Hellboy Omnibus
#1 - Seed of Destruction
(May 2018)
Dark Horse,
2018 Series
- Volume
- 1
- Price
- 24.99 USD; 33.99 CAD
- Pages
- 372
- On-sale Date
- 2018-05-09
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Dark Horse Books
- Brand
-
Dark Horse Books [facing left]
- ISBN
-
1-5067-0666-5; 978-1-5067-0666-5
- Barcode
- 9781506706665 52499
- Editing
- Dave Marshall (editor in chief); Chris Warner (senior books editor)
Issue Notes
First omnibus volume which reprints the Hellboy stories beginning from the Seed of Destruction miniseries.
Collects Hellboy: Seed of Destruction (Dark Horse, 1994 series) #1-4; Hellboy: Wake the Devil (Dark Horse, 1996 series) #1-5; Hellboy: Almost Colossus (Dark Horse, 1997 series) #1-2 and material from San Diego Comic Con Comics (Dark Horse, 1993 series) #2; The Comic Buyer's Guide #1070 and Dark Horse Presents (Dark Horse, 1986 series) #88-91, 100.
These material were previously collected in Hellboy (Dark Horse, 1994 series) #1-3 and in Hellboy: The Wolves of St. August (Dark Horse, 1995 series).
Collects Hellboy: Seed of Destruction (Dark Horse, 1994 series) #1-4; Hellboy: Wake the Devil (Dark Horse, 1996 series) #1-5; Hellboy: Almost Colossus (Dark Horse, 1997 series) #1-2 and material from San Diego Comic Con Comics (Dark Horse, 1993 series) #2; The Comic Buyer's Guide #1070 and Dark Horse Presents (Dark Horse, 1986 series) #88-91, 100.
These material were previously collected in Hellboy (Dark Horse, 1994 series) #1-3 and in Hellboy: The Wolves of St. August (Dark Horse, 1995 series).
Seed of Destruction
Hellboy / cover / 1 page
- Genre
- adventure; horror-suspense
- Characters
- Hellboy; Grigori Rasputin
Hellboy: Seed of Destruction
credits, title page / 1 page
- Pencils
- Mike Mignola (signed)
- Inks
- Mike Mignola (signed)
- Letters
- typeset
- Characters
- Hellboy; Grigori Rasputin
- Reprints
Indexer Notes
Title page with a 1/4 page drawing of Hellboy.
Seed of Destruction
illustration / 1 page
- Pencils
- Mike Mignola (signed)
- Inks
- Mike Mignola (signed)
- Colors
- Dave Stewart
- Letters
- ?
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Characters
- Hellboy
Chapter One
illustration / 1 page
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Reprints
-
from Hellboy (Dark Horse, 1994 series) #[1] - Seed of Destruction (October 1994)
-
[Hellboy: Seed of Destruction #1 Cover]
Hellboy / cover reprint (on interior page) / 1 page
- Pencils
- Arthur Adams (inset); Mike Mignola (signed) (main)
- Inks
- Arthur Adams (inset); Mike Mignola (signed) (main)
- Genre
- adventure; horror-suspense
- Characters
- Hellboy; Monkeyman [Axwell Tiberius] (inset); Ann O'Brien (inset)
- Reprints
- from Hellboy: Seed of Destruction (Dark Horse, 1994 series) #1 (March 1994)
-
[Seed of Destruction Chapter One]
Hellboy / comic story / 23 pages
- Script
- Mike Mignola (plotter); John Byrne (scripter)
- Pencils
- Mike Mignola
- Inks
- Mike Mignola
- Colors
- Mark Chiarello
- Letters
- John Byrne; Mike Mignola (see Notes)
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Journal of 1st Sgt. George Whitman.
- Genre
- adventure; horror-suspense
- Characters
- Trevor Bruttenholm (introduction); Cynthia Eden-Jones (introduction); Malcolm Frost (introduction); Ilsa Haupstein (introduction); Hellboy (part origin); Karl Ruprect Kroenen (introduction); Leopold Kurtz (introduction); Tom Manning (introduction); Grigori Rasputin (first appearance in Hellboy series); Torch of Liberty; Klaus Werner von Krupt (introduction); 1st Sgt. George Whitman (introduction); Sven Olafsen (introduction; cameo; flashback); Emma Cavendish (introduction)
- Synopsis
- 1944: In East Bromwich, England, specialists from the British Paranormal Society have gathered at church ruins where Lady Cynthia Eden-Jones has sensed a disturbance in the ether. When a demon child appears in an explosion of flame, Trevor "Broom" Bruttenholm dubs it Hellboy. 1994: Bruttenholm tells Hellboy about his recent expedition to the Arctic. Frogs then swarm into the office and Bruttenholm retreats from the room only to crash back into it dead. Hellboy battles and kills the froglike beast, then calls the head office of the Bureau of Paranormal Research and Defense.
- Reprints
- from Hellboy: Seed of Destruction (Dark Horse, 1994 series) #1 (March 1994)
-
Indexer Notes
Part 1 of 4 of Seed of Destruction saga.
Mignola drew balloons and sound effects; Byrne lettered the dialogue with font based on his hand lettering. Neither is credited.
The Nazi officers are identified on the final story page, presented as a dossier on Project Ragna Rok. Manning's first name is revealed in a future storyline. Emma Cavendish's identity is revealed next issue.
Hellboy first appeared in a story in San Diego Comic-Con Comics (Dark Horse, 1992 series) #2 (August 1993), given away at the convention, and was seen in John Byrne's Next Men (Dark Horse, 1992 series) #21 (December 1993) as a fictional character a few months before this miniseries was released.
An African Myth About A Frog
text article / 1 page
- Reprints
- from Hellboy (Dark Horse, 1994 series) #[1] - Seed of Destruction (October 1994)
-
Chapter Two
illustration / 1 page
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Reprints
- from Hellboy (Dark Horse, 1994 series) #[1] - Seed of Destruction (October 1994)
-
[Hellboy: Seed of Destruction #2 Cover]
Hellboy / cover reprint (on interior page) / 1 page
- Pencils
- Mike Mignola (signed) (main); Arthur Adams (inset)
- Inks
- Arthur Adams (inset); Mike Mignola (signed) (main)
- Genre
- adventure; horror-suspense
- Characters
- Hellboy; Monkeyman [Axwell Tiberius] (inset); Ann O'Brien (inset)
- Reprints
- from Hellboy: Seed of Destruction (Dark Horse, 1994 series) #2 (April 1994)
-
[Seed of Destruction Chapter Two]
Hellboy / comic story / 24 pages
- Script
- Mike Mignola (plotter); John Byrne (scripter)
- Pencils
- Mike Mignola
- Inks
- Mike Mignola
- Colors
- Mark Chiarello
- Letters
- John Byrne; Mike Mignola (see Notes)
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- I did my homework before we come out here.
- Genre
- adventure; horror-suspense
- Characters
- Hellboy; Grigori Rasputin; Abe Sapien [Langdon Everett Caul] (introduction; part origin); Liz Sherman (introduction); Emma Cavendish (death); Elihu Cavendish (introduction; cameo; flashback); Sven Olafsen; Sadu-Hem (introduction)
- Synopsis
- Hellboy arrives at Cavendish Hall, to find out more about the Arctic expedition, with two fellow BPRD Agents -- the pyrokinetic Liz Sherman and amphibious humanoid Abe Sapien. The trio interviews the family matriarch, after which Abe investigates underwater, Liz disappears, and Hellboy battles another frog creature before being confronted by Rasputin.
- Reprints
- from Hellboy: Seed of Destruction (Dark Horse, 1994 series) #2 (April 1994)
-
Indexer Notes
Part 2 of 4 of Seed of Destruction saga.
Mignola drew balloons and sound effects; Byrne lettered the dialogue with font based on his hand lettering. Neither is credited.
Sadu-Hem is named in the next issue.
Chapter Three
illustration / 1 page
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Reprints
- from Hellboy (Dark Horse, 1994 series) #[1] - Seed of Destruction (October 1994)
-
[Hellboy: Seed of Destruction #3 Cover]
Hellboy / cover reprint (on interior page) / 1 page
- Pencils
- Mike Mignola (signed); Arthur Adams (inset)
- Inks
- Mike Mignola (signed); Arthur Adams (inset)
- Genre
- horror-suspense; superhero
- Characters
- Hellboy; Monkeyman [Axwell Tiberius] (inset); Ann O'Brien (inset); Grigori Rasputin
- Reprints
- from Hellboy: Seed of Destruction (Dark Horse, 1994 series) #3 (May 1994)
-
[Seed of Destruction Chapter Three]
Hellboy / comic story / 24 pages
- Script
- Mike Mignola (plotter); John Byrne (scripter)
- Pencils
- Mike Mignola
- Inks
- Mike Mignola
- Colors
- Mark Chiarello
- Letters
- John Byrne; Mike Mignola (see Notes)
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- When i look back on all the years of my career as the world's greatest paranormal investigator,...
- Genre
- adventure; horror-suspense
- Characters
- Trevor Bruttenholm (flashback) (cameo); Ilsa Haupstein (flashback) (cameo); Hellboy; Karl Ruprect Kroenen (flashback) (cameo); Grigori Rasputin; Abe Sapien [Langdon Everett Caul]; Liz Sherman; Klaus Werner von Krupt (flashback) (cameo); Ogdru-Jahad [the Dragon; Seven Beasts] [Adad-Jahad; Amon-Jahad; Belili-Jahad; Irra-Jahad; Namrat-Jahad; Nergal-Jahad; Nunn-Jahad] (image; introduction); Sven Olafsen (transformed); Elihu Cavendish (cameo); Prof. Dr. Karl von Klempt (cameo; flashback); Kriegaffe (cameo; flashback); Sadu-Hem
- Synopsis
- Rasputin tells Hellboy of how after his reported death he was eventually approached by the Nazis and collaborated on Project Ragna Rok, bringing Hellboy into the world and retiring again until he heard the voices of the Ogdru-Jahad calling him to the Arctic.
- Reprints
- from Hellboy: Seed of Destruction (Dark Horse, 1994 series) #3 (May 1994)
-
Indexer Notes
Part 3 of 4 of Seed of Destruction saga.
Mignola drew balloons and sound effects; Byrne lettered the dialogue with font based on his hand lettering. Neither is credited.
Herman von Klempt and the Kriegaffe first appeared in Mike Mignola's Hellboy: World's Greatest Paranormal Investigator (Dark Horse, 1994 series) #[nn] (May 1994), an insert bound into Comics Buyer's Guide #1070, produced before this miniseries despite the nearly simultaneous releases.
Chapter Four
illustration / 1 page
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Reprints
- from Hellboy (Dark Horse, 1994 series) #[1] - Seed of Destruction (October 1994)
-
[Hellboy: Seed of Destruction #4 Cover]
Hellboy / cover reprint (on interior page) / 1 page
- Pencils
- Mike Mignola (signed) (main); Arthur Adams (inset)
- Inks
- Arthur Adams (inset); Mike Mignola (signed) (main)
- Genre
- adventure; horror-suspense
- Characters
- Hellboy; Monkeyman [Axwell Tiberius] (inset); Ann O'Brien (inset); Grigori Rasputin
- Reprints
- from Hellboy: Seed of Destruction (Dark Horse, 1994 series) #4 (June 1994)
-
[Seed of Destruction Chapter Four]
Hellboy / comic story / 23 pages
- Script
- Mike Mignola (plotter); John Byrne (scripter)
- Pencils
- Mike Mignola
- Inks
- Mike Mignola
- Colors
- Mark Chiarello
- Letters
- John Byrne; Mike Mignola (see Notes)
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- They call me "Hellboy", and maybe it's appropriate--
- Genre
- adventure; horror-suspense
- Characters
- Ilsa Haupstein (cameo); Hellboy; Karl Ruprect Kroenen (cameo); Grigori Rasputin (destruction of physical form); Abe Sapien [Langdon Everett Caul]; Liz Sherman; Klaus Werner von Krupt (cameo); Sadu-Hem; Sven Olafsen (death); Ogdru-Jahad [the Dragon; Seven Beasts] [Adad-Jahad; Amon-Jahad; Belili-Jahad; Irra-Jahad; Namrat-Jahad; Nergal-Jahad; Nunn-Jahad]; Elihu Cavendish
- Synopsis
- Liz's energy is drained by Rasputin to channel through Sadu-Hem and free the Ogdru-Jahad as Hellboy battles the frog creature's numbing hold. An untold distance away, the assault on the Seven Beasts' tombs is being incredulously monitored by an alien race. While Abe, spurred on by the spirit of Elihu Cavendish, mortally wounds Rasputin and Liz's power proves too much for him to contain, it falls to Hellboy to face the wizard in final battle.
- Reprints
- from Hellboy: Seed of Destruction (Dark Horse, 1994 series) #4 (June 1994)
-
Indexer Notes
Part 4 of 4 of Seed of Destruction saga.
Mignola drew balloons and sound effects; Byrne lettered the dialogue with font based on his hand lettering. Neither is credited.
The overarching storyline continues in Hellboy: Wake the Devil (Dark Horse, 1996 series) #1 (June 1996).
[no title indexed]
Hellboy / cover reprint (on interior page) / 1 page
- Pencils
- Mike Mignola (signed)
- Inks
- Mike Mignola (signed)
- Colors
- Dave Stewart
- Genre
- adventure; horror-suspense
- Characters
- Hellboy
- Reprints
- from Hellboy: Seed of Destruction (Dark Horse, 2008 series) (June 2008)
-
The Wolves of Saint August
Hellboy / comic story / 41 pages
- Script
- Mike Mignola
- Pencils
- Mike Mignola
- Inks
- Mike Mignola
- Colors
- James Sinclair
- Letters
- Pat Brosseau; Mike Mignola (see Notes)
- Editing
- Barbara Kesel (serial); Scott Allie (expanded version)
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- 1994. Griart. A tiny village in the Balkans of Eastern Europe.
- Genre
- adventure; horror-suspense
- Characters
- Kate Corrigan (introduction); Hellboy; Father Edward Kelly (introduction; death); William Grenier (introduction; death); Philip of Bayeux (flashback)
- Synopsis
- In her first field mission for the BPRD, Dr. Kate Corrigan accompanies Hellboy to the Balkan village of Griart, where the pair investigates a massacre that claimed the life of HB's old friend Father Kelly. She thinks the place might actually be the cursed town of St. August. Ghost sightings and a giant-werewolf smackdown ensue.
- Reprints
- from Hellboy: The Wolves of St. August (Dark Horse, 1995 series) ([November] 1995) which is reprinted
- from Dark Horse Presents (Dark Horse, 1986 series) #88 (August 1994), #89 (September 1994), #90 (October 1994), #91 (November 1994)
-
Indexer Notes
Mignola hand-drew some display lettering and balloons. Story is printed in color for the first time with "eight new pages and some odd panels to smooth out some of the rough spots" per Mignola's notes.
The Chained Coffin
Hellboy / comic story / 10 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Bureau for Paranormal Research and Defense Headquarters, Fairfield, Ct.
- Genre
- adventure; horror-suspense
- Characters
- Hellboy; Abe Sapien [Langdon Everett Caul]; Azzael (introduction)
- Reprints
- from Hellboy (Dark Horse, 1994 series) #[3] - The Chained Coffin and Others (August 1998) which is reprinted
- from Dark Horse Presents (Dark Horse, 1986 series) #100-2 (August 1995) [slightly altered first page]
-
Wake the Devil
Hellboy / cover reprint (on interior page) / 1 page
- Genre
- adventure; horror-suspense
- Characters
- Vladimir Giurescu; Hellboy
- Reprints
[Hellboy: Wake the Devil #1 Cover]
Hellboy / cover reprint (on interior page) / 1 page
- Pencils
- Mike Mignola (signed)
- Inks
- Mike Mignola (signed)
- Genre
- adventure; horror-suspense
- Characters
- Vladimir Giurescu; Hellboy
- Reprints
- from Hellboy: Wake the Devil (Dark Horse, 1996 series) #1 (June 1996)
-
[Wake the Devil Chapter One]
Hellboy / comic story / 22 pages
- Script
- Mike Mignola
- Pencils
- Mike Mignola
- Inks
- Mike Mignola
- Colors
- James Sinclair (guides); Dave Stewart (separations)
- Letters
- Pat Brosseau; Mike Mignola (see Notes)
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Somewhere on the northern coast of Norway, inside the Arctic Circle.
- Genre
- adventure; horror-suspense
- Characters
- Kate Corrigan; Vladimir Giurescu (image only; introduction); Sir Edward Grey (image only; introduction; see Notes); Ilsa Haupstein; Hellboy; Karl Ruprect Kroenen; Leopold Kurtz; Tom Manning (see Notes); Grigori Rasputin (flashback); Abe Sapien [Langdon Everett Caul]; Liz Sherman; Roderick Zinco (introduction); Hans Ubler [Howard Steinman] (introduction; death); Clark [first name unknown] (introduction); Bud Waller (introduction); Sidney Leach (introduction); other BPRD personnel [Bureau of Paranormal Research and Defense]; Unmensch (introduction; cameo; see Notes)
- Synopsis
- The base of the recently revived Nazi scientists Kroenen, Haupstein, and Von Krupt in Norway is broached by Roderick Zinco, who tells them of a visitation by Rasputin and pledges the resources of the Zinco Corporation to the renewal of Project Ragna Rok. One year later, a briefing at BPRD headquarters in Fairfield recaps the history of suspected vampire Vladimir Giurescu, his ties to Project Ragna Rok, and the possible abduction of his body from a museum in New York City. Hellboy and five other agents are sent to Romania to locate Castle Giurescu before his body can be reanimated.
- Reprints
- from Hellboy: Wake the Devil (Dark Horse, 1996 series) #1 (June 1996)
-
Indexer Notes
Part 1 of 5 of Wake the Devil saga.
Mignola hand-drew some display lettering and balloons.
Tom Manning's first name is given in this issue. Leach and Waller's first names are given in #3. Sir Edward Grey is not the historical figure of the same name; his first physical appearance comes in Sir Edward Grey, Witchfinder: In the Service of Angels (Dark Horse, 2009 series) #1. The Unmensch is named in the next issue.
[Hellboy: Wake the Devil #2 Cover]
Hellboy / cover reprint (on interior page) / 1 page
- Pencils
- Mike Mignola (signed)
- Inks
- Mike Mignola (signed)
- Genre
- adventure; horror-suspense
- Characters
- Hellboy; Unmensch
- Reprints
- from Hellboy: Wake the Devil (Dark Horse, 1996 series) #2 (July 1996)
-
[Wake the Devil Chapter Two]
Hellboy / comic story / 22 pages
- Script
- Mike Mignola
- Pencils
- Mike Mignola
- Inks
- Mike Mignola
- Colors
- James Sinclair (guides); Dave Stewart (separations)
- Letters
- Pat Brosseau; Mike Mignola (see Notes)
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Hellboy...
- Genre
- adventure; horror-suspense
- Characters
- Vladimir Giurescu (flashback, origin); Ilsa Haupstein; Hellboy; Karl Ruprect Kroenen (flashback) (cameo); Leopold Kurtz (flashback) (cameo); Grigori Rasputin; Klaus Werner von Krupt (flashback); Unmensch; Ogdru-Jahad [the Dragon; Seven Beasts]; Elder Giurescu [Vladimir Giurescu's father; unnamed] (introduction; death)
- Synopsis
- Hellboy's battle with the Unmensch lands him beneath Castle Giurescu, where the vampire's skeletal, half-dead father recounts his son's transformation. Above, Ilsa Haupstein is visited by the spirit of Rasputin, while elsewhere a mysterious congregation reads from scripture warning of the Ogdru-Jahad.
- Reprints
- from Hellboy: Wake the Devil (Dark Horse, 1996 series) #2 (July 1996)
-
Indexer Notes
Part 2 of 5 of Wake the Devil saga.
Mignola hand-drew some display lettering and balloons.
The Unmensch is named in this issue.
[Hellboy: Wake the Devil #3 Cover]
Hellboy / cover reprint (on interior page) / 1 page
- Pencils
- Mike Mignola (signed)
- Inks
- Mike Mignola (signed)
- Genre
- adventure; horror-suspense
- Characters
- Hellboy
- Reprints
- from Hellboy: Wake the Devil (Dark Horse, 1996 series) #3 (August 1996)
-
[Wake the Devil Chapter Three]
Hellboy / comic story / 22 pages
- Script
- Mike Mignola
- Pencils
- Mike Mignola
- Inks
- Mike Mignola
- Colors
- James Sinclair (guides); Dave Stewart (separations)
- Letters
- Pat Brosseau; Mike Mignola (see Notes)
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Witches of Thessaly:
- Genre
- adventure; horror-suspense
- Characters
- Vladimir Giurescu; Ilsa Haupstein; Hecate (first appearance in Hellboy series); Hellboy; Karl Ruprect Kroenen; Leopold Kurtz; Grigori Rasputin (origin); Roger the Homunculus (introduction); Liz Sherman; Herman von Klempt; Baba Yaga (cameo; flashback; first appearance in Hellboy series); Sidney Leach; Bud Waller (death); Roderick Zinco
- Synopsis
- Hellboy fights off Hecate's minions and then a weakened Giurescu. Rasputin tells Ilsa of his supernatural rebirth. At another Romanian castle, Liz's BPRD team discovers an inert homunculus to whom she is drawn; her pyrokinetic touch brings him to life. Zinco brings Kroenen the preserved head of Von Klempt in Norway. Hellboy rigs Castle Giurescu to explode.
- Reprints
- from Hellboy: Wake the Devil (Dark Horse, 1996 series) #3 (August 1996)
-
Indexer Notes
Part 3 of 5 of Wake the Devil saga.
Mignola hand-drew some display lettering and balloons.
Leach and Waller's first names are given in this issue. Roger is named in Hellboy: Almost Colossus.
[Hellboy: Wake the Devil #4 Cover]
Hellboy / cover reprint (on interior page) / 1 page
- Pencils
- Mike Mignola (signed)
- Inks
- Mike Mignola (signed)
- Genre
- adventure; horror-suspense
- Characters
- Hellboy
- Reprints
- from Hellboy: Wake the Devil (Dark Horse, 1996 series) #4 (September 1996)
-
[Wake the Devil Chapter Four]
Hellboy / comic story / 22 pages
- Script
- Mike Mignola
- Pencils
- Mike Mignola
- Inks
- Mike Mignola
- Colors
- James Sinclair (guides); Dave Stewart (separations)
- Letters
- Pat Brosseau; Mike Mignola (see Notes)
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Castle Giurescu, Romania.
- Genre
- adventure; horror-suspense
- Characters
- Kate Corrigan (cameo); Ilsa Haupstein; Hecate; Hellboy; Karl Ruprect Kroenen; Leopold Kurtz (death); Tom Manning; Grigori Rasputin; Abe Sapien [Langdon Everett Caul] (cameo); Herman von Klempt; Clark (cameo); other BPRD personnel [Bureau of Paranormal Research and Defense]; Koku (introduction)
- Synopsis
- Hellboy's battle with Hecate ends just as Castle Giurescu blows up good, the explosion seen by Abe and Clark from a distance. The Baba Yaga's aide Koku presents Rasputin with an iron maiden that Ilsa enters at his urging. Kurtz attacks Von Klempt and is killed by Kroenen. Villagers take an unconscious Hellboy from the castle's rubble to a crossroads, where he is met by Rasputin.
- Reprints
- from Hellboy: Wake the Devil (Dark Horse, 1996 series) #4 (September 1996)
-
Indexer Notes
Part 4 of 5 of Wake the Devil saga.
Mignola hand-drew some display lettering and balloons.
[Hellboy: Wake the Devil #5 Cover]
Hellboy / cover reprint (on interior page) / 1 page
- Pencils
- Mike Mignola (signed)
- Inks
- Mike Mignola (signed)
- Genre
- adventure; horror-suspense
- Characters
- Hellboy
- Reprints
- from Hellboy: Wake the Devil (Dark Horse, 1996 series) #5 (October 1996)
-
[Wake the Devil Chapter Five]
Hellboy / comic story / 24 pages
- Script
- Mike Mignola
- Pencils
- Mike Mignola
- Inks
- Mike Mignola
- Colors
- James Sinclair (guides); Dave Stewart (separations)
- Letters
- Pat Brosseau; Mike Mignola (see Notes)
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Bureau for Paranormal Research and Defense Headquarters, Fairfield, Ct.
- Genre
- adventure; horror-suspense
- Characters
- Kate Corrigan; Hecate; Hellboy (revelation of true name and supposed destiny); Karl Ruprect Kroenen (apparent death); Leopold Kurtz (corpse); Grigori Rasputin; Abe Sapien [Langdon Everett Caul]; Herman von Klempt (apparent death); Clark (death); other BPRD personnel [Bureau of Paranormal Research and Defense]; the Baba Yaga; Dagda; Sir Edward (introduction; see Notes); Roderick Zinco (apparent death)
- Synopsis
- Hellboy's signal is traced to a Romanian church, where Rasputin confronts Abe and speaks of revenge against those who killed him. Giurescu and then Hecate face Hellboy at the crossroads. Hecate tells him about his destiny as Anung un Rama, the Beast of the Apocalypse, a mysterious cloaked figure, and Dagda look on. Kate Corrigan arrives to extract Hellboy and tell him what has befallen the other teams. Rasputin appears at the Norwegian castle headquarters of Project Ragna Rok and strikes Zinco blind, causing him to stumble into a detonator that destroys the castle.
- Reprints
- from Hellboy: Wake the Devil (Dark Horse, 1996 series) #5 (October 1996)
-
Indexer Notes
Part 5 of 5 of Wake the Devil saga.
Mignola hand-drew some display lettering and balloons.
Dagda was previously seen in "The Corpse" and is named in Hellboy: Box Full of Evil (Dark Horse, 1999 series) #2, as is Sir Edward, the supernatural being seen here with Dagda, king of the Irish fairies, and the Baba Yaga; his relationship to the Sir Edward Grey introduced in Wake the Devil #1 is as yet unexplained.
[Vladimir Giurescu / Nicholas Budenz]
Hellboy / text story / 2 pages
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Characters
- Vladimir Giurescu; Nicholas Budenz
- Reprints
- from Hellboy (Dark Horse, 1994 series) #[2] - Wake the Devil (May 1997)
-
Epilogue
Hellboy / comic story / 5 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- The World Tree, Yggdrasil.
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Characters
- Grigori Rasputin; Baba Yaga
- Reprints
- from Hellboy (Dark Horse, 1994 series) #[2] - Wake the Devil (May 1997)
-
[Almost Colossus]
Hellboy / comic story / 46 pages
- Script
- Mike Mignola
- Pencils
- Mike Mignola
- Inks
- Mike Mignola
- Colors
- James Sinclair; Dave Stewart
- Letters
- Pat Brosseau
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- The Wauer Institute, Tirgoviste, Romania.
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Characters
- Kate Corrigan; Hellboy; Tom Manning; Roger the Homunculus; Abe Sapien [Langdon Everett Caul]; Liz Sherman
- Reprints
- from Hellboy (Dark Horse, 1994 series) #[3] - The Chained Coffin and Others (August 1998) which is reprinted
- from Hellboy: Almost Colossus (Dark Horse, 1997 series) #1 (June 1997), #2 (July 1997) [added three pages in total]
-
[no title indexed]
illustration / 1 page
- Script
- Mike Mignola
- Pencils
- Mike Mignola (signed)
- Inks
- Mike Mignola (signed)
- Letters
- typeset
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- A drawing done for a convention program book.
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Characters
- Hellboy
- Reprints
- from Hellboy (Dark Horse, 1994 series) #[1] - Seed of Destruction (October 1994)
-
Indexer Notes
Original Hellboy drawing done for a convention program book.
[no title indexed]
illustration / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- About two years after that first Hellboy drawing,...
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Characters
- Hellboy
- Reprints
- from Hellboy (Dark Horse, 1994 series) #[1] - Seed of Destruction (October 1994)
-
Indexer Notes
First drawing of what would eventually become the B.P.R.D. team featuring Hellboy. First drawing of Abe and Liz.
[no title indexed]
illustration / 1 page
- Script
- Mike Mignola
- Pencils
- Mike Mignola (signed)
- Inks
- Mike Mignola (signed)
- Letters
- typeset
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- My first attempt at a Hellboy promo poster.
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Characters
- Hellboy
- Reprints
- from Hellboy (Dark Horse, 1994 series) #[1] - Seed of Destruction (October 1994)
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Indexer Notes
First rejected attempt at a Hellboy promotional poster.
[no title indexed]
illustration / 1 page
- Script
- Mike Mignola
- Pencils
- Mike Mignola (signed)
- Inks
- Mike Mignola (signed)
- Letters
- typeset
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- First Hellboy promo poster.
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Characters
- Hellboy
- Reprints
- from Hellboy (Dark Horse, 1994 series) #[1] - Seed of Destruction (October 1994)
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Mike Mignola's Hellboy
Hellboy / comic story / 4 pages
- Script
- Mike Mignola (plotter); John Byrne (scripter)
- Pencils
- Mike Mignola
- Inks
- Mike Mignola
- Colors
- Matt Hollingsworth
- Letters
- Mike Mignola
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Freeze! I don't know what you're doing...
- Genre
- adventure; horror-suspense
- Characters
- Hellboy; Herman von Klempt (introduction); Kriegaffe (introduction)
- Reprints
- from Hellboy (Dark Horse, 1994 series) #[1] - Seed of Destruction (October 1994)
-
Indexer Notes
Story published as a insert in The Comic Buyer's Guide #1070.
Mike Mignola's Hellboy
Hellboy / comic story / 4 pages
- Script
- Mike Mignola (plotter); John Byrne (scripter)
- Pencils
- Mike Mignola
- Inks
- Mike Mignola
- Colors
- Matt Hollingsworth
- Letters
- Mike Mignola
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Curious juxtaposition.
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Characters
- Hellboy (introduction); Anubis (first appearance in Hellboy series)
- Synopsis
- Hellboy fights Anubis, Egyptian god of mummification, at a deserted gas station.
- Reprints
- from Hellboy (Dark Horse, 1994 series) #[1] - Seed of Destruction (October 1994) which is reprinted
- from San Diego Comic Con Comics (Dark Horse, 1992 series) #2 (August 1993) [colored]
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Indexer Notes
This is Hellboy's first published appearance.
Mignola drew balloons, display lettering, and sound effects. Byrne lettered the dialogue with font based on his hand lettering. Neither is credited.
Story title is made official in the bibliography of Hellboy: The Companion.
Hellboy Sketchbook
illustration / 18 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- These ate the first drawings of Rasputin, Kutz, and Kroenen.
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Characters
- Hellboy
- Reprints
Indexer Notes
Selection for the section of Hellboy Sketchbook from the first two Library volumes.
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
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0.
Seed of Destruction
Hellboy -
1.
[no title indexed]
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2.
Hellboy: Seed of Destruction
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3.
[no title indexed]
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4.
[no title indexed]
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5.
Seed of Destruction
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6.
Chapter One
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7.
[Hellboy: Seed of Destruction #1 Cover]
Hellboy -
8.
[Seed of Destruction Chapter One]
Hellboy -
9.
An African Myth About A Frog
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10.
Chapter Two
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11.
[Hellboy: Seed of Destruction #2 Cover]
Hellboy -
12.
[Seed of Destruction Chapter Two]
Hellboy -
13.
Chapter Three
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14.
[Hellboy: Seed of Destruction #3 Cover]
Hellboy -
15.
[Seed of Destruction Chapter Three]
Hellboy -
16.
Chapter Four
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17.
[Hellboy: Seed of Destruction #4 Cover]
Hellboy -
18.
[Seed of Destruction Chapter Four]
Hellboy -
19.
[no title indexed]
Hellboy -
20.
The Wolves of Saint August
Hellboy -
21.
The Chained Coffin
Hellboy -
22.
Wake the Devil
Hellboy -
23.
Chapter One
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24.
[Hellboy: Wake the Devil #1 Cover]
Hellboy -
25.
[Wake the Devil Chapter One]
Hellboy -
26.
Chapter Two
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27.
[Hellboy: Wake the Devil #2 Cover]
Hellboy -
28.
[Wake the Devil Chapter Two]
Hellboy -
29.
Chapter Three
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30.
[Hellboy: Wake the Devil #3 Cover]
Hellboy -
31.
[Wake the Devil Chapter Three]
Hellboy -
32.
Chapter Four
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33.
[Hellboy: Wake the Devil #4 Cover]
Hellboy -
34.
[Wake the Devil Chapter Four]
Hellboy -
35.
Chapter Five
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36.
[Hellboy: Wake the Devil #5 Cover]
Hellboy -
37.
[Wake the Devil Chapter Five]
Hellboy -
38.
[Vladimir Giurescu / Nicholas Budenz]
Hellboy -
39.
Epilogue
Hellboy -
40.
Almost Colossus
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41.
[Almost Colossus]
Hellboy -
42.
["A drawing done for a convention program book."]
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43.
["About two years after that first Hellboy drawing,..."]
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44.
["My first attempt at a Hellboy promo poster."]
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45.
["First Hellboy promo poster."]
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46.
Mike Mignola's Hellboy
Hellboy -
47.
Mike Mignola's Hellboy
Hellboy -
48.
Hellboy Sketchbook
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49.
Also by Mike Mignola
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50.
Hellboy by Mike Mignola
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51.
[no title indexed]
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52.
["Hellboy is one of the most widely praised..."]
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- Kauldi Gilibert
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- Richard Thomson
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