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New York Comic Con
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The New York Comic Con is an annual New York City fan convention dedicated to comics, graphic novels, anime, manga, video games, toys, movies, and television. It was first held in 2006, ReedPOP is involved with other events, including Chicago Comic & Entertainment Expo and PAX Dev/PAX East/PAX Prime. ReedPop and New York Comic Con were founded by Greg Topalian, the first con was held in 2006 at the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center. Due to Reed Exhibitions lack of experience with comic conventions, attendance was far more than anticipated, despite crowding on Friday afternoon, tickets continued to be sold due to low pre-reg numbers, and the non-counting of professionals and exhibitors. The main exhibition hall hit capacity Saturday morning and was locked by the marshals until people left. Major guests, including Kevin Smith and Frank Miller, could not enter the main hall, the line to enter the convention wrapped around the building with waits of two hours to enter, and many were turned away. Ticket sales for Sunday were suspended, Reed announced that additional space would be acquired for the 2007 show. The second con was held in 2007, with the convention organizer booking double the floor space than the previous years space, the show on Friday was again only open to industry and press until 4 p. m. when it opened to the public. Due to better planning, advance sales were controlled. Lines started forming at midnight Saturday to enter the convention, and by Saturday morning, crowding was a problem in the Artists Alley, which was off the main convention floor, causing it to be moved to the main floor for 2008. The American Anime Awards, hosted by New York Comic Con, was held on February 24 at the New Yorker Hotel, the third con held in 2008 moved to April, continued to grow, and occupied most of the main level in the Javits Center. Stan Lee was awarded the inaugural New York Comics Legend Award at the Times Square Virgin Megastore before the Comic Con, kids Day programming was added to the convention on Sunday with the help of Kidss Comic Con. The fourth con held in 2009 returned to February and featured a charity art auction to support The Hero Initiative, the New York Anime Festival, previously a separate event created by Reed, was also merged into Comic Con. The main floor of the center was split by a large construction area due to repairs to the Javits Center. Intel Extreme Masters Global Challenge – New York took place in Comic Con 2011 and it featured eSport tournaments for games such as StarCraft II, League of Legends, and Counter-Strike. In 2011, the convention was expanded to four days, the first day of the convention was initially limited to press, professionals, and fans that purchased a four-day pass. This changed in 2013, when single day Thursday passes were put on sale for the first time. With this addition, attendance at New York Comic Con grew to over 130,000, in 2016, it was announced that everyone attending NYCC2016 would be required to complete a Fan Verification profile
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New York City
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The City of New York, often called New York City or simply New York, is the most populous city in the United States. With an estimated 2015 population of 8,550,405 distributed over an area of about 302.6 square miles. Located at the tip of the state of New York. Home to the headquarters of the United Nations, New York is an important center for international diplomacy and has described as the cultural and financial capital of the world. Situated on one of the worlds largest natural harbors, New York City consists of five boroughs, the five boroughs – Brooklyn, Queens, Manhattan, The Bronx, and Staten Island – were consolidated into a single city in 1898. In 2013, the MSA produced a gross metropolitan product of nearly US$1.39 trillion, in 2012, the CSA generated a GMP of over US$1.55 trillion. NYCs MSA and CSA GDP are higher than all but 11 and 12 countries, New York City traces its origin to its 1624 founding in Lower Manhattan as a trading post by colonists of the Dutch Republic and was named New Amsterdam in 1626. The city and its surroundings came under English control in 1664 and were renamed New York after King Charles II of England granted the lands to his brother, New York served as the capital of the United States from 1785 until 1790. It has been the countrys largest city since 1790, the Statue of Liberty greeted millions of immigrants as they came to the Americas by ship in the late 19th and early 20th centuries and is a symbol of the United States and its democracy. In the 21st century, New York has emerged as a node of creativity and entrepreneurship, social tolerance. Several sources have ranked New York the most photographed city in the world, the names of many of the citys bridges, tapered skyscrapers, and parks are known around the world. Manhattans real estate market is among the most expensive in the world, Manhattans Chinatown incorporates the highest concentration of Chinese people in the Western Hemisphere, with multiple signature Chinatowns developing across the city. Providing continuous 24/7 service, the New York City Subway is one of the most extensive metro systems worldwide, with 472 stations in operation. Over 120 colleges and universities are located in New York City, including Columbia University, New York University, and Rockefeller University, during the Wisconsinan glaciation, the New York City region was situated at the edge of a large ice sheet over 1,000 feet in depth. The ice sheet scraped away large amounts of soil, leaving the bedrock that serves as the foundation for much of New York City today. Later on, movement of the ice sheet would contribute to the separation of what are now Long Island and Staten Island. The first documented visit by a European was in 1524 by Giovanni da Verrazzano, a Florentine explorer in the service of the French crown and he claimed the area for France and named it Nouvelle Angoulême. Heavy ice kept him from further exploration, and he returned to Spain in August and he proceeded to sail up what the Dutch would name the North River, named first by Hudson as the Mauritius after Maurice, Prince of Orange
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Darkhawk
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Darkhawk is a fictional superhero appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. The character first appeared in Darkhawk #1, and was created by writer Tom DeFalco, Darkhawk appeared in a self-titled monthly series for 50 issues that was published by Marvel Comics from March 1991 to March 1995, and included three standalone annuals. Although created by DeFalco and Manley, DeFalco was never credited as a writer of the series, the original writer was Danny Fingeroth. New Warriors writer Fabian Nicieza said in 1992 that People keep coming up to me and asking, the New Warriors isnt an official group with a rule book and charter and the like. Theyre more of a club for super-powered teens, so if Darkhawk wants to hang out on a Friday evening and talk about his powers, then hell stop by the New Warriors crash pad. Darkhawk appeared within the Secret Invasion tie-in issues of Nova and was the focus of the two-issue mini-series War of Kings, Darkhawk, cebulski, Dan Abnett and Andy Lanning. Darkhawk appeared in Avengers Arena, a 2012 -2013 series by Dennis Hopeless, Christopher Powell was born in Queens, New York. While witnessing his father accept a bribe from a crime boss at an abandoned amusement park. This amulet allowed him to places with a powerful android that his mind controlled. Powell vowed to use the amulet as an edge against crime, in this role, he worked with other superheroes and battled a number of costumed villains. Darkhawk soon encountered his first supervillain, the Hobgoblin, and battled him alongside Spider-Man and he next fought Savage Steel, and then Portal. He next battled the U-Foes alongside Captain America and he battled the villain Lodestone, who attempted to remove his amulet. He battled Savage Steel again, this alongside the Punisher. Darkhawk battled the cyborg Midnight, Thunderball, and the Secret Empire alongside Spider-Man, the Punisher, Night Thrasher, Nova, Darkhawk then battled assassins from the Foreigners 1400 Club. He battled Tombstone, who removed his amulet from his chest. Darkhawk occasionally worked with the New Warriors and was a member of the West Coast Avengers. Darkhawk also battled a number of costumed villains, including the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants, Powell discovered that the android was stored and repaired aboard a starship in a dimension called Null Space. When he used the amulet to access the android body, his human body switched places with it, five Darkhawk amulets were commissioned by an alien crime lord named Dargin Bokk
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Spider-Man
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Spider-Man is a fictional superhero appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. The character was created by writer-editor Stan Lee and writer-artist Steve Ditko, when Spider-Man first appeared in the early 1960s, teenagers in superhero comic books were usually relegated to the role of sidekick to the protagonist. Marvel has featured Spider-Man in several book series, the first. In the 2010s, he joins the Avengers, Marvels flagship superhero team, Spider-Mans nemesis Doctor Octopus also took on the identity for a story arc spanning 2012–2014, following a body swap plot in which Peter appears to die. Spider-Man is one of the most popular and commercially successful superheroes, the character was first portrayed in live action by Nicholas Hammond in the 1977 television movie Spider-Man. Reeve Carney starred as Spider-Man in the 2010 Broadway musical Spider-Man, in 1962, with the success of the Fantastic Four, Marvel Comics editor and head writer Stan Lee was casting about for a new superhero idea. He said the idea for Spider-Man arose from a surge in demand for comic books. At that time Lee had to get only the consent of Marvel publisher Martin Goodman for the characters approval, in a 1986 interview, Lee described in detail his arguments to overcome Goodmans objections. In particular, Lee stated that the fact that it had already decided that Amazing Fantasy would be cancelled after issue #15 was the only reason Goodman allowed him to use Spider-Man. While this was indeed the issue, its editorial page anticipated the comic continuing. Will appear every month in Amazing, regardless, Lee received Goodmans approval for the name Spider-Man and the ordinary teen concept, and approached artist Jack Kirby. Lee and Kirby immediately sat down for a conference, Theakston writes. Steve Ditko would be the inker, when Kirby showed Lee the first six pages, Lee recalled, I hated the way he was doing it. Not that he did it badly—it just wasnt the character I wanted, Lee turned to Ditko, who developed a visual style Lee found satisfactory. Ditko recalled, One of the first things I did was to work up a costume, a vital, visual part of the character. I had to know how he looked, for example, A clinging power so he wouldnt have hard shoes or boots, a hidden wrist-shooter versus a web gun and holster, etc. I wasnt sure Stan would like the idea of covering the characters face and it would also add mystery to the character. Although the interior artwork was by Ditko alone, Lee rejected Ditkos cover art, as Lee explained in 2010, I think I had Jack sketch out a cover for it because I always had a lot of confidence in Jacks covers
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Comic book
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A comic book or comicbook, also called comic magazine or simply comic, is a publication that consists of comic art in the form of sequential juxtaposed panels that represent individual scenes. Panels are often accompanied by brief descriptive prose and written narrative, although comics has some origins in 18th century Japan and 1830s Europe, comic books were first popularized in the United States during the 1930s. Comic books are reliant on their organization and appearance, authors largely focus on the frame of the page, size, orientation, and panel positions. These characteristic aspects of books are necessary in conveying the content. The key elements of comic books include panels, balloons, text, balloons are usually convex spatial containers of information that are related to a character using a tail element. The tail has an origin, path, tip, and pointed direction, there are many technological formulas used to create comic books, including directions, axes, data, and metrics. Following these key formatting procedures is the writing, drawing, Comics as a print medium have existed in America since the printing of The Adventures of Mr. Obadiah Oldbuck in 1842 in hardcover, making it the first known American prototype comic book. The introduction of Jerry Siegel and Joe Shusters Superman in 1938 turned comic books into a major industry, the Golden Age originated the archetype of the superhero. Historians generally divide the timeline of the American comic book into eras, the Golden Age of Comic Books began with the introduction of Superman in 1938, spurring a period of high sales. The Silver Age of comic books is considered to date from the first successful revival of the then-dormant superhero form. The demarcation between the Silver Age and the era, the Bronze Age of Comic Books, is less well-defined. The Modern Age of Comic Books runs from the mid-1980s to the present day, in response to attention from the government and from the media, the U. S. comic book industry set up the Comics Magazine Association of America. The CMAA instilled the Comics Code Authority in 1954 and drafted the self-censorship Comics Code that year and it was not until the 1970s that comic books could be published without passing through the inspection of the CMAA. In the early 1970s, a surge of creativity emerged in what known as underground comix. Published and distributed independently of the comics industry, most of such comics reflected the youth counterculture. Underground comics were almost never sold at newsstands, but rather in such youth-oriented outlets as head shops and record stores, frank Stacks The Adventures of Jesus, published under the name Foolbert Sturgeon, has been credited as the first underground comic. The rise of comic book specialty stores in the late 1970s created/paralleled a dedicated market for independent or alternative comics in the U. S, some independent comics continued in the tradition of underground comics. A few represented experimental attempts to bring closer to the status of fine art
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Marvel Comics
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Marvel Comics is the common name and primary imprint of Marvel Worldwide Inc. formerly Marvel Publishing, Inc. and Marvel Comics Group, an American publisher of comic books and related media. In 2009, The Walt Disney Company acquired Marvel Entertainment, Marvel Worldwides parent company, Marvel started in 1939 as Timely Publications, and by the early 1950s had generally become known as Atlas Comics. Marvels modern incarnation dates from 1961, the year that the company launched The Fantastic Four and other superhero titles created by Stan Lee, Jack Kirby, Steve Ditko and many others. Most of Marvels fictional characters operate in a reality known as the Marvel Universe. Martin Goodman founded the later known as Marvel Comics under the name Timely Publications in 1939. Martin Goodman, a magazine publisher who had started with a Western pulp in 1933, was expanding into the emerging—and by then already highly popular—new medium of comic books. The issue was a success, with it and a second printing the following month selling, combined. While its contents came from an outside packager, Funnies, Inc, Timely had its own staff in place by the following year. It, too, proved a hit, with sales of one million. Goodman formed Timely Comics, Inc. beginning with comics cover-dated April 1941 or Spring 1941, Goodman hired his wifes cousin, Stanley Lieber, as a general office assistant in 1939. Lee wrote extensively for Timely, contributing to a number of different titles, Goodmans business strategy involved having his various magazines and comic books published by a number of corporations all operating out of the same office and with the same staff. One of these companies through which Timely Comics was published was named Marvel Comics by at least Marvel Mystery Comics #55. As well, some covers, such as All Surprise Comics #12, were labeled A Marvel Magazine many years before Goodman would formally adopt the name in 1961. The post-war American comic market saw superheroes falling out of fashion and this globe branding united a line put out by the same publisher, staff and freelancers through 59 shell companies, from Animirth Comics to Zenith Publications. Atlas also published a plethora of childrens and teen humor titles, including Dan DeCarlos Homer the Happy Ghost, Atlas unsuccessfully attempted to revive superheroes from late 1953 to mid-1954, with the Human Torch, the Sub-Mariner, and Captain America. Atlas did not achieve any hits and, according to Stan Lee, Atlas survived chiefly because it produced work quickly, cheaply. During this time, the Comic Code Authority made its debut in September 1954, Wertham published the book Seduction of the Innocent in order to force people to see that comics were impacting American youth. He believed violent comics were causing children to be reckless and were turning them into delinquents, in September 1954, comic book publishers got together to set up their own self-censorship organization—the Comics Magazine Association of America—in order to appease audiences
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Atlas/Seaboard Comics
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Seaboard was located on Fifth Avenue in Manhattan, New York City. Marvel Comics founder and Magazine Management publisher Martin Goodman left Marvel in 1972 and he created Seaboard Periodicals, which opened its office on June 24,1974 to compete in a field then dominated by Marvel and DC Comics. Rovin said in 1987 he became involved after answering an ad in The New York Times, I was working for Jim Warren, running his mail-order division, Captain Company, and just starting to edit Creepy Id edited comics for DC and Skywald. Several weeks after answering the ad, I receive a call from Martin Goodman, sharing editorial duties on the comics was writer artist Larry Lieber, whom Martin had long wanted to transplant from under the shadow of Larrys brother. Larry ended up handling about a quarter of Atlas output—primarily the police, Western war, Lieber later became editor of the color comics following Rovins departure. Steve Mitchell was the production manager, and John Chilly the black-and-white magazines art director. The field was too shaky for a new publisher, as Lieber recalled in a 1999 interview, When I went there, Martin put out two kinds of books. He was putting out comics, and he was also going to put out black-and-white comics like Warren. Now, I knew nothing about black-and-white comics, right and my only experience was in the color comics. Jeff Rovin came from Warren, and he knew nothing about color comics, Martin unfortunately put Jeff in charge of all the color comics and put me in charge of the black-and-white books. It was a thing, and basically what happened was that Jeffs books didnt turn out so well. Martin had to pay high freelance rates, because nobody would work for a new. It didnt work out too well, and Jeff finally left angrily or something, at this point, business was bad, and I tried to do what I could. One of the things I had to do was to cut rates and tell people they were going to make less money, comic-book collectors and others began using the term Atlas/Seaboard to differentiate these 1970s Atlas Comics from the 1950s Atlas Comics, publisher Goodmans predecessor of Marvel Comics. Atlas/Seaboard offered some of the highest rates in the industry, plus return of artwork to artists, a total of 23 comics titles and five comics magazines were published before the company folded in late 1975. No title lasted more than four issues, of the characters, Chaykins Scorpion would inspire his Dominic Fortune at Marvel, and Rich Bucklers Demon Hunter would inspire his Devil-Slayer at Marvel. Some reports at the time suggested Goodman was angered that Cadence, Marvel and Atlas writer Gary Friedrich recalled, I never really felt that did it for that reason. I think he did it to make money and that he thought with Larry in charge, now, he probably wouldnt have minded if it would have taken a bite out of Marvels profits, but I dont think it was done out of revenge
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Marvel Team-Up
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Marvel Team-Up is the name of several American comic book series published by Marvel Comics. The series featured two or more Marvel characters in one story, the original series was published from March 1972 through February 1985, and featured Spider-Man as the lead team-up character in all but ten of its 150 issues, and in six of its seven annuals. It was the first major ongoing series for Spider-Man, being preceded only by the short-lived The Spectacular Spider-Man magazine. Of the issues that did not star Spider-Man, the Human Torch headlines six issues, the Hulk, four, publication of most of the issues starring the Human Torch coincided with that of Giant-Size Spider-Man, an alternate Spider-Man team-up-themed series by the regular Marvel Team-Up creative team. When cancelled with #150, the title was replaced by Web of Spider-Man, the second series was published for 11 issues from September 1997 through July 1998 and originally featured Spider-Man, Namor the Sub-Mariner was the featured character starting with #8. From 1995 to 1997, a series titled Spider-Man Team-Up fulfilled much the same purpose as the original title. The third Marvel Team-Up series, written by Robert Kirkman, began publication in January 2005 and this volume often reintroduced lesser-known Marvel characters that had fallen into obscurity. The spirit of Marvel Team-Up was carried on by Avenging Spider-Man, the series debuted with a March 1972 cover-dated issue featuring Spider-Man and the Human Torch in a story by writer Roy Thomas and artist Ross Andru. The main artists on the series for the first several years were Andru, Gil Kane, Sal Buscema, in 1974, Marvel started publishing Giant-Size Spider-Man, which was a quarterly 68-page comic that lasted for six issues which complemented Marvel Team-Up. The series featured team-ups, with each featuring a new story with a back-up reprint, except the last issue. Due to the limitations of the typically single-issue team-up stories, the supporting cast of Spider-Mans other titles rarely appeared in Marvel Team-Up, the series often featured non-superhero characters in the co-star slot. DeMatteis recounted, I was always attracted to the more obscure characters and you could crack them open and really develop them. I just looked at these characters as more inviting than the mainstream. I wanted room to play and those characters gave me all the room I wanted, and lets fact it, our lead character was as mainstream as you can get, so the obscure ones made for a nice contrast. With issue #47, the series had a crossover with Marvel Two-in-One #17, jean DeWolff was introduced as a supporting character in the Spider-Man/Iron Man story in issue #48. John Byrne, who would become the artist on The Uncanny X-Men. Byrne and his Uncanny X-Men collaborator, writer Chris Claremont worked together on issues of Marvel Team-Up. Captain Britain, a character created for Marvel UK, made his first appearance in an American comic book in Marvel Team-Up #65, karma, a character that later joined the New Mutants, was created by Claremont and artist Frank Miller in #100s lead story
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Ka-Zar (comics)
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Ka-Zar is the name of two jungle-dwelling fictional comic book characters published in the United States. The first Ka-Zar was named David Rand, and debuted in 1936, in 1939 he was adapted for his second iteration, a comic book character for Timely Comics, the 1930s and 1940s predecessor of Marvel Comics. The second and more prominent Ka-Zar was named Kevin Plunder, and he is a heroic character appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. The second Ka-Zar started as a character, but reminiscent of both Tarzan and of writer-artist Joe Kuberts 1950s caveman character, Tor. Created by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby in The X-Men #10, he lives in the dinosaur-populated Savage Land, Kevin Plunder refers to himself as the Lord of the Savage Land, a phrase others have adopted, but this is not a formal title. Ka-Zar is Kevin Reginald, Lord Plunder, born in Castle Plunder, Kentish Town, London and he is the eldest son of Lord Robert Plunder, the English nobleman who discovered the Savage Land. Ka-Zar means Son of the Tiger in the language of the Man-Apes, Ka-Zar and Zabu are constant partners. Ka-Zar became a hunter, trapper, and fisherman, living off the wild land. In the Savage Land, some territories are populated by human or humanoid tribes, and while most of them are on friendly terms with Ka-Zar, some of them consider him an outlander. The original X-Men discovered the Savage Land, and Ka-Zar encountered them and he then encountered Daredevil for the first time, and battled his brother Parnival, who had become the supervillain called the Plunderer. He first battled Magnetos Savage Land Mutates alongside the X-Men and he then encountered the Hulk for the first time, and battled Umbu the Unliving. Spider-Mans memory was restored during the fight, with Ka-Zar subsequently apologizing for the mistake, Ka-Zar then battled Kraven the Hunter for the first time. Shortly after this encounter, Ka-Zar encounters Zaladane and Garokk for the first time, after the Savage Land became known to outsiders after the visit by the X-Men, many people began traveling to the territory. Ka-Zar has also become involved with female visitors, the first being S. H. I. E. L. D. He first battled A. I. M. and met the Man-Thing and he then met Spider-Man once again, and battled the extraterrestrial Gog. He next met the adventurer Shanna OHara and he battled Klaw, and visited other dimensions. He and his allies faded mysteriously from that dimension, then teamed with the X-Men to battle Zaladane. Ka-Zar, during a search for the lost Zabu, later discovered Pangaea, Ka-Zar and Shanna began to gradually fall in love
