The 10 Best Spawn Creature Figures

With the substandard fare McFarlane Toys is producing nowadays, it’s easy to forget just how important Todd McFarlane’s contribution to the action figures industry was. When he decided he wanted action figures based on his own comic, Spawn, he approached various toymaking companies to see what they could offer him. But as one would expect with someone who left Marvel to forge a new creator-owned comic company, McFarlane didn’t like the lack of control he’d have over these toy lines. What else was there to do but create his own toy company, dedicated to making better action figures than the industry had ever seen before?

In the first decade or so of McFarlane Toys’ existence, they produced very few licensed toys (aside from Movie Maniacs, but even that didn’t start up until 1998). So most of what was produced was either based on the Spawn comic or were a product of Todd’s or his sculptors’ fevered imaginations. And of course, we’re talking about a guy who made comics about creatures from hell, so it’s perhaps no surprise that McFarlane produced a wide array of awesome, bizarre creatures as part of its own lines. Here are 10 of the best.

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