Publishers / Image / Spawn (1992) / #81
81March 1999
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Spawn #81

Image · March 1999

First appearance: Mark Lucas1 variant
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Identification plate

Series
Spawn (Image, 1992 series)
Issue
#81
Publication date
March 1999
Key date
1999-03-00
Indicia publisher
Image Comics
Price
$1.95; 2.95 CAD
Pages
36

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Why this issue matters

First appearance of Mark Lucas - the earliest non-flashback appearance on record for this character.

The evidence

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Contents

SeqStoryTypePagesCreditsCharacters
0-cover1pencils: Greg Capullo; inks: Todd McFarlane; colors: Dan KempAl Simmons, Spawn
1Todd McFarlane & Image Comics Presents...credits, title page1letters: typeset
2Devil Insidecomic story22script: Todd McFarlane, Brian Holguin; pencils: Greg Capullo; inks: Danny Miki; colors: Dan Kemp, Brian Haberlin; letters: Tom OrzechowskiSam Burke, Count Nicholas Cogliostro, Ethan Crone, Sarah Frost, Billy Kincaid, Al Simmons, Spawn, Twitch, Mark Lucas First
3BlahBlahBlah_76in-house column1script: Terry Fitzgerald
4-letters page2script: Todd McFarlaneSpawn
5Todd McFarlane's Spawn: Season Two Compendium HBOtext article2letters: typesetClown
6ENDCAP 81in-house column1pencils: ? (photography); inks: ? (photography); colors: ? (photography); letters: typeset

Printings and variants

EditionHow to tell
Newsstandbarcode 01430294568681

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Series context

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Sources

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