[1][2] Spawn creator Todd McFarlane purchased the assets of the defunct Eclipse Comics at a 1996 liquidation auction, believing it included the rights to the character Miracleman.
A reimagined Mike Moran, now a principled journalist at the New York Daily Times, was added to the supporting cast of Hellspawn, a dark spin-off title of Spawn, in February 2001.
[5] Artist Ashley Wood released teaser images of Miracleman ahead of his planned debut in Hellspawn #12.
The Mother (under the alias Man of Miracles) has appeared to offer their guidance and wisdom to The Hellspawn so that he might play his part in Armageddon.
It is revealed that Mother/Man of Miracles is in fact the one who walked among mortals as "Jesus Christ," and thus was actually independent of God in the Spawn universe.
Giving mankind a chance to survive, Mother preserved all the souls that had died in the same hour as Al Simmons and placed them inside of Spawn.
Spawn represents the potential of mankind and must prove that humanity is worth saving from God and Satan's feud.