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Black Heart and Black Knight are the same? Do both have a cameo on i163? Don't they appear on Dark Ages? (Again, don't have the books, sold them long ago).
So I checked back and the onslaught of cameos from different Spawns occur in issue 162, not 163. This is the page in question, where you can see She-Spawn (not Nyx, but another that looks like the toy from series 4 and 21), Spawn the Black Knight (from the cover of Dark Ages #1), Spawn the Black Knight (from series 11 [Yes there are two black knights, three if you count Cog in the HBO cartoon]), Spawn the Black Heart (from series 14), Spawn the Bloodaxe (from series 22), Gunslinger Spawn (from issues 119, 174, 175), Zombie Spawn (from series 28, you can see his scythe in the background), Mandarin Spawn (from issue 165 and series 14, his severed head is toward the right of the page), and one Spawn who I can't quite recognize (the largest one on the left side of the page).
I've read the entirety of Dark Ages, and the book focuses solely on Lord Covenant. The Black Knight and Black Heart do not appear. The Black Knight from the cover of issue 1 of Dark Ages may or may not be Covenant, as the book ends with Covenant escaping the Hellspawn curse, so if he really is appearing in hell in 163, it would mean that the ending of Dark Ages is now retconned (and it might, as recent issues of Spawn have revealed that a Spawn from medieval times is still alive...could be the medieval Spawn from issue 9, 14-15 or Covenant from Dark Ages).