Sergeant Doug Halliday

Stepping out of the gritty, horror-drenched corners of Image Comics' mid-90s Spawn universe, Sergeant Doug Halliday made his debut in Curse of the Spawn #5 in 1996, brought to life by writer Alan McElroy and artist Dwayne Turner. He's a law enforcement figure navigating one of the darker, more unsettling titles to emerge from that bold modern era of creator-owned comics, sharing the page with a compelling cast of investigators and officers — Gretchen Culver, Detective Brayde, Sam Burke, Detective Ray Sparks, and Officer Deke — suggesting a world thick with procedural tension and supernatural dread. With only a handful of catalog appearances concentrated in Curse of the Spawn, Halliday is exactly the kind of supporting character that dedicated collectors love to track down — a small but atmospheric piece of a richly imagined universe.