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List Of Showcase Presents Publications
The following are collected volumes in the ''Showcase Presents'' line from DC Comics. All titles begin with the phrase ''Showcase Presents''. Note that when a volume reprints issues which were themselves reprints (e.g., 80-Page Giant specials), only the cover art is included. __TOC__ Published and forthcoming ''Showcase Presents'' volumes Cancelled ''Showcase Presents'' volumes Notes {{DEFAULTSORT:Showcase Presents Lists of comics by title ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Showcase Presents
''Showcase Presents'' was a line of black-and-white paperback books published by DC Comics (from 2005 - 2016) at an average rate of two per month. Much like Marvel Comics' '' Essential Marvel'' volumes, each book usually included over 500 pages of reprints, primarily from the Silver Age. Like the ''Essential'' line, a ''Showcase Presents'' volume carried the suggested retail price of US$16.99 (increased to $17.99 in September 2009) and was usually devoted to one character, "reprint ngall of their adventures in sequential order via cover date", or occasionally to a specific title rather than individual. The reprint line started in October 2005 with the releases of ''Showcase Presents: Green Lantern, Vol. 1'' and ''Showcase Presents: Superman, Vol. 1'', both offered at the lower introductory retail price of US$9.99. Overview Name The name "Showcase" comes from a 1956–1970 DC anthology series often used to try out new characters. ''Showcase'' featured the first appearances of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Amethyst, Princess Of Gemworld
Amethyst, Princess of Gemworld is a superhero published in American comic books created by DC Comics. Created by writers Dan Mishkin, Gary Cohn and artist Ernie Colón, she debuted in ''The Legion of Superheroes'' #298 in April 1983. Born into the Amethyst royal family of Gemworld, a fictional dimension full of magic and magical creatures, her parents were killed shortly after her birth by her future archenemy, Dark Opal. She is hidden on Earth by a witch and is adopted into a family, given the name Amy Winston. Eventually, she travels to Gemworld on her thirteenth birthday, learning of her heritage and became Gemworld's chief protector by opposing the Lords of Chaos and their agents, including Dark Opal. After the events of ''Flashpoint'', the character was retroactively rebooted, having first been raised by her mother Graciel to help eventually liberate Gemworld from a tyrannical ruler. Her given birth name is Amaya while her human identity is Amy Winston. After DC Rebirth, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bat Lash
Bartholomew "Bat" Aloysius Lash is a fictional Western superhero character in the DC Universe. A self-professed pacifist, self-professed ladies' man, and gambler, Bat Lash's adventures have been published by DC Comics since 1968. Character origin In 1968, Carmine Infantino, newly installed editorial director of DC Comics, and his editor, Joe Orlando, came up with the name and basic premise of the loner whose family had been wiped out by murderous thugs, and then brought in Sheldon Mayer (former DC editor and creator of '' Sugar and Spike'') and Sergio Aragonés (an artist best known for his comedic illustrations for '' Mad'' magazine) to further flesh out the concept. Mayer wrote the first appearance (''Showcase'' #76, August 1968). Infantino claimed to have greatly rewritten it. The assignment was then handed to Aragonés, with Denny O'Neil doing the dialog over Aragonés' plots, and Nick Cardy providing the art. Issues were produced in a variation of the full script method. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Superman Family
''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 published in 2012. Publication history ''The Superman Family'' was an amalgamation of the titles ''Superman's Girl Friend, Lois Lane'', ''Superman's Pal Jimmy Olsen'', and ''Supergirl''. 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 only made it to #9 at the time. A 10th and final issue of ''Supergirl'' was published five months after ''Superman Family's'' launch. ''The Superman Family'' went through two distinct phases. In its inception the three leads Jimmy Olsen, Lois Lane ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Superman (comic Book)
''Superman'' is an ongoing American comic book series featuring the DC Comics superhero Superman as its main protagonist. Superman began as one of several anthology features in the National Periodical Publications comic book ''Action Comics'' #1 in June 1938. The strip proved so popular that National launched Superman into his own self-titled comic book, the first for any superhero, premiering with the cover date Summer 1939. Between 1986 and 2006 it was retitled, ''The Adventures of Superman'', while a new series used the title ''Superman''. In May 2006, it was returned to its original title and numbering. The title was canceled with issue #714 in 2011, and was relaunched with issue #1 the following month which ended its run in 2016. A fourth series was released in June 2016 and ended in April 2018, while the fifth series was launched in July 2018 and ended in June 2021. The series was replaced by ''Superman: Son of Kal-El'' in July 2021, featuring adventures of Superman's son, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Batman (comic Book)
''Batman'' is an ongoing American comic book series featuring the DC Comics superhero Batman as its main protagonist. The character, created by Bob Kane and Bill Finger, first appeared in ''Detective Comics'' #27 (cover dated May 1939). Batman proved to be so popular that a self-titled ongoing comic book series began publication with a cover date of spring 1940. It was first advertised in early April 1940, one month after the first appearance of his new sidekick, Robin (character), Robin the Boy Wonder. Batman comics have proven to be popular since the 1940s. Though the ''Batman'' comic book was initially launched as a quarterly publication, it later became a bimonthly series through the late 1950s, after which it became a monthly publication and has remained so ever since. In September 2011, ''The New 52'' rebooted DC's continuity. In this new timeline, the original ''Batman'' series ended and was relaunched with a new first issue. In 2016, DC Comics began a second relaunch of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |