Spawn, created by Todd McFarlane, was the biggest hit of Image's 1992 launches, which routinely sold in the millions of copies. Whereas most of the other early Image material was unreadable, one could actually follow the plot of Spawn, which actually had a good bit of style. But, in those days, Image was depicted as a blow for creator rights: the Image founders, including McFarlane, The title's legitimacy went through the roof when, in 1993, Alan Moore, Neil Gaiman, Dave Sim, and Frank Miller (in that order) were brought in to write issues four consecutive issues (#8-11). McFarlane returned four four issues (#12-15) before taking a hiatus to work on Spawn / Batman, a prestige format one-shot written by Miller that would give Miller the chance to retun to the DC character on which he had produced such seminal work in the 1980s. During the hiatus, Grant Morrison wrote a three-issue storyline illustrated by Greg Capullo, who would become a Spawn mainstay. 1994's Spawn / Batman proved a sensational hit.