome of the test unclear (in The Nature of the Beast).
• 1956, Norway: Professor Bruttenholm sends Hellboy to help Professor Edmond Aickman (who worked with Bruttenholm in Burma and Chengdu) with the King Vold myth. Aickman is only interested in the potential reward, however, and maneuvers Hellboy into completing Vold's tasks for him (in King Vold).
• 1957, India: Hellboy works on a werewolf case.
• 1958, Virginia: Hellboy must help save a man's soul from a being known as 'The Crooked Man' (in The Crooked Man).
• 1958, Malaysia: Hellboy investigates a series of killings, and FACES a monstrous vampire-like creature (in The Penanggalan).
• 1959, Ireland: To retrieve a stolen baby, Hellboy must bear a corpse to his final resting place. The King of the Daoine Sidh oversees the matter personally; this is the first (but not the last) time he will take a personal interest in Hellboy (in The Corpse).
• 1959, New Guinea: Hellboy works on another werewolf case.
• 1959, Macapa: Hellboy stops Herman von Klempt's experiments involving spinal fluid extracted from peasants, but the severed head survives.

1960s

• 1961, Ireland: Hellboy ensnares the Iron Shoes demon and hands his shoes over to Father Mike. ("Iron Shoes")
• 1961, Saybrook, Connecticut: Hellboy works with Father Edward Kelly on an exorcism.
• 1961, Alaska: Called in to investigate a peculiar animal, Hellboy faces off against the hydra and meets a strange little girl. ("The Hydra and the Lion")
• 1963, Norway: Hellboy meets a hideous old witch, who shows him the way to halt an invasion of trolls. ("The Troll Witch")
• 1964, Bereznik, Russia: Hellboy tracks down the Baba Yaga, and in the ensuing encounter shoots out her left eye. ("Baba Yaga")
• 1967, Kyoto, Japan: Hellboy handles a case involving floating heads called nuke-kubi (抜首). ("Heads")
• 1968, Lebanon, Tennessee: Hellboy finds himself mixed up with The Goon, and helps him overcome the Communist Airborne Mollusk Militia. (The Goon, Vol. 3: Heaps of Ruination)
• 1969, Lochmaben, Britain: Professor Bruttenholm and Hellboy visit the castle which would later be purchased by Count Guarino and his wife, who are Satanists.

1970s

• 1979, Portland, Oregon: Mister Tod, a physical medium (much like Johann Kraus), unwittingly allows a space-borne monster to gain form using his body's ectoplasm. Hellboy barely manages to repulse the entity. Beings such as this would return in Conqueror Worm. ("Goodbye Mister Tod")
• 1979: BPRD scientists, having exhausted every other option, finally succeed in awakening Abe Sapien by means of electrical stimulation. (Abe Sapien versus Science)
• 1979-1981, Hellboy takes leave of absence from the B.P.R.D to travel with archaeologist Anastasia Bransfield. (Abe Sapien: The Drowning)

1980s

• 1982, Prague, Czechoslovakia: Hellboy defeats the famed gambling Vampire of Prague by beating him at a game of poker. (Hellboy: The Vampire of Prague)
• 1982, Yorkshire, Britain: Hellboy, after seven years of searching, tracks down the vampire Countess Ilona Kakosky. She shows him a vision of the vampire king, but Hellboy breaks the illusion in time and slays her. ("The Varcolac")
• 1982, India: Hellboy works on a werewolf case.
• 1989, Britain: Hellboy investigates the disappearance of Ann Heath, who was lured underground by a demon. ("A Christmas Underground")

1990s

• 1990, Anonta, Ontario, Canada: Hellboy and Abe Sapien capture Daryl the Wendigo. (B.P.R.D.: The Universal Machine)
• 1991, Long Island, New York: Investigating a supposedly haunted house, Hellboy is magically teleported back to 1902, where the leader of the Heliopic Brotherhood of Ra uses a sample of his blood to turn a chimpanzee into a murderous demon. ("Dr. Carp's Experiment")
• 1992, London, Britain: Edward Stokes, a cannibalistic ghoul, is tracked to Hammersmith Cemetery by Hellboy. ("The Ghoul")
• 1992, Lake Okanagan, British Columbia: Hellboy and Abe search for the Ogopogo monster. Abe is injured.
• 1993, New York, New York: Hellboy is invited to the New York Explorer's Club, where a recently acquired mummy tells him the tale of Makoma, a man with a hammer in his hand that bests a demon at the end of the world. The mummy turns to dust after relating the tale, and Hellboy is banned from the club. (Makoma)
• 1993, The Bahamas: Abe Sapien and a BPRD psychic investigate deaths at sea occurring due to the spiritual legacy of the Atlantic slave trade. (Drums of the Dead)
• 1994: The Cavendish Hall affair. Hellboy meets Rasputin. (Hellboy: Seed of Destruction)
• 1994, Griart, The Balkans: Hellboy and Kate Corrigan visit a town decimated by the angry ghosts of werewolves. It becomes a revenge mission after Father Kelly, Hellboy's associate, is murdered by a living werewolf. Kate's first sighting of a ghost occurs. ("The Wolves of St. August")
• 1995, Scotland: Hellboy returns to the ruined church where he first appeared in the world, and has a dream-vision of his origin: His mother, as a young woman, had cavorted with a demon, and on Walpurgisnacht (a night of great significance to witches) conceived Hellboy as a result. Hellboy lay dormant within her, until the demon returned at the end of the woman's life to claim her and his unborn son.
• 1997, Romania: The Giurescu affair. (Hellboy: Wake the Devil) In the aftermath, Hellboy and Kate Corrigan track down a homunculus (later named Roger by Hellboy), who had inadvertently been awakened by absorbing Liz Sherman's pyrokinetic power. They succeed in returning the power to Liz's nearly-lifeless body, although doing so leaves Roger inert. (Almost Colossus)
• 1998, Lizarza, Spain: Hellboy has a meeting with Adrian Frost, the son of Malcolm Frost. Hellboy relates his life story to Frost, and the two realize that Hellboy's right hand is the key to triggering the Apocalypse. Hellboy decides keep the hand lest someone else retrieve it and use it. ("The Right Hand of Doom")
• 1999, Druggan Hill, England/Lockmaben, Scotland: Hellboy and Abe investigate the Guarino's castle after a mysterious attack. Igor Bromhead releases Ualac, a minor demon trapped in a box by St. Dunstan. Abe is shot by a chimpanzee. Ualac claims the Crown of the Apocalypse (which sits invisibly on Hellboy's head) then attempts to claim Hellboy's right hand. Hellboy breaks free and slays his mortal body. Bromhead and Ualac are claimed by the demon Astaroth, who takes Hellboy's crown down to Hell. ("Box Full of Evil")
• 1999: Abe Sapien succeeds in awakening Roger the Homunculus where BPRD scientists failed. (Abe Sapien versus Science)

2000s

• 2001, Austria: The BPRD sends Hellboy and Roger to Hunte Castle, where the rocket launched there in 1939 returns from deep space. Within the corpse sent in the rocket is the essence of the Conqueror Worm, one of the Ogdru Hem, come to Earth to consume humanity and summon forth the rest of its kind. With help from the ghost of Lobster Johnson, Hellboy and Roger destroy the Conqueror Worm and kill Herman von Klempt. At the case's conclusion, Hellboy quits the BPRD to finally deal with the unanswered questions of his origins. (Hellboy: Conqueror Worm)
• 2004, Africa: Hellboy seeks advice from an African witch-doctor, and is told to dive to the bottom of the sea. He is captured by the Bog Roosh, who means to prevent the Apocalypse by dismembering Hellboy and hiding the Right Hand of Doom, but Hellboy manages to escape with the assistance of a mermaid. (Hellboy: The Third Wish)
• 2006: Hellboy washes up on an unknown island. He accidentally resurrects an ancient mystic, learns the secret history of the universe, and faces the monstrous Urgo Hem. Hellboy then sets sail for Britain as the Daoine Sidh watch on. (Hellboy: The Island)
• 2007: Hellboy returns to Britain. While there he has a nightmareish vision of a demon — resembling the one the mystic from "The Island" became after bathing in Hellboy's blood — tear itself from his body. (Hellboy: The Mole) Later Hellboy is offered the option of becoming king of the world's witches but turns it down. Hellboy is then sent to another dimension to face the Baba Yaga and her lieutenant, Koschei the Deathless. Despite pouring all her energies into Koschei, the Baba Yaga is unable to kill Hellboy or even avenge the loss of her eye, and he is able to escape back to Earth. (Hellboy: Darkness Calls)
• 2008: Hellboy is called back by the Osiris Club to participate in "The Wild Hunt", a hunt by knights and nobleman against giants. Soon into the hunt however, he is attacked by the other hunters, and learns he seems to be the true target. At the same time, Astaroth returns, and gives Gruagach (a demon that was part of the plot in "The Corpse") back his "queen". (Hellboy: The Wild Hunt)