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1 Introduction
2 Narrative Settings and Pop-Cultural Environment
3 Types of the Preternatural in Hellboy and Lobster Johnson
3.1 Fusing Christian Semiotics and the Superhero Tradition
3.1.1 “It is for freedom that Christ has set us free”
3.1.2 Liminal Characteristics and the Preternatural
3.2 Retrofuturist Combinations of Secret History and Modern Age Mysticism
3.3 Paranormal Phenomena and Abilities
4 Framing Mythologies in a Cosmological Meta-Plot
4.1 Inter-textual Reconciliation of Mythologies
4.2 Biblical Aniconism in the Hellboy Narratives’ Worldview
5 Depicting the Multitude of the Preternatural in a Transmodernist Approach
6 Conclusion
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- Dr. Jan Leichsenring (Author), 2013, The Preternatural in the Works of Mike Mignola. Semiotic Frames, Literary Functions and Pop Cultural Context, Munich, GRIN Verlag, https://www.grin.com/document/984126
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