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Starhawk (comics)
Starhawk (Stakar of the House of Ogord) is a fictional character appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. He was created by Steve Gerber (writer) and Sal Buscema (artist). He is an antihero in the Earth-691 timeline of the Marvel Comics universe. Stakar was fated to eventually re-inhabit his infant body, reliving his life over countless times. Because of the knowledge of things to come, he manipulated events to affect what he felt would be the best outcome, referring to himself as "One Who Knows". He made many enemies in doing so, but his tampering and guidance also led to the formation of the Guardians of the Galaxy in the 31st Century. Sylvester Stallone played Stakar in the Marvel Cinematic Universe film ''Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2'' (2017) and will reprise his role in '' Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3'' (2023). Publication history A character called Starhawk appeared in an advertisement on the last page of '' Marvel Super-Heroes'' #20 (May, 1969) as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Clint Langley
Clint Langley (born July 30, 1970) is a British comic book artist best known for his work on series with Pat Mills at '' 2000 AD'' and as the cover artist for Marvel Comics' ''Guardians of the Galaxy''. He is an artist who combines painting, photography and digital art and as well as his work in comics, he has provided the art for role-playing games and collectible cards. Early life Langley went to Hastings College and studied art and design. Career Langley's first published work was with '' Nighfall Games's'' role-playing game '' SLA Industries'' in 1993. His work appeared in their first three books, SLA Industries, Karma and Mort, for which he painted the cover. He also provided the large wrap-around painting for the game's GM's screen. He returned to SLA Industries in 2019, contributing 3 pieces, including the back cover art, to the source book: Cannibal Sector One. Langley began his career at '' 2000 AD'' on '' Dinosty'' with Pat Mills, and went on to work on some of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marvel Super-Heroes (comics)
''Marvel Super-Heroes'' is the name of several comic book series and specials published by Marvel Comics. Publication history One-shot The first was the one-shot (comics), one-shot ''Marvel Super Heroes Special'' #1 (Oct. 1966) produced as a tie-in to ''The Marvel Super Heroes'' animated television program, reprinting ''Daredevil (Marvel Comics series), Daredevil'' #1 (April 1964) and ''Avengers (comics), The Avengers'' #2 (Nov. 1963), plus two stories from the 1930s-1940s period fans and historians call Golden Age of comic books: "The Human Torch (Golden Age), Human Torch and the Sub-Mariner Meet" (''Marvel Mystery Comics'' #8, June 1940), and the first Marvel story by future editor-in-chief Stan Lee, the two-page text piece "Captain America Foils the Traitor's Revenge" (''Captain America Comics'' #3, May 1941). This summer special was a 25¢ "giant", relative to the typical 12¢ comics of the times. First series The first ongoing series of this name began as ''Fantasy Master ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Science
Science is a systematic endeavor that builds and organizes knowledge in the form of testable explanations and predictions about the universe. Science may be as old as the human species, and some of the earliest archeological evidence for scientific reasoning is tens of thousands of years old. The earliest written records in the history of science come from Ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia in around 3000 to 1200 BCE. Their contributions to mathematics, astronomy, and medicine entered and shaped Greek natural philosophy of classical antiquity, whereby formal attempts were made to provide explanations of events in the physical world based on natural causes. After the fall of the Western Roman Empire, knowledge of Greek conceptions of the world deteriorated in Western Europe during the early centuries (400 to 1000 CE) of the Middle Ages, but was preserved in the Muslim world during the Islamic Golden Age and later by the efforts of Byzantine Greek scholars who brought Greek ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mutant (Marvel Comics)
In American comic books published by Marvel Comics, a mutant is a human being that possesses a genetic trait called the X-gene. It causes the mutant to develop superhuman powers that manifest at puberty. Human mutants are sometimes referred to as a human subspecies ''Homo sapiens superior,'' or simply ''Homo superior.'' Mutants are the evolutionary progeny of ''Homo sapiens'', and are generally assumed to be the next stage in human evolution. The accuracy of this is the subject of much debate in the Marvel Universe. Unlike Marvel's mutates, which are characters who develop their powers only after exposure to outside stimuli or energies (such as the Hulk, Spider-Man, the Fantastic Four, Absorbing Man and Captain Marvel), mutants have actual genetic mutations. Publication History Early Antecedents A March 1952 story in ''Amazing Detective Cases'' #11 called "The Weird Woman" tells of a woman describing herself as a mutant who seeks a similarly superhuman mate. Roger Cars ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arcturus
, - bgcolor="#FFFAFA" , Note (category: variability): , , H and K emission vary. Arcturus is the brightest star in the northern constellation of Boötes. With an apparent visual magnitude of −0.05, it is the third-brightest of the individual stars in the night sky, and the brightest in the northern celestial hemisphere. The name Arcturus originated from ancient Greece; it was then cataloged as α Boötis by Johann Bayer in 1603, which is Latinized to Alpha Boötis. Arcturus forms one corner of the Spring Triangle asterism. Located relatively close at 36.7 light-years from the Sun, Arcturus is a single red giant of spectral type K1.5III—an aging star around 7.1 billion years old that has used up its core hydrogen and evolved off the main sequence. It is about the same mass as the Sun, but has expanded to 25 times its size and is around 170 times as luminous. Its diameter is 35 million kilometres. Thus far no companion has been detected. Nomenclat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Human
Humans (''Homo sapiens'') are the most abundant and widespread species of primate, characterized by bipedalism and exceptional cognitive skills due to a large and complex brain. This has enabled the development of advanced tools, culture, and language. Humans are highly social and tend to live in complex social structures composed of many cooperating and competing groups, from families and kinship networks to political states. Social interactions between humans have established a wide variety of values, social norms, and rituals, which bolster human society. Its intelligence and its desire to understand and influence the environment and to explain and manipulate phenomena have motivated humanity's development of science, philosophy, mythology, religion, and other fields of study. Although some scientists equate the term ''humans'' with all members of the genus ''Homo'', in common usage, it generally refers to ''Homo sapiens'', the only extant member. Anatomically moder ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alternate Timeline
Alternate history (also alternative history, althist, AH) is a genre of speculative fiction of stories in which one or more historical events occur and are resolved differently than in real life. As conjecture based upon historical fact, alternative history stories propose ''What if?'' scenarios about crucial events in human history, and present outcomes very different from the historical record. Alternate history also is a subgenre of literary fiction, science fiction, and historical fiction; as literature, alternate history uses the tropes of the genre to answer the ''What if?'' speculations of the story. Since the 1950s, as a subgenre of science fiction, alternative history stories feature the tropes of time travel between histories, and the psychic awareness of the existence of an alternative universe, by the inhabitants of a given universe; and time travel that divides history into various timestreams. In the Spanish, French, German, and Portuguese, Italian, Catalan, and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kismet (Marvel Comics)
Kismet (), also known as Paragon, Her, and Ayesha (), is a fictional character appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. She exists in Marvel's main shared universe, known as the Marvel Universe. Ayesha appeared in the Marvel Cinematic Universe film ''Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2'', portrayed by Elizabeth Debicki. Publication history The character first appeared as Paragon in ''The Incredible Hulk (comic book), The Incredible Hulk'' vol. 2 Annual #6 and was created by Len Wein, David Anthony Kraft, David Kraft, and Herb Trimpe. She first appeared as Her and Kismet in ''Marvel Two-in-One'' #61, while Ayesha first appeared in ''Fantastic Four (comic book), Fantastic Four'' vol. 3 #11. Fictional character biography Originally known as Paragon, Kismet was the second attempt by the Enclave (comics), Enclave to artificially create a super-powerful being in their Citadel of Science "the Beehive" (their first attempt was Him, later known as Adam Warlock). The Encl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
