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Albert Francis " Al " Simmons, better known as Spawn, is an antihero appearing in a monthly comic book of the same name published by American company Image Comics, as well as in a number of films, television series, and video game adaptations set in the Image Universe. Created by Todd McFarlane, Spawn first appeared in Spawn #1 (May 1992).
The comic book series Spawn, published by Image Comics, contains a variety of characters: the allies of the protagonist and his antagonists.. Spawn, the main character of the series, is a CIA operative that was sent to hell, later protecting humanity from the war between heaven and hell.
Todd McFarlane (/ m ə k ˈ f ɑːr l ɪ n /; born March 16, 1961) is a Canadian comic book creator, best known for his work as the artist on The Amazing Spider-Man and as the creator, writer, and artist on the superhero horror-fantasy series Spawn, as well as being the current President and a co-founder of Image Comics.
Release. May 16, 1997. ( 1997-05-16) –. May 28, 1999. ( 1999-05-28) Todd McFarlane's Spawn, also known as Spawn: The Animated Series or simply Spawn, is an American adult animated superhero television series that aired on HBO from 1997 through 1999 [ 2] and reran on Cartoon Network 's Toonami programming block in Japan.
Violator is the oldest and most powerful of five hell-born demons known as the Phlebiac Brothers, and his main purpose is to guide Hellspawns towards fulfilling Malebolgia 's desire: to cultivate evil souls on Earth for Hell 's army. He has been Hell's guide for multiple Hellspawn, his latest charge being the current Spawn, Al Simmons. [ 2]
Cogliostro was a knight during the age of chivalry, becoming a hellspawn known as the Black Knight. Ultimately, however, he found his servitude to Malebolgia to be in violation of his honor, leading him to take up black magic to free himself, thereby becoming Merlin of the Arthurian legend.
Spawn rebelled and killed Malebolgia and became the monarch of Hell referring to himself as the Ipsissimus. Both teams of WildC.A.T.S. and the present-Spawn team up to try to save the future from this mad demi-god. The Ipsissimus has sent the demons of Hell on Earth including the Phlebiac Brothers as the "law enforcement".
Spawn in computing refers to a function that loads and executes a new child process . The current process may wait for the child to terminate or may continue to execute concurrent computing. Creating a new subprocess requires enough memory in which both the child process and the current program can execute. There is a family of spawn functions ...