5 Mike Mignola first editions are documented on this shelf, from Hellboy: Seed of Destruction (1994) to The Amazing Screw-On Head (2002) across 2 different publishers. Each linked guide gives the points of issue that separate a true first printing of that Mike Mignola title from later printings and book-club copies — the publisher and year to expect, the number-line or edition-statement conventions, and the tells that show up in online listings.
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- Hellboy: Seed of Destruction — 1994 · Dark Horse ComicsFirst trade collection of the debut four-issue Hellboy mini-series, Dark Horse, 1994, softcover, ISBN 1-56971-049-9, with the printed price. Conceived and drawn by Mignola and scripted by John Byrne. Stated first printing; original Mignola cover. The collection also gathers the early Hellboy short stories and a pin-up gallery. Hellboy's true first appearance is in San Diego Comic-Con Comics number two, August 1993, a convention giveaway; a cameo follows in John Byrne's Next Men number twenty-one, December 1993. The four-issue solo mini-series, beginning 1994, is the first standalone Hellboy comic, and the 1994 trade is the first collected book. Three distinct precedence layers. No book-club edition is recorded. Later Dark Horse printings are explicitly marked, with a second edition in 1997. Confirm the 1994 first printing and original ISBN.
- Hellboy: Wake the Devil — 1997 · Dark Horse ComicsFirst trade paperback, Dark Horse Comics, 1997, ISBN 1-56971-226-X (978-1-56971-226-9), collecting the five-issue 1996 mini-series Hellboy: Wake the Devil. The first printing has the original cover and no later-printing statement in the indicia. The collected edition adds a new epilogue. The single issues, Wake the Devil numbers 1 through 5 from 1996, are the true first appearance; the 1997 trade paperback is the first book collection, the second Hellboy collection overall. No book club edition; later re-covered and library/omnibus editions exist.
- Hellboy: The Chained Coffin and Others — 1998 · Dark Horse ComicsThird Hellboy trade paperback collection, published by Dark Horse in Milwaukie, August 1998; first printing. Softcover, full color, 168 pages. Collects The Wolves of Saint August, The Corpse and the Iron Shoes, Almost Colossus, Dark Horse Presents #100, and the 1997 Christmas Special. First printing carries no later-printing statement. This is a first-thus collection; the individual mini-series and one-shots gathered here are the true firsts. The title has only ever appeared in trade paperback, later reprinted in hardcover form within Hellboy Library Edition Vol. 2 (2008). Later printings carry printing notations; the first printing has none.
- Hellboy: The Right Hand of Doom — 2000 · Dark Horse ComicsFirst trade paperback, Dark Horse Comics, 2000, ISBN 1-56971-489-0 (978-1-56971-489-8), the fourth Hellboy collection. It gathers shorter stories, among them Box Full of Evil, The Varcolac, and the first-printed King Volmer, several appearing in color for the first time after earlier black-and-white anthology and Dark Horse Presents appearances. The first printing has no later-printing statement in the indicia. Most of the contents first appeared in various anthologies and single issues; the 2000 trade paperback is the first collection of these stories, and King Volmer was printed here for the first time. No book club edition.
- The Amazing Screw-On Head — 2002 · Dark Horse ComicsOne-shot published by Dark Horse Comics, May 2002; 32 pages, full color, cover price 2.99 US. Written and drawn by Mike Mignola with color by Dave Stewart. First print of the one-shot. The true first is the 2002 one-shot. A later collected and expanded hardcover, The Amazing Screw-On Head and Other Curious Objects (2010), and a 20th-anniversary edition are first-thus for their added material. Later printings and the collected hardcover are reprints of the one-shot content.
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