Todd McFarlane’s Spawn will celebrate the 30th anniversary of its debut (and the launch of publisher Image Comics) with variant covers across 50 Image Comics series in December. These covers are in addition to the upcoming DC variant covers that will celebrate the launch of the Batman/Spawn crossover comic. Image Comics launched in 1992, with the debut issues of McFarlane’s Spawn among its very first releases. According to Image, Spawn #1 remains the single-best-selling issue of a creator-owned comic ever selling 1.7 million copies. Spawn has since been Guinness Book of World Records certified as the longest-running creator-owned comic book of all time. Spawn also became an Emmy Award-winning HBO animated series and a live-action film grossing over $ 100 million at the box office.
A variety of Image’s top artistic talent created the Spawn anniversary variants. Some covers feature Spawn alongside a character from the book the cover belongs to, and all allow the artist to put their artistic spin on Spawn himself. You can see the 30+ variants revealed thus far below. The participating issues and artists include:
McFarlane has recently expanded the Spawn line into the Spawn Universe to include a handful of spinoffs. After co-founding Image, McFarlane launched his toy company, McFarlane Toys, a leader in American action figure manufacturing, which produces Spawn toys. The company also creates licensed toys based on DC, Avatar: The Last Airbender, and others.
The Spawn anniversary variants will release this December. You can see some of them below.
