Three legends walk into a comic. No, not the start of a joke, but instead the pitch for Dark Horse‘s new miniseries Ghost of a Ghost, which comes from writers Mike Mignola and Chris Roberson, with artist Michael Avon Oeming.
“Many of the stories that I’ve worked on in the Hellboy Universe have started with a conversation, with me having the germ of idea or Mignola having a half-formed notion that he wants to explore,” said Roberson via press release. “In some cases, the original inspiration is mostly mine and other times it’s mostly Mignola’s, but this one was a fully formed Mike Mignola idea from the beginning. At a convention a couple of years ago he sat down with me, Mike Oeming, and Taki Soma and explained to us what he had in mind for this character that he’d introduced in Giant Robot Hellboy, and then we got to work on realizing it. But from the very beginning we were all totally in sync with the vision that Mignola had for the character of Jian and her story, a jet-setting spy-fi thriller in the swinging Sixties, but approached in a way that we had never really seen used in a Hellboy Universe story before.”
Spinning out of Giant Robot Hellboy, the book will find Agent Jiam — now exposed to a substance called enkeladite that causes mutations — working with a mysterious spy ring to keep the material from falling into the wrong hands.
“I’m excited to be working on another Mignola project with writer Chris Roberson and colorist Taki Soma,” added Oeming. “We’re bringing a fun 1960s retro spy vibe into the Hellboy world, and if you have half as much fun reading it as we did making it, you’re going to love it.”
Ghost of a Ghost #1 hits stores on September 23, 2026 with colors by Soma, letters by Clem Robins, and covers by Oeming and Dave Johnson. Further issues will feature covers by Kevin Nowlan, Elsa Charretier, and Michael Cho.
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