THE DEVIL’S FOOTPRINTS #2

Image is rotated 180 degrees (upside-down); cover otherwise appears glossy with sharp corners and clean edges visible in this orientation. No obvious spine stress, creases, or color breaks are apparent, though the plastic sleeve and glare make fine assessment difficult. Interior and back cover were not assessed, so grade is capped conservatively.

The Devil's Footprints #2 is the second chapter of a three-issue Dark Horse Comics miniseries published in 2006, written by Scott Allie with art by Paul Lee, who also provided covers. The series draws on the real Victorian-era English folklore of a trail of cloven hoofprints that appeared overnight across Devon in 1855, using that unexplained historical incident as the springboard for an original supernatural horror story. It arrived amid a wave of mid-2000s creator-driven horror minis at Dark Horse, sitting outside the publisher's licensed franchise lines and without tie-ins to any larger continuity.

As a middle chapter of a self-contained three-issue run from a mid-list Dark Horse horror project, this issue never generated the kind of speculative attention that drives sustained aftermarket demand. It was not widely reviewed as a breakout book at the time, carries no first appearances of note, and has not been reprinted in a way that would raise its profile. Its absence from published market pricing reflects a book that trades close to cover price rather than one overlooked by the market.

Collecting interest here comes mainly from readers assembling complete Scott Allie or Paul Lee bibliographies, Dark Horse horror completists, and folklore/true-crime-adjacent horror fans drawn to the Devil's Footprints legend itself. Raw copies are inexpensive and easy to source in quantity across grades, with little separation in price between reading copies and higher-grade examples. Graded slabs, particularly at the top of the census, occasionally draw modest premiums simply due to low submission numbers rather than any broader collector demand, making this a book bought for completeness rather than investment.