Vril and the Mignolaverse
Okay, I'm sure I'll get pounded on for not already knowing this stuff, but not too long ago I re-read [I]Hellboy and the B.P.R.D.: 1954 - The Black Sun[/I] #1-2, and I'm currently re-reading the tpb collection of [I]Sledgehammer 44[/I].
Anyway, looking into "vril" on a Google search, and the article it turned up for "Vril" ([URL="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vril"]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vril[/URL]) touches on so many things that I've already read in Mignolaverse books that it's quite thought-provoking (for me, anyway).
Among other things, it references a 19th century novel by Edward Bulwer-Lytton titled [I][U]The Coming Race[/U][/I] with a subterranean world populated by a race called the Vril-ya (who themselves are descendants of a race called the Ana). The Vril-ya have access to a source called "Vril" which had very destructive potential.
Later in the article it talks about a "Vril Society" in 20th century Germany as well as a link to a book called [I][U]Black Sun: Aryan Cults, Esoteric Nazism and the Politics of Identity[/U][/I].
Another Wikipedia article on Nazi UFOs ([URL="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazi_UFOs"]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazi_UFOs[/URL]) also suggests what we had in [I]Hellboy and the B.P.R.D.: 1954 - The Black Sun[/I].
I know the Vril technology played a part in [I]Lobster Johnson: The Iron Prometheus[/I] as well as in [I]Sledgehammer 44[/I] and [I]Hellboy and the B.P.R.D.: 1954 - The Black Sun[/I], but where else has it played a major part?