HELLBOY ANIMATED: SWORD OF STORMS

Premium Trading Cards from Inkworks

Includes Mike Mignola and Sean "Cheeks" Galloway Sketch Cards

October 6, 2007 - A professor of folklore opens a forbidden scroll and becomes possessed by the ancient Japanese demons of THUNDER and LIGHTNING, who seek to return and dominate our world. The Bureau of Paranormal Research and Defense sends HELLBOY and a team of agents to investigate, but when Hellboy picks up a samurai sword, he literally disappears into a weird wonderland of Japanese legends, ghosts and monsters. Meanwhile, BPRD agents KATE CORRIGAN and RUSSELL THORNE are on the trail of the possessed professor to bring Hellboy back in SWORD OF STORMS.

Hellboy Animated: Sword of Storms will air on the Cartoon Network starting in October followed by a DVD release in February. Inkworks will release Hellboy Animated: Sword of Storms Premium Trading Cards in January 2007. The 72-card base set features Hellboy and the unlikely family of agents as they tackle the most dangerous missions for Dr. Broom's BPRD.

Also look for several levels of randomly inserted bonus cards including individually hand-drawn sketch cards that will be inserted at a rate of one per box (approximately 1:36 packs). Among the sketch card artists will be Hellboy creator Mike Mignola and Hellboy Animated artist Sean "Cheeks" Galloway. Additional artists and other bonus card levels to be announced.

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Upcoming products from Inkworks include Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Memories (October), Supernatural: Season One (October) and LOST: Season Two (November).