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This issue was thrown out. Instead the court chose to rule on the breach of contract issue, the rights of ownership and the copyrightability of the characters from Issue 9. Several arguments were presented by McFarlane and all were rejected, leading to a sizeable judgement against McFarlane and Image Comics.

The matter went to appeal and the judgement was upheld in a decision. Gaiman's rights as co-creator and co-owner of Cog, Angela and Medieval Spawn were acknowledged. The court's view was that Gaiman and McFarlane's collaboration led to each contributing half of the work. The fallout of this lawsuit is still unclear and the issue of Miracleman is yet to be resolved. In a recent reprint collection of the first twelve issues of Spawn, the contentious issue along with Issue 10 was excluded.

Many issues of Spawn have been gathered together in various trade paperbacks. Collections since the mid-nineties. Each containing four to five issues, the original Spawn trade paperbacks started in under a different trade cover design. After the live-action movie, a new trade cover design was created, where Brent Ashe provided new covers for Books , and Ashley Wood for Books All of these books were retitled with subtitles for later printings.

The trades stopped after Book 12, but several new collections appeared in — that bring together writer David Hine's run, particularly the entire "Armageddon" storyline. As part of his announcement, McFarlane announced four new titles coming out in , with three of them continuing on as regular monthly titles, meaning that there will be an opportunity for fans of the Spawn character and his new expanding world, to get their stories from it on a weekly basis instead of just twelve times a year.

A book that will set the stage with a story that will then spill out into the other new monthly titles. It will also mark the first time in twenty-eight years that anyone can buy a monthly issue 1 Spawn book". Giving McFarlane hope of reaching a new generation of readers that missed out on the initial launch of Spawn back in This title character has been a huge hit among the fanbase the past year and each of his appearances has garnered enthusiasm at the stores and online.

Finally, there will be a new 1 team book, which will band five characters together to fight against forces too big for any of them to take on alone. Spawn, Redeemer, Gunslinger, Medieval Spawn and She-Spawn begin the group's adventures, but McFarlane promises a rotating cast of heroes over the coming months to keep the roster of heroes fresh.

He also said that he will be bringing in new major villains into the fold, too. Marc Silvestri pencils 25 as part of Image X-Month, though McFarlane still scripts given the density of the series continuity by that point. Dwayne Turner pencils Angel Medina takes over art duties with and continues through Issue 10 was written by Dave Sims and is frequently omitted from collected editions because it depicts Marvel and DC characters in cameo. Alan Moore co-writes issue 8 and later co-writes 37 , introducing Vindicator.

Neil Gaiman writes issue 9 and later co-writes 26 , which introduces Angela and Medieval Spawn. Issue 11 was written by Frank Miller. Grant Morrison writes the arc from , and Andrew Grossberg Julia Simmons co-writes A four-volume slipcased line collecting issues A volume oversize hardcover line collecting issues Please be careful to purchase english language editions of this series, as a similarly named series with similar covers was released in German. A volume paperback line collecting issues A giant, phone-book-lengthed affordable paperback collection reproducing artwork in black and white.

This original trade paperback line ran with painted covers starting with volume four and with reprints of the first three editions to appeal to the Sandman-oriented bookstore audience. Originally, the six imprints of the Image universe were much more closely tied together.

Simmons cameos here in this origin of Chapel. Spawn-Batman One-Shot A. Violator Not collected in English. Written by Alan Moore.

Spawn: Fan Edition Not collected. She realizes that she has been betrayed and misled by her faith in God. Spawn faces off against the Hellspawn of Satan's army, declaring that the Earth realm belongs to him. Calling him a traitor for breaking his oath, the Hellspawn from all the ages converge on their "brother. Hearing of this, Satan sends all of his remaining warriors after Spawn. Fearing that Spawn will unbalance Armageddon, God does the same. These events are watched by Mammon and a cloaked figure, whom Mammon responds to as a subordinate.

During their exchange, it is implied that all is going according to their plan, and Mammon says that he should have never been doubted. As Heaven and Hell attack Spawn with full force that almost destroy the whole universe, he calls to himself all the power given to him by the Mother, and in a single display of power destroys the armies of Heaven and Hell, along with the rest of humanity. After the Mother granted him her powers, Spawn's own power became limitless.

He could do anything, such as wishing his enemies out of existence, killing his enemies just by thought, and even removing gravity force from his enemies. Laughing, he dismisses his act as a way to halt the Armageddon itself, leaving God and Satan without soldiers to use in their battle.

He then asks the Mother to restore his children to their former glory and powers, but refuses to fight them. They eventually incinerate Spawn, then proceed their endless battle, fighting by themselves, in a barren, scorched Earth.

Spawn, now given the powers of a god and the protection of the Mother, gains the power to recreate Earth, restoring everyone to life, but leaving humanity every memory of the Rapture.

Both God and Satan have no role in the "new" Earth, because they are trapped in their perception of a barren Earth until they cease their seemingly endless fight, and Spawn, with his last act as a god himself, closes every door between Heaven, Hell and Earth. He then asks the Mother to turn him back into Al Simmons, convincing her into letting the former Spawn have the chance to win back Wanda and becoming a fatherly figure for Cyan.

A now fully human Simmons returns to his former home, but facing the memories of the miscarriage he inflicted upon Wanda by beating her the last night before dying, he relinquishes humanity once more, accepting to go on in his death as the monster he was always thought to have been in life. Realizing how Al Simmons himself, not Mammon, claimed the Hellspawn role as penance, Spawn, again in his "red-cowled" costume, once more takes residence in a deserted and barren Rat Alley.

Later, a robed figure would tell Mammon of Spawn's defeating of Clown and closing the portal to hell, which he had wanted Spawn to do, and calls Spawn "my good and faithful servant. In issue , Zera has returned. She is seen again now as a rotting decapitated head, immersed in preservative liquids within a glass container.

As she was one of God's favorites, she was granted immortality by God. Zera uses Nyx's body to successfully do battle with Spawn. Mambo Suzanne, however, uses the conflict as a distraction to shatter the glass containing Zera's head and throw the head to streets below. There, demon dogs devour the head until there is nothing left, thereby freeing Nyx from Zera's possession.

This issue leads to the recovery of Nyx and Spawn's friendship as well as Nyx's recovery of her powers. In the next arc, "A Tale of Three Brothers" composed of the latest few issues but was the title that run through issues , Ab and Zab create a literal hell house where visitors are forced to face their most heinous sins, due to demons called sin eaters that feed on the guilt by making their prey face the evil that they had done.

A woman and a minister within the house are both caught in the delusions caused by the sin eaters, and slowly fed on by the demons. Spawn confronts Ab and Zab, but is faced with his own sin against Wanda and his unborn child. Unable to break free from the guilt, he is slowly fed on by a sin eater.

Nyx, however, decides to intervene, overcoming a sin eater and breaking a sin eater's illusion that was subduing Spawn it is revealed later on that Nyx is becoming more powerful. Spawn then tears apart many of the other sin eaters until he comes upon the minister being fed on by a sin eater.

It is then revealed that the minister is Al Simmons' brother, Richard, who was reliving his own worst sin. Spawn, who up to that moment had not yet recovered all his memories as Al Simmons since he became a Hellspawn, decides to allow Richard to relive his sin so that he can peer into his own past.

It is then revealed that Mammon, under the guise of a man, Mr. Malefick, had a profound influence on Al Simmons' childhood. Malefick a constant visitor in the Simmons' household and close acquaintance of Al Simmons' mother that tutored Al Simmons to torture and murder small animals at a very young age as well hurt his own body, seemingly grooming him to become his servant, who would feel neither glee nor pity in taking another being's life.

Malefick had also influenced Richard Simmons to take drugs as well as introducing him to the drug dealer Weasel. It was only Marc Simmons that seemingly was able to save himself from Mammon's influence, but was unable to help his brothers. Richard calls his brothers to come and help him in his predicament. Al Simmons, not wanting him and his brothers to be implicated in the crime, decides against calling an ambulance that could save the drug dealer's life and instead pulls the knife from Weasel's body and kills him with it.

Finding that the sin eater was already killing Richard Simmons, Nyx breaks the illusion while Spawn kills the last sin eater. Spawn then asks Richard about their parents, finding that Richard had neither thought of nor heard from them in years, Spawn determines that Mammon had blocked the memory of their parents and prevented the brothers from even thinking about their parents. Spawn then leaves, but not before Nyx places a spell preventing Ab and Zab from leaving the building and Spawn promises to come back for his brother.

Spawn then finds his parents' home which Mammon had hidden under a spell and within it his parents, who were trapped there for many years. There, he is greeted by his mother, who recognizes Al Simmons even in the form of Spawn while Al Simmons' father is shocked. Al Simmons' father falls into grief for not being able to stop his wife from what she and Mammon had done to his son.

When Spawn wonders why his father was chosen to bear him, his father points out a journal from his great-grandfather, passed down from generation to generation, a journal that Al Simmons' mother had prevented her husband from showing their children. As Spawn is given the journal by his father, Richard Simmons is seen providing the demons Ab and Zab some food, then retiring to his quarters to recall a time in his childhood when he would pretend to be asleep and his father would come weeping and reciting a prayer beside his bed.

Feeling that there can be no redemption for himself, Richard follows Mammon down to a door whereupon entering, Richard is swallowed into the bowels of hell. Spawn tells the story that is found in the journal. A runaway soldier, who later becomes Henry Simmons, Al Simmons' great grandfather, is to be lynched with a man who supposedly murdered his family.

Mammon approaches both, saying he will give them what they want. Henry refuses, while the innocent man accepts, when they are hanged. While the man is hanged, Mammon causes a misfire to save Henry's life.

A short time thereafter, the man is reborn as Gunslinger Spawn, and he slaughters the town, but leaves Henry alive under Mammon's orders. The Gunslinger Spawn places the soldier in a pine box casket belonging to the now-dead real Henry Simmons.

The box floats down a river, where an awaiting Mammon tells Henry a descendant will become the Spawn that destroys the world. The continuation of "The Monster in the Bubble" from the last issue left Spawn utterly helpless against Erskine's psychic projection of a tentacled creature, that had impaled him multiple times. Erskine's projection suddenly shows features of Mammon, continually coaxing and tempting Spawn to accept death.

Nyx intervenes by stabbing the creature with a sword, gaining the creature's attention, but leading her to become the creature's next target. She then telepathically contacts Marc Simmons, begging him to shoot Erskine. Erskine relents and ceases his attack causing the creature to disappear, allowing Nyx and Al to go to the hospital where Erskine is held. Spawn is faced with the predicament however of whether or not to cause Erskine's death, threatening to enter the bubble dome if Erskine does not reveal the whereabouts of Mammon, whom Spawn believed was pulling the strings.

Mammon then appears to complicate the situation allowing Erskine to complete his last murder using a psychic projection of a woman to attack the last victim in his home. Mammon reveals that it was he who taught Erskine to use his powers. Upon killing his last victim, Erskine then proceeds to commit suicide, leaving his worldly possessions in the name of the doctor who had taken care of him.

Spawn then proceeds to attack Mammon, and ask what Mammon wanted from him. Mammon then says that he wants nothing from Spawn, saying that Spawn had lost everything that made him special, only wanting Spawn to accept that it is his time.

It is then revealed that Mammon had been using Erskine's powers to project a psychic projection of himself, and he was actually in another location.

As the psychic projection melts away, Spawn is left kneeling, accepting the belief that whatever he tries to do goes wrong, that he is no longer needed by the world. The story then shifts to a mortuary.

The story begins to be told in first person by an amnesiac vampire know as Severin. Severin awakes, from what is thought to have been his death, and finds himself in a mortuary lying on a table. He is not alone as two doctors are examining a body close by.

Once the doctors discover that Severin is alive, they flee in terror only to be killed by Morana the robed associate of Mammon. With Morana's help, Severin begins to remember his past and discovers he is one of the Vrykolakas, the first of the vampires.

Morana seeks Severin's assistance and promises to end Severin's life if he agrees to help. Morana takes Severin to Spawn's warehouse where Spawn and Nyx try to explain to Marc about his brother's current situation.