KEY ISSUE

CURSE OF THE SPAWN #12

“Codename: Priest”

September 1997

KEYEarliest catalogued appearances of Jessica Priest, Terry Fitzgerald, and Jason Wynn.

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writerAlan McElroyartistChance Wolf, Danny Miki, Dwayne TurnercoloristTodd Broeker, Mark NicholaslettererTom OrzechowskieditorTom Orzechowski

Central Intelligence Agency

Jessica Priest's sociopathic personality is revealed in a flashback to her childhood, her living arrangements and demonstration of her abilities as a government assassin. Socially, Wynn gives Priest an assignment -- to recover a biogenetic weapon coded Heat-16 from a lab in Brazil. The mission turns deadly and Priest eliminates the security force, is captured and shot by the fraternal scientists, Liz Arno and Kevin Bergregor. The life of the woman who killed Al Simmons, the man who first became Spawn. She started nasty and became much, much worse.