B.P.R.D.: The Dead (Comic)

Abe Sapien digs up more details of his origin, as the biggest secret in ten years of Hellboy comics continues to unravel. The other members of the Bureau for Paranormal Research and Defense meet their new team leader, a formerly dead Pentagon special operative, as they move in to their new command center to combat the ongoing plague of frogs.

Mysterious shrines are appearing across the Midwest-shrines to frog-like gods that mean gruesome death for anyone who encounters them. But before the Bureau for Paranormal Research and Defense can pursue this threat, Johann is overcome by a mysterious presence lurking deep beneath the new B.P.R.D. headquarters. Meanwhile, Abe Sapien wrestles with demons of his own in an old house on the coast of Rhode Island. The secrets of his past are not only revealed to him, but take terrible form before his very eyes.

Johann communes with the Bureau's new headquarters, while the eighty-year-old German who'd been living in the basement, surviving on a diet of spiders and mushrooms since the fifties, shares a story of Nazi scientists, occult technology, and the U.S. death-ray cannon. Back east in a small seaside village, Abe Sapien reunites with his dead wife.

Something horrible has waited fifty years inside an abandoned military facility that the Bureau for Paranormal Research and Defense. Now the team must confront the ghosts of scientists and a Nazi madman with a scheme involving the Robe of Christ, the Spear of Destiny, and a giant death ray. Back on the East Coast, Abe Sapien dreams of happier times in the arms of his long-dead wife.

As computers explode and deadly insects pour out of the walls of the team's new underground headquarters, Johann, possessed by the ghosts of the Nazi scientists, struggles to stop the madman who's recovered the Spear of Destiny. Back in Rhode Island, Abe Sapien concludes matters with his dead wife.

The Bureau for Paranormal Research and Defense and their new team leader, a former corpse himself, moves into their new headquarters only to unearth a gigantic long-buried secret involving United States government covert experiments and Nazi scientists.