Unconventional pulp hero Lobster Johnson keeps the streets of New York clean in this comics collection of his earliest supernatural, slick, and surprising misadventures.
After years of captivating fans' imaginations from the pages of
Hellboy and
B.P.R.D., the pulp-style adventures of Lobster Johnson took the limelight in their own series of comics adventures. From gangsters to Nazis to an army of monkeys, the Lobster faces classic foes in strange new ways.
His adventures are now collected for the first time in a paperback omnibus edition, collecting trade volumes
The Burning Hand,
Satan Smells a Rat, and
Get the Lobster and the short story "Lobster Johnson: The Empty Chair" featuring writing by Mike Mignola, John Arcudi and Tonci Zonjic with art by Zonjic, Joe Querido, Sebasti�n Fiumara, and more!
Reading Dracula at age twelve introduced MIKE MIGNOLA to folklore and Victorian supernatural literature, from which he has never recovered. He began working as a comic book artist in 1982, working for both Marvel and DC Comics before creating Hellboy, published by Dark Horse Comics in 1994. What began as a single comic-book series would eventually expand to a "Hellboy Universe" of related graphic novels, prose novels, short story anthologies, and both animated and
live action films. He also wrote and drew The Amazing Screw-On Head and Other Curious Objects. He has co-written novels with Christopher Golden (Baltimore, or, The Steadfast Tin Soldier and the Vampire) and Thomas Sniegoski (Grim Death and Bill the Electrocuted Criminal), worked with Francis Ford Coppola on Bram Stoker's Dracula, was a production designer on Disney's Atlantis: The Lost Empire, and visual
consultant to Guillermo del Toro on Blade II, Hellboy, and Hellboy II: The Golden Army. A new Hellboy film directed by Neil Marshall was released in 2019. Mike's comics and graphic novels have earned numerous awards and are published in a great many
countries. He lives in Southern California with his wife and a very demanding cat.
JOHN ARCUDI has been telling lies since he was a boy. Eventually it became clear that this was the only thing he was any good at. After a stint writing for Marvel, he ended up at Dark Horse, where he wrote, among other things, The Mask. John is best known as cocreator of Major Bummer and A God Somewhere, both for DC Comics, and collaborating with Mike Mignola. Recent work includes his original series
Rumble at Image and Dead Inside at Dark Horse, as well as Mike Mignola's Lobster Johnson and Crimson Lotus, also at Dark Horse.
TONCI ZONJIC is known for his interior and cover work on titles such as Lobster Johnson, Skulldigger + Skeleton Boy (both at Dark Horse), Who Is Jake Ellis? (Image), Heralds (Marvel), and others, as well as working as a costume concept artist on Disney and Lucasfilm's Star Wars: The Last Jedi and Solo: A Star Wars Story.
JOE QUERIO began a brief stint in comics with an incredible opportunity to work with his favorite creator, Mike Mignola: a Lobster Johnson story for Dark Horse Presents titled "Tony Masso's Finest Hour". Joe's next break was on the Witcher series, illustrating House of Glass and Fox Children. However, between Witcher volumes, Joe got the chance to work once more with Mignola and the incredible
John Arcudi on The Broken Equation, which became the highlight of Joe's illustrating career. He's forever thankful for the opportunity to contribute to a universe that truly made him feel like a kid again.
KEVIN NOWLAN, artist, colorist, letterer, and cover artist, has been working in the comics industry since the 1980s with many publishers, including Marvel, DC, and Dark Horse, working on stories in Abe Sapien, Hellboy, and Lobster Johnson. He is also known for creating several character designs for Batman: The Animated Series, and for designing the Hellboy logo.
SEBASTIÁN FIUMARA made his comics debut working on George A. Romero's Night of the Living Dead and Alan Moore's Hypothetical Lizard, among others, for Avatar Press. He went on to work for Marvel on Marvel Illustrated: The Picture of Dorian Gray, Thor: The Trials of Loki, and X-Factor. At Dark Horse, he has worked on Lobster Johnson and became the regular artist on Abe Sapien: Dark and Terrible alongside his brother Max. At DC, he has worked on Superboy, and Mystery in Space, followed by Superman and All-Star Batman. He returned to the Hellboy universe working on the final cycle of B.P.R.D.: The Devil You Know.
WILFREDO TORRES has worked extensively with Dark Horse in both Mike Mignola's Hellboy universe (Lobster Johnson) and Jeff Lemire's Black Hammer universe (The Quantum Age) and on BANG! with Matt Kindt. He has also worked on I (DC), Legion (Marvel), Mark Millar's Jupiter's Circle (Image), and most recently, Superman `78 (DC).
DAVE STEWART was born on the high desert to the chatter of a rattlesnake. Despite a rare case of Sasquatch leg and the desire to run with any northbound moose migration, he found the coloring arts were a suitable profession, allowing him to build a moonshine still in the hills of Southwest Portland. His coloring garnered him industry awards, unlike his feverish gathering of dry leaves for winter bedding. And he colors on.
