Post by Steeven on Aug 26, 2022 13:20:00 GMT -6
Publisher: Image
Cover Date: July 1992
On Sale Date: July 3, 1992
Cover Price: $1.95
Writer/Artist: Todd McFarlane
Letterer: Tom Orzechowski
Colorist: Steve Oliff and Reuben Rude
The issue opens with a squat little man in face paint talking to a cat in an alley. The Clown, as he will come to be known as, is describing to the cat exactly how he plans on taking out Spawn in a very violent fashion. He also refers to himself as The Violator.
Speaking of Spawn, he's hanging out on a cross atop a church and he's lamenting his lack of memories. He knows he had a great love and he's determined to find her, he just can't remember who she is.
Meanwhile, a demon is out there ripping the hearts out of mob guys.
Spawn, still being totally emo, attempts to use his powers to turn his burn scarred body whole again and is shocked and angry to discover that he can only change his form into that of a white man, when in reality, before he died, he was a black man.
Suddenly he's hit by a memory. Jason Wynn. His boss. His commander. The one who taught him how to kill. They were once like brothers until Spawn learned that Wynn was an evil jerk. The influx of memories causes him to pass out and he falls from the church.
Spawn wakes in an alley to find he's not alone. The Clown is there. In fact, it's here that Spawn learns from the Clown that he's a spawn... a Hellspawn.
It's as the Clown is describing in great detail the various ways in which he could violently murder him, that Spawn grows bored and turns to leave.
But this Clown is no mere clown. He's the demon who has been ripping the hearts from mob guys, and now he wants to do the same with Spawn.
