Encyclopedia of comic books and graphic novels, santa barbara. Albert francis al simmons is the main protagonist or rather the subprotagonist in the spawn series. Aloysius harry simmons may 22, 1902 may 26, 1956, born alois szymanski, was an american professional baseball player. Comic books spawn comics spawn is a us comic book published by image comics and produced by todd mcfarlane productions tmp. Malebolgia returns al simmons, now a hellspawn, to the world, but with little memory, a badly disfigured body, limited yet seemingly boundless magical powers, and a monitor, the clown, aka violator. The heroes, hustlers, and historymaking swings and misses of americas national pastime. Spawn is a us comic book published by image comics and produced by todd mcfarlane productions tmp. Todd mcfarlane sues exemployee claiming to be inspiration. Share gaming todd mcfarlane says its time for a new spawn video game. In the 1990s, todd mcfarlane hit it big with a comic book character named al simmons, an intelligence officer and assassin for the u. Dangerous new character debuting in spawn from artist. Spawn encounters anti spawn, who is actually jason wynn unknown to al, and the redeemer. Al simmons appears in 1 issues view all the comic book story of baseball.
A future that threatens to destroy everything al simmons. Todd mcfarlane has said on numerous occasions that his choice to make al simmons. Cerebus cerebus the aardvark or simply cerebus is an independent comic book series that was written and illustrated by canadian artist dave sim, with backgrounds by fellow canadian gerhard. The definitive origin of image comics spawn al simmons. Jim downing wakes from a coma at the same time that al simmons aka spawn blew his head off. Please fill out the following form to report an issue missing from the database. Spawn is a fictional superhero appearing in a monthly comic book of the same name published. Spawn was ranked 60th on wizard magazines list of the top 200 comic book characters of all time, 50th on empire magazines list of the 50 greatest comic book characters, and 36th on igns.
Spawn al simmons is a fictional superhero appearing in a monthly comic book of the same name published by american company image comics. Spawn is a comic book telling the story of commando al simmons, who is betrayed by cia spook jason wynn and murdered by his friend and teammate chapel later retconned as priest, a distaff counterpart of chapel. Please only report missing issues after attempting a thorough search, and do not submit false information. Premiering in 1992, spawn was one of the first titles. He was a well known soldier who was at his most successful point when he saved the president from an attempted assassination. Al simmons was a government trained assassin murdered by his superior. Nicknamed bucketfoot al, he played for two decades in major league baseball mlb as an outfielder and had his best years with connie mack s philadelphia athletics during the late 1920s. Until you earn points all your submissions need to be vetted by other. Comics todd mcfarlane reveals first ever spawn and spiderman together cover. Chapel is a fictional supervillainantihero comic book character appearing in. Making a deal with the devil, known as malebolgia, simmons agrees to become a. I had greg capullo sign the book way back in the day at some rinkydink comic convention back in tacoma, washington at the tacoma dome. Spawn was once a man named al simmons, a highly trained assassin and was considered the best. The events unfold the way the old wise woman is writing them in her book, and despite.
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