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Cover: Liam McCormack-Sharp
Spawn: The Dark Ages #9
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This 1999 Image series continues to push Spawn's mythology into medieval darkness, and issue #9's cover — rendered by Liam McCormack-Sharp — makes a striking impression. The hellspawn figure dominates the frame, its skull-like face glowing with eerie green eyes and fiery light, while thin strings descend from above as if something unseen holds the creature like a puppet. It's an unsettling, atmospheric image that hints at themes of control and supernatural menace heading into the "Child's Crusade" storyline.
writer Brian Holguin · artist, inker Liam McCormack-Sharp · colorist Brian Haberlin · colorist Arsia Rozegar · letterer Richard Starkings · letterer Comicraft's Oscar Gongora · cover Liam McCormack-Sharp
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Trivia · 8 facts
- Cover-dated November 1999; published by Image Comics under Todd McFarlane Productions.
- Written by Brian Holguin; art and cover by Liam McCormack-Sharp (Liam Sharp); colors by Brian Haberlin (with Arsia Rozegar); lettering by Richard Starkings and Comicraft's Oscar Gongora.
- Story title: 'A Merry Round of Cheer?' — a stand-alone-flavored chapter in which a troupe of traveling players performs before Lord Iain Covenant, the Dark Ages Hellspawn, at considerable personal risk.
- This issue opens the 'A Child's Crusade' arc (issues #9–14), which introduces Maeve Fletcher, a peasant girl who claims to hear the voice of God and leads a ragtag children's army, seeking Covenant's leadership in return for offering him a path back to Heaven.
- Count Alessandro di Cogliostro (Cogliostro) appears in this issue as an adversary, consistent with his role throughout the 'Child's Crusade' arc as the pagan horde's leader who ultimately clashes with Covenant over Maeve's cause.
- Lord Iain Covenant (Dark Ages Spawn) is the featured protagonist: a 12th-century English crusading knight who was killed in the Holy Land and returned to Earth as one of Malebolgia's Hellspawn.
- The issue was released in both a direct edition and a newsstand edition — both confirmed in retailer and collector databases.
- The first fourteen issues of the series by the Holguin/Sharp team were later collected in Spawn: The Dark Ages — The Complete Collection; Sharp returned to the character in a new six-issue miniseries in 2025–2026.
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writer Brian Holguin
artist, inker Liam McCormack-Sharp
colorist Brian Haberlin
colorist Arsia Rozegar
letterer Richard Starkings
letterer Comicraft's Oscar Gongora
cover pencils, inks Liam McCormack-Sharp
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Reprinted in Spawn: The Dark Ages Complete Collection #[nn] (2013)
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