some spawn questions

[Ullar]

Why does the Spawn Ultimate Collection VOlume 1 omit issue 10? And how does Spawn manga fit into continuity?

[Ullar]

same for not including #9? Why is this?

[Ullar]

Really why does Spawn Collection Volume 1 not have #9 and #10?

[IPW]

If my memory is right, both issue feature charactors that Todd McFarland doesn't have the rights to.
#9, feature Angela, the angel. Who was created by Neil Gaiman.
#10, features Dave Simm's Cerebus.
Thats my guess.

[Ullar]

thank you.

[Rev. F. David Swallow II]

In the first volume of the spawn manga there is a reference to when violater lost his ability to transform into his demon form. THis happened somewhere in the 20's or 30's of the american series i believe.

[Young Avenger]

If my memory is right, both issue feature charactors that Todd McFarland doesn't have the rights to.
#9, feature Angela, the angel. Who was created by Neil Gaiman.
#10, features Dave Simm's Cerebus.
Thats my guess.

I never got the character rights issue when it comes to Spawn. Did Neil Gaiman write Spawn in one point?

[Demon Cleaner]

Gaiman wrote spawn for that one issue, #9 methinks, and created Angela. Issue #10 was written by dave sim, creator of Cerebus. I think these issues are omitted from the trade not so much as a result of the guest characters featured, but because of them being written by someone other than Todd. Although an article i found at http://www.answers.com/topic/cerebus-the-aardvark makes me question why the copyright would be so much of an issue. Here's a quote: In the 1990s, Sim became an outspoken advocate of creators' rights in comics, and used the editorial pages of Cerebus to promote self-publishing and greater artist activism. Sim was also the biggest individual supporter of the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund; when he guest-wrote the 10th issue of Todd McFarlane's best-selling Spawn, Sim donated his entire fee — over $100,000 — to the fund. During this same period he started publishing his and others' experiments with 24-hour comics in the back of his issues, which created greater awareness of this challenge, now the subject of an annual event for creating them.

[Ullar]

Thank you for the help. are the issues expenseive?

[Ripper]

No, I bought issue 9 for £1, about $1.40 US and Issue 10 for £2.99, about $4

[Ullar]

wow that is cheap. thanks