On Tuesday, December 13th, arguably the world’s most popular superhero Batman and arguably the world’s most popular non-Marvel or DC superhero, Spawn, will reunite for the first time in nearly 30 years.
Batman/Spawn #1 is a 48-page one-shot inter-company crossover special written by Todd McFarlane and illustrated by Greg Capullo that follows the villainous Gotham City secret society, the Court of Owls. Appears and hires a Hellspawn to finally end the Dark Knight.
Todd McFarlane Productions has released a 6-page preview with full letter for this issue.
Batman/Spawn marks the first team of these two iconic characters since 1994’s Batman/Spawn: War Devil (written by Doug Mensch, Alan Grant and Chuck Dixon and drawn by Klaus Johnson). increase. The first is Spawn/Batman by Frank Miller and McFarlane. Both were reissued in last month’s Batman/Spawn: Classic Collection.
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Batman/Spawn #1 will be sold by Barnes & Noble (in addition to the Direct Market comic book shop) with an exclusive cover by McFarlane and Capullo. This is his mainline DC comic for sale in this bookstore since in 2019 he published the milestone Detective Comics #1000 by Barnes & Noble.
“Look, this is really easy. You can mix your creations (spawns) into the storyline, the type of project that many creators in the comics industry only get to do a few times in their career,” McFarlane says.
Capullo adds: Batman together again.
A gallery of all Batman/Spawn #1 variant covers, including the Barnes & Noble limited edition. Batman/Spawn #1 features main cover art by Capullo and variants by McFarlane, Gabriele Derotto, Sean Murphy, Francesco Matina, J. Scott Campbell, Jim Lee, Jason Fabok and Brett Booth, available from both McFarlane Use a signed cover. and capro.
Finally, DC also recently released a first look at a special DC/Spawn-themed variant cover featuring the character alongside other DC heroes.
Here’s a gallery of these covers, along with a schedule and list of titles and artists.
Released on Tuesday, November 29
- Superman: Kal-El Returns #1 Dan Mora/Tomeu Moray
On sale December 6th (Tue)
- Batman #130 Written by Clay Mann/Tomeu Moray
- Poison Ivy #7 David Nakayama
- Joker The Man Who Stopped Laughing #3 By Tony Daniel/Tomeu Moray
On sale December 13th (Tue)
- Superman: Son of Kal-El #18 Ryan Suk
- WildC.ATs #2 Ben Oliver
- Wonder Woman #794 Jim Chang/Jay Ramos
On sale December 20th (Tue)
- Catwoman #50 David Marquez
- Nightwing #99 Javi Fernandez / Tomeu Moray
On sale December 27th (Tue)
- Harley Quinn #25 frog goo
spawn is one Best Non-Marvel or DC Comics Superheroes.