Guillermo del Toro's film adapts Mike Mignola's comics, drawing chiefly on Seed of Destruction, with Mignola involved in the production.
Comic· 1994· Fantasy
Hellboy
by Mike Mignola
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Mike Mignola dedicated Hellboy's first story, Seed of Destruction, to H. P. Lovecraft and Jack Kirby, and the Ogdru Jahad waiting to end the world are Lovecraftian elder gods.