Upon release, Spawn # 1 sold 1. 7 million copies, still a record for an independent comic book.

The cover to Spawn ( comics ) | Spawn # 1 ( 1992 )

* Spawn / Batman # 1 ( 1994 )

EIAS has been used in numerous film and television productions such as Piranha 3D, Alien Trespass, Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl, Daddy Day Care, K-19: The Widowmaker, Gangs of New York, Austin Powers: Goldmember, Men In Black II, The Bourne Identity, Behind Enemy Lines, Time Machine, Ticker, JAG-Pilot Episode, Spawn, Star Trek: First Contact, Star Trek: Insurrection, Galaxy Quest, Mission to Mars, Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me, Star Wars Episode 1: The Phantom Menace, Titan A. E., U-571, Dinosaur, Terminator 2: Judgement Day, Terminator 2: Judgement Day-DVD Intro, Jungle Book 2, American President, Sleepers, Star Wars Special Edition, Empire Strikes Back Special Edition, Return of Jedi Special Edition, Bicentennial Man, Vertical Limit, Elf, Blade Trinity, and Lost In Space.

Spawn # 1 ( 1992 ), art by Todd McFarlane

** Riven, Titanic ( Academy Award for Best Visual FX ), Alien: Resurrection / Blue Sky, Spawn / Industrial Light & Magic ( 1997 ), Anastasia / Fox Animation Studio ( 1997 ), Batman et Robin / BUF Compagnie ( 1997 ), Contact / Sony Pictures Imageworks / Weta Ltd. ( 1997 ), Men In Black / Industrial Light & Magic ( 1997 ), Jurassic Park / Industrial Light & Magic ( 1997 ), Fifth Element / Digital Domain ( 1997 )/ Resident evil 1. 5 ( 2 Beta ) ( 1997 )

* Spawn The Black Knight ( Dark Ages Issue 1 Cover Art )

* In the Spawn comics, issue 95, page 11, panel 1, Zabraxas and Abbadon ( Ab And Zab ), make a reference to LaFours.

# " Spawn of Uamenti " – 1: 14

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

In order to concentrate on the 1994 Spawn / Batman crossover ( with Miller writing ), he brought on Grant Morrison ( as writer ) and Greg Capullo ( penciller ) from issues # 16 -# 18.

By the mid-1990s Image series such as Spawn and The Savage Dragon had proven themselves as lasting successes ( the former frequently topping the sales charts for months in which new issues came out ), while new series such as Wildstorm's Gen¹³, and Top Cow's Witchblade and The Darkness were also successful.

He wrote Sam and Twitch for twenty issues, as well as most of the first ten issues of Hellspawn, another Spawn spin-off title.

According to Liefeld, " I have the original issues # 3 and # 4 that Kurt wrote, they can't be produced as is simply from the standpoint that they heavily feature prominent supporting cast members from Spawn and Wildcats, as well as Lynch from Gen¹³ and Team 7.

* Gunslinger Spawn A Hellspawn whose history is to be told in Spawn issues 174 and 175.

It is inspired by Spawn issues 1-99, and Todd McFarlane directed the game's production.

Other issues of disappointment were the reduced number of towns and creatures, alignment revisions ( e. g. merging the Necropolis with Inferno ), the addition of " Death " aligned Venom Spawn, the treatment of Ballistas as a separate unit, and the increased limitations of spellcasting ( while previously available for any town, most town spells were made exclusive to each town ).

Her debut was in issue Spawn # 9, but she has since appeared in issues # 62, # 89, and # 96 through # 100.

He worked for a year on Disney's Toy Story Web Adventures, and later worked for Todd McFarlane Productions where he wrote several issues of Spawn, Spawn: The Dark Ages.

In the second issue, " The Spawn of M. C.

Since leaving inking duties on Spawn with issue # 70 ( February 1998 ), McFarlane has illustrated comic books less often, focusing on entrepreneurial efforts, such as McFarlane Toys and Todd McFarlane Entertainment, a film and animation studio.

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.

* World War One Spawn He is a Hellspawn introduced in issue 179, titled " War Spawn ".

* Jim Downing He is a new Hellspawn after Al Simmons kills himself in Spawn Endgame issue 181.

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.

In 1993 McFarlane contracted Neil Gaiman ( along with three other recognized authors, Alan Moore, Dave Sim, and Frank Miller ) to write one issue of Spawn.

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

In 1993 McFarlane contracted Neil Gaiman ( as well as other recognized authors like Frank Miller and Dave Sim ) to write one issue of his Spawn series.

This mini-series is a two issue crossover where Kildare meets Angela, the angel who appeared in Spawn.

Malebolgia is slain by Spawn in issue # 100.

As Spawn issue # 199 ends, the now-returned " Freak " from early Spawn canon is attacked by Clown, who rips the Freak's arms off.

* Spawn 9

* Whilce Portacio on Spawn with MacFarlane June 9, 2008

McFarlane had initially agreed that Gaiman retained creator rights on the characters, but later claimed that Gaiman's work had been work-for-hire and that McFarlane owned all of Gaiman's co-creations entirely, pointing to the legal indicia in Spawn # 9 and the lack of legal contract stating otherwise.

McFarlane had initially agreed that Gaiman retained co-creator rights on the characters but later claimed that Gaiman's work had been work-for-hire and that McFarlane owned all of Gaiman's creations entirely, pointing to the legal indicia in Spawn # 9, and the lack of legal contract stating otherwise.

" They also had songs featured in the movies The X-Files film ( Fight the Future ), Batman and Robin, Tommy Boy and Spawn ( a song called " A Plane Scraped Its Belly on a Sooty Yellow Moon ", a collaboration with drum and bass artist Roni Size.

In 2006 McFarlane announced plans for Spawn / Batman with artist Greg Capullo, which McFarlane wrote and inked, which paid tribute to Jack Kirby.

In collaboration with New Line Cinema, it produced the 1997 Spawn film and a new Spawn movie, planned in 2008.

* Spawn # 1-15, 21-24 ( full art ); # 26-33 ( along with Greg Capullo ) ( 1992 – 95 ); # 190, 200 ( among other artists ) ( 2010 )

Ultima Online's fourth expansion brought players into a world under siege, replete with more than 30 new and exotic characters created by none other than Spawn creator Todd McFarlane.

* Spawn Hollow: A community in the southwest corner of the town, often associated with South Bethlehem.

The song " Torn apart " was featured as a remix with Wink, on the Spawn movie soundtrack in July 1997.

He also recorded and performed, in combination with other artists, under group names such as The Hard Brothers, Hard Trax ( with his brother Matthew Hawtin ), 0733, Cybersonik ( with Daniel Bell and John Acquaviva ), Final Exposure ( with Joey Beltram and Mundo Muzique ), Just For Fun ( with Holger Wick ), Narod Niki ( with Akufen, Cabanne, Dandy Jack, Daniel Bell, Luciano, Ricardo Villalobos, Robert Henke and Thomas Franzmann ), Two Guys In The Basement ( with John Acquaviva ), Spawn ( with Fred Giannelli and Daniel Bell ) and States Of Mind ( with Acquaviva ).

Some of Lamour's other notable films include John Ford's The Hurricane ( 1937 ), Spawn of the North ( 1938 ; with George Raft, Henry Fonda, and John Barrymore ), Disputed Passage ( 1939 ), Johnny Apollo ( 1940 ; with Tyrone Power ), Aloma of the South Seas ( 1941 ), Beyond the Blue Horizon ( 1942 ), Dixie ( 1943 ; with Bing Crosby ),