John Byrne
John Lindley Byrne is a British-born Canadian-American comic book writer and aritst, best known for his work on Marvel Comics' X-Men and Fantastic Four and the 1986 relaunch of DC Comics' Superman franchise.
Hellboy Bibliography
Byrne wrote the scripts for the three earliest Hellboy stories;
- Hellboy promotional comic (San Diego Comic Con Comics #2)
- Hellboy promotional comic (The Comic Buyer's Guide #1070)
- Hellboy: Seed of Destruction #1–4
Related Works
John Byrne and Mike Mignola were both published under Dark Horse Comics' "Legend" imprint from 1994 through 1998. During this time, they briefly explored crossing over their characters to create a shared universe, resulting in Hellboy characters appearing in the following comics written and drawn by Byrne:
- John Byrne's Next Men #21 (Hellboy appears in a sequence drawn by Mike Mignola)
- Danger Unlimited #4 (Hellboy cameos in a scene alongside other superheroes)
- Babe 2 #1–2 (featuring Abe Sapien; Hellboy appears in a postscript scene)
Byrne's Danger Unlimited characters The Torch of Liberty and Dr. Robert Carson made brief appearances in early Hellboy stories (Seed of Destruction and The Chained Coffin, respectively).