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Series: Hellboy: Seed of Destruction

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Publisher: Dark Horse

Title: Hellboy: Seed of Destruction
Issue: 1
Page Count: 36
Publish Date: March 1994
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Contributors: Editor: Barbara Kesel

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Inside This Issue:

Detailed information about the issue is listed below.

Story Title: [ no title ] - cover
Features:Hellboy
Pages:1
Pencils:Mike Mignola (main; signed); Arthur Adams (inset)
Inks:Mike Mignola (main; signed); Arthur Adams (inset)
Colors:Mark Chiarello
Letters:Kevin Nowlan (logo); ?
Genre:adventure; horror-suspense
Characters:Hellboy; Monkeyman and O'Brien [Axwell Tiberius; Ann O'Brien] (inset)


Story Title: Credits - credits, title page
Pages:1
Pencils:Mike Mignola
Inks:Mike Mignola
Letters:Kevin Nowlan (logo); Mike Mignola ? (design); typeset
Characters:Hellboy


Story Title: Seed of Destruction [Chapter One] - comic story
Features:Hellboy
Pages:23
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.


Story Title: Afterword - foreword, introduction, preface, afterword
Features:Hellmail
Pages:1
Pencils:Mike Mignola
Inks:Mike Mignola
Letters:Mike Mignola ? (design); typeset


Story Title: Who Are Monkeyman and O'Brien? [Chapter 1] - comic story
Features:Monkeyman and O'Brien
Pages:7
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.


Story Title: Experience the Power of John Byrne's Next Men - promo (ad from the publisher)
Features:Next Men
Pages:1
Pencils:John Byrne
Inks:John Byrne; Gary Cody (painted)
Colors:Gary Cody (painted)


Story Title: Next Issue - promo (ad from the publisher)
Features:Hellboy
Pages:1
Pencils:Mike Mignola (main; signed); Arthur Adams (inset)
Inks:Mike Mignola (main; signed); Arthur Adams (inset)
Letters:Mike Mignola ? (design); typeset
Characters:Hellboy; Monkeyman and O'Brien [Axwell Tiberius; Ann O'Brien] (inset)


Story Title: On Sale Now! Chaykin Power & Glory - advertisement
Features:Power & Glory
Pages:1
Pencils:Howard Chaykin
Inks:Howard Chaykin


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