After Spider-Man #16, (penciler/writer) Todd McFarlane left Marvel Comics with several other artists to create an independent comic book company called Image. Artists and writers could finally own their work and not lose their rights once they handed it in to Marvel or DC. Let me give you an example. Jim Lee drew his final issues of X-Men about 15 years ago, but his X-Men drawings appear today on merchandise like X-Men underpants and he has no say about it/makes no profit from it. With Image, artists could approve or reject abuse to their artwork. Of all the original Image series released Spawn was the most consistent. I haven't been following the series for years, but the first 50 issues were certainly fun. Spawn was an interesting and dark superhero of the New York alleys. He also faced off against some cool villains like the Violator, Overtkill, Angela, and many others. It's one of the only Image books that actually had a solid game plan going in, yet issues were delayed on release many times. McFarlane unfortunately retired from penciling comics after the first couple years of Spawn. Enjoy this first exciting issue! Bauer out.
Spawn Issue #1
Monday, July 16, 2007
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