Spawn #230

Apr 2013 · Image · 2.99 USD

📊 ~15,994 copies sold its debut month

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Todd McFarlane's cover for this April 2013 issue is a striking composition — Spawn's enormous crimson cape billows dramatically against a glowing full moon, enveloping a young girl in a pink jacket who reaches outward from within its folds. Bats scatter across the red sky as the hellspawn looms protectively (or perhaps ominously) above a rocky precipice, with FCO Plascencia's colors giving the whole scene a vivid, blood-soaked intensity. It's a genuinely arresting image from a series that, 230 issues in, still knows how to command your attention.

artist, inker Todd McFarlane · colorist FCO Plascencia · cover Todd McFarlane

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Raw (NM) $130

CGC 9.8 · 193 in census $686*

CGC 9.6 · 243 in census $287

CGC 9.4 · 107 in census $258

CGC 9.2 · 62 in census $215

CGC 9.0 · 26 in census $165

CGC 8.5 · 18 in census $165*

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CGC 8.0 · 3 in census $165*

CGC 7.5 · 1 in census $136*

CGC 7.0 none in existence

CGC 6.5 none in existence

CGC 6.0 none in existence

CGC 5.5 · 1 in census $70*

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Trivia · 7 facts

Part Two of the 'Complex Messiah' story arc, continuing Jim Downing's arc as the second Hellspawn following Al Simmons' death in issue #185.
Written by Todd McFarlane and Jon Goff; interior art by Szymon Kudranski; colors by FCO Plascencia; letters by Tom Orzechowski.
The standard cover by Todd McFarlane is a direct homage to his own Batman #423 (DC Comics, 1988) — a cape-dominated composition he originally drew before leaving DC to co-found Image.
A 1:25 retailer incentive variant reproduces the cover in black-and-white sketch form, also by McFarlane.
Story beats: the Vatican dispatches representatives to assess Jim Downing's claimed miraculous powers, and a member of Jim's inner circle meets a final fate.
Jim Downing (the second Spawn) carried the title as protagonist from issue #185 through approximately issue #250, when Al Simmons reclaimed the mantle — making #230 a mid-arc chapter of that roughly 65-issue secondary-Spawn run.
A Spanish-language reprint edition was released by Editorial Kamite (Mexico) in October 2017, featuring a B&W sketch cover.