Curse of the Spawn #17 (Raw VF/NM) - Image Comics (Dwayne Turner Cover / Antonio Twistelli Arc)

Add a classic late-90s Spawn universe crime-mafia issue to your online catalog with Curse of the Spawn #17, published by Image Comics! Created under Todd McFarlane's iconic Todd McFarlane Productions banner, written by Alan McElroy (Spawn live-action movie writer), featuring interior artwork and cover illustration signed in-art (TURNER WOLF '97 / T. Bedard) by Dwayne Turner and Tom S. Wood.

The top trade dress features the white serif title CURSE OF THE above the bold, white title banner SPAWN set against a bloody, splatter-patterned red-and-black header. The left margin displays a white border holding the official Image Comics logo emblem, issue number 17, and a "CONTAINS SOME COARSE LANGUAGE" content warning.

The dramatic crime-noir cover artwork—crafted by Dwayne Turner—presents mafia Don Antonio "Tony Twist" Twistelli wearing a blood-soaked dress shirt, dark sunglasses, and holding dual smoking handguns with thick smoke rings coiling around him against a bullet-riddled, cracked glass backdrop.

In this issue, titled "Twist of Fate," Alan McElroy and Dwayne Turner focus on NYC mob boss Tony Twistelli as his criminal empire suffers devastating attacks from unknown hitmen. Seeking answers from Jason Wynn, Twistelli learns the terrifying truth about his actions, escalating the mob war across the dark alleys of the Spawn universe.

This unslabbed raw comic issue is in top-tier collectible condition (estimated VF/NM 9.0 or better), featuring clean edges, sharp corners, a flat spine, and crisp color contrast—making it an absolute necessity for Todd McFarlane collectors, 90s Image Comics completionists, Dwayne Turner art fans, and crime noir comic readers.