Spawn were acknowledged. The court's view was that Gaiman and McFarlane's collaboration led to each contributing half of the work. Gaiman wrote the story while McFarlane illustrated the character; because of this, each held a 50% stake in the characters. Issue 9 was reprinted for the first time since the lawsuit was filed in the hardcover edition of Spawn Origins: Volume 1. In a reprint collection of the first twelve issues of Spawn, the contentious issue (along with Dave Sim's #10, featuring copyrighted character Cerebus) was excluded, but both issues have been reprinted in the hardcover and deluxe editions of Spawn Origins Collection: Volume 1, and the black & white 2012 (and the later 2021 color edition) softcover omnibus Spawn Compendium 1, collecting Spawn issues #1–50. In 2012, McFarlane and Gaiman settled their dispute, and Gaiman was given full ownership of the character Angela. Gaiman, in turn, sold all rights to the character to Marvel Comics. Tony Twist lawsuit Todd McFarlane created a mob enforcer character named "Antonio 'Tony Twist' Twistelli", who McFarlane acknowledged was named after hockey player Tony Twist. Twist won a $15 million verdict in 2004 when a jury found Todd McFarlane Productions had profited from Twist's likeness. The verdict was upheld after two appeals in June 2006, but the two later settled out of court for $5 million. Creative teams Writers Todd McFarlane (#'s 1–7, 12–15, 21–150, 185–current) (wrote #'s 201–219 under pseudonym Will Carlton) Brian Holguin (#'s 71–150, 185–190) David Hine (#'s 150–184) Jonathan David Goff (#'s 200–241, 297, 303-305) Paul Jenkins (#'s 251–254) Erik Larsen (#'s 259–266) Darragh Savage (#'s 276–282) Rory McConville (#'s 327-present) Artists Todd McFarlane (#'s 1–15, 21–24, 26–34, 50, 195–196, 200, 300) Greg Capullo (#'s 16–20, 26–37, 39, 41, 43, 45, 47, 49–75, 78–100, 193, 200, 300-301) Angel Medina (#'s 101–139, 142–150) Philip Tan (#'s 150–164, 306-307) Brian Haberlin (#'s 166–173, 176–178, 180–184) Whilce Portacio (#'s 185–192, 194–195, 197) Erik Larsen (#'s 199, 258–266) (contributed uncredited inking work on #27) Szymon Kudranski (#'s 201–250, 256–257, 267–275, 283, 291-292) Jonboy Meyers (#'s 251–256) Jason Shawn Alexander (#'s 276–282, 284–290, 293-305) Carlo Barberi (#'s 311-Current) Guest writers Alan Moore (#'s 8, 37) (also wrote Spawn: Blood Feud prelude back-up story in #32) Neil Gaiman (#9) (also wrote a scene in #26 uncredited) Dave Sim (# 10) Frank Miller (#11) Grant Morrison (#'s 16–18) Andrew Grossenberg (#'s 19–20) Tom Orzechowski (#'s 19–20) Julia