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| image = Hellboy Christmas Special.jpg
| caption = Cover by [[Gary Gianni]]
| 1shot = y
| issues = 1
| Horror = y
| Adventure = y
| multigenre = y
| publisher = [[Dark Horse Comics]]
| date= December 3, [[1997 in comics|1997]]
| main_char_team = [[Hellboy]]
| writers = {{flatlist|
* [[Mike Mignola]]
* [[Gary Gianni]]
* [[Steve Purcell]]
}}
| artists = {{flatlist|
* Mike Mignola
* Gary Gianni
* [[Geof Darrow]]
* Steve Purcell
}}
| letterers = {{flatlist|
* [[Pat Brosseau]]
* [[Lois Buhalis]]
* [[Sean Konot]]
}}
| colorists = {{flatlist|
* [[James Sinclair (comics)|James Sinclair]]
* [[Dave Stewart (artist)|Dave Stewart]]
}}
| editors = [[Scott Allie]]
| subcat = Dark Horse Comics
| addpubcat1 = Hellboy titles
| sort = Hellboy Christmas Special
}}

'''''Hellboy Christmas Special''''' is a [[Dark Horse Comics]] [[one-shot (comics)|one-shot]] comic book horror anthology edited by [[Scott Allie]] and featuring the work of [[Mike Mignola]], [[Gary Gianni]] and [[Steve Purcell]].

==Creation==
Mignola has stated that when he and Gary Gianni came up with the idea for this Christmas special and that for his own entry for it he took a story based on an old folktale that he had long mooted and added a Christmas angel to it.

==Publication history==
''Hellboy Christmas Special'' (December 3, [[1997 in comics|1997]]) featured a cover by Gary Gianni.<ref name="DHHBCS">{{cite web |url = http://www.darkhorse.com/Comics/97-666/Hellboy-Christmas-Special |title = Hellboy Christmas Special |accessdate = February 18, 2009 |author =  |last =  |first =  |date =  |year =  |format =  |publisher = Dark Horse Comics |pages =  |doi =  |quote =  |archive-date = April 9, 2016 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20160409075153/http://www.darkhorse.com/Comics/97-666/Hellboy-Christmas-Special |url-status = dead }}</ref><ref name="HBHBCS">{{cite web |url = http://www.hellboy.com/_rev1/comic_1997-hbxmas.html |title = Hellboy Christmas Special |accessdate = February 18, 2009 |publisher = Hellboy.com |archiveurl =http://arquivo.pt/wayback/20090707125420/http://www.hellboy.com/_rev1/comic_1997-hbxmas.html|archivedate =2009-07-07|url-status = dead }}</ref>

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! Title !! Creators
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| ''[[Hellboy: The Chained Coffin and Others#A Christmas Underground|A Christmas Underground]]'' || by Mike Mignola
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|colspan="6"| In the story Hellboy travels to [[England]] on [[Christmas Eve]] 1989 where he descends through a passage in a graveyard in search of the daughter of a dying woman who is married to a prince of the underworld.
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| ''Ernie’s Holiday Ditty'' || by Steve Purcell
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|colspan="6"| This one page feature relates the lyrics to a horrific and satirical take on traditional [[Christmas carols]] from the fictional Little Ernie and the Citizens of Toybox Community Glee Club who appear in ''Toybox'' also in this special.
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| ''A Strange Story'' || by Gary Gianni
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|colspan="6"| ''Corpus Monstrum'' creator Gianni relates how his case of writer’s block, that threatened to leave a blank page in this special, was overcome by a series synchronistic incidents that pointed to 1870, the year [[Charles Dickens]] died.
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| ''Christmas'' || by Geof Darrow
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|colspan="6"| A double page Christmas themed pinup.
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| ''Toybox'' || by Steve Purcell
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|colspan="6"| In the story Ernie and Suda take shelter on Christmas Eve in the home of an old lady who they discover devoured by spider larvae and while Suda sleeps Ernie does batlle with the giant spider who returns down the chimney with a surprise.
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| ''A Gift for the Wicked'' || by Gary Gianni
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|colspan="6"| Hodgson, St. George and Benedict of ''Corpus Monstrum'' spend Christmas night in a forbidden chamber at the ancestral home of Baron Grodak in an attempt to lift the curse that has left him the last of his line.
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| ''Further Reading'' || by Mike Mignola
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|colspan="6"| Hellboy creator Mignola lists some yuletide ghost stories including his all-time favourite story ''[[A Christmas Carol]]'' by Charles Dickens along with his two best movie adaptations of the story [[Alastair Sim]] in [[Scrooge (1951 film)|1951]] and [[George C. Scott]] in [[A Christmas Carol (1984 film)|1984]].
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==Awards==
The special won two [[1998 in comics|1998]] [[Eisner Award]]s;
*[[Eisner Award#Best Writer/Artist: Drama|Best Writer/Artist: Drama]] for Mike Mignola.
*[[Eisner Award for Best Anthology|Best Anthology]], edited by Scott Allie.

==References==
{{Reflist}}

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[[Category:1997 comics debuts]]
[[Category:Fantasy comics]]
[[Category:Eisner Award winners for Best Anthology]]
[[Category:Dark Horse Comics one-shots]]

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