SPAWN! A look back at an award-winning collection of graded slabs. 10 10

[newshane]

SPAWN 273 - CGC 9.8 

Yep. Another cover artist with whom I'm unfamiliar. 

Ramon Nunez. Nice work! Again, keeping with the vibe. 

 

 

 

[newshane]

SPAWN 273 VARIANT - CGC 9.8 

 

[Qalyar]

On 2/14/2024 at 7:59 PM, newshane said:

Yep. Another cover artist with whom I'm unfamiliar. 

Ramon Nunez. Nice work! Again, keeping with the vibe. 

I don't actually know very much about him, either, except that he's Spanish.

One of the things I really like about this run of Spawn covers is their artists. They aren't all super-established household names. Sure, the shine was off Spawn as a title... well, before these late 200s issues, surely. But it's still a premiere title with a lot of name recognition, and Image was giving cover shots to relatively un-established artists, many of whom have diverse international backgrounds.

And frankly, a lot of covers they got from that experiment are really good.

[newshane]

SPAWN 274 - CGC 9.8 

 

[newshane]

SPAWN 274 VARIANT - CGC 9.8 

At last...tomorrow we begin looking at the very last numerical issue along with a few of its variants, and that will be that for the regular run! 

 

Edited February 18 by newshane

[RockMyAmadeus]

[newshane]

SPAWN 275 - CGC 9.8 

Brutally difficult book early on because of a manufacturer flaw. I've blown up the impacted section of the front cover under the handle of the scythe. This is on every single copy that I've ever encountered. 

I think that the CGC finally wised up to this after seeing it so consistently. Seems like they overlooked it by the time I bought this copy. I had been self-subbing for a while at this point, but I always got 9.6s on this issue. I bought this graded copy several months after the release. 

Honestly a tough book to submit raw. Just find a graded copy. 

A cursory glance at the copies on eBay all showed the same flaw. It's not part of the artwork. It's a rub and sometime presents as an rub AND indention. I even saw one eBayer who appeared to have touched up the flaw in Paint or Photoshop.  Just be on the lookout folks! 

 

 

 

Edited February 18 by newshane

[newshane]

SPAWN 275 VARIANT - CGC 9.8 

One more variant left in the main title collection! We will wrap up this part of the collection tomorrow before moving on to various odds and ends. 

 

[newshane]

DRUM ROLL!

14 months later and we are finally at the end of the regular series run! 

I stopped at 275 because I didn't have the juice to keep going until 300, which was the original goal. 

The variant game killed me. Looking at the registry, I'd say I was fairly prescient. TONS of variants. 

When do variants cease to be special? When do they become meaningless? 

WHEN THEY HAPPEN EVERY ISSUE. 

Take this final book, for example. Trust me when I tell you that I had many ears on the ground and eyes in the sky. I still didn't learn about this con special UNTIL THE CON STARTED, and I was halfway across the country at the time. Thankfully I was able to pull some last minute strings and bagged this copy. 

We are going out with a Todd McFarlane sig, folks. 

From this point, you're going to see some very, very interesting and obscure books in the Spawn Universe. I don't know where to begin, so it may seem kind of random from here on out. You never know what you might see...

My registry is now publicly obscured, so don't bother looking. 

SPAWN 275 - AMAZING CON VARIANT - SIGNED BY TODD MCFARLANE - CGC 9.8 

 

 

 

 

Edited February 20 by newshane

[RockMyAmadeus]

[pmpknface]

Well done sir!  

[Cat]

Thanks for a fun look at your old collection. 

[pmpknface]

On 2/20/2024 at 5:52 PM, newshane said:

From this point, you're going to see some very, very interesting and obscure books in the Spawn Universe. I don't know where to begin, so it may seem kind of random from here on out. You never know what you might see...

I'm looking forward to this.  I'm hoping for some Wizard Fan Editions, Medieval Spawn / Witchblade, Angela, Violator, and maybe some x-overs!  

[newshane]

Your wish is my command! 

We will start with the Wizard Fan Editions. 

 

[RockMyAmadeus]

[ramithard]

care to reveal what the collection sold for?......asking for a friend....

[captainzombie]

What a collection. Thank you for taking this time to share all this with us.

I know many people have fallen off of Spawn in general and some of the writing is not there like it used to be, but I will say one thing is the book has been consistent and at $2.99 a month you can't beat that. While McFarlane is the ultimate hype man for his books and toy figure lines, he does come off as a genuine person, and that is one thing that I praise the guy about. There are so many clowns in this industry, yet he still is awesome with the fans and the media. His signature is expensive, but I can understand for the personality that he has become.

The only thing I hate is that there are even more Spawn Universe books out this year, which I hope it doesn't become overkill. I am still buying Spawn, Gunslinger Spawn, and The Scorched. I did drop off of King Spawn, the book just wasn't doing it for me anymore.

[newshane]

On 2/23/2024 at 9:41 AM, ramithard said:

care to reveal what the collection sold for?......asking for a friend....

Hmmm...

well...I guess the best answer is...

NOT ENOUGH. 

Edited February 23 by newshane

[newshane]

SPAWN 1 FAN EDITION - GOLD FOIL VARIANT - CGC 9.8 

I wanted to say this is a tough one, but there are way more on the census than I thought. 

There are ten of these now, including this copy. 

 

[newshane]

SPAWN FAN EDITION 2 - CGC 9.8 

Nordic Spawn? 

Yeah. I'm down with that. Nothing wrong with a little Fimbulvetr. 

 

Edited February 24 by newshane