Wasn Nightbane originally called Nightspawn? What happened?
Nightbane was originally called Nightspawn until Todd MacFarlane stepped in and said that the name Nightspawn was to close to his character “Spawn” and he claimed infringements on his copyrights of the name “Spawn.” Instead of getting into another lengthy court battle over this, Palladium Books agreed to rename the books, and future supplements, Nightbane as long as they were allowed to finish selling those books which were already printed (and sent to distributors) with the name Nightspawn and not have to recall any of those books sold. Personally, I’m waiting for McFarlane to sue Washington state for allowing its salmon population to “Spawn”.
