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New York Comic Con
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The New York Comic Con is an annual New York City fan convention dedicated to comics, graphic novels, anime, manga, video games, toys, movies, and television. It was first held in 2006, ReedPOP is involved with other events, including Chicago Comic & Entertainment Expo and PAX Dev/PAX East/PAX Prime. ReedPop and New York Comic Con were founded by Greg Topalian, the first con was held in 2006 at the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center. Due to Reed Exhibitions lack of experience with comic conventions, attendance was far more than anticipated, despite crowding on Friday afternoon, tickets continued to be sold due to low pre-reg numbers, and the non-counting of professionals and exhibitors. The main exhibition hall hit capacity Saturday morning and was locked by the marshals until people left. Major guests, including Kevin Smith and Frank Miller, could not enter the main hall, the line to enter the convention wrapped around the building with waits of two hours to enter, and many were turned away. Ticket sales for Sunday were suspended, Reed announced that additional space would be acquired for the 2007 show. The second con was held in 2007, with the convention organizer booking double the floor space than the previous years space, the show on Friday was again only open to industry and press until 4 p. m. when it opened to the public. Due to better planning, advance sales were controlled. Lines started forming at midnight Saturday to enter the convention, and by Saturday morning, crowding was a problem in the Artists Alley, which was off the main convention floor, causing it to be moved to the main floor for 2008. The American Anime Awards, hosted by New York Comic Con, was held on February 24 at the New Yorker Hotel, the third con held in 2008 moved to April, continued to grow, and occupied most of the main level in the Javits Center. Stan Lee was awarded the inaugural New York Comics Legend Award at the Times Square Virgin Megastore before the Comic Con, kids Day programming was added to the convention on Sunday with the help of Kidss Comic Con. The fourth con held in 2009 returned to February and featured a charity art auction to support The Hero Initiative, the New York Anime Festival, previously a separate event created by Reed, was also merged into Comic Con. The main floor of the center was split by a large construction area due to repairs to the Javits Center. Intel Extreme Masters Global Challenge – New York took place in Comic Con 2011 and it featured eSport tournaments for games such as StarCraft II, League of Legends, and Counter-Strike. In 2011, the convention was expanded to four days, the first day of the convention was initially limited to press, professionals, and fans that purchased a four-day pass. This changed in 2013, when single day Thursday passes were put on sale for the first time. With this addition, attendance at New York Comic Con grew to over 130,000, in 2016, it was announced that everyone attending NYCC2016 would be required to complete a Fan Verification profile
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Queens
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Queens is the easternmost and largest in area of the five boroughs of New York City. Coterminous with Queens County since 1899, the borough of Queens is the second-largest in population, with a census-estimated 2,339,150 residents in 2015, approximately 48% of them foreign-born. Queens County also is the second-most populous county in the U. S. state of New York, behind the borough of Brooklyn. Queens is the fourth-most densely populated county among New York Citys boroughs, if each of New York Citys boroughs were an independent city, Queens also would be the nations fourth most populous city, after Los Angeles, Chicago, and Brooklyn. Queens is the most ethnically diverse area in the world. Queens was established in 1683 as one of the original 12 counties of New York and it was named after the Portuguese Princess Catherine of Braganza, Queen of England, Scotland, and Ireland. It became a borough of New York City in 1898, and from 1683 until 1899, Queens has the most diversified economy of the five boroughs of New York City It is home to JFK International Airport and LaGuardia Airport. These airports are among the busiest in the world, causing the airspace above Queens to be the most congested in the country, attractions in Queens include Flushing Meadows Park, Citi Field, the US Open tennis tournament, Kaufman Astoria Studios, Silvercup Studios, and Aqueduct Racetrack. European colonization brought Dutch and English settlers, as a part of the New Netherland colony, First settlements occurred in 1635 followed by early colonizations at Maspeth in 1642, and Vlissingen in 1643. Other early settlements included Newtown and Jamaica, however, these towns were mostly inhabited by English settlers from New England via eastern Long Island subject to Dutch law. After the capture of the colony by the English and its renaming as New York in 1664, the Flushing Remonstrance signed by colonists in 1657 is considered a precursor to the United States Constitutions provision on freedom of religion in the Bill of Rights. The signers protested the Dutch colonial authorities persecution of Quakers in what is today the borough of Queens, originally, Queens County included the adjacent area now comprising Nassau County. It was a county of New York State, one of twelve created on November 1,1683. The county was named after Catherine of Braganza, since she was queen of England at the time, the county was founded alongside Kings County, and Richmond County. On October 7,1691, all counties in the Colony of New York were redefined, Queens gained North Brother Island, South Brother Island, and Huletts Island. On December 3,1768, Queens gained other islands in Long Island Sound that were not already assigned to a county, Queens played a minor role in the American Revolution, as compared to Brooklyn, where the Battle of Long Island was largely fought. Queens, like the rest of Long Island, remained under British occupation after the Battle of Long Island in 1776 and was occupied throughout most of the rest of the Revolutionary War. Under the Quartering Act, British soldiers used, as barracks, even though many local people were against unannounced quartering, sentiment throughout the county remained in favor of the British crown
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The Amazing Spider-Man
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The Amazing Spider-Man is an American comic book series published by Marvel Comics, featuring the adventures of the fictional superhero Spider-Man. In 2003 the series reverted to the order of the first volume. The title has occasionally been published biweekly, and was published three times a month from 2008 to 2010, a film named after the comic was released July 3,2012. After DC Comics relaunch of Action Comics and Detective Comics with new #1 issues in 2011, the title ended its 50-year run as a continuously published comic with issue #700 in December 2012. It was replaced by The Superior Spider-Man as part of the Marvel NOW. relaunch of Marvels comic lines, the title was relaunched in April 2014, starting fresh from issue #1, after the Goblin Nation story arc published in The Superior Spider-Man and Superior Spider-Man Team-Up. In late 2015, The Amazing Spider-Man was relaunched again with a new volume with issue #1 following the 2015 Secret Wars event, the character was created by writer-editor Stan Lee and artist and co-plotter Steve Ditko, and the pair produced 38 issues from March 1963 to July 1966. Ditko left after the 38th issue, while Lee remained as writer until issue 100, since then, many writers and artists have taken over the monthly comic through the years, chronicling the adventures of Marvels most identifiable hero. Most of the characters and villains of the Spider-Man saga have been introduced in Amazing. Due to strong sales on the characters first appearance in Amazing Fantasy #15, the initial years of the series, under Lee and Ditko, chronicled Spider-Mans nascent career with his civilian life as hard-luck yet perpetually good-humored teenager Peter Parker. Peter balanced his career as Spider-Man with his job as a photographer for The Daily Bugle under the bombastic editor-publisher J. Jonah Jameson to support himself. By focusing on Parkers everyday problems, Lee and Ditko created a groundbreakingly flawed, self-doubting superhero, most of Spider-Mans key villains and supporting characters were introduced during this time. Issue #1 featured the first appearances of J. Jonah Jameson and his astronaut son John Jameson, and it included the heros first encounter with the superhero team the Fantastic Four. Issue #2 featured the first appearance of the Vulture and the beginning of Parkers freelance photography career at the newspaper The Daily Bugle, the Molten Man was introduced in #28 which also featured Parkers graduation from high school. Peter began attending Empire State University in #31, the issue featured the first appearances of friends and classmates Gwen Stacy. Harrys father, Norman Osborn first appeared in #23 as a member of Jamesons country club but is not named nor revealed as Harrys father until #37. One of the most celebrated issues of the Lee-Ditko run is #33, which features the dramatic scene of Spider-Man, through force of will and thoughts of family, escaping from being pinned by heavy machinery. Comics historian Les Daniels noted that Steve Ditko squeezes every ounce of anguish out of Spider-Mans predicament, complete with visions of the uncle he failed and the aunt he has sworn to save. Peter David observed that After his origin, this sequence from Amazing Spider-Man #33 is perhaps the best-loved sequence from the Stan Lee/Steve Ditko era
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Fantastic Four (comic book)
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The Fantastic Four is a fictional superhero team appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. The group debuted in The Fantastic Four #1, which helped to usher in a new level of realism in the medium. As the first superhero team title produced by Marvel Comics, it formed a cornerstone of the companys 1960s rise from a division of a publishing company to a pop culture conglomerate. Since their original 1961 introduction, the Fantastic Four have been portrayed as a dysfunctional, yet loving. Breaking convention with other comic book archetypes of the time, they would squabble, the Fantastic Four have been adapted into other media, including four animated series and four live-action films. According to Lee, writing in 1974, Martin mentioned that he had noticed one of the published by National Comics seemed to be selling better than most. It was a book called The Justice League of America and it was composed of a team of superheroes, if the Justice League is selling, spoke he, why dont we put out a comic book that features a team of superheroes. Determined to carve a career for myself in the nowhere world of comic books, Lee concluded that, For just this once. Lee said he created a synopsis for the first Fantastic Four story that he gave to penciller Jack Kirby, Kirby turned in his penciled art pages to Lee, who added dialogue and captions. Kirby claims he came up with the idea for the Fantastic Four in Marvels offices, Kirby also sought to establish, more credibly and on numerous occasions, that the visual elements of the strip were his conceptions. He regularly pointed to a team he had created for rival publisher DC Comics in the 1950s, F you notice the uniforms, theyre the same. I always give them a skintight uniform with a belt, the Challengers and the FF have a minimum of decoration. And of course, the Things skin is a kind of decoration, the chest insignia of a 4 within a circle, however, was designed by Lee. The characters wear no uniforms in the first two issues, given the conflicting statements, outside commentators have found it hard to identify with precise detail who created the Fantastic Four. Comics historian R. C. Harvey believes that the Fantastic Four was a furtherance of the work Kirby had been doing previously, but Harvey notes that the Marvel Method of collaboration allowed each man to claim credit, and that Lees dialogue added to the direction the team took. Wells argues that it was Lees contributions which set the framework within which Kirby worked, and this made Lee more responsible. Comics historian Mark Evanier, an assistant to Jack Kirby in the 1970s, says that the considered opinion of Lee and Kirbys contemporaries was that Fantastic Four was created by Stan. No further division of credit seemed appropriate, the release of The Fantastic Four #1 was an unexpected success
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Machine Man
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Machine Man is a fictional character, an android superhero appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. Shortly thereafter, Machine Man spun off into his own Kirby-created series and he is a robot, the only survivor of a series, raised as a human son of scientist Abel Stack, who was killed removing his auto-destruct mechanism, and further evolved to sentience by a Monolith. Machine Man originally appeared in the pages of 2001, A Space Odyssey #8, which was written and drawn by Jack Kirby and he would go on to appear in his own self-titled series in 1978. This title featured Machine Man entering the mainstream Marvel Universe, Jack Kirby wrote and drew the first nine issues, which dealt with the title characters status as a fugitive from the military after the death of his creator, and his first interactions with mankind. The book was canceled at the end of 1978 with X-51 finally standing up to the military, Machine Man appeared next in a three issue story arc within the pages of The Incredible Hulk #235–237. The robot found himself battling the green giant within the setting of his human friend. By the end of the storyline, he incurred a complete system shutdown, the title was relaunched in issue #10 after a nine-month hiatus. Status quo in the book changed with Machine Man now living amongst humanity, marv Wolfman came aboard as the new writer, partnered with artist Steve Ditko, which helped set a different tone from Kirbys previous stories. Issue 15 saw a new writer, Tom DeFalco, taking over the writing chores, the title lasted until issue #19, ending in February 1980. The miniseries was first reprinted as a 96-page trade paperback in 1988, the miniseries was republished again in 1994 as two double-size books, with the name Machine Man 2020. Characters from this alternate future have made appearances in other Marvel books, namely Arno Stark, in 1990, Machine Man guest-starred in Iron Man Annual #11. That story created strong hints that the 2020 Machine Man may turn out not to be the true X-51, but instead a duplicate created by Sunset Bain. In 1999, Marvel brought the character back in the series X-51, The Machine Man in which Machine Man experiences a programming malfunction and he was given a drastically more robotic look and his powers were vastly changed. The reason for both was that he had been reconstructed by Sentinel-based nanotechnology, the series lasted twelve issues, in the final one, he was recovered by a Celestial, as the Celestials—revealed to be the power behind the Monoliths—had become interested in Machine Man. Abel Stack for the US Army, however, all previous 50 experimental robots went mad as they achieved sentience and became psychotic, due to a lack of identity. X-51 was the survivor, as he was treated as a son by Stack. After Stack died trying to protect him, X-51 assumed the human name Aaron Stack and escaped confinement, X-51 named himself Mister Machine in issue #9 of the 10-issue run of 2001. While on the run, the newly christened Machine Man initiated contact with humanity in order to understand it
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Spider-Girl
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Spider-Girl is a fictional superheroine in Marvel Comics MC2 universe. The character was created by Tom DeFalco and Ron Frenz as the daughter of Peter Parker and Mary Jane Watson. Spider-Girl first appeared in a story in the ongoing series What If. Following positive fan response to the concept, Spider-Girl and two series set in the same alternate future universe were launched under the MC2 imprint. Although each of these titles were slated to be 12-issue limited series, after initial interest, Spider-Girl drew low sales. The books active fan base convinced Marvel to revoke several cancellation announcements, reprints of the series in digest size trade paperbacks sold well. Marvel Associate Editor Nick Lowe revealed in a November 2005 interview that Spider-Girl, despite Lowes statement, Marvel announced that #100 would be the titles final issue. The book was relaunched as The Amazing Spider-Girl, with issue #0 appearing in October 2006, on November 8,2008, Marvel EIC Joe Quesada confirmed that Spider-Girl would become a feature in the monthly anthology magazine Amazing Spider-Man Family. The series would replace the feature Mr. and Mrs. Spider-Man, written by DeFalco, on March 18,2009, Marvel announced that Spider-Girl would continue publication as Spectacular Spider-Girl, a web-comic released through Marvels Digital Comics Unlimited. The title would continue to be published in paper form within Amazing Spider-Man Family. Amazing Spider-Man Family #5 through #8 contained these Spider-Girl stories until the cancellation with issue #8. The new Spectacular Spider-Girl stories were then contained in Web of Spider-Man and this lasted for seven issues before being moved to its own four-issue limited series, Spectacular Spider-Girl, which tied up most of the series plot threads. This was followed by one last Spider girl tale, Spider-Girl, in November 2010, a new Spider-Girl series was launched that was unconnected to the MC2 universe. The MC2 Spider-Girl title was cancelled, having surpassed publisher expectations for longevity, the new series featured a new character, Anya Corazon, whose adventures occurred on Earth 616. The series was cancelled after eight issues. No official reason was given for the cancellation and this character returned for a Spider Island limited series. She is set to appear again, handled by the creative team, in July 2015 as part of Marvels Secret Wars event. May Mayday Parker is the child of Peter and Mary Jane Parker in a future, Peter and Mary Jane named their daughter after his Aunt May
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Thor (Marvel Comics)
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Thor is a fictional superhero appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. He has starred in several ongoing series and limited series, and is a member of the superhero team the Avengers. The character has appeared in associated Marvel merchandise including animated television series, clothing, toys, trading cards, video games. The character was first portrayed in action by Eric Allan Kramer in the 1988 television movie The Incredible Hulk Returns. Thor placed 14th on IGNs list of Top 100 Comic Book Heroes of All Time in 2011, a different version of the mythological Thor had appeared previously in Venus #12-13. Lee in 2002 described Thors genesis early in the Marvel pantheon, following the creation of the Hulk and it finally came to me, Dont make him human — make him a god. I decided readers were already pretty familiar with the Greek and Roman gods and it might be fun to delve into the old Norse legends. In a 1984 interview Kirby said I did a version of Thor for D. C. in the fifties before I did him for Marvel. I created Thor at Marvel because I was forever enamored of legends, which is why I knew about Balder, Heimdall, I tried to update Thor and put him into a superhero costume, but he was still Thor. And in a 1992 interview, Kirby said knew the Thor legends very well, I felt that might be a new thing for comics, taking the old legends and modernizing them. Subsequent stories of the 13-page feature The Mighty Thor continued to be plotted by Lee, various artists penciled the feature, including Jack Kirby, Joe Sinnott, Don Heck, and Al Hartley. With Journey into Mystery #101, the series began a long and definitive run by writer and co-plotter Lee, Lee and Kirby included Thor in The Avengers #1 as a founding member of the superhero team. The character has appeared in every subsequent volume of the series. The five-page featurette Tales of Asgard was added in Journey into Mystery #97, the feature itself expanded to 18 pages in #105, which eliminated the remaining anthological story from each issue, it was reduced to 16 pages five issues later. Comics historian Les Daniels noted that the adventures of Thor were gradually transformed from stories about a superhero into a spectacular saga. Artist Chic Stone, who inked several early Thor stories, observed that Kirby could just lead you through all these different worlds, the readers would follow him anywhere. Journey into Mystery was retitled Thor with issue #126, Tales of Asgard was replaced by a five-page featurette starring the Inhumans from #146–152, after which featurettes were dropped and the Thor stories expanded to Marvels then-standard 20-page length. Marvel filed for a trademark for The Mighty Thor in 1967, after Kirby left the title, Neal Adams penciled issues #180-181
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Thunderstrike (Eric Masterson)
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Eric Masterson is a fictional character in the Marvel Comics Universe, a superhero that has appeared as Thor and later Thunderstrike. The character was introduced as a character in the Thor title. Later interpretations of Thunderstrike would appear in both the MC2 and Heroic Age Marvel Comics storylines, featuring the son, Kevin Masterson. Eric Masterson first appeared in Thor #391, as a supporting character, Thor #408 featured the merging of the character Eric Masterson with Thor, Masterson being utilized as the God of Thunders alter ego until issue #432. Thor #432 featured the character assuming the role of Thor, following Thor #459, Masterson was introduced as Thunderstrike in the eponymous series starting in June 1993. The series lasted two years. Thunderstrike ran for 24 issues, the series canceled in September 1995, creator Tom DeFalco has often claimed that the book outsold Thor and The Avengers combined at the time of its cancellation, although this has been shown to be extremely unlikely. Masterson also appeared in the mini-series Thor Corps as Thunderstrike, the character was featured in the Avengers from issue #343 until issue #374, and crossover series Operation, Galactic Storm. Masterson also appeared in the mini-series Infinity Gauntlet and Infinity War, outside the many appearances in Thor and Avengers, Thunderstrike was used to launch an ongoing series Blackwulf, and a limited series. It was announced that the Thunderstrike character would be returning in a new miniseries by co-creators Tom DeFalco, promotionals leading into the event began in August depicting the mace stating One will rise. And The World Still Needs Heroes, ultimately, the new Thunderstrike miniseries featured Eric Mastersons son, Kevin, in the role once inhabited by his father. Eric Kevin Masterson was working as an architect when he met Thor, Masterson was injured by falling girders, and was taken to the hospital by Thor. Now on crutches, Masterson was attacked by Quicksand, but saved by Thor, Masterson was then abducted by Mongoose. Masterson accompanied Thor to the Black Galaxy, where he first met Hercules, Masterson was mortally wounded by Mongoose, and is given Thors form and powers after the original is sealed in Erics mind, by Odin, to save Erics life. Masterson was then separated from Thor by the Red Celestial, shortly thereafter, Masterson saved Thors life, and was merged with him again. Mastersons son Kevin was captured by Ulik for Loki, Thor freed Kevin and seemingly slew Loki in battle. Heimdall separated Thor from Masterson, then banished Thor, and transformed Masterson into a new Thor and he then met the Enchantress as Leena Moran, and battled Ulik. Eric continues in the role of Thor, after having been given Mjolnir by Thor, Eric then returns to Earth and joins the Avengers in Thors place
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Comic book
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A comic book or comicbook, also called comic magazine or simply comic, is a publication that consists of comic art in the form of sequential juxtaposed panels that represent individual scenes. Panels are often accompanied by brief descriptive prose and written narrative, although comics has some origins in 18th century Japan and 1830s Europe, comic books were first popularized in the United States during the 1930s. Comic books are reliant on their organization and appearance, authors largely focus on the frame of the page, size, orientation, and panel positions. These characteristic aspects of books are necessary in conveying the content. The key elements of comic books include panels, balloons, text, balloons are usually convex spatial containers of information that are related to a character using a tail element. The tail has an origin, path, tip, and pointed direction, there are many technological formulas used to create comic books, including directions, axes, data, and metrics. Following these key formatting procedures is the writing, drawing, Comics as a print medium have existed in America since the printing of The Adventures of Mr. Obadiah Oldbuck in 1842 in hardcover, making it the first known American prototype comic book. The introduction of Jerry Siegel and Joe Shusters Superman in 1938 turned comic books into a major industry, the Golden Age originated the archetype of the superhero. Historians generally divide the timeline of the American comic book into eras, the Golden Age of Comic Books began with the introduction of Superman in 1938, spurring a period of high sales. The Silver Age of comic books is considered to date from the first successful revival of the then-dormant superhero form. The demarcation between the Silver Age and the era, the Bronze Age of Comic Books, is less well-defined. The Modern Age of Comic Books runs from the mid-1980s to the present day, in response to attention from the government and from the media, the U. S. comic book industry set up the Comics Magazine Association of America. The CMAA instilled the Comics Code Authority in 1954 and drafted the self-censorship Comics Code that year and it was not until the 1970s that comic books could be published without passing through the inspection of the CMAA. In the early 1970s, a surge of creativity emerged in what known as underground comix. Published and distributed independently of the comics industry, most of such comics reflected the youth counterculture. Underground comics were almost never sold at newsstands, but rather in such youth-oriented outlets as head shops and record stores, frank Stacks The Adventures of Jesus, published under the name Foolbert Sturgeon, has been credited as the first underground comic. The rise of comic book specialty stores in the late 1970s created/paralleled a dedicated market for independent or alternative comics in the U. S, some independent comics continued in the tradition of underground comics. A few represented experimental attempts to bring closer to the status of fine art
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Editing
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Editing is the process of selecting and preparing written, visual, audible, and film media used to convey information. The editing process can involve correction, condensation, organization, and many other modifications performed with an intention of producing a correct, consistent, accurate and complete work. The editing process begins with the authors idea for the work itself. As such, editing can involve creative skills, human relations, there are various editorial positions in publishing. Typically, one finds editorial assistants reporting to the editorial staff. Senior executive editors are responsible for developing a product for its final release, the smaller the publication, the more these roles overlap. The top editor at many publications may be known as the chief editor, a frequent and highly regarded contributor to a magazine may acquire the title of editor-at-large or contributing editor. Mid-level newspaper editors often manage or help to manage sections, such as business, sports, in U. S. newspapers, the level below the top editor is usually the managing editor. Obtaining manuscripts or recruiting authors is the role of an editor or a commissioning editor in a publishing house. Finding marketable ideas and presenting them to appropriate authors are the responsibilities of a sponsoring editor, copy editors correct spelling, grammar and align writings to house style. Changes to the industry since the 1980s have resulted in nearly all copy editing of book manuscripts being outsourced to freelance copy editors. At newspapers and wire services, copy editors write headlines and work on substantive issues, such as ensuring accuracy, fairness. In some positions, they design pages and select news stories for inclusion, at U. K. and Australian newspapers, the term is sub-editor. They may choose the layout of the publication and communicate with the printer and these editors may have the title of layout or design editor or makeup editor. However, another editor is sometimes involved in the creation of research articles. Called the authors editor, this works with authors to get a manuscript fit for purpose before it is submitted to a scholarly journal for publication. The primary difference between copy editing scholarly books and journals and other sorts of copy editing lies in applying the standards of the publisher to the copy. K, technical editing involves reviewing text written on a technical topic, identifying usage errors and ensuring adherence to a style guide. Large companies dedicate experienced writers to the editing function
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Marvel Comics
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Marvel Comics is the common name and primary imprint of Marvel Worldwide Inc. formerly Marvel Publishing, Inc. and Marvel Comics Group, an American publisher of comic books and related media. In 2009, The Walt Disney Company acquired Marvel Entertainment, Marvel Worldwides parent company, Marvel started in 1939 as Timely Publications, and by the early 1950s had generally become known as Atlas Comics. Marvels modern incarnation dates from 1961, the year that the company launched The Fantastic Four and other superhero titles created by Stan Lee, Jack Kirby, Steve Ditko and many others. Most of Marvels fictional characters operate in a reality known as the Marvel Universe. Martin Goodman founded the later known as Marvel Comics under the name Timely Publications in 1939. Martin Goodman, a magazine publisher who had started with a Western pulp in 1933, was expanding into the emerging—and by then already highly popular—new medium of comic books. The issue was a success, with it and a second printing the following month selling, combined. While its contents came from an outside packager, Funnies, Inc, Timely had its own staff in place by the following year. It, too, proved a hit, with sales of one million. Goodman formed Timely Comics, Inc. beginning with comics cover-dated April 1941 or Spring 1941, Goodman hired his wifes cousin, Stanley Lieber, as a general office assistant in 1939. Lee wrote extensively for Timely, contributing to a number of different titles, Goodmans business strategy involved having his various magazines and comic books published by a number of corporations all operating out of the same office and with the same staff. One of these companies through which Timely Comics was published was named Marvel Comics by at least Marvel Mystery Comics #55. As well, some covers, such as All Surprise Comics #12, were labeled A Marvel Magazine many years before Goodman would formally adopt the name in 1961. The post-war American comic market saw superheroes falling out of fashion and this globe branding united a line put out by the same publisher, staff and freelancers through 59 shell companies, from Animirth Comics to Zenith Publications. Atlas also published a plethora of childrens and teen humor titles, including Dan DeCarlos Homer the Happy Ghost, Atlas unsuccessfully attempted to revive superheroes from late 1953 to mid-1954, with the Human Torch, the Sub-Mariner, and Captain America. Atlas did not achieve any hits and, according to Stan Lee, Atlas survived chiefly because it produced work quickly, cheaply. During this time, the Comic Code Authority made its debut in September 1954, Wertham published the book Seduction of the Innocent in order to force people to see that comics were impacting American youth. He believed violent comics were causing children to be reckless and were turning them into delinquents, in September 1954, comic book publishers got together to set up their own self-censorship organization—the Comics Magazine Association of America—in order to appease audiences
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Spider-Man
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Spider-Man is a fictional superhero appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. The character was created by writer-editor Stan Lee and writer-artist Steve Ditko, when Spider-Man first appeared in the early 1960s, teenagers in superhero comic books were usually relegated to the role of sidekick to the protagonist. Marvel has featured Spider-Man in several book series, the first. In the 2010s, he joins the Avengers, Marvels flagship superhero team, Spider-Mans nemesis Doctor Octopus also took on the identity for a story arc spanning 2012–2014, following a body swap plot in which Peter appears to die. Spider-Man is one of the most popular and commercially successful superheroes, the character was first portrayed in live action by Nicholas Hammond in the 1977 television movie Spider-Man. Reeve Carney starred as Spider-Man in the 2010 Broadway musical Spider-Man, in 1962, with the success of the Fantastic Four, Marvel Comics editor and head writer Stan Lee was casting about for a new superhero idea. He said the idea for Spider-Man arose from a surge in demand for comic books. At that time Lee had to get only the consent of Marvel publisher Martin Goodman for the characters approval, in a 1986 interview, Lee described in detail his arguments to overcome Goodmans objections. In particular, Lee stated that the fact that it had already decided that Amazing Fantasy would be cancelled after issue #15 was the only reason Goodman allowed him to use Spider-Man. While this was indeed the issue, its editorial page anticipated the comic continuing. Will appear every month in Amazing, regardless, Lee received Goodmans approval for the name Spider-Man and the ordinary teen concept, and approached artist Jack Kirby. Lee and Kirby immediately sat down for a conference, Theakston writes. Steve Ditko would be the inker, when Kirby showed Lee the first six pages, Lee recalled, I hated the way he was doing it. Not that he did it badly—it just wasnt the character I wanted, Lee turned to Ditko, who developed a visual style Lee found satisfactory. Ditko recalled, One of the first things I did was to work up a costume, a vital, visual part of the character. I had to know how he looked, for example, A clinging power so he wouldnt have hard shoes or boots, a hidden wrist-shooter versus a web gun and holster, etc. I wasnt sure Stan would like the idea of covering the characters face and it would also add mystery to the character. Although the interior artwork was by Ditko alone, Lee rejected Ditkos cover art, as Lee explained in 2010, I think I had Jack sketch out a cover for it because I always had a lot of confidence in Jacks covers
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Archie Comics
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Archie Comic Publications, Inc. is an American comic book publisher headquartered in Pelham, New York. The company is known for its many titles featuring fictional teenagers including Archie Andrews, Jughead Jones, Betty Cooper, Veronica Lodge, Sabrina Spellman, and Josie, the company began in 1939 as MLJ Comics, which primarily published superhero comics. The initial Archie characters were created in 1941 by publisher John L. Goldwater and artist Bob Montana and they first appeared in Pep Comics #22. With the creation of Archie, publisher John Goldwater hoped to appeal to fans of the Andy Hardy movies starring Mickey Rooney, Archie Comics was also the title of the companys longest-running publication, the first issue appearing with a cover date of Winter 1942. Starting with issue #114, the title was shortened to simply Archie, the flagship series was relaunched from issue #1 in July 2015 with a new look and design suited for a new generation of readers. Archie Comics characters and concepts have also appeared in films, television programs, cartoons. Maurice Coyne, Louis Silberkleit, and John L. Goldwater formed MLJ Magazines, the company name was derived from the initials of the partners first names. Coyne served as MLJs bookkeeper and chief financial officer, Coyne and Silberkleit had been partners in Columbia Publications, a pulp company that published its last pulp in the late 1950s. Silberkleit had a degree from St. Johns University, was a licensed and registered pharmacist. His efforts were focused on the business, printing, separating, distribution, Goldwater was one of the founders of the Comics Magazine Association of America, and he served as its president for 25 years. Goldwater was also a commissioner of the Anti-Defamation League. MLJs first comic book, published in November 1939, was Blue Ribbon Comics, with the first half of the book in full color, top Notch Comics was launched in December 1939. In January 1940, Pep Comics debuted with the Shield, the first USA patriotic comic book hero, created by writer and managing editor Harry Shorten, the Shield was a forerunner of Joe Simons and Jack Kirbys Captain America, being published 14 months earlier. Until March 1944, the feature of Pep was the Shield. The Andy Hardy movies were an inspiration for Goldwater to have a book about a relatable normal person. Teenaged Archibald Chick Andrews debuted with Betty Cooper and Jughead Jones in Pep Comics #22, in a story by writer Vic Bloom, Archie soon became MLJ Magazines headliner, which led to the company changing its name to Archie Comic Publications. Siberkleit and Coyne discontinued Columbia Publications in 1960, in the late 1950s, Archie Publishing launched its Archie Adventure Series line with a new version of the Shield and two new characters. Publisher Jim Warren received a letter on December 6,1961, accusing Help. of copyright infringement, Warren was unable to recall the magazine, but he agreed to settle out of court rather than risk an expensive lawsuit
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Archie Andrews
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Archie Andrews, created in 1941 by publisher John L. Archibald Archie Andrews debuted in Pep Comics 22. He is the child of Mary and Fred Andrews. His father works as a business executive. His earlier life is revealed in the Little Archie stories when he had a dog named Spotty and he lives in Riverdale, where he attends Riverdale High School. Archie is a typical small-town teenager and his two main crushes are Veronica Lodge and Betty Cooper, forming the love triangle driving many of the comics plot-lines. He has the best intentions, but often comes into conflict with Veronicas rich father, Hiram Lodge, as the lead singer of The Archies, Archie performs with Betty and Veronica, as well as his rival Reggie Mantle, and best friend Jughead Jones. Mary and Fred Andrews are of Scottish descent, Archies paternal grandfather Andy Andrews, immigrated to the United States from Scotland and befriended Moose Masons Russian ancestor, who had emigrated at the same time. Archie has been depicted wearing the kilt of his ancestors. The Little Archie series, published from 1956 through the mid-1990s, chronicles the adventures of pre-teen Archie, the 2010 revival of the Life with Archie series chronicles two alternate, parallel story lines in which Archie marries Betty and Veronica. The love triangle between Betty, Archie and Veronica became the hallmark of the Archie stories since the character was created more than 70 years ago, in Archies debut, when he was nicknamed Chick, he was trying to impress the girl next door, Betty Cooper. Initially, Betty considered him only as an annoying neighbor, when Veronica Lodge came to Riverdale, he switched his attention to her, making Betty jealous. She began competing with Veronica for his affection, Archie has feelings for both girls. Archie and Veronica date regularly, and he can count on Betty to lift his ego by showering him with affection and he often thinks of her only as a close friend and confidant. Betty loves Archie, but he takes her for granted. Archie likes it that he can use Betty as a back-up when he not have a date with his primary girlfriend Veronica. He dislikes it when Betty dates other boys, wanting her to stay available as his second choice, now that Betty sporadically dates Jason Blossom and Adam Chisholm, Archie shows a tinge of jealousy. Archie is married to Betty in Archie Marries Betty, Life With Archie series and he keeps running back to her, but she is rarely devoted to him. Archie is always fighting for her affection with his rival, Reggie Mantle, Veronica keeps Archie guessing, never letting him take her for granted, which makes him prefer Veronica over Betty
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Scooby-Doo
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Scooby-Doo is an American animated cartoon franchise, comprising several animated television series produced from 1969 to the present day. The original series, Scooby-Doo, Where Are You. was created for Hanna-Barbera Productions by writers Joe Ruby, following the success of the original series, Hanna-Barbera and its successor Warner Bros. –produced theatrical feature films. Scooby-Doo was originally broadcast on CBS from 1969 to 1975, when it moved to ABC, ABC aired the show until canceling it in 1986, and presented a spin-off featuring the characters as children, A Pup Named Scooby-Doo, from 1988 until 1991. New Scooby-Doo series aired as part of Kids WB on The WB Network and its successor, The CW Network, Mystery Incorporated aired on Cartoon Network from 2010 to 2013, and Be Cool, Scooby-Doo. Debuted on Cartoon Network in 2015, repeats of the various Scooby-Doo series are broadcast frequently on Cartoon Network and its sister channel Boomerang in the United States as well as other countries. In 2013, TV Guide ranked Scooby-Doo the fifth Greatest TV Cartoon of All Time, in 1968, parent-run organizations, particularly Action for Childrens Television, began to protest about what they perceived as excessive violence in Saturday morning cartoons. Members of these served as advisers to Hanna-Barbera and other animation studios to ensure that their new programs would be safe for children. The result was The Archie Show, based upon Bob Montanas teenage humor comic book Archie, also successful were the musical numbers The Archies performed during each program. When The Mysteries Five were not performing at gigs, they were out solving spooky mysteries involving ghosts, zombies, Ruby and Spears were unable to decide whether Too Much would be a large cowardly dog or a small feisty dog. Silverman rejected their initial pitch, and after consulting with Barbera on next steps, lead character designer Takamoto, while designing the characters, consulted a studio colleague who happened to be a breeder of Great Danes. Ruby and Spears second pass at the show used Dobie Gillis as the template for the rather than Archie. The treatment retained the dog Too Much, while reducing the number of teenagers to four, removing the Mike character and retaining Geoff, Kelly, Linda, and W. W. As their personalities were modified, so were the names, Geoff became Ronnie – later renamed Fred, Kelly became Daphne, Linda Velma. The teens were now based on four characters from The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis, Dobie Gillis, Thalia Menninger, Zelda Gilroy and Maynard G. Krebs. The revised show was re-pitched to Silverman, who liked the material but, disliking the title Mysteries Five, Silverman presented Whos S-S-Scared. to the CBS executives as the centerpiece for the upcoming 1969–70 seasons Saturday morning cartoon block. CBS president Frank Stanton felt that the artwork was too scary for young viewers and, thinking the show would be the same. The rock band element was dropped, and more attention was focused upon Shaggy, the revised show was re-presented to CBS executives, who approved it for production. Made its CBS network debut on Saturday, September 13,1969 with its first episode, Scoobys speech patterns closely resembled an earlier cartoon dog, Astro from The Jetsons, also voiced by Messick
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Josie and the Pussycats (TV series)
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Josie and the Pussycats is an American animated television series, based upon the Archie Comics comic book series of the same name created by Dan DeCarlo. In 1972, the show was re-conceptualized as Josie and the Pussycats in Outer Space, reruns of the original series alternated between CBS, ABC, and NBC from 1974 through 1976. This brought its national Saturday morning TV run on three networks to six years, Josie and the Pussycats featured an all-girl pop music band that toured the world with their entourage, getting mixed up in strange adventures, spy capers, and mysteries. On the small-screen, the group consisted of level-headed lead singer and guitarist Josie, intelligent tambourinist Valerie, other characters included their cowardly manager Alexander Cabot III, his conniving sister Alexandra, her cat Sebastian, and muscular roadie Alan. The show, more similar to Hanna-Barberas successful Scooby-Doo, Where Are You, animation studio Hanna-Barbera Productions wanted to duplicate the success their competitors Filmation were having with The Archie Show. Archie and Hanna-Barbera collaborated to adapt Archies Josie comic book into a property about a teenage music band. The Josie and the Pussycats recordings were produced by La La Productions, run by Danny Janssen, after interviewing over 500 finalists, settled upon casting Kathleen Dougherty as Josie, Cherie Moor as Melody, and Patrice Holloway as Valerie. Janssen presented the newly formed band to William Hanna and Joseph Barbera to finalize the production deal, Janssen refused to recast Holloway and threatened to walk away from the project. After a three-week-long stand-off between Janssen and Hanna-Barbera, Hanna-Barbera finally relented and allowed Janssen to keep Holloway, and changed Valerie back to being African-American, the Valerie character was the first African-American female character on a regular Saturday morning cartoon series. The Hardy Boys drummer Pete Jones had been the first African-American male to appear on Saturday mornings a year earlier, the shows theme song, titled Josie and the Pussycats, was written by Hoyt Curtin, William Hanna, and Joseph Barbera. Patrice Holloway, the voice of Valerie, sings the lead vocal on the recording. The theme song was based on melodies from a tune played on various Hanna-Barbera cartoons since The Jetsons. Josie and the Pussycats debuted on the CBS Saturday morning lineup on September 12,1970, the animated version of Josie was an amalgam of plot devices, villain types, settings, moods, and tones from other Hanna-Barbera shows such as Scooby-Doo, Where Are You. Jonny Quest, Space Ghost, and Shazzan, Josie and the Pussycats was originally broadcast with a laugh track. Later home video and DVD releases omit the laugh track, Cartoon Network and Boomerang, however, have aired the original episodes with the laugh track intact. Every episode of the show would find the Pussycats and crew en route to perform a gig or record a song in some exotic location, somehow, often due to something Alexandra did, they would accidentally find themselves mixed up in an adventure/mystery. The antagonist was always a mad scientist, spy, or criminal who wanted to take over the world using some hi-tech device. The Pussycats would usually find themselves in possession of the plans for an invention, an item of interest to the villains, a secret spy message, etc. and the villains would give chase
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Jimmy Olsen
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James Bartholomew Jimmy Olsen is a fictional character who appears mainly in DC Comics’ Superman stories. Olsen is a young photojournalist working for the Daily Planet and he is close friends with Lois Lane and Clark Kent/Superman, and has a good working relationship with his boss Perry White. Olsen looks up to his coworkers as role models and parent figures, in most depictions of the character, he has a strong friendship with Superman. In many Silver Age of Comic Books, Jimmy was often seen sharing adventures with Superman and this was particularly pronounced in the series Supermans Pal Jimmy Olsen published from 1954 to 1974, which saw Olsen in a variety of slapstick adventures and strange transformations. Like most DC characters, modern portrayals of Olsen have been more serious in tone, an important part of the Superman mythos, Jimmy Olsen has appeared in most other media adaptations of the character. Olsen is a common Danish-Norwegian surname, however, there is never any reference to the character having a Scandinavian ancestry, other than the name. The character was first introduced as Jimmy Olsen in the radio show The Adventures of Superman on April 15,1940 mainly so the Man of Steel would have someone to talk to, but after a handful of appearances, he disappeared again. In addition to Larson, he was portrayed by Tommy Bond in the two Superman film serials, Superman and Atom Man vs. During the Silver Age, beginning in 1954, Jimmy stars in his own book, Supermans Pal Jimmy Olsen. This version of Jimmy Olsen even had his own fan club, Jack Kirby began by introducing a secret D. N. A. Project to create Mutated Humans for Good, adding The Hairies, superbeings from other planets, Intergang, about halfway through his run, Kirby introduced vampires, the Loch Ness Monster, and Victor Volcanum, the fire-eating archcriminal. Readership quickly dropped back to its pre-Kirby levels, kirbys tenure on the series ended with issue #148, and with issue #164 Jimmys book was folded into the anthology title The Superman Family. In that series, Olsen became a serious character who battled criminals as an investigative reporter known as Mr. Action in urban crime stories that rarely involved Superman. Jimmy Olsen appeared in new stories in The Superman Family #164,167,170,173,176,179, following Crisis on Infinite Earths, the entire Superman mythos was rebooted from scratch in the limited series The Man of Steel. Despite recent modernization efforts on Superman and his characters, Jimmy Olsen has not been significantly changed in the Modern Age. He is still a cub reporter working for The Daily Planet and his look was made over as he stopped wearing bowties, and started wearing casual clothing. An interesting alteration to the relationship was that Jimmy designed the signal watch himself, Superman briefly considered confiscating the watch, but decided to trust Jimmy to use it responsibly. He also took the identity of Turtle Boy in a series of pizza commercials, in the 1990s, Jimmy quit the Planet in a dispute over a story and went to Metropolis broadcaster Galaxy Broadcasting, where he worked as an on-air investigative reporter
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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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The Superman Family
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The Superman Family was an American comic book series published by DC Comics from 1974 to 1982 featuring supporting characters in the Superman comics. The term Superman Family is often used to refer to the extended cast of characters of comics books associated with Superman, a similarly titled series Superman Family Adventures was launched in 2012. The Superman Family was an amalgamation of the titles Supermans Girl Friend, Lois Lane, Supermans Pal Jimmy Olsen, the first issue, #164, took its numbering from Jimmy Olsen, which had reached issue #163 and thus had the most issues published. Lois Lane ended at #137, while the newly launched Supergirl book had made it to #9 at the time. A tenth and final issue of Supergirl was published five months after Superman Familys launch, the Superman Family went through two distinct phases. In its inception the three leads Jimmy Olsen, Lois Lane, and Supergirl rotated new stories each issue with reprints for the other characters, the first six issues of the series were in the 100 Page Super Spectacular format and Nick Cardy was the cover artist. Changes were made in the setting of Supergirls adventures during the run in the title. She moves to Florida to join the faculty at the New Athens Experimental School in issue #165. In an imaginary tale set in a future in issue #200, Supergirl. She leaves Florida and relocates to New York City to become an opera actress in issue #208. After the cancellation of Super-Team Family, a Supergirl/Doom Patrol team-up originally scheduled to appear in that title was published in The Superman Family #191–193, Supergirl battled the Enchantress in issues #204–205 and teamed with the Legion of Super-Heroes in issue #207. The Superman Family became the first DC Comics series in the 80-page Dollar Comic format, consisting of 64 pages of new stories, with that issue, the framing element was removed from the covers, and the book switched to printing all new material. It became a series in 1981 starting with issue #207. Lois Lane—The adventures of Lois Lane, where she regularly battled criminals, Jimmy Olsen—The adventures of Jimmy Olsen. Superboy—The adventures of the Earth-One Superman as a teenage superhero and this series continued from Adventure Comics #458 and led to the feature leaving the title for its own in 1980, The New Adventures of Superboy. The Private Life of Clark Kent—The adventures of Clark Kent in which he used his powers and this feature had moved over from Superman after issue #328 of that series. After the cancellation of The Superman Family, it returned to Superman for two appearances in issues #371 and 373. Mr. and Mrs. Superman—The adventures of the Earth-Two Superman and his wife and this feature had moved from Superman after issue #329 of that series
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Starfire (Star Hunters)
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Starfire is a fictional character appearing in publications by DC Comics. She first appeared in Starfire #1, and was created by David Michelinie, the first DC comics character to use the name Starfire was Leonid Konstantinovitch Kovar, a Russian superhero who first appeared in Teen Titans #18. The second character to bear the name, and the first female, was a dark-haired, the characters series took place on a strange alien world. Starfire was the first DC heroine to receive her own title since Supergirl in 1972 and her series lasted only eight issues. According to this series, Starfires world was long ago involved in a civil war between two castes, the warrior-priests and the Lightning Lords. Unable to prevail upon each other alone, each caste summoned an alien race to serve their cause, the warrior-priests summoned the Mygorg and the Lightning Lords the Yorgs. The two alien races were hereditary enemies and indeed resumed their war in their new planet, however, both turned the tables on their summoners and intended masters by enslaving them. The world was divided among the two, Mygorg and Yorg, which continued to war against each other, the original human-like inhabitants continued to survive in slavery. Starfire was born as the daughter of two slaves of different skin color and her father was yellow and her mother white. Both slaves belonged to the Mygorg, Sookarooth, King of the Mygorg took notice of the young girl of mixed heritage and beautiful appearance. He arranged for her to be raised free and educated in his own palace, when Starfire reached her eighteenth birthday, Sookarooth announced her to be his future mate. She fled in disgust but was pursued by the royal forces and she was saved by Dagan, a warrior-priest. The two became lovers and Dagan trained her as a warrior, Starfire became skilled in swordsmanship, archery, tracking, and other skills typical to a warrior-priest. Their shared life ended when Dagan was captured by Sookarooth and he was at first tortured and then executed. A vengeful Starfire returned to Castle Mollachon and raised its slaves in revolt and she slew Sookareth herself and then vowed to free her people from slavery. The following issues had Starfire recruiting additional followers to her side and seeking more effective weapons against the Mygorg, the Yorg, the series ended before a resolution could be reached. In Star Hunters #7, Starfire and Claw the Unconquered were revealed as two of the champions of the Sornaii on the world of Pytharia. The implications of this revelation were never explored as the Star Hunters series ended in a cliffhanger, presumably writer David Michelinie was inspired by the Eternal Champion concept of Michael Moorcock
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Cain and Abel (comics)
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Cain and Abel are a pair of fictional characters in the DC Comics universe based on the biblical Cain and Abel. They are key figures in DCs Mystery line of the late 1960s and 1970s, originally, Cain and Abel were the respective hosts of the EC-style horror comic anthologies House of Mystery and House of Secrets, which ran from the 1950s through the early 1980s. During the 1970s, they also co-hosted the horror/humor anthology Plop, both comics had been running Dial H for Hero and Eclipso, respectively, before the introduction of the new host characters. Cain, the Able Care-Taker, created by Bob Haney, Jack Sparling and Joe Orlando, first appeared in The House of Mystery #175, modeled on writer Len Wein, a photograph of Wein as Cain can be found in Elviras House of Mystery #4. Abel, created by Mark Hanerfeld, Bill Draut, and Joe Orlando, first appeared in DC Special #4, Hanerfeld was the model for Abel, and he also appeared in a photograph in Elviras House of Mystery #4. On the letters page of Weird Mystery Tales #3, Destiny stated that Cain, Abel, and Eve were not the characters as their biblical counterparts. Cain, Eve, and to an extent, Abel. House of Mystery was canceled in 1983, the final issue showed Cain in front of the House for sale, with his bags packed, and Gregory, his pet gargoyle, behind him. The cover of Vertigos mostly-reprint Welcome Back to the House of Mystery showed him returning with Abel, the House of Secrets and The Witching Hour were eventually merged with The Unexpected and canceled around the same time. Cain then became a character in Blue Devil, with Abel. Cain told tales of people who boarded at the House of Mystery. Abel stammeringly took abuse from both Cain and the House of Secrets itself, and had a girlfriend named Goldie. In the early issues, Abel told the stories directly to Goldie, Cain is a thin, long-limbed man with an angular, drawn face, glasses, a tufty beard, and hair drawn into two points above his ears. Abel is a nervous, stammering, kind-hearted man, Abel also has a tufty beard and hair that comes to points above his ears, though his hair is black rather than brown. He is shorter and fatter than Cain, with an open face. It is eventually stated that the time he doesnt stutter is when he is telling a story. Gregory grew to maturity over the course of the series and continued to appear in Sandman stories, Gregory ate the Earth-1 counterparts of writer Paul Kupperberg and editor Jack C. Cain also used to have a cat named Oskar, who did not get along with Gregory
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House of Mystery
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The House of Mystery is the name of several horror, fantasy, and mystery anthology comic book magazine series published by DC Comics. It had a series, House of Secrets. House of Mystery started out as an anthology, featuring tales of the supernatural as well as supernatural-themed mystery stories. This was followed up with the introduction of Dial H for Hero in issue #156, the Martian Manhunter was again relegated to back-up status during this time. With issue #174, EC Comics veteran Joe Orlando was hired by DC to take over as editor of House of Mystery, as the Comics Code Authority was now being challenged by both DC and Marvel over content restrictions, the series returned to its overt horror themes. The first issue under Orlando would be a reprint issue of old horror/suspense stories, as the new direction would truly begin with #175. The issue would introduce a new figure to the series, Cain, Cain would also host the spin-off humor series Plop. and later become a recurring character in Blue Devil and The Sandman. Artist Bernie Wrightsons first professional work was the story The Man Who Murdered Himself which appeared in issue #179. Limited Collectors Edition #C-23 featured reprints of House of Mystery stories, House of Mystery #224 to #229 were in the 100 Page Super Spectacular format. The series was in the Dollar Comics format for issues #251 to #259, House of Mystery featured stories by writers T. Orlandos tenure as editor ended with #257, karen Berger became editor of the series with #292, her first for DC Comics. Under Berger, the series experimented with long-form storylines in the popular I. Vampire serial created by writer J. M. DeMatteis, Vampire revolved around the heroic vampire, Andrew Bennett, who sought to defeat his nemesis and former lover Mary, the Queen of Blood. This series began in #290 and would last until #319, two issues before the title ended with #321, the first issue from 1951 was reissued, as a Millennium Edition bearing the Vertigo imprint. In 1986–1987, DC comics published a new series, Elviras House of Mystery and it lasted 11 issues plus a special. DCs Vertigo imprint began a new ongoing series in May 2008, written by Lilah Sturges and it features at least one different story each issue, told by people trapped in a purgatory-like house. The series ended in October 2011 with issue #42, very little is known about the House of Mystery in general. The architecture is indeterminate and changes periodically, the same holds true for the inside of the house, the rooms constantly shift, and one never enters the same room twice. The House of Mystery lies in the graveyard as the House of Secrets, its companion
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The Avengers (comic book)
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The Avengers is the name of several comic book titles featuring the team the Avengers and published by Marvel Comics, beginning with the original The Avengers comic book series which debuted in 1963. In 1960, DC Comics launched a book series featuring a team of superheroes called the Justice League. Impressed by that books strong sales, Martin Goodman, the owner of Marvel Comics predecessor Timely Comics, Lee recounts in Origins of Marvel Comics, Martin mentioned that he had noticed one of the titles published by National Comics seemed to be selling better than most. It was a book called The Justice League of America and it was composed of a team of superheroes, if the Justice League is selling, spoke he, why dont we put out a comic book that features a team of superheroes. Much like the Justice League, the Avengers were an assemblage of pre-existing superhero characters created by Lee, Kirby did the artwork for the first eight issues only, in addition to doing the layouts for issue #16. Marvel filed for a trademark for The Avengers in 1967 and the United States Patent, between 1996 and 2004, Marvel relaunched the primary Avengers title three times. In 1996, the Heroes Reborn line, in which Marvel contracted outside companies to produce four titles and it took place in an alternate universe, with a revamped history unrelated to mainstream Marvel continuity. The Avengers vol.2 was written by Rob Liefeld and penciled by Jim Valentino, the final issue, which featured a crossover with the other Heroes Reborn titles, returned the characters to the main Marvel Universe. The Avengers vol.3 relaunched and ran for 84 issues from February 1998 to August 2004, Avengers vol.4 debuted in July 2010 and ran until January 2013. Vol.5 was launched in February 2013, after Secret Wars, a new Avengers team debuted, dubbed the All-New, All-Different Avengers, starting with a Free Comic Book Day preview. The roster changed almost immediately after the first issue, at the beginning of the issue, Ant-Man became Giant-Man, and at the end of the issue. Issue #4 brought the titles first major milestone, the revival, the creative team of writer Roy Thomas and artist John Buscema introduced new characters such as Arkon in issue #75 and Red Wolf in #80. Novelist Harlan Ellison plotted two stories for the series, the first was published in issue #88 and the second in #101. Writer Steve Englehart introduced Mantis, who joined the team along with the reformed Swordsman, during the summer of 1973, Englehart and artists Bob Brown and Sal Buscema produced The Avengers-Defenders Clash storyline which crossed over between the two team titles. George Pérez became the titles artist with issue #141 which saw the start of a story featuring the Squadron Supreme. In 2010, Comics Bulletin ranked Engleharts run on The Avengers eighth on its list of the Top 10 1970s Marvels, shooter introduced the character of Henry Peter Gyrich, the Avengers liaison to the United States National Security Council. The true origins of Quicksilver and the Scarlet Witch were revealed in a story that ran in issues #185-187. Stern developed several major storylines, such as Ultimate Vision, the formation of the West Coast Avengers, rogue, who would later become a member of the X-Men, was introduced in The Avengers Annual #10 by writer Chris Claremont and artist Michael Golden
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Marvel Team-Up
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Marvel Team-Up is the name of several American comic book series published by Marvel Comics. The series featured two or more Marvel characters in one story, the original series was published from March 1972 through February 1985, and featured Spider-Man as the lead team-up character in all but ten of its 150 issues, and in six of its seven annuals. It was the first major ongoing series for Spider-Man, being preceded only by the short-lived The Spectacular Spider-Man magazine. Of the issues that did not star Spider-Man, the Human Torch headlines six issues, the Hulk, four, publication of most of the issues starring the Human Torch coincided with that of Giant-Size Spider-Man, an alternate Spider-Man team-up-themed series by the regular Marvel Team-Up creative team. When cancelled with #150, the title was replaced by Web of Spider-Man, the second series was published for 11 issues from September 1997 through July 1998 and originally featured Spider-Man, Namor the Sub-Mariner was the featured character starting with #8. From 1995 to 1997, a series titled Spider-Man Team-Up fulfilled much the same purpose as the original title. The third Marvel Team-Up series, written by Robert Kirkman, began publication in January 2005 and this volume often reintroduced lesser-known Marvel characters that had fallen into obscurity. The spirit of Marvel Team-Up was carried on by Avenging Spider-Man, the series debuted with a March 1972 cover-dated issue featuring Spider-Man and the Human Torch in a story by writer Roy Thomas and artist Ross Andru. The main artists on the series for the first several years were Andru, Gil Kane, Sal Buscema, in 1974, Marvel started publishing Giant-Size Spider-Man, which was a quarterly 68-page comic that lasted for six issues which complemented Marvel Team-Up. The series featured team-ups, with each featuring a new story with a back-up reprint, except the last issue. Due to the limitations of the typically single-issue team-up stories, the supporting cast of Spider-Mans other titles rarely appeared in Marvel Team-Up, the series often featured non-superhero characters in the co-star slot. DeMatteis recounted, I was always attracted to the more obscure characters and you could crack them open and really develop them. I just looked at these characters as more inviting than the mainstream. I wanted room to play and those characters gave me all the room I wanted, and lets fact it, our lead character was as mainstream as you can get, so the obscure ones made for a nice contrast. With issue #47, the series had a crossover with Marvel Two-in-One #17, jean DeWolff was introduced as a supporting character in the Spider-Man/Iron Man story in issue #48. John Byrne, who would become the artist on The Uncanny X-Men. Byrne and his Uncanny X-Men collaborator, writer Chris Claremont worked together on issues of Marvel Team-Up. Captain Britain, a character created for Marvel UK, made his first appearance in an American comic book in Marvel Team-Up #65, karma, a character that later joined the New Mutants, was created by Claremont and artist Frank Miller in #100s lead story
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Limited series (comics)
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In the field of comic books, a limited series is a comics series with a predetermined number of issues. A limited series differs from a series in that the number of issues is finite and determined before production. The term is used interchangeably with miniseries and maxiseries, usually depending on the length. In Dark Horse Comics definition of a series, This term primarily applies to a connected series of individual comic books. A limited series refers to a book series with a clear beginning, middle. Dark Horse Comics and DC Comics refer to limited series of two to eleven issues as miniseries and series of issues or more as maxiseries. The limited series has a story to tell. It follows the standard plot set-up of beginning, middle, usually, all plot points are covered by the end of the series. There have been limited series done in a format. Limited series are often done by a creative team, but in cases where there are changes. The number of issues is determined by some combination of the writers plotting. In 1979, in the process of recovering from the DC Implosion, publisher DC Comics experimented with a new format in the World of Krypton miniseries, as DC termed such short-run works. The new format allowed the company to tell stories that may not have fit into a series and to showcase characters into a short story without the risk. With the success of the format, DC followed by experimenting with longer stories. Debuting in 1982, Camelot 3000 was the first limited series to run to twelve issues, DC coined the term maxiseries as a promotional description for this. It did not take long for other publishers to begin using the limited-series format, Marvel Comics used it to feature popular characters from team titles and put them in solo adventures. Wolverines earliest solo adventures were told in limited series, crossovers were introduced in limited series form before the concept of multi-title crossovers was conceived. Contest of Champions brought forth the idea of an event affecting the Marvel Universe
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Herb Trimpe
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Herb Trimpe was born May 26,1939, in Peekskill, New York, where he graduated from Lakeland High School. His brother, Mike Trimpe, inked an Ant-Man story that Trimpe pencilled in Marvel Feature #6, of his childhood art and comics influences, he said in 2002, I really loved the Disney stuff, Donald Duck and characters like that. Funny-animal stuff, that was kind of my favorite, and I liked to draw that kind of thing, I loved comics since I was a little kid, but I was actually more interested in syndicating a comic strip than working in comics. As well, I was a big fan of EC comics. Trimpe commuted to New York City for three years to attend the School of Visual Arts, there, Trimpe recalled in 2002, instructor and longtime comics artist Tom Gill needed a student to ink his backgrounds and stuff. So thats how I started, at Dell, doing mostly Westerns and also licensed books, Trimpe then enlisted in the United States Air Force for four years, he recalled in 1997, the standard enlistment time, from 1962 to 1966. I was a weatherman, and our unit was on loan, you might say and we supplied aviation weather support to the First Air Cavalry Division based in the central highlands in Viet Nam. They used helicopters extensively to move troops around, I was just preparing to put some material together and go to DC and Charlton when I got a call from Sol Brodsky, who was production chief. He said they needed somebody on staff in the department to run the new photostat machine they had just bought. I would primarily run the machine and wouldnt be seated at a desk. This kind of opened the door, the staff job didnt pay much by todays standards, I think it started at $135 dollars a week which wasnt as low as it sounds. Remember, it was 1966 and that was a fairly good entry-level salary and his joining the Marvel production staff was announced in the Bullpen Bulletins of Marvel comics cover-dated June 1967, such as Fantastic Four #63. He remained associated with the company through 1996, shortly thereafter, Trimpe and writer Gary Friedrich created Marvels World War I aviator hero the Phantom Eagle in Marvel Super-Heroes #16. In the 1960s, during the known as the Silver Age of Comics, Trimpe was assigned to pencil what became his signature character. Beginning with pencil-finishes over Marie Severin layouts in The Incredible Hulk vol,2, #106, he went on to draw the character for a virtually unbroken run of over seven years, through issue #142, then again from #145–193. Additionally, Trimpe penciled the covers of five Hulk annuals, under the Marvel Method of writer-artist collaboration, Trimpe, like other Marvel artists of the time, was uncredited co-plotter of most of his stories, a working arrangement Trimpe said he enjoyed. Among the characters co-created by Trimpe during his run on the title were Jim Wilson in issue #131, during his time on the comic, he became the first artist to draw for publication the character Wolverine, who would go on to become one of Marvels most popular. The character, designed by Marvel de facto art director John Romita, Sr. was an antagonist for the Hulk,2, #180 and making his first full appearance the following issue
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Barry Windsor-Smith
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Barry Windsor-Smith is a British comic book illustrator and painter whose best known work has been produced in the United States. He is best known for his work on Marvel Comics Conan the Barbarian from 1970 to 1973 and he was born Barry Smith in Forest Gate, London. Following this, he flew to the U. S. in summer 1968 with fellow artist Steve Parkhouse for meetings at Marvel in New York. I sent material first, and based solely upon a pleasant return note from Stan s assistant Linda Fite, my pal, largely due to his Jack Kirbyesque style, Marvel Comics Editor Stan Lee gave him the job of drawing both the cover and story of X-Men No. 53, credited to Barry Smith as he was then known and he drew Marvels Daredevil #50–52, a Western short story, Half Breed, and issue #12 of Nick Fury, Agent of S. H. I. E. L. D. Windsor-Smith later called his early art amateur and klutzy and a less than skillful Kirby imitation, despite this, Roy Thomas assigned him issues No.66 and No.67 of The Avengers after he had returned to the UK. These stories introduced the indestructible metal alloy adamantium. He continued to work at a distance for Marvel, providing the art for a number of stories in the anthology titles Tower of Shadows. Soon afterwards, Thomas offered Windsor-Smith the job as penciller for Marvels adaptation of Conan, in 1971, Windsor-Smith moved to the United States, having been granted a work permit. Comics historian Les Daniels noted that Windsor-Smiths initial efforts were slightly sketchy, within a few months he had achieved a style never seen in comics before. During his run on Conan the Barbarian, Windsor-Smith was involved in the writing as well and he and writer Roy Thomas adapted a number of R. E. Howard short stories, the aforementioned The Frost-Giants Daughter, Tower of the Elephant, Rogues in the House, as well as the art and story contributions, Windsor-Smith provided the covers for most issues. They worked on original adventures and characters based on R. E,24, Windsor-Smiths last issue of the title. By then he had worked on 21 of the first 24 issues of the series, missing only issues No.17,22, and both he and the title had won a number of awards. In 2010, Comics Bulletin ranked Thomas and Windsor-Smiths work on Conan the Barbarian seventh on its list of the Top 10 1970s Marvels, Windsor-Smith provided the art for a number of other Marvel Comics titles, including the Ka-Zar stories in Astonishing Tales #3–6 and No. 10, three issues of The Avengers – about which he would later remember the nightmare of drawing all those bloody characters that I didnt give tuppence about. 42, and Marvel Premiere #3–4, which featured Doctor Strange, howard characters, Kull in Exile of Atlantis, and Bran Mak Morn in Worms of the Earth. Other than ten pages of inking of Jack Kirby pencil work for Captain Americas Bicentennial Battles, at this point he changed his professional surname to Windsor-Smith, adding his mothers surname to his own, and began to pursue a career in fine art
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Dennis O'Neil
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As an editor, he is principally known for editing the various Batman titles. As of 2013, he sits on the board of directors of the charity The Hero Initiative, ONeil was born into a Catholic household in St. Louis, Missouri. On Sunday afternoons he would accompany his father or his grandfather to the store for some light groceries, ONeil graduated from St. Louis University around the turn of the 1960s with a degree centered on English literature, creative writing, and philosophy. From there he joined the U. S. Navy just in time to participate in the blockade of Cuba during the Cuban Missile Crisis, after leaving the Navy, ONeil moved on to a job with a newspaper in Cape Girardeau, Missouri. ONeil wrote bi-weekly columns for the page, and during the slow summer months he filled the space with a series on the revival of the comics industry. This attracted the attention of Roy Thomas, who would himself become one of the great names in the history of the medium. ONeil had never considered writing for comics before, and later said hed done the test kind of as a joke, I had a couple of hours on a Tuesday afternoon, so instead of doing crossword puzzles, I did the writers test. He also wrote dialog for such titles as Rawhide Kid and Millie the Model, as well as scripting the final 13 pages of Daredevil #18 over a plot by Lee, when Lee went on vacation. ONeil and artist Neal Adams revived the Professor X character in X-Men #65 in one of the creative teams earliest collaborations, the available jobs writing for Marvel petered out fairly quickly, and ONeil took a job with Charlton Comics under the pseudonym of Sergius O’Shaugnessy. There he received work for a year and a half from Charltons editor Dick Giordano. In 1968 Dick Giordano was offered a position at DC Comics and took a number of Charlton freelancers with him. Charlton talent arrived at DC from a different culture of comics, at DC, the office seemed like a snapshot from 1950, with a crowd of short-haired men in white shirts and ties. The jeans-wearing, hippy trended Charlton crowd visibly represented a different generation, ONeils first assignments involved two strategies for bolstering DCs sales. One approach centered on the creation of new characters, and ONeil scripted several issues of Beware the Creeper, from there, DC moved ONeil to Wonder Woman and Justice League of America. With artist Mike Sekowsky, he took away Wonder Womans powers, exiled her from the Amazon community and these changes did not sit well with Wonder Womans older fans, particularly feminists, and ONeil acknowledged that de-powering DCs most well-known superheroine had unintentionally alienated readers. In Justice League, he had success, introducing into that title the first socially and politically themed stories. He and artist Dick Dillin made several changes to the membership of the JLA by removing founding members the Martian Manhunter and Wonder Woman. It was during this period that the most famous Green Arrow story appeared, in Green Lantern #85–86, when it was revealed that Green Arrows ward Speedy was addicted to heroin
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Ghost Rider
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Ghost Rider is the name of several fictional supernatural antiheroes appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. Marvel had previously used the name for a Western character whose name was changed to Phantom Rider. The first supernatural Ghost Rider is stunt motorcyclist Johnny Blaze, who, in order to save the life of his father, at night and when around evil, Blaze finds his flesh consumed by hellfire, causing his head to become a flaming skull. He rides a motorcycle and wields blasts of hellfire from his body. He eventually learns he has bonded with the demon Zarathos. Blaze starred in the series from 1972 to 1983, the subsequent Ghost Rider series featured Danny Ketch as a new Ghost Rider. After his sister was injured by ninja gangsters, Ketch came in contact with a motorcycle that had somehow been mystically enchanted to contain the essence of a Spirit of Vengeance. Blaze reappeared in this 1990s series as a character, and it was later revealed that Danny. In 2000s comics, Blaze again became the Ghost Rider, succeeding Ketch, in 2013, Robbie Reyes became Ghost Rider as part of the Marvel NOW. initiative. Nicolas Cage starred as the Johnny Blaze iteration of the character in the 2007 film Ghost Rider, gabriel Luna currently plays the Robbie Reyes version in the television series Agents of S. H. I. E. L. D. He received his own series in 1973, with penciller Jim Mooney handling most of the first nine issues, several different creative teams mixed-and-matched until penciller Don Perlin began a considerably long stint with issue #26, eventually joined by writer Michael Fleisher through issue #58. The series ran through in issue #81, Johnny Blaze was the son of Naomi Blaze and Barton Blaze, Naomi being the previous Ghost Rider. The next Ghost Rider, a man named Daniel Ketch. His new motorcycle resembled a futuristic machine and the front of it could lower to serve as a battering ram, like the original Ghost Riders bike, the wheels were composed of mystic hellfire. Unlike the relationship between the previous Ghost Rider and the demon with which he was bonded, Ketch and his demon — who in vol,2, #91 is revealed to be Marvels incarnation of the Angel of Death/Judgment — are cooperative with each other. At the close of the series with vol, the following year, however, Peter Parker, Spider-Man #93 revealed Ketch was still alive. Nearly a decade later, Marvel published the final issue as Ghost Rider Finale, which reprints the last issue. Though she demonstrated many previous unknown powers of the Ghost Rider entity, in March 2014, a new Ghost Rider series debuted featuring a new Mexican-American character named Roberto Robbie Reyes, taking on the mantle
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What If (comics)
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What If, sometimes rendered as What If. What If comics have been published in eleven series, the stories of the inaugural series feature the alien Uatu the Watcher as a narrator. From his base on the moon, Uatu observes both the Earth and alternate realities, Uatu was used similarly in the second series until a point where, in the Fantastic Four comic book, Uatu was punished for destroying another Watcher. This made the use of Uatu improbable so the character was phased out to its last appearance in issue #76, without a framing device, the stories themselves became the focus. In later series, some chose to introduce alternative narrators. For example, in Volume 3, in What If Karen Page Had Lived, what If Jessica Jones Had Joined the Avengers. and in Daredevil, Brian Michael Bendis, the writer himself, makes a cameo as narrator. In the early 2006 series, a hacker, whose alias is The Watcher. Some points of divergence in plot occur when a characters action differs from the corresponding mainstream Marvel event, for example, in a 1980 Captain America storyline, the hero declines an invitation to run for President of the United States as a third-party candidate. In the What If Captain America Became President, storyline, he accepts the nomination and wins the 1980 Presidential Election. In some What if story lines, when the Marvel character receives his or her special powers, the superhero persona is abandoned for a life of crime. For example, in the Marvel mainstream story, The Dark Phoenix Saga from the X-Men series, Jean Grey, instead of committing suicide, in the What If version, Jean Grey regains her powers and kills the X-Men, including Scott Summers. The shock of this causes Dark Phoenix to create a galactic cataclysm, another example occurs in the Korvac saga. In the mainstream, Korvac has a friend, Corina, who does not fully support him, in the What if story line, Corina gives unqualified support to Korvac which leads him to kill the Avengers. Korvac revives some of the Avengers for his own corps, Korvac goes on to annihilate the universe, depicted as the cosmic entity, Eternity. Major characters could be killed off in the alternate realities, Not all What if stories were serious. For example, in issue #11, members of the original Marvel Bullpen—Stan Lee, Jack Kirby, Flo Steinberg, later issues contained one-page or one-panel throwaway gags. For example, the letter page could be entitled with the question. The words are spoke in exasperation by Uatu and he is depicted being overwhelmed with letters whilst in the process of receiving yet another bag of mail
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Hasbro
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/ˈhæzbroʊ/ is an American multinational toy and board game company. Hasbro is the third largest toy maker in the world with revenues of approximately $4.45 billion, Hasbro acquired the trademarks and products of Kenner, Parker Brothers and Milton Bradley, among others. Among its toy and game products are the iconic Monopoly board game, Joe figurine, Furby electronic stuffed animal, Transformers mechanical toys and My Little Pony. The Hasbro brand also spawned TV shows, such as Family Game Night on the Discovery Family network, the corporate headquarters is located in Pawtucket, Rhode Island. The majority of its products are manufactured in East Asia, in 1923, three brothers named Herman, Hillel and Henry Hassenfeld founded Hassenfeld Brothers, a company selling textile remnants, in Providence, Rhode Island. Over the next two decades, the company expanded to produce pencil cases and school supplies, in 1926, Hassenfeld Brothers was incorporated, with Hillel leaving for another textile business while Henry took charge of the corporation. With cost of rising and their pencil supplier making pencil cases. In the 1940s, Hassenfeld Brothers produced doctor and nurse kits, its first toys, with Hillels death in 1943, Henry Hassenfeld became CEO while his son, Merrill, became president. The company entered the fields during World War II to support its toy line. Hassenfeld Brothers first toy hit was Mr. Potato Head, which the company purchased from George Lerner in 1952, the toy was a smash success. In 1954, the became a Disney major licensee. In 1960, Henry died and Merrill took over the parent company and his older brother Harold ran the pencil-making business, Hassenfeld Brothers expanded to Canada with Hassenfeld Brothers Ltd. in 1961. The company was approached in 1963 to license a toy based on The Lieutenant, instead, in 1964, Hassenfeld Brothers produced the G. I. Joe toy, which they termed an action figure in order to market the toy to boys who wouldnt want to play with dolls, Joe accounted for two-thirds of Hassenfelds sales. Having previously sold toys under the Hasbro trade name, the company shortened its name to Hasbro Industries in 1968, with the unpopular Vietnam War at its height in 1969, Hasbro redesigned GI Joe to be less militaristic and more adventure oriented. Its promotional efforts included the catchphrase Boy Oh Boy and its A Hasbro Toy. in television commercials and print ads. Also in 1969 Hasbro bought Burt Claster Enterprises, which produced Romper Room and had just begun a Romper Room toy line, a month-long teamsters strike and far eastern supplier troubles caused the company to have a $1 million loss for the year. By 1975, the company had ended the nursery chain, Hasbro also entered the cookware field with the Galloping Gourmet line based on a contemporary television cooking show
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G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero
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Joe, A Real American Hero is a military-themed line of action figures and toys in Hasbros G. I. The toyline lasted from 1982 to 1994, producing well over 500 figures and 250 vehicles, the line reappeared in 1997 and has continued in one form or another to the present day. It was supported by two animated series as well as a comic series published by Marvel Comics. The toyline continues to play a part in Hasbros G. I. Joe is still recognized by many people who grew up in the 1980s and 1990s. A Real American Hero was brought about as a revival of the original 12 in G. I, Joe brand of the 1960s and 1970s. After the 12 figure had been absent from toy shelves for a few years, Joe was re-introduced in a 3 3⁄4 in action figure format following the success of the Star Wars and Micronauts 3 3⁄4 scale toylines. The genesis of the toy line came about from a meeting in a mens room. According to Jim Shooter, then editor-in-chief of Marvel Comics, The President or CEO of Hasbro was at a charity event that Marvel’s President was also at and they ended up in the men’s room, standing next to each other peeing, and I think that’s how they met. They were talking about each other’s respective businesses, and it came up that Hasbro wanted to reactivate the trademark on G. I, Joe, but they were trying to come up with a new approach. Was like ‘We have the best creative people in the world, let me bring in this Editor-in-Chief of mine and we’ll fix it for you. Joes relaunch in 1982, Larry Hama was developing an idea for a new book called Fury Force. The original premise had the son of S. H. I. E. L. D, director Nick Fury assembling a team of elite commandos to battle neo-Nazi terrorists HYDRA. Shooter approached Hama about the Joe project due to Hamas military background, Shooter suggested to Hasbro that G. I. Joe should be the name and that they should fight terrorists, while Archie Goodwin invented Cobra. Hasbro was initially uncertain about making villain toys, believing this wouldnt sell, Marvel would also suggest the inclusion of female Joes in the toyline, and to include them with the vehicles. Joe figure included a biography, called a file card. Hama was largely responsible for writing these file cards, especially for the first ten years, when developing many of the characters, he drew much from his own experiences in the US military
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G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero (1985 TV series)
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Joe, A Real American Hero is a half-hour American animated television series based on the toyline from Hasbro and the comic book series from Marvel Comics. The cartoon had its beginnings with two five-part mini-series in 1983 and 1984, then became a series that ran in syndication from 1985 to 1986. The popularity of these led to the production of a five-part G. I. Joe mini-series which aired in 1983, the plot centers on the titular M. A. S. S. Device, a powerful matter-transporter, and G. I, Joe and Cobras race around the world to acquire the three catalytic elements which power the machine. Both mini-series were written by Ron Friedman, Joe was promoted to an ongoing series in 1985, with an initial order for a first season of 55 more episodes. The season was edited by Steve Gerber. A second season of 30 episodes followed in 1986, beginning with a fourth story, Arise, Serpentor. Slaughter as a member of G. I, for this season, Buzz Dixon replaced Steve Gerber as story editor. Joe, The Movie, a film version of the series, was intended to be released theatrically followed by The Transformers. However, the movie encountered unexpected production delays which allowed the Transformers feature to be released first, due to the poor box office performances of the Transformers and My Little Pony films, G. I. Joe was relegated to direct-to-video status and it was released on VHS on April 20,1987 and was later split into a 5-part mini-series for television syndication. The Movie follows up on the events of Season 2, revealing that Cobra Commander is actually an agent of a civilization known as Cobra-La led by a half-serpent humanoid named Golobulus. In addition to Cobra-La, two new sub-teams were introduced within the Joe Team, the Rawhides and the Renegades, both composed of characters introduced during the toylines 1987 lineup, Marvel Productions would continue to produce animated commercials for the toyline and comic books after G. I. Joe, The Movie, which was intended to set up Season 3, however, the company never got around to produce a third season, as they ended up losing the license to competing animation company DiC during pre-production. Michael Charles Hill, who wrote episodes of the show, had already proposed an outline for Season 3 that wouldve followed the events of The Movie. Joe series premiered in 1989 with a five-part mini-series titled Operation and it was turned into a regular series, airing from 1990 to 1992, lasting two seasons for a total of 44 episodes. The DiC series followed the continuity as the earlier Sunbow series
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G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero (Marvel Comics)
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Joe, A Real American Hero is a comic book that was published by Marvel Comics from 1982 to 1994. Joe, A Real American Hero line of military-themed toys, the series has been credited for making G. I, joe was also the first comic book to be advertised on television, in what has been called a historically crucial moment in media convergence. Hama wrote the series spontaneously, never knowing how a story would end until it was finished, while most stories involved the G. I. Joe Team battling against the forces of Cobra Command, an evil terrorist organization, many focused on the relationships. Joe was Marvels top-selling subscription title in 1985, and was receiving 1200 fan letters per week by 1987, the series has been credited with bringing in a new generation of comic book readers, since many children were introduced to the comic book medium through G. I. Joe, and later went on to other comics. The comic book has been re-printed several times, and also translated in multiple languages, in addition to direct spin-offs of the comic book, several revivals and reboots have been published throughout the 2000s. In the early 1980s, Hasbro noted the success of Kenner Products Star Wars action figures, joe, A Real American Hero with 3.75 inches scale action figures rather than the traditional 12 inches scale. Hasbro also decided that they wanted the new figures to have a back story, in 1981, Hasbro CEO Stephen Hassenfeld and Marvel Comics President Jim Galton met by coincidence at a charity fundraiser and Hassenfeld shared Hasbros plans for the G. I. Galton offered Marvels services as consultants, and Hassenfeld agreed to allow Marvel attempt to design a concept for G. I. An existing Marvel Universe property combining military and science fiction genre elements, as Hama tells it, he got the job of writing for the series because Marvel had asked every other available creator to write it and no one else would. Unable to find other writing work, he said that, If they had asked me to write Barbie, I would have done that. Soon after this, Hasbro hosted a meeting with Hama, Jim Shooter, Tom DeFalco, Archie Goodwin and it was at this meeting that Goodwin suggested the idea of Cobra Command as a recurring enemy for G. I. Prior to this, Hasbro had not considered giving G. I, based on the results of this meeting, Hasbro contracted Marvel to produce a comic book series featuring the toys. The first issue was published in June 1982, containing two stories, both of which were written by Hama. The first story, Operation, Lady Doomsday, was drawn by Herb Trimpe, who drew most of the issues and also wrote issue #9. This issue introduced many concepts of the G. I. Joe universe, such as the Joes having a base under a motor pool, the issue also introduced two recurring villains, Cobra Commander and the Baroness
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Transformers (toy line)
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The Transformers is a line of toys produced by the Japanese company Takara and American toy company Hasbro. The Transformers toyline was created from toy molds mostly produced by Japanese company Takara in the toylines Diaclone, other toy molds from other companies such as Bandai were used as well. In 1984, Hasbro bought the rights to the molds. The premise behind the Transformers toyline is that an individual toys parts can be shifted about to change it from a vehicle, the taglines More Than Meets The Eye and Robots In Disguise reflect this ability. The Transformers toyline is typically divided into two factions, the heroic Autobots and their opponents, the evil Decepticons. Transformers toys are sold at a number of points. There have also been a number of based on the toys including a comic book series, an animated television series. The original series program was followed by a number of spin-offs with varying levels of popularity, a live-action film series directed by Michael Bay has produced five films, with more planned. The following Transformers toy series were released in the United States, the owner of the new Transformer is encouraged to cut out the tech specs and save it. Although only the numbers can be truly deemed technical specifications, the card is usually referred to as the Transformers tech specs. Each specification is rated by a value from 1 to 10,1 being the lowest, Micromasters teams have teamwork ratings instead of ranks. Unlike the other ratings, teamwork seems to be split along faction lines, a second unique spec value, Cooperation, replaced the Firepower rating used on individuals cards. The traditional order was abandoned for the Micromaster team specifications. The values started becoming inconsistent and skewed in Generation 2 and Beast Wars, thus it became rarer and rarer to see any low numbers. Most characters numbers hardly ever dipped below 8, the Go-Bot version of Optimus Prime was the first character to have all values at 10, a trend that would repeat for most leader characters. When even more powerful versions of the Optimus Primal toy were introduced, with the Transformers, Cybertron line a few characters even got Unknown and Infinity ratings. The decoder consisted of red plastic which rendered the interference patterns invisible. Related to tech specs were Marvels Transformer Universe comics, where the entry for each Transformer contained an expanded bio based on the one printed on the tech specs, however, numerical tech specs were not included
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Red Sonja
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Red Sonja debuted in Conan the Barbarian #23. In 1975 Marvel Comics published the first issue of Red Sonja after the made a short solo appearance in Marvel Feature that same year. At the 2013 Emerald City Comic Con, Dynamite, which began publishing Red Sonja comics in 2005, Simone noted in further interviews that her version is slightly rebooted, showing the characters beginnings. Issue #1 of Simones run was released in July 2013, the series ran through 18 issues. In 2017, a new Red Sonja comic series began, written by Amy Chu and she was portrayed by Brigitte Nielsen in the 1985 film Red Sonja. In 2011, Sonja was ranked first in Comics Buyers Guides 100 Sexiest Women in Comics list, Red Sonjas origin story, The Day of the Sword, first appeared in Kull and the Barbarians #3 by Roy Thomas, Doug Moench, and Howard Chaykin. The same story was redrawn by Dick Giordano and Terry Austin for The Savage Sword of Conan. In this story, Red Sonja lives with her family in a house in the Western Hyrkanian steppes. When she is just 17, a group of mercenaries kills her family, Sonja attempts to defend herself, but cant lift her brothers sword. She is brutally raped by the leader of the group, answering her cry for revenge, the red goddess Scáthach appears to her, and gives her incredible fighting skills, on the condition that she never lie with a man unless he defeats her in fair combat. In the Dynamite comic book series by Michael Avon Oeming, Sonjas origins are portrayed in flashbacks within each issue beginning with issue #8, the goddess makes her first appearance in this series in issue #12, which also marks the return of the deadly sorcerer Kulan Gath. In the Dynamite series by Gail Simone, Sonjas origins are told in flashbacks. Sonja is a teenager in a Hyrkanian village which is attacked by bandits. After her family is killed, Sonja lures the bandits into the forest, No goddess appears in this version, and Sonja makes no vow of chastity. While she is threatened by the bandits, she is neither raped nor seriously injured, another set of flashbacks shows Sonja as an adult, and indicates that she learned many of her fighting skills from a fellow prisoner when she was captured and forced to fight as a gladiator. The original Sonja is killed off in issue #34 of the first Dynamite series, instead, a new character of the same name, described as a reincarnation of Red Sonja, takes her place from issue #35 onward. Eventually she is reunited with her husband, but then a pirate crew slays him and leaves Sonja on the brink of death. He and Sonja find that, even though she has occasional flashes of her former reflexes, despite this, Sonja is able to learn faster than Osin expects
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Danny Fingeroth
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Daniel Danny Fingeroth is an American comic book writer and editor, better known for a long stint as group editor of the Spider-Man books at Marvel Comics. Fingeroth got his start in the business in 1974 as an editorial assistant for the short-lived Seaboard Comics. At Marvel Comics in the 1980s, he edited the Spider-Man titles as well as Marvel Team-Up, as a writer, Fingeroth worked on Darkhawk, writing all fifty issues of the book between 1991 and 1995. as well as the Deathtrap, The Vault graphic novel. Fingeroth resigned from Marvel in 1995 to become editor-in-chief of Virtual Comics for Byron Preiss Multimedia, from there, Fingeroth served as senior vice president for creative development at Visionary Media, home of Showtimes WhirlGirl, for which he served as story editor. A magazine about the craft of writing which he created. He wrote the 2004 Continuum Publishing book Superman on the Couch, What Superheroes Really Tell Us About Ourselves, Fingeroth also wrote The Rough Guide to Graphic Novels. Fingeroth has taught writing at New York University, The New School, Media Bistro. He has been a speaker at the New York Comics & Picture-Story Symposium at Parsons The New School for Design and he has also taught classes, and functioned as organizer, moderator and curator of events at the Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art. The symposium, which was held March 24–25,2012 at Columbias Low Memorial Library, featured discussion panels with Fingeroth, Claremont, Danny Fingeroths top 10 graphic novels
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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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Secret Wars
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Marvel Super Heroes Secret Wars, commonly known simply as Secret Wars, is a twelve-issue American comic book crossover limited series published from May 1984 to April 1985 by Marvel Comics. The series was written by Jim Shooter with art by Mike Zeck and it was tied to the same-named toyline from Mattel. The series was conceived by Marvel Comics Editor-in-chief Jim Shooter, Kenner had licensed the DC Heroes, Mattel had He-Man, but wanted to hedge in case superheroes became the next big fad. They were interested in Marvels characters, but only if we staged an event that would get a lot of attention. Fans, especially young fans often suggested to me one big story with all the heroes and all the villains in it, so I proposed that. Mattel thought that kids responded well to the secret, so after a couple of working names bit the dust. Shooter also explained, We went through a number of ideas for names for the toy line, mattels focus group tests indicated that kids reacted positively to the words wars and secret. Mattel had a number of other requirements, Doctor Doom, they said, looked too medieval. His armor would have to be made more high-tech, so would Iron Man’s, because their focus groups indicated that kids reacted positively. etc. They also said there had to be new fortresses, vehicles and weapons because they wanted playsets, higher price point merchandise, when time came to actually do it, I realized that only I could write it. Crossover titles include The Amazing Spider-Man, Avengers, Captain America, The Incredible Hulk, Iron Man, The Thing, Fantastic Four, Marvel Team-Up, Thor, a sequel titled Secret Wars II was published from July 1985 to March 1986. A new series was released on May 6,2015, using the name of the original series, a cosmic entity called the Beyonder observes the mainstream Marvel universe. This world has also been stocked with weapons and technology. The Beyonder then declares, I am from beyond, slay your enemies and all that you desire shall be yours. Nothing you dream of is impossible for me to accomplish, the heroes include the Avengers, three members of the Fantastic Four, solo heroes Spider-Man, Spider-Woman II and the Hulk, and the mutant team X-Men. Magneto is featured as a hero, but immediately becomes non-aligned when the Avengers question his presence. The villains include the Absorbing Man, Doctor Doom, Doctor Octopus, the Enchantress, Kang the Conqueror, Klaw, the Lizard, Molecule Man, Titania, Ultron, Volcana, the cosmic entity Galactus also appears as a villain who immediately becomes a non-aligned entity. The heroes and villains have several skirmishes, years later, it was revealed that—while the heroes and villains fought on Battleworld—the Things girlfriend Alicia Masters was replaced by Lyja, a Skrull spy
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Jim Shooter
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James Jim Shooter is an American writer, occasional fill-in artist, editor, and publisher for various comic books. Jim Shooter was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, to parents Ken and Eleanor Ellie Shooter, Shooter read comics as a child, though he stopped when he was about eight years old. His interest in the medium was rekindled in 1963, at the age of twelve, through the comics in the childrens ward of the hospital where he convalesced after undergoing minor surgery. He found the DC Comics stories to be similar to the DC stories he had read, but was impressed with the style of the Marvel Comics. At age 13, in mid-1965, he wrote and drew stories featuring the Legion of Superheroes, and sent them in to DC Comics. On February 10,1966, he received a call from Mort Weisinger, who wanted to purchase the stories Shooter had sent. Weisinger eventually offered Shooter a regular position on Legion, and wanted Shooter to come to New York to spend a couple of days in his office. According to Shooter, his father earned little as a steelworker. Shooter reflected in a 2010 interview, My family needed the money, I was doing this because I had to, working my way through high school to help keep my family alive. At 14, Shooter began selling stories to DC Comics, writing for both Action Comics and Adventure Comics, beginning with Adventure Comics No,346, and providing pencil breakdowns as well. He also created the Superman villain the Parasite in Action Comics No.340, Shooter and artist Curt Swan devised the first race between the Flash and Superman, two characters known for their super-speed powers, in Supermans Race With the Flash. in Superman No.199. Shooter wrote the first issue of Captain Action, which was DCs first toy tie-in, in 1969 Shooter was accepted into New York University, but after graduating from high school he successfully applied for a job at Marvel Comics. Unable to pursue both his studies and work for Marvel, he decided against going to New York University, an interview for a Legion of Super-Heroes fanzine led to his again applying to both Marvel and DC. In December of 1975, Marvel editor-in-chief Marv Wolfman called to him an editorial position. In the mid-1970s, Marvel Comics was undergoing a series of changes in the position of Editor-in-Chief, on January 2,1976, Shooter joined the Marvel staff as an assistant editor and writer. With the quick turnover at the top, Shooter rapidly found himself rising in the ranks, in 1981, Shooter brought Marvel into the lucrative comic book specialty shop market with Dazzler #1. Subsequent issues of Dazzler, however, were sold through newsstand accounts as well, Dazzler was the first direct sales-only ongoing series from a major publisher, other Marvel titles, such as Marvel Fanfare and Ka-Zar, soon followed. Later that same year, Shooter wrote Marvel Treasury Edition No.28 which featured the second Superman and Spider-Man intercompany crossover, despite his success in revitalizing Marvel, Shooter angered and alienated a number of long-time Marvel creators by insisting on strong editorial control and strict adherence to deadlines
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Rose (Marvel Comics)
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The Rose is the alias of four fictional characters that appears in the comic books published by Marvel Comics. The original Rose first appeared in The Amazing Spider-Man #253, and was created by writer Tom DeFalco, Tom DeFalco recounted, When I created the Rose, I wanted a character in middle management. We had all the big crimelords, and then the second-tier crimelords, and he doesn’t fight, he hires people to do the fighting. I put him in a mask to make him distinctive and it was not a plan that he would have a secret identity. But at some point later on, I was reading something about the big mystery of “Who is the Rose. ”I didn’t realize there was a mystery. So I realized I’d have to come up with something for the Rose, DeFalco was fired from The Amazing Spider-Man by editor Jim Owsley before he could reveal the Roses identity. A subsequent issue of Web of Spider-Man, written by Owsley, the character of Rose is depicted as a well-dressed, calm, calculating and gentleman-like crime lord who favors roses and wears a leather, lilac-colored mask. The first Rose was Richard Fisk, the son of Wilson Fisk and he later became a Punisher-like vigilante, calling himself Blood Rose. He was eventually shot dead by his own mother, Vanessa, the second Rose was Sergeant Blume, a police officer seeking revenge on the Kingpin for the death of his brother, another policeman. While Blume allied himself with Richard in hopes of doing good by breaking the Kingpins hold on the city, he ended up implicated in several crimes while in the Kingpins service. The third Rose was Jacob Conover, a reporter at the Daily Bugle and this Rose was loyal solely to Fortunato, as at the time the Kingpin had not returned to power, and his principal enforcer was the cyborg powerhouse known as Delilah. Preparing to gun down the Tarantula and a roomful of witnesses, Conover was stopped by Spider-Man, the fourth Rose was Dr. Phillip Hayes. He took up the Rose persona after he lost his funding in the gene therapy research after an accident in the Phelcorps laboratory and he deals in Ebony shipments, a synthesized drug created from Corruptors sweat-glands. He managed to slip under the radar for a while. After he discovered the identity of his opponent, he hires Boomerang to track Sara down at her house. He is later arrested and unmasked, much to Saras shock, the Roses have no superhuman powers. The Roses always carries a handgun and often carries a variety of mini-grenades, in Marvel Adventures continuity, the Rose is a criminal with enough financial resources to bid a fortune on highly sophisticated battlesuits
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Silver Sable
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Silver Sable is a fictional character appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. She is a mercenary, hunter of war criminals, the leader of the Wild Pack, although sometimes a legitimate mercenary, her methods and motives have sometimes brought her into conflict with other superheroes. Occasionally, she is seen as an ally of Spider-Man and other heroes, created by Tom DeFalco and Ron Frenz, Silver Sable first appeared in The Amazing Spider-Man #265. The inspiration for the character comes from safari cards bought by Tom DeFalco, after her debut, she made occasional appearances in various Spider-Man titles, often as an ally. Marvel Comics began to publish the series Silver Sable & The Wild Pack in June 1992, written by Gregory Wright and this series lasted for 35 issues, until it was canceled along with many other Marvel series in 1995. After the cancellation, Silver made occasional guest appearances in various comics until early 2006, at that point a limited series began featuring Silver Sable and Dominic Fortune titled Sable and Fortune. Originally solicited as a six issue series, Sable and Fortune was shortened to four issues after the release of issue one, the operations of Wild Pack and Silver Sable International drive the national economy of the fictional small European state of Symkaria. The name Wild Pack had been used by the squad led by Cable for some time. The State of Symkaria is adjacent to Latveria, the nation that is ruled by Doctor Doom, Silver Sable and Victor Von Doom have an annual diplomatic dinner at Castle Doom, situated in Doomstadt. Apparently the friendship between two states is deep-rooted and dates back to World War II. The family of Silver Sable is composed of her father Ernst Sablinova, her uncle Morty, silvers mother was killed in front of her by enemies of her father, who ran a Nazi-hunting group. Silver has been only to let one emotion—rage—overcome her reason. Other subsequent mistakes involving emotion have only added to her self-imposed need to control herself, most notably, Silver fell in love with and was married to the Foreigner, an international assassin and the head of the 1400 Club, but they divorced when she discovered his real work. Their relation today varies between friendship, mere mutual tolerance, and attempts to kill each other, uncle Morty functions as Sables assistant. Morty organizes the missions, keeps track of the accounting part, Silver supports Annas boarding school education and seemingly nothing more. Her feelings were betrayed when HYDRA agents took over the school, Sable infiltrated the school, rescuing the survivors with the unwanted aid of Spider-Man and the aid of some of her troops, against orders. Silver once hunted the international criminal the Black Fox to recover valuable gems stolen by the thief and she was hired by a South African republic to neutralize the international terrorist Jack OLantern. She enlisted Spider-Mans aid against the Sinister Syndicate, and first formed an alliance with the Sandman
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Jim Owsley
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Christopher James Priest is an American writer of comic books who is at times credited simply as Priest. He changed his name legally circa 1993, Priest entered the comics industry as a Marvel Comics intern in 1978. He made his debut as a writer in 1982 at the age of 21. He joined Marvels editorial staff shortly thereafter, working as assistant editor for Larry Hama on the Conan titles, Owsley was the editor of the Spider-Man comic books in 1985–1986. Professional and personal disagreements eventually led to his removal as editor, Marvels editor-in-chief, Jim Shooter, later recalled, I fired Jim Owsley because his tenure as an editor was a train wreck. When I fired Jim Owsley, he thanked me and he admitted that he just wasn’t good at the administrative stuff. P. S. —there was plenty of work for him as a writer, in fact, it was like giving him a raise. Meant to be a writer, not an expediter, Owsleys writing tenure on Power Man and Iron Fist concluded with Iron Fists controversial death. Moving to DC Comics, Owsley had a run as writer of Green Lantern when the character was exclusive to the anthology series Action Comics Weekly from 1988–1989. Owsley wrote the Green Lantern serial from issues #601–607, and left part way through a story arc and he had worked with artists Gil Kane and Tod Smith during his first run, and then upon his return, with artist M. D. Bright. Owsley would write two Green Lantern Specials, the second issue concluding the plots left off from the end of Action Comics Weekly and they would work again on the first issue of Green Lantern, Emerald Dawn limited series before Owsley departed. He edited several titles in DC Comics Impact Comics imprint in 1991–1993, as writer, Owsley/Priest worked on the series Conan the Barbarian, The Ray, Steel, Deadpool, and Black Panther vol. He co-created the series Quantum and Woody, Xero, and The Crew, in 1993, he became part of the group of writers and artists that launched Milestone Media, a comic book publisher affiliated with DC Comics. He has said he was intended to become the companys editor-in-chief, during Owsleys Green Lantern run, prior to his name change, he introduced a character named Priest. After a decade-long absence from comics, he returned in 2014–2015 to write a Quantum, Priest is an ordained Baptist minister. Wolverine #1 – Action Comics Weekly #601–607 – Green Lantern Special #1–2 I, #1 – Wonder Woman #137–138,1,000,000 Black Panther vol. The Savage Sword of Conan #91 The Chain, the Savage Sword of Conan #91 One Night at the Maul. The Savage Sword of Conan #99 Marvel Team-Up #141 Power Man, the Savage Sword of Conan #109 Peter Parker, the Spectacular Spider-Man #105–106 – The Conquest of Kiurkan
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Walt Simonson
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Walter Walt Simonson is an American comic book writer and artist, best known for a run on Marvel Comics Thor from 1983 to 1987, during which he created the character Beta Ray Bill. He is also known for the creator-owned work Star Slammers, which he inaugurated in 1972 as a Rhode Island School of Design thesis, Simonson has won numerous awards for his work and has influenced artists such as Arthur Adams and Todd McFarlane. He is married to comics writer Louise Simonson, with whom he collaborated on X-Factor from 1988 to 1989, Walter Simonson was born September 2,1946 in Knoxville, Tennessee, and lived there for two and a half years. When his father, who worked for the United States Department of Agriculture, received a promotion at work that required him to relocate to Washington, Simonson, his younger brother and his parents moved to Maryland, where Simonsons parents still lived as of 1989. Simonson first read comics as a child, through the subscriptions to Walt Disneys Comics, by the age of ten he was an avid fan of the work of Carl Barks, Little Lulu, Little Iodine, and Alex Toths work on The Land Unknown. He also enjoyed drawing from a young age. This was his first published work in comics, Simonson studied geology at Amherst College, with the intent of becoming an expert on dinosaurs. In 1964 or 1965, Simonson discovered Marvel Comics, in particular that companys version of Thor, a title he read for four years. After graduating from Amherst with a degree in Geology, Simonson took a year off, Simonson would later revisit Star Slammers throughout his career, publishing it through various publishers over the decades. Boudreau arranged a meeting between Simonson and editor Archie Goodwin, after meeting with Goodwin, Simonson went to DCs coffee room, where he saw Howard Chaykin, Michael Kaluta, Berni Wrightson and Alan Weiss sitting together. Simonson struck up a conversation with the artists, who looked at his portfolio, after speaking to Simonson for about ten minutes, he had Goodwin and his fellow editors Julius Schwartz and Joe Orlando give Simonson work. Simonson walked out of Infantinos office with jobs from one of them. At one point Simonson lived in the same Queens apartment building as artists Allen Milgrom, Howard Chaykin, Simonson recalls, Wed get together at 3 a. m. Theyd come up and wed have popcorn and sit around and talk about whatever a 26,27 and our art, TV, you name it. I pretty much knew at the time, These are the good ole days, Simonsons first professional published comic book work was illustrating writer Len Weins story Cyranos Army, which appeared in DCs Weird War Tales #10, which was covered dated January 1973. Simonsons breakthrough illustration job was Manhunter, a feature in DCs Detective Comics written by Goodwin. In a 2000 interview, Simonson recalled, What Manhunter did was to me professionally. Before Manhunter, I was one guy doing comics, after Manhunter
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Stan Lee
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Stan Lee is an American comic-book writer, editor, publisher, media producer, television host, actor, and former president and chairman of Marvel Comics. In addition, he challenged the comics industrys censorship organization, the Comics Code Authority, Lee subsequently led the expansion of Marvel Comics from a small division of a publishing house to a large multimedia corporation. He was inducted into the book industrys Will Eisner Award Hall of Fame in 1994. Lee received a National Medal of Arts in 2008 and his father, trained as a dress cutter, worked only sporadically after the Great Depression, and the family moved further uptown to Fort Washington Avenue, in Washington Heights, Manhattan. When Lee was nearly 9, his sibling, brother Larry Lieber, was born. He said in 2006 that as a child he was influenced by books and movies, by the time Lee was in his teens, the family was living in a one-bedroom apartment at 1720 University Avenue in The Bronx. Lee has described it as an apartment facing out back, with he and his brother sharing a bedroom. Lee attended DeWitt Clinton High School in the Bronx, in his youth, Lee enjoyed writing, and entertained dreams of one day writing the Great American Novel. He graduated from school early, aged 16½ in 1939. With the help of his uncle Robbie Solomon, Lee became an assistant in 1939 at the new Timely Comics division of pulp magazine, Timely, by the 1960s, would evolve into Marvel Comics. Lee, whose cousin Jean was Goodmans wife, was hired by Timely editor Joe Simon. His duties were prosaic at first, in those days dipped the pen in ink, I had to make sure the inkwells were filled, Lee recalled in 2009. I went down and got them their lunch, I did proofreading, Lee later explained in his autobiography and numerous other sources that he had intended to save his given name for more literary work. This initial story also introduced Captain Americas trademark ricocheting shield-toss, which became one of the characters signatures. He graduated from writing filler to actual comics with a feature, Headline Hunter, Foreign Correspondent. Lees first superhero co-creation was the Destroyer, in Mystic Comics #6, other characters he created during this period fans and historians call the Golden Age of comics include Jack Frost, debuting in USA Comics #1, and Father Time, debuting in Captain America Comics #6. When Simon and his creative partner Jack Kirby left late in 1941, following a dispute with Goodman, Lee entered the United States Army in early 1942 and served in the US in the Signal Corps, repairing telegraph poles and other communications equipment. He was later transferred to the Training Film Division, where he worked writing manuals, training films, and slogans and his military classification, he says, was playwright, he adds that only nine men in the US Army were given that title
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Joe Quesada
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Joseph Joe Quesada is an American comic book editor, writer and artist. He became known in the 1990s for his work on various Valiant Comics books, such as Ninjak and Solar, in 1998 he became an editor of Marvel Comics Marvel Knights line, before becoming editor-in-chief of the company in 2000. He was named Chief Creative Officer of Marvel Entertainment in 2010 and left his role in January 2011. He was, at his retirement, the longest-serving Marvel editor-in-chief other than Stan Lee, as the character resonated with him, Spider-Man remains a character he particularly enjoys drawing. Quesada majored in illustration at the School of Visual Arts, from which he graduated with a BFA in 1984, Quesada started out as a freelance artist for Valiant Comics in the early 1990s. His first widely distributed works were for Valiant Comics, specifically penciled interiors and covers for Ninjak, Solar, Man of the Atom and his art was heavily influenced by Alex Toth, Mike Mignola and Alphonse Mucha. At DC Comics, he and writer Jack C. Harris co-created an updated version of the Golden Age character the Ray, Quesada co-created the character Azrael with writer Dennis ONeil in the Batman, Sword of Azrael miniseries in 1992. Later, Quesada and his inking partner Jimmy Palmiotti, formed a company, Event Comics, and co-created Ash. Quesada cites his experience with Event, and the creators he formed relationships with during that period as that which best prepared him for the later role of Marvels editor in chief. Mack, Mike Oeming, Brian Michael Bendis, Garth Ennis, Quesada also illustrated a Daredevil story written by film director Kevin Smith. Two and a years after starting Marvel Knights, Joe Quesada became editor-in-chief of Marvel Comics in 2000. At the same time, Bill Jemas succeeded to the presidency of the company, the relationship culminated in the establishment of the Ultimate line of Marvel titles, which were aimed at teenagers and took place outside of the restrictive continuity of the Marvel Universe. In the mid-2000s, Quesada imposed a moratorium on the practice of bringing back characters thought to be dead. Joe Quesadas predecessor as Marvel editor in chief, Bob Harras, in June 2009 Quesada began writing a weekly column for Comic Book Resources called Cup O Joe, in which he answers questions every Friday from readers or provides information on Marvel projects. Also at issue was the slogans on some of the held by the protestors. Quesada stated that future reprints of that story would have the offending material omitted, on June 2,2010 Marvel announced that it promoted Joe Quesada to Chief Creative Officer of Marvel Entertainment. In this position Quesada will help ensure that all portrayals of Marvels characters and he will also oversee the creative aspects of media adaptations of Marvel properties, which include participating in story and script development. On January 4,2011, Quesada stepped down as editor-in-chief, during this time, Tom and Axel have been handling the more detailed functions of the stories within our comics
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Mark Gruenwald
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Mark E. Gruenwald was an American comic book writer, editor, and occasional penciler known for his long association with Marvel Comics. Gruenwald got his start in comics fandom, publishing his own fanzine, Omniverse, before being hired by Marvel, he wrote text articles for DC Comics official fanzine, Amazing World of DC Comics. Articles by Gruenwald include The Martian Chronicles in issue #13 and several articles on the history of the Justice League in issue #14, in 1978 he was hired by Marvel Comics, where he remained for the rest of his career. During this period, he shared an office with writer/editor Denny ONeil, during the years 1982–1984, Gruenwald did fill-in pencil work for a handful of Marvel comics, most notably the 1983 Hawkeye limited series, but also issues of What If. Marvel Team-Up Annual, The Incredible Hulk, and Questprobe, the artwork of Merlyn the Archer in Whos Who, the Definitive Directory of the DC Universe Volume XV is the only artwork by Gruenwald for a comics company besides Marvel. In 1982, Gruenwald, Steven Grant, and Bill Mantlo co-wrote Marvel Super Hero Contest of Champions and he made a deliberate effort to create villains who would be specific to Captain America, as opposed to generic foes who could as easily have been introduced in another comic. At one point Gruenwald owned a replica of Captain Americas shield – the same shield now owned by Stephen Colbert and his 60-issue run on Quasar realized Gruenwalds ambition to write his own kind of superhero. Gruenwald was highly loyal to each series he wrote, on September 1,1987, Gruenwald became Marvels executive editor, with a particular remit as the keeper of continuity. Gruenwald was famous for a perfect recollection of even the most trivial details, in the pages of Thor, writer Walt Simonson created the Time Variance Authority, a cosmic bureaucracy that regulates the Marvel Multiverse. Simonson paid homage to Gruenwald by having the TVAs staff all be clones of Gruenwald, no one could keep track of everything but him. Gruenwald was a character with Tom DeFalco in the single-panel comic The Bulls Eye that ran in Marvel comics in the late 1980s–early 1990s, created by Rick Parker. These strips, which ran on the Bullpen Bulletins page during the majority of DeFalcos run as editor-in-chief, featured Gruenwald depicted as a caricature, in 1996, Gruenwald succumbed to a heart attack, the result of an unsuspected congenital heart defect. Gruenwald was a practical joker, and due to his young age, many of his friends. Just days prior, he had one of his trademark cartwheels down the halls of the Bullpen. A longtime lover of comics, Gruenwald made it known amongst his friends, in accordance with his request, he was cremated, and his ashes were mixed with the ink used to print the first printing of the trade paperback compilation of Squadron Supreme. Gruenwald married singer Belinda Glass in May 1981 and they later divorced, and he married Catherine Schuller on October 12,1992 in New York after a years courtship. Catherine was the executrix of the famous will that indicated he wanted his cremains to be put into a book upon his death. The Amalgam Comics book The Exciting X-Patrol #1 is dedicated to Gruenwalds memory, the lawyer acts heroically throughout the story
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Bullpen Bulletins
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Bullpen Bulletins was the news and information page that appeared in most regular monthly comic books from Marvel Comics. The Bullpen Bulletins page was where Lee rhapsodized about the Marvel bullpen and he often bestowed colorful sobriquets on Marvel staffers and creators, nicknames such as Stan The Man Lee and Jack King Kirby permeated into mass culture. The fictional Marvel staffer Irving Forbush also appeared regularly — as the butt of Lees humor, nuff said, True Believer, and Make Mine Marvel, as well as other company mainstays like the No-Prize, were popularized there as well. Lee often used Marvel Bullpen Bulletins and Stans Soapbox to needle other comic book publishers, creative folks generally being the garrulous sort, typically, quite a bit of bull got tossed around these legendary rooms, so the nickname bullpen was a natural. Its a tradition dating back to the days when we actually were a one-room operation, the tone of Bullpen Bulletins was inspired by a series of boys adventure books Lee read as a child. Penned by Leo Edwards, the end of each Jerry Todd book had the feature of printed letters from readers. I do know that talking to the readers informally and indirectly seemed like the thing to do. What became Bullpen Bulletins started out as part of the section of Marvels flagship title Fantastic Four. This two-page section often concluded with a Special Announcements Section where Lee responded to general letters, the Mighty Marvel Checklist appeared for the first time — embedded in the Special Announcements Section — in Fantastic Four #33. A separate The Merry Marvel Bullpen Page appeared in comics cover-dated July and August 1965, finally, the first stand-alone Marvel Bullpen Bulletins page, complete with checklist and special announcements, debuted in the issues cover-dated December 1965. For many years, starting around this time, each edition of Bullpen Bulletins included an alliterative subtitle, the first one read More mirthful, monumental, mind-staggering memoranda from your Marvel madmen. Other memorable subtitles include A Profound Potpourri of Perplexing Pronouncements and Preposterous Philosophy, and A Riotous Roundup of Ridiculous Rumors and Rabelaisian Reports. Editor Archie Goodwin eliminated the alliterative subtitle with Zounds, a Zealful Zetetic of Zestful Zanies to Zap the Zeitgeist, which ran in Marvel comics cover-dated June 1977. Stans Soapbox first appeared in the Marvel Bullpen Bulletins of June 1967, later on, when filling in for Lee in the space that was originally slotted for Stans Soapbox, Thomass column would be titled Roys Rostrum. With Stan Lees stepping down as editor-in-chief in 1972, Marvel Bullpen Bulletins was put together by his successors, including Roy Thomas, Archie Goodwin, and Jim Shooter. By 1973, much of the space used in the Bullpen Bulletins page for inside info and Bullpen gossip had been taken over by the checklist. For the most part during these years, however, the page retained the tone, during Jim Shooters tenure as editor-in-chief, Bullpen Bulletins underwent various format changes. An abbreviated checklist returned, the gossipy Items came and went, when it returned in issues cover-dated January 1982, the page was missing the checklist and Stans Soapbox, and was for the first time actually signed by its author, Shooter
