Timeline
1944
December 23, East Bromwich, England
Hellboy is summoned by Rasputin
1946
New Mexico, USA
Professor Trevor Bruttenholm takes Hellboy in as his foster son.
May, Berlin, Germany
Bruttenholm deals with the Nazis and the Vampir Strum project.
(BPRD Volume 13: 1947)
June, Tanzania, Africa
Hellboy makes his first trip to Africa, accompanied by Professor Trevor Bruttenholm during an investigation involving hyenas. Hellboy is separated from Bruttenholm and lost for a week in the Serengeti. Once recovered, he has no memory of what happened during that week.
(Hellboy Volume 7: The Troll Witch and Others-Makoma)
Later, Hellboy remembers he encountered the spirit of Africa herself, manifested as a giant rhinoceros.
(Hellboy Volume 7: The Troll Witch and Others-Makoma)
1952
August 6
Hellboy is recognized as an “honorary human” by the UN. One week later, he joins the B.P.R.D.
August - September, Europe
Hellboy, with Trevor Bruttenholm, spend several months in England, Scotland and Wales. On the Isle of Man, Hellboy and Bruttenholm investigate a talking mongoose. On Calton Hill, near Edinburgh, Hellboy encounters fairies for the first time. They also make visits to Harry H. Middleton, an old school friend of the professor. Together, they investigate the phantom hand at St. Alban and the mastiff Braunton Burrows.
1954
St. Leonard’s Wood, England
The Osiris Club tests Hellboy, white lilies grow from his blood after defeating St. Leonard’s dragon.
(Hellboy Volume 4: The Right Hand of Doom- The Nature of the Beast)
1955
Kyoto, Japan
Hellboy deals with demonic beasts and a giant vampire cat.
(Hellboy Volume 3: The Chained Coffin and Others-The Corpse)
1956
March, Norway
Hellboy travels to assist Bruttenholm’s friend and colleague Edmond Aickman. He is betrayed and used as a scam to acquire the Viking King Vold’s gold.
May - October, Palenque, Mexico
Hellboy, on an unofficial six month leave, teams up with three monster-hunting Mexican wrestler brothers. After a night of heavy drinking, the youngest brother, Esteban, is abducted by a gang of monsters. Later, Hellboy is challenged to a wrestling match. There, he fights and kills the transformed monstrosity that was once Esteban. Afterward, Hellboy wanders drunkenly around Mexico until the BPRD finds him blacked out in a local bar and brings him home.
(Hellboy: Hellboy in Mexico/A Drunken Blur)
1957
Jabalpur, India
Bodies found attacked by large carnivorous animal.
1958
March, Malaysia
Hellboy investigates a Penanggalan, a demon whose head separates from his body at night and kills innocent victims.
(Hellboy Volume 1: Seed of Destruction - More First Things)
September, Connecticut, USA
Bruttenholm steps down as director of the BPRD
October, Virginia, USA
Hellboy travels to see Tom Ferrell to help save his soul, sold to Jeremiah Witkin, a miser also known as the Crooked Man, when he was 15 years old.
(Hellboy Volume 10: The Crooked Man)
1959
New Guinea
Bodies found attacked by carnivorous large carnivorous animal
Ireland
Hellboy saves baby Alice from the fairies
(Hellboy Volume 3: The Chained Coffin and Others-The Corpse)
Macapa, Brazil
Hellboy fights the head of Herman von Klempt and mechanical monkey Brutus (Kriegaffe # 9). Brutus von Klempt and are left for dead in a fire.
1960
October-Nothborough, Mass., USA
Hellboy investigates strange happenings at Gale University involving mummies and encounters a man-eating statue of Sebek.
(Hellboy: Double Feature of Evil)
December-Kansas, USA
Hellboy investigates a man-eating house.
(Hellboy: Double Feature of Evil)
1961
March, Alaska
Shortly after the funeral of the real Hercules, Hellboy encounters a lion and fight the Hydra.
(Hellboy Volume 7: The Troll Witch and Others - The Hydra and the Lion)
June, Ireland
Hellboy kills the Iron Boots, "the deadliest of ancient tapestries.
(Hellboy Volume 3: The Chained Coffin - Iron Shoes)
November, McCrimmon Residence, Scotland
Hellboy fights a Nuckelavee.
(Hellboy-Odd Jobs)
1962
May, England
Hellboy meets medium Cynthia Eden-Jones. She insists upon the reopening of the investigation surrounding Hellboy’s “birth” in East Bromwich, but he refuses.
(Hellboy Volume 3: The Chained Coffin)
1963
March, Norway
Hellboy investigates a series of brutal killings committed by the Trolls.
(Hellboy Volume 7: The Troll Witch and Others - The Troll Witch)
March Berezniki, Russia
Hellboy shoots out the Baba Yaga’s left eye.
(Hellboy Volume 3: The Chained Coffin and Others - The Baba Yaga)
1965
March, Abbey of Noah, France
Hellboy fights a strange ectoplasmic creature (one of the disembodied Ogdru Hem).
1966
October, Suffolk, England
Hellboy investigates vampire attacks.
(Hellboy: The Sleeping and the Dead)
1967
September, Kyoto, Japan
Hellboy defeats a group of headless Japanese vampires.
(Hellboy Volume 4: The Right Hand of Doom - Heads)
1969
February, Romania
Hellboy is sent to control a "surge of vampire activity."
October Lockmaben, Scotland
Hellboy and Professor Bruttenholm investigate a murder linked to acts of witchcraft in a castle.
(Hellboy Volume 4: The Right Hand of Doom- Box Full of Evil)
1974
May BPRD Headquarters, Fairfield, Connecticut
Liz Sherman becomes a ward of the BPRD
1975
November, Budapest, Hungary
During another peak of vampire activity, vampire Countess Ilona KÁKOSY escapes Hellboy.
(Hellboy Volume 4: The Right Hand of Doom - The Vârcolac)
1976
September, Baltimore, Maryland
Hellboy attends a séance the medium called Mister Todd.
(Hellboy Volume 4: The Right Hand of Doom - Goodbye, Mister Todd)
1977
February, Lebanon, Tennessee
Hellboy help Father William Schenk to exorcise a young boy named Eric Powell. Hellboy is the only one who can understand his speaking in tongues.
1978
November, Washington DC
Plumbers discovered a preserved amphibian in a water tank in the sealed basement of St. Trinian’s Hospital. Unaware of his true identity, the BPRD named him Abe Sapien.
1979
February, Portland Oregon
Hellboy is unable to save the medium Mister Todd from an ectoplasmic manifestation (one of the disembodied Ogdru Hem).
(Hellboy Volume 4: The Right Hand of Doom - Goodbye, Mister Todd)
March 2, Headquarters, Fairfield Connecticut
Dr. Cobb and Dr. Roddel, BPRD scientists are preparing to dissect Abe Sapien who wakes up after electrical stimulation. Hellboy saves him from the scientists’ experiments.
(BPRD Volume 1: Hollow Earth)
Mai, China
Several agents of the BPRD die, partly because of Hellboy.
June, London, England
During an investigation involving English goblins trying to steal objects hidden for the British Museum, Hellboy meets Dr. Anastasia Bransfield. They fall in love Hellboy and spends the next two years traveling and working with her on archaeological excavations, taking leave of the BPRD.
(Hellboy - Dragon Pool)
1980
April 6, Mount Ida, Crete
Hellboy accompanies Anastasia Bransfield to the Mediterranean. As she observes an excavation in progress, she is kidnapped by a powerful group of witches called "Obsidian Danse." Hellboy saves her from being sacrificed.
(Hellboy - Dragon Pool)
May, BPRD Headquarters, Fairfield Connecticut
Liz Sherman becomes an official BPRD field agent.
Winter, Chateau de Chaumont, Loire et Cher, France
Hellboy and Anastasia are involved in archaeological excavations updating the remains of three giants.
(Hellboy - The Lost Army)
1981
February, San Sebastian island
Still an unofficial agent, Abe Sapien is on his first mission without Hellboy to return the Lipu dagger planted in the body Epke Vrooman by Edward Grey, in 1884.
(Abe Sapien: The Drowning)
Beginning in March, London, England
Plagued with constant disapproval of his family, Hellboy decides to end his relationship with Anastasia Bransfield. He returns to his work with the BPRD.
(Hellboy - Dragon Pool)
Mid-March, the BPRD Headquarters Fairfield, Connecticut
Abe Sapien officially becomes a field agent of the BPRD
April, Outback Australia
Hellboy and Abe Sapien are investigates the occurrence of nightmares, which "makes people mad and pushes them to the slaughter."
1982
April BPRD headquarters of Fairfield, Connecticut
Dr. Thomas Manning promoted to COO.
May, India (near Jabalpur)
Hellboy investigates massacres.
(Hellboy Volume 3: The Chained Coffin - The Wolves of St. August)
In late May, Calcutta, India
Hellboy and Abe are investigating a case involving a genie and an ox.
August 19th, Prague
Hellboy fights the Vampire of Prague and causes an explosion that damaged much of the city.
(Hellboy Volume 7: The Troll Witch and Others - The Vampire of Prague)
November, Yorkshire, England
Hellboy eventually found the body of the vampire Countess Ilona KÁKOSY and plants a stake into the body.
(Hellboy Volume 4: The Right Hand of Doom - The Vârcolac)
1983
February
Hellboy stops Igor Bromhead, a provider of relics on the black market noticed by the BPRD in the 70s. Bromhead spent the next fifteen years in prison.
(Hellboy Volume 4: The Right Hand of Doom)
March
Hellboy investigation into the case of a woman with boar's head haunting an amusement park.
1984
June, Cotswolds, England
Hellboy does away with Springheel Jack, an infamous imp that made a habit of terrorizing women.
(Hellboy-On Earth As it is In Hell)
July 4, Finland
Liz again loses control of her powers during a mission with Hellboy requiring firebombs.
October
Professor Kate Corrigan of New York University becomes a consultant for the BPRD
1986
June, North Dakota
Hellboy and Abe Sapien are investigating a body collector nostalgic for the Nazi era.
June 21, Providence, Rhode Island
Hellboy investigates the theft of a skull used to communicate with dangerous ancient spirits.
(Hellboy: The Whittier Legacy)
July, Mai, Egypt
Hellboy assists Anastasia Bransfield on one of her digs.
(Hellboy - The Lost Army)
September, North Carolina
Hellboy and Abe investigate a case involving the lost head of Blackbeard.
(Hellboy Volume 10: The Crooked Man)
1989
May, Venice, Italy
Abe Sapien investigates a case of vampires.
(BPRD Volume 2: The Spirit of Venice)
November, Scotland
Hellboy is present at the opening of the secret chamber of Glamis Castle.
December 24, England
Hellboy is unable to save the daughter Mrs. Hatch from a demonic invisible prince.
(Hellboy Volume 3: The Chained Coffin - A Christmas Underground)