From the pages of Mike Mignola's best-selling series Hellboy comes the latest Dark Horse paranormal investigator, Abe Sapien. In his first solo adventure, Drums of the Dead, Sapien confronts an ages-old dark force, bound by the chains of eternity to the shark-infested waters of the Atlantic.

For years, commercial ships making the voyage between West Africa and the Bahamas have experienced bizarre paranormal activities -- and when the captain of The Polaris loses yet another crew member to a sudden, violent attack of insanity, the Bureau for Paranormal Research and Defense calls in Abe Sapien, Hellboy's unusual fishy friend, to find the source of the mysterious pounding of drums, ghostly possessions, and violent attacks that have haunted the region's shipping industry.

Brian McDonald, (Harry the Cop, Predator: Strange Roux) is happy to have penned this eerie adventure for Hellboy's sentient sidekick, and to him, there's little doubt that Hellboy fans will enjoy the tale. "Hellboy and Abe Sapien are two of the most unique characters in comics today, and I am just happy that Mike Mignola trusted me enough to let me baby sit one of his kids," McDonald muses. "If people have as much fun reading this as I did writing it, they're in for a treat."

Abe Sapien: Drums of the Dead is a full-color one-shot comic by Brian McDonald and Industrial Light and Magic artist Derek Thompson. This unique release also features a Hellboy short story by Mike Mignola in which our hellish hero journeys to Japan to battle five evil demon heads. Abe Sapien: Drums of the Dead creeps into comic stores everywhere March 4, and retails for $2.95.