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Detective Comics
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Detective Comics is the title of an American comic book series published by DC Comics. The first volume, published from 1937 to 2011, is best known for introducing the superhero Batman in Detective Comics #27, a second series of the same title was launched in the fall of 2011 but in 2016 reverted to the original volume numbering. The series is the source of its companys name, and — along with Action Comics. The series published 881 issues between 1937 and 2011 and is the longest continuously published comic book in the United States. His second effort, New Comics #1, would be retitled twice to become Adventure Comics, another series that ran for decades until issue #503 in 1983. Wheeler-Nicholson was forced out a year later and its first editor, Vin Sullivan, also drew the debut issues cover. The Crimson Avenger debuted in issue #20, Detective Comics #27 featured the first appearance of Batman. That superhero would eventually become the star of the title, the logo of which is often written as Detective Comics featuring Batman. Because of its significance, issue #27 is widely considered one of the most valuable books in existence. Batmans origin is first revealed in a story in issue #33. Batman became the cover feature of the title beginning with issue #35. Issue #38 introduced Batmans sidekick Robin, billed as The Sensational Character Find of 1940 on the cover and the first of several characters that would make up the Batman Family. Several of Batmans best known villains debuted in the pages of Detective Comics during this era including the Penguin in issue #58, Two-Face in issue #66, a female was chosen first, to offset the charges made by Fredric Wertham that Batman and Robin were homosexual. Writer Bill Finger and artist Sheldon Moldoff introduced Bat-Mite in issue #267, in 1964, Julius Schwartz was made responsible for reviving the faded Batman titles. Schwartz, Gardner Fox, and Infantino introduced Barbara Gordon as a new version of Batgirl in a story titled The Million Dollar Debut of Batgirl. in issue #359, Mike Friedrich wrote the 30th anniversary Batman story in Detective Comics #387 which was drawn by Bob Brown. Writer Dennis ONeil and artist Neal Adams had their first collaboration on Batman on the story The Secret of the Waiting Graves in issue #395, Adams introduced Man-Bat with writer Frank Robbins in Detective Comics #400. ONeil and artist Bob Brown crafted Batmans first encounter with the League of Assassins in Detective Comics #405, after publishing on a monthly schedule throughout its run, Detective Comics became a bi-monthly book from issues #435 to #445. Issues #438 to #445 of the series were in the 100 Page Super Spectacular format, ONeil and artist Dick Giordano created the Batman supporting character Leslie Thompkins in the story There Is No Hope in Crime Alley appearing in issue #457
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Joe Shuster
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Joseph Joe Shuster was a Canadian-American comic book artist best known for co-creating the DC Comics character Superman, with writer Jerry Siegel, in Action Comics #1. Shuster was involved in a number of battles over ownership of the Superman character. His comic book career after Superman was relatively unsuccessful, and by the mid-1970s Shuster had left the field due to partial blindness. He and Siegel were inducted into both the book industrys Will Eisner Comic Book Hall of Fame in 1992 and the Jack Kirby Hall of Fame in 1993. In 2005, the Canadian Comic Book Creator Awards Association instituted the Joe Shuster Awards, joseph Shuster was born in Toronto, to a Jewish family. His father, Julius Shuster, an immigrant from Rotterdam, had a shop in Torontos garment district. His mother, Ida, had come from Kiev in Ukraine and his family, including his sister, Jean, lived on Bathurst, Oxford, and Borden Streets, and Shuster attended Ryerson and Lansdowne Public Schools. One cousin is comedian Frank Shuster of the Canadian comedy team Wayne, as a youngster, Shuster worked as a newspaper boy for the Toronto Daily Star. The family barely made ends meet, and the young artist would scrounge for paper. He recalled in 1992, I would go from store to store in Toronto, one day, I was lucky enough to find a bunch of wallpaper rolls that were unused and left over from some job. So it was a goldmine for me, and I went home with every roll I could carry, I kept using that wallpaper for a long time. Sometime in 1924, when Shuster was 9 or 10, his family moved to Cleveland, there Shuster attended Glenville High School and befriended his later collaborator, writer Jerry Siegel, with whom he began publishing a science fiction fanzine called Science Fiction. Siegel described his friendship with the shy and bespectacled Shuster, When Joe and I first met. And DC approved them, just like that, but DC did say, We like your ideas, we like your scripts and we like your drawings. But please, copy over the stories in pen and ink on good paper. So I got my mother and father to me the money to go out and buy some decent paper. The character was not successful, and Siegel eventually devised the more familiar version of the character, lois Lane was modelled on Joanne Carter, who later became Siegels wife. Siegel and Shuster then began a six-year quest to find a publisher, titling it The Superman, Siegel and Shuster offered it to Consolidated Book Publishing, who had published a 48-page black-and-white comic book entitled Detective Dan, Secret Operative No.48
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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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Malcolm Wheeler-Nicholson
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He was a 2008 Judges Choice inductee into the Will Eisner Comic Book Hall of Fame. Malcolm Wheeler-Nicholson was born in Greeneville, Tennessee and his father, whose surname was Strain, died in 1894, after the birth of his second son, Malcolms brother Christopher. Another sibling, a sister, died in 1894, when Malcolm was four and their mother, Antoinette Wheeler, afterward moved to New York City, became a journalist, and later joined a start-up womens magazine in Portland, Oregon. By this time she had changed her last name to Straham, a variant of Strain, nicholson, who would become the boys stepfather, reverted to her maiden name and appended her new married name. The brothers were raised in an iconoclastic, intellectual household where his family entertained such guests as Theodore Roosevelt, Wheeler-Nicholson spent his boyhood both in Portland and on a horse ranch in Washington State. Raised riding horses, he went on to attend the military academy The Manlius School in DeWitt, New York, and in 1917 joined the U. S. Cavalry as a second-lieutenant. According to differing sources, he rose to become either the youngest major in the Army and his Cavalry unit was among those under John J. Pershings command that in 1916 hunted the Mexican revolutionary Pancho Villa. The following year, he served under Pershing fighting the Muslim Moros in the Philippines, subsequent outposts included Japan, London, England, and Germany. After World War I, Wheeler-Nicholson was sent to study at Saint-Cyr in Paris, as well, a shooting that his family called an Army-sanctioned assassination attempt left Wheeler-Nicholson hospitalized with a bullet wound. Following this, Wheeler-Nicholson in June 1922 was convicted in a trial of violating the 96th Article of War in publishing the open letter. Although he was not demoted, his career was dead-ended and he resigned his commission in 1923. His $100,000 lawsuit against Sladen was dismissed by the New York State Supreme Court the following year, the major soon became a cover name, penning military and historical adventure fiction for such magazines as Adventure and Argosy. He additionally ghost wrote six adventure novels about air hero Bill Barnes for Street & Smith Publications, in autumn 1934, having seen the emergence of Famous Funnies and other oversize magazines reprinting comic strips, Wheeler-Nicholson formed the comics publishing company National Allied Publications. Of reprints of old material, Wheeler-Nicholson found that the rights to all the popular strips. As author Nicky Wright wrote, It was at this point Wheeler-Nicholson made history and he produced a comic appropriately titled New Fun, The Big Comic Magazine, so-called because it was larger than the other comics, measuring 10 by 15 inches. Not only was the different, so were the strips. They were all original, featuring all new characters specially drawn for New Fun, besides original strips, New Fun was the first comic to carry advertising. A tabloid-sized, 10-inch by 15-inch, 36-page magazine with a card-stock, non-glossy cover, New Fun #1 was an anthology of humor and adventure strips, many of which wrote himself
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Jerry Siegel
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He was inducted into the comic book industrys Will Eisner Comic Book Hall of Fame in 1992 and the Jack Kirby Hall of Fame in 1993. Siegel was born in Cleveland, Ohio, the youngest of six children of Jewish immigrants from the Russian Empire and he was preceded by sisters Minerva and Roslyn, both in Lithuania, brothers Harry and Leo, and sister Isabel. His father was a painter who opened a haberdashery and encouraged his sons artistic inclinations. Mitchell died of an attack brought on by the robbery of his store. Siegel was a fan of movies, comic strips, and especially science fiction pulp magazines and he became active in what would become known as fandom, corresponding with other science fiction fans, including the young future author Jack Williamson. In 1929, Siegel published what might have been the first SF fanzine, Cosmic Stories and he published several other booklets over the next few years. Siegel attended Glenville High School in Cleveland, Ohio and worked for its student newspaper. He was a shy, not particularly popular student, but he achieved a bit of fame among his peers for his popular Tarzan parody, at about age 16, while at Glenville, he befriended his later collaborator, Joe Shuster. Siegel described his friendship with the shy and bespectacled Shuster, When Joe and I first met. Siegel and Shuster created a bald telepathic villain referred to as the Superman and he appeared in the short story The Reign of the Superman from Science Fiction #3, a science fiction fanzine that Siegel published in 1933. Tossing and turning in bed one night in 1934, he thought of the familiar character by that name. Siegel and Shuster then began a four-year quest to find a publisher, titling it The Superman, Siegel and Shuster offered it to Consolidated Book Publishing, who had published a 48-page black-and-white comic book entitled Detective Dan, Secret Operative No.48. Although the duo received a letter, Consolidated never again published comic books. Shuster took this to heart and burned all pages of the story, Siegel and Shuster each compared this character to Slam Bradley, an adventurer the pair had created for Detective Comics #1. The following year, Siegel & Shuster initiated the syndicated Superman comic strip, Siegel also created the ghostly avenger The Spectre during this same period. As part of the deal which saw Superman published in Action Comics, Siegel and Shuster sold the rights to the company in return for $130, Siegel and Shusters status as children of Jewish immigrants is also thought to have influenced their work. One scholar has argued that they crafted an immigrant figure whose desire was to fit into American culture as an American, in 1946, Siegel and Shuster, nearing the end of their 10-year contract to produce Superman stories, sued National over rights to the characters. In 1947, the team had rejoined editor Sullivan, by now the founder and publisher of the comic-book company Magazine Enterprises, when he sued DC over the Superman rights again in 1967, his relationship with the hero he had co-created was again severed
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Human
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Modern humans are the only extant members of Hominina tribe, a branch of the tribe Hominini belonging to the family of great apes. Several of these hominins used fire, occupied much of Eurasia and they began to exhibit evidence of behavioral modernity around 50,000 years ago. In several waves of migration, anatomically modern humans ventured out of Africa, the spread of humans and their large and increasing population has had a profound impact on large areas of the environment and millions of native species worldwide. Humans are uniquely adept at utilizing systems of communication for self-expression and the exchange of ideas. Humans create complex structures composed of many cooperating and competing groups, from families. Social interactions between humans have established a wide variety of values, social norms, and rituals. These human societies subsequently expanded in size, establishing various forms of government, religion, today the global human population is estimated by the United Nations to be near 7.5 billion. In common usage, the word generally refers to the only extant species of the genus Homo—anatomically and behaviorally modern Homo sapiens. In scientific terms, the meanings of hominid and hominin have changed during the recent decades with advances in the discovery, there is also a distinction between anatomically modern humans and Archaic Homo sapiens, the earliest fossil members of the species. The English adjective human is a Middle English loanword from Old French humain, ultimately from Latin hūmānus, the words use as a noun dates to the 16th century. The native English term man can refer to the species generally, the species binomial Homo sapiens was coined by Carl Linnaeus in his 18th century work Systema Naturae. The generic name Homo is a learned 18th century derivation from Latin homō man, the species-name sapiens means wise or sapient. Note that the Latin word homo refers to humans of either gender, the genus Homo evolved and diverged from other hominins in Africa, after the human clade split from the chimpanzee lineage of the hominids branch of the primates. The closest living relatives of humans are chimpanzees and gorillas, with the sequencing of both the human and chimpanzee genome, current estimates of similarity between human and chimpanzee DNA sequences range between 95% and 99%. The gibbons and orangutans were the first groups to split from the leading to the humans. The splitting date between human and chimpanzee lineages is placed around 4–8 million years ago during the late Miocene epoch, during this split, chromosome 2 was formed from two other chromosomes, leaving humans with only 23 pairs of chromosomes, compared to 24 for the other apes. There is little evidence for the divergence of the gorilla, chimpanzee. Each of these species has been argued to be an ancestor of later hominins
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Gotham City Police Department
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The Gotham City Police Department is a fictional police department servicing Gotham City, as depicted in comic books published by DC Comics, in particular those tied into the Batman books. The strongest blow against police corruption came when an increasing amount of charges against Commissioner Gillian B. Loeb forced him to resign his position. The Falcone crime family, which has had a stranglehold on Gothams underground for generations, after the death of Carmine Falcone, the mob lashed out in sloppy, retaliatory crimes which, in combination with rising gang violence, severely crippled organized crime in Gotham City. Simultaneously, the presence of corrupt police officers allowed James Gordon to become the new commissioner. The GCPD has had a long relationship with the citys vigilante known as Batman. Commissioner Gordon went along with him because Batman got the job done and his successor, Commissioner Michael Akins ordered the arrest of Batman and had the Bat-signal removed from the roof of Gotham Central. Corruption and rot within the department also rose during Akins tenure as Commissioner. As of DCs One Year Later, James Gordon has been reinstated as Commissioner, Harvey came back on disciplinary probation after helping expose a criminal drug ring. Relations with Batman, including the Bat-Signal, have been established once more, other characters from Gotham Central have appeared in the recent Tales of the Unexpected miniseries, featuring Crispus Allen as the Spectre. Thus far, Detective Driver has appeared in a speaking role, kate Kane referred to Akins as police commissioner in the weekly 52 series, which reveals the events of the missing year. A later issue, however, showed a brief snapshot of Commissioner Gordons welcome back party, the circumstances of Akinss departure and Gordons reinstatement have yet to be explained. Maggie Sawyer is still the commander of the MCU department, and has ended her relationship with former lover Toby Raines, homicide Division, The division that handles murders and some of the more serious non-metahuman crimes in Gotham. This is the division Gordon was a part of becoming commissioner. Former private investigator Jason Bard is now working on homicide cases for this division, Major Crimes Unit, Led by Capt. This division is the focus of the book series Gotham Central. Quick Response Team, Led by Lt. Gerard Jerry Hennelly, note, The following are either deceased or have been dismissed from the Gotham City Police Department. Michael Akins - Succeeded Gordon as commissioner, left GCPD during the gap under unknown circumstances. Crispus Allen - Detective, Major Crimes Unit, killed by Jim Corrigan, now the Spectre
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Comic book
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A comic book or comicbook, also called comic magazine or simply comic, is a publication that consists of comic art in the form of sequential juxtaposed panels that represent individual scenes. Panels are often accompanied by brief descriptive prose and written narrative, although comics has some origins in 18th century Japan and 1830s Europe, comic books were first popularized in the United States during the 1930s. Comic books are reliant on their organization and appearance, authors largely focus on the frame of the page, size, orientation, and panel positions. These characteristic aspects of books are necessary in conveying the content. The key elements of comic books include panels, balloons, text, balloons are usually convex spatial containers of information that are related to a character using a tail element. The tail has an origin, path, tip, and pointed direction, there are many technological formulas used to create comic books, including directions, axes, data, and metrics. Following these key formatting procedures is the writing, drawing, Comics as a print medium have existed in America since the printing of The Adventures of Mr. Obadiah Oldbuck in 1842 in hardcover, making it the first known American prototype comic book. The introduction of Jerry Siegel and Joe Shusters Superman in 1938 turned comic books into a major industry, the Golden Age originated the archetype of the superhero. Historians generally divide the timeline of the American comic book into eras, the Golden Age of Comic Books began with the introduction of Superman in 1938, spurring a period of high sales. The Silver Age of comic books is considered to date from the first successful revival of the then-dormant superhero form. The demarcation between the Silver Age and the era, the Bronze Age of Comic Books, is less well-defined. The Modern Age of Comic Books runs from the mid-1980s to the present day, in response to attention from the government and from the media, the U. S. comic book industry set up the Comics Magazine Association of America. The CMAA instilled the Comics Code Authority in 1954 and drafted the self-censorship Comics Code that year and it was not until the 1970s that comic books could be published without passing through the inspection of the CMAA. In the early 1970s, a surge of creativity emerged in what known as underground comix. Published and distributed independently of the comics industry, most of such comics reflected the youth counterculture. Underground comics were almost never sold at newsstands, but rather in such youth-oriented outlets as head shops and record stores, frank Stacks The Adventures of Jesus, published under the name Foolbert Sturgeon, has been credited as the first underground comic. The rise of comic book specialty stores in the late 1970s created/paralleled a dedicated market for independent or alternative comics in the U. S, some independent comics continued in the tradition of underground comics. A few represented experimental attempts to bring closer to the status of fine art
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Private investigator
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A private investigator, a private detective, or inquiry agent, is a person who can be hired by individuals or groups to undertake investigatory law services. Private detectives/investigators often work for attorneys in civil and criminal cases, official law enforcement tried many times to shut it down. In 1842, police arrested him in suspicion of unlawful imprisonment, Vidocq later suspected that it had been a set-up. He was sentenced to five years and fined 3, 000-francs, Vidocq is credited with having introduced record-keeping, criminology, and ballistics to criminal investigation. He made the first plaster casts of shoe impressions and he created indelible ink and unalterable bond paper with his printing company. His form of anthropometrics is still used by French police. He is also credited for philanthropic pursuits – he claimed he never informed on anyone who had stolen for real need, after Vidocq, the industry was born. Much of what private investigators did in the days was to act as the police in matters for which their clients felt the police were not equipped or willing to do. A larger role for new private investigative industry was to assist companies in labor disputes. Some early private investigators provided armed guards to act as a private militia, in the United Kingdom, Charles Frederick Field set up an enquiry office upon his retirement from the Metropolitan Police in 1852. Field became a friend of Charles Dickens, and the latter wrote articles about him, in 1862, one of his employees, the Hungarian Ignatius Paul Pollaky, left him and set up a rival agency. In the United States, Allan Pinkerton established the Pinkerton National Detective Agency - a private detective agency - in 1850, Pinkerton became famous when he foiled a plot to assassinate then President-elect Abraham Lincoln in 1861. Pinkertons agents performed services which ranged from undercover investigations and detection of crimes, to plant protection and it is sometimes claimed, probably with exaggeration, that at the height of its existence, the Pinkerton National Detective Agency employed more agents than the United States Army. Allan Pinkerton hired Kate Warne in 1856 as a private detective, during the union unrest in the US in the late 19th century, companies sometimes hired operatives and armed guards from the Pinkertons. In the aftermath of the Homestead Riot of 1892, several states passed so-called anti-Pinkerton laws restricting the importation of private security guards during union strikes. Pinkerton agents were hired to track western outlaws Jesse James, the Reno brothers, and the Wild Bunch, including Butch Cassidy. The Pinkerton agencys logo, an eye embellished with the words We Never Sleep, many private detectives/investigators with specialized academic and practical experience also work with defense attorneys on capital punishment and other criminal defense cases. Many others are insurance investigators who investigate suspicious claims, before the advent of no-fault divorce, many private investigators were hired to search out evidence of adultery or other conduct within marriage to establish grounds for a divorce
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Shared universe
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It is common in genres like science fiction. It differs from collaborative writing where multiple artists are working together on the work and from crossovers where the works. The term has also used in a wider, non-literary sense to convey interdisciplinary or social commonality. Incidental appearances, such as that of dArtagnan in Cyrano de Bergerac, are considered literary cameo appearances, more substantial interaction between characters from different sources is often marketed as a crossover. While crossovers occur in a universe, not all crossovers are intended to merge their settings back-stories and are instead used for marketing, parody. The version deemed official by the author or company controlling the setting is known as canon, not all shared universes have a controlling entity capable of or interested in determining canonicity, and not all fans agree with these determinations when they occur. A fanon may instead find some degree of consensus within the settings fandom, one such tool is retconning, short for retroactive continuity, which resolves errors in continuity that came about through previously-written conflicting material. Readers may also object when a story or series is integrated into a shared universe, the expansion of existing material into a shared universe is not restricted to settings licensed from movies and television. Niven has since clarified that his setting is still to be used only under restricted circumstances and with permission, by contrast, author Eric Flint has edited and published collaborations with fan fiction writers directly, expanding his 1632 series. A setting may also be expanded in a similar manner after the death of its creator, many other published works of this nature take the form of a series of short-story anthologies with occasional standalone novels. Examples include Robert Lynn Asprins Thieves World, C. J. Cherryhs Merovingen Nights, marshal Ludlum Universe Jason Bourne Star Wars Star Trek X-Men Fast and Furious Fast-Verse Transformers Cloververse Middle-Earth Harry Potter Hasbro Cinematic Universe G. I. By 1961, Marvel Comics writer and editor Stan Lee, working with artists Jack Kirby and Steve Ditko, Marvel sets its stories in an increasing number of alternate realities, each with an assigned number in a greater multiverse. DC and Marvel have also periodically co-published series in which their respective characters meet and these intercompany crossovers have typically been written as self-limiting events that avoid implying that the DC Universe and Marvel Universe co-exist. Exceptions include the comics released under the metafictional imprint Amalgam Comics in 1996. Marvel has since referred to this as part of its settings greater multiverse by labeling it Earth-692, although DC and Marvels shared universe approaches to comics have set them apart from competitors in the industry, other companies have attempted similar models. Valiant Comics and Crossgen both produced titles primarily set from their inception in a single, publisher-wide shared universe, known respectively as Unity, amateur authors have created shared universes by contributing to mailing lists, story archives and Usenet. One of the earliest of these settings, SFStory, saw its spin-off setting Superguy cited as illustrative of the potential of the Internet, another example is the furry-themed Tales from the Blind Pig created at the Transformation Story Archive which some limited publication. Other early examples include the Dargon Project, Devilbunnies, and the popular SCP Foundation wiki, kingdom Hearts Rockstar Games Grand Theft Auto, Manhunt, Red Dead, and Bully
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DC Universe
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The DC Universe is the fictional shared universe where the stories in most American comic book titles published by DC Comics take place. DC superheroes such as Batman, Superman, and Wonder Woman are from this universe, and it also well known supervillains such as the Joker, Lex Luthor. It should be noted that in context, DC Universe usually refers to the main DC continuity, the term DC Multiverse refers to the collection of all continuities within DC Comics publications. Within the Multiverse, the main DC Universe has gone by many names and its not to be confused with Earth Prime. The fact that DC Comics characters coexisted in the world was first established in All Star Comics #3 where several superheroes met each other in a group dubbed the Justice Society of America. Subsequently, the Justice Society was reintroduced as the Justice League of America, over the course of its publishing history, DC has introduced different versions of its characters, sometimes presenting them as if the earlier version had never existed. Similarly, they had such as Batman whose early adventures set in the 1940s could not easily be reconciled with stories featuring a still-youthful man in the 1970s. To explain this, they introduced the idea of the multiverse in Flash #123 where the Silver Age Flash met his Golden Age counterpart. In addition to allowing the conflicting stories to co-exist, it allowed the differing versions of characters to meet, the writers gave designations such as Earth-One, Earth-Two, and so forth, to certain universes, designations which at times were also used by the characters themselves. Earth-One was the world of this publication era. Over the years, as the number of titles published increased, in order to continue publishing stories of its most popular characters, maintaining the status quo became necessary. However, not all the books rebooted post-Crisis, for example, the Legion of Superheros book acted as if the Pre-Crisis Earth-1 history was still their past, a point driven home in the Cosmic Boy miniseries. The Zero Hour limited series gave them an opportunity to revise timelines, meanwhile, DC has published occasional stories called Elseworlds, which often presented alternate versions of its characters. For example, one told the story of Bruce Wayne as a Green Lantern, in another tale, Speeding Bullets, the rocket ship that brought the infant Superman to Earth was discovered by the Wayne family of Gotham City rather than the Kents. In 1999, The Kingdom reintroduced a variant of the old Multiverse concept called Hypertime which essentially allows for alternate versions of characters, the entire process was possibly inspired by Alan Moores meta-comic, Supreme, Story of the Year. The Convergence crossover officially retconned the events of Crisis after heroes in that went back in time to prevent the collapse of the Multiverse. However, Brainiac states Each world has evolved but they all still exist, the Infinite Crisis event remade the DC Universe yet again, with new changes. The limited series 52 established that a new multiverse now existed and this follows the conclusion of the Flashpoint crossover storyline, which provided a jumping-off point for the existing continuity
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Superman
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Superman is a fictional superhero appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics. The character was created by writer Jerry Siegel and artist Joe Shuster, high school living in Cleveland, Ohio. They sold Superman to Detective Comics, the future DC Comics, Superman debuted in Action Comics #1 and subsequently appeared in various radio serials, newspaper strips, television programs, films, and video games. With this success, Superman helped to create the superhero archetype, the character is also referred to by such epithets as the Man of Steel, the Man of Tomorrow, and The Last Son of Krypton. Discovered and adopted by a Kansas farm couple, the child is raised as Clark Kent, very early on he started to display various superhuman abilities, which, upon reaching maturity, he resolved to use for the benefit of humanity through a secret Superman identity. Superman resides and operates in the fictional American city of Metropolis, as Clark Kent, he is a journalist for the Daily Planet, a Metropolis newspaper. Supermans love interest is generally Lois Lane, and his archenemy is supervillain Lex Luthor and he is typically a member of the Justice League and close ally of Batman and Wonder Woman. Like other characters in the DC Universe, several versions of Superman have been depicted over the years. Supermans appearance is distinctive and iconic, he wears a blue costume with a red-and-yellow emblem on the chest, consisting of the letter S in a shield shape. This shield is used in media to symbolize the character. Superman is widely considered an American cultural icon and he has fascinated scholars, with cultural theorists, commentators, and critics alike exploring the characters impact and role in the United States and worldwide. The characters ownership has often been the subject of dispute, with Siegel, the character has been adapted extensively and portrayed in other forms of media as well, including films, television series, and video games. Several actors have portrayed Superman in motion pictures and TV series including Kirk Alyn, George Reeves, Christopher Reeve, Dean Cain, Tom Welling, Brandon Routh, Henry Cavill, Siegels fanzine did not sell well. Siegel and Shuster shifted to making comic strips, which they self-published in a book they called Popular Comics, the pair dreamed of becoming professional authors and believed that syndicated newspaper strips offered more lucrative and stable work than pulp magazines. The art quality standards were lower, making them more accessible to the inexperienced Shuster. In early 1933 or in 1934, Siegel developed a new character, also named Superman, but now a heroic character and this first prototype of Superman had no fantastic abilities and wore casual clothing. Siegel and Shuster often compared this version to Slam Bradley, a character they created in 1936. Siegel shared his idea with Shuster and they decided to turn it into a comic strip, the first publisher they solicited was Humor Publishing in Chicago, after having read one of their comic books, Detective Dan
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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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Flash Gordon
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Flash Gordon is the hero of a space opera adventure comic strip created by and originally drawn by Alex Raymond. First published January 7,1934, the strip was inspired by, the Flash Gordon comic strip has been translated into a wide variety of media, including motion pictures, television and animated series. The latest version, a Flash Gordon television series, appeared on the Syfy channel in the United States in 2007–2008. At first King Features tried to purchase the rights to the John Carter of Mars stories by Edgar Rice Burroughs, however, King Features then turned to Alex Raymond, one of their staff artists, to create the story. Raymonds first samples were dismissed for not containing enough action sequences, Raymond reworked the story and sent it back to the syndicate, who accepted it. Raymond was partnered with ghostwriter Don Moore, an experienced editor, Raymonds first Flash Gordon story appeared in January 1934, alongside Jungle Jim. The Flash Gordon strip was well received by readers, becoming one of the most popular American comic strips of the 1930s. Like Buck Rogers, the success of Flash Gordon resulted in numerous licensed products being sold, including books, colouring books. The comic strip follows the adventures of Flash Gordon, a polo player and Yale University graduate. The story begins with Earth threatened by a collision with the planet Mongo, Dr. Zarkov invents a rocket ship to fly into space in an attempt to stop the disaster. Half mad, he kidnaps Flash and Dale and they travel to the planet, landing on the planet, and halting the collision, they come into conflict with Ming the Merciless, Mongos evil ruler. They are joined in early adventures by Prince Thun of the Lion Men. Eventually, Ming is overthrown, and Mongo is ruled by a council of leaders led by Barin, Flash and friends return to Earth and have some adventures before returning to Mongo and crashing in the kingdom of Tropica, then reuniting with Barin and others. Flash and his friends travel to worlds and return to Mongo. In the 1950s, Flash became an astronaut who travelled to other planets besides Mongo, the long story of the Skorpii War takes Flash to other star systems, using starships that are faster than light. After Raymonds tenure, later created new enemies for Flash to combat. Austin Briggs created Kang the Cruel, Mings callous son, Prince Polon, who had the power to shrink or enlarge living creatures, the unscrupulous Queen Rubia, and Pyron the Comet Master were among the antagonists introduced during Mac Raboys run. The Skorpi, a race of alien shape shifters who desired to conquer the galaxy, were recurring villains in both the Mac Raboy and Dan Barry stories, the Skorpi space-fighter ace Baron Dak-Tula became a periodic nemesis of Flash in the late 1970s stories
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Adventure Comics
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Adventure Comics is an American comic book series published by DC Comics from 1938 to 1983 and revived from 2009 to 2011. In its first era, the series ran for 503 issues, making it the fifth-longest-running DC series, behind Detective Comics, Action Comics, Superman, and Batman. It was revived in 2009 by writer Geoff Johns with the Conner Kent incarnation of Superboy headlining the main feature. It returned to its numbering with #516. The series finally ended with #529, prior to DCs The New 52 company reboot, Adventure Comics began its nearly 50-year run in December 1935 under the title New Comics, which was only the second comic book series published by National Allied Publications, now DC Comics. The series was retitled New Adventure Comics with its 12th issue in January 1937, issue #32 saw the title changed again to Adventure Comics, which would remain the books name for the duration of its existence. Originally a humor series, it evolved into an adventure series. The series focus gradually shifted to superhero stories starting with the debut of the Sandman in issue #40. A pivotal issue of the series was #103, when Superboy, Green Arrow, Johnny Quick, starmans and Sandmans series were canceled to make room for the new features, while Genius Jones moved to the comic the new arrivals had just vacated. Superboy became the star of the book, and would appear on each cover into 1969, superboys popularity in Adventure resulted in the character receiving his own title in 1949, when superhero titles in general were losing popularity. Krypto, the Superdog debuted in issue #210 in a story by Otto Binder, in issue #247, by Otto Binder and artist Al Plastino, Superboy met the Legion of Super-Heroes, a team of super-powered teens from the future. The group became popular, and would replace Tales of the Bizarro World as the Adventure backup feature with #300, lightning Lad, one of the Legions founding members, was killed in Adventure Comics #304 and revived in issue #312. In Adventure Comics #346, Jim Shooter,14 years old at the time, Shooter wrote the story in which Ferro Lad died – the first real death of a Legionnaire – and introduced the Fatal Five. The Legion feature lasted until issue #380, with the next issue, Supergirl migrated from the backup slot in Action Comics to the starring feature in Adventure and ran until issue #424. The series reached its 400th issue in December 1970 and featured a Supergirl story written, as of #425, the books theme changed from superhero adventure to fantasy/supernatural adventure. That issue debuted one new feature along with three stories, the pirate saga Captain Fear. The next edition added a series, The Adventurers Club. Soon, editor Joe Orlando was trying out horror-tinged costumed heroes such as the Black Orchid, before long, conventional superheroes returned to the book, beginning behind the Spectre, first a three-issue run of Aquaman and then a newly drawn 1940s Seven Soldiers of Victory script
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World War II
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World War II, also known as the Second World War, was a global war that lasted from 1939 to 1945, although related conflicts began earlier. It involved the vast majority of the worlds countries—including all of the great powers—eventually forming two opposing alliances, the Allies and the Axis. It was the most widespread war in history, and directly involved more than 100 million people from over 30 countries. Marked by mass deaths of civilians, including the Holocaust and the bombing of industrial and population centres. These made World War II the deadliest conflict in human history, from late 1939 to early 1941, in a series of campaigns and treaties, Germany conquered or controlled much of continental Europe, and formed the Axis alliance with Italy and Japan. Under the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact of August 1939, Germany and the Soviet Union partitioned and annexed territories of their European neighbours, Poland, Finland, Romania and the Baltic states. In December 1941, Japan attacked the United States and European colonies in the Pacific Ocean, and quickly conquered much of the Western Pacific. The Axis advance halted in 1942 when Japan lost the critical Battle of Midway, near Hawaii, in 1944, the Western Allies invaded German-occupied France, while the Soviet Union regained all of its territorial losses and invaded Germany and its allies. During 1944 and 1945 the Japanese suffered major reverses in mainland Asia in South Central China and Burma, while the Allies crippled the Japanese Navy, thus ended the war in Asia, cementing the total victory of the Allies. World War II altered the political alignment and social structure of the world, the United Nations was established to foster international co-operation and prevent future conflicts. The victorious great powers—the United States, the Soviet Union, China, the United Kingdom, the Soviet Union and the United States emerged as rival superpowers, setting the stage for the Cold War, which lasted for the next 46 years. Meanwhile, the influence of European great powers waned, while the decolonisation of Asia, most countries whose industries had been damaged moved towards economic recovery. Political integration, especially in Europe, emerged as an effort to end pre-war enmities, the start of the war in Europe is generally held to be 1 September 1939, beginning with the German invasion of Poland, Britain and France declared war on Germany two days later. The dates for the beginning of war in the Pacific include the start of the Second Sino-Japanese War on 7 July 1937, or even the Japanese invasion of Manchuria on 19 September 1931. Others follow the British historian A. J. P. Taylor, who held that the Sino-Japanese War and war in Europe and its colonies occurred simultaneously and this article uses the conventional dating. Other starting dates sometimes used for World War II include the Italian invasion of Abyssinia on 3 October 1935. The British historian Antony Beevor views the beginning of World War II as the Battles of Khalkhin Gol fought between Japan and the forces of Mongolia and the Soviet Union from May to September 1939, the exact date of the wars end is also not universally agreed upon. It was generally accepted at the time that the war ended with the armistice of 14 August 1945, rather than the formal surrender of Japan
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Pow-Wow Smith
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Ohiyesa Pow Wow Smith is a fictional Western hero published by DC Comics. Created by writer Don Cameron and penciler Carmine Infantino, he is a Sioux who is the sheriff of the small Western town of Elkhorn, where he is known as a master detective. He prefers to be addressed by his name, Ohiyesa. Originally, the Pow Wow Smith character was located in the modern West, later stories were set in the 19th-century. It was eventually retconned that the Old West character was the ancestor of the modern-day character, since then, Smith has remained a generation legacy, and a historical figure in the DC Universe, meeting other heroes in their occasional time travel stories. Smith first appeared in Detective Comics #151, the only Western feature in the book, after four years as a regular feature in Detective Comics, his strip became the lead feature of Western Comics, which ran until 1961. Much of the art during the Detective period was by Leonard Starr, stories were by France Herron and later Gardner Fox. Smith also starred in the issue of All-Star Westerns second volume. Ohiyesa left his native Red Deer Valley to learn more about the mans world. His tracking and expert gun skills won him employment as a deputy sheriff, Once sheriff, Pow Wow spends most of his time in Elkhorn, only rarely returning to Red Deer Valley. For most of his adventures, Pow Wows girlfriend is the Native American maiden Fleetfoot, fleetfloot aids Pow Wow in a number of adventures. Marshal Ohiyesa Smith, a descendant of the original Pow Wow Smith, appears in Robin Annual #6. This Ohiyesa attended college in the East, then returned to Red Deer Valley, as a U. S. Marshall, he too takes the name Pow Wow Smith, but continues to live in Red Deer Valley. The modern-day Pow Wow Smith works with Robin and other heroes to take down the modern-day Trigger Twins, much of the adventure takes place in a tourist-spot recreation of an Old West town, which is located near Gotham City. Smith appeared in a travel episode of Justice League Unlimited, The Once and Future Thing. He was run out of Town by Manning who used technology he got from Chronos, with the aide of Bat Lash, El Diablo, Jonah Hex, Green Lantern, Wonder Woman and Batman, he defeated Manning. He was voiced by Jonathan Joss, in this version, Smith still objects to the name Pow-Wow, which is only used by the villain Tobias Manning. Don Marksteins Toonopedia, Pow-Wow Smith DCU Guide, Pow-Wow Smith I DCU Guide, Pow-Wow Smith II DCU Guide, Pow-Wow Smith III
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Human Target
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The Human Target is the name of two fictional characters appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics. The first is Fred Venable, who appears in Detective Comics #201, the second, Christopher Chance, first appears in Action Comics #419, and was created by Len Wein and Carmine Infantino. The first character to use the title Human Target was Fred Venable, Christopher Chances early appearances came in back-up stories in Action Comics, a title better known for featuring Superman tales published by DC Comics. He first appeared in The Assassin-Express Contract, a story written by Len Wein. Later, the feature appeared in Batman titles such as The Brave, Christopher Chance starred in a limited series, a one-shot, and then an ongoing Human Target series written by Peter Milligan and published under DCs Vertigo imprint. Writer Peter Milligan and Edvin Biukovic revived Christopher Chance in 1999, the mini-series was followed by the graphic novel Human Target, Final Cut, as well as an ongoing series lasting 21 issues until its cancellation in 2003. Human Target A television pilot, starring Rick Springfield, was produced in 1990, Springfield starred as Chance, who was now a Vietnam vet as well as a private investigator/bodyguard. In this version, for ten percent of an annual income, Chance would take the clients place. Philo Marsden was a computer genius who helped Chance by designing high-tech masks, and Jeff Carlyle was the chauffeur, cook and pilot for Chances mobile base of operations. Lilly Page was an agent who helped coordinate Chances missions. The show was created by Warner Brothers and Pet Fly Productions, though produced in 1990, the show aired only briefly in 1992. The version of the show aired in 1992 had a slightly different cast from that of the unaired pilot episode. Guest stars included David Carradine in the episode entitled Second Chance and it was written by Mark Verheiden, with pencils by Rick Burchett and inks by Dick Giordano. Human Target In February 2009, FOX announced that a new FOX television series, Human Target, was in the works starring Mark Valley, Jackie Earle Haley, in May 2009 it was confirmed that FOX had placed an episode order and it would be on their 2009-2010 schedule. The series deviates from the version in that Chance assumes nondescript cover identities that keep him close to the target. Human Target debuted on CTV and FOX in January 2010, fox renewed the show for a second season in May 2010. The show was canceled on May 10,2011 after two seasons. Arrowverse Christopher Chance/Human Target appears in the season of Arrow portrayed by Wil Traval in the episode Human Target as an old friend of John Diggle
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Mysto
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Mysto, Magician Detective is a fictional character in the DC Universe. He first appeared in Detective Comics #203, mysto was a regular back-up feature in Detective Comics from his appearance in issue #203 to #212. He was dropped when Detective Comics went from 44 pages to 36, rick Carter is a Wildcat flier piloting a small single-engine plane over the Tibetan plains when he spots three bandits chasing a lone old man. In gratitude for Carter saving the old life, Carter is taught ancient mysticism as well as tricks of the marketplace. Carter and his man-servant Sikhi return to the United States to fight using his skills as a stage magician. Mysto is a stage illusionist, who uses his powers to confuse criminals. He is also an above average detective
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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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Robin (character)
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Robin is the name of several fictional superheroes appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics. The character was created by Bob Kane, Bill Finger. The team of Batman and Robin is commonly referred to as the Dynamic Duo or the Caped Crusaders, the characters first incarnation, Dick Grayson, debuted in Detective Comics #38. Conceived as a vehicle to attract young readership, Robin garnered overwhelmingly positive critical reception, the early adventures of Robin included Star Spangled Comics #65–130, which was the characters first solo feature. The characters second incarnation Jason Todd debuted in Batman #357 and this Robin made regular appearances in Batman related comic books until 1988, when the character was murdered by the Joker in the storyline A Death in the Family. Jason would later find himself alive after a reality changing incident, the premiere Robin limited series was published in 1991 which featured the characters third incarnation Tim Drake training to earn the role of Batmans vigilante partner. Following two successful sequels, the monthly Robin ongoing series began in 1993 and ended in early 2009, in 2004 storylines, established DC Comics character Stephanie Brown became the fourth Robin for a short duration before the role reverted to Tim Drake. Damian Wayne succeeds Drake as Robin in the 2009 story arc Battle for the Cowl, Dick Grayson resumed his role as Nightwing and Stephanie Brown was introduced anew as Spoiler once again in the pages of Batman Eternal. The 2016 DC Rebirth continuity relaunch starts off with Damian Wayne as Robin, Tim Drake as Red Robin, Jason Todd as Red Hood, Robins have also been featured throughout stories set in parallel worlds, owing to DC Comics longstanding Multiverse concept. For example, in the original Earth-Two, Dick Grayson never adopted the name Nightwing, in the New 52s Earth-2 continuity, Robin is Helena Wayne, daughter of Batman and Catwoman, who was stranded on the Earth of the main continuity and takes the name Huntress. About a year after Batmans debut, Batman creators Bob Kane, the name Robin the Boy Wonder and the medieval look of the original costume were inspired by The Adventures of Robin Hood. Robinson noted he came up with Robin Hood because The Adventures of Robin Hood were boyhood favorites of mine, I had been given a Robin Hood book illustrated by N. C. Wyeth. and thats what I quickly sketched out when I suggested the name Robin Hood, which seemed to like. And if you look at it, its Wyeths costume, from my memory, because I didnt have the book to look at. In Batman stories the character of Robin was intended to be the Batmans Watson, Bill Finger, writer for many early Batman adventures, wrote, as I said, Batman was a combination of Douglas Fairbanks and Sherlock Holmes. The thing that bothered me was that Batman didnt have anyone to talk to, I found that as I went along Batman needed a Watson to talk to. Thats how Robin came to be, Bob called me over and said he was going to put a boy in the strip to identify with Batman. I thought it was a great idea, Batman investigated the crime and, as his alter ego billionaire Bruce Wayne, had Dick put under his custody as a legal ward
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Elongated Man
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The Elongated Man is a fictional comic book superhero in the DC universe. He is a member of three incarnations of the Justice League and his first appearance was in The Flash vol. The character has won and been nominated for awards over the years. Sometimes they would travel the world or meet other DC superheroes like Batman, Green Lantern and this feature became sporadic during the late 60s and throughout the 70s. However, in 1973, he became a member of the Justice League of America, as a teenager, Ralph Dibny was fascinated by contortionists, or people who displayed feats of agility and suppleness. He learned that all of the body-benders he spoke with drank a popular soda called Gingold, Ralph set to work learning chemistry and developed a super-concentrated extract of the rare gingo fruit of the Yucatan, which gave him his elasticity. In his first appearance, the Flash suspects the Elongated Man is behind several crimes, but the Elongated Man helps capture the criminals, who reveal they used a helicopter to frame him. Ralph Dibny was one of the earliest Silver Age DC heroes to reveal his identity to the public. After teaming up with other superheroes like Batman, Green Lantern, the Atom, Zatanna. Eventually, his became an member as well. The couple was also notable in having a stable, happy, fans of the characters often referred to Ralph and Sue as the Nick and Nora Charles of the super-hero set. The very novelty of the Elongated Man stories was that unlike most superheroes, including the Detective Comics Batman, Ralph Dibny solved mysteries, often challenging the reader to do the same. He didnt just use his powers or gadgets to chase criminals, but recalled the problem-solving of a genre just that bit older than superheroes. Ralph Dibny played a role in the events of Identity Crisis. The effect of Sues death on Ralph would come to shape his character significantly in the events following Identity Crisis, the latter arc was produced before Identity Crisis but published afterwards. A running joke in I Cant Believe Its Not The Justice League involves the possibility of Sues pregnancy and he confronts Cassandra Sandsmark, and she tells Dibny that she is in a cult that believes that Superboy can be resurrected. She steals Ralphs wedding ring after the members try to drown Ralph. During Week 11, after scaring some cult members and chasing them off, he gets a report that someone broke into a container in Opal City
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Sherlock Holmes
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Sherlock Holmes is a fictional private detective created by British author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. All but one are set in the Victorian or Edwardian periods, though not the first fictional detective, Sherlock Holmes is arguably the most well-known, with Guinness World Records listing him as the most portrayed movie character in history. Auguste Dupin is generally acknowledged as the first detective in fiction and served as the prototype for many that were created later, Conan Doyle once wrote, Each is a root from which a whole literature has developed. Where was the story until Poe breathed the breath of life into it. Conan Doyle repeatedly said that Holmes was inspired by the figure of Joseph Bell, a surgeon at the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh. Like Holmes, Bell was noted for drawing conclusions from minute observations. However, he wrote to Doyle, You are yourself Sherlock Holmes. Sir Henry Littlejohn, Chair of Medical Jurisprudence at the University of Edinburgh Medical School, is cited as an inspiration for Holmes. Littlejohn, who was also Police Surgeon and Medical Officer of Health in Edinburgh, One is thought to be Francis Tanky Smith, a policeman and master of disguise who went on to become Leicesters first private detective. Another might be Maximilien Heller, by French author Henry Cauvain and it is not known if Conan Doyle read Maximilien Heller, but in this 1871 novel, Henry Cauvain imagined a depressed, anti-social, polymath, cat-loving, and opium-smoking Paris-based detective. Details about Sherlock Holmess life, except for the adventures in the books, are scarce in Conan Doyles original stories, nevertheless, mentions of his early life and extended family paint a loose biographical picture of the detective. An estimate of Holmess age in His Last Bow places his year of birth at 1854 and his parents are not mentioned in the stories, although Holmes mentions that his ancestors were country squires. In The Adventure of the Greek Interpreter, he claims that his grandmother was sister to the French artist Vernet, without clarifying whether this was Claude Joseph, Carle. Mycroft has a civil service position as a kind of human database for all aspects of government policy. He lacks Sherlocks interest in investigation, however, preferring to spend his time at the Diogenes Club. Holmes says that he first developed his methods of deduction as an undergraduate, his earliest cases, the two take lodgings at 221B Baker Street, London, an apartment at the upper end of the street, up seventeen steps. Holmes worked as a detective for twenty-three years, with physician John Watson assisting him for seventeen and they were roommates before Watsons 1887 marriage and again after his wifes death. Their residence is maintained by their landlady, Mrs. Hudson, most of the stories are frame narratives, written from Watsons point of view as summaries of the detectives most interesting cases
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Metropolis (comics)
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Metropolis is a fictional city appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics, best known as the home of Superman. First appearing by name in Action Comics #16, Metropolis is depicted as a prosperous and massive city in the Northeastern United States, within close proximity to Gotham City. The co-creator and original artist of Superman, Joe Shuster, modeled the Metropolis skyline after Toronto, since then, however, the look and feel of Metropolis has been greatly influenced by New York City. Within the DC Universe, Metropolis is depicted as being one of the largest and wealthiest cities in the world, Superman co-creator Joe Shuster moved to Cleveland at age ten, where he met co-creator and Ohio native Jerry Siegel. Action Comics #2, however, mistakenly portrays Clark Kent as a reporter for the Cleveland Evening News, in Superman #2, Metropolis was actually placed in the US state of New York, making it the earliest specific reference to the location of Metropolis. In that issue, Clark Kent sends a telegram to George Taylor, in the 1940s Superman cartoons, produced by Paramount Pictures and Fleischer Studios, Superman is said to live on the island of Manhattan. In the seventh cartoon of the series, Electric Earthquake, a Native American mad scientist claims that his people are the owners of Manhattan. Metropolis is even seen spelled out twice on the Metropolis Munition Works and that same column stated that Green Arrows home, Star City, was in Connecticut, Flashs Central City was in Ohio, and Hawkmans Midway City was in Michigan. An earlier issue of DCs fanzine Amazing World of DC Comics, however, stated that Metropolis was located in Delaware, the 1990 Atlas of the DC Universe role playing game supplement, published by Mayfair Games, states that Metropolis is in Delaware. The most blatant of these might be the statement he cites from Action Comics #143, the Statue of Liberty, in fact, stands in New York Harbor. In the pre-Crisis on Infinite Earths comics, Smallville was often shown as being within driving distance of Metropolis, John Byrnes 1986 revamp of Superman cited the city as being in Kansas. The beam from that machine is depicted originating from the area of the mid-western United States where Kansas is located, in the second part of the episode Last Son of Krypton when Lois is introduced to Clark Kent, she is told he is from Smallville, she replies Smallville. Never heard of it, prompting Clark Kent to ask her if she had ever been to Kansas, Lois replies God No. while turning her head in a sign of visible disgust. Frank Miller has said that Metropolis is New York in the daytime, Gotham City is home to Batman, whose activities are more often nocturnal, while Metropolis is home to Superman, who usually operates during the day. New York City has been recently used as a locale in the DC Universe, like the Marvel Universe, in which it exists as a separate city from Metropolis. The Justice Society of America, for example, is based in New York, Metropolis is frequently depicted as being within driving distance of Gotham City, home of Batman. This happens, for example, in the three-issue 1990 mini-series of Worlds Finest Comics by Dave Gibbons, Steve Rude, in Bronze Age stories that depicted Metropolis and Gotham City as twin cities, the Metro-Narrows Bridge was said to be the main route connecting Metropolis to Gotham City. A similar map appeared in The New Adventures of Superboy #22, 1990s The Atlas of the DC Universe also places Metropolis in Delaware and Gotham City in New Jersey
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Bat Lash
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Bartholomew Bat Aloysius Lash is a fictional Western character in the DC Universe. A self-professed pacifist, ladies man, and gambler, Bat Lashs adventures have been published by DC Comics since 1968, shelly Mayer would write the first appearance. Infantino claimed to have greatly rewritten it, the assignment was then handed to Aragonés, with Denny ONeil doing the dialog over Aragonés plots, and Nick Cardy providing the art. Issues were produced in a variation of the full script method, first, Aragonés would create a plot in thumbnail sketch form, then ONeil would write the dialog, and last came Cardys finished art. Bat Lash first appeared in 1968, in a house ad running in Superman DC Comics and it featured a gangly figure, in silhouette, stalking toward the reader, with the tagline, Bat Lash. Will he save the West, or ruin it, the characters first published story appeared in Showcase #76. It featured a character, a peaceful, violence hating man who attracts trouble wherever he goes. Dialoguer Denny ONeil summarized that, He was a charming anti-hero, in subsequent handlings Bat Lash became a churlish anti-hero. Sergio and I tried to make him in the tradition of the charming rogue, Bat had a conscience represented by the flower in his hat which he inevitably threw away whenever he was doing something ratty. Bat Lashs own series only lasted seven issues, even though editorial director Carmine Infantino claimed it sold well in Europe, sales in the States were not enough to sustain a run of the title. ONeil has questioned this, remarking that low sales was always the reason given for cancellation in those days, the character and the series bearing his name have been recognized in the industry, including the 1968 and 1969 Alley Awards for Best Western Titles. Bat Lash made several appearances after his cancellation in issues of Weird Western Tales. He had a story in DC Special Series #16 and a backup series in Jonah Hex #49 & 51-52 in 1981. He appears in an alternate time-line in Justice League Europe Annual #2, an older Crimson Fox, through a time travel accident, appears in the middle of a card game, allowing Bat Lash the opportunity to save himself from Bats own cheating. During the chase, Bat encounters one Miss Sally, who is sad that she has not seen Bat in months. A1998 mini-series, Guns Of The Dragon set in 1927 China, teams an elderly Bat Lash with Biff Bradley, in 2006, writers Jimmy Palmiotti and Justin Gray wrote Lash into Jonah Hex #3. For Halloween 2007 Bat Lash rides with Jonah Hex to save Lazarus Lane the host Body of El Diablo in Jonah Hex #24 and he also appears in Jonah Hex #70. It was reprinted in paperback as Bat Lash, Guns
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Enemy Ace
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Debuting in 1965, the comic was written by Robert Kanigher and drawn by Joe Kubert and the character has been revived several times since by other writers & artists. Enemy Ace first appeared in Our Army at War #151, the early series stories centered around World War I Air Combat and the strategies, tactics and honor employed by the early knights of the air. But the Von Hammer stories were not big on happy endings and he grieves the loss of the dog, then proceeds to massacre the remaining British pilots in an act of bloody revenge. Von Hammer was a character, portrayed as the inevitable result of war. Unlike most comic book characters, Von Hammer does not have an arch-enemy, the majority of Von Hammers opponents followed the same code of honor as he did, which included not attacking a helpless pilot. Created by Robert Kanigher and Joe Kubert, the Enemy Ace was taken loosely from the real-life Red Baron, both flew Crimson Red Fokker DR1 Triplanes. Both awarded themselves a trophy with each downed enemy plane, both were the highest scoring flying ace of the First World War. The main difference between the two was that Von Hammer survived to old age, whereas Von Richthofen was shot down, the characters stories have been praised as among DCs strongest war stories of the Silver Age of comic books. He was revived for a few graphic novels, a more recent work is Garth Enniss Enemy Ace, War in Heaven, with art by Chris Weston and Russ Heath. Here, von Hammers character and story arc is based on several real-life German pilots, the series recounts the pilots activities during World War II where he is persuaded to once again fight as a pilot of the Luftwaffe. Von Hammer is placed in charge of his own gruppe and initially serves on the Eastern Front, though no friend to the Nazi regime, he rapidly amasses numerous kills flying a red-painted Me-109 against the Russians, and later in defense of Germany against American bombers. Nevertheless, von Hammer becomes increasingly disillusioned as he continues to witness the horrors of war, during a battle, he is shot down and crashes near Leningrad. In his attempts to make it back to his own lines, he witnesses many horrible sights on the Russian front, including cannibalism. In 1945, after bailing out of his aircraft, he inadvertently parachutes into the Dachau concentration camp and is outraged to discover the German perpetration of the Holocaust. He proposes a mutiny upon returning to his airbase and later surrenders his Jagdverband to advancing Allied troops, rocks company, after setting fire to the fighter units remaining aircraft. These graphic events were rare, except during the underground comix era, to be seen in comic books. Von Hammer makes a guest appearance of sorts as an opponent of General Wade Eilings father in a set during the First World War In 2008. He also appears in Booster Gold in 2009, during World War I, a possible descendant of Von Hammer appears in the story Ghost of the Killer Skies in Detective Comics #404
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Dinosaur Island
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Dinosaur Island is an island that has appeared in various comic book series published by DC Comics. The first Dinosaur Island appeared in one issue, Batman #35. The story by Bill Finger and Bob Kane, involved a Dinosaur Island amusement park that contained realistic looking and functioning robotic dinosaurs, the second and definitive version of Dinosaur Island first appeared in the Spring 1960 issue of Star-Spangled War Stories #90. Created by Robert Kanigher and featuring art from Ross Andru. Located in the South Pacific of DCs main shared universe, it is an island populated by living dinosaurs, the stories were set in the 1940s during World War II, and periodically American and Japanese soldiers would stumble upon the island during battle encountering the creatures there. After its debut in Star Spangled War Stories #90, the feature would return in #92 and was a series until #137 in 1968. Afterwards the feature would appear sporadically in the pages of G. I, combat, Weird War Tales, and other DC comic books. The First Dinosaur Island is a newly constructed amusement park run by Murray Wilson Hunt and it is where Batman agrees to be part of a mock big-game hunt held by Mr. Breach. During the hunt, Murray is knocked out by Stephen Chase and takes control of Dinosaur Island in order to have the mechanical dinosaurs, eventually, Batman and Robin were able to turn the tides on Mr. Breach and capture Stephen Chase. Afterwards, Batman gains a mechanical Tyrannosaurus as a trophy and has it placed in the Batcave. Dinosaur Island seems to have first been discovered by Enemy Ace in 1927 when he flew Bat Lash, Biff Bradley, General Joseph Stilwell, the island had long been a legend to the Chinese people and was believed to hold the mystical Swords of Fan. During this mission, the adventurers encounter Vandal Savage and Miss Fear and this tale appears in the Guns of the Dragon mini-series. During World War II, several United States submarines seemingly disappear after encountering an area of seismic disturbances, Marines land on a nearby island hoping to find survivors, but instead find that the earthquakes has awakened the remote islands resident dinosaur population. The prehistoric beasts had been preserved via suspended animation for centuries, with their weapons essentially useless, the squad of Marines barely escapes to tell the tale. Despite the presence of dinosaurs, the U. S. government consider the island a valuable strategic location in its war against Japan, several expeditions and operations take place at the island. The island is used as a proving ground for the automated soldiers designated G. I. Robot, which prove to be no match for the dinosaurs ferocious might, the Creature Commandos, the Flying Boots, and the original Suicide Squad all take part in missions on the island during World War II. Post-War expeditions have theorized that the island exists in a state of temporal flux
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Vandal Savage
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Vandal Savage is a fictional supervillain published by DC Comics. In 2009, Vandal Savage was ranked as IGNs 36th Greatest Comic Book Villain of All Time, Vandal Savage, under the name Curtis Knox made his live-action debut in Smallville, portrayed by Dean Cain. The character was introduced into The CWs Arrowverse, where he was portrayed by Casper Crump. He was the primary antagonist in the episodes of season two of The Flash and season four of Arrow, and during the first season of DCs Legends of Tomorrow. Vandal Savage first appeared in Green Lantern vol.1 #10, Savage is immortal, and he has plagued the earth with crime and violence since before the beginning of recorded human history. He is a brilliant tactician with immense technological prowess and he is one of DCs most persistent villains and has fought hundreds of heroes throughout history. In the days of prehistory,50,000 BC, Savage was a caveman named Vandar Adg and he was bathed in the radiation of a mysterious meteorite, which gave him incredible intellect and immortality. According to Lex Luthor, there may be evidence to suggest that Savage was the first cannibal on record, though the Calculator took this to be a joke, Luthor was apparently serious, and Savage has not shown much regard for human life. Savages first mark in the history came when he and a group of people successfully undermined and destroyed the lost city of Atlantis. That group of people known as the Illuminati, with Savage serving as its leader. He claims to have ruled hundreds of civilizations under hundreds of names, Khafre, Cheops, Alexander the Great, Julius Caesar, Genghis Khan, Blackbeard and he also terrorized Victorian era London as Jack the Ripper. He realized that his prominence could cause him to be killed accidentally and he has also worked as close friends and advisers to the likes of Erik the Red, William the Conqueror, Napoleon Bonaparte as Marshal Savage, Otto von Bismarck, and Adolf Hitler. He also led the Spanish Armada in its invasion of England. He was the physician in France and even used the royal family for syphilis experiments. This incarnation of Vandal Savage was less of a threatening, scheming villain and more a likeable, roguish thug. Savage was still a force to be reckoned with, but nonetheless bound to a respect for his fellow immortals Etrigan and Madame Xanadu. He is eventually thought to be a traitor, Savage ends up betraying Mordru in turn in order to pillage the supplies of the Horde. He rejoins the rest of the Demon Knights saying that he planned all along
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Ed Brubaker
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Ed Brubaker is an American comic book writer and cartoonist. Brubakers first early comics work was primarily in the fiction genre with works such as Lowlife, The Fall, Sandman Presents, Dead Boy Detectives. He later became known for writing superhero comics such as Batman, Daredevil, Captain America, Catwoman, Uncanny X-Men and he has won an Eisner Award on six separate occasions. At Caliber, he edited the anthology series Monkey Wrench. In 1991, he began contributing stories to the Dark Horse Comics anthology series Dark Horse Presents. Among those contributions was the three part serial An Accidental Death, a collaboration with artist Eric Shanower, which garnered the two a 1993 Eisner Award nomination, in 1997, he began to publish his cartoonist work through the small press publisher Alternative Comics. In the one-off At the Seams, a triangle is explored through three stories which each depict a different participants point-of-view. The comic was a 1997 Ignatz Award nominee for Outstanding Graphic Novel or Collection and his other work for Alternative Comics, the humorous and experimental Detour No. 1, was to be the first issue of a series, Detour was nominated for the Best New Series Harvey Award in 1998. The Fall, a novel that was written by Brubaker and illustrated by Berlin creator Jason Lutes was published by Drawn. This work had previously been anthologized in five parts in Dark Horse Presents in 1998, the story involved a convenience store clerk who gets involved in a ten-year-old murder mystery after he uses a stolen credit card. In 2004 IDW Publishing announced that Brubaker and artist Sean Phillips would collaborate on a creator owned pirate series titled Black Sails for them. That series has not yet published and The Fall remained the last independent comic book work by Brubaker until his work for Image Comics. Predating Brubakers Alternative Comics work by two years, Vertigo Visions, Prez, Smells Like Teen President was Brubakers first work for one of the two major American comic book publishers. Published by DC Comics mature readers imprint Vertigo, the comic was a political satire which revamped an obscure 1970s Joe Simon creation. Brubaker worked with his An Accidental Death collaborator, artist Eric Shanower, a slacker detective story set in San Francisco, the series was critically acclaimed and the first to gain Brubaker attention from Hollywood producers. In late 2000, Brubaker signed a contract with DC Comics. That same year, he began to do his first mainstream super-hero work and he would continue to work on various series starring the Batman character until late 2003 including such story arcs as Bruce Wayne, Murderer. and Bruce Wayne, Fugitive
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Darwyn Cooke
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Darwyn Cooke was born in Toronto on November 16,1962. His father was a worker and later ran a union. He and his brother Dennis grew up in Nova Scotia and he discovered comics as a child, but did not become passionate about them until he was a teenager, after having bought an issue of The Amazing Spider-Man drawn by John Romita. His father, however, did not think that comics were an avenue for a career. Cooke attended George Brown College, but was expelled after a year and he left comics to work as a magazine art director, graphic designer, and product designer for the next 15 years. He eventually established his own design studio, in 1996, Cooke learned that Warner Bros. was hiring storyboard artists for its two animated TV series based on DC Comics heroes, Batman, The Animated Series and Superman, The Animated Series. His successful pitch included 14 pages that would be published in 2000 as Batman, in 1999 he animated the main title design for Batman Beyond. He then worked as a director for Sony Animations Men in Black, DC Comics then approached Cooke about a project which he had submitted to the publisher years earlier which eventually became Batman, Ego, a graphic novel published in 2000. The success of that project Cooke to more work, such as X-Force, Wolverine/Doop and Spider-Mans Tangled Web for Marvel Comics. In 2001, Cooke and writer Ed Brubaker revamped the Catwoman character and they started with a four-issue serial Trail of the Catwoman in Detective Comics #759–762 in which private detective Slam Bradley attempts to investigate the death of Selina Kyle. The story led into a new Catwoman title in late 2001 by Brubaker and Cooke, in which the costume, supporting cast. Cooke would stay on the series until issue #4, in 2002, he would write and draw a prequel, the Selinas Big Score graphic novel which detailed what had happened to the character directly before her new series. Cookes next project was the DC, The New Frontier, a six issue miniseries which bridged the gap between the end of the golden and the start of the age of comic books in the DC Universe. S. The major DC characters are introduced in The New Frontier in the order that DC originally published them, even down to the correct month. That same year, Cooke contributed to DCs artist-centric anthology project Solo and his issue featured several different stories in different styles with a framing sequence featuring the Slam Bradley character. In 2006, Solo #5 won an Eisner Award for Best Single Issue, in November 2006, Cooke and writer Jeph Loeb produced a Batman/The Spirit intercompany crossover. This was followed in December by an ongoing Spirit series written, in July 2006, it was announced that Warner Bros. Animation and DC Comics would release a series of animated movies based on important DC comic books
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Catwoman
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Catwoman is a fictional character appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics, commonly in association with the superhero Batman. The character was created by Bob Kane and Bill Finger, and she made her debut in Batman #1, depicted as a jewel thief in Gotham City, Catwoman has typically been characterized as a supervillain and adversary of Batman. However, since the 1990s, Catwoman has been featured in a series that portrays her as an antiheroine rather than a traditional villain. She is known for her complex relationship with Batman and has been his most enduring love interest. The original and most widely known Catwoman is Selina Kyle, the character was partially inspired by Kanes cousin, Ruth Steel, as well as actress Jean Harlow. For many years the character thrived, but from September 1954 to November 1966 Catwoman took a hiatus due to the newly developing Comics Code Authority in 1954. These issues involved the rules regarding the development and portrayal of characters that were in violation of the Comics Code. In the comics, Holly Robinson and Eiko Hasigawa both have adopted the Catwoman identity, apart from Selina, a popular figure, Catwoman has been featured in many media adaptations related to Batman. Actresses Julie Newmar, Lee Meriwether, and Eartha Kitt introduced her to an audience on the 1960s Batman television series. Michelle Pfeiffer portrayed the character in 1992s Batman Returns, halle Berry starred in a stand-alone Catwoman film, 2004s Catwoman, which was a critical and commercial flop, and bears little to no resemblance to the Batman character. Anne Hathaway portrayed Selina Kyle in the 2012 film The Dark Knight Rises and, most recently, Catwoman was ranked 11th on IGNs Top 100 Comic Book Villains of All Time list, and 51st on Wizard magazines 100 Greatest Villains of All Time list. Conversely, she was ranked 20th on IGNs Top 100 Comic Book Heroes of All Time list, Batmans creator, Bob Kane, was a great movie fan and his love for film provided the impetus for several Batman characters, among them, Catwoman. She was partially inspired by 1930s film star Jean Harlow who at Kanes then-early and, seemed to personify feminine pulchritude at its most sensuous. Catwoman was meant to be a love interest and to engage Batman in a chess game, at the same time, this character was meant to be different from other Batman villains like the Joker in that she was never a killer or evil. As for using cat imagery with their Catwoman, Kane states he, although she does not wear her iconic cat-suit, the story establishes her core personality as a femme fatale who both antagonizes and attracts Batman. It is implied Batman may have let her get away by blocking Robin as he tried to leap after her. She next appears in Batman #2 in a story involving the Joker. In Batman #3 she wears a fur mask and again succeeds in escaping Batman, Batman #62 reveals that Catwoman is an amnesiac flight attendant who had turned to crime after suffering a prior blow to the head during a plane crash she survived
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Police officer
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A police officer, also known as a policeman, policewoman, police agent, or a police employee is a warranted law employee of a police force. In the United States, the officer is typically the formal name of the lowest police rank. In many other countries, officer is a term not specifying a particular rank. In some nations the use of the officer is legally reserved for military personnel. Police officers may be sworn to an oath, and have the power to arrest people and detain them for a time, along with other duties. Although many police officers wear a uniform, some police officers are plain-clothed in order to dissimulate as ordinary citizens. The word police comes from the Greek politia meaning government, which came to mean its civil administration, Police officers are those empowered by government to enforce the laws it creates. In The Federalist Papers, James Madison wrote If men were angels and these words apply to those who serve government, including police. The more general term for the function is law enforcement officer or peace officer, a sheriff is typically the top police officer of a county, with that word coming from the person enforcing law over a shire. A person who has been deputized to serve the function of the sheriff is referred to as the deputy, a common nickname for a police officer is cop. The term copper is used in Britain to mean someone who captures. The common myth is that its a term referring to the officers buttons which are made of copper. The word Cop derives from a Gaelic word which has the equivalence of saying, protector, leader, the terms are almost nearly homophonic but have similar meanings. The term County Mountie is used specifically in reference to county police officers or county sheriffs deputies in the United States, as with Canadian Mounties, the term mountie comes from police who serve while mounted on horseback. Responsibilities of an officer are varied, and may differ greatly from within one political context to another. Typical duties relate to keeping the peace, law enforcement, protection of people and property, officers are expected to respond to a variety of situations that may arise while they are on duty. Rules and guidelines dictate how an officer should behave within the community, in some countries, rules and procedures dictate that a police officer is obliged to intervene in a criminal incident, even if they are off-duty. Police officers in all countries retain their lawful powers while off duty
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DC: The New Frontier
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DC, The New Frontier is an Eisner, Harvey and Shuster Award-winning six-issue comic book limited series written and drawn by Darwyn Cooke. The book was published by DC Comics in 2004, the series was collected into two trade paperback volumes in 2004 and 2005, an Absolute Edition in 2006 and a deluxe edition in 2015. The story was adapted into a film, Justice League, The New Frontier. The series was influenced by Kingdom Come, The Golden Age, Watchmen, the story bridges the gap between the end of the Golden Age and the beginning of the Silver Age in the DC Universe. Set from 1953 to 1960, post-World War II sentiment and Cold War tension have pushed the Age of the Superhero into decline. However, when an alien presence emerges on earth a new era of superheroes must join forces with veteran heroes. The New Frontier is set in 1945,1948 and from 1952 to 1960, Golden Age characters such as Superman, Wonder Woman and Batman meet Silver Age characters, such as Martian Manhunter, Green Lantern and The Flash. Cameo appearances by President Dwight D. Eisenhower and Vice President Richard Nixon and references to atomic testing, the civil rights movement, the storyline is inspired by comic books and films of the period and the novel and film versions of Tom Wolfes The Right Stuff. The series attempts to re-imagine the era which ushered in the presidency of John F. Kennedy, a major part of one of Kennedys speeches is used, and the title evokes the presidents New Frontier. New Frontier includes elements of the Golden and Silver Ages which did not appear until the 1970s, many characters appeared as they did when they were created, and were not retconned to fit the era and story. Barry Allen becomes the Flash in 1956 and Hal Jordan acquires the power ring and becomes Green Lantern in 1959, the New Frontier universe was one of the 52 Earths in the DC multiverse. His style resembles that of Bruce Timm, in 2007, when the series was released as an Absolute Edition, it received an Eisner Award for Best Graphic Album and a Harvey Award for Best Graphic Album of Previously Published Work. It was adapted as an animated film, written by Stan Berkowitz and produced by Bruce Timm with Darwyn Cooke a story. Rated PG-13, it was released in the United States on February 26,2008 on DVD, HD DVD, Blu-ray and pay-per-view. Fate, Martian Manhunter and The Flash A box set of Batman, Superman, Green Lantern and Wonder Woman, including a reprint of Justice League, solo #5, written and drawn by Darwyn Cooke, included a short story with King Faraday set in pre-revolutionary Cuba. Justice League, The New Frontier Special was released in May 2008 as a follow-up to the Justice League, The New Frontier DVD. Stories included Batman vs. Superman, a post-New Frontier story where Robin teams up with Kid Flash for the first time, grand Comics Database index of original series
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Martian Manhunter
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The Martian Manhunter is a fictional superhero appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics. Created by writer Joseph Samachson and designed by artist Joe Certa and he is one of the seven original members of the Justice League of America. Jonn Jonzz has featured in other DC Comics-endorsed products, such as games, television series, animated films. He was ranked #43 on IGNs greatest comic book hero list, David Harewood portrays a human form of Martian Manhunter on Supergirl. The Martian Manhunter debuted in the back-up story The Strange Experiment of Dr. Erdel in Detective Comics #225, written by Joseph Samachson and illustrated by Joe Certa. The character is a green-skinned extraterrestrial humanoid from the planet Mars, the Martian tells Erdel where he is from, and is told that to send him back will require the Computer Brains thinking plot to be changed. The shock of the encounter kills Dr. Erdel and leaves Jonn with no method of returning home, the character decides to fight crime while waiting for Martian technology to advance to a stage that will enable his rescue. To that end, he adopts the identity of John Jones, a more significant difference is that at this time, there is no suggestion that Mars is a dead planet or that the character is the last of his kind. Many of the tales of the time feature either Martian technology or the appearance of other Martian characters, Detective Comics #236, for example, features the character making contact with the planet Mars and his parents. Jonzz eventually reveals his existence to the world, after which he operates openly as a superhero, the Martian and the archer inaugurated the team-up format of The Brave and the Bold. Jonzz appears there one time, working with fellow JLA member. In some stories he is travelling through space at near-light speed or to other planets. The detective John Jones is ostensibly killed in action by the Idol Head of Diabolu, Jonn abandons the civilian identity as he decides fighting this new menace will take a great deal of his time. At this point his feature moves to House of Mystery, where Jonn spends the next few years in battle against the Idol Head. Shortly after its defeat he takes the persona of Marco Xavier in order to infiltrate the international crime cartel known as VULTURE, as Superman was allowed by DC to become fully active members of the Justice League, Jonzzs appearances there dwindled. He last participated in a mission in his tenure in #61. In #71, his people came to Earth for him. Over the next fifteen years Jonn appeared sporadically in various DC titles, in 1972, Superman was teleported to New Mars
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Solo (DC Comics)
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Solo is an American comic book series that was published bimonthly by DC Comics, beginning in October 2004. Each issue has 48 pages plus covers, with no ads, solo was canceled in 2006, in total, twelve issues appeared. The title was conceived as a series to spotlight the work of a different comic book artist in each issue. The creators were free to tell stories in any genre and to use DCs library of characters as they saw fit. They could also work with if they chose, but the intention of the series was for them to show off the range of their own individual artistic sensibilities and abilities. In some ways it could be seen as a descendant of DCs old Showcase series, elements of Walt Simonsons issue later became the basis of his graphic novel The Judas Coin
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Batman R.I.P.
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Batman R. I. P. is an American comic book story arc published in Batman #676–681 by DC Comics. It has a number of tie-ins in other DC Comics titles describing events not told in the main story, and the very first story title I noted down was Batman R. I. P. I had an image for the cover, which Alex Ross has done a bang-zoom. So it came from out of that notion came the idea for the big overarching story I’ve been telling since I first came on the book. In an interview with Comic Book Resources, Grant Morrison explained that Batmans fate in the story is so much better than death, people have killed characters in the past, but to me, that kind of ends the story. I like to keep the story twisting and turning, so what I am doing is a fate worse than death. Things that no one would expect to happen to these guys at all and this is the end of Bruce Wayne as Batman. Morrison talked about Batman R. I. P. at the April 2008 New York Comic Con Spotlight on Grant Morrison panel. When we begin to suspect the identity of the villain, I think its the most, like I said the other day, its possibly the most shocking Batman revelation in 70 years. DC Universe #0 shed some light on the plot of the series. In the sequence, Batman confronts the Joker about the mysterious Black Glove, the Joker, nonchalantly dealing out a dead mans hand from a deck of cards, taunts Batman regarding his fear of the mystery villain and how the Black Glove intends on destroying him. The story begins with Batman and Robin perched onto a gothic building lit by lightning, Batman defiantly proclaims Batman and Robin will never die. Events then flashback to Gotham City six months earlier, where Dr. Hurt announces The Black Gloves next venture, Bruce Wayne is dating Jezebel Jet, a model who is very influential in her home country. Jezebel discovers Bruce was Batman relatively early in their relationship, and he lets Jezebel so deep into his life, that he even introduces her to the Batcave. Meanwhile, – the Black Glove member, Le Bossu, while in his identity as a psychologist, contacts The Joker in Arkham Asylum. Jezebel tries to convince Batman that he is living a life he has fabricated in his own head as a child to cope with the death of his parents. This suggestion begins to affect Batmans already strained psyche and he passes out when Jezebel says aloud a word that was on all the Bat-computers screens, as he passes out, Dr. Hurt and minions of his diabolical club, the Black Glove, infiltrate the Batcave. They drug Batman, beat Alfred, and wreak havoc upon the cave, when Bruce Wayne is seen next, he wakes up in a pile of garbage with no memory of himself
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Hush (comics)
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Hush is a fictional supervillain appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics, commonly as an adversary of the superhero Batman. Hush first appeared in Batman #609, as part of the 12-issue storyline Batman, Hush where he was created by Jeph Loeb, Hush resurfaced in Batman, Gotham Knights, and later in Detective Comics and Batman, Streets of Gotham. He has recently reemerged as the architect behind several of the events of Batman Eternal, dr. Thomas Tommy Elliot was a childhood friend of Bruce Wayne, and was also born into a wealthy family. Tommy despised both his father and his frail, submissive mother, who came from poverty and willingly endured every abuse dealt to her and her son to keep her lavish lifestyle. For all their failings, however, Tommys parents made sure he was well-educated, in teaching him about the philosophy of Aristotle. Thomas Wayne, which enraged young Elliot, while at a summer camp with Bruce, Tommy attacked a boy and ended up in a psychiatric ward, he blamed Bruce and his mother for his outburst. He is soon released by an intern named Jonathan Crane soon to be known as Scarecrow, during the next few years, Tommy tended to his mother. When Bruces parents were murdered, Tommy resented him for inheriting the Wayne family fortune, shortly before Bruce returned to Gotham City, Tommy befriended a young woman named Peyton Riley – a relationship of which his mother never approved. When Tommys mother recovered from cancer, she disowned him, subsequently cutting him off from the Elliot family fortune in retaliation for his relationship with Peyton. As a result, Tommy killed her by smothering her with a pillow, while Peyton killed their lawyer, as far as the rest of the world was concerned, his mother had died of a household accident. Finally the sole recipient of his familys fortune, Tommy abandoned Peyton and began traveling the world, although he went on to Harvard University and became a successful surgeon, Tommy continued to harbor an irrational grudge towards his childhood friend. At some point in his career, Edward Nygma, also known as the Riddler, was diagnosed with terminal cancer, during this mystical treatment, which renders the participant temporarily insane, the Riddler experienced an unexpected epiphany, he realized that Bruce Wayne was Batman. Soon afterwards, the Riddler attempted to sell Tommy the secrets of his revelation in exchange for a large cash sum. Tommy, by this time having discovered Nygmas criminal background, instead offered to pay him to kill Bruce, realizing that they shared a common hatred for Wayne, Tommy and the Riddler decided to pool resources to bring him down. To this end, Elliot created for himself the persona of Hush, in their attempt to destroy Batman, Hush and the Riddler manipulated several other villains into unwittingly helping them. These included the Joker, Harley Quinn, Two-Face, Poison Ivy, Scarecrow, Killer Croc, part of their plot included fooling Bruce into believing the Joker had murdered Tommy, Clayface shapeshifted into Tommys corpse in order to create this illusion. With these villains as their pawns, Hush and the Riddler set up a plot against Batman. Jason Todd, who was believed to be dead for years, entered the pact with the villains, around this time, Hush cured the disfigured Harold Allnut, a longtime associate of Batman
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Batman: Legends of the Dark Knight
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Batman, Legends of the Dark Knight, commonly referred to as simply Legends of the Dark Knight is a DC comic book featuring Batman. It was launched in 1989 with the popularity of the Batman movie, following on from Frank Millers Batman and it differs from other Batman titles in that it has constantly rotating creative teams, and the stories are not necessarily part of the current events of the other Batman comics. Initially the title was promoted as running only stand alone self-contained five issue stories of graphic novel quality, however, after issue 20, stories of different lengths started to appear. While some stories have tied in with the titles, generally this has not been the case An episode of The New Batman Adventures was named after the comic. Most of the featured in Legends are set in the early years of Batmans career, though a few are set in the present. Stories set at the beginning of Batmans career are referred to as taking place during Year One, meaning Bruce Waynes first year of crime fighting as Batman. The title had been promoted as only doing stories from before Robin, but Dick Grayson. The series, for the most part, eschewed appearances by other DC universe characters save for Batman, Alfred Pennyworth, Commissioner Gordon, in 2012, DC Comics revived the series as Legends of the Dark Knight, a digital-first weekly series. This time, the stories are self-contained out of continuity single chapters, the first issue The Butler Did It by Damon Lindelof and Jeff Lemire debuted in June 2012. These chapters have collected into print issues starting with #1 in December 2012. The original series was published from 1989 to 2007, and was published as Legends of the Dark Knight for issues 1–36, the series is currently published as a weekly digital series, and is published quarterly as 100-page super spectacular issues. Shaman By Dennis ONeil, Ed Hannigan, and John Beatty Bruce Wayne, Woodley quickly manages to kill the bounty hunter before falling off the cliff after a small fight with Wayne. Waynes supplies are lost with Woodley which nearly results in Waynes death when a Native American with her grandfather discover him. The grandfather is able to save Waynes life by taking Wayne to his cabin and tells him a story on how the Bat gained its wings, after he recuperates and leaves, Wayne is warned by the granddaughter never to tell anyone the story. Upon his return to Gotham City shortly after, Wayne attempts to fight crime and that night after he fails a bat flies into the room and reminds Wayne of the Native Americans story from years earlier and so he decides to create a costume for himself and become Batman. Note, Legend of the Dark Knight #1 was printed with different covers as collectors items. Gothic By Grant Morrison and Klaus Janson A man known as Mr. Whisper is killing off mob bosses one by one. The mobsters explain to Batman that he was a killer over thirty years ago
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Cleveland
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Cleveland is a city in the U. S. state of Ohio and the county seat of Cuyahoga County, the states second most populous county. The city proper has a population of 388,072, making Cleveland the 51st largest city in the United States, Greater Cleveland ranked as the 32nd largest metropolitan area in the United States, with 2,055,612 people in 2016. The city is the center of the Cleveland–Akron–Canton Combined Statistical Area, the city is located on the southern shore of Lake Erie, approximately 60 miles west of the Pennsylvania border. Clevelands economy has diversified sectors that include manufacturing, financial services, healthcare, Cleveland is also home to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Residents of Cleveland are called Clevelanders, Cleveland has many nicknames, the oldest of which in contemporary use being The Forest City. Cleaveland oversaw the plan for what would become the downtown area, centered on Public Square, before returning home. The first settler in Cleaveland was Lorenzo Carter, who built a cabin on the banks of the Cuyahoga River, the Village of Cleaveland was incorporated on December 23,1814. In spite of the swampy lowlands and harsh winters, its waterfront location proved to be an advantage. The area began rapid growth after the 1832 completion of the Ohio, growth continued with added railroad links. Cleveland incorporated as a city in 1836, in 1836, the city, then located only on the eastern banks of the Cuyahoga River, nearly erupted into open warfare with neighboring Ohio City over a bridge connecting the two. Ohio City remained an independent municipality until its annexation by Cleveland in 1854, the citys prime geographic location as a transportation hub on the Great Lakes has played an important role in its development as a commercial center. Cleveland serves as a point for iron ore shipped from Minnesota. In 1870, John D. Rockefeller founded Standard Oil in Cleveland, other manufacturers located in Cleveland produced steam-powered cars, which included White and Gaeth, as well as the electric car company Baker. Because of the significant growth, Cleveland was known as the Sixth City during this period, by 1920, due in large part to the citys economic prosperity, Cleveland became the nations fifth largest city. The city counted Progressive Era politicians such as the populist Mayor Tom L. Johnson among its leaders, many prominent Clevelanders from this era are buried in the historic Lake View Cemetery, including President James A. Garfield, and John D. Rockefeller. In commemoration of the centennial of Clevelands incorporation as a city, conceived as a way to energize a city after the Great Depression, it drew four million visitors in its first season, and seven million by the end of its second and final season in September 1937. The exposition was housed on grounds that are now used by the Great Lakes Science Center, following World War II, the city experienced a prosperous economy. In sports, the Indians won the 1948 World Series, the hockey Barons became champions of the American Hockey League, as a result, along with track and boxing champions produced, Cleveland was dubbed City of Champions in sports at this time
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New York City
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The City of New York, often called New York City or simply New York, is the most populous city in the United States. With an estimated 2015 population of 8,550,405 distributed over an area of about 302.6 square miles. Located at the tip of the state of New York. Home to the headquarters of the United Nations, New York is an important center for international diplomacy and has described as the cultural and financial capital of the world. Situated on one of the worlds largest natural harbors, New York City consists of five boroughs, the five boroughs – Brooklyn, Queens, Manhattan, The Bronx, and Staten Island – were consolidated into a single city in 1898. In 2013, the MSA produced a gross metropolitan product of nearly US$1.39 trillion, in 2012, the CSA generated a GMP of over US$1.55 trillion. NYCs MSA and CSA GDP are higher than all but 11 and 12 countries, New York City traces its origin to its 1624 founding in Lower Manhattan as a trading post by colonists of the Dutch Republic and was named New Amsterdam in 1626. The city and its surroundings came under English control in 1664 and were renamed New York after King Charles II of England granted the lands to his brother, New York served as the capital of the United States from 1785 until 1790. It has been the countrys largest city since 1790, the Statue of Liberty greeted millions of immigrants as they came to the Americas by ship in the late 19th and early 20th centuries and is a symbol of the United States and its democracy. In the 21st century, New York has emerged as a node of creativity and entrepreneurship, social tolerance. Several sources have ranked New York the most photographed city in the world, the names of many of the citys bridges, tapered skyscrapers, and parks are known around the world. Manhattans real estate market is among the most expensive in the world, Manhattans Chinatown incorporates the highest concentration of Chinese people in the Western Hemisphere, with multiple signature Chinatowns developing across the city. Providing continuous 24/7 service, the New York City Subway is one of the most extensive metro systems worldwide, with 472 stations in operation. Over 120 colleges and universities are located in New York City, including Columbia University, New York University, and Rockefeller University, during the Wisconsinan glaciation, the New York City region was situated at the edge of a large ice sheet over 1,000 feet in depth. The ice sheet scraped away large amounts of soil, leaving the bedrock that serves as the foundation for much of New York City today. Later on, movement of the ice sheet would contribute to the separation of what are now Long Island and Staten Island. The first documented visit by a European was in 1524 by Giovanni da Verrazzano, a Florentine explorer in the service of the French crown and he claimed the area for France and named it Nouvelle Angoulême. Heavy ice kept him from further exploration, and he returned to Spain in August and he proceeded to sail up what the Dutch would name the North River, named first by Hudson as the Mauritius after Maurice, Prince of Orange
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Justice League: The New Frontier
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Justice League, The New Frontier is a 2008, direct-to-video, animated, superhero film adapted from the DC Comics limited series DC, The New Frontier. The film was written by Stan Berkowitz and the story and visual consultant was Darwyn Cooke, the film received a rating of PG-13 for violent content and images, and was released on February 26,2008. It is the film in the series of DC Universe Animated Original Movies released by Warner Premiere. Animation, the first release was Superman, Doomsday and the film in the series is Batman. The film had its broadcast premiere on October 18,2008 on Cartoon Network, an unknown entity, after witnessing the evolution of life on Earth, has decided to eradicate mankind due to its capacity of violence. At the end of the Korean War, United States Air Force pilot Hal Jordan and his wingman, Kyle Ace Morgan, are attacked by enemy pilots but survive. In Gotham, Jonn Jonzz —the last survivor of the Green Martian race— is teleported to Earth, unable to return, Jonn disguises himself. In Las Vegas, Iris West is on the telephone with her fiancé Barry Allen—known as Flash— at a casino when Captain Cold arrives to commit robbery, Flash finds the six bombs hidden by Cold and captures him, before Cold is possessed by an entity. After two years, Jonn is a detective with the Gotham City Police Department, the cult leader is possessed by the entity, who identifies itself as The Centre, and warns of impending judgement. Hal trains under Col. Rick Flag at Ferris Aircraft for a commissioned by the U. S. government, as explained by Carol Ferris. Special agent King Faraday oversees the project, Batman suggests to Jonn that they work together in investigating the The Centre-worshiping cult. The Flash defeats a robotic duplicate of Gorilla Grodd, after being targeted by the government, Jonn interrogates former Ferris employee Harry Leiter, who tells them about the launch to Mars and when Faraday arrives, Jonn briefly glimpses into his mind to learn the truth. Seeing the contemptuous public response to the Flashs announcement, Jonn gives his research to Batman, Jonn and Faraday fight on the launchpad, the rocket is damaged and malfunctions after leaving Earths atmosphere. Hal wants to attempt a landing but Flag reveals weapons of destruction are on board. Hal is ejected from the cockpit and saved by Superman, Flag detonates the rocket as Jonn is held prisoner, on Paradise Island, Wonder Woman trains with Mala before being attacked by The Centre. Abin Sur was injured entering Earths atmosphere, he gives his ring to Hal and tells him of The Centre, Superman and Batman review Jonns research as Lois Lane reports that a giant pterodactyl is attacking Cape Canaveral. Superman arrives and quickly defeats it, Wonder Womans invisible jet crashes, Jonn decides to help save Earth after his hope for humanity is renewed. The Centre, a flying island with an army of mutant dinosaurs to guard it
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Jim Meskimen
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James Ross Jim Meskimen is an American stand-up comedian, actor, voice actor and impressionist. He is known for his work on Whose Line Is It Anyway and he is also known for his voice over work in video games. Meskimen was born in Los Angeles, California, the son of Freeman Meskimen, Meskimen portrayed the father of Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsens characters in Our Lips Are Sealed. He portrayed Officer Wholihan in How the Grinch Stole Christmas and he voices Thom Cat, Neighbor John, and Stumpy in the Thom Cat short film on Random. Meskimen provided the voice of the Genie in the Aladdin franchise, in 2012, Meskimen voices several different characters in Lego The Lord of the Rings. As well, he is the voice of George W. Bush, in the same year, Meskimen voices and motion captures David Patraeus in Call of Duty, Black Ops 2. Meskimen was a contestant on season eight of Americas Got Talent and he has also toured various U. S. cities performing a one-man act, entitled Jimpressions, of celebrity impersonations and original characters. In 1987, Meskimen married Tamra Meskimen and they have a daughter named Taylor. Anger Management – Daniel Avatar, The Last Airbender – Lieutenant Jee, General How, Avatar Kuruk Avengers Assemble – Ultron, Arsenal, cartoons – Thom Cat, Neighbor John, Stumpy Rules of Engagement – Mr. Wrigley Shaggy & Scooby-Doo Get a Clue. Bush, George H. W. Bush Two and a Half Men – Gangster #2 Whose Line Is it Anyway. Kennedy My Neighbors the Yamadas – Additional voices Our Lips Are Sealed – Rick Parker Armored Core V - Jack Batty, Men of Honor Unit B, Bush Bugs Bunny and Friends Sing the Beatles – Elmer Fudd Official website Jim Meskimen at the Internet Movie Database
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