Rasputin, The Voice of the Dragon

With World War II raging, Hellboy's future guardian, Trevor Bruttenholm, enlists with Britain's Military Intelligence, where he uncovers a collection of strange messages. Believing it to be an occult language, he follows his hunch and is thrown into a world of animated corpses, deadly mystics, and Nazi agents. The treacherous journey leads him face to face with the man who will bring Hellboy to Earth - Rasputin!