Albert Francis Simmons/ Jim Downing is a fictional comic book character published by Image Comics in early 1992. Al is popularly known as Spawn from the self-titled comic series Spawn. The series was first released at the time when comic book collecting was enjoying a marked upswing and was also fueled by the speculator boom looking for the next hot book that would jump in value after its release
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