Iconic Monster Toy Art

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Todd McFarlane got his first really big break into drawing mainstream comics when he started pencilling covers and interiors of Infinity Inc. for DC in 1985:





His work on Amazing Spider-Man for Marvel beginning in 1987 then catapulted him into superstardom:



His Spider-Man shall we say had a very distinctive look. His Spawn title was then instrumental in the launch of the Image line of comics in 1992.



For better or more probably worse, Spawn completely obliterated the line between super-heroes and monsters. McFarlane then launched his own line of Spawn action figures in 1994:









The McFarlane Spawn figure line was a quantum leap above any other action figures released to that point and took the market by storm. McFarlane Toys then quickly segued into other action figure lines including Monsters in 1997: