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Badger (comics)
The Badger is a fictional character, a superhero in American comic books publisher by the short-lived Capital Comics company and then First Comics. He was created by writer Mike Baron in 1983 and published through the early 1990s in a titular series that ended when First Comics also ceased all publications. Since the ongoing series ended in 1991, new Badger titles have been released through Dark Horse Comics, Image Comics and IDW Publishing.Mike Baron's "Badger" is Back , August 29, 2007 Publication history The first four issues of ''Badger'' were published by Capital Comics (under the name ''The Badger''), beginning in |
First Comics
First Comics was an American comic book publisher that was active from 1983 to 1991, known for titles like ''American Flagg!'', ''Grimjack'', ''Nexus'', ''Badger'', ''Dreadstar'', and ''Jon Sable''. Along with competitors like Pacific Comics and Eclipse Comics, First took early advantage of the growing direct market, attracting a number of writers and artists from DC and Marvel to produce creator-owned titles, which, as they were not subject to the Comics Code, were free to feature more mature content. History Based in Evanston, Illinois, First Comics was co-founded by Ken F. LevinPhegley, Kiel"CBR News: EXCLUSIVE: Levin On Relaunching First Comics" Comic Book Resource (July 14, 2011). and Mike Gold. It launched in 1983 with a line-up of creators including Frank Brunner, Mike Grell, Howard Chaykin, Joe Staton, Steven Grant, Timothy Truman, and Jim Starlin. In 1984, First acquired all the titles of the short-lived publisher Capital Comics, including Mike Baron's action/superhero/ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nexus (comics)
''Nexus'' is an American comic book series created by writer Mike Baron and penciler Steve Rude in 1981. The series is a combination of the superhero and science fiction genres, set 500 years in the future. Publication history The series debuted as a three-issue black-and-white limited series (the third of which featured a 33 RPM flexi disc with music and dialogue from the issue), followed by an ongoing full-color series which lasted 80 issues. The black-and-white issues and the first six color issues were published by Capital Comics; after Capital's demise, First Comics took over publication. On the creation of the series, Baron noted that they had originally pitched a series called ''Encyclopaedias'' to Capital Comics, but the company rejected this, saying they were looking for a superhero title. Over a drink at a restaurant, Baron outlined his ideas for ''Nexus'' to Rude: In addition to the ongoing series, First reprinted the original miniseries as a graphic novel and late ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Veteran
A veteran () is a person who has significant experience (and is usually adept and esteemed) and expertise in a particular occupation or field. A military veteran is a person who is no longer serving in a military. A military veteran that has served directly in combat in a war is further defined as a war veteran (although not all military conflicts, or areas in which armed combat took place, are necessarily referred to as ''wars''). Military veterans are unique as a group as their lived experience is so strongly connected to the conduct of war in general and application of professional violence in particular. Therefore, there are a large body of knowledge developed through centuries of scholarly studies that seek to describe, understand and explain their lived experience in and out of service. Griffith with colleagues provides an overview of this research field that addresses veterans general health, transition from military service to civilian life, homelessness, veteran empl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vietnam War
The Vietnam War (also known by #Names, other names) was a conflict in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia from 1 November 1955 to the fall of Saigon on 30 April 1975. It was the second of the Indochina Wars and was officially fought between North Vietnam and South Vietnam. The north was supported by the Soviet Union, China, and other communist states, while the south was United States in the Vietnam War, supported by the United States and other anti-communism, anti-communist Free World Military Forces, allies. The war is widely considered to be a Cold War-era proxy war. It lasted almost 20 years, with direct U.S. involvement ending in 1973. The conflict also spilled over into neighboring states, exacerbating the Laotian Civil War and the Cambodian Civil War, which ended with all three countries becoming communist states by 1975. After the French 1954 Geneva Conference, military withdrawal from Indochina in 1954 – following their defeat in the First Indochina War – the Viet Minh to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Capital Comics
Capital City Distribution was a Madison, Wisconsin-based comic book distributor which operated from 1980 to 1996 when they were acquired by rival Diamond Comic Distributors. Under the name Capital Comics, they also published comics from 1981 to 1984. During most of its years of operation, Capital City introduced many supply chain innovations and controlled much of the American Midwest's comics distribution market. More so than their rivals Diamond and Heroes World Distribution, Capital City supported independent publishers as much as big mainstream companies like DC Comics and Marvel Comics. Capital City also published over 400 pages of printed material a month, including ''Internal Correspondence'', which provided sales figures to their clients; and ''Advance Comics'', their monthly catalog showcasing upcoming comic books, toys, and other pop-culture related items it distributed to comic book specialty shops. Distributor Origins In the 1970s, Milton Griepp and John Davis we ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Madison, Wisconsin
Madison is the county seat of Dane County and the capital city of the U.S. state of Wisconsin. As of the 2020 census the population was 269,840, making it the second-largest city in Wisconsin by population, after Milwaukee, and the 80th-largest in the U.S. The city forms the core of the Madison Metropolitan Area which includes Dane County and neighboring Iowa, Green, and Columbia counties for a population of 680,796. Madison is named for American Founding Father and President James Madison. The city is located on the traditional land of the Ho-Chunk, and the Madison area is known as ''Dejope'', meaning "four lakes", or ''Taychopera'', meaning "land of the four lakes", in the Ho-Chunk language. Located on an isthmus and lands surrounding four lakes—Lake Mendota, Lake Monona, Lake Kegonsa and Lake Waubesa—the city is home to the University of Wisconsin–Madison, the Wisconsin State Capitol, the Overture Center for the Arts, and the Henry Vilas Zoo. Madison is ho ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ron Lim
Ronald Lim (born 1965) is an American comic book artist living in Sacramento, California. He is best known for his work for Marvel Comics on their various "cosmic" titles, most particularly the ''Silver Surfer'' (vol. 3) series. Biography Lim's interest in comics began as a child, when he read comics and drew his favorite heroes, including Batman and the Fantastic Four.Lin, Sam Chu. "Asians Fulfill Fantasies As Comic Book Artists," ''Asian Week'' (17 June 1988), p. 12. His first published work was for the independent comic book title ''Ex-Mutants'', which he worked on from 1986 to 1988. He was "discovered" by Marvel at a 1987 comic convention, and was hired on the spot. Lim penciled the ''Silver Surfer'' (vol. 3) series for almost six years (1988–94). He also penciled most of the "Infinity" trilogy of large-scale crossover limited series which Marvel published in the early 1990s—''Infinity Gauntlet'' (1991), ''Infinity War'' (1992), and ''Infinity Crusade'' (1993). He retur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gary Chaloner
Gary Chaloner (born 30 March 1963, in Sydney) is an Australian comic book artist, writer and publisher. He is known for his creations ''The Jackaroo'', ''Flash Damingo'', ''Red Kelso'' and ''The Undertaker Morton Stone'', as well as his work on '' Will Eisner's John Law''. Chaloner began self publishing in 1985 with David de Vries, Glenn Lumsden and Tad Pietrzykowski under the Cyclone Comics imprint. In 1989 he illustrated an issue of Mike Baron's ''Badger'' (issue #58 published by First Comics in January 1990). Chaloner undertook the artwork on Eternity Comics' ''Ninja High School'' (issue 17 published February 1990). He was the writer/artist of '' Planet of the Apes: Urchak's Folly'' (with Dillon Naylor and Greg Gates) by Adventure Comics in October 1990. Together with Stephen Jewell, Chaloner wrote and illustrated Epic Comics’ ''The Olympians'' published in 1991–1992. In 1994 Chaloner was the Australian editor for Dark Horse Comics' limited three issue ''Dark Horse Dow ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mike Mignola
Mike Mignola (; born September 16, 1960) is an American comics artist and writer best known for creating ''Hellboy'' for Dark Horse Comics, part of a shared universe of titles including ''B.P.R.D.'', '' Abe Sapien'', '' Lobster Johnson'', '' Witchfinder'' and various spinoffs. He has also created other supernatural and paranormal themed titles for Dark Horse including ''Baltimore'', '' Joe Golem'' and ''The Amazing Screw-On Head''. Early life Mike Mignola was born September 16, 1960. He was raised Catholic. Career Marvel and DC Mignola was born in Berkeley, California. He began his career in 1980 by illustrating spots in ''The Comic Reader''. His first published piece was in ''The Comic Reader'' #183, a spot illustration of Red Sonja (pg. 9). His first published front cover was ''The Comic Reader'' #196 in November 1981. In 1982 he graduated from the California College of the Arts with a BFA in Illustration. In 1983 he worked as an inker at Marvel Comics on ''Daredevil'' and '' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jackson Guice
Jackson "Butch" Guice (born June 27, 1961) is an American comics artist who has worked in the comics industry since the 1980s. Biography Guice was born in Chattanooga, Tennessee.. Retrieved March 21, 2008. Growing up in the 1960s, Guice was fond of "the legendary stop-motion animator and filmmaker" Ray Harryhausen, whose influence can be seen in some of Guice's work, most notably the Humanoids project ''Olympus''. 1980s Guice began his career with fanzine work and "designing patches and emblems for a small company in North Carolina." His first credited comics work was penciling and inking the independently published '' The Crusaders'' #1 (November 1982), although he had previously ghosted for Pat Broderick on ''Rom Annual'' #1 (1982). On the strength of his fanzine work, (and, Guice believes, at the behest of ''Rom Annual'' writer Bill Mantlo) Marvel editor Al Milgrom offered him a tryout on the toy-spin-off title ''Micronauts''. Referring to ''Rom Annual'' #1 and ''Micronauts'' # ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chas Truog
Chas is a Municipal Corporation in the Chas subdivision of the Bokaro district in the state of Jharkhand, India. It is often referred to as a suburb of Bokaro Steel City, though it predates the steel plant. Chas is one of the fastest-growing urban regions in Jharkhand and was ranked as the cleanest city of Eastern India and the 19th cleanest city of India in 2018, according to Swachh Survekshan. History Once a small grain trading hub of the region, Chas became notable during the Second World War when the British government used it as a base to supply soldiers fighting in the eastern front against the Japanese. In the 1960s, the Government of India decided to establish the Bokaro Steel Plant nearby, which enhanced the economic activity of the region. Geography Location Chas is located at . It has an average elevation of 210 metres (688 feet). The municipality is situated on the banks of Garga river. Chas is located at the junction of National Highway 23 and Natio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Steven Butler
Steven Butler is an American comic book artist. He is known both for penciling the Archie Comics series ''Sonic the Hedgehog (comics), Sonic the Hedgehog'' as well as creating new designs for Archie characters in 2007. Career Butler's work ranges from inking and providing occasional cover duties for ''Cat and Mouse (comics), Cat and Mouse'' to superhero illustrations in the original ''Silver Storm'' mini-series to publications such as Marvel Comics' ''Web of Spider-Man'' and ''Silver Sable''. The independent comic ''Badger (comics), The Badger'' by First Comics served to launch his career, but his work at Silverline comics preceded Badger. Butler has also been involved in several Christian comics projects. From 1999 to 2007 Butler worked on the ''PowerMark'' comic series from Powermark Productions. In 1999 he also illustrated 3 tracts for wrestler George South entitled ''The Greatest Match Ever'', ''Who is Your Tag-Team Partner?'', and ''Who Are You Wrestling Against?'', package ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
