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Lt. Colonel Albert "Al" Simmons, USMC (Ret.), was a highly trained CIA assassin, who was murdered by his employer and his former friend Chapel. When Simmons sold his soul to Malebolgia in order to return to earth to see his wife Wanda Blake again, he found he got more than he bargained for. Malebolgia used Al as the reborn Spawn, or Hellspawn, to do his bidding.

Albert Francis Simmons was born in Detroit, Michigan. He was the second of three children (Marc, Al and Richard) to Bernard Simmons, was a traveling salesman, and Esther Simmons, a devil worshipper. His grandfather, Henry Simmons, knew a Hellspawn called "Gunslinger Spawn". Simmons was a very intelligent and physically strong officer in the United States Marine Corps, attaining the rank of Lieutenant Colonel. He later joined the United States Secret Service and became a highly decorated member. This led to his promotion to the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). In the CIA, Simmons was recruited into a special division known as the U.S. Security Group, a task force with jurisdiction in all domestic and foreign situations, commanded by CIA Director Jason Wynn.

After being murdered during a mission in Botswana by Director Wynn, Simmons is sent to Hell because of his life as an assassin. Making a deal with the devil, Simmons agrees to become a Hellspawn and serve Malebolgia if he is allowed to see his wife, Wanda, one last time. Malebolgia returns Simmons to the living realm, but with only the barest of memories, a badly burned body, and a watch dog, the Clown.

Spawn arrived on Earth in a daze, off-balance and disoriented. He only had vague recollections of his past and how he came to be. He knew his name was 'Al Simmons' and that he died, but not much more.

Occasionally receiving painful flashbacks, he began remembering making the deal with the devil to come back to see his wife, but he couldn't remember her name. Spawn returned to a world, now alien to him, and realized he had lost five years since his death before returning.

Using CIA files, he tracked down his wife's location to find his best friend, Terry, had married Wanda and they now had a daughter named Cyan.

Spawn soon ran into a fellow Hellspawn who informs him his powers are powered by Necroplasm. Once they are used up, he must return to hell.

Not wanting to return to Hell, Spawn attempted to find out his new purpose in life, while using as little power as possible. Spawn was thrown into several anti-hero adventures where he took down street gangs and organized crime in New York City in brutal fashion. Finding himself thrown against Italian mobsters and eventually killing a pedophillic serial killer, Spawn found a new purpose in stopping evil. This was to Malebolgia's liking as every evil person killed was another body in his army for his future war against Heaven.

Spawn's early battles continued to take a huge toll on him. The Mafia was furious with Spawn as they blamed him for a string of recent mob deaths actually performed by Violator. His first big test was against the cyborg mob enforcer, OvertKill which he had barely survived.

Recognizing the immense threat that this new Hellspawn presented in the living realm, Heaven watched as a freelancer attempted to take him down. Spawn narrowly escaped defeat from Angela when he sent her back to heaven by turning her own Dimensional Lance against her. Recognizing the power, Heaven ordered Gabrielle, the director of the Terran Affairs Headquarters, to dispatch a Redeemer to take care of him before he became too powerful. An Orbital Angel Station picked Jason Wynn to become the new Redeemer but was ultimately defeated by Spawn.

Spawn began forming a close relationship with the local bums living in the Bowery Alleyways. He began calling this his new home and claimed the bums were under his protection, but also becoming his weakness in the process.

Along the way he meets up with the magician Harry Houdini, and learns about his new found magic powers. During a brief scuffle, Spawn took a bullet to the face for Terry Fitzgerald who began receiving blame for crimes against the CIA that Spawn had actually performed. Bobby the bum helped fix the wound by stitching it shut with a shoelace.

On top of the CIA heat, Antonio "Tony Twist" Twistelli soon mistakenly pegs Terry as the culprit behind the Violator's mob-targeted killing spree. He sends a rebuilt and reprogrammed OvertKill--fresh from an embarrassing defeat in a crossover--after Fitzgerald. Spawn protected his friend and eventually revealed his true identity to Terry. Only a single shot from Twitch's gun, going through OvertKill's ear and disrupting his programming saves the day as the mafia supersoldier heads off to find Badrock.

Youngblood Crossover
Chapel returns to find Al in the alleys and kills his friend Bobby. Chapel has decided he got a raw deal and blows his own head off in front of Spawn so that he can go to Hell and possibly take over. Al uses his powers to bring Bobby back to life.

Angela Mini-Series
However, he is soon teleported to Elysium and caught up in Angela's trial.[12] In Heaven, Spawn finds his suit begins to freak out since it knows it is behind enemy lines. When he attempts to testify for Angela the next day, Heaven revolts and attacks Spawn for violating the treaty. As he and Angela flee, they retreat into his cape which teleport them to Hell. They have a brief moment of intimacy before returning to the fray. Upon leaving via a gate, Spawn finds himself falling from the sky and landing in Alabama.

Spawn's Return to Earth and the Long Journey Home
Upon landing, both Spawn and his suit are severely weakened. He begins a long walk home to New York City to conserve his magic. He has an encounter with the Klu Klux Klan and helps Eddie and Andy Frank with their abusive father while in Georgia.

Spawn's return to New York was not pleasant. Spawn encountered a religious fanatic The Curse who blew a hole in his chest before he disabled him. He also soon finds himself up against a new Redeemer, Phil Timper. Heaven found a more worthy vessel and Spawn finds this Redeemer significantly more powerful than Jason Wynn. His suit forces Spawn into battle and he finds his friend Bobby being taken away for study. The Redeemer tracked Bobby as he still had residual traces of Necroplasm from being resurrected. His resurrection was noted as the first of its kind. Spawn attacked a bastion of Heaven, the Terran Affairs Headquarters, in the guise of a skyscraper to try to goad Heaven into returning his friend. When the Redeemer appeared again to face him with Bobby, Spawn used his powers to set of a Necroplasm bomb as he jumped out of the window escaping with his friend.

The first metamorphosis
Spawn's costume evolved into a more advanced form. The formerly immaculate cape became ragged and shredded, and his costume lost its red coloring and became pure black and white. Spawn's gloves and boots also morphed, becoming heavily armored and covered with spikes. Spawn's costume was now much more powerful, and the cape and chains were capable of shapeshifting to a much greater degree.

Spawn returned to his throne in Rat City tired and exhausted from his journeys. He was ambushed by an electric charge in his chair, knocking him out. Spawn woke up and found himself in another encounter with the Curse, this time as a prisoner at Curse's Castle. The Curse announced he was going to find out the source of his evil and purify him. Spawn's costume was surgically removed from his body. After amputating his own arm to escape, the two were reunited and Spawn found that the costume was going wild on it's own, attempting to take control of him and use him for its own purposes.

Spawn rested and used a Black Energy transferal to transfer creatures of darkness' energy into himself. While resting, he was attacked by Tiffany, a Hellspawn slayer who received higher grades than Angela. After using his powers to defeat her, he returned to New York and built walls around his throne so as not to be disturbed.

Over the next few weeks, Spawn found himself cranky and full of hatred. He used brutal techniques to get his ways, including betraying Tremor on a mission where he flew wingman.

Spawn using his superhuman reflexes to deflect bullets with K7-Leetha while helping Tremor.

Spawn mentally wrestled with the costume for weeks, being warned by Cogliostro that prolonged use of his powers while the costume was in this state would result in it returning to Hell, dragging Spawn along with it. He was warned to stop his anger and gain control or he would lose control forever. When Spawn decided to use his powers to cure Wanda's husband, Terry Fitzgerald, of his cancer, the costume responded the way Cog had warned it would.

Trapped in Hell, Spawn fought desperate battles against the denizens of the various circles of Hell, finally arriving at the foot of Malebolgia's throne. Malebolgia gloated that Spawn was becoming everything he'd hoped, and returned him to Earth. Spawn retained mastery of his costume, but was shaken by Malebolgia's taunts.

Threatening Wynn
Spawn and Terry Fitzgerald finally bury the hatchet.

After returning from Hell, Spawn is tracked down by Terry Fitzgerald. They agree to work together to bring down Wynn.

Spawn heads to remote camps around the world to steal evidence that Wynn has been running an illegal arms trade business with terrorists across the world. While setting the camps ablaze, Spawn retrieves guns to tie evidence to Wynn and a man named Major Forsberg who has vital information on Wynn's dealings.

After attempts to capture Wynn politically come to a halt, Spawn decides to take a direct route. He directly teleports to Wynn's room and threatens to kill him. Wynn reveals if he dies, so does Terry and Wanda due to a Executive Discretionary Directive. Anyone close to Wynn die if he does to protect information. Spawn tells him he'll be back the next night and to bring his body guards.

Wynn lines his building with bodyguards and high-tech guards. Spawn easily bypasses his troops and kills his men to make a point. He tells Wynn he's countering his threat and if anything happens to Wanda or Terry, he will die instantly as well.

Heap and Greenworld
Spawn struggled to find a way to free himself from Hell's control and recapture his humanity. Attacks from both Heaven and Hell were coming faster and faster, and Spawn was on the verge of losing himself to the violence and the evil. Salvation arrived in the form of a mound of festering garbage - The Heap, an emissary of the Greenworld, a power equal to Heaven and Hell that Spawn had never encountered before. They endowed him with a host of new abilities that would enable him to overcome the worst both Heaven and Hell had to offer.

While he discovers his powers, he learns he has greater control over all the elements and other aspects of the natural world. It was explained to him that the Greenworld did not care for the war of Heaven and Hell, but were growing increasingly agitated by the destruction brought by it. They inflicted on him the pains of the Earth, and when he returned Spawn became "aware" of the world.Spawn #75

Description
Lt. Colonel Albert "Al" Simmons, USMC (Ret.), was a highly trained CIA assassin, who was murdered by his employer and his former friend Chapel. When Simmons sold his soul to Malebolgia in order to return to earth to see his wife Wanda Blake again, he found he got more than he bargained for. Malebolgia used Al as the reborn Spawn, or Hellspawn, to do his bidding.

Albert Francis Simmons was born in Detroit, Michigan. He was the second of three children (Marc, Al and Richard) to Bernard Simmons, was a traveling salesman, and Esther Simmons, a devil worshipper. His grandfather, Henry Simmons, knew a Hellspawn called "Gunslinger Spawn". Simmons was a very intelligent and physically strong officer in the United States Marine Corps, attaining the rank of Lieutenant Colonel. He later joined the United States Secret Service and became a highly decorated member. This led to his promotion to the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). In the CIA, Simmons was recruited into a special division known as the U.S. Security Group, a task force with jurisdiction in all domestic and foreign situations, commanded by CIA Director Jason Wynn.

After being murdered during a mission in Botswana by Director Wynn, Simmons is sent to Hell because of his life as an assassin. Making a deal with the devil, Simmons agrees to become a Hellspawn and serve Malebolgia if he is allowed to see his wife, Wanda, one last time. Malebolgia returns Simmons to the living realm, but with only the barest of memories, a badly burned body, and a watch dog, the Clown.

Spawn arrived on Earth in a daze, off-balance and disoriented. He only had vague recollections of his past and how he came to be. He knew his name was 'Al Simmons' and that he died, but not much more.

Occasionally receiving painful flashbacks, he began remembering making the deal with the devil to come back to see his wife, but he couldn't remember her name. Spawn returned to a world, now alien to him, and realized he had lost five years since his death before returning.

Using CIA files, he tracked down his wife's location to find his best friend, Terry, had married Wanda and they now had a daughter named Cyan.

Spawn soon ran into a fellow Hellspawn who informs him his powers are powered by Necroplasm. Once they are used up, he must return to hell.

Not wanting to return to Hell, Spawn attempted to find out his new purpose in life, while using as little power as possible. Spawn was thrown into several anti-hero adventures where he took down street gangs and organized crime in New York City in brutal fashion. Finding himself thrown against Italian mobsters and eventually killing a pedophillic serial killer, Spawn found a new purpose in stopping evil. This was to Malebolgia's liking as every evil person killed was another body in his army for his future war against Heaven.

Spawn's early battles continued to take a huge toll on him. The Mafia was furious with Spawn as they blamed him for a string of recent mob deaths actually performed by Violator. His first big test was against the cyborg mob enforcer, OvertKill which he had barely survived.

Recognizing the immense threat that this new Hellspawn presented in the living realm, Heaven watched as a freelancer attempted to take him down. Spawn narrowly escaped defeat from Angela when he sent her back to heaven by turning her own Dimensional Lance against her. Recognizing the power, Heaven ordered Gabrielle, the director of the Terran Affairs Headquarters, to dispatch a Redeemer to take care of him before he became too powerful. An Orbital Angel Station picked Jason Wynn to become the new Redeemer but was ultimately defeated by Spawn.

Spawn began forming a close relationship with the local bums living in the Bowery Alleyways. He began calling this his new home and claimed the bums were under his protection, but also becoming his weakness in the process.

Along the way he meets up with the magician Harry Houdini, and learns about his new found magic powers. During a brief scuffle, Spawn took a bullet to the face for Terry Fitzgerald who began receiving blame for crimes against the CIA that Spawn had actually performed. Bobby the bum helped fix the wound by stitching it shut with a shoelace.

On top of the CIA heat, Antonio "Tony Twist" Twistelli soon mistakenly pegs Terry as the culprit behind the Violator's mob-targeted killing spree. He sends a rebuilt and reprogrammed OvertKill--fresh from an embarrassing defeat in a crossover--after Fitzgerald. Spawn protected his friend and eventually revealed his true identity to Terry. Only a single shot from Twitch's gun, going through OvertKill's ear and disrupting his programming saves the day as the mafia supersoldier heads off to find Badrock.

Youngblood Crossover
Chapel returns to find Al in the alleys and kills his friend Bobby. Chapel has decided he got a raw deal and blows his own head off in front of Spawn so that he can go to Hell and possibly take over. Al uses his powers to bring Bobby back to life.

Angela Mini-Series
However, he is soon teleported to Elysium and caught up in Angela's trial.[12] In Heaven, Spawn finds his suit begins to freak out since it knows it is behind enemy lines. When he attempts to testify for Angela the next day, Heaven revolts and attacks Spawn for violating the treaty. As he and Angela flee, they retreat into his cape which teleport them to Hell. They have a brief moment of intimacy before returning to the fray. Upon leaving via a gate, Spawn finds himself falling from the sky and landing in Alabama.

Spawn's Return to Earth and the Long Journey Home
Upon landing, both Spawn and his suit are severely weakened. He begins a long walk home to New York City to conserve his magic. He has an encounter with the Klu Klux Klan and helps Eddie and Andy Frank with their abusive father while in Georgia.

Spawn's return to New York was not pleasant. Spawn encountered a religious fanatic The Curse who blew a hole in his chest before he disabled him. He also soon finds himself up against a new Redeemer, Phil Timper. Heaven found a more worthy vessel and Spawn finds this Redeemer significantly more powerful than Jason Wynn. His suit forces Spawn into battle and he finds his friend Bobby being taken away for study. The Redeemer tracked Bobby as he still had residual traces of Necroplasm from being resurrected. His resurrection was noted as the first of its kind. Spawn attacked a bastion of Heaven, the Terran Affairs Headquarters, in the guise of a skyscraper to try to goad Heaven into returning his friend. When the Redeemer appeared again to face him with Bobby, Spawn used his powers to set of a Necroplasm bomb as he jumped out of the window escaping with his friend.

The first metamorphosis
Spawn's costume evolved into a more advanced form. The formerly immaculate cape became ragged and shredded, and his costume lost its red coloring and became pure black and white. Spawn's gloves and boots also morphed, becoming heavily armored and covered with spikes. Spawn's costume was now much more powerful, and the cape and chains were capable of shapeshifting to a much greater degree.

Spawn returned to his throne in Rat City tired and exhausted from his journeys. He was ambushed by an electric charge in his chair, knocking him out. Spawn woke up and found himself in another encounter with the Curse, this time as a prisoner at Curse's Castle. The Curse announced he was going to find out the source of his evil and purify him. Spawn's costume was surgically removed from his body. After amputating his own arm to escape, the two were reunited and Spawn found that the costume was going wild on it's own, attempting to take control of him and use him for its own purposes.

Spawn rested and used a Black Energy transferal to transfer creatures of darkness' energy into himself. While resting, he was attacked by Tiffany, a Hellspawn slayer who received higher grades than Angela. After using his powers to defeat her, he returned to New York and built walls around his throne so as not to be disturbed.

Over the next few weeks, Spawn found himself cranky and full of hatred. He used brutal techniques to get his ways, including betraying Tremor on a mission where he flew wingman.

Spawn using his superhuman reflexes to deflect bullets with K7-Leetha while helping Tremor.

Spawn mentally wrestled with the costume for weeks, being warned by Cogliostro that prolonged use of his powers while the costume was in this state would result in it returning to Hell, dragging Spawn along with it. He was warned to stop his anger and gain control or he would lose control forever. When Spawn decided to use his powers to cure Wanda's husband, Terry Fitzgerald, of his cancer, the costume responded the way Cog had warned it would.

Trapped in Hell, Spawn fought desperate battles against the denizens of the various circles of Hell, finally arriving at the foot of Malebolgia's throne. Malebolgia gloated that Spawn was becoming everything he'd hoped, and returned him to Earth. Spawn retained mastery of his costume, but was shaken by Malebolgia's taunts.

Threatening Wynn
Spawn and Terry Fitzgerald finally bury the hatchet.

After returning from Hell, Spawn is tracked down by Terry Fitzgerald. They agree to work together to bring down Wynn.

Spawn heads to remote camps around the world to steal evidence that Wynn has been running an illegal arms trade business with terrorists across the world. While setting the camps ablaze, Spawn retrieves guns to tie evidence to Wynn and a man named Major Forsberg who has vital information on Wynn's dealings.

After attempts to capture Wynn politically come to a halt, Spawn decides to take a direct route. He directly teleports to Wynn's room and threatens to kill him. Wynn reveals if he dies, so does Terry and Wanda due to a Executive Discretionary Directive. Anyone close to Wynn die if he does to protect information. Spawn tells him he'll be back the next night and to bring his body guards.

Wynn lines his building with bodyguards and high-tech guards. Spawn easily bypasses his troops and kills his men to make a point. He tells Wynn he's countering his threat and if anything happens to Wanda or Terry, he will die instantly as well.

Heap and Greenworld
Spawn struggled to find a way to free himself from Hell's control and recapture his humanity. Attacks from both Heaven and Hell were coming faster and faster, and Spawn was on the verge of losing himself to the violence and the evil. Salvation arrived in the form of a mound of festering garbage - The Heap, an emissary of the Greenworld, a power equal to Heaven and Hell that Spawn had never encountered before. They endowed him with a host of new abilities that would enable him to overcome the worst both Heaven and Hell had to offer.

While he discovers his powers, he learns he has greater control over all the elements and other aspects of the natural world. It was explained to him that the Greenworld did not care for the war of Heaven and Hell, but were growing increasingly agitated by the destruction brought by it. They inflicted on him the pains of the Earth, and when he returned Spawn became "aware" of the world.Spawn #75