Mavel and DC comic book have been rivaling there comics for many decades but reacenly we have seen this battle move from stores and stand to the big screen; but now smaller publishing companies are getting in on the act; 'Dark Horse Comics' had an idea of releasing one of there most famous characters; from the comic book mind of Mike Mignola; 'Hellboy'. A demon whose true name is Anung un Rama, was brought to Earth as an infant by Nazi occultists. He was discovered by the Allied Forces; amongst them, Professor Trevor Bruttenholm, who formed the United States Bureau for Paranormal Research and Defense (BPRD). Filmmaker 'Guillermo Del Toro' has long professed his love of the comic. After a trial run bringing comic book action to the screen in 2002's Blade II, Del Toro turned to Hellboy.

The story starts in 1944 where Nazi extremist group lead by the evil Rasputin, where in the desperate Nazi army turn to combining science and black magic together to try and change the world forever, by opening a portal to Hell. An American army got a tip-off about the location of this experiment and intervened before it could be completed, after they closed it they found a child demon that Prof.Trevor Bruttenholm then became the father figure for and named it 'Hellboy'.

We join the story sixty years later, a young FBI agent named John Myers is transferred to the Bureau of Paranormal Research & Defense, run by Professor Bruttenholm. He is introduced to Hellboy, now an adult. Also employed with the BPRD is a fish-like person named Abe Sapien who has advanced psychic abilities, and Liz Sherman, a pyrokinetic who has yet to learn to control her firestarting abilities.

Rasputin is back and looking to use the dark magic to try and take over the world opening the portal again releasing demons out into our world; Hellboy is called apon to send them back and end Rasputin terror