Spawn history: Military history and death
Spawn history: Resurrection
Spawn history: First metamorphosis
Spawn history: Heaven and Hell
Spawn history: The New King of Hell
Spawn history: Spawn reborn
Spawn history: Armageddon
Spawn history: The Reconstructed World
Spawn history: A tale of three brothers
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Spawn history: Resurrection
Malebolgia returns Simmons to the Earth, but with little memory, a badly disfigured body, seemingly unlimited magical powers that come with a time counter, and a monitor, the Clown. Simmons slowly realizes that five years have passed. When he decides to visit Wanda for his "one final visit", he shifts his body, but discovers his transformation forces him to become a white man. He discovers that his wife, Wanda Blake, has since married his best friend, Terry Fitzgerald, and the two have a daughter, Cyan.
Now known as Spawn, Al's first few adventures are antihero in nature: he takes down street gangs and organized crime (including their enforcer Overtkill), and he kills a child molester/murderer named Billy Kincaid. Most notable of all in his early adventures, Spawn would encounter Dave Sim's Cerebus the Aardvark. Spawn encounters Anti-Spawn, the Redeemer, who is actually Jason Wynn (unknown to Al), but too impure to contain the power. He survives an assault by Angela, an angel whose mission in Heaven is to hunt Hellspawns for sport and claims the Medieval Spawn as one of her trophies. As this occurs, he takes over the alleys that comprise "Rat City" and befriends the homeless within it, becoming their champion. In particular, an old bum named Cogliostro seems to know a lot about him. Cogliostro and the Clown act as polar guides for Al, trying to convince him to use his powers for good and evil respectively. The Clown shows that he can transform into his real form, a demon known as the Violator. In his earliest adventures, he also encounters Harry Houdini who teaches Spawn some new tricks, saves Terry from being murdered by the mob (leading to a bullet ripping up his face, which Spawn's friend Bobby ties shut with a shoelace to conserve his energy timer), reveals that he is Al to Terry, and brings his friend Bobby back to life after being killed by Chapel. Spawn would eventually encounter Cyan, who takes the shoe lace from his face. "Shoestring face" Spawn would remain one of the iconic visuals of the character.
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