Hellboy: Seed of Destruction
| Hellboy: Seed of Destruction |
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Cover of Hellboy: Seed of Destruction TPB.
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| Publication information | |
| Publisher | Legend (Dark Horse Comics) |
| Schedule | Monthly |
| Format | Mini-series |
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| Publication date | March – June 1994 |
| Number of issues | 4 |
| Creative team | |
| Writer(s) |
John Byrne Mike Mignola |
| Artist(s) | Mike Mignola |
| Letterer(s) | Mike Mignola |
| Colorist(s) |
Mark Chiarello Matt Hollingsworth |
| Creator(s) | Mike Mignola |
| Editor(s) | Barbara Kesel |
| Collected editions | |
| Seed of Destruction | |
Hellboy: Seed of Destruction is the first Hellboy comic book mini-series, published by Dark Horse Comics. It was conceived and illustrated by Mike Mignola and scripted by John Byrne.
This was, in part, the basis for the 2004 Hellboy motion picture directed by Guillermo del Toro.
The comic opens in 1944, with a report from a U.S Army official named George Whitman, who has been ordered to lead a team of commandos to the (fictional) village of East Bromwich in the English Midlands. The army group (accompanied by a Nazi-fighting superhero named The Torch of Liberty) is under the guidance of three paranormal officials, one of whom is a young Trevor Bruttenholm. According to the group psychic, one Lady Cynthia Eden-Jones, a terrible event is to take place in a local ruined church; a doomsday project orchestrated by the Nazis, which could herald the end of the world.
However, the actual rite is taking place at Tarmagant Island, a small island off the coast of Scotland. The Nazis have set up an array of strange machines around a stone circle, in the center of which stands the fabled Russian psychic Grigori Rasputin. The wizard, armed with a pair of powerful gauntlets, attempts to summon the Ogdru Jahad from their prisons to the earth. Although unseen, the beasts are referred to as "knowing no care" and "heralds of pestilence", marking them out as amoral, dangerous entities.
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