Question: First appearing in 1992 what antihero comic character's creator also founded a toy company?
Context: Frank Hornby (15 May 1863 – 21 September 1936) was an English inventor, businessman and politician.  He was a visionary in toy development and manufacture, and although he had no formal engineering training, he was responsible for the invention and production of three of the most popular lines of toys based on engineering principles in the 20th century: Meccano, Hornby Model Railways and Dinky Toys.  He also founded the British toy company Meccano Ltd in 1908, and launched a monthly publication, "Meccano Magazine" in 1916. Gamda Koor, also known as Sabra was an Israeli diecast toy company that specialized in 1:43 scale cars.  Most of these seem to have been original offerings, not seen elsewhere and "not secondary tooling".  The toy company Cragstan marketed Gamda Sabras as "Detroit Juniors" for the American Market. Transformers (Japanese: トランスフォーマー , Hepburn: Toransufōmā ) is a media franchise produced by American toy company Hasbro and Japanese toy company Takara Tomy.  Initially a line of transforming toys rebranded from Takara's "Diaclone" and "Microman" toylines, the franchise began in 1984 with the "Transformers" toy line, and centers on factions of transforming alien robots (often the Autobots and the Decepticons) in an endless struggle for dominance or eventual peace.  In its history, the franchise has expanded to encompass comic books, animation, video games and films. Spawn is a fictional character, an antihero that appears in a monthly comic book of the same name published by Image Comics.  Created by Todd McFarlane, the character first appeared in "Spawn" #1 (May 1992).  Spawn was ranked 60th on "Wizard" magazine's list of the Top 200 Comic Book Characters of All Time, 50th on "Empire" magazine's list of The 50 Greatest Comic Book Characters and 36th on IGN's 2011 Top 100 Comic Book Heroes. Johnny Lightning is a brand of model cars originally produced by Topper Toys, similar to the hugely successful Mattel Hot Wheels die cast racing cars.  Their claim to fame at that time was that they were extremely fast compared to other brands of die-cast cars.  Their most important technology was to mold in a small hook under the front axle so that they could be propelled by a lever-driven catapult, far faster than could be obtained by either gravity, or battery powered "supercharger" devices.  Topper closed in 1971 and production of Johnny Lightning cars ceased for 23 years.  In 2003 Thomas Lowe secured the trademark rights to the Johnny Lightning name for his Playing Mantis company.  Playing Mantis produced toy cars under the Johnny Lightning brand name from 1994 to June 2004.  At that time Playing Mantis (including the Johnny Lightning brand) was bought by RC2 Corp. which in turn was bought by the Japanese toy company TOMY in 2011.  TOMY discontinued the Johnny Lightning line of diecast cars in 2013.  The brand continued to maintain a following by a loyal group of collectors.  In early 2016 Round 2 LLC, a toy company owned by Thomas Lowe (who also owned Playing Mantis), revived and reintroduced Johnny Lightning vehicles to the toy market for a second time. The American Character Doll Company was an American toy company specializing in dolls.  Their most popular dolls included "Tiny Tears," "Tressy," "Butterball Doll", "Sweet Sue," and "Toodles."  Founded in 1919, the company's fortunes peaked in the mid-20th century, as they sold millions of dolls exclusively to retailers and mail order houses such as Sears and Montgomery Ward.  American Character Dolls went bankrupt in 1968, with their assets acquired by the Ideal Toy Company. Eldon Industries, Inc. was a toy company located in Hawthorne, California (the hometown of the Mattel toy company), that also in its heyday operated factories in Canada, England, Japan, and the Netherlands.  The company is best known for items and brands that repackaged Japanese toys and distributed them worldwide - an example is the Billy Blastoff astronaut toy produced by Tomy.  Slot cars and plastic toys were common Eldon offerings. McFarlane Sports Picks is the name given to the line of sports-related action figures released by McFarlane Toys, a company founded by "Spawn" creator Todd McFarlane.  The figures feature lifelike renderings of select stars in the four most popular sports in North America - hockey, football, baseball and basketball.  The company has official licensing rights to the major professional leagues of each of these sports. Ideal Toy Company was an American toy company founded by Morris and Rose Michtom.  During the post–World War II baby boom era, Ideal became the largest doll-making company in the United States.  Their most popular dolls included Betsy Wetsy, Toni, Saucy Walker, Shirley Temple, Miss Revlon, Patti Playpal, Tammy, Thumbelina, Tiny Thumbelina, and Crissy.  Their last big hit was the Rubik's Cube. Shindana Toys, a division of Operation Bootstrap, Inc., was a South Central Los Angeles, California cooperative toy company formed in 1968, one of many Operation Bootstrap initiatives undertaken following the 1965 Watts Riots.  Company proceeds supported businesses in the Watts area.  Shindana (a Swahili word roughly meaning "to compete") Toys was community-owned and founded by Louis S. Smith, II and Robert Hall.  The latter was the company's first CEO and President; though he was succeeded in both posts by Smith.  The Chase Manhattan Bank, the Mattel Toy Company, Sears Roebuck & Co., and Equitable Life Assurance helped finance portions of the Shindana Toys operations.
Answer: Spawn