Todd McFarlane and Mark Spears are launching the three-issue comic miniseries Spawn '77 on September 9, arriving alongside the continued box-office run of Spider-Man: Brand New Day, which secured $65 million in its third domestic weekend.
Spawn '77 Publishing Details
Spawn '77 #1 initiates the three-issue arc with painted interior artwork by Spears, marking his interior debut on the franchise alongside co-writer McFarlane. The debut issue incorporates direct visual homages to Amazing Spider-Man #300, the landmark issue McFarlane famously illustrated. Image Comics has scheduled multiple variant covers for the release, including signed virgin foil editions targeted at the collector market.
Box Office Performance
Concurrently, Spider-Man: Brand New Day generated $19 million on Friday, pushing its third-weekend domestic total to $65 million across 4,539 theaters. The Sony Pictures release has accumulated a domestic running cume of $780.8 million, maintaining steady theatrical holdover numbers into late summer.
The simultaneous release schedule highlights McFarlane leveraging his historical association with the wall-crawler just as Marvel's cinematic property dominates domestic multiplexes.
