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Spawn 299 had a 2nd printing, so that's probably what that number is.

awesome, thanks for the post! Really looking forward to the museum opening

Maybe this would be better suited in the Copper age board? I'm never sure where the consensus is on the cutoff

As some of you know, I run the website spawnworld.com , in which I try to catalog every Spawn comic in the world (including the main series, mini-series, crossovers, cover appearances, etc..). In doing so, I also write a Spawn encyclopedia, which includes every proper-noun ever uttered in the comics. (currently there are only 20-30 entries that I have not written yet, out of over 1500). To celebrate the upcoming release of Spawn 300, I've used the encyclopedia to put together a poster featuring every character that has ever been pictured in the comics - all 1362 of them! Feel free to check out the poster, download it if you choose (it's free!), and peruse the site. You'll find links for the poster as the top item on the homepage. Enjoy!

1. Rube Goldberg 2. John Pound

1. Spawn 2. Cable / Nate / Nathan 3. Cyclops This was an interesting exercise...I really had no idea. I had to do a tally, and I never would have guessed that Cyclops would make the top 3 (or even the top 5).

Yes, but only as a pinup. His first partial appearance was Spawn #33 (just seen as a pair of eyes in the background). His first full appearance was Spawn #37.

Todd discusses it in the Spawn: Vault Edition Volume 1

I voted, but had no idea you were referring specifically to your photos. I thought it was an in-general poll.

McFarlane has said that the run is approximately 50/50 with splotches and without. So there should be no price difference.

I noticed the McQuarrie has been pulled from the auction. Anyone have any info?

I'd be curious to see that information myself, alas, I don't have it. I have a lot of experience regarding which Spawn issues are more rare than others, but I have no hard numbers, so for the purposes of this ratio exercise, I have no data. I think you're correct though, Image numbers seem quite different from Marvel/DC of the same period.

I can't speak for the rest of the Image books, but Spawn's final newsstand edition was printed in August 2004.

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I'm a collector of both, and probably in the same group. Just wish more popped up for sale!

He has kept his pencils from the series, but some of his inks have been brought to market by other pencillers on the series.

fixed!

For those interested in animation cels and other artwork, there is a new book just released entitled "Totally Awesome: The Greatest Cartoons of the Eighties" by Andrew Farago. Andrew, as some of you may know, is the curator of the Cartoon Art Museum in San Francisco. I had the pleasure of contributing a number of images of cels from my own collection to the book, and helped to identify a number of others. Here are CAF links to the images of mine in the book if you'd like to take a closer look at any of them: Smurfs: http://www.comicartfans.com/gallerypiece.asp?piece=1080231 She-Ra: http://www.comicartfans.com/gallerypiece.asp?piece=1080229 Muppet Babies: http://www.comicartfans.com/gallerypiece.asp?piece=1077109 Transformers: http://www.comicartfans.com/gallerypiece.asp?piece=892912 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: http://www.comicartfans.com/gallerypiece.asp?piece=1096904 Garfield and Friends: http://www.comicartfans.com/gallerypiece.asp?piece=1077834 The Real Ghostbusters: http://www.comicartfans.com/gallerypiece.asp?piece=835881

I think it ended about as to be expected considering it is for a trading card, and not the comic.

none whatsoever

Capullo pages (with McFarlane inks) that is

I believe the smudges account for 50% of the direct copies only and newsstand copies are all "clean."

The books were printed that way. Roughly 50% of the copies printed have "smudges" while the other half do not.

Just a correction here: Rust 1 is not the 1st published image of Spawn. With a publication date of April 1992, it was released 1 month after Previews Vol2 Issue 3 (March 1992)