Dark Horse Comics and Mantic Games team up for new Hellboy statue

Legendary
HELLBOY Creator Mike Mignola, Dark Horse Direct and Mantic Games Announce the First
Hellboy Statue Based on Mantic Games’s Bestselling Hellboy: The Board Game
Miniature 

Legendary HELLBOY creator Mike Mignola, Dark Horse Direct and Mantic Games are announcing the first Hellboy Statue Based on Mantic Games’s bestselling Hellboy: The Board Game miniature. Limited to 500 and available now for pre-order, the Hellboy Statue—Mantic Series is expected to ship this summer.

This exclusive statue was
meticulously sculpted by the creative team at Mantic Games and painted by Ed Bradley as if you
lifted our hero right out of the pages of the acclaimed graphic novels and
comics. Posed to pack quite a punch, Hellboy stands approximately 9” tall on a
hellscape terrain base approximately 7.5” wide. Level 52 Studios did the statue prototype
and base sculpt for The Hellboy Statue—Mantic Series.

On sale now, Hellboy: The Board
Game is a co-operative experience in which players face off against some of the
comic’s most famous foes. Up to four people take control of iconic BRPD members
– Hellboy, Abe Sapien, Liz Sherman and Johann Kraus - before exploring gothic
locations, uncovering ancient artifacts and battling one of Hellboy’s most
notorious foes, Rasputin!

Hellboy
Statue—Mantic Series will retail for $149.99.

About
Mantic Games

In the nine years since launch, Mantic Games has released several
complete tabletop gaming systems including Kings of War®, DeadZone®, Mars
Attacks® and DreadBall™. The team’s obsession for making detailed miniatures,
simple but challenging games and great value-for-money products has seen Mantic
become a global presence in the tabletop gaming arena. Mantic Games has a
strong relationship with its community, and crowd funding has raised extra
development money for recent product launches – allowing bigger ranges in
plastic for the retail launch. To date, backers have pledged more than $7m to
help new projects come to life, making Mantic one of Europe’s most funded
companies on Kickstarter. Mantic has sales offices in the USA and UK, supplies
20 countries, has a complete design studio team, a global supply chain with
production facilities based in Nottingham, England. To find out more, please
visit www.manticgames.com

About Dark Horse


For more than thirty years, Dark
Horse Comics has proven to be a solid example of how integrity and innovation
can help broaden a unique storytelling medium and establish a small, homegrown
company as an industry giant. Founded in 1986 by Mike Richardson, the company
is known for the progressive and creator-friendly atmosphere it provides for
writers and artists. In addition to publishing comics from top talent, such as
Eric Powell, Mike Mignola, Geof Darrow, Brian Wood, Gail Simone, Stan Sakai,
and Guillermo del Toro, and comics legends, such as Will Eisner, Milo Manara,
Kazuo Koike, Neil Gaiman, and Frank Miller, Dark Horse has developed its own
successful properties, such as The Mask, Ghost, X, and Barb
Wire. Its successful line of comics, manga, and products based on popular
properties includes Dragon Age, Stranger Things, Aliens, The
Legend of Zelda, Tomb Raider, Halo, The Witcher, Minecraft,
Game of Thrones, and Avatar: The Last Airbender. Today, Dark Horse
Comics is the largest independent comic book publisher in the US and is
recognized as one of the world’s leading entertainment publishers.