Hellboy: One for One #1

(August 2010)

[Credits] (Table of Contents: 1)

credits, title page / 1 page (report information)

Script

?

Letters

typeset

Indexer Notes

Brief introduction to the series, creator credits and indicia.

Seed of Destruction [Chapter One] (Table of Contents: 2)

Hellboy / comic story / 22 pages (report information)

Script

Mike Mignola (plot); John Byrne (script)

Pencils

Mike Mignola

Inks

Mike Mignola

Colors

Mark Chiarello

Letters

John Byrne; Mike Mignola (see Notes)

Editing

Barbara Kesel (original)

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) [story only has 22 pages; original story credited with 23 pages]

Indexer Notes

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 by Mike Mignola (Table of Contents: 3) (Expand) /

Hellboy / promo (ad from the publisher) / 1 page (report information)