Spawn

Todd McFarlane's flagship Image Comics series, launched in May 1992 and still running. Murdered CIA operative Al Simmons makes a deal with the demon Malebolgia to see his wife again and returns five years later as a Hellspawn, a soldier of Hell's army with a living symbiotic costume, a limited reserve of necroplasmic power and a burned, unrecognisable face. Living among the homeless of New York's back alleys, he turns against both Heaven and Hell, facing enemies such as the Violator, the Clown and Angela, while detectives Sam Burke and Twitch Williams try to make sense of his trail of bodies. With issue #301 in 2019 it passed Cerebus as the longest-running creator-owned comic series in the United States.