The First Hellboy Sketches Ever by Mike Mignola!

Most Hellboy fans are familiar with the drawing above.  It’s the first pass Mike Mignola made at what became Hellboy, one of comic’s most iconic characters.  Much rarer is another early riff on Hellboy by Mignola.

You can see larger versions of both sketches, get the story behind them and how a random sketch stuck with Mike Mignola and ultimately morphed into the Hellboy character we all know and love at CBR.com.