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The Burning Hand


Title	Lobster Johnson: The Burning Hand
Story by	Mike Mignola & John Arcudi
Art by	Tonči Zonjić
Colors by	Dave Stewart
Lettered by	Clem Robins
Edited by	Scott Allie
Originally Published in	Lobster Johnson: The Burning Hand #1-5
Internal Numbering	Lobster Johnson #6-10
Date Published	January-May 2012
Collected in	Lobster Johnson 2: The Burning Hand

The story takes place in the early part of Lobster Johnson's career as a crime fighter in the 1930's.

Publication HistoryEdit

The five issue mini-series was published from January to May 2012. The story has not yet been collected. The series featured covers by Dave Johnson and Year of Monsters variant covers by Mike Mignola for #1 and #4.

SynopsisEdit

Part OneEdit

When a tribe of phantom Indians start scalping policemen, Hellboy's crime-fighting hero Lobster Johnson and his allies arrive to take on these foes and their gangster cronies!

Part TwoEdit

With a city swamped in dead gangsters with claws branded into their foreheads, mob boss Arnie Wald seeks the assistance of a deadly mystic and her strange partner to take down the vigilante known as Lobster Johnson.

Part ThreeEdit

A fiery menace is turning the city into an inferno, and only Lobster Johnson and his league of crime fighters can put an end to these paranormal horrors.

Part FourEdit

As dead gangsters bloody the floor of his secret hideout, crime fighter Lobster Johnson goes head to head with a powerful German undead—The Black Flame.