In 1990, after a 28-issue run of Amazing Spider-Man, McFarlane told editor Jim Salicrup he'd grown tired of drawing other people's stories and would be leaving the book with issue # 328 to write his own work.

McFarlane eventually would hand off scripting duties ( while still overseeing plotlines ) to other writers, and the book continued to retain a respectable following.

In 1997 the two signed a deal in which Gaiman would give his share of characters Angela, Medieval Spawn and Cogliostro to McFarlane in exchange of McFarlane's share of British superhero Marvelman ( in reality, what McFarlane actually owned were two trademarks for Miracleman logos, not the character, which would become clear only after the lawsuit concluded ).

All Holmes can offer as an alternative are general theories, while Lestrade parries with the knowledge that none of the papers were taken, and that only McFarlane, if Oldacre were murdered, would not have any reason to take the papers.

Schaffer eventually met McFarlane, and asked if he would do an album cover for Iced Earth, to which McFarlane agreed to.

The figures had the high-quality sculpting that McFarlane had been incorporating into its Spawn figures, which had made them so commercially and artistically successful, and would mark the last time it created versions of the prototypic monsters ( mummies, vampires, etc.

On June 23, 2006, McFarlane announced the first line of actual Simpsons action figures, rather than statuettes or boxed sets, which would be released in 2007.

McFarlane planned to release series 3 in January 2008, which would have included Sayid, Desmond, Claire, and Henry Gale ( Benjamin Linus ) as well as the box set, Oceanic Flight 815 Crash Site.

On June 9, 2008, it was announced that Portacio would be the new artist on Spawn starting in October 2008 with issue # 185, providing pencils with Spawn creator Todd McFarlane returning as co-writer with Brian Holguin as the new creative team.

He left the series after eighteen months and in the storyline John was reported missing in action-the writers left his final fate unresolved in the hope McFarlane would return to the show.

Reed would stay with McFarlane Toys until May 1996.

He did this by taking the original 1927 edition and stripping out all the details to form an outline of the story similar to, in his opinion, the outline Leslie McFarlane would have received from the Stratemeyer Syndicate.

Note that this would not likely have been permitted in the original, for ( as McFarlane writes in " Ghost of the Hardy Boys " ) Stratemeyer expected the girls to make only occasional appearances and to have relationships with the boys that " would not go beyond the borders of wholesome friendship and discreet mutual esteem.

Kirkman that year also said he and Todd McFarlane would collaborate on Haunt for Image Comics.

Franklin W. Dixon is the pen name used by a variety of different authors ( Leslie McFarlane, a Canadian author, being the first ) who wrote The Hardy Boys novels for the Stratemeyer Syndicate ( now owned by Simon & Schuster ).

Ian McFarlane ( born 1959 ) is an Australian music journalist and author of The Encyclopedia of Australian Rock and Pop.

When they stopped carrying NHL games in 1975, NBC sold Peter's rights back to Hanna-Barbera, which later sold them to Brian McFarlane, a member of the network's NHL broadcast team ( and the son of Leslie McFarlane, also known as author Franklin W. Dixon of Hardy Boys fame.

Cogliostro was created in 1993 by author Neil Gaiman and artist Todd McFarlane and introduced in Spawn issue # 9.

This book was written for the Stratemeyer Syndicate by Amy McFarlane, the wife of long time Hardy Boys author Leslie McFarlane, in 1947.

Leslie McFarlane, author of many Hardy Boys stories contributed to this series as well.

Brian McFarlane ( born August 10, 1931 in New Liskeard, Ontario ) is a Canadian television sportscaster and author.

Distributed by McFarlane Toys on July 2001, the series included six monsters designed by horror author Clive Barker.

Most of the early volumes were written by Canadian Leslie McFarlane, who authored 19 of the first 25 titles between 1927 and 1946.

* Elaine " Spanky " McFarlane ( born June 19, 1942, Peoria, Illinois )-vocals

* ( Reports: 19 ) Naguib Kanawati & Mahmoud Abder-Raziq, with contributions by Ann McFarlane, T. H.

Leslie McFarlane wrote the first four Dana Girls stories in 1934 and 1936.

After that, the Syndicate focused on mystery series aimed again at its younger base: the Hardy Boys, which first appeared in 1927, ghostwritten by Leslie McFarlane and others, and Nancy Drew, which first appeared in 1930, ghostwritten by Mildred Wirt Benson, Walter Karig, and others.

McFarlane was also the first artist to draw the first, full appearance of Eddie Brock, the first original incarnation of the popular villain Venom.

McFarlane wrote and illustrated Spider-Mans first 14 issues, as well as # 16 ; many issues of which were crossovers with characters such as Wolverine, X-Force, and Ghost Rider.

Spawn was launched in 1992 with McFarlane as artist / writer for the first 7 issues.

Haunt, an ongoing series co-created by McFarlane and Robert Kirkman, was first announced in 2007, and launched October 7, 2009.

McFarlane owns Sosa's 33rd, 61st and 66th home run balls, and McGwire's first, 63rd, 67th, 68th, 69th and 70th.

The first was a 2002 suit in which McFarlane contested with writer Neil Gaiman over the rights to some supporting Spawn characters created by Gaiman in issue # 9 of the Spawn series and over payment for later works featuring those characters.

* Rodger McFarlane, first executive director of Gay Men's Health Crisis.

Stratemeyer accordingly hired Canadian Leslie McFarlane to ghostwrite the first volumes in the series.

In 2001, following the success of the first series, and with the release of Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty, McFarlane Toys and Konami combined their efforts to produce a line of action figures depicting Sons of Libertys main characters.

The first film they shot in 1978 was Stars Blasters ; it was directed by Ron Gilbert and acted by friends Tom McFarlane and Frank Lang.

While deployed during his first tour, McFarlane was selected for graduate studies as an Olmsted Scholar.

McFarlane and O ' Donnell had first met as teenagers at Scottish Youth Theatre's Summer Festival in 1995.

The action figures for Halo 3 were produced by McFarlane Toys and although the first series did not feature the Flood, the third series featured a human Combat Form.

The character is also featured in the first series of Halo 3 action figures, distributed by McFarlane Toys.

At first, McFarlane wasn't on board with the idea, but allowed the band to go along with it.

He assisted Japanese students, engineers and trainee managers and had a staunch ally in Captain A R Brown of the company Brown, McFarlane who had been responsible for taking the first Clyde-built ships to Japan.