Spawn Collection, Vol. 1 (v. 1) [Paperback]

Todd McFarlane (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: January 3, 2006

Witness the power of pure McFarlane with this essential collection of comics that have been out of print for 10 years! The first issues of McFarlane's smash hit Spawn are here in a brand new collection - bigger and badder than ever! This collection includes issues #1-8, 11, & 12, featuring the pulse-pounding art of the master himself, Todd McFarlane!

Product Details

• Paperback: 240 pages
• Publisher: Image Comics (January 3, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1582405638
• ISBN-13: 978-1582405636
• Product Dimensions: 10.1 x 6.6 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (15 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #572,956 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Missing issues 9 and 10 but still worth it!!, July 13, 2006

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This review is from: Spawn Collection, Vol. 1 (v. 1) (Paperback)

Awesome!!! The perfect start to the Spawn collection. The only unfortunate thing about this collection is that it doesn't include issue 9 the one that introduced Angela, Cogliostro and Medieval Spawn. They also removed issue 10. I think it had to do with some legal issues with the writers. Otherwise it is a must have.

8 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars The beginning, March 30, 2007

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This review is from: Spawn Collection, Vol. 1 (v. 1) (Paperback)

The ultra high profile and notorious comic book that made the big name companies re-think a darker edge for their mainstream characters, Todd McFarlane's Spawn is here from the beginning. After gaining much notoriety working on Marvel's Incredible Hulk and Spider-Man, McFarlane was one of the architects behind Image Comics, and Spawn helped the fledgeling company get off the ground. We all know the origin by now: government agent Al Simmons meets his demise, and strikes a deal with the devil to return to Earth to be with his beloved wife Wanda. Simmons is resurrected as the Hellspawn: complete with supernatural powers and demonic chains and charred and scarred flesh to boot. When he returns, he finds Wanda has remarried his best friend Terry, and the two have a child together as well. Not to mention that his memory has been practically obliterated, and he soon seeks vengeance on those who did him wrong. Besides Spawn himself, this first collection introduces many pivotal characters that would become icons of the series, including the foul Clown and his demonic alter-ego, the Violator, as well as the equally evil human Jason Wynn, and a host of other deadly enemies and few allies. Full of over the top violence and themes, Spawn marked a new era in comics that started off well, but began a chain reaction in character creation and storytelling that almost buried the industry forever. McFarlane's storytelling still packs a punch, but it's his artwork that is the mixed bag. His regular, normal character models have never been anything to write home about, but it's his design of Spawn that has always made the book a seller, and this is undoubtadly the best the series ever was before it grew into stale repetitiveness. Since Spawn was a smash hit, a feature film soon followed (and we all know how well that turned out, remember?) as well as the excellent and short lived HBO animated series. If you were late getting into Spawn, check this out to see what all the fuss was about, and it's a worthy pick up for those who have fond memories of the series in it's early days but don't have the single issues.

5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Good stuff, July 15, 2006

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Lamia Jack - See all my reviews

This review is from: Spawn Collection, Vol. 1 (v. 1) (Paperback)

Though I was well aware of Spawn via his action figure line, I never knew much about the character or the comics which he originated from, wondering what the big deal was about this seemingly over-popular indie hero. Upon reading the first Spawn volume (and watching the movie), I learned what the buzz was about. This graphic novel introduced one of the coolest comic book characters out there. The story was pretty good, if a little simple sometimes, the dialogue, though sometimes stilted and cliched, could be interesting, but where the book really shined is McFarlane's magnificent artwork. This guy, no matter how ridiculous his human characters can look, draws a tight-looking Spawn, chains, skulls, cape and glowing green eyes and all. The action scenes are very good too. Overall a really good introduction to Spawn. However, the two issues that really launch the title in the direction it would go in for the rest of the series, involving Cogliostro and the angels of Heaven, was left out, porbably due to the fact that McFarlane tried to screw Neil Gaiman out of his Neil's own characters he created and wrote for Spawn. While these would have made the collection way better due to their educational content in the world of Spawn, nevertheless, I still highly recommend the first volume of Spawn.