Hellboy: Seed of Destruction

    (Dark Horse, 1994, 1997, 2003, 2010, 2019)
™ and ©1997 Gordon Rennie, Gary Erskine. Cover art ©1997 Brian Horton

First appearing in Dark Horse Presents (and as a comic character in Next Men), Hellboy now appears in his own multiple Eisner award-winning series. His story begins as the Third Reich began ticking down its final hours. The Nazis made a last, desperate attempt to turn the tide by summoning unearthly powers to come to their rescue. What they got was a strange red child—Hellboy.

Hellboy fell into the hands of the Allies and has now grown into adulthood. No stranger to weird phenomena, he now makes his living as a paranormal investigator. In “Seed of Destruction,” he takes on his strangest case yet—the murder of his adoptive father. Joined by Elizabeth Sherman, a pyrokinetic, and Abraham Sapien, a genetically engineered man-fish, they’ll take on all manner of danger in order to solve the case. And before it’s all over, Hellboy will have come face-to-face with the sorcerer who summoned him into this world…
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  • 1
    #1
    Mar 1994
    Cover: $2.50
    W: Mike Mignola, John Byrne, Arthur Adams  ·  A: Mike Mignola, Arthur Adams
    1st Appearance of Monkeyman & O’Brien (in back-up story); Origin of Hellboy
    6 copies from $60.00
  • 1-2
    #1 - 2nd printing
    #1 for $1 Edition with cover by Mike Mignola
    Aug 2010
    Cover: $1.00
    W: Mike Mignola, John Byrne, Arthur Adams  ·  A: Mike Mignola, Arthur Adams
    Indicia reads title as Hellboy: One for One
    No copies available
  • 1-3
    #1 - 3rd printing
    25th Anniversary Edition with cover by Mike Mignola
    Mar 2019
    W: Mike Mignola, John Byrne, Arthur Adams  ·  A: Mike Mignola, Arthur Adams
    Origin of Hellboy
    7 copies from $0.61
  • 1/A
    #1 Variation A
    B&W Virgin Cover A by Mike Mignola
    Jul 1994
    Cover: $2.50
    W: Mike Mignola, John Byrne, Arthur Adams  ·  A: Mike Mignola, Arthur Adams
    1 copy for $25.00
  • 1/B
    #1 Variation B
    B&W Cover B by Mike Mignola
    Jul 2024
    Cover: $25.00
    W: Mike Mignola, John Byrne, Arthur Adams  ·  A: Mike Mignola, Arthur Adams
    No copies available
  • 1/C
    #1 Variation C
    2026 Facsimile Cover C by Mike Mignola
    Cover: $4.99
    W: Mike Mignola  ·  A: Mike Mignola
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  • 1/D
    #1 Variation D
    1:25 2026 Facsimile Cover D by Mike Mignola
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    W: Mike Mignola  ·  A: Mike Mignola
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  • 2
    #2
    Apr 1994
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    W: Mike Mignola, John Byrne, Arthur Adams  ·  A: Mike Mignola, Arthur Adams
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  • 3
    #3
    May 1994
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    W: Mike Mignola, John Byrne, Arthur Adams  ·  A: Mike Mignola, Arthur Adams
    1 copy for $55.00
  • 4
    #4
    Jun 1994
    Cover: $2.50
    W: Mike Mignola, John Byrne, Arthur Adams  ·  A: Mike Mignola, Arthur Adams
    Final issue
    3 copies from $16.00
  • Ash 1
    Ashcan #1
    May 1994
    Cover: $2.50
    W: Mike Mignola, John Byrne  ·  A: Mike Mignola
    4 page supplement to Comics Buyer’s Guide #1070 (May 20, 1994); B&W
    No copies available
  • Bk 1
    Book #1
    Oct 1994
    Cover: $17.95
    W: Mike Mignola, John Byrne, Robert Bloch  ·  A: Mike Mignola, Simon Bisley, Mike Allred, Frank Miller, Fred Blanchard, Gary Gianni
    Collects Hellboy: Seed of Destruction #1-4
    No copies available
  • Bk 1-2
    Book #1 - 2nd printing
    Cover: $17.95
    W: Mike Mignola, John Byrne, Robert Bloch  ·  A: Mike Mignola
    No copies available
  • Bk 1-3
    Book #1 - 3rd printing
    Cover: $17.95
    W: Mike Mignola, John Byrne, Robert Bloch  ·  A: Mike Mignola
    4 copies from $4.95
  • Bk 1-6
    Book #1 - 6th printing
    Nov 2003
    Cover: $17.95
    W: Mike Mignola, John Byrne  ·  A: Mike Mignola
    No copies available
  • Bk 1-7
    Book #1 - 7th printing
    Cover: $17.99
    W: John Byrne  ·  A: Mike Mignola
    No copies available
  • Bk 1/LE
    Book #1 Limited Edition
    Cover: $99.95
    W: Mike Mignola, John Byrne, Robert Bloch  ·  A: Mike Mignola
    Collects Hellboy: Seed of Destruction #1–4
    No copies available