- Pencils
- Mike Mignola
- Inks
- Mike Mignola
- Letters
- Kevin Nowlan (logo); Mike Mignola ? (design); typeset
- Characters
- Hellboy
- Reprints
The inside front cover has logo, credits, indicia, and frontispiece.
- Script
- Mike Mignola (plot); John Byrne (words)
- Pencils
- Mike Mignola
- Inks
- Mike Mignola
- Colors
- Mark Chiarello
- Letters
- John Byrne; Mike Mignola (see Notes)
- Genre
- adventure; horror-suspense
- Characters
- Hellboy (part origin); 1st Sgt. George Whitman (introduction); The Torch of Liberty; Prof. Malcolm Frost (introduction); Prof. Trevor Bruttenholm [Broom] (introduction); Lady Cynthia Eden-Jones (introduction); Klaus Werner von Krupt (introduction); Prof. Dr. Karl Ruprect Kroenen (introduction); Grigori Rasputin (first appearance in Hellboy series); Leopold Kurtz (introduction); Ilsa Haupstein (introduction); Sven Olafsen (introduction; cameo; flashback); Dr. Tom Manning (introduction); 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
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in Hellboy (Dark Horse, 1994 series) #[1] - Seed of Destruction (October 1994) which is reprinted-
in Hellboy: Semilla de Destrucción (NORMA Editorial, 1995 series) #1 (Febrero 1995) -
in Hellboy: Seed of Destruction (Dark Horse, 1995 series) #[nn] (March 1995) -
in Hellboy (Egmont Polska, 2001 series) #[1] - Nasienie zniszczenia ([październik] 2001) -
in Hellboy (NORMA Editorial, 2002 series) #[1] - Semilla de Destrucción (Abril 2002) -
in Hellboy: Seme uništenja (System Comics, 2005 series) #1 (2005) -
in Hellboy Library Edition (Dark Horse, 2008 series) #1 - Seed of Destruction and Wake the Devil (May 2008) -
in Hellboy: Seed of Destruction (Dark Horse, 2008 series) (June 2008) -
in Hellboy: One for One (Dark Horse, 2010 series) #1 (August 2010) [story only has 22 pages; original story credited with 23 pages] -
in Hellboy: Edición Integral (NORMA Editorial, 2011 series) #1 (Enero 2011) -
in Hellboy Omnibus (Dark Horse, 2018 series) #1 - Seed of Destruction (May 2018) -
in Hellboy: Seed of Destruction #1 25th Anniversary (Dark Horse, 2019 series) (2019) -
in Ултимативна комикс колекция (Артлайн Студиос [Artline Studios], 2021 series) #1 - Хелбой: Семето на разрухата (2021)
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.
- Script
- Arthur Adams
- Pencils
- Arthur Adams
- Inks
- Arthur Adams
- Colors
- Matt Hollingsworth
- Letters
- L. Lois Buhalis
- Genre
- science fiction; adventure
- Characters
- Axwell Tiberius [Monkeyman] (see Notes); Ann O'Brien; Akiko Oki (introduction); Oniko O'Brien (introduction)
- Synopsis
- The daughters of "famous inventor and adventurer" Prof. William S. O'Brien, Ann and Oniko, argue in an underground lab at the San Francisco estate of their missing father. When a program is accidentally activated that opens a rift between dimensions, a suited humanoid figure and a severed ape head hurtle through as the sisters are caught in a blast of strange energy.
- Reprints
Monkeyman and O'Brien appear as a duo on the splash page only. Tiberius is not seen out of his suit until Chapter 2 and is named in Chapter 3. The characters' first published appearance, like Hellboy's, was in San Diego Comic-Con Comics (Dark Horse, 1992 series) #2 (August 1993), although the events of this story predate the duo's exploits in that issue.