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Abraham "Abe" Sapien is a fictional character in the comic book series Hellboy, created by Mike Mignola. He is an "Icthyo sapien", something of a merman, although at first glance, one might mistake him for an aquatic "grey alien".
Abe was found in a water-filled tube in a Washington, D.C. hospital. He got his name from a piece of paper attached to the tube, labeling him as an "Icthyo sapien", and dated the day of Abraham Lincoln's assassination: (April 14, 1865). Abe quickly entered the ranks of the Bureau for Paranormal Research and Defense (B.P.R.D.), along with the demon Hellboy and the pyrokinetic Liz Sherman.
Abe first appeared in the series Hellboy: Seed of Destruction. As well as regular appearances in Hellboy and BPRD, Abe has also starred in his own one-shot comic, Abe Sapien: Drums of the Dead by Brian McDonald and Derek Thompson.
Abe Sapien has the ability to breathe under water and resist the pressures of the deep. On land, he is a formidable hand-to-hand combatant and a brilliant marksman. Abe is perhaps the most trusted field agent the Bureau has, and the other superhuman agents place their faith in him utterly