Hellboy Omnibus Volume 1 Seed of Destruction [Paperback]

TheHellboysaga begins--with over 300 pages drawn by Mignola! For the first time, Hellboy's complete story is presented in chronological order for the ultimate reading experience.

The story jumps from Hellboy's mysterious World War II origin to his 1994 confrontation with the man who summoned him to earth, and the earliest signs of the plague of frogs. Avoiding his supposed fate as the herald of the end of the world, Hellboy continues with the Bureau for Paranormal Research and Defense, fighting alongside Abe Sapien, Liz Sherman, and drafting Roger Homunculus into his own ill-fated service with the B.P.R.D.

The four volumeHellboy Omnibusseries along with the two volumes ofThe Complete Short Storiescollect all of Mignola's award-winning Hellboy stories in chronological order for a definitive reading experience.

This 368-page volume covers Hellboy's adventures from 1994 to 1997, reprintingSeed of Destruction, Wake the Devil, and Wolves of St August, The Chained Coffin, and Almost Colossus, fromThe Chained CoffinandThe Right Hand of Doom.Mike Mignola's fascination with ghosts and monsters began at an early age; readingDraculaat age twelve introduced him to Victorian literature and folklore, from which he has never recovered. Starting in 1982 as a bad inker for Marvel Comics, he swiftly evolved into a not-so-bad artist. By the late 1980s, he had begun to develop his own unique graphic style, with mainstream projects likeCosmic OdysseyandBatman: Gotham by Gaslight. In 1994, he published the firstHellboyseries through Dark Horse, and several spin-off titles (B.P.R.D., Lobster Johnson, Abe Sapien, and Sir Edward Grey: Witchfinder), prose books, animated films, and two live-action films starring Ron Perlman. Along the way he worked on Francis Ford Coppola's filmBram Stoker's Dracula(1992), was a production designer for Disney'sAtlantisl#—