The Whittier Legacy
| Writer | Mike Mignola |
|---|---|
| Art | Mike Mignola |
| Colorist | Dave Stewart |
| Lettering | Clem Robins |
| Editor | Scott Allie |
| Published by | Hellboy: The Whittier Legacy |
| Publication date | October 2010 |
| Collected edition | Hellboy – Volume 11: The Bride of Hell and Others |
| Collected in | Hellboy: The Complete Short Stories – Volume 2 |
In The Whittier Legacy, Hellboy is called in to Boston to look into the disappearance of a man and the desecrating of three graves.
Publication History
Hellboy: The Whittier Legacy was first released as part of the DH:HD promotion. In the promotion, Dark Horse teamed up with USA Today to release five original eight-page stories on the USA Today website. The Whittier Legacy was the first of the five, released in two parts of four pages each on October 11th and 12th 2010.
Synopsis
In 1985, after Professor Emile Stoop disappears, along with the bodies of three member of the Whittier Family and a skull once used by the family in occult rituals, Hellboy is brought in to find out what is going on. Hellboy enters a house to find Stoop standing over the three bodies and holding the skull. He tells Helboy that he is not really a Stoop, rather is real father was a Whittier. He then lights a candle and begins to contact the forces that the Whittier family used to. One of the dead men asks Hellboy if Stoop has the medallions they used for protection. Stoop becomes possessed by the creatures from beyond and begins to transform. Hellboy banishes the creature with one of the medallions, but Stoop dies in the process.
Links
The Story can be read on the USA Today Website here
For more on the DH:HD promotion see the CBR article here