Spawn #12
☆ Be the first to review + Add to your collection — Join freeTodd McFarlane's striking cover for Spawn #12 (July 1993) makes a bold visual statement: a large green-rimmed circle split down the middle, with half revealing Spawn's pale, skull-like visage and glowing red eye, and the other half showing a shattered pane of glass with a bullet hole at its center and a green shard piercing through. The stark contrast between the haunting face and the fractured glass creates an atmosphere of tension that perfectly sets the stage for "Flashback (Part One)." McFarlane both wrote and drew this issue, with inking contributions from Rob Liefeld, Jim Lee, and Marc Silvestri — a notable creative assembly for this early chapter in Spawn's ongoing saga.
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- Published July 1993 by Image Comics; written, penciled, and inked entirely by Todd McFarlane, with colors by Steve Oliff and Reuben Rude and letters/editing by Tom Orzechowski.
- Story titled 'Flashback, Part 1' — Spawn decodes recurring visual clues (an American flag, skull face paint) and identifies Chapel as the man who murdered Al Simmons.
- Chapel (real name Bruce Stinson) is a Rob Liefeld–created character who originated in Youngblood #1, making his cameo appearance here one of the earliest cross-imprint story connections in Image Comics history.
- First appearance of Granny Blake, Wanda's blind grandmother, who Al visits in disguise and reassures about the existence of an afterlife.
- First substantive on-page portrayal of CIA director Jason Wynn, who in this issue begins plotting to eliminate Terry Fitzgerald the same way he arranged Al Simmons' death — establishing Wynn as the series' primary human antagonist.
- Includes a centerspread poster of Bloodwulf, drawn by Rob Liefeld; Bloodwulf is a Liefeld-created alien bounty hunter who had debuted in the Image one-shot Darker Image earlier in 1993.
- Chapel's role as Spawn's killer was later retconned out of continuity: because Liefeld owned the character's rights, Chapel could not appear in the 1997 Spawn film, prompting McFarlane to create Jessica Priest as a replacement — and eventually to revise the comic canon as well.
- Issue #12 is the final chapter collected in Spawn Origins Hardcover Book 1 (issues #1–12) and is also reprinted in the Spawn Origins Vol. 2 trade paperback line.
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Reprinted in Spawn #6 (1996), Spawn #6/1997 (1997), Spawn #6 (1997), Spawn Origins Collection #1 (2010), Spawn: Edición Integral #1 (2010), Spawn Origins Collection #2
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