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It seems like a no-brainer. Both dudes hate Nazis and are always dealing with some mystical shit. I’m trying to put it out in the aether and hopefully somebody who could make that happen will make it happen.

I got a HC of Hellboy: House of the Living Dead in a lot I bought on Ebay and I am looking at the reading orders and I may be blind or it is my ADHD but I am not seeing this listed. What does it collect (if anything?) and where does it fit in?

I did do a search on the Hellboy and this subreddit as well as google and found references to the book but nothing that helped me.

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Having read all of Hellboy and a few of the spin-offs, one of the most consistent things you see across these books is evil monkeys.

There's the famous "He's got a gun!" bit, but, off the top of my head, I also remember an evil monkey with a gun in Lobster Johnson and I've just started Hellboy and the B.P.R.D., and the villains of the the 1952 story have an army of evil, mutated monkeys.

Is this like Robert E. Howard's thing, where he was clearly afraid of snakes and that's why they kept popping up in his work?

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Apologies if this is a redundant ask. I was able to buy a lot of hellboy and BPRD trade paperbacks that I intended to use for reading. What I didn't realize is that the trade paperbacks are actually hard to get and are considered collectibles. I wish that I had not bought these and went looking for omnibuses.

I know there are reading orders out there that are great and they list the TPBs and the omnibuses and library editions but these are not great for a collecting checklist.

Has anyone done the work to convert these into a collecting checklist? So that people like me can figure out what TPBs or Omnibuses they need?

So I'm trying to make an easy-to-follow reading list on my self-hosted comics server so I can just reread all things Hellboy without referring to Julix's admittedly excellent guide every chapter, and doing so requires no mid-book jumping around.

Now, all I've read before is the main Hellboy series and the Plague of Frogs cycle so I don't know what the big deal about Icthyo Sapien is, is it a giant spoiler for something, or is it just something that doesn't make sense if you read it too early?

I have the Abe Sapien omnibuses and am wondering if Icthyo Sapien (and for that matter, Witchcraft and Demonology) is such a dealbreaker that I should put off the entire omnibus until the epilogue part, or if I can just read them with the rest and only suffer some mild confusion brought on by a lack of context.