Comics Legend Mike Mignola’s Hellboy: Seed of Destruction #1 Returns with Facsimile Reprint from Dark Horse Comics
- Byron O'Neal
- Feb 19
- 3 min read
The Issue that Launched the Hellboy Universe is Recreated with Original Design, Ads, Art Adams’ Backup Story, and a New Variant Cover by Mike Mignola!
Today, at the Comics PRO Comic Book Industry Meeting in Glendale, CA, Dark Horse Comics is announcing a collectible facsimile edition of the first-ever Hellboy comic by the award-winning cartoonist Mike Mignola. Since its inception in 1994, Mignola’s legendary Hellboy has become one of the most beloved, expansive comics universes in the history of the medium, earning both Eisner and Harvey Awards, leading to four film adaptations, and inspiring generations of creators. To celebrate the series’ legacy, Dark Horse Comics is releasing a new facsimile edition of the first-ever Hellboy comic. Co-written by Mignola and John Byrne, with art by Mignola, colors by Mark Chiarello, and letters from Pat Brosseau, Hellboy: Seed of Destruction #1 Facsimile Reprint will include all of the original design and ads from the original edition, including comic art icon Art Adams’ “Monkeyman and O’Brien” backup story. Dark Horse will also publish a 1:25 variant edition featuring new art by MIgnola with colors by Dave Stewart.
“Nothing compares to flipping through a #1 issue of a comic book and longtime fans and new readers alike can experience that with this first issue of Hellboy in its entirety—we’ve worked closely with our art team to reassemble the full comic with its original backup story, ads, and all!” - Dark Horse Comics Editor Katii O’Brien
With an epic story and jaw-dropping artwork from Mignola, Hellboy: Seed of Destruction #1 transports readers to 1944, where paranormal investigators lead a team of U.S. Army commandos to stop an occult nazi ritual that summons a young demon. What follows is a thrilling, one-of-a-kind adventure that kicks off a decades long journey for Hellboy and comic fans. From his apocalyptic origin in WWII England to the modern-day case of the sole survivor of a doomed Arctic expedition, Hellboy must battle vampire frog creatures and worse in his debut miniseries.This new facsimile reprint is the perfect jumping-on point for new readers and a beautifully designed edition to longtime readers’ collections. .
Hellboy: Seed of Destruction #1 Facsimile Reprint is due out on July 1, 2026 from Dark Horse Comics. Follow Dark Horse on social media for more news, announcements, and updates.
About Mike Mignola
Mike Mignola was born in 1960 in Berkeley, California, where he used to haunt used bookstores and fell in love with ghosts. He has drawn a whole lot of stuff for Marvel, DC, and Dark Horse Comics, has done concept art for both live-action and animated films, and has cowritten a couple of novels. He is best known for creating Hellboy and a great many Hellboy-related characters and recently began writing and drawing a series of folklore-inspired Lands Unknown graphic novels. When not drawing stories about ghosts and monsters, he is painting pictures of ghosts and monsters, and he can still, occasionally, be found haunting used bookstores. He lives in New York City.
About Dark Horse Comics
Dark Horse Comics was founded in 1986 by Mike Richardson as an offshoot of his comics retail chain, Things From Another World. With a goal of creating a welcoming environment for comics professionals, Dark Horse continues to publish the work of many of the greatest creators in the industry’s history. Dark Horse, from its beginning, also has a track record of establishing new creative talent. Early on, the company set new standard for quality with licensed properties, including comics, graphic novels, collectibles, and art books based on popular film and gaming properties. Dark Horse also began building a manga publishing line in the 1980s, going on to release such classics as Lone Wolf & Cub, Akira, Ghost In the Shell, Trigun, and Berserk. Richardson established Dark Horse Entertainment as a film division in 1989, finding initial success with his own creations, The Mask and TimeCop. Recent hits from Dark Horse Entertainment include The Umbrella Academy on Netflix and Resident Alien on SyFy. In 2022, Dark Horse Media, LLC was established as Dark Horse became part of Embracer Group AB.
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