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Baltimore (comics)

Baltimore is an American horror comic book series created by Mike Mignola and Christopher Golden. The series originally began with an illustrated novel, Baltimore, or, The Steadfast Tin Soldier and the Vampire in 2007. It followed the story of Lord Baltimore's hunt of the vampire Haigus as told by his three friends, Doctor Lemuel Rose, Thomas Childress Jr., and Demetrius Aischros. The series is a part of Mignola and Golden's Outerverse, a shared universe with Joe Golem and other titles such as Lady Baltimore.

Baltimore
The cover for Dark Horse's release of the novel in paperback
DateAugust 28, 2007 – June 7, 2017
PublisherBantam Spectra, Dark Horse Comics
Creative team
WritersMike Mignola
Christopher Golden
ArtistsMike Mignola (novel)
Ben Stenbeck (#1–20, #24–25)
Peter Bergting (#21–23, #26–41)
LettererClem Robins
ColoristDave Stewart (#1–30)
Michelle Madsen (#31–41)
EditorScott Allie
Original publication
LanguageEnglish

Comics edit

In 2010 Dark Horse Comics began the comic series Baltimore, following Lord Baltimore's hunt for Haigus during the years the original novel skipped over.[1][2][3] From the fifth volume onward, the comic's story has moved beyond the events of the original novel.

Baltimore is a series of miniseries, with each miniseries having its own numbering, but each issue also has an ongoing overall numbering on the inside front cover.

Issues edit

Number
in Series
Issue Release Date Arc Story Art Colors Cover
1 #1 August 4, 2010[4] The Plague Ships Mike Mignola
and Christopher Golden
Ben Stenbeck Dave Stewart Mike Mignola
2 #2 September 1, 2010[5]
3 #3 October 6, 2010[6]
4 #4 November 3, 2010[7]
5 #5 December 1, 2010[8]
France, August, 1916: Lord Henry Baltimore follows the trail of his nemesis, the vampire Haigus, to a coastal village of Villefranche, where he is arrested by the suspicious local authorities, who summon an inquisitor to interrogate him. Baltimore is freed by a young woman, Vanessa, who insists that he take her with him when he escapes the town. Their ship is attacked at sea and they are stranded on an island filled with derelict ships. When the corpses of the ships' crews rise up to attack them, Baltimore locks Vanessa inside a wrecked U-boat and holds off the horde of revenants until dawn. Vanessa chooses to return home, not knowing that the inquisitor, Judge Duvic, has arrived and is torturing her grandmother to learn Baltimore's whereabouts.

NB Includes several scenes from the novel Baltimore, or, The Steadfast Tin Soldier and the Vampire in flashback as Baltimore recounts parts of his story.

36 FCBD 2011 May 7, 2011[9] A Passing Stranger Mike Mignola
and Christopher Golden
Ben Stenbeck Dave Stewart Mike Mignola
Germany, October, 1916: When Baltimore passes through the village of Tülingart at night, unmolested, a young boy, Maxie, takes it as proof that the vampires are gone, and convinces his best friend, Rolf, to come outside and see for himself. Rolf is lured under a bridge and almost devoured by gigantic spiders, before Baltimore appears and saves him, killing the spiders and Maxie, who has turned into one of them. Baltimore confirms that the vampires are gone, but the plague has drawn all manner of evil creatures out of hiding.

NOTE: Christopher Golden wanted to retroactively acknowledge the story in the numbering, so this 2011 FCBD issue is 36 in Number in Series.

6 #1 August 10, 2011[10][11] The Curse Bells Mike Mignola
and Christopher Golden
Ben Stenbeck Dave Stewart Mike Mignola
VARIANT:
Francesco Francavilla
7 #2 September 14, 2011[12] Mike Mignola
8 #3 October 12, 2011[13]
9 #4 November 9, 2011[14]
10 #5 December 14, 2011[15]
Lucerne, Switzerland, October, 1916: Baltimore meets American war correspondent Simon Hodge, who was fired from The Boston Globe after insisting that vampires were the cause of the plague. They go to a convent where Haigus is held prisoner by nuns (now vampires), in the service of an occultist (Adolf Hitler) who promised to cure them. The occultist uses Haigus's blood to resurrect Helena Blavatsky, who is "birthed" as a homunculus. In exchange for resurrecting her, the occultist demands that she place a curse on the convent's bells so that all who hear them will become his slaves. When Baltimore reveals to the nuns there is no cure for their vampirism, they turn on the occultist and tear him apart. The nuns kneel in the courtyard and wait for death by the rising sun.

Meanwhile, Judge Duvic continues pursuing Baltimore, torturing and sometimes killing several of the people Baltimore has encountered.

11 #1 June 20, 2012[16][17] Dr. Leskovar's Remedy Mike Mignola
and Christopher Golden
Ben Stenbeck Dave Stewart Ben Stenbeck
VARIANT:
Mike Mignola
12 #2 July 18, 2012[18] Ben Stenbeck
Croatia, May, 1917: While fighting a monstrous creature in mid flight, Baltimore crashes near a makeshift fishing settlement. The locals have abandoned their village to escape Dr. Leskovar, who tried to develop a cure for vampirism, but only succeeded in creating mutated creatures, which he sent out to capture more "subjects" to perfect his cure. Baltimore needs to pass through the village to pick up Haigus's trail, but his conscience won't let him ignore the threat Dr. Leskovar poses. Leskovar drinks a formula that turns him into a monstrous creature so that he can hunt down and destroy all of his creations. Leskovar and Baltimore run back to the fishing camp, where crabs that ate the remains of the monster that crashed Baltimore's plane have mutated. They fight off the mutant crabs, but Leskovar is dragged underwater and drowns.
13 #1 November 21, 2012[19] The Play Mike Mignola
and Christopher Golden
Ben Stenbeck Dave Stewart Ben Stenbeck
Verona, Italy, January, 1917: Haigus is working on set paintings for play, La Morte Rossa Trionfante, by theatrical director named Gnecco with lyrics by the severed head of Edgar Allan Poe. All three men are in love with the play's star, Isabella. When Haigus realizes that Isabella is an immortal Muse, he breaks her hold over him, killing Gnecco and burning the theatre down. Meanwhile, Isabella escapes with Poe's head. A week later, Baltimore passes through, and the remaining members of the theatre troupe, now vampires, emerge from hiding to prey on the town.
14 #1 February 20, 2013[20] The Widow and the Tank Mike Mignola
and Christopher Golden
Ben Stenbeck Dave Stewart Ben Stenbeck
The WidowEngland, June, 1916: Baltimore visits the wife of an old Army comrade in Lincolnshire, who insists her husband is dead. At night, the woman's husband, now a vampire, leaves the house to prey on the townspeople. After confirming that he does not know Haigus's whereabouts, Baltimore dispatches him, then confronts the widow. Seeing that she has been recently turned herself, Baltimore invites her to open the curtains and view the sunrise, which incinerates her.

The TankFrance, July, 1916: Stopping for a meal in a small village in Aquitaine, Baltimore learns of a monster supposedly hiding in a derelict tank left in the middle of a field. Baltimore confronts the monster, a vampire hiding from worse monsters—goblin-like creatures that rise out of the earth and try to devour Baltimore. With the goblins distracted, the vampire attempts to escape, but is caught. Baltimore kills all the goblin creatures and the now half-eaten vampire.

15 #1 June 19, 2013[21] The Inquisitor Mike Mignola
and Christopher Golden
Ben Stenbeck Dave Stewart Ben Stenbeck
Austria-Hungary September, 1917: Inquisitor Judge Duvic arrives in Sarajevo town to interrogate Simon Hodge for Baltimore's whereabouts. Duvic relates how he was raised as a priest and trained to be an inquisitor by the Church, in response to the vampire plague. He believes Baltimore is tainted by the plague. The interrogation is interrupted when Vanessa (from The Plague Ships) appears in the cell and attacks Duvic, revenge for her grandmother's murder. After Duvic kills her, Hodge furiously challenges his righteousness when Duvic could have easily disarmed her. Shaken, Duvic allows Hodge to leave. Hodge tells him Baltimore will be in Budapest in three weeks' time, and afterward sends a letter to Baltimore, inviting him to deal with a true "monster."
16 #1 September 4, 2013[22] The Infernal Train Mike Mignola
and Christopher Golden
Ben Stenbeck Dave Stewart Ben Stenbeck
17 #2 October 16, 2013[23]
18 #3 November 6, 2013[24]
Budapest, Hungary, October, 1917: Baltimore arrives, intending to keep his rendezvous with Judge Duvic. By enforcing strict quarantine measures, the city authorities believe they have succeeded in creating a sanctuary from the plague. A mysterious woman, Signora Fulcanelli, claims to have invented a furnace hot enough to safely incinerate all of the plague's victims. Baltimore spies on her at night, but is distracted by the arrival of Judge Duvic and the two fight. They are interrupted by a swarm of newly-created vampires, and Fulcanelli's men take Baltimore prisoner. Fulcanelli is housing a coven of elder vampires—the "high priests" of the Red King, the ancient deity that created the vampires—and collecting plague victims to burn as a beacon to hasten the King's reawakening. Haigus is the eldest of these high priests, but like all of their kind, he had grown savage and apathetic as humanity developed and forgot to worship the Red King, until Baltimore awoke his consciousness on the Ardennes battlefield. Baltimore breaks free and destroys the train's boiler, killing the vampire priests and causing the train to derail. Fulcanelli is trapped on the riverbank by a spike of metal impaled through her shoulder. She confesses to Baltimore that Haigus is headed to London, but he leaves her to die, unable to escape the rising river as it is swelled by a rainstorm. Duvic confronts Baltimore, who stabs him in the chest with a crucifix just as Duvic shoots him in the heart, seemingly without wounding him. After Baltimore leaves, a group of priests gather up Duvic's body and administer last rites, only for Duvic to re-animate as a werewolf and kill all of them.
19 #1 December 31, 2013[25] Chapel of Bones Mike Mignola
and Christopher Golden
Ben Stenbeck Dave Stewart Ben Stenbeck
20 #2 February 5, 2014[26]
London, England, November 30, 1919: Baltimore's three friends—Demetrius Aischros, Thomas Childress, Jr., and Dr. Lemuel Rose—meet in a pub in response to Baltimore's summons, but when he doesn't arrive, they accept the invitation of an artist, Bentley, to sleep in his upstairs studio. There, they find an enormous painting of the Red King, and the walls decorated with skeletons, which come alive to attack them. Baltimore's nemesis, Haigus, has become old and weary from all the years of pursuit, and lured them there to draw Baltimore out. Just as the three men are cornered and all seems lost, Baltimore arrives. Haigus gloats that it was Baltimore's own actions that "awoke" Haigus's consciousness, and humanity will never be rid of the vampires now. Baltimore kills Haigus, but is chilled to realize that he feels nothing. In anger and frustration, Baltimore slashes the painting, and the Red King fixes its eyes upon him. Baltimore realizes he had been fighting the symptom all this time, and the true enemy had barely been aware of him until that moment. Later, while recuperating downstairs, Baltimore reaches into his chest and removes his heart, now a lump of tin with his wife's wedding ring set into its side.

In an epilogue, the three companions relate their story to Simon Hodge, with Rose carrying Baltimore's tin heart in a box for evidence. When Hodge asks where Baltimore is now, Rose replies that evil things are awakening all over the world and Baltimore is trying to wipe them out to prevent the Red King from reawakening.
NB Chapel of Bones is an adaptation of the chapters Crescendo: Lux et Aeternum, Finale: Libera Me, and Coda from the novel Baltimore, or, The Steadfast Tin Soldier and the Vampire.

21 #1 July 30, 2014[27] The Witch of Harju Mike Mignola
and Christopher Golden
Peter Bergting Dave Stewart Ben Stenbeck
22 #2 August 27, 2014[28]
23 #3 September 24, 2014[29]
Harju, Estonia, February 2, 1920: A woman named Sofia Yalk escapes from the reanimated corpse of her abusive husband and runs into Baltimore, now accompanied by Childress, the Sikh soldier Harish, and a new companion named Quigley. While the corpse kills Quigley, the others manage to chase it off. While the others go to get a carriage for Quigley's body, Sofia recounts to Baltimore her story; After her husband died, a black cat with red eyes appeared over the body, and during the funeral the corpse reanimated and killed everyone it came across while chasing after her. The day after, while looking at coffins for Quigley, the corpse returns, but is finally put down when Sofia lights him on fire, and Baltimore kills a lizard-like creature that emerged from its body. The witch who reanimated him appears to gloat, before fleeing into the woods. The heroes are unable to pursue her, and go to bury Quigley instead. On the way, the undertaker tells them that the witch may have one of the grieving mothers who lost their children to plague, or summoned by them. At the graveyard, they are attacked by more of the lizard-creatures, which crawl out of the buried bodies. The witch appears again and causes it to rain blood before fleeing, but Baltimore pursues her and confronts her at an altar to the Red King. She tries to run again, but Baltimore catches up to her and kills her by the sea, causing the blood rain to stop. Back at the graveyard, the heroes finish burying Quigley, along with the undertaker who was killed in the fighting. After confronting the village women, who admit to being witches but that the witch Juta went too far even for them, Baltimore and his companions leave, joined by Sofia.
24 #1 October 29, 2014[30] The Wolf and the Apostle Mike Mignola
and Christopher Golden
Ben Stenbeck Dave Stewart Ben Stenbeck
25 #2 November 26, 2014[31]
Yalta, Crimea, March 18 1920: A young priest with clawmarks across his face awakens from a nightmare to find Baltimore standing by his bed. Baltimore asks the priest, a member of the Inquisition, to tell his story. The priest, Joaquim Rigo, was part of a mission to kill the werewolf Duvic, who has been killing innocents and particularly members of the clergy across Eastern Europe. They chased him to an old castle near Charax, but are killed easily by Duvic. Rigo fled in terror and ends up in the castle chapel, where he confesses the Inquisition's sins and repents. Duvic appears in human form, having twisted his faith to fit his bloodthirsty nature, seeing his curse as a blessing from God which he has attempted to spread to other men of faith, but found them all blasphemers and thus killed them. Turning to wolf form, he attacks Rigo who briefly manages to fight him off but is wounded across the face by his claws. Before Duvic can finish him off, the moonlight shines through a cross-shaped stained glass window, blinding Duvic and causing him to fall through a collapsing floor. Rico barely managed to escape the castle before it collapses entirely, leaving Duvic's fate uncertain. Back in the hospital, Rigo elects to join Baltimore in his quest, retaining his Inquisitor uniform as a reminder of the Inquisition's failings.
26 #1 May 6, 2015[32] The Cult of the Red King Mike Mignola
and Christopher Golden
Peter Bergting Dave Stewart Ben Stenbeck
27 #2 June 3, 2015[33]
28 #3 July 1, 2015[34]
29 #4 August 5, 2015[35]
30 #5 September 2, 2015[36]
31 #1 April 6, 2016[37] Empty Graves Mike Mignola
and Christopher Golden
Peter Bergting Michelle Madsen Ben Stenbeck
32 #2 May 4, 2016[38]
33 #3 June 1, 2016[39]
34 #4 July 6, 2016[40]
35 #5 August 3, 2016[41]
37 #1 February 1, 2017[42] The Red Kingdom Mike Mignola
and Christopher Golden
Peter Bergting Michelle Madsen Ben Stenbeck
38 #2 March 1, 2017[43]
39 #3 April 5, 2017[44]
40 #4 May 3, 2017[45]
41 #5 June 7, 2017[46]

Collected editions edit

The comic book series has been collected in hardcover volumes. Only the first volume has been published in paperback. The series will be collected in a pair of hardcover omnibuses, the second of includes a new story, Monstrous, written by Mike Mignola and Christopher Golden, art by Ben Stenbeck, colors by Dave Stewart, and lettering by Clem Robins.[47]

Volume Title Collects Special Features Published ISBN
1 The Plague Ships
  • The Plague Ships
  • Introduction:
    Back From the Dead
    by Joe Hill
  • 14-page sketchbook
June 8, 2011 (HC)
December 21, 2011 (TPB)
9781595826732 (HC)
9781595826770 (TPB)
2 The Curse Bells
  • The Curse Bells
  • Introduction:
    A World of Chilled Shadows
    by Joe R. Lansdale
  • 17-page sketchbook
June 13, 2012 9781595826749
3 A Passing Stranger
and Other Stories
  • The Widow and the Tank
  • A Passing Stranger
  • The Play
  • Dr. Leskovar's Remedy
  • The Inquisitor[48]
  • Introduction:
    Spectres of the War
    by Kim Newman
  • 10-page sketchbook
November 20, 2013 9781616551827
4 Chapel of Bones
  • The Infernal Train
  • Chapel of Bones
  • Introduction
    by Stephen R. Bissette
  • 13-page sketchbook
June 11, 2014 9781616553289
5 The Apostle and the Witch of Harju
  • The Witch of Harju
  • The Wolf and the Apostle
  • 18-page sketchbook
March 18, 2015 9781616556181
6 The Cult of the Red King
  • The Cult of the Red King
  • 18-page sketchbook
January 6, 2016 9781616558215
7 Empty Graves
  • Empty Graves
  • 18-page sketchbook
December 7, 2016 9781506700427
8 The Red Kingdom
  • The Red Kingdom
  • Afterword
    by Christopher Golden
  • 12-page sketchbook
October 25, 2017 9781506701974
Omnibus Editions
Volume Collects Special Features Published ISBN
Baltimore Omnibus – Volume 1
  • The Plague Ships
  • The Curse Bells
  • The Widow and the Tank
  • A Passing Stranger
  • The Play
  • Dr. Leskovar's Remedy
  • The Inquisitor
  • The Infernal Train
  • Chapel of Bones
  • Introduction
    by Mike Mignola
  • Sketchbook material from:
    • The Plague Ships
    • The Curse Bells
    • A Passing Stranger
      and Other Stories
    • Chapel of Bones
  • Cover gallery
October 9, 2019 9781506712468[49]
Baltimore Omnibus – Volume 2
  • The Witch of Harju
  • The Wolf and the Apostle
  • The Cult of the Red King
  • Empty Graves
  • The Red Kingdom
  • Monstrous
  • Introduction
    by Christopher Golden
  • Sketchbook material from:
    • The Apostle and the Witch of Harju
    • The Cult of the Red King
    • Empty Graves
    • The Red Kingdom
  • Cover gallery
March 25, 2020 9781506712475[50]

Film adaptation edit

New Regency optioned the rights to adapt Baltimore as a film in September 2007. The novel's authors wrote a screenplay, while David S. Goyer was set to direct. After a leadership change at New Regency, the studio abandoned the project, and the rights have reverted to the authors.[51]

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Baltimore is an American horror comic book series created by Mike Mignola and Christopher Golden The series originally began with an illustrated novel Baltimore or The Steadfast Tin Soldier and the Vampire in 2007 It followed the story of Lord Baltimore s hunt of the vampire Haigus as told by his three friends Doctor Lemuel Rose Thomas Childress Jr and Demetrius Aischros The series is a part of Mignola and Golden s Outerverse a shared universe with Joe Golem and other titles such as Lady Baltimore BaltimoreThe cover for Dark Horse s release of the novel in paperbackDateAugust 28 2007 June 7 2017PublisherBantam Spectra Dark Horse ComicsCreative teamWritersMike MignolaChristopher GoldenArtistsMike Mignola novel Ben Stenbeck 1 20 24 25 Peter Bergting 21 23 26 41 LettererClem RobinsColoristDave Stewart 1 30 Michelle Madsen 31 41 EditorScott AllieOriginal publicationLanguageEnglish Contents 1 Comics 1 1 Issues 1 2 Collected editions 2 Film adaptation 3 References 4 Further reading 5 External linksComics editIn 2010 Dark Horse Comics began the comic series Baltimore following Lord Baltimore s hunt for Haigus during the years the original novel skipped over 1 2 3 From the fifth volume onward the comic s story has moved beyond the events of the original novel Baltimore is a series of miniseries with each miniseries having its own numbering but each issue also has an ongoing overall numbering on the inside front cover Issues edit Numberin Series Issue Release Date Arc Story Art Colors Cover 1 1 August 4 2010 4 The Plague Ships Mike Mignolaand Christopher Golden Ben Stenbeck Dave Stewart Mike Mignola 2 2 September 1 2010 5 3 3 October 6 2010 6 4 4 November 3 2010 7 5 5 December 1 2010 8 France August 1916 Lord Henry Baltimore follows the trail of his nemesis the vampire Haigus to a coastal village of Villefranche where he is arrested by the suspicious local authorities who summon an inquisitor to interrogate him Baltimore is freed by a young woman Vanessa who insists that he take her with him when he escapes the town Their ship is attacked at sea and they are stranded on an island filled with derelict ships When the corpses of the ships crews rise up to attack them Baltimore locks Vanessa inside a wrecked U boat and holds off the horde of revenants until dawn Vanessa chooses to return home not knowing that the inquisitor Judge Duvic has arrived and is torturing her grandmother to learn Baltimore s whereabouts NB Includes several scenes from the novel Baltimore or The Steadfast Tin Soldier and the Vampire in flashback as Baltimore recounts parts of his story 36 FCBD 2011 May 7 2011 9 A Passing Stranger Mike Mignolaand Christopher Golden Ben Stenbeck Dave Stewart Mike Mignola Germany October 1916 When Baltimore passes through the village of Tulingart at night unmolested a young boy Maxie takes it as proof that the vampires are gone and convinces his best friend Rolf to come outside and see for himself Rolf is lured under a bridge and almost devoured by gigantic spiders before Baltimore appears and saves him killing the spiders and Maxie who has turned into one of them Baltimore confirms that the vampires are gone but the plague has drawn all manner of evil creatures out of hiding NOTE Christopher Golden wanted to retroactively acknowledge the story in the numbering so this 2011 FCBD issue is 36 in Number in Series 6 1 August 10 2011 10 11 The Curse Bells Mike Mignolaand Christopher Golden Ben Stenbeck Dave Stewart Mike MignolaVARIANT Francesco Francavilla 7 2 September 14 2011 12 Mike Mignola 8 3 October 12 2011 13 9 4 November 9 2011 14 10 5 December 14 2011 15 Lucerne Switzerland October 1916 Baltimore meets American war correspondent Simon Hodge who was fired from The Boston Globe after insisting that vampires were the cause of the plague They go to a convent where Haigus is held prisoner by nuns now vampires in the service of an occultist Adolf Hitler who promised to cure them The occultist uses Haigus s blood to resurrect Helena Blavatsky who is birthed as a homunculus In exchange for resurrecting her the occultist demands that she place a curse on the convent s bells so that all who hear them will become his slaves When Baltimore reveals to the nuns there is no cure for their vampirism they turn on the occultist and tear him apart The nuns kneel in the courtyard and wait for death by the rising sun Meanwhile Judge Duvic continues pursuing Baltimore torturing and sometimes killing several of the people Baltimore has encountered 11 1 June 20 2012 16 17 Dr Leskovar s Remedy Mike Mignolaand Christopher Golden Ben Stenbeck Dave Stewart Ben StenbeckVARIANT Mike Mignola 12 2 July 18 2012 18 Ben Stenbeck Croatia May 1917 While fighting a monstrous creature in mid flight Baltimore crashes near a makeshift fishing settlement The locals have abandoned their village to escape Dr Leskovar who tried to develop a cure for vampirism but only succeeded in creating mutated creatures which he sent out to capture more subjects to perfect his cure Baltimore needs to pass through the village to pick up Haigus s trail but his conscience won t let him ignore the threat Dr Leskovar poses Leskovar drinks a formula that turns him into a monstrous creature so that he can hunt down and destroy all of his creations Leskovar and Baltimore run back to the fishing camp where crabs that ate the remains of the monster that crashed Baltimore s plane have mutated They fight off the mutant crabs but Leskovar is dragged underwater and drowns 13 1 November 21 2012 19 The Play Mike Mignolaand Christopher Golden Ben Stenbeck Dave Stewart Ben Stenbeck Verona Italy January 1917 Haigus is working on set paintings for play La Morte Rossa Trionfante by theatrical director named Gnecco with lyrics by the severed head of Edgar Allan Poe All three men are in love with the play s star Isabella When Haigus realizes that Isabella is an immortal Muse he breaks her hold over him killing Gnecco and burning the theatre down Meanwhile Isabella escapes with Poe s head A week later Baltimore passes through and the remaining members of the theatre troupe now vampires emerge from hiding to prey on the town 14 1 February 20 2013 20 The Widow and the Tank Mike Mignolaand Christopher Golden Ben Stenbeck Dave Stewart Ben Stenbeck The Widow England June 1916 Baltimore visits the wife of an old Army comrade in Lincolnshire who insists her husband is dead At night the woman s husband now a vampire leaves the house to prey on the townspeople After confirming that he does not know Haigus s whereabouts Baltimore dispatches him then confronts the widow Seeing that she has been recently turned herself Baltimore invites her to open the curtains and view the sunrise which incinerates her The Tank France July 1916 Stopping for a meal in a small village in Aquitaine Baltimore learns of a monster supposedly hiding in a derelict tank left in the middle of a field Baltimore confronts the monster a vampire hiding from worse monsters goblin like creatures that rise out of the earth and try to devour Baltimore With the goblins distracted the vampire attempts to escape but is caught Baltimore kills all the goblin creatures and the now half eaten vampire 15 1 June 19 2013 21 The Inquisitor Mike Mignolaand Christopher Golden Ben Stenbeck Dave Stewart Ben Stenbeck Austria Hungary September 1917 Inquisitor Judge Duvic arrives in Sarajevo town to interrogate Simon Hodge for Baltimore s whereabouts Duvic relates how he was raised as a priest and trained to be an inquisitor by the Church in response to the vampire plague He believes Baltimore is tainted by the plague The interrogation is interrupted when Vanessa from The Plague Ships appears in the cell and attacks Duvic revenge for her grandmother s murder After Duvic kills her Hodge furiously challenges his righteousness when Duvic could have easily disarmed her Shaken Duvic allows Hodge to leave Hodge tells him Baltimore will be in Budapest in three weeks time and afterward sends a letter to Baltimore inviting him to deal with a true monster 16 1 September 4 2013 22 The Infernal Train Mike Mignolaand Christopher Golden Ben Stenbeck Dave Stewart Ben Stenbeck 17 2 October 16 2013 23 18 3 November 6 2013 24 Budapest Hungary October 1917 Baltimore arrives intending to keep his rendezvous with Judge Duvic By enforcing strict quarantine measures the city authorities believe they have succeeded in creating a sanctuary from the plague A mysterious woman Signora Fulcanelli claims to have invented a furnace hot enough to safely incinerate all of the plague s victims Baltimore spies on her at night but is distracted by the arrival of Judge Duvic and the two fight They are interrupted by a swarm of newly created vampires and Fulcanelli s men take Baltimore prisoner Fulcanelli is housing a coven of elder vampires the high priests of the Red King the ancient deity that created the vampires and collecting plague victims to burn as a beacon to hasten the King s reawakening Haigus is the eldest of these high priests but like all of their kind he had grown savage and apathetic as humanity developed and forgot to worship the Red King until Baltimore awoke his consciousness on the Ardennes battlefield Baltimore breaks free and destroys the train s boiler killing the vampire priests and causing the train to derail Fulcanelli is trapped on the riverbank by a spike of metal impaled through her shoulder She confesses to Baltimore that Haigus is headed to London but he leaves her to die unable to escape the rising river as it is swelled by a rainstorm Duvic confronts Baltimore who stabs him in the chest with a crucifix just as Duvic shoots him in the heart seemingly without wounding him After Baltimore leaves a group of priests gather up Duvic s body and administer last rites only for Duvic to re animate as a werewolf and kill all of them 19 1 December 31 2013 25 Chapel of Bones Mike Mignolaand Christopher Golden Ben Stenbeck Dave Stewart Ben Stenbeck 20 2 February 5 2014 26 London England November 30 1919 Baltimore s three friends Demetrius Aischros Thomas Childress Jr and Dr Lemuel Rose meet in a pub in response to Baltimore s summons but when he doesn t arrive they accept the invitation of an artist Bentley to sleep in his upstairs studio There they find an enormous painting of the Red King and the walls decorated with skeletons which come alive to attack them Baltimore s nemesis Haigus has become old and weary from all the years of pursuit and lured them there to draw Baltimore out Just as the three men are cornered and all seems lost Baltimore arrives Haigus gloats that it was Baltimore s own actions that awoke Haigus s consciousness and humanity will never be rid of the vampires now Baltimore kills Haigus but is chilled to realize that he feels nothing In anger and frustration Baltimore slashes the painting and the Red King fixes its eyes upon him Baltimore realizes he had been fighting the symptom all this time and the true enemy had barely been aware of him until that moment Later while recuperating downstairs Baltimore reaches into his chest and removes his heart now a lump of tin with his wife s wedding ring set into its side In an epilogue the three companions relate their story to Simon Hodge with Rose carrying Baltimore s tin heart in a box for evidence When Hodge asks where Baltimore is now Rose replies that evil things are awakening all over the world and Baltimore is trying to wipe them out to prevent the Red King from reawakening NB Chapel of Bones is an adaptation of the chapters Crescendo Lux et Aeternum Finale Libera Me and Coda from the novel Baltimore or The Steadfast Tin Soldier and the Vampire 21 1 July 30 2014 27 The Witch of Harju Mike Mignolaand Christopher Golden Peter Bergting Dave Stewart Ben Stenbeck 22 2 August 27 2014 28 23 3 September 24 2014 29 Harju Estonia February 2 1920 A woman named Sofia Yalk escapes from the reanimated corpse of her abusive husband and runs into Baltimore now accompanied by Childress the Sikh soldier Harish and a new companion named Quigley While the corpse kills Quigley the others manage to chase it off While the others go to get a carriage for Quigley s body Sofia recounts to Baltimore her story After her husband died a black cat with red eyes appeared over the body and during the funeral the corpse reanimated and killed everyone it came across while chasing after her The day after while looking at coffins for Quigley the corpse returns but is finally put down when Sofia lights him on fire and Baltimore kills a lizard like creature that emerged from its body The witch who reanimated him appears to gloat before fleeing into the woods The heroes are unable to pursue her and go to bury Quigley instead On the way the undertaker tells them that the witch may have one of the grieving mothers who lost their children to plague or summoned by them At the graveyard they are attacked by more of the lizard creatures which crawl out of the buried bodies The witch appears again and causes it to rain blood before fleeing but Baltimore pursues her and confronts her at an altar to the Red King She tries to run again but Baltimore catches up to her and kills her by the sea causing the blood rain to stop Back at the graveyard the heroes finish burying Quigley along with the undertaker who was killed in the fighting After confronting the village women who admit to being witches but that the witch Juta went too far even for them Baltimore and his companions leave joined by Sofia 24 1 October 29 2014 30 The Wolf and the Apostle Mike Mignolaand Christopher Golden Ben Stenbeck Dave Stewart Ben Stenbeck 25 2 November 26 2014 31 Yalta Crimea March 18 1920 A young priest with clawmarks across his face awakens from a nightmare to find Baltimore standing by his bed Baltimore asks the priest a member of the Inquisition to tell his story The priest Joaquim Rigo was part of a mission to kill the werewolf Duvic who has been killing innocents and particularly members of the clergy across Eastern Europe They chased him to an old castle near Charax but are killed easily by Duvic Rigo fled in terror and ends up in the castle chapel where he confesses the Inquisition s sins and repents Duvic appears in human form having twisted his faith to fit his bloodthirsty nature seeing his curse as a blessing from God which he has attempted to spread to other men of faith but found them all blasphemers and thus killed them Turning to wolf form he attacks Rigo who briefly manages to fight him off but is wounded across the face by his claws Before Duvic can finish him off the moonlight shines through a cross shaped stained glass window blinding Duvic and causing him to fall through a collapsing floor Rico barely managed to escape the castle before it collapses entirely leaving Duvic s fate uncertain Back in the hospital Rigo elects to join Baltimore in his quest retaining his Inquisitor uniform as a reminder of the Inquisition s failings 26 1 May 6 2015 32 The Cult of the Red King Mike Mignolaand Christopher Golden Peter Bergting Dave Stewart Ben Stenbeck 27 2 June 3 2015 33 28 3 July 1 2015 34 29 4 August 5 2015 35 30 5 September 2 2015 36 31 1 April 6 2016 37 Empty Graves Mike Mignolaand Christopher Golden Peter Bergting Michelle Madsen Ben Stenbeck 32 2 May 4 2016 38 33 3 June 1 2016 39 34 4 July 6 2016 40 35 5 August 3 2016 41 37 1 February 1 2017 42 The Red Kingdom Mike Mignolaand Christopher Golden Peter Bergting Michelle Madsen Ben Stenbeck 38 2 March 1 2017 43 39 3 April 5 2017 44 40 4 May 3 2017 45 41 5 June 7 2017 46 Collected editions edit The comic book series has been collected in hardcover volumes Only the first volume has been published in paperback The series will be collected in a pair of hardcover omnibuses the second of includes a new story Monstrous written by Mike Mignola and Christopher Golden art by Ben Stenbeck colors by Dave Stewart and lettering by Clem Robins 47 Volume Title Collects Special Features Published ISBN 1 The Plague Ships The Plague Ships Introduction Back From the Deadby Joe Hill 14 page sketchbook June 8 2011 HC December 21 2011 TPB 9781595826732 HC 9781595826770 TPB 2 The Curse Bells The Curse Bells Introduction A World of Chilled Shadowsby Joe R Lansdale 17 page sketchbook June 13 2012 9781595826749 3 A Passing Strangerand Other Stories The Widow and the Tank A Passing Stranger The Play Dr Leskovar s Remedy The Inquisitor 48 Introduction Spectres of the Warby Kim Newman 10 page sketchbook November 20 2013 9781616551827 4 Chapel of Bones The Infernal Train Chapel of Bones Introductionby Stephen R Bissette 13 page sketchbook June 11 2014 9781616553289 5 The Apostle and the Witch of Harju The Witch of Harju The Wolf and the Apostle 18 page sketchbook March 18 2015 9781616556181 6 The Cult of the Red King The Cult of the Red King 18 page sketchbook January 6 2016 9781616558215 7 Empty Graves Empty Graves 18 page sketchbook December 7 2016 9781506700427 8 The Red Kingdom The Red Kingdom Afterwordby Christopher Golden 12 page sketchbook October 25 2017 9781506701974 Omnibus Editions Volume Collects Special Features Published ISBN Baltimore Omnibus Volume 1 The Plague Ships The Curse Bells The Widow and the Tank A Passing Stranger The Play Dr Leskovar s Remedy The Inquisitor The Infernal Train Chapel of Bones Introductionby Mike Mignola Sketchbook material from The Plague Ships The Curse Bells A Passing Strangerand Other Stories Chapel of Bones Cover gallery October 9 2019 9781506712468 49 Baltimore Omnibus Volume 2 The Witch of Harju The Wolf and the Apostle The Cult of the Red King Empty Graves The Red Kingdom Monstrous Introductionby Christopher Golden Sketchbook material from The Apostle and the Witch of Harju The Cult of the Red King Empty Graves The Red Kingdom Cover gallery March 25 2020 9781506712475 50 Film adaptation editNew Regency optioned the rights to adapt Baltimore as a film in September 2007 The novel s authors wrote a screenplay while David S Goyer was set to direct After a leadership change at New Regency the studio abandoned the project and the rights have reverted to the authors 51 References edit Manning Shaun July 6 2010 Golden Sails on The Plague Ships Comic Book Resources Retrieved March 2 2012 Manning Shaun December 13 2010 HELL BOY ON EARTH Beyond the Hellverse Comic Book Resources Retrieved March 2 2012 Manning Shaun October 8 2010 NYCC Golden Rings Baltimore The Curse Bells Comic Book Resources Retrieved March 2 2012 Baltimore The Plague Ships 1 DarkHorse com Dark Horse Comics Retrieved April 25 2015 Baltimore The Plague Ships 2 DarkHorse com Dark Horse Comics Retrieved April 25 2015 Baltimore The Plague Ships 3 DarkHorse com Dark Horse Comics Retrieved April 25 2015 Baltimore The Plague Ships 4 DarkHorse com Dark Horse Comics Retrieved April 25 2015 Baltimore The Plague Ships 5 DarkHorse com Dark Horse Comics Retrieved April 25 2015 Free Comic Book Day 2011 Baltimore Criminal Macabre 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Soldier and the Vampire Hardcover Spectra ISBN 978 0553804713 External links editOfficial website Baltimore website at Christopher Golden Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Baltimore comics amp oldid 1209559586, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

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