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Informationen zum Autor Mike Mignola's fascination with ghosts and monsters began at an early age; reading Dracula at age twelve introduced him to Victorian literature and folklore! from which he has never recovered. Starting in 1982 as a bad inker for Marvel Comics! he swiftly evolved into a not-so-bad artist. By the late 1980s! he had begun to develop his own unique graphic style! with mainstream projects like Cosmic Odyssey and Batman: Gotham by Gaslight . In 1994! he published the first Hellboy series through Dark Horse. There are thirteen Hellboy graphic novels (with more on the way)! several spin-off titles ( B.P.R.D.! Lobster Johnson! Abe Sapien! and Sir Edward Grey: Witchfinder )! prose books! animated films! and two live-action films starring Ron Perlman. Along the way he worked on Francis Ford Coppola's film Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992)! was a production designer for Disney's Atlantis: The Lost Empire (2001)! and was the visual consultant to director Guillermo del Toro on Blade II (2002)! Hellboy (2004)! and Hellboy II: The Golden Army (2008). Mike's books have earned numerous awards and are published in a great many countries. Mike lives in Southern California with his wife! daughter! and cat. Zusammenfassung After a séance gone horribly wrong! strange men wearing gas masks and rubber suits abduct the aging psychic Orlov the Conjuror! sending his young assistant Molly McHugh racing through the canals of a submerged Manhattan. As Molly flees her captors through a sunken city full of scavengers! her one hope comes in the form of two strange men: Simon Church! a Victorian-era detective kept alive by clockwork gears and magic! and his assistant! Joe! whose mysterious past is hinted at in dreams of stone and witches. This deluxe! limited-edition! slipcased hardcover edition of Mignola and Golden's Joe Golem features multiple illustrations by Hellboy artist Mike Mignola plus a signature plate signed by the creators. ...
