In January, Dark Horse Comics will release Hellboy: The Corpse and the Iron Shoes, a special one-shot comic book by Legend creator Mike Mignola. This 32-page comic book will collect the highly sought-after Hellboy feature titled "The Corpse," originally serialized in Capital City Distribution's Advance Comics, but never completed.

"At last, the entire story will be available between one set of covers," said editor Scott Allie.

"The Corpse" is the story of Tam O'Clannie, a friend of the faerie folk who populate the twilit nether regions of the Irish countryside. Tam is a rough, hard-drinking sort. When he dies, the faerie folk are determined to give him a respectable Christian burial, as a tribute to his many vices. The faeries steal a human infant and refuse to give the child up until they get their wish.

"Hellboy has to search for a Christian graveyard while carrying this dead guy on his back," said Mignola. "And it gets a whole lot more complicated when every mythical pagan creature imaginable decides to get in Hellboy's way. Of all the Hellboy material I've written and drawn so far, `The Corpse' is my personal favorite."

The comic also features a brand-new, never-before-published Hellboy story titled "The Iron Shoes." This story is set in the early 1960s and pits Hellboy against a "border goblin" right out of traditional Irish folklore.

Hellboy: The Corpse and the Iron Shoes is a 32-page comic priced at $2.95. It ships on January 23.