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{{Infobox comic book title <!--Wikipedia:WikiProject Comics--> 
| title = B.P.R.D.:<br>Plague of Frogs 
| image = BPRD Plague of Frogs.jpg
| caption = Trade Paperback Cover by [[Mike Mignola]]
| format = [[trade paperback (comics)|Trade paperback]]
| Adventure = y
| Horror = y
| multigenre = y
| publisher = [[Dark Horse Comics]]
| date=  February 23, [[2005 in comics|2005]]
| main_char_team = {{flatlist|
* Kate Corrigan
* [[Johann Kraus]]
* [[Roger (Hellboy)|Roger]]
* [[Abe Sapien]]
* [[Liz Sherman]]
}}
| writers = [[Mike Mignola]]
| artists = [[Guy Davis (comics)|Guy Davis]]
| colorists = Dave Stewart
| creators = Mike Mignola
| editors = [[Scott Allie]]
| letterers= Clem Robins
| TPB=''B.P.R.D.: Plague of Frogs''
| ISBN=978-1-59307-288-9
| subcat=Dark Horse Comics
| sort=B.P.R.D.: Plague of Frogs 
| addpubcat1=Hellboy titles
}}
'''''B.P.R.D.: Plague of Frogs''''' is the third [[trade paperback (comics)|trade paperback]] collection in the ''[[Bureau for Paranormal Research and Defense|B.P.R.D.]]'' series.

==Publication history==
''B.P.R.D.: Plague of Frogs'' was originally published from March 2004 through to July 2004 as a five-issue B.P.R.D. comic book [[Limited series (comics)|miniseries]], written by [[Mike Mignola]] with art by [[Guy Davis (comics)|Guy Davis]] and published by [[Dark Horse comics]].<ref name="DHPFTPB">{{cite web |url=http://www.darkhorse.com/Books/10-189/B-P-R-D-Vol-3-A-Plague-of-Frogs-TPB |title=B.P.R.D.: A Plague of Frogs TPB |accessdate=February 25, 2009 |publisher=Dark Horse Comics | archiveurl= https://web.archive.org/web/20090131040912/http://www.darkhorse.com/Books/10-189/B-P-R-D-Vol-3-A-Plague-of-Frogs-TPB| archivedate= 31 January 2009 | url-status= live}}</ref> Each issue featured a cover by Guy Davis.

Editor [[Scott Allie]] stated that this series goes back to the roots of the ''[[Hellboy]]'' series concept, which Mignola originally conceived of as a team book until the character of [[Hellboy]] took over and dominated the book, and although previous [[Bureau for Paranormal Research and Defense|B.P.R.D.]] stories had been told this was the first to be written solely by Mignola himself.

Allie also added that whilst this story and subsequent mini-series would see the title develop more along the lines of a standard ongoing series, albeit one with regular breaks, it would go against the conventions of the comic book industry to profoundly change the fictionalised world in which it is set forever.

==Plot synopsis==
===Chapter 1===
The B.P.R.D.'s enhanced talents taskforce are called in to investigate when Professor Derby infiltrates a classified research facility in New Jersey and shoots dead Dr. Platt who has been working on scientific research into fungi and has grown a giant specimen in the lab.<ref name="DHPF1">{{cite web |url=http://www.darkhorse.com/Comics/12-771/B-P-R-D-A-Plague-of-Frogs-1 |title=B.P.R.D.: A Plague of Frogs #1 |accessdate=February 25, 2009 |author= |last= |first= |author-link= |date= |year= |publisher=Dark Horse Comics }}</ref>

===Chapter 2===
Abe, Kate, Liz, Roger, and Johann have returned to B.P.R.D. headquarters with a captured frog monster and Director Manning reveals that the spore Dr. Platt had based his experiments on had recently been recovered from the ruins of Cavendish Hall and belong to the monstrous Sadu-Hem.<ref name="DHPF2">{{cite web |url=http://www.darkhorse.com/Comics/12-772/B-P-R-D-A-Plague-of-Frogs-2 |title=B.P.R.D.: A Plague of Frogs #2 |accessdate=February 25, 2009 |publisher=Dark Horse Comics | archiveurl= https://web.archive.org/web/20090221085633/http://www.darkhorse.com/Comics/12-772/B-P-R-D-A-Plague-of-Frogs-2| archivedate= 21 February 2009 | url-status= live}}</ref>

===Chapter 3===
The team crash at Crab Point, Michigan. Roger is strung up by a frog monster and Johann is dispersed leaving Kate to search for help whilst Abe and Liz face the demonic priest of Sadu-Hem who has summoned forth the frog monsters.<ref name="DHPF3">{{cite web |url=http://www.darkhorse.com/Comics/12-773/B-P-R-D-A-Plague-of-Frogs-3 |title=B.P.R.D.: A Plague of Frogs #3 |accessdate=February 25, 2009 |publisher=Dark Horse Comics | archiveurl= https://web.archive.org/web/20090221085306/http://www.darkhorse.com/Comics/12-773/B-P-R-D-A-Plague-of-Frogs-3| archivedate= 21 February 2009 | url-status= live}}</ref>

===Chapter 4===
The entire town of Crab Point, Michigan has been converted into frog monsters and it is left to Liz to rescue Kate from a graveyard of revenants whilst Sapien faces execution at the behest of Rasputin who seeks revenge for Abe Sapien's involvement in his own death at Cavendish Hall years before.<ref name="DHPF4">{{cite web |url=http://www.darkhorse.com/Comics/12-774/B-P-R-D-A-Plague-of-Frogs-4 |title=B.P.R.D.: A Plague of Frogs #4 |accessdate=February 25, 2009 |publisher=Dark Horse Comics | archiveurl= https://web.archive.org/web/20090221061211/http://www.darkhorse.com/Comics/12-774/B-P-R-D-A-Plague-of-Frogs-4| archivedate= 21 February 2009 | url-status= live}}</ref>

===Chapter 5===
Kate, Liz, and Johann (temporarily inhabiting the rotting corpse of a dead dog) rush to save Abe whilst he hovers between life and death experiencing a mystical vision in which he witnesses his own origins as an undersea explorer called Caul caught up in the assassination of Abe Lincoln.<ref name="DHPF5">{{cite web |url=http://www.darkhorse.com/Comics/12-775/B-P-R-D-A-Plague-of-Frogs-5 |title=B.P.R.D.: A Plague of Frogs #5 |accessdate=February 25, 2009 |publisher=Dark Horse Comics | archiveurl= https://web.archive.org/web/20090221061219/http://www.darkhorse.com/Comics/12-775/B-P-R-D-A-Plague-of-Frogs-5| archivedate= 21 February 2009 | url-status= live}}</ref>

==Collected Editions==
===Trade Paperback===
The [[Trade paperback (comics)|trade paperback]] includes an eight-page sketchbook with art from Davis and one page of thumbnails and scripts by Mignola:
*''B.P.R.D.: Plague of Frogs''<br>(144 pages, February 23, 2005, {{ISBN|978-1-59307-288-9}})

===B.P.R.D Omnibus Edition===
The trade was later collected as a part of the ''Plague of Frogs'' cycle in the B.P.R.D. Omnibus format, along with ''[[B.P.R.D.: Hollow Earth and Other Stories|Hollow Earth & Other Stories]]'' and ''[[B.P.R.D.: The Soul of Venice and Other Stories|The Soul of Venice & Other Stories]]''. This format is available in both hardcover and paperback editions.
*''B.P.R.D. Plague of Frogs - Volume 1''<br>(408 pages, January 19, 2011, {{ISBN|978-1-59582-609-1}})<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.darkhorse.com/Books/17-169/B-P-R-D-Plague-of-Frogs-Hardcover-Collection-Vol-1|title=B.P.R.D. Plague of Frogs - Volume 1|publisher=DarkHorse.com }}</ref>

==References==
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