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Jerry Ordway
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Jeremiah Jerry Ordway is an American writer, penciller, inker and painter of comic books. And writing the monthly series from 1995–1999. He has provided inks for artists such as Curt Swan, Jack Kirby, Gil Kane, John Buscema, Jerry Ordway was inspired in his childhood by Marvel Comics, and dreamed of drawing Daredevil, Spider-Man, and the Avengers. To date he has worked on the latter. Among the artists he considers influential are Curt Swan, Jack Kirby, Gil Kane, John Buscema, Steve Ditko and he cites Gene Colan, Wally Wood, Alex Raymond, Hal Foster and Roy Crane as early inspirations. He names contemporaries such as Lee Weeks, John Romita Jr. Ron Garney, Mike Weiringo and Alan Davis, Ordway attended Milwaukee Technical High School, where he took a three-year commercial art course, before joining a commercial art studio as a typographer in 1976. He subsequently worked his way from the floor up at the art studio between 1978 and 1981. Before beginning his career as an inker, Jerry Ordway entered the comics industry as an artist. Ordway discovered Marvel comics in June of 1967, and wrote in 1975 that he had been drawing superheroes since and his first published work, a story entitled The Messenger, appeared in Tim Corrigans Superhero Comics No. 4, and his own self-published fanzine Okay Comix followed in May–June,1975, Okay Comix featured stories by Ordway and his friend Dave Koula, and art predominantly by Ordway himself. Ordways own hero Proton headlined the zine, which featured a pin-up of a character called Acrobat who was the first superhero created and his first professional work was for Western Publishings Golden Books on young-reader Marvel books, and the Superheroes Golden Beginning Stampbook 79. Having produced comics-related artwork for fanzines and licensed publishers, Ordway attended a talent search at the 1980 Chicago Comicon, after showing them his DC related artwork from the Golden Books, he walked away with a promise of work. This work began in the summer of 1980 for DCs anthology comics, in which he inked Carmine Infantino, Trevor Von Eeden, as well as Joe Staton, and Dave Cockrum. After continuing to work at the art studio for a six months, inking comics for DC by night. During the mid-1980s, he shared a studio with artists, including Machlan, Pat Broderick. At DC, he would illustrate All-Star Squadron, a series which he helped launch in a preview in Justice League of America No.193. With writer Roy Thomas, he co-created Infinity, Inc. in All-Star Squadron No.25, Ordway inked DC Comics Presents Annual No.4 over artist Eduardo Barretos pencils and was one of several artists on Batman Annual No.9. He also inked George Pérezs pencils on the crossover miniseries Crisis on Infinite Earths in 1985
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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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Superhero comics
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Superhero comics are the most common genre of American comic books. The genre rose to prominence in the 1930s and 1940s and has remained the dominant form of book in North America since the 1960s. Superhero comics feature stories about superheroes and the universes these characters inhabit, in comics format, superpowered and costumed heroes like Popeye and The Phantom had appeared in newspaper comic strips for several years prior to Superman. The masked detective The Clock first appeared in the comic book Funny Pages #6, in the Great Depression and World War II era the first Superhero Comics appeared, the most popular being Superman, Batman, Captain Marvel, Wonder Woman and Captain America. Beginning in the 1950s, DC began publishing revised versions of their 1940s superhero characters such as The Flash, Anti-Hero becomes popular with appearances of the Punisher, Wolverine, Ghost Rider and a 1980s revival of Daredevil by Frank Miller. Superhero Comics became darker with the release of landmark deconstructive works such as Watchmen and The Dark Knight Returns, in the 1990s, Image Comics released successful new characters including the Anti-Hero Spawn which were predominantly creator owned as opposed to Marvel and DCs which were corporate owned. Superhero Comics of the Silver Age, The Illustrated History, Superhero Comics of the Golden Age, The Illustrated History. Exploring the Sacred in Comics, Graphic Novels, and Film,485 p. ISBN 978-0-06-199210-0 Jacobs, Will and Gerard Jones. The Comic Book Superheroes, from the Silver Age to the Present, xi,292 p. ISBN 0-517-55440-2 Klock, Geoff. How to Read Superhero Comics and Why and our Gods Wear Spandex, The Secret History of Comic Book Heroes. Superheroes and Gods, A Comparative Study from Babylonia to Batman
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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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Clark Kent
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Clark Joseph Kent is a fictional character appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics. Created by Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster, he debuted in Action Comics #1 and serves as the civilian, over the decades there has been considerable debate as to which personality the character identifies with most. From his first introduction in 1938 to the mid-1980s, Clark Kent was seen mostly as a disguise for Superman and this was the view in most comics and other media such as movie serials and TV and radio. In 1986, during John Byrnes revamping of the character, Clark Kent became more emphasized, different takes persist in the present, with the character typically depicted as being clumsy and mild-mannered. Another, perhaps more likely possibility, is that Jerry Siegel pulled from his own love of pulp heroes Doc Clark Savage and this idea was notably stated in the book Men of Tomorrow, Geeks, Gangsters, and the Rise of the American Comic Book. He is also cousin to Kara Zo-El, also known as Supergirl, Clarks middle name is given variously as either Joseph, Jerome or Jonathan, all being allusions to creators Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster. In the earliest Superman comics, Clark Kents primary purpose was to fulfill the perceived dramatic requirement that a costumed superhero cannot remain on duty all the time. Clark thus acted as more than a front for Supermans activities. He sees his job as a journalist as an extension of his Superman responsibilities—bringing truth to the forefront and he believes that everybody has the right to know what is going on in the world, regardless of who is involved. To deflect suspicion that he is Superman, Clark Kent adopted a passive and introverted personality with conservative mannerisms, a higher-pitched voice. This personality is described as mild-mannered, perhaps most famously by the opening narration of Max Fleischers Superman animated theatrical shorts. These traits extended into Clarks wardrobe, which consists of a bland-colored business suit, a red necktie, black-rimmed glasses, combed-back hair. Fellow reporter Lois Lane became the object of Clarks/Supermans romantic affection, Lois affection for Superman and her rejection of Clarks clumsy advances have been a recurring theme in Superman comics, as well as in movies and on television. Superman usually stores his Clark Kent clothing compressed in a secret pouch within his cape, in the Pre-Crisis Superman comic book, Clark appears in occasional back-up stories called The Private Life of Clark Kent, wherein he solves problems subtly as Clark without changing into Superman. The feature was shown in the Superman Family title. Adopted by Jonathan and Martha Kent from the Kansas town of Smallville, Clark was raised with the values of a typical rural American town, most continuities state that the Kents never had biological children of their own and were usually depicted as middle-aged or elderly when they found Clark. In the Silver Age comics continuity, Clarks superpowers manifested upon his landing on Earth and he learned to master them. He subsequently developed Clarks timid demeanor as a means of ensuring no one would suspect any connection between the two alter-egos
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Lois Lane
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Lois Lane is a fictional character appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics. Created by writer Jerry Siegel and artist Joe Shuster, she first appeared in Action Comics #1, Lois is a reporter for the Metropolis newspaper, the Daily Planet, an award-winning journalist and the primary love interest of Superman. Her physical appearance was based on Joanne Carter, a model hired by Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster. For her character, Siegel was inspired by actress Glenda Farrell, Siegel took her name from actress Lola Lane. She was also influenced by the real-life journalist Nellie Bly, depictions of the character have varied spanning the comics and other media adaptations. The original Golden Age version of Lois Lane, as well as versions of her from the 1970s onwards, portrays Lois as a tough-as-nails journalist and intellectually equal to Superman. During the Silver Age of Comics, she was the star of Supermans Girl Friend, Lois Lane, beginning in 2015, she stars as the protagonist in the young adult novel series, Lois Lane, by writer Gwenda Bond. Lois is among the female comic book characters. She has appeared in various Superman media adaptations, Actress Noel Neill first portrayed Lois Lane in the 1940s Superman film series and late reprise her role in the 1950s television series Adventures of Superman. Margot Kidder played the character in four Superman films in the 1970s and 80s, Teri Hatcher portrayed her in the 1990s television series Lois & Clark, The New Adventures of Superman and Erica Durance in the 00s series, Smallville. In the 2006 film Superman Returns, she was played by Kate Bosworth, the character was most recently portrayed by actress Amy Adams in the films Man of Steel and Batman v Superman, Dawn of Justice. Lois Lane was one of the first female comic book characters introduced in the superhero comics, Lois is the daughter of Ella and Sam Lane. In earlier comics, her parents were farmers in a town called Pittsdale and she has one younger sibling, her sister Lucy Lane. Lois is a journalist for the Daily Planet, one of the best investigative reporters, in some stories, she has been shown obtaining superpowers and becoming a superhero. Some of her superhero identities are Superwoman and Red Tornado of Earth 2, aspects of Lois personality have varied over the years, depending on the comic book writers handling of the character and American social attitudes toward women at the time. In most incarnations, Lois has been depicted as a smart, determined, strong-willed and her physical appearance has varied over the years, depending either on contemporary fashion, or media adaptations. Traditionally in the comics, the character has shown with black hair, however, from the late 1980s through the 90s. In other media, shes been shown with blonde hair on the television series Smallville
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Louise Simonson
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Louise Simonson is an American comic book writer and editor. She is best known for her work on book titles such as Power Pack, X-Factor, New Mutants, Superman, The Man of Steel. She is often referred to by the nickname Weezie, in recognition of her contributions to comics, Comics Alliance listed Simonson as one of twelve women cartoonists deserving of lifetime achievement recognition. In 1964 while attending Georgia State College, Louise met fellow student Jeff Jones, the two began dating and were married in 1966. Their daughter Julianna was born the following year, after graduation, the couple moved to New York City. She and Jeff Jones split up during this time but she continued to use the name Louise Jones for several years afterward, Louise met the comic book writer and artist Walt Simonson in 1973, began dating in August 1974, and married in 1980. They collaborated on X-Factor from 1988 to 1989, and made a appearance in the 2011 Thor feature film together. In 1974, Jones started her comic book career at Warren Publishing. She went from assistant to editor of the comics line before leaving the company at the end of 1979. In January 1980, she joined Marvel Comics, where she worked again as an editor, most notably on Uncanny X-Men. Simonson edited another X-Men spin-off, The New Mutants, at its debut in 1983, after leaving the series, she would have a cameo in New Mutants #21, drawn in as a slumber party guest by artist Bill Sienkiewicz. During this period, she also edited Marvels Star Wars and Indiana Jones comics, at the end of 1983, she quit her editing job at Marvel to try her hand at full-time writing as Louise Simonson. She created the Eagle Award-winning Power Pack, the title, which debuted in August 1984, featured the adventures of four pre-teen superheroes. Simonson would write the majority of the titles first forty issues and her other Marvel writing work included Starriors, Marvel Team-Up, Web of Spider-Man, and Red Sonja. Louise helped her husband Walt Simonson color his Star Slammers story in Marvel Graphic Novel #6, in 1986 Bob Layton, writer of the X-Men spin-off X-Factor, was running late on a deadline, and Simonson was called in to write a fill-in issue of X-Factor. Instead, Layton ended up dropping X-Factor shortly after, and at Chris Claremont and Ann Nocentis suggestion, in #6, her first issue, she and artist Jackson Guice introduced Apocalypse, a character who would go on to make repeated appearances in the X-Men franchise. From #10 of the title, she was joined by her husband, in #25, the creators gave the character, Angel, blue skin and metal wings in a process which would lead to his being renamed as Archangel. It was at Simonsons suggestion that X-Men writer Chris Claremonts Mutant Massacre story idea was turned into a crossover through all the X-books and her run on X-Factor included the relevant installments of Mutant Massacre, and the subsequent crossovers Fall of the Mutants, Inferno, and X-Tinction Agenda
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Roger Stern
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Roger Stern is an American comic book author and novelist. In the early 1970s, Stern and Bob Layton published the fanzine CPL, CPL rapidly became a popular fan publication, and led to the two forming an alliance with Charlton Comics to produce and publish the now-famous Charlton Bullseye magazine. This led to Charlton giving Layton and Stern access to unpublished material from their vaults by the likes of Steve Ditko, Jeff Jones, Stern worked as an editor from 1976 to 1980. Jim Shooter claims that Stern co-plotted his last few stories for DC Comics in 1976, Stern wrote the Guardians of the Galaxy feature in Marvel Presents #10-12 in 1977. He briefly collaborated with Byrne on Captain America, the two produced a story wherein Captain America considered running for the office of President of the United States, an idea originally developed by Roger McKenzie and Don Perlin. Stern, in his capacity as editor of the title, had rejected the idea. McKenzie and Perlin received credit for the idea on the page at Sterns insistence. Stern became the writer of The Spectacular Spider-Man with issue #43 and he then took over The Amazing Spider-Man with issue #224. In addition to his Spider-Man work, Stern is known for his stints on Doctor Strange. Stern ended his run with Amazing Spider-Man #250, chiefly due to his difficulty working with new Spider-Man editor Danny Fingeroth, later that same year, he co-created the Avengers spin-off The West Coast Avengers, with artist Bob Hall. In 1987, after a dispute with editor Mark Gruenwald over upcoming storylines and he began freelancing for DC Comics, where he was one of the core Superman writers for almost a decade, working on Superman, Action Comics, and Superman, The Man of Tomorrow. He contributed to such storylines as Panic in the Sky and The Death of Superman which revived interest in the character in the early 1990s. He created the Eradicator in Action Comics Annual #2 and later incorporated the character into the Reign of the Supermen story arc beginning in The Adventures of Superman #500. Additionally, Stern was one of the creators who worked on the Superman. Other work for DC included a relaunched Atom series drawn by Dwayne Turner, over the next four years, he wrote the short-lived Marvel Universe series, as well as such miniseries as Avengers Two, Avengers Infinity, and Spider-Man, Revenge of the Green Goblin. Stern collaborated with Avengers writer Kurt Busiek on Iron Man and the miniseries Avengers Forever, Stern and Busiek co-wrote the Darkman vs. Army of Darkness limited series which was drawn by artist James Fry and published by Dynamite Entertainment. In 2007, Stern wrote an issue of The All-New Atom and he collaborated again with Busiek, co-writing several issues of Marvels, Eye of the Camera, the sequel to the Marvels miniseries. Stern has continued to freelance for Marvel, writing the 2010 miniseries Captain America, Forever Allies, in addition to his comics work, Stern has written three novels, The Death and Life of Superman, Smallville, Strange Visitors, and Superman, The Never-Ending Battle
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Wedding
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A wedding is a ceremony where two people are united in marriage. Wedding traditions and customs vary greatly between cultures, ethnic groups, religions, countries, and social classes, most wedding ceremonies involve an exchange of marriage vows by the couple, presentation of a gift, and a public proclamation of marriage by an authority figure. Special wedding garments are worn, and the ceremony is sometimes followed by a wedding reception. Music, poetry, prayers or readings from religious texts or literature are commonly incorporated into the ceremony. Some cultures have adopted the traditional Western custom of the wedding, in which a bride wears a white wedding dress. This tradition was popularized through the marriage of Queen Victoria, some say Victorias choice of a white gown may have simply been a sign of extravagance, but may have also been influenced by the values she held which emphasized sexual purity. Within the modern white wedding tradition, a dress and veil are unusual choices for a womans second or subsequent wedding. The use of a ring has long been part of religious weddings in Europe and America. Historian Vicki Howard points out that the belief in the ancient quality of the practice is most likely a modern invention, double ring ceremonies are also a modern practice, a grooms wedding band not appearing in the United States until the early 20th century. The kittel is worn only under the Chupah, and is removed before the reception, different wedding clothing around the world Music played at Western weddings includes a processional song for walking down the aisle either before or after the marriage service. An example of use is reported in the wedding of Nora Robinson. Selections by George Frideric Handel, perhaps most notably the Air from his Water Music as processional, the Bridal Chorus from Lohengrin by Richard Wagner, often used as the processional and commonly known as Here Comes the Bride. Richard Wagner is said to have been anti-Semitic, and as a result, johann Pachelbels Canon in D is an alternative processional. The Wedding March from Felix Mendelssohns incidental music for the Shakespeare play, A Midsummer Nights Dream, the Toccata from Charles-Marie Widors Symphony for Organ No. Segments of the Ode to Joy, the movement of Ludwig van Beethovens Ninth Symphony. Other alternative considerations include various contemporary melodies like Bob Marleys One Love which is performed by a steel drum band. Most religions recognize a union with established ceremonies and rituals. Some religions permit polygamous marriages or same-sex marriages, many Christian faiths emphasize the raising of children as a priority in a marriage
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Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman
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Lois & Clark, The New Adventures of Superman is an American television series based on the DC Comics character Superman created by Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster. It stars Dean Cain as Clark Kent/Superman and Teri Hatcher as Lois Lane, the series aired on ABC from September 12,1993 to June 14,1997. Developed for television by Deborah Joy LeVine, the series loosely followed the modern origin of Superman, established by writer John Byrne—where Clark Kent is the true personality and Superman a disguise. As the shows title suggests, the focused on the relationship. The series spawned several tie-in young adults novels and a novel, Lois & Clark, A Superman Novel. The show was entirely in California. On May 17,1966, Jonathan and Martha Kent witness the crash-landing of a spaceship in Shusters Field outside of Smallville. When they investigate, they discover the baby Kal-El and decide to raise him as their own, throughout the series, Clark proudly states his mother made his Superman costume for him. He often consults Jonathan and Martha, either by telephone or in person after impromptu Superman flights to Smallville, about personal and moral concerns and dilemmas. The series opens twenty-seven years later, on the day Clark moves to Metropolis, Clark becomes acquainted with photographer Jimmy Olsen and gossip columnist Cat Grant. Soon after being hired, Clark is partnered with star reporter Lois Lane, Clark falls in love with Lois at first sight, but she considers him to be little more than a rookie slowing her down. When Superman saves her from a space shuttle disaster, Lois instantly becomes infatuated with Clarks alter-ego, Supermans first mission interferes with the illegal dealings of Lex Luthor, a Metropolis business giant and benefactor. After Luthors plot has been stopped, Clark lets him know he is watching him, however, Clark respects Luthors life, even surreptitiously using his superpowers to save Lex from bleeding to death. Luthor develops an interest in Lois Lane and through most of the first season tries to woo her, although Lois is receptive to his romantic advances, Lois also develops feelings for Clark, but represses or denies them. Luthor eventually proposes marriage to Lois, Clark, seeing he may lose Lois, attempts to convince her of Luthors true nature, but fails. In a last-ditch attempt, Clark tells Lois that he is in love with her, she replies that she not return his feelings. Later, Lois asks Superman if there is any chance of a romance between the two of them, Superman turns her down and Lois accepts Luthors proposal. Luthor decides to coincide his nuptials with the death of Superman, who he traps in a cage in the wine cellar of Luthor Tower
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Correspondent
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A foreign correspondent is stationed in a foreign country. The term correspondent refers to the practice of filing news reports via postal letter. The largest networks of correspondents belong to ARD and BBC, a correspondent generally includes some of his/her own perspective on the news. For example, a correspondent is expected to provide context to the events being chronicled. A reporter, on the hand, offers largely fact-based reporting. In Britain, the term correspondent usually refers to someone with a specific specialist area, a reporter is usually someone without such expertise who is allocated stories by the newsdesk on any story in the news. A capitol correspondent is a correspondent who reports from headquarters of government, a legal or justice correspondent reports on issues involving legal or criminal justice topics, and may often report from the vicinity of a courthouse. A red carpet correspondent is an entertainment reporter who is selected to report from the red carpet of an entertainment or media event, such as a premiere, a foreign correspondent is any individual who reports from primarily foreign locations. A war correspondent is a correspondent who covers stories first-hand from a war zone. A foreign bureau is a news bureau set up to support a news gathering operation in a foreign country, in TV news, a live on-the-scene reporter reports from the field during a live shot. This has become a popular format with the advent of Eyewitness News. A recent cost-saving measure is for local TV news to dispense with out-of-town reporters and replace them with syndicated correspondents, the producers of the show schedule time with the correspondent, who then appears live to file a report and chat with the hosts. The reporter will go and do a number of reports for other stations. Many viewers may be unaware that the reporter does not work directly for the news show and this is also a popular way to report the weather. For example, AccuWeather doesnt just supply data, they also supply on-air meteorologists from television studios at their headquarters
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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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Groomsman
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A groomsman, or usher is one of the male attendants to the groom in a wedding ceremony. Usually, the groom selects close friends and relatives to serve as groomsmen, from his groomsmen, the groom usually chooses one to serve as best man. Ushers may also be hired for very large weddings, in a military officers wedding, the roles of groomsmen are replaced by swordsmen of the sword honor guard. They are usually picked as close friends of the groom who have served with him. Their role includes forming the traditional saber arch for the married couple, the most visible duty of the groomsmen is helping guests find their places before the ceremony and to stand near the groom during the wedding ceremony. Groomsmen may also participate in local or regional traditions, such as decorating the newlywed couples car, the other and also very important task of the best man is to give a speech during the wedding. This is usually decided between the bride and groom before the wedding, the best man speech is usually humorous and short. The best man is the assistant to the groom at a wedding and is the third most important in attendance after the bride. In most modern Anglophone countries, the groom extends this honor to someone who is close to him, generally close friend or relative. When the groom wishes to give honor to a woman, she may be termed the best woman or best person. The brides equivalent of the best man is the bridesmaid, or the maid/matron of honor, a gender-neutral term is honor attendant. During a wedding ceremony the best man stands next to the groom and this means that the four people present at the altar are the celebrant, the bride, groom, and best man. This is common in western countries, although in others the best man. Even in places where a best man is customary, the role may be different when compared to other areas of the world. In Britain, it is traditional for the best man to give a short speech, in Zambia, a best man is expected to lead processions both at the wedding, and at preliminary events. In Uganda, a best man is expected to guide the newlyweds in the ways of marriage and this means that ideally a best man must be married, preferably to one wife, and should be in position to give sound, tried and tested advice. A best man must be a confidant and be discreet about the details he shares with the new couple, in Bhutan, the best man presents himself at the wedding as a ceremonial guardian to both bride and groom. Thereafter he entertains the guests, sometimes for several hours, in Eastern Orthodox weddings in Greece, the best man is often also the koumbaros, or religious sponsor
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Bridesmaid
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The bridesmaids are members of the brides party in a wedding. A bridesmaid is typically a woman, and often a close friend or sister. She attends to the bride on the day of a wedding or marriage ceremony, traditionally, bridesmaids were chosen from unwed young women of marriageable age. The principal bridesmaid, if one is so designated, may be called the chief bridesmaid or maid of honor if she is unmarried, a junior bridesmaid is a girl who is clearly too young to be married, but who is included as an honorary bridesmaid. In the United States, typically only the maid/matron of honor, often there is more than one bridesmaid, in modern times the bride chooses how many to ask. Historically, no person of status went out unattended, and the size of the retinue was closely calculated to be appropriate to the social status. A large group of bridesmaids provided an opportunity for showing off the social status. In some cultures, such as in Norway, the Netherlands and Victorian Britain and they may carry flowers during the wedding procession and pose with the married couple in bridal photos. In modern English-speaking countries, this role is separate from that of the bridesmaid, although many exceed the minimum, the bridesmaids required duties are very limited. They are required to attend the ceremony and to assist the bride on the day of the wedding. Bridesmaids in Europe and North America are often asked to assist the bride with planning the wedding, in modern times, a bridesmaid often participates in planning wedding-related events, such as a bridal shower or bachelorette party, if there are any. If it is customary in the area to have a bridesmaids luncheon, then it is hosted. A junior bridesmaid has no responsibilities beyond attending the wedding, the duties and costs of being a bridesmaid are parsed out between a bride and her attendants in a variety of ways. In some American weddings, each bridesmaid may be asked to spend US $1,700 or more, with travel to destination weddings, in the United Kingdom, the term maid of honour originally referred to the female attendant of a queen. The term bridesmaid is normally used for all bridal attendants in the UK, however, when the attendant is married, or is a mature woman, the term matron of honour is often used. The influence of American English has led to the chief bridesmaid sometimes being called the maid of honour. In North America, a party might include several bridesmaids. In modern-day weddings some brides opt to choose a male friend or brother as their head attendant
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Christian
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A Christian is a person who follows or adheres to Christianity, an Abrahamic, monotheistic religion based on the life and teachings of Jesus Christ. Christian derives from the Koine Greek word Christós, a translation of the Biblical Hebrew term mashiach, while there are diverse interpretations of Christianity which sometimes conflict, they are united in believing that Jesus has a unique significance. The term Christian is also used as an adjective to describe anything associated with Christianity, or in a sense all that is noble, and good. According to a 2011 Pew Research Center survey, there were 2.2 billion Christians around the world in 2010, by 2050, the Christian population is expected to exceed 3 billion. According to a 2012 Pew Research Center survey Christianity will remain the worlds largest religion in 2050, about half of all Christians worldwide are Catholic, while more than a third are Protestant. Orthodox communions comprise 12% of the worlds Christians, other Christian groups make up the remainder. Christians make up the majority of the population in 158 countries and territories,280 million Christian live as a minority. In the Greek Septuagint, christos was used to translate the Hebrew מָשִׁיחַ, in other European languages, equivalent words to Christian are likewise derived from the Greek, such as Chrétien in French and Cristiano in Spanish. The second mention of the term follows in Acts 26,28, where Herod Agrippa II replied to Paul the Apostle, Then Agrippa said unto Paul, Almost thou persuadest me to be a Christian. The third and final New Testament reference to the term is in 1 Peter 4,16, which believers, Yet if as a Christian, let him not be ashamed. The city of Antioch, where someone gave them the name Christians, had a reputation for coming up with such nicknames, in the Annals he relates that by vulgar appellation commonly called Christians and identifies Christians as Neros scapegoats for the Great Fire of Rome. Another term for Christians which appears in the New Testament is Nazarenes which is used by the Jewish lawyer Tertullus in Acts 24, the Hebrew equivalent of Nazarenes, Notzrim, occurs in the Babylonian Talmud, and is still the modern Israeli Hebrew term for Christian. A wide range of beliefs and practices is found across the world among those who call themselves Christian, denominations and sects disagree on a common definition of Christianity. Most Baptists and fundamentalists, for example, would not acknowledge Mormonism or Christian Science as Christian, in fact, the nearly 77 percent of Americans who self-identify as Christian are a diverse pluribus of Christianities that are far from any collective unity. The identification of Jesus as the Messiah is not accepted by Judaism, the term for a Christian in Hebrew is נוּצְרי, a Talmudic term originally derived from the fact that Jesus came from the Galilean village of Nazareth, today in northern Israel. Adherents of Messianic Judaism are referred to in modern Hebrew as יְהוּדִים מָשִׁיחַיים, the term Nasara rose to prominence in July 2014, after the Fall of Mosul to the terrorist organization Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant. The nun or ن— the first letter of Nasara—was spray-painted on the property of Christians ejected from the city, where there is a distinction, Nasrani refers to people from a Christian culture and Masihi is used by Christians themselves for those with a religious faith in Jesus. In some countries Nasrani tends to be used generically for non-Muslim Western foreigners, another Arabic word sometimes used for Christians, particularly in a political context, is Ṣalībī from ṣalīb which refers to Crusaders and has negative connotations
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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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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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Superman (comic book)
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Superman is an ongoing American comic book series featuring the DC Comics superhero of the same name. The character Superman began as one of several features in the National Periodical Publications comic book Action Comics #1 in June 1938. The strip proved so popular that National launched Superman into his own self-titled comic book, between 1986 and 2006 it was retitled The Adventures of Superman while a new series used the title Superman. In May 2006, it was returned to its original title, the title was canceled with issue #714 in 2011, and was relaunched with issue #1 the following month which ended its ran in 2016. In June 2016, a series was launched with new issue #1. Superman #1 appeared on the shelves in the summer of 1939, Superman now also had the distinction of being the first ever hero-character featured in more than one comic magazine. By issue #7, Superman was being hailed on the covers as the Worlds Greatest Adventure Strip Character, perry White, a supporting character who had originated on the Superman radio program was introduced into the comic book in issue #7. Editor Mort Weisinger began his association with the title with issue #11. Jimmy Olsen first appeared as a character in the story Superman versus The Archer in Superman #13. In the early 1940s, Superman was selling over a million copies per month, by 1942, artist Wayne Boring, who had previously been one of Shusters assistants, had become a major artist on Superman. Superman #23 featured the first Superman comic book written by someone other than Jerry Siegel. The story Americas Secret Weapon. was written by Don Cameron despite bearing Siegels signature, Siegel introduced Mister Mxyzptlk in issue #30. A more detailed origin story for Superman was presented in issue #53 to mark the tenth anniversary. Another part of the Superman mythos which had originated on the program made its way into the comic books when kryptonite was featured in a story by Bill Finger. Superman was the first DC title with a column as a regular feature beginning with issue #124. In the view of comics historian Les Daniels, artist Curt Swan became the definitive artist of Superman in the early 1960s with a new look to the character that replaced Wayne Borings version. Julius Schwartz became the editor with issue #233 and together with writer Denny ONeil and artist Curt Swan streamlined the Superman mythos. Elliot S. Maggin began his association with the title with the story Must There Be a Superman. in issue #247
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Action Comics
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Action Comics is an American comic book series that introduced Superman, one of the first major superhero characters as the term is popularly defined. The publisher was known as National Allied Publications, and later as National Comics Publications and as National Periodical Publications. Its original incarnation ran from 1938 to 2011 and stands as one of the comic books with consecutively numbered issues. A second volume of Action Comics with issue #1 ran from 2011 to 2016, Action Comics returned to its original numbering beginning with issue #957. Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster saw their creation, Superman, launched in Action Comics #1 on April 18,1938, Siegel and Shuster had tried for years to find a publisher for their Superman character originally conceived as a newspaper strip without success. Superman was originally a bald madman created by Siegel and Shuster who used his abilities to wreak havoc on mankind. He appeared in Siegel and Shusters book Science Fiction, Siegel then commented, What if this Superman was a force for good instead of evil. After seeing the published first issue, publisher Harry Donenfeld dismissed the featured strip as ridiculous, originally, Action Comics was an anthology title featuring a number of other stories in addition to the Superman story. Zatara, a magician, was one of the characters who had their own stories in early issues. There was the hero Tex Thompson, who eventually became Mr. America, vigilante enjoyed a lengthy run in this series. Sometimes stories of a humorous nature were included, such as those of Hayfoot Henry. The series saw the introduction of characters and themes which would become longstanding elements of the Superman mythos. Lois Lane made her debut in the first issue with Superman, Superman was first depicted as possessing the power of flight in issue #13. Other new superpowers depicted for the first time for the character included X-ray vision in issue #18 and telescopic vision, Luthor, a villain who would later become Supermans archenemy, was introduced in issue #23. The original Toyman was created by writer Don Cameron and artist Ed Dobrotka in issue #64, by 1942, artist Wayne Boring, who had previously been one of Shusters assistants, had become a major artist on Superman. Under editor Mort Weisinger, the Action Comics title saw an expansion of the Superman mythology. Gradually, the size of the issues was decreased as the publisher was reluctant to raise the price from the original 10 cents. For a while, Congo Bill and Tommy Tomorrow were the two features in addition to Superman, the introduction of Supergirl by Otto Binder and Al Plastino occurred in issue #252
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Superman: The Man of Steel
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Superman, The Man of Steel is a monthly American comic book series that ran 136 issues from 1991 to 2003, featuring Superman and published by DC Comics. As a result of introducing this series alongside its existing titles. Included in these 136 issues were two issues, #0 and #1,000,000, which were tie-ins to Zero Hour, Crisis in Time. The first issue was written by Louise Simonson and featured pencils by Jon Bogdanove, Tom Grummett, Bob McLeod, inks were by Dennis Janke, Jerry Ordway, and Brett Breeding. Simonson wrote issues #1-56, 59-83,86, #0 and Annuals #2,4, Bogdanove pencilled issues #1-68, 75-82,85, and #0 during the same period and returned for the final issue, #134, in 2003. Issues #9 and 10 were part of the Panic in the Sky storyline in 1992, issues #22 through 26 were a part of The Reign of the Supermen storyline which received the Comics Buyers Guide Fan Award for Favorite Comic-Book Story for 1993. After his introduction in The Adventures of Superman #500, Steel briefly became the character of the Superman. Issue #30 had a variant edition packaged in a polybag, the logo and all cover copy were printed on the bag and vinyl clings were included for a do-it-yourself front and back cover. Writer Mark Schultz and artist Doug Mahnke became the new team on the title with issue #87. Schultz and Mahnke introduced a new version of Supermans Fortress of Solitude in issue #100, from 1992 to 1997, DC published six issues of Superman, The Man of Steel Annual. The stories tied into the crossover or themes that were featured in DCs annuals that year and it features 22 pin-ups drawn by several artists. 1 includes Superman, The Man of Steel #115-116,264 pages, September 2002, ISBN 1-56389-915-9 Superman, Our Worlds at War, the first volume collects and retitles The Man of Steel limited series. Superman, The Man of Steel at the Comic Book DB Superman, The Man of Steel at Mikes Amazing World of Comics
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Hawaii
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Hawaii is the 50th and most recent state to have joined the United States of America, having received statehood on August 21,1959. Hawaii is the only U. S. state located in Oceania and it is the northernmost island group in Polynesia, occupying most of an archipelago in the central Pacific Ocean. Hawaii is the only U. S. state not located in the Americas, the state encompasses nearly the entire volcanic Hawaiian archipelago, which comprises hundreds of islands spread over 1,500 miles. At the southeastern end of the archipelago, the eight main islands are—in order from northwest to southeast, Niʻihau, Kauaʻi, Oʻahu, Molokaʻi, Lānaʻi, Kahoʻolawe, Maui, and the Island of Hawaiʻi. The last is the largest island in the group, it is called the Big Island or Hawaiʻi Island to avoid confusion with the state or archipelago. The archipelago is physiographically and ethnologically part of the Polynesian subregion of Oceania, Hawaii has over a million permanent residents, along with many visitors and U. S. military personnel. Its capital is Honolulu on the island of Oʻahu, Hawaii is the 8th-smallest and the 11th-least populous, but the 13th-most densely populated of the fifty U. S. states. It is the state with an Asian plurality. The states coastline is about 750 miles long, the fourth longest in the U. S. after the coastlines of Alaska, Florida, the state of Hawaii derives its name from the name of its largest island, Hawaiʻi. A common Hawaiian explanation of the name of Hawaiʻi is that was named for Hawaiʻiloa and he is said to have discovered the islands when they were first settled. The Hawaiian language word Hawaiʻi is very similar to Proto-Polynesian *Sawaiki, cognates of Hawaiʻi are found in other Polynesian languages, including Māori, Rarotongan and Samoan. According to linguists Pukui and Elbert, lsewhere in Polynesia, Hawaiʻi or a cognate is the name of the underworld or of the home, but in Hawaii. A somewhat divisive political issue arose in 1978 when the Constitution of the State of Hawaii added Hawaiian as an official state language. The title of the constitution is The Constitution of the State of Hawaii. Article XV, Section 1 of the Constitution uses The State of Hawaii, diacritics were not used because the document, drafted in 1949, predates the use of the okina and the kahakō in modern Hawaiian orthography. The exact spelling of the name in the Hawaiian language is Hawaiʻi. In the Hawaii Admission Act that granted Hawaiian statehood, the government recognized Hawaii as the official state name. Official government publications, department and office titles, and the Seal of Hawaii use the spelling with no symbols for glottal stops or vowel length
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The Final Night
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The Final Night was a 1996 comic book crossover storyline that ran through a self-titled limited series and most of the comics published by DC Comics with a cover date of November 1996. It featured the heroes of the DC Universe. At the end of issue is an in-story text piece written by S. T. A. R. The story begins as an alien woman named Dusk arrives on Earth to warn the population that a giant extraterrestrial being. Dusk is a member of an alien race, and does not speak or understand a word of English, so Saturn Girl uses her telepathic powers to translate. Dusk has attempted to warn hundreds of worlds, prior to Earth, each planet had tried, in its own way, to stop the Sun-Eater, but every attempt was as unsuccessful as the last one. This has convinced Dusk that the Sun-Eater is indestructible, despite her warnings, the Justice League still try to stop the Sun-Eater. For their first attempt, Mister Miracle tries using his boom tube to send it into another dimension and this proves unsuccessful, since they discover that the Sun-Eater is not entirely in our dimension. As a last resort, Superman and several other heat-producing heroes combine their energies to create a second sun, the Sun-Eater quickly consumes that sun before moving on to Sol. As Sol is extinguished, Earth falls into chaos, and the starts to freeze. There are only five days to restore the sun, after which Earth will become too uninhabitable, powerless to do anything to stop the freeze, the League tries to help control the chaos and to keep hope alive. Etrigan the Demon offers the entire world heat at the cost of their souls, lex Luthor teams up with the League to try to reignite the Sun. The events of this cross over into other books as well. Superman encounters Ferro Lad, who would make an abortive attempt to destroy the Sun-Eater. The Ray devotes his attentions to a small Mexican town, tommy Monaghan holes up in his favorite bar, Noonans. Seeing Earth as just another failure, Dusk decides its time for her to move on, as she prepares for take-off, she encounters a stranger, and is shocked that he understands her language. The stranger takes Dusk on a trip around the world. Dusk doubts that any hope left for the world
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Murphy Anderson
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He worked on such characters as Hawkman, Batgirl, Zatanna, the Spectre, and Superman, as well as on the Buck Rogers daily syndicated newspaper comic strip. Anderson also contributed for many years to PS, the preventive maintenance comics magazine of the U. S. Army. Murphy Anderson was born on July 9,1926, in Asheville, North Carolina, by the following month he was the regular artist on the Planet Comics features Life on Other Worlds and Star Pirate. Anderson continued doing work, as well as illustrations for science-fiction pulp magazines. From 1947 to 1949, Anderson was the artist on the Buck Rogers comic-book series, during the 1950s, Anderson worked for several publishers including Pines Comics, St. John Publications, Ziff Davis, DC Comics, and Atlas Comics, that decades predecessor of Marvel Comics. Anderson succeeded artist and co-creator Carmine Infantino on the superhero feature Captain Comet beginning with the story The Girl from the Diamond Planet in Strange Adventures #12. Years later, Anderson and writer John Broome created the feature Atomic Knights in Strange Adventures #117, Anderson and writer Gardner Fox launched the Hawkman series in May 1964 and introduced the Zatanna character in issue #4. Comics historian Les Daniels noted that Hawkman really took off when artist Murphy Anderson took over. Anderson came into his own with his elegantly ornamental version of the Winged Wonder. The Spectre was revived by Fox and Anderson in Showcase #60 and was given his own series in December 1967, Anderson designed the costume of Adam Strange. With his frequent collaborator, penciler Curt Swan, the artwork on Superman. He often hid his initials somewhere within the stories he inked, in 1972, he drew Wonder Woman for the cover of the first issue of Ms. Magazine. In 1973, he established Murphy Anderson Visual Concepts, which provided color separations, Anderson also contributed for many years to PS, the preventive maintenance comics magazine of the U. S. Army. Anderson and his wife of 67 years, Helen, had two daughters, Sophie and Mary, and a son, Murphy III, Anderson died in Somerset, New Jersey on October 22,2015, at the age of 89, of heart failure. Anderson received an Inkpot Award in 1984 and was inducted into the Jack Kirby Hall of Fame in 1998, in 2013, Anderson was inducted into the Inkwell Awards Joe Sinnott Hall of Fame. 2 #15 Our Army at War #28,31 Phantom Stranger #1, archived from the original on October 23,2015
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Terry Austin (comics)
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Terry Austin is an American comic book artist, working primarily as an inker. He is best known for his work embellishing John Byrnes pencils on Uncanny X-Men from 1977 to 1981, Austin grew up in Detroit, Michigan, and attended Wayne State University. He started inking comics as an assistant to Dick Giordano and Neal Adams, Austin came to prominence in 1976–1977, inking Marshall Rogers pencils on a celebrated run of Batman stories for DCs Detective Comics collaborating with writer Steve Englehart. He later teamed with Rogers again on Marvels Doctor Strange, in 1977, Austin and penciler John Byrne became the new art team on Uncanny X-Men. With writer Chris Claremont they produced a series of stories — particularly The Dark Phoenix Saga — which elevated the title into the top-selling American comic book. Austin left Uncanny X-Men in 1981 and has worked on a variety of titles for both Marvel and DC, including Doctor Strange, Superman vol. 2, Justice League and Green Lantern, Austin contributed to several anniversary issues for DC including Justice League of America #200, Superman #400, and Batman #400. He was the inker of DCs Superman Adventures for nearly six years. His inking work since 2002 has included five years of inking the Sonic the Hedgehog comic book series for Archie Comics. Austins inking — especially in the 1970s and early 1980s — is notable for its smooth, precise rendering, Austin wrote and inked the Dark Horse Comics adaptation of Splinter of the Minds Eye produced in 1995. His rare penciling jobs can be seen on the covers of Uncanny X-Men #123 and #142, as well as his self-published book, Austin resides near Poughkeepsie, New York, where he plays volleyball and gets together often with fellow comics veteran Fred Hembeck. Terry Austin at the Comic Book DB Terry Austin at Mikes Amazing World of Comics Terry Austin at the Unofficial Handbook of Marvel Comics Creators
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Brett Breeding
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Brett Breeding is an American comic book artist who was active in the industry in the 1980s and 1990s, primarily as an inker. He is most well known for his work on the DC Comics character Superman, a freelancer, Breeding worked for both DC and Marvel Comics during his career, penciling covers and stories here and there, but mostly focusing on finish inking over breakdown layouts. Breeding has worked extensively with pencilers Ron Frenz and Dan Jurgens, and is a co-creator of the Doomsday character, as well as Shadowdragon, Saviour, Breeding got his first professional comics work three months after graduating high school in 1979 as Bob Laytons background assistant. He started out inking backgrounds on the popular David Michelinie/Layton first run of Iron Man, Breeding moved to Marvel in late 1980 where he worked regularly through 1987. His first stint as an inker at Marvel was on The Avengers. Breeding inked Bob Hall on the limited series West Coast Avengers. Also in 1984, he teamed for the first time with Ron Frenz on The Amazing Spider-Man issue #252, in 1987–1988 he and Frenz moved as a team onto Thor. In the late 1980s, he inked most issues of Thundercats, in 1988, he was hired by Superman editor Mike Carlin to provide finishing pencils over George Pérezs rough layouts and finished inks on Action Comics. In 1991, Breeding moved to finish inking Superman until 1993 and he finish-inked the first eleven issues of Superman, The Man of Tomorrow, published in 1995–1998. Breeding also contributed to the 1996 landmark one-shot Superman, The Wedding Album, in 1998, Breeding returned to Marvel Comics to work once again with long-time collaborator and friend Ron Frenz on Avengers Next. After leaving regular work in the industry in 2000, Breeding set up the company Digital Rainbow Images. While working for DC Licensing, he designed, penciled and inked nearly 100 character turnarounds, the hand illustration used in the Mattel DC Universe Classics 4 figure line bubble-hand packaging is an inked rendering of Breedings own hand, fingerprints not included. In late 2010, early 2011, Breeding was commissioned by DCs Licensing Publishing Department to create art for the book Draw the DC Universe. Many of the illustrations included are based on works by other artists, Breeding has commissioned Ron Frenz to provide the storytelling breakdowns for all the apps. The first two stories, Superman, Toppling Titano and Superman and Bizarro Save the Planet, were released as E-books in June 2013, Breeding is currently working on the third and fourth installments, Superman and Supergirl vs. Chemo and a Superman/Batman team-up. In late 2013, he will be producing storybooks highlighting The New 52 versions of the DC characters, Brett Breeding at the Comic Book DB Brett Breeding at Catskill Comics
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John Byrne (comics)
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John Lindley Byrne is an American comic-book writer and artist. Since the mid-1970s, Byrne has worked on many major superheroes, Byrnes better-known work has been on Marvel Comics’ X-Men and Fantastic Four and the 1986 relaunch of DC Comics’ Superman franchise, the first issue of which featured comics first variant cover. During the 1990s he produced a number of creator-owned works, including Next Men and he scripted the first issues of Mike Mignolas Hellboy series and produced a number of Star Trek comics for IDW Publishing. In 2015, Byrne and his X-Men collaborator Chris Claremont were entered into the Will Eisner Award Hall of Fame, Byrne was born in Walsall, West Midlands, and raised in West Bromwich, England, where he lived with his parents and his maternal grandmother. The Batman story hooked me for life, a couple of years later my family emigrated to Canada and I discovered the vast array of American comics available at the time. His first encounter with Marvel Comics was in 1962 with Stan Lee and he later commented that the book had an edge like nothing DC was putting out at the time. Jack Kirby’s work in particular had a influence on Byrne. Besides Kirby, Byrne was influenced by the style of Neal Adams. In 1970, Byrne enrolled at the Alberta College of Art and he created the superhero parody Gay Guy for the college newspaper, which poked fun at the campus stereotype of homosexuality among art students. Gay Guy is notable for featuring a prototype of the Alpha Flight character Snowbird, while there, he published his first comic book, ACA Comix #1, featuring The Death’s Head Knight. Byrne left the college in 1973 without graduating, a Rog-2000 story written by Stern, with art by Byrne and Layton, had gotten the attention of Charlton Comics editor Nicola Cuti, who extended Byrne an invitation. Written by Cuti, Rog-2000 became one of several alternating backup features in the Charlton Comics superhero series E-Man, while that was Byrnes first published color-comics work, My first professional comic book sale was to Marvel, a short story called Dark Asylum. Which languished in a file somewhere until it was used as filler in Giant-Size Dracula #5. The story was plotted by Tony Isabella and written by David Anthony Kraft, after the Rog-2000 story, Byrne went on to work on the Charlton books Wheelie and the Chopper Bunch, Space,1999, and Emergency. And co-created with writer Joe Gill the post-apocalyptic science-fiction series Doomsday +1, Byrne additionally drew a cover for the supernatural anthology The Many Ghosts of Doctor Graves #54. Byrne said he broke into Marvel comics after writer Chris Claremont. saw my work, when Pat Broderick missed a deadline on the Iron Fist series in Marvel Premiere, John Verpoorten fired him and offered the book to me. I turned around the first script in time to meet the deadline, Byrne soon went on to draw series including The Champions and Marvel Team-Up. Byrne first drew the X-Men in Marvel Team-Up #53, for many issues, he was paired with Claremont, with whom he teamed for some issues of the black-and-white Marvel magazine Marvel Preview featuring Star-Lord
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Nick Cardy
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Nicholas Viscardi, known professionally as Nick Cardy and Nick Cardi, was an American comic book artist best known for his DC Comics work on Aquaman, the Teen Titans and other major characters. Cardy was inducted into the Will Eisner Comic Book Hall of Fame in 2005, Nick Cardy was born Nicholas Viscardi on October 20,1920 in New York City. He began drawing when he was young, telling one interviewer that some painting he had done for his school were published in the Herald-Tribune or one of those early papers. The teachers wanted one on sports, so that was published and quite a bit of the stuff was published. He also provided artwork for the Boys Club of America, and attended the Art Students League of New York, joining the studio circa 1940, he worked on Fight Comics, Jungle Comics, Kaanga Comics, and Wings for Fiction House Publications. Though his Lady Luck stories were credited under the house pseudonym Ford Davis and he used both his birth name and the pen name Nick Cardy concurrently for a time, he eventually adopted Nick Cardy for his comic-book work. Cardy recalled of his start at Eisner & Iger that he worked alongside. Lou Fine, George Tuska, Bob Powell came in later when I was doing Lady Luck. He would help a kid around the block – tell a newcomer to take it easy, when I worked on Lady Luck, Will Eisner had rented an apartment at Tudor City. He had one room where he worked, and the room took up all the rest of the paraphernalia. I sat next to Wills door, Bob Powell sat next to me, Tex Blaisdell used to come in, watching Lou Fine work – his work was like a fine painting, it took a long time to do it but it was a brilliant piece of work. In my opinion, for drawing, you couldnt beat Lou Fine, I think Will Eisner had a coarser line but his work was more dramatic and he told a better story. Cardy did World War II military service from 1943 to 1945 and he began his Army career with the 66th Infantry Division, during which time he won a competition to design its patch, creating its snarling black panther logo. His art talent led to his being assigned a job at division headquarters. This lasted, Cardy recalled in an interview, because a general who had seen Cardys cartoons in an Officers Club had Cardy assigned to his own corps. As the artist tells it, the opening was for a corporal in the motor pool. This, he said, led in turn, upon his being shipped to the European theater, to Cardys assignment as an assistant tank driver for the Third Armored Division, under General Courtney Hodges. Later, between the end of the war and his discharge, Cardy said he worked for the Armys Information and Education office in France, Cardy documented his time in the military in a series of intricate sketches and watercolors. Back in civilian life, Cardy begin doing advertising art as well as covers for crossword puzzle magazines, in 1950, he began drawing the black-and-white daily Tarzan comic strip of writer-artist Burne Hogarth
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Kieron Dwyer
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Kieron Dwyer is an American comic book artist and penciller. During his career, Dwyer has worked on comic book titles as Captain America, Danger Unlimited, Action Comics. 3, and his series, LCD, Lowest Comic Denominator. Dwyer was one of the artists who contributed to the Superman. Starbucks sued Dwyer in 2000 for parodying their famous siren logo on the first cover of LCD, as well as selling the image on T-shirts, with assistance from the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund, the two parties settled the case out of court. LCD, Lowest Comic Denominator had two editions, #1 and #2, before coming out with full comic versions starting in 1999 later with #0,1,2. Dwyer has collaborated with Rick Remender on a number of titles, including XXXombies, Sea of Red, Dwyer was once the stepson of fellow comics creator John Byrne for a period when Byrne was married to Dwyers mother Andrea Braun Byrne. He lives in Portland, Oregon, where he is a member of Periscope Studio, Kieron Dwyer at the Comic Book DB Kieron Dwyer at Marvel. com Kieron Dwyer at Mikes Amazing World of Comics Kieron Dwyer at the Unofficial Handbook of Marvel Comics Creators Official website
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Kerry Gammill
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Kerry Gammill is an American artist who has worked in the fields of comic books, special effects, storyboards, and character designs. Gammill grew up as a fan of the comics of the 1960s and 1970s, particularly the work of Jack Kirby, Steve Ditko, John Buscema, Gene Colan, and Jim Steranko. Kerry Gammill began working for Marvel Comics with his first published story, A Fluttering of Wings Most Foul, during his time in the comics industry, he illustrated comics such Power Man and Iron Fist, Superman vol. He collaborated with writer J. M. DeMatteis on the creation of Frog-Man in Marvel Team-Up #121, Gammill co-created such other characters as Ariel, White Rabbit, Chance, Leila Davis, and Draaga. He drew the first two issues of the Deadly Foes of Spider-Man limited series in 1991 and in the year, was one of the artists on the debut issue of Team Titans. After leaving comics, Gammill became a special effects concept artist, character designer, and storyboard artist, for movies, TV shows, projects he worked on include Virus, Species II, Phantoms, The Outer Limits, and Tremors, The Series. Gammill later co-authored another book for Vanguard on the art of Basil Gogos, Gammill was married to Susan Gammill from 1975 to 2016. They have three children, a son, Jeff, born in 1980, another son, Steve, born in 1983 and he also has two grandchildren, Piper and Brielle. Gammill lives in Fort Worth, Texas
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Dick Giordano
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Dick Giordano, an only child, was born in New York City on July 20,1932, in the borough of Manhattan to Josephine and Graziano Jack Giordano. He attended the School of Industrial Art, Giordanos artwork from Charltons Strange Suspense Stories was used as inspiration for artist Roy Lichtensteins 1965/1966 Brushstroke series, including Brushstroke, Big Painting No. 6, Little Big Painting and Yellow and Green Brushstrokes, by the mid-1960s a Charlton veteran, Giordano rose to executive editor, succeeding Pat Masulli, by 1965. Many of these included new talent Giordano brought on board, including Jim Aparo, Dennis ONeil. Giordano was given several title such as Teen Titans, Aquaman and Young Love and he launched the horror comics series The Witching Hour in March 1969. and the Western series All-Star Western vol.2 in September 1970. He continued to freelance for DC as a penciler and inker, as an artist, Giordano was best known as an inker. His inking was particularly associated with the pencils of Neal Adams, for their run in the early 1970s on the titles Batman, several comics artists began their careers at Continuity and many were mentored by Giordano during their time there. He had a run as penciler of the Wonder Woman series which included a two-issue story in issues #202–203 written by science-fiction author Samuel R. Delany. Giordano inked the large-format, first DC/Marvel intercompany crossover, Superman vs. the Amazing Spider-Man, Giordano inked Adams on the one-shot Superman vs. Muhammad Ali in 1978. In 1980, DC publisher Jenette Kahn brought Giordano back to DC, initially the editor of the Batman titles, Giordano was named the companys new managing editor in 1981, and promoted to vice president/executive editor in 1983, a position he held until 1993. DC Comics writer and executive Paul Levitz observed in 2010 that Giordano held the respect of talent as one of their own, Giordano provided art for several anniversary issues of key DC titles. He and television writer Alan Brennert crafted the story To Kill a Legend in Detective Comics #500 and this was followed by Frank Millers Batman, The Dark Knight Returns and Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons Watchmen in 1986. From 1983 to 1987, Giordano wrote a column published in DC titles called Meanwhile. Which much like Marvels Bullpen Bulletins featured news and information about the company, unlike Bullpen Bulletins, which was characterized by an ironic, over-hyped tone, Giordanos columns. Were written in a sober, absolutely friendly voice, like a friend of your fathers you particularly liked. Column with the words, Thank you and good afternoon. Giordano inked six issues of The Sandman in 1991-1993, beginning in 1987, Giordano was in the middle of an industry-wide debate about the comics industry, ratings systems, and creators rights. Veteran writers Mike Friedrich, Steven Grant, and Roger Slifer all cited Giordano in particular for his stance on behalf of DC
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Doug Hazlewood
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Doug Hazlewood is an American comic book artist, known primarily for inking. Hazlewood came out of comics fandom, with one of his first credits being in 1979 in the zine The Comic Reader, up through the mid-1980s he had illustration work published sporadically in the Fantagraphics publications The Comics Journal and Amazing Heroes. In 1986, Hazlewood was named the winner of the portion of the Marvel Try-out Book. At first, Hazlewood worked with AC Comics on such titles as Femforce, next, he inked the entire eight-issue run of Eclipse Comics The Liberty Project. Hazlewood latched on with DC Comics in 1988 as the inker for the new title Animal Man. Hazlewood remained as the inker for two years, up through issue #24. During this period, Hazlewood worked for the British company Fleetway, publisher of 2000 AD, in the early 1990s Hazlewood freelanced for Fleetway, Eclipse, and Marvel Comics, and in 1991 became the regular inker on DCs Adventures of Superman. Partnering with penciler Tom Grummett, Hazlewood inked that book until 1993, from there he and Grummett moved to Superboy vol. 3, which Hazlewood inked from 1994–1998, moving into the 2000s, Hazlewood was regular inker on The Flash vol.2 from 2000–2003. From there, he moved to DCs Doom Patrol vol.4, next, Hazlewood collaborated with Nicola Scott on DCs Birds of Prey from 2007 to 2008, and then on Secret Six from 2008–2010. In 2010, writer Gail Simone from Secret Six, along with Scott, and Hazlewood, moved to Wonder Woman for a handful of issues, in the late 1980s/early 1990s, Hazlewood was based in Victoria, Texas. Official website Doug Hazlewood at the Comic Book DB
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Stuart Immonen
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Stuart Immonen is a Canadian comic book artist. He is best known for his work on Nextwave, Ultimate X-Men, The New Avengers and his pencils are usually inked by Wade Von Grawbadger. Stuart Immonen grew up in a Finnish family in Canada, the first comics he read as a child were Disney comics and Harvey Comics. He would later seek out superhero comics from Marvel Comics, sporadic distribution in the 1970s and 1980s led to the development of an eclectic sense of taste in titles, as he was often only able to find a few issues available per series. A later increase in self-publishing in Toronto spurred him to pursue a career in following his studies at university. In 1988, he self-published a series titled Playground, it was his first published work. From 1990 through 1992, he drew issues of Rock N Roll Comics for Revolutionary Comics, including issues on Prince,2 Live Crew and Public Enemy, ZZ Top, Anthrax. He worked at several comic book companies before being hired by DC Comics in 1993. Since then, Immonen has drawn such high-profile characters as Superman, the Hulk, stuart Immonen has also done work for Top Cow and Image Comics. In 1996, writer Karl Kesel and Immonen produced The Final Night limited series and that same year, Immonen was one of the many creators who contributed to the Superman, The Wedding Album one-shot wherein the title character married Lois Lane. Immonen wrote and drew part of the Superman Red/Superman Blue one-shot which launched the storyline of the name which ran through the various Superman titles. Immonen ended his involvement with the Superman franchise with the Superman, End of the Century graphic novel in 2000 but returned to the character for the Superman. In 2000, Immonen was one of the founders of Gorilla Comics, Immonen and Busiek collaborated on the Shockrockets limited series and the Superstar, As Seen on TV one-shot but the company folded after a short time. In 2005, Immonen published 50 Reasons to Stop Sketching at Conventions, besides self-publishing, Immonen also maintains a webcomic called Never as Bad as You Think which is co-authored by his wife, Kathryn. Moving Pictures - a webcomic co-authored by the Immonens - was published as a novel by Top Shelf Productions in 2010. Immonen illustrated Marvel Comics Ultimate Spider-Man from issue #111. to issue #133 and he subsequently worked on The New Avengers, from issue #55 to issue #64. He continued to be the series artist when The New Avengers relaunched during the Heroic Age storyline, and was the regular artist for the first seven issues, in 2011 Immonen illustrated Marvels Fear Itself miniseries, which formed the core of a company-wide crossover storyline of the same name. In November 2012 he and writer Brian Michael Bendis started the series All-New X-Men, in 2010, Immonen won the Joe Shuster Award for Outstanding Artist
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Gil Kane
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Gil Kane was a Latvian-born American comic book artist whose career spanned the 1940s to the 1990s and every major comics company and character. Kane co-created the modern-day versions of the superheroes Green Lantern and the Atom for DC Comics, Kane additionally pioneered an early graphic novel prototype, His Name is. Savage, in 1968, and a seminal graphic novel, Blackmark, in 1971. In 1997, he was inducted into both the Will Eisner Comic Book Hall of Fame and the Harvey Award Jack Kirby Hall of Fame. Gil Kane was born Eli Katz on April 6,1926, in Latvia to a Jewish family that immigrated to the U. S. in 1929, settling in Brooklyn and his father was a struggling poultry merchant. Kane attended high school at Manhattans School of Industrial Art, and he recalled in a 1996 interview, rom the time I was 15, I was going up to the comics offices. My first job came the year at 16. During my summer vacation, I went up and got a job working at MLJ in 1942, I was in my last year in high school. I was 16 and Id already started my last year but Id already gotten my job the summer before at MLJ, I quit school in the last grade. Until being fired after three weeks, Kane worked in production, putting borders on pages. The letterers would only put in the lettering, not the balloons, so I would put in the borders, balloons, within a couple of days of being let go, I got a job with Jack Binders agency. Jack Binder had a loft on Fifth Avenue and it just looked like an internment camp, there must have been 50 or 60 guys up there, all at drawing tables. You had to account for the paper that you took, Kane began penciling professionally there, but, They werent terribly happy with what I was doing. He would also do spot illustrations for other studios and his earliest known credit is inking Carl Hubbell on the six-page Scarlet Avenger superhero story The Counterfeit Money Code in MLJs Zip Comics #14, on which he signed the name Gil Kane. Other early credits include some issues of the companys Pep Comics, sometimes under pseudonyms including Stack Til and Stacktil, and, in conjunction with artist Pen Shumaker, Pen Star. He even used his name on rare occasions, including on at least one story each in the Temerson / Helnit / Continental publishing groups Terrific Comics. That same year Kane either was drafted or enlisted in the Army, after 19 months in the service, he returned to in December 1945. All-American Publications editor Sheldon Mayer hired him in 1947, for a stint that lasted six months and he contributed again to the Sandman feature in Adventure Comics and, as penciler Gil Stack and inker Phil Martel, to the Wildcat feature in Sensation Comics. Around this time, he said, he worked with director Garson Kanin when he was involved in TV, in 1949, Kane began a longtime professional relationship with Julius Schwartz, an editor at National Comics, the future DC Comics
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Barry Kitson
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Barry Kitson is a British comics artist best known as a penciler of major superhero comic books published by Marvel Comics and DC Comics. Kitsons first professional work was Spider-Man for Marvel UK, Kitson provided illustrations for Osgood Peabodys Big Green Dream Machine, a Superman text story written by Grant Morrison which appeared in the 1986 British Superman Annual. His first American work for DC Comics was a Batgirl Special published in 1988 and he and writers Keith Giffen and Alan Grant launched the L. E. G. I. O. N. The Azrael series was crafted by Kitson and writer Dennis ONeil beginning in February 1995, while drawing Azrael, Kitson drew part of the Contagion storyline which crossed-over through the various Batman-related titles. Kitson was one of the artists who contributed to the Superman. With writers Mark Waid and Brian Augustyn, Kitson produced the JLA, in 2000, Kitson drew a series titled Empire which was written by Waid, whose protagonist was a Doctor Doom-like supervillain named Golgoth who had defeated all superheroes and conquered the world. The series was published by Gorilla Comics, a company formed by Waid, Kurt Busiek and several others. Empire was completed under the DC Comics label in 2003 and 2004. In 2002 he began a run on The Titans and in 2004, he and Waid relaunched Legion of Super-Heroes. for DC Comics, Kitson has worked with Marvel Comics since 2007 on titles including The Order, Secret Invasion, Fantastic Four, and The Amazing Spider-Man. In addition, he has worked on The Incredible Hulk, an Iron Man miniseries, 9-11, The Worlds Finest Comic Book Writers & Artists Tell Stories to Remember, Volume Two Action Comics No. 611–614 The Adventures of Superman No, 507–513,515,0, 517–519 Azrael No. 1–2 Batgirl Special No.1 Batman, Book of the Dead, 1–2 Batman, Legends of the Dark Knight No. 63, 146–148 Batman/Punisher, Lake of Fire Batman, Shadow of the Bat No, 35–38, 43–44,50 DC Universe, Trinity No. 1–2 Detective Comics No.670 Empire, miniseries, No,59,130 Fairest No.14 The Flash No.84 Flash & Green Lantern, The Brave and the Bold miniseries, No. 1–6 JLA, Year One limited series No, 1–12 JSA, All Stars, miniseries, No.3 JSA Strange Adventures miniseries No. 1–6 The Kingdom, Planet Krypton No.1 L. E. G. I. O. N,48, Annual No.3 Legends of the Legion No. 1–4 Legion of Super Heroes vol.3 Annual No.4 Legion of Super-Heroes vol.5 No, 37–40, 42–44, 47–50 Worlds Finest No.112000 AD, No. 437,440,473,475,482,501, 464–465,481,484,491,493,506, 540–541,557, 562–564,587,622, 629–630 Judge Dredd Megazine, vol
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Bob McLeod (comics)
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Bob McLeod is an American comic book artist best known for co-creating the New Mutants with writer Chris Claremont. Bob McLeod was born in Tampa, Florida and he was educated at Auburn University and the Art Institute of Fort Lauderdale. McLeod began his working in the production department of Marvel Comics in 1973 on a recommendation from Neal Adams. He began penciling and inking for Marvels Crazy Magazine, doing several movie satires, McLeod drew the graphic novel and the first three issues of New Mutants and inked a number of subsequent issues. The graphic novels production overlapped with his honeymoon, and ended up missing its shipping slot because editor Louise Simonson choose to keep her promise to McLeod that he could ink it himself. In 1987, he inked Mike Zecks pencils on the Kravens Last Hunt storyline in the Spider-Man titles, at DC Comics, he was the artist on Superman in Action Comics in the early 1990s including the Dark Knight Over Metropolis storyarc. McLeod helped writer Louise Simonson and artist Jon Bogdanove launch a new Superman title, Superman, there were several issues of The Phantom comic book drawn by McLeod for the Swedish publisher Egmont. He has written and illustrated a book, Superhero ABC. He also edited TwoMorrows Publishings Rough Stuff magazine which featured interviews, McLeod currently teaches part-time at the Pennsylvania College of Art and Design in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, and works on various commercial projects. McLeod was the speaker for the 2012 Inkwell Awards Awards Ceremony at HeroesCon. Official website Bob McLeod at the Comic Book DB Bob McLeod at Mikes Amazing World of Comics Bob McLeod at the Unofficial Handbook of Marvel Comics Creators
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Jim Mooney
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He sometimes inked under the pseudonym Jay Noel. Jim Mooney was born in New York City but raised in Los Angeles, Kuttner encouraged the teenaged Mooney to submit art to Farnsworth Wright, the editor of the pulp magazine for which Kuttner was writing, Weird Tales. Mooneys first professional sale was an illustration for one of Kuttners stories in that magazine, during this period, Mooney also met Mort Weisinger and Julius Schwartz, who had come to the area to meet Kuttner. After attending art school and working as a valet and other odd jobs for nightclubs. He left voluntarily after two weeks, I was just absolutely crestfallen when I looked at some of the guys’ work, lou Fine was working there, Nick Cardy. and Eisner himself. I was beginning to feel that I was way, way in beyond my depth and he began freelancing for Timely Comics, the 1940s predecessor of Marvel, working on that companys animation line of funny animal and movie-cartoon tie-in comics. As Mooney describes his being hired by editor-in-chief and art director Stan Lee, I came in, being somewhat young and cocky at the time, and Stan asked me what I did. I said I penciled, he said, What else, I said, Yeah, I letter, too. He said, Do you print the books, too. I guess he was two or three years my junior at that point. I think I was about 21 or 22, Mooney also wrote and drew a funny-animal feature, Perky Penguin and Booby Bear, in 1946 and 1947 for Treasure Chest, the Catholic-oriented comic book distributed in parochial schools. In 1946, Mooney began a 22-year association with the company that would evolve into DC and he began with the series Batman as a ghost artist for credited artist Bob Kane. As Mooney recalled of coming to DC, he funny animal stuff was no longer in demand, and I heard on the grapevine that they were looking for an artist to do Batman. So I buzzed up there to DC, talked to them and showed them my stuff, I brought the work in, and Whitney Ellsworth said, OK, youre on. Dick Sprang taken off and wanted to do something else, so Dick took off for Arizona, and DC was looking for someone to fill in. So, thats where I fit in, and I stayed on Batman for quite a few years, writer Bill Finger and Mooney introduced the Catman character in Detective Comics #311. Mooney branched out to the series Superboy, and such features as Dial H for Hero in House of Mystery and he also contributed to Atlas Comics, the 1950s iteration of Marvel, on at least a handful of 1953-54 issues of Lorna the Jungle Queen. Most notably, Mooney drew the backup feature Supergirl in Action Comics from 1959 to 1968, by 1968, he had moved back to New York, where DC, he recalled, was
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Al Plastino
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Alfred John Plastino was an American comic book artist best known as one of the most prolific Superman artists of the 1950s, along with his DC Comics colleague Wayne Boring. Plastino also worked as a writer, editor, letterer. With writer Otto Binder, he co-created the DC characters Supergirl and Brainiac, born at Saint Vincents Catholic Medical Center in Manhattan, New York City, on December 15,1921, and raised in The Bronx, Plastino was interested in art since grade school. He attended the School of Industrial Art in New York City and he was accepted into the college Cooper Union but chose to continue working as a freelance artist. Before the war, Plastino inked some issues of Captain America, with the outbreak of World War II, Plastino and his brothers were drafted, and he served in the U. S. Army. He was assigned there to the Adjutant Generals office, where he designed war posters, after his discharge he began working for Steinberg Studios, drawing Army posters. While working out of a studio in New York City with two other cartoonists in 1948, Plastino showed sample art of Superman to DC Comics, which offered him work at $35 a page. Plastino, who had heard that Superman artists were receiving $55 a page, now settled in the comic book field, he largely dropped other commercial work for two decades. Early on at DC, Plastino was forced to copy Wayne Borings style and he did 48 Superman covers as well as countless DC stories. Plastino and writer Bill Finger produced the story for Superman #61 in which kryptonite and he drew the Lois Lane feature in Showcase #9 which served as a tryout for the characters own series. Plastino worked on several titles within the Superman family of comics, including Superboy and Supermans Girl Friend, Binder and Plastino debuted the villain Brainiac and the Bottle City of Kandor in Action Comics #242. The two men co-created Supergirl in Action Comics #252, Plastino drew the first appearance of the supervillain the Parasite in Action Comics #340. Plastinos greatest pride was a story he drew for Superman #168, the piece was done in collaboration with the Kennedy administration to help promote the president’s national physical fitness program. In the story, Superman visits the White House, and trusts President John F. Kennedy with his secret identity, the story was produced shortly before Kennedy was assassinated, which led to the cancellation of its publication. At the behest of President Lyndon B. C, Plastino had always believed the artwork had been donated to the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum in Boston, but the artwork was placed on auction by a private entity in late 2013. DC Entertainment subsequently purchased the art and donated it to the Library, in 1996, Plastino was one of the many artists who contributed to the Superman, The Wedding Album one-shot wherein the title character married Lois Lane. Plastino drew the syndicated Batman with Robin the Boy Wonder comic strip from 1968–72, in 1970, he took over the syndicated strip Ferdnand, which he drew until his retirement in 1989. Plastino also worked on Sunday episodes of Nancy from 1982 to 1983 after Ernie Bushmiller died, payette had hired Plastino to draw a backlog of Peanuts strips during contract negotiations with Schulz in the 1970s
