Mark of the Beast

Few corners of comics are as deliciously dark as the world Todd McFarlane, Brian Holguin, and Greg Capullo built inside Spawn, and Mark of the Beast stepped into that shadow-drenched universe in 2000, right at the height of the Modern Age's appetite for gritty supernatural storytelling. With only a handful of appearances concentrated in a tight 2000–2002 window, this is a character whose presence burns brief and intense, sharing those hellish pages with Spawn himself, Al Simmons, and the brooding Cogliostro. A rare figure even by Image's sprawling standards, Mark of the Beast is the kind of deep-catalog discovery that reminds devoted Spawn readers just how richly populated — and gloriously strange — that universe truly is.