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Dum-Dum Dugan
Timothy Aloysius Cadwallader "Dum Dum" Dugan is a fictional character appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. He is an officer of S.H.I.E.L.D. and is one of the most experienced members of Nick Fury's team, known for his marksmanship with rifles and impressive physique. He is recognized for his trademark bowler hat. Neal McDonough appeared as the character in the 2011 Marvel Cinematic Universe film '' Captain America: The First Avenger'', the 2013 Marvel Studios short film '' Agent Carter'' (post-credits), in 2014 in the 1st episode of season 2 of ''Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.'', and also in 2015 in the fifth episode of the first season of Marvel's '' Agent Carter''. McDonough returned as an alternate version of the character in the Disney+ animated series '' What If...?'' (2021). Publication history Dum Dum Dugan first appeared in ''Sgt. Fury and his Howling Commandos'' #1 (May 1963), and was created by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby. Dum Dum Dugan received an entry i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jim Cheung
Jim Cheung (; born 1972) is a British comic book artist, known for his work on the series such as ''Scion (comics), Scion'', ''New Avengers: Illuminati'', ''Young Avengers'' and ''Avengers: The Children's Crusade''. Career Cheung worked on several Marvel series during the mid- to late 1990s. He also worked on ''Scion (comics), Scion'' for Crossgen Comics in the early 2000s. He later returned to Marvel, where he illustrated the five-issue ''New Avengers: Illuminati'' mini-series for Marvel Comics, and then pencilled two more issues of ''New Avengers''. He was named in August 2005 as one of Marvel's "Young Guns", a group of artists that, according to Marvel Editor-in-Chief Joe Quesada, have the qualities that make "a future superstar penciller". Other "Young Guns" include Olivier Coipel, David Finch (comics), David Finch, Trevor Hairsine, Adi Granov and Steve McNiven. Cheung illustrated the 2010-2012 miniseries ''Avengers: The Children's Crusade''. In addition to interior comics wor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marvel Studios
Marvel Studios, LLC (originally known as Marvel Films from 1993 to 1996) is an American film and television production company that is a subsidiary of Walt Disney Studios, a division of the Walt Disney Company. Marvel Studios produces the Marvel Cinematic Universe films and series, based on characters that appear in Marvel Comics publications. Since 2008, Marvel Studios has released 30 films within the Marvel Cinematic Universe, from '' Iron Man'' (2008) to '' Black Panther: Wakanda Forever'' (2022), eight television series since 2021, from ''WandaVision'' (2021) to '' She-Hulk: Attorney at Law'' (2022), and two television specials, ''Werewolf by Night'' (2022) and ''The Guardians of the Galaxy Holiday Special'' (2022). The television series '' What If...?'' (2021) is the studio's first animated property. These films, television series, and television specials all share continuity with each other, along with the One-Shots short films produced by the studio. The television ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Comic Books
A comic book, also called comicbook, comic magazine or (in the United Kingdom and Ireland) simply comic, is a publication that consists of comics art in the form of sequential juxtaposed panels that represent individual scenes. Panels are often accompanied by descriptive prose and written narrative, usually, dialogue contained in word balloons emblematic of the comics art form. "Comic Cuts" was a British comic published from 1890 to 1953. It was preceded by "Ally Sloper's Half Holiday" (1884) which is notable for its use of sequential cartoons to unfold narrative. These British comics existed alongside of the popular lurid "Penny dreadfuls" (such as "Spring-heeled Jack"), boys' " Story papers" and the humorous Punch (magazine) which was the first to use the term "cartoon" in its modern sense of a humorous drawing. The interweaving of drawings and the written word had been pioneered by, among others, William Blake (1757 - 1857) in works such as Blake's "The Descent Of Christ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
US Army
The United States Army (USA) is the land service branch of the United States Armed Forces. It is one of the eight U.S. uniformed services, and is designated as the Army of the United States in the U.S. Constitution.Article II, section 2, clause 1 of the United States Constitution (1789). See alsTitle 10, Subtitle B, Chapter 301, Section 3001 The oldest and most senior branch of the U.S. military in order of precedence, the modern U.S. Army has its roots in the Continental Army, which was formed 14 June 1775 to fight the American Revolutionary War (1775–1783)—before the United States was established as a country. After the Revolutionary War, the Congress of the Confederation created the United States Army on 3 June 1784 to replace the disbanded Continental Army.Library of CongressJournals of the Continental Congress, Volume 27/ref> The United States Army considers itself to be a continuation of the Continental Army, and thus considers its institutional inception to be the o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Happy Sam Sawyer
General Samuel "Happy Sam" Sawyer is a fictional character appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. His first appearance was in ''Sgt. Fury and his Howling Commandos'' #1. Publication history Sawyer first appeared in ''Sgt. Fury and the Howling Commandos'' #1, and was created by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby. Fictional character biography Happy Sam Sawyer was assigned to the British Commandos by the U.S. Army. He was trained in parachuting in Britain in 1940 by Finley's FlyingCircus, which comprised daredevil parachutist Nick Fury and pilot Red Hargrove,s where they nicknamed him Happy Sa,m ironically, because of his deadly serious and consistently stony demeanor. In 1942, Sawyer, who had been wounded in North Africa and was deemed unfit for combat missions, organised and led the Howling Commandos, Bull McGiveney's Maulers, Jim Morita's Nisei Squad, and Sgt Bob Jenkin's The Missouri Marauders, as well as the Deadly Dozen. When artist John Severin joined ''Sgt Fury ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Strongman (circus)
In the 19th century, the term strongman referred to an exhibitor of strength or similar circus performers who performed feats of strength. More recently, strength athletics, also known as strongman competitions, have grown in popularity. These competitions are now composed of a variety of events in which competitors have to move the highest weights possible, the winner being the one having the highest tally across all events. Description In the first half of the 20th century, strongmen would perform various feats of strength such as the bent press (not to be confused with the bench press, which did not exist at the time), supporting large amounts of weight held overhead at arm's length, steel bending, chain breaking, etc. They needed to have large amounts of wrist, hand, and tendon strength for these feats, as well as prodigious oblique strength. In the late 20th century the term ''strongman'' evolved to describe one who competes in strength athletics – a more modern ec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
World War II
World War II or the Second World War, often abbreviated as WWII or WW2, was a world war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. It involved the vast majority of the world's countries—including all of the great powers—forming two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis powers. World War II was a total war that directly involved more than 100 million personnel from more than 30 countries. The major participants in the war threw their entire economic, industrial, and scientific capabilities behind the war effort, blurring the distinction between civilian and military resources. Aircraft played a major role in the conflict, enabling the strategic bombing of population centres and deploying the only two nuclear weapons ever used in war. World War II was by far the deadliest conflict in human history; it resulted in 70 to 85 million fatalities, mostly among civilians. Tens of millions died due to genocides (including the Holocaust), starvation, ma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Retroactive Continuity
Retroactive continuity, or retcon for short, is a literary device in which established diegetic facts in the plot of a fictional work (those established through the narrative itself) are adjusted, ignored, supplemented, or contradicted by a subsequently published work which recontextualizes or breaks continuity with the former. There are various motivations for applying retroactive continuity, including: * To accommodate desired aspects of sequels or derivative works which would otherwise be ruled out. * To respond to negative fan reception of previous stories. * To correct and overcome errors or problems identified in the prior work since its publication. * To change or clarify how the prior work should be interpreted. * To match reality, when assumptions or projections of the future are later proven wrong. Retcons are used by authors to increase their creative freedom, on the assumption that the changes are unimportant to the audience compared to the new story which can be tol ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Official Handbook Of The Marvel Universe
The ''Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe'' is an encyclopedic guide which details the fictional universe featured in Marvel Comics publications. The original 15-volume series was published in comic book format in 1982, followed by sporadic updates. Origin Jim Shooter, Marvel's then editor-in-chief, conceived of the idea,DeFalco, Tom. "Bullpen Bulletins Special," Marvel Comics cover-dated March 1984. envisioning a guide detailing statistics much in the manner of those found upon the backs of baseball cards.Peter Sanderson (2005-01-28)"Comics in Context #70: Elektra Lite: Superheroes A to Z."/ref> This initial project was to be called ''The Marvel Super-Specifications Handbook'' (the eventual title incorporating the term "Marvel Universe" was appropriated from Al Milgrom, who had used it as a working title for the anthology series ''Marvel Fanfare''). Shooter appointed Mark Gruenwald editor of the project, and Gruenwald developed the project to include all aspects of the Marvel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
What If
What If may refer to: Film * ''What If'', a 2006 TV film starring Niall Buggy * ''What If...'' (2010 film), an American film * ''What If...'' (2012 film), a Greek film * ''What If'' (2013 film) or ''The F Word'', a Canadian-Irish film Television * '' What/If'', a 2019 American thriller streaming miniseries * ''What If...'' (web series), a 2010 American soap-opera crossover series * ''What If...?'' (TV series), a 2021 American animated series by Marvel Studios * "What If..." (''Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.''), an episode of ''Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.'' * "What If" (''Drop Dead Diva''), an episode of ''Drop Dead Diva'' * "What If?" (''JAG''), an episode of ''JAG'' Literature * Alternate history, fiction based on what if historical questions * Alternate universe (fan fiction), fiction based on what if questions in fiction * " What If—", a fantasy short story by Isaac Asimov * ''What If?'' (book), an xkcd blog and associated book by Randall Munroe * ''What If'' (comics), com ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Disney+
The Walt Disney Company, commonly known as Disney (), is an American multinational mass media and entertainment Entertainment is a form of activity that holds the attention and interest of an audience or gives pleasure and delight. It can be an idea or a task, but is more likely to be one of the activities or events that have developed over thousa ... conglomerate (company), conglomerate headquartered at the Walt Disney Studios (Burbank), Walt Disney Studios complex in Burbank, California. Disney was originally founded on October 16, 1923, by brothers Walt Disney, Walt and Roy O. Disney as the Disney Brothers Studio; it also operated under the names the Walt Disney Studio and Walt Disney Productions before changing its name to the Walt Disney Company in 1986. Early on, the company established itself as a leader in the Animation, animation industry, with the creation of the widely popular character Mickey Mouse, who is the company's mascot, and the start of Animatio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
