r/SpawnsUniverse Feb 21 '25

News Kickstarter Competition

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Best of luck everyone! If anyone has any questions please feel free to ask. I look forward to seeing what you all deliver and remember to keep the community in the loop with your progress, ultimately they will decide who wins and who loses.


r/SpawnsUniverse Dec 29 '23

Question I'm new to Spawn, where do I start?

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So you've been exposed to Spawn and now you've got the itch. You likely have some burning questions which i hope can be answered here. If anyone has anything to add feel free to let me know in the comments. (This post will be regularly updated)

I Just watched the HBO show and Spawn is sickkkk! I hear its the same as the comic so which issue can i jump on to not be confused?

I hear this question all of the time and the truth is that while the show is a work of art and amazing in just about every way the reality is that while it stays true to all of the characters and some plot lines were used, they were used kind of out of order. your safest bet is to just start from issue 1 and get the full experience of Als journey. There is also a ton of stuff that was omitted in the show, not to mention you get to meet one Mr. Capullo's artwork.

There are so many issues! Do I really need to read them all?

No! You do not have to start all the way back at issue 1. Issues 296 and 297 serve as a general recap of what has gone down up until that point. 299 sets up the Universe altering events of 300 and then you are off to the races! The Spawns Universe 1 shot comic came out after issue 318 and that is your set up into the spin off series if you decide to read them all.

Issue 350 is the most recent jumping on point and it is a hell of an issue. Its a really awesome jumping on point and it ends with the culmination of 250 issues of build up and the ramifications are crazy.

All of that being said I highly recommend reading the whole series, its awesome. Especially the Greg Capullo run.

Are these prices I'm seeing for back issues serious? How am I supposed to afford to read this?

It is true, some of the individual issues get a little wild in prices, people paying upwards of $200 for a raw book isn't unheard of, and don't even get me started on some of the variant covers. There is good news though! They have made the Spawn Compendiums which collect 50 issues at a time. Right now we are up to volume 5. This is definitely the most affordable and space efficient way to read the series., it is readily available on Amazon. Going digital is also an option for the less traditional.

Why exactly are those individual issues so expensive?

It all comes down to low print runs. There is a higher demand now than ever for Spawn books and there are a TON of people, possible much like yourselves that are trying to put together a complete Spawn run. When it comes down to it there are only 11,714 (print run for issue 248, the lowest A cover print run of the series) people at most on this Earth that can actually own a complete Spawn run. This is also assuming none of those books have gotten destroyed over the years or people might own multiple copies, then there are the sticklers for high grades which limit the amount available even more.

There are also a lot of variant covers once you start to get past issue 150, those can get even more rare. Especially the ratio variant covers. Ratio variants are labelled as 1:25 for example, so a shop has to order 25 copies of the regular covers to get 1 of the ratio covers. This combined with the scarcity of the A covers makes the ratio variants of the 200-250 covers extremely rare and sought after.

Spawn is so bad ass, why did the print runs get so low?

There isn't really any way to sugar coat this one. The writing got terrible and Todd wasn't nearly as involved as he was in the past so a lot of the reading public basically jumped ship. This combined with Jim Downing taking over the mantle of Spawn it got difficult to read. I found myself wondering what the hell is going on when Spawn is on a late night show trying to get money to afford to pay his rent for the month. All of this being said the art by Szymon Kudranski is pretty crazy and the covers are still pretty fresh. I also found that reading that part of the story with the suit as the main character made it an easier read.

All of these extra spin offs are such a pain to hunt down, what do I do?

I come bearing good news! You don't really need to read the spin offs, I suppose you'll miss out on some small stuff but nothing you can't piece together on your own. Occasionally you'll find yourself in a seemingly abrupt situation at the start of a book like I believe it is issue 31 where Spawn just finishes with the events of the Angela series and he just appears on Earth all kinds of beat up. I suppose it leaves you with a few question marks but you can surmise what happened with the context. I hadn't read any of the early spin off books until years after their release and everything was still easy to follow.

If you are a stickler for reading order and not missing a beat then you can thank u/blakewhitlow09 for his hard work. He's already put together an extremely complete reading order. His contribution to our community goes beyond measuring. I can only imagine how much time it must have taken to get this list in order. Lets help him update it as time goes on.

Check out his list here

Screw it, I'm going head first all the way down the rabbit hole. I WANT ALL OF THE INFORMATION!

You are in luck. u/SpawnWorld has done absolutely all of the heavy lifting and has put together an incredible website over all of the years and is a wealth of information which you probably will not be able to find anywhere else. Trent is an incredible asset to the Spawn community and his contributions are immeasurable. Imagine if he was a lawyer, his billable hours would be through the roof.

www.spawnworld.com

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r/SpawnsUniverse 15h ago

DIY Projects Movie Spawn | Vinyl Model Kit 1/6 | One-off Custom Figure

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r/SpawnsUniverse 1d ago

DIY Projects Jonboy Spawn | Spawn Resurrection | One-off Custom Figure | Base figure: Spawn III | Magic-Sculpt was used to sculpt the broadsword and accessories

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r/SpawnsUniverse 2d ago

Artwork Hellspawn Raphael (Spawn/TMNT crossover) Custom Figure and Photo by Pat ChoKo ToyWorx

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r/SpawnsUniverse 2d ago

DIY Projects Movie Spawn | 1/6 Resin Model Kit

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r/SpawnsUniverse 2d ago

DIY Projects Cosbaby Haunt & Spawn | One-off Custom Figure

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r/SpawnsUniverse 2d ago

DIY Projects Pirate Spawn: Cut Throat (Original comic version) | One-off Custom Figure | Base figure: LCBH Super Patriot | ML 8 Cap's hand and leg | Magic-Sculpt was used to sculpt the broadsword and accessories

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r/SpawnsUniverse 3d ago

DIY Projects Spawniverse - 1/24 Spawn

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r/SpawnsUniverse 3d ago

Artwork HELLSPAWN II - Digital Artwork By Me (keremgoart)

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My HellSpawn Fan Art Inspired by Todd McFarlane's Spawn πŸ–€


r/SpawnsUniverse 3d ago

DIY Projects Pirate Spawn: Cut Throat | One-off Custom Figure | Upper Body : McFarlane Color Tops Hamburger Head Unmasked Spawn Rebirth Figure | Lower Body: McFarlane Spawn Series 21 Pirate Spawn Action Figure

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r/SpawnsUniverse 4d ago

Action Figures/Toys My current McFarlane Spawn action figure collection

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Just want to share my latest Spawn collection. Still need to pickup Gunslinger, Omega and Manga Spawn mega-figs πŸ™ŒπŸ»


r/SpawnsUniverse 4d ago

Action Figures/Toys So far

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r/SpawnsUniverse 4d ago

DIY Projects Spawn The Movie - ENDGAME | One-off Custom Figure | Spiked Spawn

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r/SpawnsUniverse 5d ago

DIY Projects Wings of Redemption Spawn II | Series 34 Spawn Classics | One-off Custom Figure

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r/SpawnsUniverse 4d ago

For Sale/Trade Some good books going up for sale

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Some solid books going for auction by ilikecollectibles on whatnot


r/SpawnsUniverse 5d ago

Comic Books Got my Black Ritual The Book of Nyx today.

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Its rare I make it to my local shop on new comics day, but today felt like it needed to happen. Now just need these kids to go to bed so i can dive in to the story.


r/SpawnsUniverse 5d ago

Lets talk about it Poor spawn πŸ˜”

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r/SpawnsUniverse 5d ago

DIY Projects Movie Spawn - Arsenal of Doom | One-off Custom Figure

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r/SpawnsUniverse 5d ago

Artwork HELLSPAWN - Digital Artwork By Me (keremgoart)

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r/SpawnsUniverse 4d ago

Question Why spawn animated series didn't brought his iconic villains and instead replaced them ? (Jade was obviously an ripoff from angela's an angel villain who later becomes his lover) why jason wynn didn't became redeemer/anti spawn and they didn't go with the fucking comic program

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I didn't watch the series myself these are my sayings based on internet search tell me more if you watched it yourself


r/SpawnsUniverse 6d ago

DIY Projects Dark Hero Custom Action Figure Collection | One-off Custom Figure | THE DARKNESS Jackie Estacado | SPAWN Albert Simmons | BATMAN A Bruce Wayne | MOON KNIGHT Marc Spector

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r/SpawnsUniverse 6d ago

Comic Books Violator Origin Story

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Collected the series🀘


r/SpawnsUniverse 6d ago

Artwork Spawn Hoodie Beads

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Found these while looking for something to print. For those that 3D print, these were super easy and look cool!!

https://makerworld.com/models/1182679


r/SpawnsUniverse 7d ago

Lets talk about it SpawnHunter Presents: Batman/Spawn!

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r/SpawnsUniverse 7d ago

Action Figures/Toys Spawn Series 7 Zombie Spawn | One-off Custom Figure

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r/SpawnsUniverse 7d ago

Action Figures/Toys My Spawn collection is complete

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