Angela #3
☆ Be the first to review + Add to your collection — Join freeAngela #3 closes the first solo miniseries built around a Spawn supporting character, delivering the narrative payoff that transforms Angela from a one-dimensional antagonist into a self-determined free agent — a status quo shift that shaped every subsequent appearance she made in the Spawn universe. The issue marks the first appearance of Rafael, the angelic authority figure who arrests the villainous Gabrielle and signals that Heaven itself is not monolithic in its corruption. As the concluding chapter of the story that landed at the center of one of comics' most consequential creator-rights lawsuits — a dispute ultimately confirming Neil Gaiman as a copyright co-owner and eventually delivering Angela to Marvel — the issue carries outsized legal and cultural weight beyond its page count. Taken together with its preceding chapters, the miniseries established that an Image Comics spin-off title could sustain a fully realized, cosmologically expansive world entirely separate from its parent book.
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The Angela miniseries grew directly out of Gaiman's single-issue contribution to Spawn, which he wrote in 1993 at Todd McFarlane's invitation alongside Alan Moore, Dave Sim, and Frank Miller. Gaiman wrote all three issues of the miniseries with interior pencils by Greg Capullo and inks by Mark Pennington — Capullo also supplied every cover — and the series ran from December 1994 through February 1995. The creative and publishing context was immediately complicated: McFarlane later disputed whether Gaiman held any creator rights to Angela and the other characters debuted in Spawn #9, a conflict that went to federal court and was settled in 2012 with Gaiman receiving full ownership of Angela, whom he subsequently sold to Marvel. The miniseries was later collected in trade paperback form under the title Spawn: Angela's Hunt, which also incorporated the 1995 Angela Special.
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- First appearance of Rafael, the angelic officer who arrests Gabrielle and states that changes are coming to Terran Affairs Headquarters.
- Written by Neil Gaiman with pencils by Greg Capullo, inks by Mark Pennington, and a cover by Greg Capullo; published by Image Comics in February 1995.
- Concluding issue of the three-part Angela miniseries (December 1994–February 1995), the first solo title spun off from the Spawn ongoing series.
- Angela is exonerated of the treason charges fabricated by Gabrielle but voluntarily chooses to leave Heaven and operate as a freelance hunter — a defining character turn.
- Smut, described as a small raccoon-like creature, guides Angela and Spawn out of Hell in this issue, appearing only this once across the entire miniseries.
- All three issues of this miniseries were among the specific publications named in the 2002–2012 Gaiman v. McFarlane federal lawsuit, with the settlement confirming Gaiman as a 50% copyright co-owner of their contents.
- The miniseries was reprinted in the Spawn: Angela's Hunt trade paperback (later also titled Angela Trade Paperback), which collected Angela #1–3 alongside the Angela Special (1995).
- Both a direct edition and a newsstand edition of Angela #3 were produced and distributed, consistent with the dual-format publishing practice common to Image Comics titles of the mid-1990s.
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Reprinted in Angela Trade Paperback #[nn] (1995), Spawn #28 (1995), Planète Comics #2 (1997), Spawn Sonderheft - Angela #2 (1997)
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