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1st appearance of an unnamed girl who appears to be the apprentice of Ratcatcher and his future successor

Variant ⋅ Image ⋅ 2019

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Variant cover art by Sanford Greene

Cover art inspired by the Studio Ghibli animated film 'My Neighbor Totoro'

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Inspired by the PlayStation video game that first launched in 2007

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Variant cover art by Carmen Carnero

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First printed images of Spawn in a U.S. publication, Mailing date: February 5, 1992

Front page advertisement of Spawn, preceded all comic book advertisements in Malibu comic books that were published between March/April 1992

Interior black and white, textless cover art for Spawn #1

Only two other images of Spawn are known to exist prior to the mailing of Comics Buyer's Guide #953: the sleeve of a VHS tape titled "Stan Lee Presents: The Comic Book Greats" and a comic book solicitation magazine, Up N' Coming #1, Mailing date: February 3, 1992

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A biological terrorist attack in the US makes conceiving children impossible in America

[February 2019 - optioned with Peter Dinklage cast]

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16-page preview of the 2006 Halo graphic novel

First published comic book adapted from the Halo video game franchise

Dark Horse ⋅ 1993

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Preview appearance of Hellboy, published before Dime Press #4

Marvel ⋅ 1980

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Wedding of Peter Parker and Gwen Stacy in an alternate reality

1st full appearance of Uranos, an Eternal

Origin of the Eternals continued

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