Advance Comics - The Corpse

[Confused85]

The wiki and a few other places say that the corpse was first issued in Advance Comics in 1995, issues 75 to 82.
I have searched online and can find covers to most of them but none show anything about containing a Hellboy story. And i can never find them for sale.
Has anyone got these comics in their collection? I'm starting to question if they even exist!

[Kees_L]

I don't have them in my collection but according to my info 'Hellboy: The Corpse' was firstly serialized in the Wisconsin-based "Capital City" comics distribution catalog Advance Comics #75 (March 1995) through #82 (October 1995) - being technically not a comic but a catalog.

A 'distribution catalog' doesn't accomodate retail or resale value of itself as much as aiming to attract folks into making actual orders more rather, plus back then hardworking comic-shop owners needed stuff to put their coffees on.
It's almost as if the allure to promo stuff flourishes the lesser availability would prove.

It's likely this advance material at least won't ever have been as widely or lastingly made available (or as lush) as the standalone Dark Horse comic that followed in 1996.

Since I'm far away from the US I opted to never track these particular issues down, especially since the '96 comic suits me fine. But they do exist if there'd be any left, probably no longer free 'though!

[St. August]

I knew I had them somewhere and really had to dig around to find them.
I had pulled just the two pages of comic out of each Advance booklet and trashed the rest back in the day.
The first installment also had an 'introduction' page.

[thwhtGuardian]

I knew I had them somewhere and really had to dig around to find them.
I had pulled just the two pages of comic out of each Advance booklet and trashed the rest back in the day.
The first installment also had an 'introduction' page.

Oh man, that's awesome! Thanks for sharing, I've never actually seen one of these.

[middenway]

Oh man, that's awesome! Thanks for sharing, I've never actually seen one of these.

Ditto this sentiment. It's really cool to see it.