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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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United States
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Forty-eight of the fifty states and the federal district are contiguous and located in North America between Canada and Mexico. The state of Alaska is in the northwest corner of North America, bordered by Canada to the east, the state of Hawaii is an archipelago in the mid-Pacific Ocean. The U. S. territories are scattered about the Pacific Ocean, the geography, climate and wildlife of the country are extremely diverse. At 3.8 million square miles and with over 324 million people, the United States is the worlds third- or fourth-largest country by area, third-largest by land area. It is one of the worlds most ethnically diverse and multicultural nations, paleo-Indians migrated from Asia to the North American mainland at least 15,000 years ago. European colonization began in the 16th century, the United States emerged from 13 British colonies along the East Coast. Numerous disputes between Great Britain and the following the Seven Years War led to the American Revolution. On July 4,1776, during the course of the American Revolutionary War, the war ended in 1783 with recognition of the independence of the United States by Great Britain, representing the first successful war of independence against a European power. The current constitution was adopted in 1788, after the Articles of Confederation, the first ten amendments, collectively named the Bill of Rights, were ratified in 1791 and designed to guarantee many fundamental civil liberties. During the second half of the 19th century, the American Civil War led to the end of slavery in the country. By the end of century, the United States extended into the Pacific Ocean. The Spanish–American War and World War I confirmed the status as a global military power. The end of the Cold War and the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991 left the United States as the sole superpower. The U. S. is a member of the United Nations, World Bank, International Monetary Fund, Organization of American States. The United States is a developed country, with the worlds largest economy by nominal GDP. It ranks highly in several measures of performance, including average wage, human development, per capita GDP. While the U. S. economy is considered post-industrial, characterized by the dominance of services and knowledge economy, the United States is a prominent political and cultural force internationally, and a leader in scientific research and technological innovations. In 1507, the German cartographer Martin Waldseemüller produced a map on which he named the lands of the Western Hemisphere America after the Italian explorer and cartographer Amerigo Vespucci
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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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Teen Titans
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The Teen Titans, also known as the New Teen Titans and the Titans, are a fictional superhero team appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics, often in an eponymous monthly series. As the groups name suggests, its members are teenage superheroes, Bob Haney, the creator and long-time writer of the Teen Titans series, considers the earlier issue to be the first appearance of the Teen Titans. The first Teen Titans series ran 43 bi-monthly issues, ending in early 1973, the group appeared sporadically in reprints via The Brave and the Bold and DC Super-Stars over the next three years, which revived interest in the group. New stories began when the title was renewed in late 1976. Ten issues later, the title was cancelled again during what become known as The DC Implosion. The four founding members were joined by Green Arrows sidekick, Speedy, Aquagirl, Bumblebee, the first Hawk and Dove, and three heroes who did not wear costumes, Mal Duncan, Lilith, and Gnarrk. Original members Robin, Wonder Girl and Kid Flash were joined by new characters Cyborg, Starfire and Raven, as well as the former Doom Patrol member Beast Boy, the group had several encounters with the original Titans of Greek mythology, particularly Hyperion. The series was re-titled Tales of the Teen Titans with issue #41, a second volume was launched in August 1984, by which time Robin had assumed the identity Nightwing and Kid Flash had been replaced by Jericho. Pérez left in 1985 to headline the DC Comics 50th Anniversary limited series Crisis on Infinite Earths, Tales of the Teen Titans was canceled in July 1988 after #91. The New Teen Titans Volume 2 was retitled The New Titans in December 1988 and was canceled in February 1996 after 130 issues. The series was relaunched as Teen Titans in October 1996, with all-new members under Atom and this series ended in September 1998 after 24 issues. By 2006, the team included only the members and some new additions. A concurrent series titled Titans debuted in April 2008 featuring some of the original and 1980s members, such as Nightwing, Troia, Flash, Tempest, Arsenal, Starfire, Cyborg, Beast Boy and Raven. This was originally depicted as the first incarnation of the Titans, until the 2016 Titans Hunt and DC Rebirth storylines re-established the groups founding members. A Teen Titans animated television series ran on Cartoon Network in the based on the 1980s team. The series spawned two book titles, Teen Titans Go. and Tiny Titans. The series returned as a series of mini-shorts on the DC Nation block on Cartoon Network, there was also a spinoff of the series named Teen Titans Go. based on the comics. Robin, Kid Flash and Aqualad teamed up to defeat a villain known as Mister Twister in The Brave
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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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Bart Allen
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Bart Allen is a fictional superhero in the DC Comics Universe. Allen first appeared as the superhero Impulse, a sidekick of the superhero the Flash. The character first made a appearance in The Flash #91 in 1994, while his first full appearance in issue #92. In the latter series, the became the fourth hero to assume the identity of The Flash. Bart also prominently features in the team titles Young Justice. As the Flash, Bart was also a character in 10 issues of Justice League of America. As first conceived by writers, Bart was born in the 30th century to Meloni Thawne and Don Allen and his father, Don, is one of the Tornado Twins and his paternal grandfather is Barry Allen, the second Flash. His paternal grandmother, Iris West Allen, is also the aunt of the first Kid Flash. Additionally, Bart is the first cousin of XS, a Legionnaire, on his mothers side, he is a descendant of supervillains Professor Zoom and Cobalt Blue as well as the half-brother of Owen Mercer, the second Captain Boomerang. In addition to relatives, he had a supervillain clone known as Inertia. For most of his career, Bart was the sidekick to the Wally West version of the Flash. After Wests apparent death in the Infinite Crisis crossover event in 2006, Allen grew up and his tenure as the Flash was brief, and was killed off in issue 13 of his series, The Flash, The Fastest Man Alive. Allen was subsequently absent for two years after his apparent death, but resurfaced—young again—as Kid Flash, in 2009s Final Crisis. Following a one-day trial on charges of treason, the Twins were executed. According to a Daily Planet news report, Don Allen is saved by his wife Carmen Johnson, his mother Iris West Allen and this timeline was wiped out by the events of Zero Hour, Crisis in Time limited series. However, a set of events occurred on Earth-247, with the Tornado Twins. To prevent him from developing mental health problems, he was raised in a virtual reality machine which created a world that kept pace with his own scale of time. When it became clear that this method was not helping, his grandmother, Iris Allen, took him back in time to the present where The Flash, Wally West, tricked Bart into a race around the world
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Grant Morrison
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Grant Morrison, MBE is a Scottish comic book writer, playwright, and occultist. Grant Morrisons first published works were Gideon Stargrave strips for Near Myths in 1978 and his work appeared in four of the five issues of Near Myths and he was suitably encouraged to find more comic work. Morrison spent much of the early 1980s touring and recording with his band The Mixers, writing the occasional Starblazer for D. C. Thomson and contributing to various UK indie titles. In 1982 he submitted a proposal involving the Justice League of America and Jack Kirbys New Gods entitled Second Coming to DC Comics, after writing The Liberators for Dez Skinns Warrior in 1985, he started work for Marvel UK the following year. There he wrote a number of strips for Doctor Who Magazine, his final one a collaboration with a then-teenage Bryan Hitch, as well as a run on the Zoids strip in Spider-Man. 1986 also saw publication of Morrisons first of several two- or three-page Future Shocks for 2000AD, Morrisons first continuing serial began in 2000 AD in 1987, when he and Steve Yeowell created Zenith. Morrisons work on Zenith brought him to the attention of DC Comics, after impressing with Animal Man, Morrison was asked to take over Doom Patrol, starting his surreal take on the superhero genre with issue No.19 in 1989. Morrisons Doom Patrol introduced concepts such as dadaism and the writings of Jorge Luis Borges into his first several issues, DC published Arkham Asylum, A Serious House on Serious Earth in 1989 as a 128-page graphic novel painted by Dave McKean. While working for DC Comics in America, Morrison kept contributing to British indie titles, St. Swithins Days anti-Margaret Thatcher themes proved controversial, provoking a small tabloid press reaction and a complaint from Conservative MP Teddy Taylor. The controversy continued with the publication of The New Adventures of Hitler in Scottish music and lifestyle magazine Cut in 1989, the strip was unfinished when Cut folded, and was later reprinted and completed in Fleetways 2000 AD spin-off title Crisis. Morrison returned to Batman with the Gothic story arc in issues 6–10 of the Batman title Batman, the early 1990s saw Morrison revamping Kid Eternity for DC with artist Duncan Fegredo, and Dan Dare, with artist Rian Hughes. Morrison coloured Dares bright future with Thatcherism in Fleetways Revolver, in 1991 Morrison wrote Bible John-A Forensic Meditation for Fleetways Crisis, and based on an analysis of possible motivations for the crimes of the serial killer Bible John. Covering similar themes to Alan Moore and Eddie Campbells From Hell, the work utilised cut-up techniques, in 1993 Morrison, fellow Glaswegian comic writer Mark Millar and John Smith were asked to reinvigorate 2000 AD for an eight-week run called The Summer Offensive. Morrison wrote Judge Dredd and Really and Truly, and co-wrote the controversial Big Dave with Millar, DC Comics launched its Vertigo imprint in 1993, publishing several of Morrisons creator-owned projects, such as the steampunk mini-series Sebastian O and the graphic novel The Mystery Play. 1995 saw the release of Kill Your Boyfriend, with artist Philip Bond, in 1996 Morrison wrote Flex Mentallo, a Doom Patrol spin-off with art by Frank Quitely, and returned briefly to DC Universe superheroics with the short-lived Aztek, co-written with Mark Millar. In 1996, Morrison was given the Justice League of America to revamp as JLA and this run was hugely popular and returned the title back to best-selling status. With the three volumes of the creator-owned The Invisibles, Morrison started his largest and possibly most important work, the Invisibles combined political, pop- and sub-cultural references. Tapping into pre-millennial tension, the work was influenced by the writings of Robert Anton Wilson, Aleister Crowley and William Burroughs, the title was not a huge commercial hit to start with
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Judd Winick
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Judd Winick is an American comic book, comic strip and television writer/artist and former reality television personality. He created the animated TV series The Life and Times of Juniper Lee, Winick was born February 12,1970, and grew up in Dix Hills, New York. In his youth Winick initially read superhero comics, but this changed when he read Kyle Bakers graphic novel Why I Hate Saturn, which Winick said in a 2015 interview he still reads once a year. Winick graduated from school in 1988 and entered the University of Michigan, Ann Arbors School of Art, intending to emulate his cartoonist heroes, including Breathed. His comic strip, Nuts and Bolts, began running in the newspaper, the Michigan Daily, in his freshman year. The University published a small print-run of a collection of his strips called Watching the Spin-Cycle, in his senior year, Universal Press Syndicate, which syndicates strips such as Doonesbury and Calvin & Hobbes, offered Winick a development contract. After graduation, Winick lived in an apartment in Beacon Hill, Boston, Massachusetts, with fellow writer Brad Meltzer, struggling to develop Nuts and Bolts for UPS, while working at a bookstore. On January 1,1993, UPS decided not to renew Winick’s strip for syndication, Winick was unable to secure syndication with another company, and was forced to move back in with his parents by the middle of 1993, doing unfulfilling T-shirt work for beer companies. Winick applied to be on MTV network’s reality TV show, The Real World, San Francisco, hoping for fame, during the casting process, the producers of the show conducted an in-person, videotaped interview with Winick. When asked how he would feel about living with someone who was HIV-positive, Winick gave what he thought was an enthusiastic, politically correct answer, Winick was accepted as a cast member on the show in January 1994. The producers informed the housemates that they would be living with someone who was HIV-positive, Winick and his six castmates moved into the house at 949 Lombard Street on Russian Hill on February 12, Winicks 23rd birthday. Winick became roommates with Pedro Zamora, Winicks Nuts and Bolts strip began running in the San Francisco Examiner in March of that year. Winick, who is Jewish, was offended at Raineys decision to wear T-shirt depicting four guns arranged in the shape of a swastika, after filming of the season ended, Winick and Ling moved to Los Angeles to continue their relationship. By August 1994, Zamoras health began to decline, after being hospitalized, he asked Winick to substitute for him at a national AIDS education lecture. When Zamora died on November 11,1994, Winick and Ling were at his bedside, Winick would continue Zamoras educational work for some time after that. Winick designed illustrations for The Complete Idiots Guide to, series of books, and did over 300 of them, including that series’ computer-oriented line. A collection of the computer-related titles cartoons was published in 1997 as Terminal Madness, road Trip went on to become an Eisner Award nominee for Best Sequential Story. Barry Ween was optioned by Platinum Studios to be adapted into an animated series, Winick’s graphic novel, Pedro and Me, Friendship, Loss, and What I Learned, was published in September 2000
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Hawkman (Carter Hall)
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Hawkman is a fictional superhero appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics. Created by Gardner Fox and Dennis Neville, the character first appeared in Flash Comics #1, there are two separate origins for Carter Hall, the Golden Age origin and the Post-Hawkworld origin. In the days of ancient Egypt, Prince Khufu is engaged in a feud with his rival, the priest eventually captures both Khufu and his consort Chay-Ara, and kills them. Millennia later, in 1940, Khufu is reincarnated as American archaeologist Carter Hall, Hath-Set himself is reincarnated as a scientist named Anton Hastor. Upon finding the ancient knife Hath-Set used to him, Hall regains his memories of his past life. He also encounters and remembers Shiera during this time, following Hastors defeat, the two begin a romance. Hawkman becomes a member of the Justice Society of America. Shiera, meanwhile, adopts the identity of Hawkgirl and fights beside Hall throughout the 1940s, in 1942, Carter enlists in the U. S. Army Air Force as an Airman and serves as a pilot with the 1st Interceptor Command during World War II. Hawkman is JSA chairman in 1951 when the team is investigated by the Joint Congressional Un-American Activities Committee for possible communist sympathies, congress asks members of the JSA to reveal their identities. The heroes decline, and Hawkman and most of the JSA retire for the bulk of the 1950s, the JSA and Hawkman regroup in the early 1960s following the Flashs meeting with his counterpart on the parallel world Earth-1, the JSA being active on Earth-2. Around this time, the Halls, having married, have a son, little is known of Hawkmans activities during the 1960s, other than the JSAs annual meeting with Earth-1s Justice League of America. In the early 1980s, Hawkman is instrumental in denying his son and other JSA children membership in the JSA, leading directly to the formation of Infinity, Inc. Also, following the Crisis, the Golden Age and the Silver Age Hawkmen lived on the same Earth, much of Carter Halls post-Hawkworld history is fleshed out in the pages of DCs JSA and Hawkman. These two titles, penned to an extent by writers David S. Goyer, Geoff Johns. According to the origin, Prince Khufu lives during the reign of Ramesses II in the 19th dynasty of ancient Egypt. Khufu believes that his ka, or soul, will not journey on to the land of the afterlife, rather, his soul and that of his betrothed, Chay-Ara, are fated to remain in the mortal world. As prophesied by the wizard Nabu, a spacecraft lands in Egypt, Prince Khufu, Nabu, and the champion Teth-Adam search the desert, finally coming across the remains of a Thanagarian ship styled with a hawk-like motif. Nabu casts a spell translating the language of the female space traveler
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Jim Lee
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Jim Lee is a Korean American comic book artist, writer, editor, and publisher. He entered the industry in 1987 as an artist for Marvel Comics, illustrating titles such as Alpha Flight and The Punisher War Journal, before gaining popularity on The Uncanny X-Men. 1, the 1991 spin-off series premiere that Lee penciled and co-wrote with Chris Claremont, remains the best-selling comic book of all time, on February 18,2010, Jim Lee was announced as the new Co-Publisher of DC Comics with Dan DiDio, both replacing Paul Levitz. He has received a Harvey Award, Inkpot Award and three Wizard Fan Awards in recognition for his work, Lee was born on August 11,1964 in Seoul, South Korea. He grew up in St. Louis, Missouri, where he lived a typical middle-class childhood, Lee attended River Bend Elementary School in Chesterfield and later St. Louis Country Day School, where he drew posters for school plays. Having had to learn English when he first came to the U. S. presented the young Lee with the sense of being an outsider, as did the preppy, upper-class atmosphere of Country Day. As a result, on the occasions that his parents bought him comics, Lees favorite characters were the X-Men. His classmates predicted in his senior yearbook that he would found his own book company. Despite this, Lee was resigned to following his fathers career in medicine, attending Princeton University to study psychology and he submitted samples to various publishers, but did not find success. When Lee befriended St. Lees work on the Punisher, War Journal was inspired by such as Frank Miller, David Ross, Kevin Nowlan. During his stint on Uncanny Lee first worked with inker Scott Williams, during his run on the title, Lee co-created the character Gambit with long-time X-Men writer Chris Claremont. Lees artwork quickly gained popularity in the eyes of enthusiastic fans, in 1991, Lee helped launch a second X-Men series simply called X-Men volume 2, as both the artist and as co-writer with Claremont. Lee designed new uniforms for the series, including those worn by Cyclops, Jean Grey, Rogue, Psylocke and Storm. Actor/comedian Taran Killam, who has ventured into writing with The Illegitimates, has cited X-Men No.1 as the book that inspired his interest in comics. Stan Lee interviewed Jim Lee in the documentary series The Comic Book Greats, the other major series of the initial years of Wildstorm, for which Lee either created characters, co-plotted or provided art for, included Stormwatch, Deathblow and Gen¹³. The miniseries would consist of four books, two each produced by the respective companies, plus a prologue and epilogue book. Wildstorm produced Deathmate Black, with Lee himself contributing to the writing and he illustrated the covers for that book, the Deathmate Tourbook and the prologue book, as well as contributing to the prologues interior inks. Lee and Rob Liefeld, another Marvel-illustrator-turned-Image-founder, returned to Marvel in 1996 to participate in a reboot of several classic characters, while Liefeld reworked Captain America and The Avengers, Lee plotted Iron Man and wrote and illustrated Fantastic Four
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Deathstroke
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Deathstroke is a fictional supervillain appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics. The character was created by Marv Wolfman and George Pérez and he is a mercenary and assassin who first appeared in The New Teen Titans #2. Wizard magazine rated him the 24th greatest villain of all time, originally the archenemy of the Teen Titans, writers have developed him over the years as an adversary of other heroes in the DC Universe, parallels have been established between him and Batman. The character has been adapted from the comics into multiple forms of media, including several Batman related projects. Slade Wilson/Deathstroke later appeared on The CWs live-action TV series Arrow, Joe Manganiello will portray the character in the upcoming DC Extended Universe film The Batman which stars Ben Affleck as the titular character. Deathstroke the Terminator first appeared in 1980, in the issue of the book New Teen Titans. He was originally introduced as the Terminator, a mercenary who was completing the terms of a contract undertaken by his son Ravager, due to his popularity, Deathstroke received his own series, Deathstroke the Terminator, in 1991. It was retitled Deathstroke the Hunted for issues #0 and #41-45, the series was cancelled with issue #60. In total, Deathstroke ran for 65 issues, following his injury in DC Universe, Last Will and Testament, Deathstroke appears in one of the four Faces of Evil one-shots, written by David Hine. The full title has not completely out of use, having been referenced as recently as Justice League Elite. Slade Wilson was sixteen years old when he first enlisted in the United States Army, after serving a stint in Korea, he was later assigned to Camp Washington where he had been promoted to the rank of Major. In the early 1960s, he met Captain Adeline Kane who was tasked with training soldiers in new fighting techniques in anticipation of brewing troubles taking place in Vietnam. Kane was amazed at how skilled Slade was and how quickly he adapted to modern conventions of warfare and she immediately fell in love with him, and realized that he was without a doubt the most able-bodied combatant she had ever encountered. She offered to privately train Slade in guerrilla warfare, in less than a year, Slade mastered every fighting form presented to him and was soon promoted to the rank of lieutenant colonel. Six months later, Adeline and he were married and she became pregnant with their first child, the war in Vietnam began to escalate and Slade was shipped overseas. In the war, his unit massacred a village, an event which sickened him and he was also rescued by SAS member Wintergreen, to whom he would later return the favor. Chosen for an experiment, the Army imbued him with enhanced physical powers in an attempt to create meta human super soldiers for the U. S. military. Deathstroke became a mercenary soon after the experiment when he defied orders, however, Slade kept this career secret from his family, even though his wife was an expert military combat instructor
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Nightwing
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Nightwing is a fictional superhero appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics. The character has appeared in various incarnations, with the Nightwing identity most prominently being adopted by Dick Grayson when he moves on from his role as Batmans vigilante partner Robin, Nightwing is strongly associated with Batman, but the title and concept have origins in classic Superman stories. The original Nightwing in DC Comics was an identity assumed by alien superhero Superman when stranded on the Kryptonian city of Kandor with his pal Jimmy Olsen, drawing inspiration from Batman and Robin, the two protect Kandor as the superheroes Nightwing and Flamebird. Other stories set among the Batman family of characters have seen acquaintances and friends of Dick Grayson briefly assume the title, meanwhile, Superman stories have seen Power Girl and Supermans adopted son Chris Kent take up the name for brief turns as Nightwing. Nightwing the comic book, which focuses on Grayson, has long been a top-selling DC book, in 2013, Nightwing placed 5th on IGNs Top 25 Heroes of DC Comics and Grayson as Nightwing was ranked the #1 Sexiest Male Character in Comics by ComicsAlliance in 2013. Nightwing is first depicted in the story Superman in Kandor in Superman #158 and it is an alias used by Superman in pre-Crisis. The story is set in Kandor, a Kryptonian city that was shrunken, in Kandor, Superman has no superpowers, and is branded an outlaw there due to a misunderstanding. To disguise themselves, Superman and Jimmy Olsen create vigilante identities inspired by Batman, because neither bats nor robins lived on Krypton, Superman chooses the names of two birds owned by his Kandorian friend Nor-Kan, Nightwing for himself, and Flamebird for Jimmy. Nightwing and Flamebird rename Nor-Kans underground laboratory as the Nightcave, and they also convert Nor-Kans automobile into their Nightmobile, and use jet-belts to fly into battle. In Jimmy Olsen #69, The Dynamic Duo of Kandor introduces Nightwings dog Nighthound, in The Feud Between Batman and Superman in Worlds Finest #143, Batman and Robin themselves visit Kandor with Superman and Olsen and the two Dynamic Duos team up. In Superman Family #183, Supermans look-alike second cousin Van-Zee and his nieces husband Ak-Var take up the Nightwing, the vigilantes take on crime in their city as had Superman and Olsen before them. Both Nightwing and Flamebird team up with Batman and Robin for an adventure in Kandor that proves important to the young Dick Grayson. When Dick later gives up his role as Robin in 1984, he recalls the Kandorian adventure and renames himself Nightwing, post-Crisis, there is a different originator of the Nightwing identity. Several hundred years before the birth of Kal-El, there was a Kryptonian man who was cast out from his family, when Superman tells Dick Grayson of this story, Dick takes the name for himself. Dick Grayson became Nightwing after he was dismissed from the role of Robin as a teenager and he was featured in a Nightwing series from 1995 to 2009, after Waynes apparent death, Grayson became the new Batman, subsequently retiring his Nightwing mantle temporarily. Graysons Nightwing costume was a high-tech suit specially designed for his acrobatic style. His gauntlets and boots each contained eight compartments in which he could store items, each gauntlets sections could contain a wide array of equipment, such as sonic or smoke pellets, modified batarangs, knockout gas capsules, throwable tracers, and a sedative-tipped dart launcher. The right gauntlet was also equipped with a 100, 000-volt stun gun, other items were lock picks, a first-aid kit, a mini-cellphone, flexi-cuffs, antitoxin assortment, wireless listening devices, and a small flashlight
