Spawn 77 #1
Cover C · Todd McFarlane Original 1977 Update Variant · miniseries premiere · first official comic appearance of McFarlane’s 1977 Spawn design · first printing · Collect Forever Soft Slab
9 September 2026
Launch issue of the 2026 three-part Spawn 77 miniseries. Image Comics states that the series brings Todd McFarlane’s original 1977 high-school Spawn design into an official comic book for the first time, nearly fifty years after he conceived it.
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- Condition
- Near Mint appearance within Collect Forever Soft Slab — ungraded.
- Completeness
- Comic present in Collect Forever Soft Slab with front and rear visible. Interior has not been physically collated while enclosed; no unshown inserts or extras are claimed.
Catalogue note
Launch issue of the 2026 three-part Spawn 77 miniseries. Image Comics states that the series brings Todd McFarlane’s original 1977 high-school Spawn design into an official comic book for the first time, nearly fifty years after he conceived it. This Cover C variant is especially relevant to that origin story because McFarlane himself supplies the 'Original 1977 Update' cover. The object therefore documents both a new Spawn Universe publication and a retrospective recovery/reconstruction of the character’s pre-1992 visual origins.
Why this object matters
The McFarlane Original 1977 Update cover gives the 2026 Spawn 77 launch a direct author/design relationship to the recovered early concept. This is outstanding retrospective publication evidence, not a surviving 1977 object or the foundational 1992 Spawn launch. The exact cover supports a modest distinction from TMR-000641, but the evidence does not justify Gold.
Evidence limits: A first official publication of an old design does not establish the historical influence of this new miniseries; the physical object dates to 2026.
Score and assessment method
Archive Importance: 8.7 / 10.
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