Buying Spawn #1 is the obvious step in preparing for the big movie set to come out next year. If Todd McFarlane's past is prologue; his movie will be off the hook. It could spur a rebirth in all things Spawn. Now is the time to get the jump on your Spawn speculation. Todd McFarlane's covers are well-known and sought out especially the keys. Another artist that everyone is aware of is Greg Capullo. His first cover art was on a Spawn issue. This Capullo cover is also the first Anti-Spawn appearance. Capullo has worked on Quasar, X-Force, Spawn, Batman, Haunt, his own comic Creech, and more recently Dark Nights: Metal. He can definitely hold his own with McFarlane's eye-popping covers. Is Capullo's work a good investment like most of the McFarlane covers? Furthermore, which issues, in particular, should we be focused on to make money before the Spawn movie event in 2019?
Except for his recent stuff, Spawn was probably one of the biggest titles Greg Capullo worked on. Not counting, Batman of course. This comic happens to be the first appearance of Anti-Spawn. Spawn #16 was created by Morrison, Simpson, Fitzgerald (script) with Capullo, Gorby, and Simpson (pencils) in 1993. What better character to create than an Anti-Spawn. This beastie almost succeeds in killing Spawn. Though our "hero" prevails. But Spawn was all the rage back in the 1990's, in my opinion even bigger than Venom. The fantastic thing about the Spawn covers is they use the entire page, you feel like you are looking through a window, not a comic book cover. Genuinely creative stuff "spawned" from this series by unstoppable Todd McFarlane and his team.
Is there any money in Spawn #16? The last sale was in May 2018 for grade near mint (9.2), and it only garnered $18. You don't need to be alarmed this is a good thing. With Venom all the rage it is time to buy Spawn. Once the Spawn Speculation hype hits the public, everything Spawn is going to explode like C-4 from Al Simmons military past. This is definitely a time of buying and holding. There are so few sales that they can't register a percentage of return. This is as cheap as it gets for speculation or even long-term investment. I think McFarlane wants a DC type universe to build movies from, a platform. This guy is always one step ahead and a trendsetter. He is not just in this to make one movie.
Some books with low distribution can be good investments over time. They aren't necessarily keys, but collectors realize if there are only a few, why not own them? One such book is Spawn #21, and it actually has more value than Spawn #16. Crazy huh? That is collecting, the rarer, the better. Spawn #21 is all Todd McFarlane (script, pencils, and inks) not bad for a guy who owns the publishing company. He must work around the clock. Interesting anecdote this issue was published out of sync and before issues #19 and #20.
But, can Spawn #21, make us money? The last sale in July was $37 for (9.8) graded copy. Also, a (9.4) grade sold for $25 in March 2018. Both of these grades show double-digit gains (9.8) at positive +17.6% and (9.4) at positive +25.1%. This is a must own book because if it can make these returns this far out from a movie. The price of Spawn #21 will expand like Spawn's cloak, ethereal and seemingly ghost-like, yet real, deadly and with substantial profits.
