Ethan Crone

Ethan Crone stepped onto the page in 1999's Spawn #79, born from the creative minds of Todd McFarlane, Brian Holguin, and Greg Capullo at the height of Image Comics' dark, visceral storytelling era. A figure who inhabits the grim corners of the Spawn universe, he shares his world with some of that series' most compelling presences — the haunted Al Simmons, the dogged detective duo of Twitch Williams and Sam Burke, and the enigmatic Sarah Frost. His catalog footprint may be modest at six appearances, but in a mythology as dense and unforgiving as Spawn's, every shadow has weight, and Crone is a name worth tracking down for any serious collector of late-'90s Image horror.