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Green Lantern (comic Book)
''Green Lantern'' is an ongoing American comic-book series featuring the DC Comics heroes of the Green Lantern, same name. The character's first incarnation, Alan Scott, appeared in ''All-American Comics'' #16 (July 1940), and was later spun off into the first volume of ''Green Lantern'' in 1941. After 38 issues, that series was cancelled in 1949. When the Silver Age Green Lantern, Hal Jordan, was introduced, the character starred in a new volume of ''Green Lantern'' starting in 1960. Although ''Green Lantern'' is considered a mainstay in the DC Comics stable, the series has been cancelled and rebooted several times. When sales began slipping in the early 1990s, DC Comics instituted a controversial editorial mandate that turned Jordan into the supervillain Parallax (comics), Parallax and created a new protagonist named Kyle Rayner. This third volume ended publication in 2004, when the miniseries ''Green Lantern: Rebirth'' brought Hal Jordan back as a heroic character and made him ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Howard Purcell
Howard Purcell (November 10, 1918 – April 24, 1981)Howard Purcell at the Social Security Death Index, Social Security Number 711-05-1720. was an Americans, American comics artist and writer active from the 1940s Golden Age of Comic Books through the 1960s Silver Age of Comic Books, Silver Age. A longtime penciler and cover artist for DC Comics, one of the field's two largest firms, he co-created the Golden Age characters Sargon the Sorcerer and the Gay Ghost (renamed in the 1970s the Grim Ghost) for All-American Publications, one of the companies, with National Comics and Detective Comics, that merged to form DC. Purcell also drew the famous cover of ''Green Lantern (comic book), Green Lantern'' #1 (Fall 1941). Biography Early life and career How ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bill Finger
Milton "Bill" Finger (February 8, 1914 – ) was an American comic book writer who co-created the DC Comics character Batman with Bob Kane. Despite making major (sometimes, signature) contributions as an innovative writer, visionary mythos/world builder and illustration architect, Finger (like other creators of his era) was often relegated to ghostwriter status on many comics—including those featuring Batman, and the original Green Lantern, Alan Scott. While Kane privately admitted in a 1980s audio interview with his autobiographer that Finger was responsible for "50–75% of all the creativity in Batman," he publicly denied Finger had been anything more than a subcontractor executing Kane's ideas for decades. As a result, Finger died in obscurity and poverty while the Batman brand, and Kane, amassed international fame and wealth. In the 2000s, Finger biographer Marc Tyler Nobleman's research uncovered previously unknown heirs. At the urging of Nobleman, the online comics fan co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gerard Jones
Gerard Jones (born July 10, 1957) is an American writer, known primarily for his non-fiction work about American entertainment media, and his comic book scripting, which includes co-creating the superhero Prime for Malibu Comics, and writing for the Green Lantern and Justice League lines for DC Comics. In 2018, Jones was convicted of possession of child pornography, and sentenced to six years in prison. Early life Jones was born in Cut Bank, Montana, and raised in the California towns of Los Gatos and Gilroy. Career From 1983 to 1988, Jones and his writing partner Will Jacobs were contributors to '' National Lampoon'' magazine. From 1984 to 1986, Jones and Jacobs wrote articles about the Silver Age of Comics for the hobbyist publication ''Comics Feature''. They also wrote ''The Beaver Papers'' – a book parodying the TV series ''Leave It to Beaver'' – and ''The Comic Book Heroes: From the Silver Age to the Present.'' He and Jacobs returned to humorous fiction in 2014 wit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Laurie S
Laurie may refer to: Places * Laurie, Cantal, France, a commune * Laurie, Missouri, United States, a village * Laurie Island, Antarctica Music * Laurie Records, a record label * ''Laurie'' (EP), a 1992 album by Daniel Johnston * "Laurie (Strange Things Happen)", a 1965 tragic ballad by Dickey Lee People and fictional characters * Laurie (surname) * Laurie (given name), a list of people and fictional characters Other uses * Laurie baronets, three titles, one in the Baronetage of Nova Scotia and two in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom * Tillandsia 'Laurie', a hybrid cultivar of ''Tillandsia schiedeana'' * "Laurie" (short story), a 2018 short story by Stephen King See also * Lawrie * Lauri (other) * Lauria (other) * Lori * Lorrie * Lourie * Lurie * Lorry A truck or lorry is a motor vehicle designed to transport freight, carry specialized payloads, or perform other utilitarian work. Trucks vary greatly in size, power, and configuration, but the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Steve Englehart
Steve Englehart (; born April 22, 1947) is an American writer of comic books and novels. He is best known for his work at Marvel Comics and DC Comics in the 1970s and 1980s. His pseudonyms have included John Harkness and Cliff Garnett. Early life Steve Englehart majored in psychology at Wesleyan University, where he was a member of The Kappa Alpha Society, earning his Bachelor of Arts degree in 1969. He had served in the United States Army, but was honorably discharged as a conscientious objector to the Vietnam War. Career Marvel Comics Englehart's first work in comics was as an art assistant to Neal Adams on a 10-page story by writer Denny O'Neil in Warren Publishing's black-and-white horror fiction, horror comics magazine ''Vampirella'' #10 (March 1971). After briefly serving as a member of the Crusty Bunkers,Greg Theakston, Theakston, Greg and Kevin Nowlan, Nowlan, Kevin, et al., at Englehart started working as a full-time writer. He began with a co-writing credit, with Ga ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Len Wein
Leonard Norman Wein (; June 12, 1948 – September 10, 2017) was an American comic book writer and editor best known for co-creating DC Comics' Swamp Thing and Marvel Comics' Wolverine (character), Wolverine, and for helping revive the Marvel superhero team the X-Men (including the co-creation of Nightcrawler (character), Nightcrawler, Storm (Marvel Comics), Storm, and Colossus (character), Colossus). Additionally, he was the editor for writer Alan Moore and illustrator Dave Gibbons' influential DC miniseries ''Watchmen''. Wein was inducted into the List of Eisner Award winners#The Will Eisner Award Hall of Fame, Will Eisner Comic Book Hall of Fame in 2008. Early life and education Wein was born on June 12, 1948, in New York City, and was raised in a American Jews, Jewish household. One of two children of Phillip and Rosalyn (née Bauman) Wein, he lived in The Bronx until age 7, when he moved with his family to Levittown, New York, on Long Island. There he graduated from Division ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joey Cavalieri
Joey Cavalieri is an American writer and editor of comic books. He is best known for his work on the characters Green Arrow and Huntress as well as the co-creation of Helena Bertinelli, the third Huntress, for DC Comics. Career Joey Cavalieri attended the School of Visual Arts, graduating with a BFA in Media Arts in 1979. Cavalieri first joined DC Comics full-time in 1982 after working three years as a freelancer. His writing credits for DC include the Green Arrow back-up feature in ''Detective Comics''; both the pre- Crisis version of the '' Huntress'' in a back-up feature in ''Wonder Woman'' and the post-Crisis version of the character in an ongoing series; '' Captain Carrot and His Amazing Zoo Crew!'' and its spinoff ''The Oz-Wonderland War''; '' The Flash''; and '' World's Finest Comics''. A '' New Teen Titans'' drug awareness comic book sponsored by IBM and scripted by Cavalieri was published in cooperation with The President's Drug Awareness Campaign in 1984. That sa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mike W
Mike may refer to: Animals * Mike (cat), cat and guardian of the British Museum * Mike the Headless Chicken, chicken that lived for 18 months after his head had been cut off * Mike (chimpanzee), a chimpanzee featured in several books and documentaries Arts * Mike (miniseries), a 2022 Hulu limited series based on the life of American boxer Mike Tyson * Mike (2022 film), a Malayalam film produced by John Abraham * ''Mike'' (album), an album by Mike Mohede * ''Mike'' (1926 film), an American film * Mike (musician), American rapper, songwriter and record producer * ''Mike'' (novel), a 1909 novel by P. G. Wodehouse * "Mike" (song), by Elvana Gjata and Ledri Vula featuring John Shahu * Mike (''Twin Peaks''), a character from ''Twin Peaks'' * "Mike", a song by Xiu Xiu from their 2004 album '' Fabulous Muscles'' * mike. (musician), American rapper and baseball player formerly known as Mike Stud Businesses * Mike (cellular network), a defunct Canadian cellular network * Mike and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marv Wolfman
Marvin Arthur Wolfman (born May 13, 1946) is an American comic book and novelization writer. He worked on Marvel Comics's ''The Tomb of Dracula'', for which he and artist Gene Colan created the vampire-slayer Blade (character), Blade, and DC Comics's ''Teen Titans, The New Teen Titans'' and the ''Crisis on Infinite Earths'' limited series with George Pérez. Among the many characters Wolfman created or co-created are Cyborg (DC Comics), Cyborg, Raven (DC Comics), Raven, Starfire (Teen Titans), Starfire, Deathstroke, Tim Drake, Rose Wilson, Nova (Richard Rider), Nova, Black Cat (Marvel Comics), Black Cat, Phobia (comics), Phobia, Bullseye (Marvel Comics), Bullseye, Adrian Chase, Vigilante (Adrian Chase), the Omega Men, and the Nightwing identity of Dick Grayson. Early life Marv Wolfman was born in Brooklyn, New York City, the son of police officer Abe and housewife Fay. He has a sister, Harriet, 12 years older. When Wolfman was 13, his family moved to Flushing, Queens, in New York ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dennis O'Neil
Dennis "Denny" Joseph O'Neil (May 3, 1939 – June 11, 2020) was an American comic book writer and editor, principally for Marvel Comics and DC Comics from the 1960s through the 1990s, and Group Editor for the Batman family of titles until his retirement. His best-known works include ''Green Lantern/Green Arrow'' and ''Batman (comic book), Batman'' with Neal Adams. For ''Batman'', the team is credited with returning the character to his dark pulp fiction roots, in contrast to the campy Batman (TV series), ''Batman'' television series of the 1960s. However, comics historian Les Daniels considers O'Neil's "vengeful obsessive-compulsive" Batman to be an original interpretation that has influenced all subsequent portrayals of the character. It was during this run that O'Neil co-created the Batman villains Ra's al Ghul and Talia al Ghul. During their ''Green Lantern/Green Arrow'' run, O'Neil and Adams introduced a mature, realistic tone through stories such as "Snowbirds Don't Fly ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gardner Fox
Gardner Francis Cooper Fox (May 20, 1911 – December 24, 1986) was an American writer known best for creating numerous comic book characters for DC Comics. He is estimated to have written more than 4,000 comics stories, including 1,500 for DC Comics. Fox was also a science fiction author and wrote many novels and short stories. Fox is known as the co-creator of DC Comics heroes Barbara Gordon, the original Flash, Hawkman, Hawkgirl, Doctor Fate, Zatanna and the original Sandman, and was the writer who first teamed several of those and other heroes as the Justice Society of America, and later recreated the team as the Justice League of America. Fox introduced the concept of the Multiverse to DC Comics in the 1961 story " Flash of Two Worlds!". Early life and career Gardner Cooper Fox was born in Brooklyn, New York City, the son of Julia Veronica (Gardner) and Leon Francis Fox, an engineer. Unlike many of his contemporaries in the comic book field, such as Jack Kirby and Je ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Kanigher
Robert Kanigher (; June 18, 1915 – May 7, 2002)Social Security Death Index, social security #116-07-5117. was an American comic book writer and editor whose career spanned five decades. He was involved with the Wonder Woman franchise for over twenty years, taking over the scripting from creator William Moulton Marston. In addition, Kanigher spent many years in charge of DC Comics's war titles and created the character Sgt. Rock. Kanigher scripted what is considered the first Silver Age comic book story, "Mystery of the Human Thunderbolt!", which introduced the Barry Allen version of the Flash in '' Showcase'' #4 (Oct. 1956). Early life Kanigher was born in New York City, the third of Ephraim and Rebecca (née Herman) Kanigher's three children. Kanigher's parents were Romanian Jewish immigrants. Kanigher started working part-time when 12 years old to help support his family. "My father was destroyed in the Great Depression". He quickly started working full-time. "I support ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
