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(Redirected from Batman/Spawn)
1994 one-shot comic book by Frank Miller
Batman comes to New York City in his search for an arsenal of high-tech weapons and robots that use decapitated human heads as their brains. Antagonistic, confrontational and suspicious of each other, Spawn and Batman engage in violent battles before realizing they are both after the same villain. Grudgingly, they decide to work together. The person they seek has been kidnapping and decapitating the homeless for use in the robots, but that is only part of the plan: there is also a nuclear arsenal ready to be deployed.
Continuity
A note inside the front cover states that the one-shot is "a companion piece to DC Comics' The Dark Knight Returns. It does not represent current DC Comics continuity" and so on. Though the crossover has never been a part of the ongoing Spawn continuity either, it is a commonly held belief that the scar appearing on Spawn's face at the beginning of Spawn #21 is the same wound inflicted by Batman with a carefully thrown Batarang at the closing of the crossover, which is upheld by Spawn's remark in that very same issue that the scar was a result of his run-in with "some bozo in black". However, through some slight retcons, specifically with the non-chronological release of Spawn #19 and 20, the "bozo in black" in question is actually revealed/changed to be Harry Houdini, and the scar in question is the result of gunfire that Spawn suffered while protecting Terry Fitzgerald.
Frank Miller revealed that the crossover took place in his Batman shared universe alongside The Dark Knight Returns and its various sequels and prequels.
In the game Mortal Kombat 11, Raiden remarked that Spawn reminded him of another "Dark Knight". Spawn remarks that the "billion dollar crusader" is a friend.
Manning, Matthew K. (2010). "1990s". In Dolan, Hannah (ed.). DC Comics Year By Year A Visual Chronicle. Dorling Kindersley. p. 267. ISBN978-0-7566-6742-9. This prestige one-shot marked Frank Miller's return to Batman, and was labeled as a companion piece to his classic 1986 work The Dark Knight Returns. The issue was drawn by Todd McFarlane, one of the most popular artists in comic book history.
Manning "1990s" in Dolan, p. 267: "Fans were also treated to a companion special entitled Batman-Spawn...by writers Doug Moench, Chuck Dixon, and Alan Grant, and artist Klaus Janson.
Category Publications are listed alphabetically by published titles. Storylines are listed in publication order. Compiled without respect for canon or "current" continuity.
Cover of Spawn/Batman (spring 1994) by Todd McFarlane, made in homage to Frank Miller's The Dark Knight Returns