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Virgilio Redondo
Virgilio "Virgil" Redondo y Purugganan (March 28, 1926 – April 13, 1997) was a Filipino comic book writer and artist. Biography Early life Redondo was born in the town of San Esteban, Ilocos Sur, Philippines, the eldest of eight children. Early work Redondo started as a staff and advertising artist. He worked, along with his younger brothers Nestor Redondo, Francisco "Quico" Redondo, and Sisenando Redondo, Jr., on a newspaper. On December 15, 1948, he published his komik serial ''Mahiwagang Bundok''. His first cartoon comic strip was "Isyo", a humorous strip from Pilipino Komiks. In the 1950s Virgil started to work at Ace Publication Incorporated aided by Tony Velasquez. His writing became successful with ''Diwani'' in 1951 and ''Reyna Bandida'' in 1952. The latter was adapted into a movie by Sampaguita Pictures, starring Alicia Vergel. Then followed ''Tin-edyer'' in 1953, ''Talusaling'' in 1955 and ''Aling Kutsero'' in 1956, in which Nida Blanca appeared, released by LVN ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
San Esteban, Ilocos Sur
San Esteban, officially the Municipality of San Esteban ( ilo, Ili ti San Esteban; fil, Bayan ng San Esteban), is a 5th class municipality in the province of Ilocos Sur, Philippines. According to the 2020 census, it has a population of 8,381 people. Etymology The Spaniards named the pueblo (the equivalent of a municipality in present-day terms) San Esteban (formerly known as ''Cabagbagototan'') because they have received reports of a vagabond named Iban having been stoned to death and beheaded by hostile natives in the place called "Naglawlawayan," which is an early place of worship by the natives, and currently the site of the municipal cemetery. "Iban" is the Ilocano equivalent of "Stephen," hence the pueblo being named San Esteban. San Esteban was founded by Augustinian friars in 1625, but was always attached to Nueva Coveta (present-day Burgos) and to the municipality of Santiago until 1911. It was once a ''visita'' of Narvacan because of a shortage of ministers. Geography ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jim Fernandez
Jim M. Fernandez is a Filipino comic book artist best known for his works on ''Aztec'' and ''Aliwan Komiks''. He also popularized the fictional character, Zuma in his novels. Apart from being an editor, illustrator, cartoonist, and writer for Philippine comics, Fernandez was also a certified public accountant in the Philippines. Career During college, Fernandez was the editor of ''The Commerce Journal'', ''The English Journal'', and ''The UST Commerce Silver Jubilee'' Book. Influences As an illustrator, Fernandez was influenced by the ''Tarzan'' character by Edgar Rice Burroughs. In 1953, he was mentored by Tony S. Velasquez, a Filipino illustrator for the Velasquez Advertising Agency. Career Fernandez started his formal career as an illustrator by accepting the project to create drawings for the short story ''Batas ni Sumakwel'' published by Marte Publications. After this first assignment, Fernandez illustrated for ''Mabuhay Komiks'' and ''Extra Komiks''. Afterwards, he ill ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Scarlet Letter
''The Scarlet Letter: A Romance'' is a work of historical fiction Historical fiction is a literary genre in which the plot takes place in a setting related to the past events, but is fictional. Although the term is commonly used as a synonym for historical fiction literature, it can also be applied to other ty ... by American author Nathaniel Hawthorne, published in 1850. Set in the Puritan Massachusetts Bay Colony during the years 1642 to 1649, the novel tells the story of Hester Prynne, who conceives a daughter with a man to whom she is not married and then struggles to create a new life of repentance and dignity. Containing a number of religious and historic allusions, the book explores themes of Legalism (theology), legalism, sin and Guilt (emotion), guilt. ''The Scarlet Letter'' was one of the first mass-produced books in the United States. It was popular when first published and is considered a classic work of American literature. The novel has inspired numerous film, te ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Nathaniel Hawthorne (July 4, 1804 – May 19, 1864) was an American novelist and short story writer. His works often focus on history, morality, and religion. He was born in 1804 in Salem, Massachusetts, from a family long associated with that town. Hawthorne entered Bowdoin College in 1821, was elected to Phi Beta Kappa in 1824, and graduated in 1825. He published his first work in 1828, the novel '' Fanshawe''; he later tried to suppress it, feeling that it was not equal to the standard of his later work. He published several short stories in periodicals, which he collected in 1837 as ''Twice-Told Tales''. The following year, he became engaged to Sophia Peabody. He worked at the Boston Custom House and joined Brook Farm, a transcendentalist community, before marrying Peabody in 1842. The couple moved to The Old Manse in Concord, Massachusetts, later moving to Salem, the Berkshires, then to The Wayside in Concord. ''The Scarlet Letter'' was published in 1850, followed by a suc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pendulum Press
Pendulum Press was a publishing company based in West Haven, Connecticut West Haven is a city in New Haven County, Connecticut, United States. It is located on the coast of Long Island Sound. At the 2020 census, the population of the city was 55,584. History Settled in 1648, West Haven (then known as West Farms) ..., that operated from 1970 to 1994, producing the bulk of their material in the 1970s. The company is most well known for their comic book adaptations of literary classics. The ''Pendulum Now Age Classics'' series published black-and-white paperback adaptations of more than 70 literary classics, such as ''Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea'', ''The War of the Worlds'', and ''Moby-Dick''. These stories were later widely reprinted by other publishers (including by Marvel Comics) well into the 2000s. Pendulum also published a line of historical comics, a line of comic book biographies, and a line of comic book adaptations of inspiring stories and morality tales. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vincent Fago
Vincenzo Francisco Gennaro Di Fago (; November 28, 1914 – June 13, 2002),Vincent F. Fago at the United States via FamilySearch.org. Retrieved on January 8, 2016. known professionally as Vince Fago, was an American artist and writer who served as interim editor of , the |
Vampire Tales
''Vampire Tales'' was an American black-and-white horror comics magazine published by Magazine Management, a corporate sibling of Marvel Comics. The series ran 11 issues and one annual publication from 1973 to 1975, and featuring vampires as both protagonists and antagonists. A magazine rather than a comic book, it did not fall under the purview of the comics industry's self-censorship Comics Code Authority, allowing the title to feature stronger content — such as moderate profanity, partial nudity, and more graphic violence — than the color comics of the time that featured Dracula stories. Publishing history ''Vampire Tales'' ran 11 issues cover-dated 1973 to June 1975. With sister titles including ''Dracula Lives'', '' Monsters Unleashed'' and '' Tales of the Zombie'', it was published by Marvel Comics' parent company, Magazine Management, and related corporations, under the brand emblem Marvel Monster Group. Published bi-monthly, the magazine cost 75 cents. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tales Of The Zombie
''Tales of the Zombie'' was an American black-and-white horror comics magazine published by Magazine Management, a corporate sibling of Marvel Comics. The series ran 10 issues and one '' Super Annual'' from 1973 to 1975, many featuring stories of the Zombie (Simon Garth) by writer Steve Gerber and artist Pablo Marcos. A magazine rather than a comic book, it did not fall under the purview of the comics industry's self-censorship Comics Code Authority, allowing the title to feature stronger content — such as moderate profanity, partial nudity, and more graphic violence — than the color comics of the time. Publication history Copyrighted as simply ''Zombie'' and commonly known by its trademarked cover title, ''Tales of the Zombie'', the magazine ran 10 issues cover dated 1973 - March 1975. With sister titles including ''Dracula Lives!'', '' Monsters Unleashed!'' and ''Vampire Tales'', it was published by Marvel Comics' parent company, Magazine Management, and related corporations, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tomb Of Dracula
''The Tomb of Dracula'' is an American horror comic book series published by Marvel Comics from April 1972 to August 1979. The 70-issue series featured a group of vampire hunters who fought Count Dracula and other supernatural menaces. On rare occasions, Dracula would work with these vampire hunters against a common threat or battle other supernatural threats on his own, but more often than not, he was the antagonist rather than protagonist. In addition to his supernatural battles in this series, Marvel's Dracula often served as a supervillain to other characters in the Marvel Universe, battling the likes of Blade the Vampire Slayer, Spider-Man, the Werewolf, the X-Men, Howard the Duck, and the licensed Robert E. Howard character Solomon Kane. Publication history Original series In 1971, the Comics Code Authority relaxed some of its longstanding rules regarding horror comics, such as a virtual ban on vampires. Marvel had already tested the waters with a "quasi-vampire" ch ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Savage Sword Of Conan
''The Savage Sword of Conan'' was a black-and-white magazine-format comic book series published beginning in 1974 by Curtis Magazines, an imprint of American company Marvel Comics, and then later by Marvel itself. ''Savage Sword of Conan'' starred Robert E. Howard's most famous creation, Conan the Barbarian, and has the distinction of being the longest-surviving title of the short-lived Curtis imprint. As a "magazine", ''Savage Sword of Conan'' did not have to conform to the Comics Code Authority, making it a publication of choice for many illustrators. It soon became one of the most popular comic series of the 1970s and is now considered a cult classic. Roy Thomas was the editor and primary writer for the series' first few years (until issue 60), which featured art by illustrators such as Neal Adams, Dick Giordano, Barry Windsor-Smith, John Buscema, Alfredo Alcala, Jim Starlin, Al Milgrom, Pablo Marcos, and Walter Simonson. Painted covers were provided by such artists as Earl Nor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Solomon Kane
Solomon Kane is a fictional character created by the pulp magazine, pulp-era writer Robert E. Howard. A late-16th-to-early-17th century Puritan, Solomon Kane is a somber-looking man who wanders the world with no apparent goal other than to vanquish evil in all its forms. His adventures, published mostly in the pulp magazine ''Weird Tales'', often take him from Europe to the jungles of Africa and back. When ''Weird Tales'' published the story "Red Nails", featuring Conan the Barbarian, the editors introduced it as a tale of "a barbarian adventurer named Conan, remarkable for his sheer force of valor and brute strength. Its author, Robert E. Howard, is already a favorite with the readers of this magazine for his stories of Solomon Kane, the dour English Puritan and redresser of wrongs". Solomon Kane was adapted into a Solomon Kane (film), film in 2009 starring James Purefoy, and has been adapted into Solomon Kane (comics), a series of comics published by Marvel since the 1970s. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Unknown Worlds Of Science Fiction
''Unknown Worlds of Science Fiction'' was a 1970s American black-and-white, science fiction comics magazine published by Marvel Comics' parent company, Magazine Management. The anthology title featured original stories and literary adaptations by writers and artists including Frank Brunner, Howard Chaykin, Gene Colan, Gerry Conway, Richard Corben, Bruce Jones, Gray Morrow, Denny O'Neil, Roy Thomas, and others, as well as non-fiction articles about science fiction and interviews with such authors as Alfred Bester, Frank Herbert, Larry Niven, and A. E. van Vogt, some of whom had their works adapted here. Publication history The black-and-white, science fiction comics magazine ''Unknown Worlds of Science Fiction'' ran six bimonthly issues (cover-dated January-November 1975), plus one annual publication, ''Unknown Worlds Of Science Fiction Giant Size Special Issue'' #1 (1976). It was published by Magazine Management, at the time the parent company of Marvel Comics, and was cover-bra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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