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Tom Lyle
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Thomas Tom Lyle is an American comic book artist. Lyle first came to prominence as penciler on DC Comics Starman with writer Roger Stern, the creative team introduced the second Blockbuster in Starman #9. Lyle worked on the first Robin limited series with writer Chuck Dixon, the series had many reprintings of the first few issues as well as two sequel miniseries — Robin II, Jokers Wild and Robin III, Cry of the Huntress — by the same creative team. Dixon and Lyle co-created the Electrocutioner in Detective Comics #644 and Stephanie Brown in Detective Comics #647, lyles next project was The Comet for DC Comics Impact Comics imprint, which he pencilled and plotted with writer Mark Waid contributing the scripts. At Marvel Comics, Lyle co-created the character Annex in The Amazing Spider-Man Annual #27 with writer Jack C, as penciler of Spider-Man, Lyle was one of the artists on the Maximum Carnage and Clone Saga storylines which ran through the Spider-Man titles. Lyles other work for Marvel included The Punisher vol.3 with writer John Ostrander and he is also the artist on the comic Chickasaw Adventures. Since 2005, he has taught art at the Savannah College of Art. Tom Lyle at the Comic Book DB Tom Lyle at Mikes Amazing World of Comics Tom Lyle at the Unofficial Handbook of Marvel Comics Creators
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DC Comics
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DC Comics, Inc. is an American comic book publisher. It is the unit of DC Entertainment, a subsidiary of Warner Bros. Entertainment, Inc. a division of Time Warner, the company has also published non-DC Universe-related material, including Watchmen, V for Vendetta and many titles under their alternative imprint Vertigo. The initials DC came from the popular series Detective Comics. Random House distributes DC Comics books to the market, while Diamond Comic Distributors supplies the comics shop specialty market. DC Comics and its major, longtime competitor Marvel Comics together shared 70% of the American comic book market in 2016, entrepreneur Major Malcolm Wheeler-Nicholson founded National Allied Publications in autumn 1934. The company debuted with the tabloid-sized New Fun, The Big Comic Magazine #1 with a date of February 1935. That title evolved into Adventure Comics, which continued through issue #503 in 1983, in 2009 DC revived Adventure Comics with its original numbering. In 1935, Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster, the creators of Superman, created Doctor Occult. Wheeler-Nicholsons third and final title, Detective Comics, advertised with a cover illustration dated December 1936, the themed anthology series would become a sensation with the introduction of Batman in issue #27. By then, however, Wheeler-Nicholson had gone, Detective Comics, Inc. was formed, with Wheeler-Nicholson and Jack S. Liebowitz, Donenfelds accountant, listed as owners. Major Wheeler-Nicholson remained for a year, but cash-flow problems continued, shortly afterward, Detective Comics, Inc. purchased the remains of National Allied, also known as Nicholson Publishing, at a bankruptcy auction. Detective Comics, Inc. soon launched a fourth title, Action Comics, Action Comics #1, the first comic book to feature the new character archetype—soon known as superheroes—proved a sales hit. The company quickly introduced such popular characters as the Sandman and Batman. That year, Gaines let Liebowitz buy him out, and kept only Picture Stories from the Bible as the foundation of his own new company, at that point, Liebowitz promptly orchestrated the merger of All-American and Detective Comics into National Comics. Next he took charge of organizing National Comics, Independent News, National Periodical Publications became publicly traded on the stock market in 1961. The company began to move aggressively against what it saw as copyright-violating imitations from other companies, such as Fox Comics Wonder Man and this extended to DC suing Fawcett Comics over Captain Marvel, at the time comics top-selling character. Despite the fact that parallels between Captain Marvel and Superman seemed more tenuous, the courts ruled that substantial and deliberate copying of copyrighted material had occurred, faced with declining sales and the prospect of bankruptcy if it lost, Fawcett capitulated in 1955 and ceased comics publication
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Batman (comic book)
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Batman is an ongoing American comic book series featuring the DC Comics hero of the same name. The character first appeared in Detective Comics #27, Batman proved to be so popular that a self-titled ongoing comic book series began publication with a cover date of Spring 1940. It was first advertised in early April 1940, one month after the first appearance of his new sidekick, Robin, the original series ended in 2011 and was relaunched with a new first issue. Using the end of the New 52 initiative as a launching point, Batman #1 was the debut bimonthly relaunch of the comic book series. The character of Batman made his first appearance in the pages of Detective Comics #27 in May 1939, in Spring of 1940, Batman #1 was published and introduced new characters into Batmans pantheon, most notably those of Catwoman and Batmans eventual nemesis, the Joker. Alfred Pennyworth, the Wayne family butler, was introduced in issue #16, editor Whitney Ellsworth assigned a Batman story to artist Dick Sprang in 1941. Anticipating that Bob Kane would be drafted to serve in World War II, Sprangs first published Batman work was the Batman and Robin figures on the cover of Batman #18, reproduced from the art for page 13 of the later-published Detective Comics #84. Like all Batman artists of the time, Sprang went uncredited as a ghost artist for Kane, villains which debuted during this early era included the Mad Hatter in issue #49 and Killer Moth in issue #63. Bill Finger and Moldoff introduced Ace the Bat-Hound in #92, the early part of the era known to comics fans and historians as the Silver Age of Comic Books saw the Batman title dabble in science fiction. New characters introduced included Mr. Freeze and Betty Kane, the original Bat-Girl, in 1964, Julius Schwartz was made responsible for reviving the faded Batman titles. He jettisoned the sillier aspects that had crept into the series such as Ace the Bathound and Bat-Mite, schwartzs first issue of the Batman title was #164 which was written by France Edward Herron and drawn by Sheldon Moldoff. The Riddler returned after an absence in #171. Among the new villains introduced during this period was Poison Ivy in #181, in the 1960s, Batman comics were affected by the popular Batman television series, with campy stories based on the tongue-in-cheek premise of the series. After the Batman television programs influence had died down, writer Frank Robbins and artist Irv Novick sent Dick Grayson off to attend college, in 1971, writer Dennis ONeil and artist Neal Adams came aboard the title and re-infused it with the darker tones of the 1940s. ONeil and Adams introduced a new villain named Ras al Ghul, ONeil said his work on the Batman series was simply to take it back to where it started. I went to the DC library and read some of the early stories, I tried to get a sense of what Kane and Finger were after. Issues #254 to #261 of the series were in the 100 Page Super Spectacular format, the series reached its 300th issue with a June 1978 cover date and featured a story by writer David Vern Reed and artists Walt Simonson and Dick Giordano. Julius Schwartz ended his tenure as editor of the series with issue #309, marv Wolfman briefly wrote Batman and co-created the Electrocutioner in issue #331
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Jim Starlin
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James P. Jim Starlin is an American comic book writer and artist. In the 1960s, Jim Starlin served as a photographer in the US Navy in Vietnam. During his off duty time, he drew and submitted various comics, after leaving the Navy, he sold two stories to DC Comics. After writing and drawing stories for a number of fan publications, Jim Starlin entered the industry in 1972, working for Roy Thomas. Brought in by fellow artist Rich Buckler, Starlin was part of the generation of artists, at a Steve Ditko-focused panel at the 2008 Comic-Con International, Starlin said, Everything I learned about storytelling was him or Kirby. Starlins first job for Marvel was as a finisher on pages of The Amazing Spider-Man and he then drew three issues of Iron Man, that introduced the characters Thanos and Drax the Destroyer. He was then given the chance to draw an issue of the cosmic title Captain Marvel, Starlin took over as plotter the following issue, and began developing an elaborate story arc centered on the villainous Thanos, and spread across a number of Marvel titles. Starlin left Captain Marvel one issue after concluding his Thanos saga, concurrently in the mid-1970s, Starlin contributed a cache of stories to the independently published science-fiction anthology Star Reach. Here he developed his ideas of God, death, and infinity, free of the restrictions of mainstream comics publishers self-censorship arm, Starlin also drew The Secret of Skull River, inked by frequent collaborator Al Milgrom, for Savage Tales #5. After working on Captain Marvel, Starlin and writer Steve Englehart co-created the character Shang-Chi, Master of Kung Fu, envisioning the character as philosophical and existentially tortured, Starlin wrote and drew a complex space opera with theological and psychological themes. Warlock confronted the militaristic Universal Church of Truth, eventually revealed to be created and led by an evolution of his future–past self. Starlin ultimately incorporated Thanos into this story, in Fall 1978, Starlin, Howard Chaykin, Walt Simonson, and Val Mayerik formed Upstart Associates, a shared studio space on West 29th Street in New York City. The membership of the studio changed over time, Starlin occasionally worked for Marvels chief competitor DC Comics and drew stories for Legion of Super-Heroes and the Batman feature in Detective Comics in the late 1970s. Starlin co-created the supervillain Mongul with writer Len Wein in DC Comics Presents #27, the new decade found Starlin creating an expansive story titled the Metamorphosis Odyssey, which introduced the character of Vanth Dreadstar in Epic Illustrated #3. From its beginning in Epic Illustrated, the story was painted in monochromatic grays, eventually added to with other tones. The storyline was developed in The Price and Marvel Graphic Novel #3 and eventually the long-running Dreadstar comic book, published first by Epic Comics. Starlin was given the opportunity to produce a story in which to kill off a main character. The Death of Captain Marvel became the first graphic novel published by Marvel itself, Starlin and Bernie Wrightson produced Heroes for Hope, a 1985 one-shot designed to raise money for African famine relief and recovery
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Jim Aparo
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James N. Aparo was an American comic book artist best known for his 1960s and 1970s DC Comics work, including on the characters Batman, Aquaman and the Spectre. Aparo was raised in New Britain, Connecticut, and was self-trained as an artist and he attempted to enter the comic book profession in his early 20s, approaching EC Comics, which declined to hire him. He then worked in the industry in Connecticut, often drawing fashion illustrations for newspaper advertisements. He continued to pursue a career in books and comic strips while working in advertising. His first break in the field was with the comic strip Stern Wheeler, written by Ralph Kanna. In 1966, editor Dick Giordano at Charlton Comics hired him as a book artist. Over the next few years at Charlton, Aparo drew stories in many genres—Westerns, science fiction, romance, horror, mystery, Aparo was one of the few artists in mainstream comics at that time to serve as penciller, inker, and letterer for all of his work. In the late 1960s, Dick Giordano left Charlton for a position at DC Comics. After an initial issue for which Aparo provided only pencil art, Aparo resumed producing pencils, inks, and letters for most issues of the series until its cancellation. Aparo continued for a time to art to Charlton for The Phantom. Eventually Aparo resigned his assignment on The Phantom and worked almost exclusively for the remainder of his career for DC Comics, Aparos next series assignment at DC was Phantom Stranger. In 1971, Aparo was assigned a job as the artist for The Brave. This series routinely featured team-ups of DCs Batman with other characters, in this case, as the regular artist on the Phantom Strangers own series, Aparo was considered an appropriate choice. Aparo even co-starred as himself in The Brave and the Bold #124, during the more than 10 years as the artist for The Brave and the Bold, its bimonthly frequency permitted Aparo to do many other significant works for DC. He also provided art for a revival of Aquaman in both Adventure Comics and a continuation of the previously-cancelled Aquaman and he was assigned the solo Batman series in Detective Comics as of issue #437 for a rather short time and drew occasional stories for anthology series. Aparo and writer Len Wein introduce Sterling Silversmith in Detective Comics #446 and he drew The Untold Legend of the Batman, the first Batman miniseries in 1980, inking John Byrnes pencils in the first issue and providing full art for the second and third issues. Aparo was one of the artists on the double-sized Justice League of America #200, when The Brave and the Bold was cancelled in 1983, it was replaced with a series called Batman and the Outsiders, a superhero team led by Batman. This series, which Aparo co-created with writer Mike W. Barr, would be described by DC Comics writer, the Masters of Disaster were among the supervillains created by Barr and Aparo for the series
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KGB
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The KGB, an initialism for Komitet gosudarstvennoy bezopasnosti, was the main security agency for the Soviet Union from 1954 until its break-up in 1991. Formed in 1954, as a successor of such preceding agencies as the Cheka, NKGB, and MGB. It was the government agency of union-republican jurisdiction, acting as internal security, intelligence. Similar agencies were constituted in each of the republics of the Soviet Union aside from Russia and consisted of ministries, state committees. The KGB was a service and was governed by army laws and regulations. While most of the KGB archives remain classified, two documentary sources are available. After the dissolution of the USSR, the KGB was split into the Federal Security Service, after breaking away from the Republic of Georgia in the early 1990s with Russian help, the self-proclaimed Republic of South Ossetia established its own KGB. A1983 Time magazine article reported that the KGB was the worlds most effective information-gathering organization, at best, the compromised spy was either returned to the Soviet Union or was declared persona non grata and expelled by the government of the target country. The illegal resident spied, unprotected by diplomatic immunity, and worked independently of Soviet diplomatic, in its early history, the KGB valued illegal spies more than legal spies, because illegal spies infiltrated their targets with greater ease. The KGB classified its spies as agents and controllers, the false-identity or legend assumed by a USSR-born illegal spy was elaborate, using the life of either a live double or a dead double. In the 1980s, the glasnost liberalisation of Soviet society provoked KGB Chairman Vladimir Kryuchkov to lead the August 1991 Soviet coup détat attempt to depose President Mikhail Gorbachev, the thwarted coup détat ended the KGB on 6 November 1991. The KGBs successors are the police agency FSB and the espionage agency SVR. The GRU recruited the ideological agent Julian Wadleigh, who became a State Department diplomat in 1936, the NKVDs first US operation was establishing the legal residency of Boris Bazarov and the illegal residency of Iskhak Akhmerov in 1934. Throughout, the Communist Party USA and its General Secretary Earl Browder, helped NKVD recruit Americans, working in government, business, moreover, when Whittaker Chambers, formerly Alger Hisss courier, approached the Roosevelt Government—to identify the Soviet spies Duggan, White, and others—he was ignored. To wit, British Manhattan Project team physicist Klaus Fuchs was the agent of the Rosenberg spy ring. In 1944, the New York City residency infiltrated the top secret Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico, by recruiting Theodore Hall, the KGB failed to rebuild most of its US illegal resident networks. The aftermath of the Second Red Scare and the crisis in the CPUSA hampered recruitment, the last major illegal resident, Rudolf Abel, was betrayed by his assistant, Reino Häyhänen, in 1957. One notable KGB success occurred in 1967, with the recruitment of US Navy Chief Warrant Officer John Anthony Walker
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Black Lantern Corps
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The Black Lantern Corps is a fictional organization of corporeal revenants appearing in comic books published by DC Comics, related to the emotional spectrum. The group is composed of deceased fictional characters from the publication in zombie form that seek to eliminate all life from the DC Universe, prior to the Blackest Night event, Black Hand had already been established as a villain within the pages of Green Lantern. Writer Geoff Johns revisited his origin and expanded certain aspects of it during the Green Lantern. During the arc, Hands energy-absorbing weapon is revealed to have constructed by Atrocitus, enemy of the Guardians of the Universe. Atrocitus comes to Earth and approaches Hand, recognizing him as a doorway to the black that possesses the power to bring about the Blackest Night, Hand manages to escape and pockets the weapon as he flees. The possession of this weapon soon leads him to become an enemy of the Green Lantern Corps, while being transported to prison, Black Hand experiences a sudden power surge that kills his captors. Xander roams the desert, hearing a voice instructing him to reclaim the souls of characters who were reanimated, Hand murders his family and commits suicide. The Guardian Scar arrives, and creates the first black power ring, Hand later digs up Bruce Waynes corpse, removes his skull, and recites the Black Lantern oath for the first time. Soon after, black rings descend upon the universe and begin reviving the deceased as Black Lanterns that attack the heroes of the DC Universe. It is claimed the Power Battery is in Space Sector 666, at the end of the issue, its shown that Black Hand uses the skull to produce new power rings at will, creating two rings for the newly deceased Carter Hall and Kendra Saunders. In Blackest Night #3, Indigo-1 describes the premise behind the Black Lantern Corps fictional relationship with the universe and she explains that the darkness in existence before the creation of the universe is what powers the Black Lanterns. Banished at the dawn of time by the light of creation. The events transpiring throughout the titles of Blackest Night are a result of the darkness, once again and she goes on to describe how a combination of all seven lights can restore the white light of creation and bring an end to the Black Lanterns.1 percent. After being introduced into a role within the Blackest Night event. The story unfolding in Green Lantern depicts Jordan and Indigo-1 recruiting Carol Ferris, Sinestro, Saint Walker, Atrocitus, in Blackest Night #5, the team assaults the Black Central Power Battery with the opposite results intended. Nekron is strengthened and able to recruit living characters reanimated from death to his Black Lantern Corps, the White Lanterns used the power of the White Light to finally vanquish Nekron and the threat of the Blackest Night passed with the Black Lanterns disintegrating along with their power rings. Though seemingly destroyed, an aspect of the Black Lanterns returned within Firestorm when his dark undead persona emerged - claiming the name Deathstorm, torturing the two hosts of the Firestorm Matrix, Deathstorm later traveled to the White Lantern Power Battery where he corrupted it. Whilst initially he intended to destroy it in order to all life in the universe
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Supervillain
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A supervillain is a variant of the villainous stock character archetype commonly found in American comic books, sometimes possessing superhuman abilities. A supervillain is the antithesis of a superhero, Supervillains are often used as foils to present a daunting challenge to a superhero. Other traits may include megalomania and possession of considerable resources to further their aims, many supervillains share some typical characteristics of real world dictators, gangsters, and terrorists, with aspirations of world domination or universal leadership. Some notable examples of female supervillains are Catwoman, Mystique, Harley Quinn, Talia al Ghul, Supervillains are sometimes members of supervillain groups, such as the Sinister Six, the Suicide Squad, the Brotherhood of Mutants, the Injustice League, and the Masters of Evil. The dictionary definition of supervillain at Wiktionary Media related to Supervillains at Wikimedia Commons
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American comic book
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An American comic book is a thin periodical, typically 32-pages, containing primarily comics content. While the form originated in 1933, American comic books first gained popularity after the 1938 publication of Action Comics and this was followed by a superhero boom that lasted until the end of World War II. After the war, while superheroes were marginalized, the book industry rapidly expanded, and genres such as horror, crime. The 1950s saw a decline, due to a shift away from print media in the wake of television. The late 1950s and the 1960s saw a revival. Since the later 20th century, comic books have gained note as collectable items, Comic shops cater to fans, and particularly valuable issues have fetched in excess of a million dollars. Systems of grading comic books have emerged with plastic sleeves and cardboard backing available to maintain the condition of comic books, standard comics are 6.625 inches ×10.25 inches and about 32 pages long. While comics can be the work of a creator, the labour of making them is frequently divided between a number of specialists. There may be a writer and artist, or there may be separate artists for the characters. The process begins with the coming up with an idea or concept, then working it into a plot and story. After the art production, letters are placed on the page, the creative team, the writers and artists, may work with a comic book publisher for help with marketing, advertising, and other logistics. A distributor like Diamond Comic Distributors, the largest in the U. S. helps to distribute the product to retailers. Another part of the involved in successful comics is the interaction between the readers/fans and the creator. Fan art and letters to the editor were printed in the back of the book until the early 21st century. Comic specialty stores did help encourage several waves of independently-produced comics, the development of the modern American comic book happened in stages. The G. W. Dillingham Company published the first known proto-comic-book magazine in the U. S, the Yellow Kid in McFaddens Flats, in 1897. The 196-page, square-bound, black-and-white publication, which also includes text by E. W. Townsend, measured 5×7 inches. The neologism comic book appears on the back cover, despite the publication of a series of related Hearst comics soon afterward, the first monthly proto-comic book, Embee Distributing Companys Comic Monthly, did not appear until 1922
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Batman
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Batman is a fictional superhero appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics. The character was created by artist Bob Kane and writer Bill Finger, originally named the Bat-Man, the character is also referred to by such epithets as the Caped Crusader, the Dark Knight, and the Worlds Greatest Detective. Batmans secret identity is Bruce Wayne, a wealthy American playboy, philanthropist, after witnessing the murder of his parents Thomas Wayne and Martha Wayne as a child, he swore vengeance against criminals, an oath tempered by a sense of justice. Wayne trains himself physically and intellectually and crafts a bat-inspired persona to fight crime, Batman operates in the fictional Gotham City, with assistance from various supporting characters, including his butler Alfred, police commissioner Gordon, and vigilante allies such as Robin. A large assortment of villains make up Batmans rogues gallery, including his archenemy, Batman became popular soon after his introduction in 1939 and gained his own comic book title, Batman, the following year. As the decades went on, differing interpretations of the character emerged, the late 1960s Batman television series used a camp aesthetic, which continued to be associated with the character for years after the show ended. Various creators worked to return the character to his dark roots, the success of Warner Bros. live-action Batman feature films have helped maintain the publics interest in the character. The character has also intrigued psychiatrists, with trying to understand the characters psyche. In 2015, FanSided ranked Batman as number one on their list of 50 Greatest Super Heroes In Comic Book History. Kevin Conroy, Bruce Greenwood, Peter Weller, Anthony Ruivivar, Jason OMara, Batman has been portrayed in both film and television by Lewis Wilson, Robert Lowery, Adam West, Michael Keaton, Val Kilmer, George Clooney, Christian Bale, and Ben Affleck. In early 1939, the success of Superman in Action Comics prompted editors at National Comics Publications to request more superheroes for its titles, in response, Bob Kane created the Bat-Man. Collaborator Bill Finger recalled that Kane had an idea for a character called Batman, I went over to Kanes, and he had drawn a character who looked very much like Superman with kind of. Reddish tights, I believe, with boots, with a small domino mask, swinging on a rope. He had two wings that were sticking out, looking like bat wings. And under it was a big sign, the bat-wing-like cape was suggested by Bob Kane, inspired by Leonardo Da Vincis sketch of an ornithopter flying device as a child. Finger suggested giving the character a cowl instead of a domino mask, a cape instead of wings. Finger said he devised the name Bruce Wayne for the secret identity, Bruce Waynes first name came from Robert Bruce. Wayne, being a playboy, was a man of gentry, I searched for a name that would suggest colonialism
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Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice
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Batman v Superman, Dawn of Justice is a 2016 American superhero film featuring the DC Comics characters Batman and Superman. Directed by Zack Snyder and distributed by Warner Bros, pictures, the film is a follow-up to 2013s Man of Steel and is the second installment in the DC Extended Universe. In the film, criminal mastermind Lex Luthor manipulates Batman into a battle with Superman. The film was announced at the 2013 San Diego Comic-Con International, Snyder stated that the film would take inspiration from the Batman comic book series The Dark Knight Returns by Frank Miller, but clarified that it would follow an original premise. The incarnation of Batman in the film would also be different from the characters portrayal in The Dark Knight Trilogy. The film is inspired by narrative elements from the Death of Superman story arc. Pre-production began at East Los Angeles College in October 2013, with principal photography starting in May 2014 in Detroit, additional filming also took place in Chicago. Following a strong debut that set new box office records, the experienced a historic drop in its second weekend. A directors cut, dubbed the Ultimate Edition and features 30 minutes of footage, was released digitally on June 28,2016. Eighteen months after the battle with General Zod in Metropolis in Man of Steel. Billionaire Bruce Wayne, who has operated in Gotham City as the vigilante Batman for nearly two decades, sees Superman as a threat to humanity. After learning of Batmans form of justice, Clark Kent, Supermans alter-ego, Wayne learns that Russian weapon trafficker Anatoli Knyazev has been contacting LexCorp mogul Lex Luthor. He instead makes alternative plans with Finchs subordinate and gains access to Zods body, Wayne attends a party at LexCorp, where he meets an antiquities dealer named Diana Prince, and retrieves encrypted data from the companys mainframe. While decrypting the drive at the Batcave, Wayne dreams of a post-apocalyptic world and he is snapped out of the vision by an unidentified being who warns him of Lois Lanes crucial role in the future, and urges him to find the others before vanishing. Wayne later discovers that Luthor is not only experimenting with kryptonite, one of them is Prince herself, who is an immortal warrior. Wayne admits to Alfred Pennyworth that he plans to steal the kryptonite to weaponize it, at a congressional hearing, as Finch questions Superman on the validity of his actions, a bomb goes off and kills everyone present but Superman. Believing he should have detected the bomb, and frustrated by his failure to save the people, meanwhile, Luthor enters the Kryptonian ship and accesses details of a vast technology database accumulated from over 100,000 worlds. Luthor kidnaps Martha Kent, Clarks adoptive mother, to bring Superman out of exile and he reveals to him that he manipulated Superman and Batman by fueling their distrust for each other
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Callan Mulvey
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Callan Francis Mulvey is a New Zealand-born Australian actor. He is best known in Australia for his roles as Mark Moran on the Australian drama Underbelly, Sergeant Brendan Josh Joshua in Rush, and as Bogdan Draz Drazic in Heartbreak High. His American roles include Syllias in 300, Rise of an Empire, Jack Rollins in Captain America, The Winter Soldier and Anatoli KGBeast Knyazev in Batman v Superman, Mulvey was injured in a serious car accident in 2003, in a head-on collision at 100 km/h. He was trapped in the vehicle for almost an hour until he could be freed from the wreckage and his left knee and ankle were also badly fractured. In 2004 he re-entered the spotlight for the release of Thunderstruck, Mulvey had guest spots on Home and Away during 2006 to 2008 and McLeods Daughters during 2007. He starred in the 2008 Australian underworld crime show Underbelly as Mark Moran, in 2012 he starred in the underworld crime miniseries Bikie Wars, Brothers in Arms as Mark Anthony Snoddy Spencer. In 2013 he appeared in Kathryn Bigelows Zero Dark Thirty as Saber and he also starred in the The Turning, directed by Robert Connelly. In 2014 he appeared in 300, Rise of an Empire as Syllias, also in 2014 he also appeared in Captain America, The Winter Soldier as Jack Rollins. It was his second time appearing in a film as a soldier alongside Frank Grillo, in 2014 he starred in the Katie Holmes black comedy Miss Meadows as Skylar. Following this, he starred as Jack Taylor in Kill Me Three Times along with Sullivan Stapleton, Teresa Palmer, Simon Pegg, Alice Braga. Mulvey played Anatoli Knyazev in Batman v. Superman, Dawn of Justice, in the film, Knyazev does not appear as KGBeast and is only a hired gun. In 2016, Mulvey appeared extremely briefly in Warcraft, the adaption of Warcraft, credited as Warrior, as well as joining the main cast of Starz TVs Power. He is currently back in Australia filming Bleeding Steel, a Chinese Sci-Fi-Action-Comedy starring Jackie Chan and it has been dubbed the biggest budget Chinese production to shoot in Australia. Callan Mulvey at the Internet Movie Database Official website
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Arrow (TV series)
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Arrow is an American action crime television series developed by writer/producers Greg Berlanti, Marc Guggenheim, and Andrew Kreisberg. It is based on the DC Comics character Green Arrow, a costumed crime-fighter created by Mort Weisinger and it premiered in North America on The CW on October 10,2012, with international broadcasting taking place in late 2012. The series takes a new look at the Green Arrow character, Arrow focuses on the humanity of Oliver Queen, and how he was changed by time spent shipwrecked on an island. Most episodes have flashback scenes to the five years in which Oliver was missing, Arrow has received generally positive reviews from critics. The series averaged about 3.68 million viewers over the course of the first season and received several awards, to promote it, a preview comic book was released before the television series began, while webisodes featuring a product tie-in with Bose were developed for the second season. The first and second seasons are available on DVD and Blu-ray in regions 1,2 and 4, in October 2014, a spin-off series set in the same universe, titled The Flash, premiered. On March 11,2016, the series was renewed for a fifth season, on January 8,2017, The CW renewed the show for a sixth season. The series follows Oliver Queen, billionaire playboy of Starling City, upon his return to Starling City, he is reunited with his mother, Moira Queen, his sister, Thea Queen, and his friend, Tommy Merlyn. He uncovers Malcolm Merlyns conspiracy to destroy The Glades, a section of the city that has become overridden with crime. John Diggle and Felicity Smoak assist Oliver in his crusade, Oliver also reconnects with ex-girlfriend, Laurel Lance, who is still angry over his role in her sisters presumed death. In season two, Oliver has vowed to stop crime without killing criminals and his family and allies come under attack from Slade Wilson, a man from Olivers time on the island who returns to destroy everything important to Oliver. Oliver accepts aspiring vigilante Roy Harper as his protégé, and begins to receive assistance from Laurels father, Detective Quentin Lance. Oliver also gains another ally, a woman in black, who is eventually revealed to be Laurels sister, Sara Lance. Flashbacks depict Olivers continued time on the island with Slade, Sara, in season three, Arrow has become a public hero in Starling City following Slade Wilsons defeat. Queen Consolidated is sold to businessman, scientist and aspiring hero Ray Palmer. Oliver struggles to bring his back together, an old enemy returns. After a tragic event and a start, Laurel sets out to follow in Saras footsteps as the Black Canary. Diggle struggles with his new role as a man, as Oliver no longer wants John in the field after the birth of his child
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David Nykl
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David Nykl is a Czech Canadian actor of film, television, commercials and theater. He is best known for portraying Dr. Radek Zelenka in the SyFy television series Stargate Atlantis, Nykl was born in Prague, Czechoslovakia, to a nurse mother and a structural engineer father. After the Soviet invasion in 1968, he and his family left then-Communist Czechoslovakia for Canada, upon arriving at Victoria, British Columbia, Nykl attended the University of British Columbia, where he majored in liberal arts. Nykl has appeared heavily in Vancouver and Prague in dozens of theater, film, known for his versatility and depth as an actor, he has also produced theatre and film projects, and in 1994, he co-founded Pragues Misery Loves Company Theatre with Richard Toth and Ewan McLaren. Nykl is known to science fans as the recurring Stargate Atlantis character of Dr. Radek Zelenka. His character is seen working with the main scientist Dr. Rodney McKay. Nykl is fluent in Czech, English, French and Spanish, though his character on Stargate Atlantis speaks English with a Czech accent, Nykl normally speaks with a Canadian accent. Whenever Zelenka spoke Czech in Stargate Atlantis, Nykl was given the lines in English and he has three children, Judi, Maddie and Sam. The oldest, Judi, has a growing fanbase on the social media app vine, shes best known for creative videos featuring water and her dog Bert. Official Site Letters from Pegasus David Nykl at the Internet Movie Database
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Russian language
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Russian is an East Slavic language and an official language in Russia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and many minor or unrecognised territories. Russian belongs to the family of Indo-European languages and is one of the four living members of the East Slavic languages, written examples of Old East Slavonic are attested from the 10th century and beyond. It is the most geographically widespread language of Eurasia and the most widely spoken of the Slavic languages and it is also the largest native language in Europe, with 144 million native speakers in Russia, Ukraine and Belarus. Russian is the eighth most spoken language in the world by number of native speakers, the language is one of the six official languages of the United Nations. Russian is also the second most widespread language on the Internet after English, Russian distinguishes between consonant phonemes with palatal secondary articulation and those without, the so-called soft and hard sounds. This distinction is found between pairs of almost all consonants and is one of the most distinguishing features of the language, another important aspect is the reduction of unstressed vowels. Russian is a Slavic language of the Indo-European family and it is a lineal descendant of the language used in Kievan Rus. From the point of view of the language, its closest relatives are Ukrainian, Belarusian, and Rusyn. An East Slavic Old Novgorod dialect, although vanished during the 15th or 16th century, is considered to have played a significant role in the formation of modern Russian. In the 19th century, the language was often called Great Russian to distinguish it from Belarusian, then called White Russian and Ukrainian, however, the East Slavic forms have tended to be used exclusively in the various dialects that are experiencing a rapid decline. In some cases, both the East Slavic and the Church Slavonic forms are in use, with different meanings. For details, see Russian phonology and History of the Russian language and it is also regarded by the United States Intelligence Community as a hard target language, due to both its difficulty to master for English speakers and its critical role in American world policy. The standard form of Russian is generally regarded as the modern Russian literary language, mikhail Lomonosov first compiled a normalizing grammar book in 1755, in 1783 the Russian Academys first explanatory Russian dictionary appeared. By the mid-20th century, such dialects were forced out with the introduction of the education system that was established by the Soviet government. Despite the formalization of Standard Russian, some nonstandard dialectal features are observed in colloquial speech. Thus, the Russian language is the 6th largest in the world by number of speakers, after English, Mandarin, Hindi/Urdu, Spanish, Russian is one of the six official languages of the United Nations. Education in Russian is still a choice for both Russian as a second language and native speakers in Russia as well as many of the former Soviet republics. Russian is still seen as an important language for children to learn in most of the former Soviet republics, samuel P. Huntington wrote in the Clash of Civilizations, During the heyday of the Soviet Union, Russian was the lingua franca from Prague to Hanoi
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Central Intelligence Agency
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As one of the principal members of the U. S. Intelligence Community, the CIA reports to the Director of National Intelligence and is focused on providing intelligence for the President. Though it is not the only U. S. government agency specializing in HUMINT and it exerts foreign political influence through its tactical divisions, such as the Special Activities Division. Despite transferring some of its powers to the DNI, the CIA has grown in size as a result of the September 11 attacks. In 2013, The Washington Post reported that in fiscal year 2010, the CIA has increasingly expanded its roles, including covert paramilitary operations. One of its largest divisions, the Information Operations Center, has shifted focus from counter-terrorism to offensive cyber-operations, when the CIA was created, its purpose was to create a clearinghouse for foreign policy intelligence and analysis. Today its primary purpose is to collect, analyze, evaluate, and disseminate foreign intelligence, warning/informing American leaders of important overseas events, with Pakistan described as an intractable target. Counterintelligence, with China, Russia, Iran, Cuba, the Executive Office also supports the U. S. military by providing it with information it gathers, receiving information from military intelligence organizations, and cooperates on field activities. The Executive Director is in charge of the day to day operation of the CIA, each branch of the military service has its own Director. The Directorate has four regional groups, six groups for transnational issues. There is a dedicated to Iraq, regional analytical offices covering the Near East and South Asia, Russia and Europe, and the Asian Pacific, Latin American. The Directorate of Operations is responsible for collecting intelligence. The name reflects its role as the coordinator of intelligence activities between other elements of the wider U. S. intelligence community with their own HUMINT operations. This Directorate was created in an attempt to end years of rivalry over influence, philosophy, in spite of this, the Department of Defense recently organized its own global clandestine intelligence service, the Defense Clandestine Service, under the Defense Intelligence Agency. This Directorate is known to be organized by regions and issues. The Directorate of Science & Technology was established to research, create, many of its innovations were transferred to other intelligence organizations, or, as they became more overt, to the military services. For example, the development of the U-2 high-altitude reconnaissance aircraft was done in cooperation with the United States Air Force, the U-2s original mission was clandestine imagery intelligence over denied areas such as the Soviet Union. It was subsequently provided with signals intelligence and measurement and signature intelligence capabilities, subsequently, NPIC was transferred to the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency
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Martial arts
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Although the term martial art has become associated with the fighting arts of eastern Asia, it originally referred to the combat systems of Europe as early as the 1550s. The term is derived from Latin, and means arts of Mars, Martial arts may be categorized along a variety of criteria, including, Traditional or historical arts vs. contemporary styles of folk wrestling and modern hybrid martial arts. Such traditions include eskrima, silat, kalaripayat, kobudo, and historical European martial arts, Many Chinese martial arts also feature weapons as part of their curriculum. Similarly, modern Western martial arts and sports include fencing, stick-fighting systems like canne de combat or singlestick. Combat-oriented Health-oriented Many martial arts, especially those from Asia, also teach side disciplines which pertain to medicinal practices and this is particularly prevalent in traditional Asian martial arts which may teach bone-setting, herbalism, and other aspects of traditional medicine. Spirituality-oriented Martial arts can also be linked with religion and spirituality, numerous systems are reputed to have been founded, disseminated, or practiced by monks or nuns. Throughout Asia, meditation may be incorporated as part of training, in those countries influenced by Hindu-Buddhist philosophy, the art itself may be used as an aid to attaining enlightenment. Japanese styles, when concerning non-physical qualities of the combat, are strongly influenced by Mahayana Buddhist philosophy. Concepts like empty mind and beginners mind are recurrent, aikido, for instance, can have a strong philosophical belief of the flow of energy and peace fostering, as idealised by its founder Morihei Ueshiba. Traditional Korean martial arts place emphasis on the development of the spiritual and philosophical development. A common theme in most Korean styles, such as taekkyeon and taekwondo, is the value of peace in a practitioner. The Koreans believe that the use of force is only justified through defense. Many such martial arts incorporate music, especially strong percussive rhythms, the oldest works of art depicting scenes of battle are cave paintings from Spain dated between 10,000 and 6,000 BCE that show organized groups fighting with bows and arrows. Chinese martial arts originated during the Xia Dynasty more than 4000 years ago and it is said the Yellow Emperor Huangdi introduced the earliest fighting systems to China. The Yellow Emperor is described as a general who, before becoming Chinas leader, wrote lengthy treatises on medicine, astrology. One of his opponents was Chi You who was credited as the creator of jiao di. The foundation of modern Asian martial arts is likely a blend of early Chinese, during the Warring States period of Chinese history extensive development in martial philosophy and strategy emerged, as described by Sun Tzu in The Art of War. Legendary accounts link the origin of Shaolinquan to the spread of Buddhism from India during the early 5th century AD, with the figure of Bodhidharma, to China
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Soviet Union
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The Soviet Union, officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics was a socialist state in Eurasia that existed from 1922 to 1991. It was nominally a union of national republics, but its government. The Soviet Union had its roots in the October Revolution of 1917 and this established the Russian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic and started the Russian Civil War between the revolutionary Reds and the counter-revolutionary Whites. In 1922, the communists were victorious, forming the Soviet Union with the unification of the Russian, Transcaucasian, Ukrainian, following Lenins death in 1924, a collective leadership and a brief power struggle, Joseph Stalin came to power in the mid-1920s. Stalin suppressed all opposition to his rule, committed the state ideology to Marxism–Leninism. As a result, the country underwent a period of rapid industrialization and collectivization which laid the foundation for its victory in World War II and postwar dominance of Eastern Europe. Shortly before World War II, Stalin signed the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact agreeing to non-aggression with Nazi Germany, in June 1941, the Germans invaded the Soviet Union, opening the largest and bloodiest theater of war in history. Soviet war casualties accounted for the highest proportion of the conflict in the effort of acquiring the upper hand over Axis forces at battles such as Stalingrad. Soviet forces eventually captured Berlin in 1945, the territory overtaken by the Red Army became satellite states of the Eastern Bloc. The Cold War emerged by 1947 as the Soviet bloc confronted the Western states that united in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization in 1949. Following Stalins death in 1953, a period of political and economic liberalization, known as de-Stalinization and Khrushchevs Thaw, the country developed rapidly, as millions of peasants were moved into industrialized cities. The USSR took a lead in the Space Race with Sputnik 1, the first ever satellite, and Vostok 1. In the 1970s, there was a brief détente of relations with the United States, the war drained economic resources and was matched by an escalation of American military aid to Mujahideen fighters. In the mid-1980s, the last Soviet leader, Mikhail Gorbachev, sought to reform and liberalize the economy through his policies of glasnost. The goal was to preserve the Communist Party while reversing the economic stagnation, the Cold War ended during his tenure, and in 1989 Soviet satellite countries in Eastern Europe overthrew their respective communist regimes. This led to the rise of strong nationalist and separatist movements inside the USSR as well, in August 1991, a coup détat was attempted by Communist Party hardliners. It failed, with Russian President Boris Yeltsin playing a role in facing down the coup. On 25 December 1991, Gorbachev resigned and the twelve constituent republics emerged from the dissolution of the Soviet Union as independent post-Soviet states
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Strategic Defense Initiative
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The Strategic Defense Initiative was a proposed missile defense system intended to protect the United States from attack by ballistic strategic nuclear weapons. The system, which was to combine ground-based units and orbital deployment platforms, was first publicly announced by President Ronald Reagan on March 23,1983, the initiative focused on strategic defense rather than the prior strategic offense doctrine of mutual assured destruction. The Strategic Defense Initiative Organization was set up in 1984 within the United States Department of Defense to oversee the Strategic Defense Initiative, Reagan was a vocal critic of MAD doctrine. The ambitious initiative was criticized for threatening to destabilize the MAD-approach. SDI was nicknamed largely in the media as Star Wars. Under the SDIOs Innovative Sciences and Technology Office, headed by physicist and it was never truly developed or deployed, though certain aspects of SDI research and technologies paved the way for some anti-ballistic missile systems of today. BMDO was renamed to the Missile Defense Agency in 2002 and this article covers defense efforts under the SDIO. Today, the United States holds a significant advantage in the field of advanced missile defense systems through years of extensive research. The US and the UK also have both laser weapons and 360 degree laser shields in development, which are expected to be ready for use as early as 2020. Many of the obtained technological insights were transferred to subsequent programs, George Shultz, Secretary of State under Reagan, suggests that a 1967 lecture by physicist Edward Teller was an important precursor to SDI. In the lecture Teller talked about the idea of defending against nuclear missiles by using nuclear weapons, held at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, the lecture was attended by Reagan shortly after he became the governor of California. However, he was struck by their comments that while they could track the attack down to the individual targets, Shultz suggests that this feeling of helplessness, coupled with the defensive ideas proposed by Teller a decade earlier, combined to form the impetus of the SDI. It was designed to replace the doctrine of Mutual assured destruction, O Group was headed by physicist Lowell Wood, a protégé and friend of Edward Teller. Ronald Reagan was told of Hagelsteins breakthrough by Teller in 1983, the concept for the space-based portion was to use lasers to shoot down incoming Soviet intercontinental ballistic missiles armed with nuclear warheads. Although Nazi Germany put considerable effort into the first surface-to-air missiles after 1943 and their research proved valuable to teams in the US and Soviet Union, where missile programs slowly developed in the immediate post-war era. As the Cold War started, the Soviets found themselves facing massive USAF, in response they dramatically increased their efforts in SAM development, deploying the S-25 Berkut system around Moscow as early as 1955. This was followed by the improved and semi-mobile S-75 Dvina. Similar US and UK weapons soon followed, by the late 1950s, as missiles developed both in quality and number, the ability for the US air fleet to penetrate Soviet airspace was increasingly at risk
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President of the United States
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The President of the United States is the head of state and head of government of the United States. The president directs the executive branch of the government and is the commander-in-chief of the United States Armed Forces. The president is considered to be one of the worlds most powerful political figures, the role includes being the commander-in-chief of the worlds most expensive military with the second largest nuclear arsenal and leading the nation with the largest economy by nominal GDP. The office of President holds significant hard and soft power both in the United States and abroad, Constitution vests the executive power of the United States in the president. The president is empowered to grant federal pardons and reprieves. The president is responsible for dictating the legislative agenda of the party to which the president is a member. The president also directs the foreign and domestic policy of the United States, since the office of President was established in 1789, its power has grown substantially, as has the power of the federal government as a whole. However, nine vice presidents have assumed the presidency without having elected to the office. The Twenty-second Amendment prohibits anyone from being elected president for a third term, in all,44 individuals have served 45 presidencies spanning 57 full four-year terms. On January 20,2017, Donald Trump was sworn in as the 45th, in 1776, the Thirteen Colonies, acting through the Second Continental Congress, declared political independence from Great Britain during the American Revolution. The new states, though independent of each other as nation states, desiring to avoid anything that remotely resembled a monarchy, Congress negotiated the Articles of Confederation to establish a weak alliance between the states. Out from under any monarchy, the states assigned some formerly royal prerogatives to Congress, only after all the states agreed to a resolution settling competing western land claims did the Articles take effect on March 1,1781, when Maryland became the final state to ratify them. In 1783, the Treaty of Paris secured independence for each of the former colonies, with peace at hand, the states each turned toward their own internal affairs. Prospects for the convention appeared bleak until James Madison and Edmund Randolph succeeded in securing George Washingtons attendance to Philadelphia as a delegate for Virginia. It was through the negotiations at Philadelphia that the presidency framed in the U. S. The first power the Constitution confers upon the president is the veto, the Presentment Clause requires any bill passed by Congress to be presented to the president before it can become law. Once the legislation has been presented, the president has three options, Sign the legislation, the bill becomes law. Veto the legislation and return it to Congress, expressing any objections, in this instance, the president neither signs nor vetoes the legislation
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Ronald Reagan
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Ronald Wilson Reagan was an American politician and actor who was the 40th President of the United States, from 1981 to 1989. Before his presidency, he was the 33rd Governor of California, from 1967 to 1975, after a career as a Hollywood actor and union leader. Raised in a family in small towns of northern Illinois, Reagan graduated from Eureka College in 1932. After moving to Hollywood in 1937, he became an actor, Reagan was twice elected President of the Screen Actors Guild, the labor union for actors, where he worked to root out Communist influence. In the 1950s, he moved into television and was a speaker at General Electric factories. Having been a lifelong Democrat, his views changed and he became a conservative and in 1962 switched to the Republican Party. In 1964, Reagans speech, A Time for Choosing, in support of Barry Goldwaters foundering presidential campaign, Building a network of supporters, he was elected Governor of California in 1966. Entering the presidency in 1981, Reagan implemented sweeping new political, in his first term he survived an assassination attempt, spurred the War on Drugs, and fought public sector labor. During his re-election bid, Reagan campaigned on the notion that it was Morning in America, foreign affairs dominated his second term, including ending of the Cold War, the bombing of Libya, and the Iran–Contra affair. Publicly describing the Soviet Union as an empire, and during his famous speech at the Brandenburg Gate. Jack, a salesman and storyteller, was the grandson of Irish Catholic immigrants from County Tipperary, Reagan had one older brother, John Neil Reagan, who became an advertising executive. As a boy, Reagans father nicknamed his son Dutch, due to his fat little Dutchman-like appearance and Dutchboy haircut, Reagans family briefly lived in several towns and cities in Illinois, including Monmouth, Galesburg, and Chicago. In 1919, they returned to Tampico and lived above the H. C, Pitney Variety Store until finally settling in Dixon. After his election as president, residing in the upstairs White House private quarters, for the time, Reagan was unusual in his opposition to racial discrimination, and recalled a time in Dixon when the local inn would not allow black people to stay there. Reagan brought them back to his house, where his mother invited them to stay the night and have breakfast the next morning, after the closure of the Pitney Store in late 1920 and the familys move to Dixon, the midwestern small universe had a lasting impression on Reagan. Reagan attended Dixon High School, where he developed interests in acting, sports and his first job was as a lifeguard at the Rock River in Lowell Park in 1927. Over a six-year period, Reagan reportedly performed 77 rescues as a lifeguard and he attended Eureka College, a Disciples-oriented liberal arts school, where he became a member of the Tau Kappa Epsilon fraternity, a cheerleader, and studied economics and sociology. While involved, the Miller Center of Public Affairs described him as an indifferent student and he majored in economics and sociology, and graduated with a C grade
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Gotham City
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Gotham City or Gotham is a fictional city appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics, best known as the home of Batman. Batmans place of residence was first identified as Gotham City in Batman #4, the city is depicted as being within close proximity to Metropolis, and the vast majority of DC Comics references place Gotham City specifically in New Jersey. Cities such as New York City and Chicago have also influenced the look, within the DC Extended Universe, the 2016 film Suicide Squad reveals Gotham City to be located in New Jersey. Writer Bill Finger, on the naming of the city and the reason for changing Batmans locale from New York City to a city, said. Then I tried Capital City, then Coast City, then I flipped through the New York City phone book and spotted the name Gotham Jewelers and said, Thats it, Gotham City. We didnt call it New York because we wanted anybody in any city to identify with it, irving took the name from the village of Gotham, Nottinghamshire, England, a place inhabited, according to folklore, by fools. The villages name derives from Old English gāt goat and hām home, literally homestead where goats are kept, the Joker references this etymology in Detective Comics #880, in which he tells Batman that the word means a safe place for goats. In contrast, Gotham as used for New York has a different pronunciation by analogy to other words spelled with th and is pronounced as /ˈɡɒθəm/ GOTH-əm, like the word Goth. In Amazing World of DC Comics #14, publisher Mark Gruenwald discusses the history of the Justice League, Worlds Finest Comics #259 also confirms that Gotham is in New Jersey. In the World’s Greatest Super Heroes comic strip, a map is shown placing Gotham City in New Jersey, New Adventures of Superboy #22 and the 1990 Atlas of the DC Universe both show maps of Gotham City in New Jersey and Metropolis in Delaware. Detective Comics #503 includes several references suggesting Gotham City is in New Jersey, a location on the Jersey Shore is described as twenty miles north of Gotham, and Robin and Batgirl drive from a secret New Jersey airfield to Gotham City and then drive on the Hudson County Highway. Hudson County is the name of a county in New Jersey. Batman, Shadow of the Bat, Annual #1 further establishes that Gotham City is in New Jersey, sal E. Jordans drivers license in the comic reveals his address is 72 Faxcol Dr Gotham City, NJ12345. Gotham City is the home of Batman, just as Metropolis is the home of Superman, given the close proximity of the two cities, Batman and Superman often work together and frequent each others cities. Gotham City is usually depicted to be within driving distance of Metropolis, the Atlas of the DC Universe from the 1990s places Metropolis in Delaware and Gotham City in New Jersey. During the Bronze Age of Comic Books, the Metro-Narrows Bridge was depicted as the route connecting the twin cities of Metropolis. It has been described as being the longest suspension bridge in the world, a map appeared in The New Adventures of Superboy #22, that showed Smallville within driving distance of both Metropolis and Gotham City. However, the location of the two cities has varied
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Batman's utility belt
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Batmans utility belt is a feature of Batmans costume. Similar belts are used by the various Robins, Batgirl, in its first appearance, Batmans utility belt contain choking gas capsules. Two issues after the utility belt debuted, Fox also wrote the first appearance of a bat-themed weapon, up until 1989, most artists drew the utility belt as a simple yellow belt with a buckle and capsules/cylinders around it. In 1986, Frank Miller drew Batmans utility belt with military-style pouches in the Batman and this rendition was used again in Batman, Year One and used by almost every artist in the Batman, Legends of the Dark Knight comics series. In 2000, the became a standard feature in the depiction of the utility belt. The grapple gun, which fired the Batline/Bat-rope, was first introduced in Tim Burtons live-action film, although seemingly unremarkable in appearance, the utility belt is one of Batmans most important tools in fighting crime. Consisting primarily of a strap and buckle, the utility belt houses ten pouches or cylindrical cartridges that are attached to the outside of the belt, the buckle itself typically contains a miniature camera and a tape recorder. A secondary compartment behind the length of the belt houses Batmans supply of batarangs, each of the ten pouches or cylinders contains various tools integral to Batmans war on crime, with the cylinders being interchangeable with each other. Through the years, Batman has modified the contents of his belt to accommodate various crime-fighting scenarios, most versions of the belt contain security features to prevent anyone other than Batman from opening it. The belt is shown to be able to electrocute any villain who even touches it and it can also release stun gas to prevent tampering. The belts compartments are locked and only Batman knows how to open them, there are several special varieties of the batarang, aside from the regular type. Explosive batarangs explode once they hit their target, electric batarangs deliver powerful electric shocks to whatever they come in contact with. These batarangs can incapacitate enemies or overload electronic devices, remote-controlled batarangs let Batman fully steer the batarang via a remote control. These are used when a line of sight isnt possible. These batarangs have cameras in them so that Batman can see where they are going, batline/Batrope/Batclaw/Batgrapple, A handheld grappling hook that shoots out a claw-shaped projectile on a retractable high-tensile cord, which grabs onto a surface. Then, this cord pulls Batman to his target, a later boost upgrade launches him high into the air above the target point if he desires. The hook can also pull down walls, grab enemies and pull them closer, the hook is secured to the belt magnetically rather than being contained in the belt. It has been portrayed as a grappling hook line to be manually thrown onto a higher surface or vantage point for him to climb it to the targeted area
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Batman: Year Three
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Year Three is a comic book storyline published in the United States by DC Comics, which explores Batmans third year as a crimefighter. It was written by Marv Wolfman and pencilled by Pat Broderick and originally appeared in Batman #436-439, the plot involved the origin of the first Robin and his initial interactions with Batman. Additionally, the features the first appearance of Tim Drake. The story is a sequel of sorts to the previous Batman, Year One and Batman, unlike its predecessors Batman, Year Three has never been collected in trade paperback form. The story begins when Batman is watching a mob boss, then, a helicopter flies in and attempts to gun Batman down. Batman is able to chase the helicopter but fails to capture the people in it, later, Dick Grayson is in the Batcave looking at some of his and Bruce Waynes investigations, being a former and the first Robin. He then realizes that Bruce had gotten rid of everything that had to do with Jason Todd, later, in the Gotham Municipal Court House, lawyers are discussing about Anthony Zucco and Dick Graysons childhood and whether or not they should release him. Then, Dick finds out that Alfred Pennyworth fears for Bruces sanity and he immediately dons the Nightwing costume to find Batman
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Russia
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Russia, also officially the Russian Federation, is a country in Eurasia. The European western part of the country is more populated and urbanised than the eastern. Russias capital Moscow is one of the largest cities in the world, other urban centers include Saint Petersburg, Novosibirsk, Yekaterinburg, Nizhny Novgorod. Extending across the entirety of Northern Asia and much of Eastern Europe, Russia spans eleven time zones and incorporates a range of environments. It shares maritime borders with Japan by the Sea of Okhotsk, the East Slavs emerged as a recognizable group in Europe between the 3rd and 8th centuries AD. Founded and ruled by a Varangian warrior elite and their descendants, in 988 it adopted Orthodox Christianity from the Byzantine Empire, beginning the synthesis of Byzantine and Slavic cultures that defined Russian culture for the next millennium. Rus ultimately disintegrated into a number of states, most of the Rus lands were overrun by the Mongol invasion. The Soviet Union played a role in the Allied victory in World War II. The Soviet era saw some of the most significant technological achievements of the 20th century, including the worlds first human-made satellite and the launching of the first humans in space. By the end of 1990, the Soviet Union had the second largest economy, largest standing military in the world. It is governed as a federal semi-presidential republic, the Russian economy ranks as the twelfth largest by nominal GDP and sixth largest by purchasing power parity in 2015. Russias extensive mineral and energy resources are the largest such reserves in the world, making it one of the producers of oil. The country is one of the five recognized nuclear weapons states and possesses the largest stockpile of weapons of mass destruction, Russia is a great power as well as a regional power and has been characterised as a potential superpower. The name Russia is derived from Rus, a state populated mostly by the East Slavs. However, this name became more prominent in the later history, and the country typically was called by its inhabitants Русская Земля. In order to distinguish this state from other states derived from it, it is denoted as Kievan Rus by modern historiography, an old Latin version of the name Rus was Ruthenia, mostly applied to the western and southern regions of Rus that were adjacent to Catholic Europe. The current name of the country, Россия, comes from the Byzantine Greek designation of the Kievan Rus, the standard way to refer to citizens of Russia is Russians in English and rossiyane in Russian. There are two Russian words which are translated into English as Russians
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Tim Drake
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Timothy Jackson Tim Drake is a fictional superhero appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics, commonly in association with Batman. The character was created by Marv Wolfman and Pat Broderick, following the events in Batman, Battle for the Cowl, he uses the alias Red Robin. The character has featured in various other formats, such as The New Batman Adventures and Young Justice. In 2011, Tim Drake was ranked 32nd in IGNs Top 100 Comic Book Heroes and this led to Grayson and later Alfred Pennyworth, Bruce Waynes butler, to support Tims request to be Batmans new partner. Not wanting to make the mistake as he did with Jason Todd. Eventually, after Tim rescues Batman from Scarecrow, he proves his capability, Batman editor Dennis ONeil hoped that Graysons approval of Drake would ease reader acceptance of him. Evidently, this approach was successful with the character being so accepted by readers that, mike Mullins on Newsarama has stated, Throughout, the character of Robin has been captured consistently, showing him to step up to greater and greater challenges. Robin is a character who shows initiative and is driven to do what he views as right and he knows he is living up to a legacy left by Dick Grayson and strives to not disappoint Bruce Wayne, Batman. Tim is a natural detective than previous Robins and is talented with computers. Unlike his predecessors, Tim is not the most proficient combatant and has had to work on his fighting technique. Tim almost always seeks to analyze a problem and to outthink his opponent but has shown the ability to win a fight when necessary, as Robin, the character has also been featured prominently in the Young Justice and 2003 Teen Titans series. As of June 2009, he took on the new identity of Red Robin, Tim Drake is the son of Jack Drake and Janet Drake, coming from the same social class as Bruce Wayne. When he was a child, he visited the circus for the first time with his parents. The Drakes asked the Flying Graysons for a photo together, resulting in a bond between Tim and Dick Grayson as they met for the first time. Inspired by the heroes, Tim trained himself in arts, acrobatics, detective skills. When Tim reached the age of thirteen, he saw that Batman has grown reckless, after his mothers death and his fathers paralysis, Drake decided to intervene and Batman eventually enlisted him as the third Robin. Before joining Batman as the third Robin, Tim Drake was given a redesign of the Robin costume. When Bruce Wayne retires after Knightfall, Robin goes solo to defend Gotham, Robin would eventually go on to co-star with other teenaged superheroes in Young Justice and Teen Titans
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Huntress (Helena Bertinelli)
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The Huntress, also known as Helena Rosa Bertinelli, is a fictional superhero appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics. Based on the Earth-Two Huntress, she is one of several DC characters to bear the Huntress name and she was also, for a time, one of the versions of Batgirl and was a longtime member of the Birds of Prey. In DC comics New 52 continuity, Helena Bertinelli is a used by Helena Wayne while the real Helena Bertinelli is an agent of the spy organization Spyral. Helena Bertinelli was introduced in her own Huntress series, written by Joey Cavalieri and drawn by Joe Staton, co-creator and long-time artist of the Helena Wayne Huntress. Staton recalled, I think Paul realized that I felt my involvement with Helena had been cut short. I don’t recall how Joey Cavalieri came to be the writer on the Helena Bertinelli version, in the 1989 Huntress series, Helena Bertinelli was born into one of Gotham Citys most prominent Mafia families. In this iteration of the character, she was kidnapped as a child and raped by a mafia don purely to psychologically torture her father. Her parents, Guido and Carmela, send her to a boarding school, after she witnesses the mob-ordered murder of her parents at the age of 19, she crusades to put an end to the Mafia. She travels, accompanied and trained by her bodyguard Sal, before returning to Gotham to make her debut as the Huntress, Huntress origin was revised in 2000 in the six-issue Batman/Huntress, Cry for Blood limited series written by Greg Rucka, art by Rick Burchett and Terry Beatty. The story revolves around Helenas exile from Gotham, ordered by Batman, in an extended retreat with Richard Dragon and Vic Sage, she tries to achieve better emotional balance, returning to Gotham to confront her true father and learn more about her familys murder. She faces a choice between the more ethical woman she is becoming and the earlier Helena, who hears the vengeance call as blood cries for blood. Huntress starred in her own six-issue biweekly Year One miniseries from May to July 2008 by Ivory Madison, the story recounts and expands upon the beginning of Helenas vigilante career. She is in Sicily, days from turning 21 and receiving the inheritance from the murder of her family, which occurred before her eyes when she was eight years old. Learning more about her familys murder, Helena adopts a disguise and weaponry to seek revenge, confronting not only the men who ordered her familys death. In the process, she establishes herself as angrier and more violent than a standard costumed hero, foreshadowing the conflicts with mainstream heroes. She crosses paths with Barbara Gordon, Catwoman, and Batman and she states that her compulsion derives from the moment before her family was murdered, when she believes she could have acted to save them. The story ends with her renouncing the Bertinelli legacy of crime, Batman rarely accepts the Huntress, regarding her as unpredictable and violent. Others in the Batman family feel differently, for instance, Tim Drake has a relationship with her
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King Snake
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King Snake is a fictional character who appears in books published by DC Comics universe, usually as an adversary of Tim Drake and Batman. Created by writer Chuck Dixon and artist Tom Lyle, King Snake first appeared in Robin #2 and he is a master martial artist, and is the father of the villain Bane. Sir Edmund Dorrance, aka King Snake, is a British native who first distinguished himself in the Royal Artillery and he and some friends then became mercenaries, offering their professional expertise to various anti-communist rebels, and made considerable money in doing so. While in Santa Prisca working with local rebels, his camp was taken by surprise by government commandos and he fled the country, leaving for dead a female rebel with whom he had slept. The woman was alive and pregnant with Edmunds son. Both she and her child were imprisoned for Edmunds crimes against the Santa Prisca government, Edmund subsequently moved to Hong Kong and used the money he had acquired to start a double life. Taking on the name King Snake, he found willing soldiers in the Ghost Dragon Chinese youth gang of Macau, Kowloon, although he had a strong power base in Hong Kong, he could not hope to stay when the island was handed over to China. He began extending his interests into France and the United States and his plans to release a Nazi-developed plague after leaving Hong Kong were foiled by Robin. At the time, Tim was working with former DEA agent Clyde Rawlins, the United States had attempted to stop Sir Edmunds expansion into America, to no avail. Edmund had killed Rawlins family in retaliation, and Rawlins himself went rogue in order to pursue King Snake outside the law. Lady Shiva, meanwhile, sought King Snake because he was rumored to be the deadliest male martial artist in the world and they eventually stormed King Snakes skyscraper headquarters and defeated him, though Rawlins died in the attempt and Shiva mostly watched the proceedings. Robin knocked Sir Edmund out a window, and Shiva ordered Robin to kill King Snake while he hung from the building, Robin refused to do so and left, believing Edmund dead. Presumably Shiva either let Edmund fall or else threw him off the ledge of the building to die, King Snake actually landed on a parapet. Shiva examined him, and, satisfied that he had broken his back and was no longer a threat. Not long after, however, he lost power in a war, with his own Ghost Dragons rebelling. King Snake survived and joined the international terrorist cult Kobra and he took advantage of a leadership struggle in that organization, with the previous Lord Naja-Naja disgraced, and Danny Temple was revealed to be the next in line for leadership. Temple was abducted and taken to a lair of the cult. His eyesight restored, Sir Edmund battled against Robin, while Kobra attempted to control of the Kobra cult
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Baseball
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Baseball is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of nine players each, who take turns batting and fielding. A run is scored when a player advances around the bases, Players on the batting team take turns hitting against the pitcher of the fielding team, which tries to prevent runs by getting hitters out in any of several ways. A player on the team who reaches a base safely can later attempt to advance to subsequent bases during teammates turns batting. The teams switch between batting and fielding whenever the team records three outs. One turn batting for both teams, beginning with the team, constitutes an inning. A game is composed of nine innings, and the team with the number of runs at the end of the game wins. Baseball has no clock, although almost all games end in the ninth inning. Baseball evolved from older bat-and-ball games already being played in England by the mid-18th century and this game was brought by immigrants to North America, where the modern version developed. By the late 19th century, baseball was widely recognized as the sport of the United States. Baseball is now popular in North America and parts of Central and South America, the Caribbean, in the United States and Canada, professional Major League Baseball teams are divided into the National League and American League, each with three divisions, East, West, and Central. The major league champion is determined by playoffs that culminate in the World Series, the top level of play is similarly split in Japan between the Central and Pacific Leagues and in Cuba between the West League and East League. The evolution of baseball from older bat-and-ball games is difficult to trace with precision, a French manuscript from 1344 contains an illustration of clerics playing a game, possibly la soule, with similarities to baseball. Other old French games such as thèque, la balle au bâton, consensus once held that todays baseball is a North American development from the older game rounders, popular in Great Britain and Ireland. Baseball Before We Knew It, A Search for the Roots of the Game, by David Block, suggests that the game originated in England, recently uncovered historical evidence supports this position. Block argues that rounders and early baseball were actually regional variants of other. It has long believed that cricket also descended from such games. The earliest known reference to baseball is in a 1744 British publication, A Little Pretty Pocket-Book, David Block discovered that the first recorded game of Bass-Ball took place in 1749 in Surrey, and featured the Prince of Wales as a player. William Bray, an English lawyer, recorded a game of baseball on Easter Monday 1755 in Guildford and this early form of the game was apparently brought to Canada by English immigrants
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Blackgate Penitentiary
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Blackgate Penitentiary is a fictional prison and genetic modification facility depicted in the DC Universe, traditionally located on a small island in the Gotham Bay. Blackgate Prison operated separately from Gotham Prison, according to modern continuity, in the early 1990s, Blackgate Prison was condemned by Amnesty International and forced to shut down. When the prison eventually re-opened, it was known as Blackgate Penitentiary. Because of its location on a secluded island, Blackgate began to take prominence over Gotham State. The Joker, Two-Face, Clayface II, the Ventriloquist, Mr. Zsasz, Firefly, Calendar Man, there are instances where inmates from Arkham Asylum are temporarily moved to Blackgate, like when Bane destroys the original Arkham building in Batman #491. All of the Arkham inmates are incarcerated in Blackgate until the new Arkham structure is built, there is a one-shot about a breakout happening in the prison entitled Batman, Blackgate. The prisoners in the story are Cluemaster, Steeljacket, Ratcatcher, The Trigger Twins, Dragoncat, Gunhawk, Czonka, Actuary, and others. Several of these villains are also featured in the Cataclysm storyline when an earthquake and this allows the majority of the inmates of Blackgate to escape. Towards the end of the storyline, Batman enlists Dick Graysons help in overthrowing Lock-Up so Blackgate could be used for the side once again. In the Batman, The Brave and the Bold episode Night of the Huntress, babyface breaks into Blackgate Prison to free Skeleton Keys, Tweedledum and Tweedledee, Polecat Perkins, and Hammer Toes. Blackgate Penitentiary appears in Beware the Batman and it is mentioned as a prison where patients were submitted to a radical psychiatric procedure to cure criminally insane villains. Inmates include Lunkhead and Margaret Sorrow, later additions include Simon Stagg, Professor Pyg, Mister Toad, Tobias Whale, Phosphorus Rex, Cypher, The Key, and Humpty Dumpty. In Reckoning, Ras al Ghul arrives at Blackgate and frees Pyg, Toad, Magpie, Whale, Rex, in Animal, Batman has himself arrested in order to track down The Key before he could escape. However, both criminals are pursued by the kingpin and most dangerous inmate, Killer Croc. It is presided over by the prison warden Carlson Grey who is good friends with Gillian B. After the Russian mob was defeated, Ian Hargrove is transferred to the recently opened Arkham Asylum, in Wrath of the Villains, Prisoners, James Gordon is incarcerated at Blackgate Penitentiary after Edward Nygma frames him for the murder of Carl Pinkney. A few weeks into his sentence, Warden Grey places Gordon into the prisons F Wing where the way out is either parole or in a body bag. With help from Carmine Falcone and his contacts, Harvey Bullock was able to get James Gordon out of Blackgate Penitentiary
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Batman: No Man's Land
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Batman, No Man’s Land is an American comic book crossover storyline that ran for the whole of 1999 through the Batman comic book titles published by DC Comics. The story architecture for No Mans Land and the outline of all the Batman continuity titles for 1999 were written by cartoonist Jordan B, the lead-up story began with the Cataclysm story arc, which described a major earthquake hitting Gotham City. No Man’s Land covered, in detail, a period in the lives of the residents of the city, explaining all events from the time of isolation, until its time of re-opening and the beginning of rebuilding. The main storyline ran through the monthly Batman titles Detective Comics, Batman, Batman, Shadow of the Bat, and Batman, Legends of the Dark Knight with other spin-offs serving as tie-ins. In all, No Mans Land encompassed 80 regular monthly issues,4 specials, and the Batman, Harley Quinn graphic novel, the storyline is divided into several arcs. A part of the story would continue from one Batman title and then to the next Batman title that would come the following week, much the same format used in the Superman comics for that time. Unlike the Superman comics, where a team is maintained for one monthly title. The core storyline was collected as trade paperbacks in five volumes. However, because of the number of issues that were devoted to No Mans Land. DC has since released a new collection of No Mans Land that includes issues previously uncollected, a novelization of the story line was also written by Greg Rucka and released as hardcover in January 2000. Gotham City suffers the results of a magnitude 7.6 earthquake in the Cataclysm storyline. In response, the U. S government declares Gotham a no mans land, destroys all bridges leading to the island, gangs and various supervillains Batman had battled over the years swiftly carve up the city. The citys polices commissioner, James Gordon, and several members of his department, oracle and Huntress also end up on the inside. Bruce Wayne leaves the city to lobby the government to aid to Gotham. Gordon and his men wait for Batmans return, but he disappears for months, a bitterly disappointed Gordon denounces Batman and refuses even to speak his name. Huntress attempts to order, fashioning a Batgirl costume. She soon discovers that criminals fear her more as Batgirl than they do as Huntress, when Batman returns, he allows her to continue to use the costume. However, when she fails to hold off Two-Face and his army of men and loses Batmans territory, Batman and the police work separately to reclaim Gotham, piece by piece, by battling and subduing the gang leaders and then marking the reclaimed territory with graffiti
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Lock-Up (comics)
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Lock-Up is a DC Comics supervillain and an enemy of Batman. He first appeared in one episode of Batman, The Animated Series and was incorporated into DCs mainstream continuity in Robin #24, before appearing in the comics, Lock-Up appeared in his self-titled episode of Batman, The Animated Series voiced by Bruce Weitz. Lyle Bolton is a large, muscular man specializing in incarceration, when Arkham Asylum was in dire need of a new Head of Security, Bruce Wayne felt Lyle Bolton, a security expert at Wayne Enterprises, was the perfect man for the job. What Bruce and the doctors at Arkham did not know was that Bolton pushed the boundaries of the law and used excessive force to keep his prisoners in line. Bolton proved so malicious that the Scarecrow, the Master of Fear himself, managed an escape from Arkham not to resume his life of fear-based crimes, Bartholomew, chief of medicine at Arkham. Following a blowup at the hearing, where he assaulted several Arkham orderlies and attempted to attack his accusers, Bolton then created a costume and tools, and began to seize the people he deemed to be at the root of Gothams problems. Summer Gleason was his first victim where Batman had his first encounter with Lock-Up, Batman tried to stop Lock-Up, but was repelled. When meeting up with Harvey Bullock, Batman learned from him that Commissioner Gordon and they knew that his next victim is Mayor Hamilton Hill where Harvey had every available police officer put Mayor Hill on heavy guard. Unfortunately, Lock-Up used a smokescreen to make off with Mayor Hill, Lock-Up held his victims hostage aboard USS Halsey F-84, a decommissioned destroyer. The hostages were freed by Robin while Batman defeated Lock-Up, Lock-Up was placed in a cell in Arkham, where he was mocked by the same inmates he once tormented. Bolton wasnt too bothered by this though, because now he could keep a closer eye on his prisoners stating that theyll never slip past me again. Lock-Ups first comic appearance was in Robin #24 in which he captured Charaxes and he subsequently appeared in Detective Comics #694 in which he captured the minor villain Allergent. In both of these stories, he made a brief appearance at the end, removing the villain before Batman. His first full appearance was in Detective Comics #697-699, which began with him capturing Two-Face and taking him to his private prison alongside Charaxes, Allergent, Lock-Up escapes, and captures minor street criminal Alvin Draper. When Nightwing finds his hideout, Lock-Up decides to drown all his prisoners in an underwater death-trap, Batman intervenes and defeats Lock-Up, saving the villains, Nightwing, and Robin. Lock-Up later appeared during the No Mans Land storyline, having control of Blackgate Penitentiary in the aftermath of the earthquake. Towards the end of the storyline, Batman enlists Dick Graysons help in overthrowing Lock-Up so Blackgate could be used for the side once again. More recently, Lock-Up has been affiliated with Ventriloquist II, alongside other Gotham criminals Killer Moth, during this association, Lock-Up was badly wounded by Metropolis outfits Intergang and the 100
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One Year Later
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One Year Later was a 2006 comic book storyline running through the books published by DC Comics. Following the events of the Infinite Crisis storyline, every DC comic series jumped ahead in-story by one year, the events of the missing year were depicted in real time in the weekly comic book series 52. The One Year Later storyline started in March 2006, starting the week that Infinite Crisis #5 went to press. Numerous prominent heroes were missing or inactive for most of the year as the One Year Later issues commenced. Heroes known to have gone for the missing year were Aquaman, Batman, Blue Beetle, Green Arrow, Hawkman, Martian Manhunter, Nightwing, Robin, Superman. The Flash has been missing, but Jay Garrick had been protecting Keystone City in his absence, the Superman storyline Up, Up and Away. was co-written by Geoff Johns and Kurt Busiek, with art by Pete Woods, and cover art by Terry and Rachel Dodson. The four-month, eight-part introductory story arc ran through both Action Comics #837-840 and Superman #650-653, the Batman storyline Face the Face, was written by James Robinson, with art by Leonard Kirk and Don Kramer. It ran through Detective Comics #817-820 and Batman #651-654, the finale also saw Bruce Wayne offer to adopt Tim Drake, the third Robin, as his son following the deaths of his parents and the events of the Crisis. Unlike the Batman and Superman series, Wonder Woman was reintroduced with a new volume at one in June 2006. The introductory storyline was titled Who Is Wonder Woman. and it was written by Allan Heinberg with art by Terry and she is partnered on the case with a reluctant Tom Tresser, also known as Nemesis. The story was completed in the series first Annual in 2007 and they then rejoined the Green Lantern Corps shortly thereafter. A new Aquaman has appeared and allied himself with King Shark, the original Aquaman has mysteriously disappeared. A revised Doom Patrol has debuted, bart Allen becomes the new Flash. Captain Atom has been imprisoned within Blüdhaven by the military, initially, Dick Grayson and Jason Todd both operate in New York City as Nightwing, but Jason uses lethal force. Jason eventually returns to the Red Hood identity, Hawkman has been missing for a year, and Hawkgirl has taken his place as St. Rochs protector. Jason Rusch and Lorraine Reilly now compose Firestorm instead of Jason and Prof. Martin Stein, Lady Shiva and Gypsy have both joined Oracles team in Birds of Prey. Black Canary returns, and Lady Shiva takes Bethany Thorne, daughter of Matthew Thorne, oliver Queen is the mayor of Star City and has not appeared in public as Green Arrow for a year. Cassandra Cain, under the influence of Deathstroke the Terminator, has become the new leader of the League of Assassins, Robin leads the Teen Titans, which now includes Cyborg, Kid Devil, and Ravager
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Infinite Crisis
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The main miniseries debuted in October 2005, and each issue was released with two variant covers, one by Pérez, and one by Jim Lee and Sandra Hope. The series storyline was a sequel to DCs 1985 limited series Crisis on Infinite Earths and it revisited characters and concepts from that earlier Crisis, including the existence of DCs Multiverse. Some of the characters featured were alternate versions of comic icons such as an alternate Superman named Kal-L, Infinite Crisis #1 was ranked first in the top 300 comics for October 2005 with pre-order sales of 249,265. This was almost double the second ranked comic House of M #7 which had sales of 134,429. Infinite Crisis #2 was also the top seller in top 300 comics for November 2005 with pre-order sales of 207,564. DC officially began leading up to the new Crisis with a one-shot issue Countdown to Infinite Crisis, followed by four limited series that tied into. Once the Crisis was completed, DC used the One Year Later event to move the narratives of most of its DC Universe series forward by one year. The weekly series 52 began publication in May 2006, and depicts some of the events occurred between Infinite Crisis and One Year Later. In June 2008, a third and Final Crisis began a run and this Crisis has thus been referred to in DC continuity as the middle Crisis. Infinite Crisis was announced in March 2005, the event was kicked off with the release of Countdown to Infinite Crisis. These first four limited series each had a special tie-in issue, as with many large-scale comic crossovers, Infinite Crisis featured a large number of tie-ins. Before the event was announced, books such as Adam Strange, after Countdown, several books were identified as tie-ins to the four mini-series. Thus, although Infinite Crisis itself is only seven issues long, DC Comics executive editor Dan DiDio stated that Infinite Crisis was being hinted at in various stories for two years prior to its launch, starting with the death of Donna Troy. With Countdown to Infinite Crisis, Infinite Crisis began to visibly affect DCs editorial policy, mark Waid signed an exclusive contract with DC, receiving a similar editorial role. DC replaced its official logo with a new one that debuted on the first issue of DC Special. Kal-L seeks out his cousin, Power Girl, also a survivor of Earth-Two, believing Lois health will improve on her native world, he hopes to replace the current Earth with Earth-Two, which he considers perfect. Kal-L tries to enlist Batmans support, stating that the Post-Crisis Earths inherent bad nature caused Batmans recent mistrust, Batman refuses and tries to use his Kryptonite Ring, but as this is not native to Kal-Ls Universe it fails and is destroyed by heat vision. Afterward, Batman learns Superboy-Prime destroyed the JLA Watchtower, Alexander reveals to Power Girl that he and Superboy-Prime had been leaving their paradise for some time, manipulating events to help create an inter-dimensional tuning fork
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Two-Face
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Two-Face is a fictional supervillain appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics, commonly as an adversary of the superhero Batman. The character was created by Bill Finger and Bob Kane and first appeared in Detective Comics #66, as one of Batmans most enduring enemies, Two-Face belongs to the collective of adversaries that make up his rogues gallery. Once an upstanding Gotham City district attorney, Harvey Dent was hideously scarred on the side of his face after a mob boss threw acidic chemicals at him during a court trial. He was subsequently driven insane and adopted the Two-Face persona, becoming a criminal obsessed with duality, in later years, writers have portrayed Two-Faces obsession with chance and fate as the result of schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, and dissociative identity disorder. He obsessively makes all important decisions by flipping his former lucky charm, the modern version is established as having once been a personal friend and ally of James Gordon and Batman. Two-Face was ranked #12 on IGNs list of the Top 100 Comic Book Villains of All Time, in the Batman film series, Billy Dee Williams portrayed Harvey Dent in Batman, and Tommy Lee Jones portrayed Two-Face in Batman Forever. Nicholas DAgosto currently portrays Harvey Dent on the live-action TV series Gotham, Two-Face first appears in Detective Comics #66 with the name Harvey Apollo Kent, later stories changed his name to Harvey Dent to avoid an association with Superman. The character only made three appearances in the 1940s, and appeared twice in the 1950s. By this time, he was dropped in favor of more kid friendly villains, though he did appear in a 1968 issue, in 1971, writer Dennis ONeil brought Two-Face back, and it was then that he became one of Batmans arch-enemies. In his autobiography, Batman creator Bob Kane claims to have inspired by Robert Louis Stevensons Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde. Some inspiration was derived from the Pulp magazine character the Black Bat whose origin story included having acid splashed on his face. In the wake of Frank Millers 1986 revision of Batmans origin and it was also established, in Batman, Year One, that pre-accident Harvey Dent was one of Batmans earliest allies. He had clear ties to both Batman and Commissioner Gordon, making him an unsettling and personal foe for both men, Harvey Dents origin relates that he went through much hardship during his childhood. Growing up under the parentage of an abusive and mentally-ill father, Harvey Dent started developing repressed mental illnesses of his own, such as bipolar disorder and schizophrenia. His hard work ethic, however, later allowed him to rise as the youngest district attorney to serve Gotham City, nicknamed Apollo for his looks and clean-cut image. He is elected about six months before Batman takes his role as a masked vigilante, Dent forges an alliance with police captain James Gordon and Batman to rid Gotham of crime boss Sal Maroni, and Carmine Falcone, with the former murdered by the latters son. Gordon also speculated that Dent might have been Batman, but dismissed this theory on grounds that Dent lacked Batmans financial resources, Falcone hires the corrupt Assistant District Attorney Vernon Fields to provide Sal Maroni with sulfuric acid to disfigure Dent with. Two-Face gets his trademark coin from his father that would employ the coin in a nightly game that always ended with a beating
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Great White Shark (comics)
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The Great White Shark or simply Great White, formerly Warren White, is a fictional comic book supervillain owned by DC Comics who exists in that companys DC Universe. Great White Shark first appeared in Arkham Asylum, Living Hell #1 and was created by Dan Slott, but the plea incenses the judge hearing his case, who is disgusted with White. Realizing that White might have set up a trap for himself by pleading insanity. There, he suffers great indignities as the new inmate, or fish and his first cellmate is Death Rattle, a cult leader and mass murderer who plans to turn him into a human sacrifice. Early in his stay, Killer Croc slices a set of gills into Whites neck with his claws, realizing his mistake in pleading insanity, White bribes his psychiatrist, Dr. Anne Carver, into having him transferred to a minimum security prison. However, Carver is revealed to have killed and replaced by Jane Doe some months before. Her boss, Dr. Jeremiah Arkham — who lost his pension due to Whites business practices — orders all of Whites transfer papers destroyed. Arkham calls White the worst person Ive ever met, a sentiment shared by several including the Joker. To survive the harassment and violence in Arkham, White allies himself with Two-Face, the relationship quickly ends, however, when Death Rattle threatens the pair, Two-Faces coin flip leads him to abandon White. White then befriends Humpty Dumpty, a murderer and savant. During a prison riot, White is assaulted and locked in Mr. Freezes subzero cell by Jane Doe, who was attempting to claim his identity and leave him for dead as she had done with Dr. Carver. His injuries, the result of frostbite, leave White deformed, his skin turns a pale white. Ironically, White, who was perfectly sane upon entering Arkham, is transformed into one of the freaks of Batmans rogues gallery, White now uses his business connections to serve as a liaison and fence for many of his fellow inmates. White next appears in the storyline Batman, Face the Face, in the storyline, in which Batman and Robin disappeared for a year, the Great White Shark had established himself as Gothams reigning crime boss. He most recently appeared in Detective Comics #832, when Batman apprehends another villain who calls himself the Shark, when the Shark is sent to Arkham, the Great White Shark apparently plans to punish him for using the name that White had claimed for himself. After the defeat of newly resurrected Ras Al Ghul, Warren White makes a appearance in the final strip. He is shown controlling the entire Arkham Asylum, the Arkham Asylum guards. After the apparent death of the original Batman, Warren White was one of the criminals who was being transferred from Arkham to a secure place
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Zombie
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A zombie is a fictional undead being created through the reanimation of a human corpse. Zombies are most commonly found in horror and fantasy genre works, the term comes from Haitian folklore, where a zombie is a dead body reanimated through various methods, most commonly magic. Modern depictions of zombies do not necessarily involve magic but often invoke science fictional methods such as carriers, radiation, mental diseases, vectors, viruses, scientific accidents, etc. The English word zombie is first recorded in 1819, in a history of Brazil by the poet Robert Southey, the Oxford English Dictionary gives the origin of the word as West African, and compares it to the Kongo words nzambi and zumbi. One of the first books to expose Western culture to the concept of the zombie was The Magic Island by W. B. This is the account of a narrator who encounters voodoo cults in Haiti. Time claimed that the book introduced zombi into U. S. speech, Zombies have a complex literary heritage, with antecedents ranging from Richard Matheson and H. P. Lovecraft to Mary Shelleys Frankenstein drawing on European folklore of the undead. In 1932, Victor Halperin directed White Zombie, a film starring Bela Lugosi. Here zombies are depicted as mindless, unthinking henchmen under the spell of an evil magician, a new version of the zombie, distinct from that described in Haitian folklore, has also emerged in popular culture during the latter half of the twentieth century. This zombie is taken largely from George A. Romeros seminal film Night of the Living Dead, the word zombie is not used in Night of the Living Dead but was applied later by fans. The zombie apocalypse concept, in which the world is brought low by a global zombie infestation. The Oxford English Dictionary gives the origin of the word as West African, in Haitian folklore, a zombie is an animated corpse raised by magical means, such as witchcraft. The concept has been associated with the religion of voodoo. How the creatures in contemporary zombie films came to be called zombies is not fully clear, the film Night of the Living Dead made no spoken reference to its undead antagonists as zombies, describing them instead as ghouls. Although George Romero used the term ghoul in his original scripts, the word zombie is used exclusively by Romero in his 1978 script for his sequel Dawn of the Dead, including once in dialog. According to George Romero, film critics were influential in associating the term zombie to his creatures and he eventually accepted this linkage even though he remained convinced at the time that zombies corresponded to the undead slaves of Haitian voodoo as depicted in Bela Lugosis White Zombie. Zombies are featured widely in Haitian rural folklore as dead persons physically revived by the act of necromancy of a bokor, the bokor is opposed by the houngan or priest and the mambo or priestess of the formal voodoo religion. A zombie remains under the control of the bokor as a personal slave, the Haitian tradition also includes an incorporeal type of zombie, the zombie astral, which is a part of the human soul
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Life support
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Life support refers to the treatments and techniques performed in an emergency in order to support life after the failure of one or more vital organs. In the case of injuries, cardiopulmonary resuscitation is initiated by bystanders or family members 25% of the time. Basic life support techniques, such as performing CPR on a victim of cardiac arrest, the purpose of basic life support is to save lives in a variety of different situations that require immediate attention. The most common emergency that requires BLS is cerebral hypoxia, a shortage of oxygen to the due to heart or respiratory failure. A victim of cerebral hypoxia may die within 8–10 minutes without basic life support procedures, BLS is the lowest level of emergency care, followed by advanced life support and critical care. As technology continues to advance within the field, so do the options available for healthcare. Out of respect for the autonomy, patients and their families are able to make their own decisions about life-sustaining treatment or whether to hasten death. When patients and their families are forced to make decisions concerning life support as a form of end-of-life or emergency treatment, when a patient is terminally ill or seriously injured, medical interventions can save or prolong the life of the patient. Because such treatment is available, families are faced with the moral question of whether or not to treat the patient. Much of the concerns the ethics of letting someone die when they can be kept alive versus keeping someone alive. Between 60 and 70% of seriously ill patients will not be able to decide for themselves whether or not they want to limit treatments and this leaves these difficult decisions up to loved ones and family members. Patients and family members who wish to limit the treatment provided to the patient may complete a do not resuscitate or do not intubate order with their doctor and these orders state that the patient does not wish to receive these forms of life support. Another type of support that presents ethical arguments is the placement of a feeding tube. Decisions about hydration and nutrition are generally the most ethically challenging when it comes to end-of-life care, in 1990, the US Supreme Court ruled that artificial nutrition and hydration are not different from other life-supporting treatments. Because of this, artificial nutrition and hydration can be refused by a patient or their family. A person cannot live without food and water, and because of this, it has argued that withholding food. This type of death is referred to as passive euthanasia. In addition to patients and their families, doctors also are confronted with ethical questions, in addition to patient life, doctors have to consider medical resource allocations
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Blackest Night
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Blackest Night involves Nekron, a personified force of death who reanimates deceased superheroes and seeks to eliminate all life and emotion from the universe. Geoff Johns has identified the central theme as emotion. The crossover was published for eight months as a limited series, various other limited series and tie-ins, including an audio drama from Darker Projects, were published. The storyline was first mentioned at the conclusion of the Sinestro Corps War in Green Lantern vol, both Geoff Johns and Ethan Van Sciver said that Blackest Night is the third part of a Green Lantern event trilogy that began with Rebirth and continued with Sinestro Corps War. In a December 2007 interview with IGN, Johns stated that he has the monthly Green Lantern book plotted up until issue #55, more details for the event were revealed in DC Universe #0, which depicted Black Hand discovering the black power battery on the planet of Ryut. Blackest Night #0 was released on May 2,2009 —Free Comic Book Day—and portrays a series of events leading into Blackest Night #1. The standalone, self-titled miniseries consists of Blackest Night #0 and eight monthly issues, Ethan Van Sciver had planned to work on the opening book, but because of his work on The Flash, Rebirth miniseries he was not able to complete both effectively. Van Sciver and Ivan Reis created many of the designs for this storyline, Green Lanterns Ash and Saarek find the Black Central Power Battery at a reportedly classified location within Sector 666. After touching the battery, Saarek reports that their presence has awoken something, the two are killed when two monstrous hands emerge from below them as the battery calls flesh. In Green Lantern Corps, a field of asteroids in a region of space is depicted with the colors of the spectrum in the background. The asteroids, which are apparently the remains of the planet Xanshi, are shattered, in Gotham City, Black Hand removes Bruce Waynes skull from his grave and carries it with him, and a Black Lantern power battery begins to charge. The Guardians of Oa observe the War of Light and realize that Ganthet and Sayd are correct but are kept from intervening by Scar, thousands of black rings assault the Corps crypt, creating a Black Lantern Corps. Hal Jordan and the newly revived Flash investigate Bruce Waynes grave and are attacked by Black Lantern Martian Manhunter, on Oa, the Green Lanterns are met by all of the resurrected Lanterns, now reborn as Black Lanterns. Hawkgirl and Hawkman are killed by Black Lanterns Elongated Man and Sue Dibny, Aquaman and his Black Lantern family attack Mera, who flees. A black ring strikes the Spectre, binding the spirit Aztar, the black rings are unable to revive dead characters who are at peace, such as former Dove Don Hall, even as his partner Hawk and his brother Hank rise. In Gotham, Hal Jordan and Barry Allen are confronted by several Black Lanterns, Hal, the Atom and Flash battle the Black Lanterns when the Indigo Tribe appear and use their Indigo power with other rings to obliterate the Black Dibnys. Mera finds the new Firestorm and Gehenna, who merge to create a new Firestorm, Indigo says that the Lantern Corps must unite to defeat the Black one. The Indigo Tribe depart with Hal and leave the heroes to fight the invading Black Lanterns
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DC Rebirth
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The New 52 was the 2011 revamp and relaunch by DC Comics of its entire line of ongoing monthly superhero comic books. Following the conclusion of the Flashpoint crossover storyline, DC cancelled all of its existing titles, among the renumbered series were Action Comics and Detective Comics, which had retained their original numbering since the 1930s. The relaunch included changes to the format, for example, print. New titles were released to bring the number of ongoing monthly series to fifty-two, various changes were also made to DCs fictional universe to entice new readers, including to DCs internal continuity to make characters more modern and accessible. In addition, characters from the Wildstorm and Vertigo imprints were absorbed into the DC Universe, the New 52 branding ended after the completion of the Convergence storyline in May 2015, although the continuity of The New 52 continued. In June 2015,24 new titles were launched, alongside 25 returning titles, in February 2016, DC announced their Rebirth initiative with the release of an 80-page one-shot on May 25,2016, and continuing through late 2016. Following the conclusion of the Flashpoint limited series, all set in the DC Universe were cancelled and relaunched with new #1 issues. The new continuity features new outfits and backstories for many of DCs long established heroes, while many characters underwent a reboot or revamp, much of the DC Universes history remained intact. DC editorial has also constructed a timeline that details the new history, on August 31,2011, Midtown Comics Times Square held a midnight event at which they began selling Justice League #1 and Flashpoint #5. On hand to sign the books were DC Chief Creative Officer Geoff Johns, the new titles were dubbed the Second Wave, Dial H, Earth 2, G. I. On June 8,2012, DC announced that in September 2012, in addition, the Third Wave of titles was announced, Talon, Sword of Sorcery, Phantom Stranger, and Team 7. With these additions to the line, Justice League International, Captain Atom, Resurrection Man, in October and November 2012, DC announced new titles Threshold, Justice League of America, Katana, Justice League of Americas Vibe, and Constantine. Threshold would be published in January 2013, Constantine in March 2013, DC later consolidated these new titles as the Fourth Wave of The New 52. Grifter, Blue Beetle, and Legion Lost were cancelled as a result, young Romance, A New 52 Valentines Day Special #1 was published as the 52nd title in February 2013. In January 2013, DC Comics announced the cancellation of I, Vampire, to celebrate the 60th birthday of Mad Magazine mascot Alfred E. Neuman, DC solicited variants drawn by Mad artists for 13 titles being published in April 2013. Starting with titles released on January 28,2013, all printed New 52 publications featured advertisements for fictional news channel, Channel 52. The two page back-ups, titled Channel 52, appear in all books, starting in February 2013 and this news feature stars Bethany Snow, Ambush Bug, Vartox, and Calendar Man as reporters and anchors on the fictional in-universe news show. The art is provided by Freddie E. Williams II, each week brings new content regarding the current or future goings-on in the DC universe
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Washington, D.C.
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Washington, D. C. formally the District of Columbia and commonly referred to as Washington, the District, or simply D. C. is the capital of the United States. The signing of the Residence Act on July 16,1790, Constitution provided for a federal district under the exclusive jurisdiction of the Congress and the District is therefore not a part of any state. The states of Maryland and Virginia each donated land to form the federal district, named in honor of President George Washington, the City of Washington was founded in 1791 to serve as the new national capital. In 1846, Congress returned the land ceded by Virginia, in 1871. Washington had an population of 681,170 as of July 2016. Commuters from the surrounding Maryland and Virginia suburbs raise the population to more than one million during the workweek. The Washington metropolitan area, of which the District is a part, has a population of over 6 million, the centers of all three branches of the federal government of the United States are in the District, including the Congress, President, and Supreme Court. Washington is home to national monuments and museums, which are primarily situated on or around the National Mall. The city hosts 176 foreign embassies as well as the headquarters of international organizations, trade unions, non-profit organizations, lobbying groups. A locally elected mayor and a 13‑member council have governed the District since 1973, However, the Congress maintains supreme authority over the city and may overturn local laws. D. C. residents elect a non-voting, at-large congressional delegate to the House of Representatives, the District receives three electoral votes in presidential elections as permitted by the Twenty-third Amendment to the United States Constitution, ratified in 1961. Various tribes of the Algonquian-speaking Piscataway people inhabited the lands around the Potomac River when Europeans first visited the area in the early 17th century, One group known as the Nacotchtank maintained settlements around the Anacostia River within the present-day District of Columbia. Conflicts with European colonists and neighboring tribes forced the relocation of the Piscataway people, some of whom established a new settlement in 1699 near Point of Rocks, Maryland. 43, published January 23,1788, James Madison argued that the new government would need authority over a national capital to provide for its own maintenance. Five years earlier, a band of unpaid soldiers besieged Congress while its members were meeting in Philadelphia, known as the Pennsylvania Mutiny of 1783, the event emphasized the need for the national government not to rely on any state for its own security. However, the Constitution does not specify a location for the capital, on July 9,1790, Congress passed the Residence Act, which approved the creation of a national capital on the Potomac River. The exact location was to be selected by President George Washington, formed from land donated by the states of Maryland and Virginia, the initial shape of the federal district was a square measuring 10 miles on each side, totaling 100 square miles. Two pre-existing settlements were included in the territory, the port of Georgetown, Maryland, founded in 1751, many of the stones are still standing
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Flashpoint (comics)
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Flashpoint is a 2011 comic book crossover story arc published by DC Comics. Consisting of an eponymous limited series and a number of tie-in titles. The core miniseries was written by Geoff Johns and pencilled by Andy Kubert, in its end, the series radically changes the status quo for the DC Universe leading into the publishers 2011 relaunch, the New 52. In addition, a Thomas Wayne version of Batman, whose son Bruce Wayne is dead instead of him and his wife Martha, spends his days running Wayne Casinos in order to help fund his vigilante activity. Consisting of a 61 issue run, the series crossed over with Booster Gold, sixteen separate three-issue miniseries, DC announced that Flash #12 would be the last in the series, a thirteenth issue had been announced for sale on May 25,2011, but was withdrawn. The storyline is adapted in the film Justice League, The Flashpoint Paradox as well as in the third season of the CW network television series The Flash. Barry Allen wakes up to everything and everyone around him has changed. He is not Flash nor does he have powers, his mother Nora is alive, his father, Henry, Captain Cold is Central Citys greatest hero, the Justice League is never established, and even Superman is seemingly nonexistent. In Gotham City, Batman throws a criminal off a building, the heroes cannot cooperate to find a solution, and the meeting is ended. Barry Allen drives to the Batcave, where Batman attacks him, Batman is revealed to be Thomas Wayne—in this timeline his son, Bruce, has died instead of his wife and him. In the flooded remains of Paris, Deathstroke captains a ship in search of his daughter. Emperor Aquaman appears and stabs Deathstroke in the chest and attacks Deathstrokes crew, sonar is able to remove a piece of the trident from Deathstrokes chest and heal him. At Wayne Manor, Barry tries to explain to Thomas about his identity as the Flash. Barrys memory begins to spontaneously realign itself to the timeline and Barry realizes that the world of Flashpoint is not a parallel dimension. Barrys ring ejects Eobard Thawnes Reverse-Flash costume and causes Barry to believe that his enemy is responsible for changing history. Barry decides to recreate the accident that gave him his powers in a bid to undo the damage caused by Thawne, in London, Steve Trevor is waiting at a rendezvous for Lois Lane but is attacked by Wonder Woman and the Amazons. Wonder Woman catches him by the neck with her Lasso of Truth and he explains that he was hired to extract Lane from New Themyscira because she was sent to gather information on the Amazons for Cyborg. The U. S. president informs Cyborg that Steve Trevor sent a signal to the Resistance but was intercepted because of a traitor among the heroes that Cyborg tried to recruit, Cyborg is relieved of duty as Element Woman sneaks into the headquarters
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Legion of Doom
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The Legion of Doom is a group of supervillains that originated in Challenge of the Super Friends, an animated series from Hanna-Barbera based on DC Comics Justice League. The Legion of Doom has since incorporated into the main DC Universe, appearing in comics, as well as further animated. In some episodes, they would escape capture through an escape plan often contrived by Luthor. Other times, the Legion of Doom would end up apprehended, the episode History of Doom showed that Lex Luthor assembled 12 supervillains in order to form the most powerful and sinister group the world has ever seen. When the Challenge of the Super Friends season was conceived, it was named Battle of the Superheroes. The group that challenged the heroes was to be called the League of Evil, early conceptual art drawn by Alex Toth also included Heat Wave, Poison Ivy, and Abra Kadabra. The Legion of Dooms headquarters was the Hall of Doom that was located in Slaughter Swamp, the facility, which has a close resemblance to Darth Vaders helmet, could be lowered or raised above the swamp waters surface. It could fly or enter space using rockets, the Hall of Dooms mobility could be controlled through remote control helping the Legion to escape on several occasions. Its defenses included laser weapons and the ability to time travel, in History of Doom, the Hall is shown being constructed in a barn just after the Legion formed. Black Manta proposed that they have it in the ocean, Captain Cold proposes to have underneath the ice caps. As a compromise, Lex Luthor decides to have it within the waters of Slaughter Swamp as it is flown to that location. In certain versions in the history, Bizarro is native to Earth. He later emigrated to Bizarro World which Superman created for him, the episode Super Friends, Rest In Peace makes a reference to a former unseen member of the Legion of Doom, the only time such a reference has been made. They anticipated that the Legion of Doom would throw away the crystal when they no longer needed it, the crystal was retrieved by Apache Chief in a hazmat suit and launched into deep space. It was not explained what happened to Doctor Natas, prior to the first televised appearance of the Legion of Doom, a group called the Super Foes appeared in the first issue of the Super Friends comic book. While Challenge of the Super Friends was the series spotlighting the Legion of Doom, the Krypton Syndrome, After Superman saves Krypton in the past, he returns to an alternate present. Robin mentions that the Super Friends were defeated by the Legion of Doom, like in Super Friends, Rest in Peace, the Super Friends used androids to trick Giganta and Gorilla Grodd into thinking they were destroyed. The Revenge of Doom, All 13 members of the Legion of Doom appear after getting back together, in this appearance, they salvaged the Hall of Doom disguised as construction workers with the cover-up that they were going to turn it into a museum
