1992 Comic Debuts: Spawn, Robin, Wildcats, Death's Head, Spider-Man 2099, RoboCop, Morbius, the Living Vampire, Shadowman, Youngblood, Az

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 80. Chapters: Spawn, Robin, Wildcats, Death's Head, Spider-Man 2099, RoboCop, Morbius, the Living Vampire, Shadowman, Youngblood, Azrael, Darkhold, Non Sequitur, Devlin Waugh, The Hacker Files, Army of Darkness, Unity, X-O Manowar, Warheads, Knights of Pendragon, Harbinger, Motormouth, Wetworks, Infinity War, Ravage 2099, Batman: Shadow of the Bat, Digitek, Eclipso: The Darkness Within, Green Lantern: Mosaic, Feel 100%, Team Titans, Cazador, TekWorld, Ambush Bug: Nothing Special, Grey Legacy, Hammerlocke, Peepshow. Excerpt: Spawn (Albert Francis Al Simmons/Jim Downing) is a fictional comic book superhero who appears in a monthly comic book of the same name published by Image Comics. Created by writer/artist Todd McFarlane, Spawn first appeared in Spawn #1 (May 1992). Spawn was ranked 60th on Wizard magazine's list of the Top 200 Comic Book Characters of All Time, 50th on Empire magazine's list of The 50 Greatest Comic Book Characters and recently 36th on IGN's Top 100 Comic Book Heroes. The series has spun off several other comics, including Angela, Curse of the Spawn, Sam & Twitch, and the Japanese manga Shadows of Spawn. Spawn was adapted into a 1997 feature film, an HBO animated series lasting from 1997 until 1999, and a series of action figures whose high level of detail made McFarlane Toys known in the toy industry. Spawn enjoyed considerable popularity upon its initial release in the 1990s. Comic book collecting was enjoying a marked upswing at the time, fueled by the speculator boom looking for the next hot book that would jump in value after its release. McFarlane had also already enjoyed superstar status among comic fans with his work on Spider-Man, which had featured McFarlane's name prominently as both writer and artist. McFarlane's subsequent break with Marvel and the formation of Image Comics was seen by many as a ...