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Sterling Gates
Sterling Gates (born March 1, 1981 in Tulsa, Oklahoma) is an American comic book and television writer. Early life Gates, whose father owned a used book store with a large selection of comics, became a comic book fan at a young age, describing himself as "the DC kid" while dubbing his brother Alex "the Marvel Marvel may refer to: Business * Marvel Entertainment, an American entertainment company ** Marvel Comics, the primary imprint of Marvel Entertainment ** Marvel Universe, a fictional shared universe ** Marvel Music, an imprint of Marvel Comics * ... kid". During his teenage years, Gates drifted towards the music scene, but rediscovered comics in the late 90s when his family had to inventorize the father's store before its closure. While attending University of Oklahoma, Gates wrote, drew and self-published short autobiographical slice-of-life comics and worked part-time at his then-local comic book store, Speeding Bullet Comics. After graduating with a degree in Fine Art ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kid Flash Lost
Kid, Kids, KIDS, and K.I.D.S. may refer to: Common meanings * Colloquial term for a child or other young person ** Also for a parent's offspring regardless of age * Engage in joking * Young goats * The goat meat of young goats * Kidskin, leather from young goats Entertainment Performers * K.I.D (band), Canadian indie rock band * K.I.D. (musician), a disco project by Geoff Bastow * Kid 'n Play, American hip-hop duo from New York * Kid Capri (born 1967), American DJ and rapper * Kid Carpet, musician from Bristol, UK * Kid Crème (born 1974), house music producer and DJ * Kid Cudi (born 1984), American rapper Scott Ramon Seguro Mescudi * Kid Jensen (born 1950; David Jensen), Canadian-British radio DJ * Kid Ory (1886–1973), American jazz trombonist and bandleader * Kid Rock (born 1971), American singer Robert James Ritchie * Kid Creole (born 1950), American musician August Darnell, leader of Kid Creole and the Coconuts * The Kid Laroi (born 2003), Australian rapper and sing ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WonderCon
WonderCon is an annual comic book, science fiction, and film convention held in the San Francisco Bay Area (1987–2011), then—under the name WonderCon Anaheim—in Anaheim, California (2012–2015, 2017–present), and WonderCon Los Angeles in 2016."WonderCon Moves To Anaheim With Costumed Avengers In Tow," CBS 2 San Francisco (March 17, 2012). The convention returned to the in 2017 after a one-year stint in Los Angeles due to construction at the Anaheim Convention Center. The convention was conceived by retailer [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Robinson (writer)
James Dale Robinson is a British writer of American comic books and screenplays best known for co-creating the character of Starman (Jack Knight) with Tony Harris and reviving the Justice Society of America in the late 1990s. His other notable works include the screenplay for the film adaptation of the Alan Moore and Kevin O'Neill's comic book series ''The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen'' and the multi-year crossover storyline " Superman: New Krypton". Career Robinson made his writing debut in 1989 with the graphic novel '' London's Dark'', illustrated by Paul Johnson and later named one of the 500 "essential" graphic novels, as it was "at the vanguard ..of British graphic novels as a whole" despite being "a very raw work, full of experimentation". He continued contributing short stories to various anthologies, including " Grendel: Devil's Whisper" which appeared in '' A1'', before breaking into the American market with a number of Terminator series for Dark Horse. In 1993, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Action Comics
''Action Comics'' is an American comic book/Comic anthology, magazine series that introduced Superman, one of the first major superhero characters. The publisher was originally known as National Allied Publications, and later as National Comics Publications and as National Periodical Publications, before taking on its current name of DC Comics. Its original incarnation ran from 1938 to 2011 and stands as one of the longest-running comic books with consecutively numbered issues. The second volume of ''Action Comics'' beginning with issue #1 ran from 2011 to 2016. ''Action Comics'' returned to its original numbering beginning with issue #957 (Aug. 2016). Publication history The Golden Age Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster saw their creation, Superman (also known as Kal-El, originally Kal-L), launched in Action Comics 1, ''Action Comics'' #1 on April 18, 1938 (cover dated June), an event which began the Golden Age of Comic Books. Siegel and Shuster had tried for years to find a publish ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New Krypton
"New Krypton" is a 2008–09 comic book story arc featuring character Superman, published by American company DC Comics; it was written by Geoff Johns, James Robinson and Sterling Gates, with art by Gary Frank, Alex Ross, Renato Guedes, Jamal Igle and Pete Woods. The arc is an inter-title crossover, published in '' Action Comics'', ''Superman'' and '' Supergirl''. The story features Superman coming to terms with the death of his adoptive father while also dealing with 100,000 Kryptonians now living on Earth as a result of the ''Brainiac'' story arc. This story begins a planned "link" on ''Action Comics'', ''Superman'', and ''Supergirl'' as part of their collective plans for Superman and his cast of characters through 2008 and beyond. The events of this story lead directly into the 12-part series '' Superman: World of New Krypton''. Publication history In the months before Johns started his ''Brainiac'' arc, and James Robinson took over writing duties on ''Superman'', both ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Superman Comics
This is a list of comic books featuring Superman and related characters. Ongoing titles featuring Superman in a starring role ''Action Comics'' ''Action Comics'' began in 1938. ''Action Comics'' #1 featured the introduction of Superman. Thirteen ''Annual''s have also been published between 1987 and 2011 (1987–1997 and 2007–2011). Issue #0 (October 1994) was published between issues #703 and 704 during the '' Zero Hour: Crisis in Time!'' crossover event and issue #1,000,000 (November 1998) was published between #748 and 749 during the "DC One Million" crossover event. In all, 906 issues (904 regulars, plus one #0 issue and one #1,000,000 issue) of ''Action Comics'' were published before ''The New 52s relaunch of the title in September 2011. ''Action Comics'' (vol. 2) started at #1 and ended in issue #52 in May 2016, with three ''Annual''s. In June 2016, DC again relaunched the title with ''DC Rebirth''. ''Action Comics'' resumed the classic numbering beginning with issue #957. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jerry Ordway
Jeremiah Ordway (born November 28, 1957) is an American writer, penciller, inker and painter of comic books. He is known for his inking work on a wide variety of DC Comics titles, including the continuity-redefining ''Crisis on Infinite Earths'' (1985–1986), his long run working on the Superman titles from 1986 to 1993, and for writing and painting the Captain Marvel original graphic novel ''The Power of Shazam!'' (1994), and writing the ongoing monthly series from 1995 to 1999. He has provided inks for artists such as Curt Swan, Jack Kirby, Gil Kane, John Buscema, Steve Ditko, John Byrne, George Perez and others. Early life and influences Jerry Ordway attended Milwaukee Technical High School, where he took a three-year commercial art course, before joining a commercial art studio as a typographer in 1976. He subsequently worked his way "from the ground floor up at the art studio" between 1978 and 1981. Among the artists Ordway considers influential are Curt Swan, Jack ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Superman-Prime
Superboy-Prime (Clark Kent, born Kal-El), also known as Superman-Prime or simply Prime, is a DC Comics superhero turned supervillain and an Alternative versions of Superman, alternate version of Superman. The character first appeared in ''DC Comics Presents'' #87 (November 1985) and was created by Elliot S. Maggin and Curt Swan (based upon the original Superboy (Kal-El), Superboy character by Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster). Superboy-Prime is from a parallel Earth called Earth Prime#DC Comics, Earth-Prime, devoid of any superheroes, or even superhumans. There, Superman and the other comic superheroes were fictional characters, as they are in real life. The Earth-Prime universe was erased during ''Crisis on Infinite Earths'' (April 1985-March 1986), and Superboy-Prime ended up in a "paradise" dimension where, during that time, he found himself unable to let go of his former life and destiny as Earth's greatest hero. Over time, his convictions and morals become twisted and warped, an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
