Help with SPAWN comics

[Forever Knight]

I'd like to collect everything SPAWN, now this is the list I've compiled so far of all the Spawn comics/books/specials/cameo appearances by Spawn in other Image comics, that have been released up to this point

Spawn: Origins (Al Simmons era #1-100 / Post Malebolgia era: #101-185 / New Beginnings: #185-221+)
Angela #1-3
Violator #1-4
Team Youngblood #3
Youngblood #8,10
Youngblood: Genesis #1
Youngblood: Strikefile #1-3
Ant #5,7
Badrock #6
Bloodstrike #8
Chapel #5-6
Deathmate Red
Gen13 #13b
Invincible #60
Savage Dragon #3, Mini, #30, #140-141, #144
Shadowhawk #2.17, Volume 3a, 5a
Supreme #15, 23
Wildcats #1-4
Medieval Spawn & Witchblade #1-3
Batman & Spawn Book
Batman & Spawn: War Devil Book
Curse of the Spawn #1-4 + Blood & Salvation Book
Spawn: Blood & Shadows Book
Spawn: Godslayer #1 + Book
Spawn: Bloodfeud #1-4
Spawn: Fan Edition #1-3
Spawn The Impaler #1-4
Hellspawn #1-16
Spawn: The Dark Ages #1-28
Spawn The Undead #1-9
Spawn: Architects of Fear Book
Spawn: Simony Book
Spawn: The Movie Book


1. Am I missing anything?

2. Also, out of this entire list what is in continuity with the original Spawn comic series (including Spawn's cameo appearances in other image comics), and when do I read them in continuity with the original series comic?

3. Has Spawn: Origins Collection Hardcover Volume 9 been announced for release yet?

4. Is the Medieval Spawn in the early Spawn issues the same guy as the one in the Medival Spawn & Witchblade team up?

Thanks.

So far I've read issues #1-100 and a few of Spawn's cameos.

[Trent]

1. Short answer, yes. There are quite a few small appearances you have not listed. However, the vast majority of them (if not all) do not have any bearing on core continuity. I have been working on a large update for the website and will be including many cameo/guest appearances soon!

2. Continuity is (at this point) a subjective thing. There is no "official" list. However, based on the comments of Spawn's writers over the past several years, most of the spin-offs and crossovers should not be considered core continuity.

For the purposes of the Spawn encyclopedia that I keep, I use the following internal rules:

- The main series "Spawn' is always in-continuity unless a later issue has contradicted an earlier issue, in which case the later issue takes precedent.
- Mini-Series and spin-offs published by McFarlane are always in-continuity, unless they have been contradicted by the main series which takes priority.
- Mini-series and spin-offs published in Image comics but not published by McFarlane are not in continuity unless it is an anthology book (ie. Image Comics Hardcover) or Image United.
- Spawn appearances in other Image characters' books (ie. Savage Dragon, Younbgblood) are not in-continuity.
- Spawn appearances in books by other publishers are not in-continuity.

Those are the rules I use to help make sense of things, yours may vary, but they work for me

[Forever Knight]

Hereis the list I've complied which sets in the main continuity

Curse of the Spawn #20-21
Spawn Fan Edition #1-3 (Norse Hellspawn)
Medieval Spawn & Witchblade #1-3
Operation Knightstrike #1-3
Battlestone #1
Youngblood Strikefile #1-3: Chapel
Youngblood: Genesis #1
Spawn #1-20
Spawn & Batman Book
Violator #1
Youngblood Strikefile #4
Spawn #21-22
Violator #2-3
Spawn #23
Youngblood #7
Team Youngblood #11
Spawn #24-26
Youngblood #8, 10
Spawn #27-28
Angela #1-3
Spawn #29-32
Spawn: Bloodfeud #1-4
Spawn #33-39
Spawn & WildCATS #1-4
Spawn #40-52
Savage Dragon #30
Spawn #53-61
Curse of the Spawn #5-10
Spawn #62
Curse of the Spawn #11-14
Spawn #63-87
Sam & Twitch #1
Spawn The Undead #1-9
Spawn #88-101
Spawn: Simony Book
Spawn #102-230+ (on going...)
Curse of the Spawn #1-4
Spawn: Blood & Salvation Book

[NastyNes]

Hereis the list I've complied which sets in the main continuity

Curse of the Spawn #20-21
Spawn Fan Edition #1-3 (Norse Hellspawn)
Medieval Spawn & Witchblade #1-3
Operation Knightstrike #1-3
Battlestone #1
Youngblood Strikefile #1-3: Chapel
Youngblood: Genesis #1
Spawn #1-20
Spawn & Batman Book
Violator #1
Youngblood Strikefile #4
Spawn #21-22
Violator #2-3
Spawn #23
Youngblood #7
Team Youngblood #11
Spawn #24-26
Youngblood #8, 10
Spawn #27-28
Angela #1-3
Spawn #29-32
Spawn: Bloodfeud #1-4
Spawn #33-39
Spawn & WildCATS #1-4
Spawn #40-52
Savage Dragon #30
Spawn #53-61
Curse of the Spawn #5-10
Spawn #62
Curse of the Spawn #11-14
Spawn #63-87
Sam & Twitch #1
Spawn The Undead #1-9
Spawn #88-101
Spawn: Simony Book
Spawn #102-230+ (on going...)
Curse of the Spawn #1-4
Spawn: Blood & Salvation Book

Does it matter if Simmons was mentioned in Fan Edition #1 even though he hasn't been introduced? :/ Im extremely confused!

[Forever Knight]

True but the main story is about the Norse Spawn.