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It looks like 2022 is the year of Spawn as Todd McFarlane continues to kick off his Spawn's Universe with a whole slew of new comics With an increase in the comics, interest in the legendary anti-hero will continue to grow, and that means more collectibles will be on the way McFarlane Toys has teased[...]

Todd McFarlane's first batman cover, issue #423 of the series, is one of those keys that just keeps growing for no other reason than that it is by him That is pretty neat in this day and age of movie and TV speculation Also: it is just a really cool cover When I close my[...]

In the Spawn comic book series written by Todd McFarlane, there are… a lot more Spawns around right now Enough to make up a new team, The Scorched, launching next month Which, in the Spawn universe, have made supernatural entities walking the streets a little more visible than before. Including hordes of zombies and angels, gathering[...]

When I talked to Todd McFarlane about Gunslinger Spawn, he told me "I think he could be my breakout character I mean he breaks out now, but I think I can push him even further, so if you think Spawn's badass, Gunslinger's gonna make Spawn look a little bit like a boy scout, because he's[...]

"Spawn" universe creator Todd McFarlane is expanding his multimedia reach with a deep dive into television, with Deadline Hollywood offering exclusive details on a development & production arm being launched as part of McFarlane Films to focus on series projects- development & production arm that already has a first-look television deal with wiip (Mare of[...]

Before Spawn, before Spider-Man, before Hulk, Todd McFarlane was an artist on Detective Comics for DC Comics, drawing Batman: Year Two in the mid-eighties Which has a habit of constantly being reprinted, with new eyes upon it. Todd McFarlane on Detective Comics for DC Comics On the Facebook group for Comic Swipes, Erik Larsen, co-founder of Image[...]

Even if a few scabs need pulling off first. LITG: The ten most-read stories, yesterday, 28th October, 2021 Credit: McFarlane Toys McFarlane Toys Brings The Batman to Life Once Again with New Figure Hasbro Pulse Con Deep Dive: Animated X-Men Marvel Legends It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia Season 15: So How Soon is "So Soon"? Bosch Spinoff Series Signals Season 1[...]

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This week, DC Comics told retailers that the 1:25 tiered variant cover for Batman #118 that plays off Todd McFarlane's cover to Spider-Man #1 would switch to be open order, such was the demand for it by retailers And while Todd McFarlane may no longer have that original cover artwork, he does have the opening[...]

As it rolled on, Bleeding Cool reprinted their respective letters on the matter from 1993, and Todd McFarlane's recent statements on Instagram But it is possible, spanning the thirty-year gap, that we may have a little closure Because David Michelinie has posted a further follow-up as a result of Bleeding Cool's coverage of the matter[...]

Recently, Bleeding Cool ran a Fanboy Rampage between Venom co-creator David Michelinie, looking to get a bit more credit for his co-creation than Todd McFarlane seemed to recently be giving, and Erik Larsen, who took over from Todd drawing the book, who pushed back on that And now Spider-Man artist Ron Frenz has taken it further, talking[...]

But the journey from that moment to the first appearance of Venom, drawn by Todd McFarlane in Amazing Spider-Man #300 was a twisty-turny one Todd McFarlane is often given greater credit for Venom, and sometimes takes it himself, and with the release of the new film, David Michelinie wanted to put the record straight, again,[...]

Todd McFarlane will be there for the DC toys, but I bet he'll try to plug Gunslinger Spawn Donald Mustard is there for the Fortnite crossovers They've got Scott Snyder, but no mention of Josh Williamson, Tom King, James Tynion IV, Jorge Jimenez, Sean Gordon Murphy or Greg Capullo this time around… they just make the[...]

Recently I talked to Todd McFarlane about Jim Lee's decision to sell the original cover artwork to X-Men #1, all four covers, for millions of dollars More details on that sale to come, I am hearing But I wondered if he had any similar gems and what it might take for him to sell them[...]

Todd McFarlane's Spawn comic has been breaking records with its sales of later, but as we previously noted, only a few years ago, sales numbers were in the low five figures Which means that renewed interest has seen the price of many of those mid-run back issues boom in terms of value, with their scarcity[...]

We knew that Gunslinger Spawn #1 got 385,000 advance reorders from comic book retailers. Now we know how they were spread. . Greetings from the coal face

We know Todd McFarlane has a new Spawn movie in the works and has had for months We also know he is working on a Sam & Twitch TV series as well But his ambition extends further I talked to him last week about the launch of Gunslinger Spawn #1, but he has so much[...]

Todd McFarlane asked me which new comic book character launch in a monthly superhero comic book has big numbers this century? I came up with a few possibles, but the highest (and only one this century) under his strict rules (no Loot Crates) was Spider-Gwen #1, which launched with around 300,000 copies ordered Well, Gunslinger[...]

Last week I talked to Todd McFarlane about Gunslinger Spawn, his new ongoing monthly series from Image Comics that is going to FOC today – and he's trying for a record Introduced in the regular Spawn series, and again in Spawn's Universe, Gunslinger Spawn is a mysterious character from the Wild West A Spawn who[...]

Todd McFarlane likes his records Spawn #301 took him into the Guinness Book of World Records for the "longest-running creator-owned superhero comic book series." Spawn's Universe #1 was the most-ordered Image Comics title for 25 years That's until King Spawn #1 with first printing orders of 497,000 Which, I worked out with Todd on Skype[...]

Todd McFarlane's fourth monthly series launches in December, Spawn: Scorched, accompanying Spawn, King Spawn, and Gunslinger Spawn The new team, previously referred to as the Chain Gang, is made up of Spawn, Redeemer, Gunslinger Spawn, Medieval Spawn, and She-Spawn, with more to come… and covers for Scorched #1 by Frank Quitely, Greg Capullo, Arthur Adams,[...]

Todd McFarlane didn't draw Superman a lot The most prominent version may have been in Spawn #9, written by Dave Sim in a trademark dodging move But Todd also drew the Invasion mini-series event for DC Comics in 1987/1988, and it's a splash page from that, layouts by Keith Giffen, inks by P Craig Russell[...]

Malibu Sun #13 is considered one of the first appearances of Spawn, in the months before Todd McFarlane published the comic The house ad magazine for Malibu Productions, the comic book publisher that initially published Image Comics as a line before they went totally independent And as a result, this has always been a collectible[...]

And with Blue Beetle getting a new mode of transport in such financially struggling times, we learn something new about Booster Gold's connections. Blue & Gold #2 Spoilers Of course Booster Gold knows Todd McFarlane And with Todd having a deal with DC Comics creating action figures and figurines, the idea of him making a toy of[...]

Yesterday, Bleeding Cool ran an article about how a number of comic book publishers were reviving Todd McFarlane characters or character designs related to Spawn, at the same time that Todd McFarlane was launching new Spawn comic books That includes the revamp of Venom getting chains, the return of Angela to Thor, and also the[...]

This is the Top Ten Bleeding Cool Bestseller List, as compiled by a number of comic stores from their sales on Wednesday and Thursday. It measures what is

as Mister Bones, co-created by Todd McFarlane. Infinity Inc And reflecting Todd's childhood designs for Spawn, which was still years away from debuting at Image Comics And appropriately with Todd McFarlane debuting a new King Spawn #1 last Wednesday… with Donny Cates bringing back Angela for Thor… Infinite Frontier #5 want more of a Spawn look for[...]

He is now creating a new comic book with Todd McFarlane drawing the cover of the first issue, with a Latinx superhero PhenomX out from Image Comics in November and skipped from their solicitations last week But now it appears to have squeezed itself back in. PhenomX centers around the character, Max Gomez, who was wrongfully[...]

Today sees the publication of King Spawn #1 by Sean Lewis, Todd McFarlane, Javier Fernandez, Stephen Segovia, Marcio Takara, Philip Tan, and Brett Booth, with a variant cover by Donny Cates and Todd McFarlane as well And King Spawn #1 has a lot of Spawn-like creatures  in it. Javi Fernendez artwork Spawn Classic of course, even standing[...]

And one moment in 1991, combining the Flaming Carrot, the Turtles, and a cover by Todd McFarlane Back in the day when comic books only had one cover each. Bob Burden's Flaming Carrot first appeared in Visions #1, a comics magazine that launched at the Atlanta Fantasy Fair in 1979, as the world's first surrealist superhero[...]