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Cinnamon (character)
Cinnamon is the name of two Western characters in DC Comics, one inhabiting the wild west, the other living in the modern era. The character first appeared in '' Weird Western Tales'' #48 (September–October 1978), in a script written by Roger McKenzie, with artwork by Jack Abel (pencils) and Danny Bulanadi (inks). Fictional character biography The first Cinnamon is Katherine "Kate" Manser, the daughter of a sheriff in a small Western town. After her father is killed by bank robbers, she is sent to an orphanage where she secretly trains herself in gunfighting. Upon leaving the orphanage, she becomes a bounty hunter to search for her father's killers. In the third series of ''Hawkman'', it is revealed that Cinnamon is a reincarnation of the Egyptian princess Chay-Ara. As such, she becomes the lover of Prince Khufu's reincarnation, the hero Nighthawk. When Gentleman Ghost attacks Cinnamon, Nighthawk lynches him, wrongly believing he had sexually assaulted her and thereby tying h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Howard Chaykin
Howard Victor Chaykin (; born October 7, 1950) is an Americans, American comics artist, comic book artist and writer. Chaykin's influences include his one-time employer and mentor, Gil Kane, and the mid-20th century illustrators Robert Fawcett and Al Parker (artist), Al Parker. Early life Howard Chaykin was born in Newark, New Jersey, to Rosalind Pave and Norman Drucker, who soon separated. Chaykin was initially raised by his grandparents in Staten Island, New York City, until his mother married Leon Chaykin in 1953 and the family moved to East Flatbush and later to 370 Saratoga Avenue, Brownsville, Brooklyn. At 14, Reprinted in Chaykin moved with his now divorced mother to the Kew Gardens, Queens, Kew Gardens section of Queens, New York, Queens. He said in 2000 he was raised on Welfare spending#United States, welfare after his parents separated and that his absent biological father eventually was declared dead, although Chaykin, as an adult, located him alive. Chaykin's "nutty a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Checkmate (comics)
Checkmate, a division of Task Force X, is a fictional Intelligence agency, covert operations agency appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics. The antihero team first appeared in ''Action Comics'' #598 (March 1988) and proceeded to have its own ongoing title in ''Checkmate!'' In the wake of events depicted in the mini-series ''The OMAC Project'' and ''Infinite Crisis'', Checkmate is re-chartered as a United Nations Security Council-affiliated agency and was again given its own series, ''Checkmate'' (vol. 2). Publication history The Checkmate organization was created by Paul Kupperberg and Steve Erwin, first appearing in ''Action Comics'' #598 (March 1988). The precursor to this fictional organization was known as the List of government agencies in DC Comics#The Agency, Agency, first appearing in ''Vigilante (comics), Vigilante'' #36. Harry Stein (comics), Harry Stein was appointed Valentina Vostok's replacement in The Agency's command position by Amanda Waller. Ste ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Comics Characters Introduced In 2003
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Comics Characters Introduced In 1978
a Media (communication), medium used to express ideas with images, often combined with text or other visual information. It typically the form of a sequence of Panel (comics), panels of images. Textual devices such as speech balloons, Glossary of comics terminology#Caption, captions, and onomatopoeia can indicate dialogue, narration, sound effects, or other information. There is no consensus among theorists and historians on a definition of comics; some emphasize the combination of images and text, some sequentiality or other image relations, and others historical aspects such as mass reproduction or the use of recurring characters. Cartoonist, Cartooning and other forms of illustration are the most common means of image-making in comics. Photo comics is a form that uses photographic images. Common forms include comic strips, Political cartoon, editorial and gag cartoons, and comic books. Since the late 20th century, bound volumes such as graphic novels, and Bande dessinée ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
American Comics Adapted Into Films
American(s) may refer to: * American, something of, from, or related to the United States of America, commonly known as the "United States" or "America" ** Americans, citizens and nationals of the United States of America ** American ancestry, people who self-identify their ancestry as "American" ** American English, the set of varieties of the English language native to the United States ** Native Americans in the United States, indigenous peoples of the United States * American, something of, from, or related to the Americas, also known as "America" ** Indigenous peoples of the Americas * American (word), for analysis and history of the meanings in various contexts Organizations * American Airlines, U.S.-based airline headquartered in Fort Worth, Texas * American Athletic Conference, an American college athletic conference * American Recordings (record label), a record label that was previously known as Def American * American University, in Washington, D.C. Sports teams S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Characters Created By Roger McKenzie
Character or Characters may refer to: Arts, entertainment, and media Literature * ''Character'' (novel), a 1936 Dutch novel by Ferdinand Bordewijk * ''Characters'' (Theophrastus), a classical Greek set of character sketches attributed to Theophrastus Music * ''Character'' (Dark Tranquillity album), 2005 * ''Character'' (Julia Kent album), 2013 * ''Character'', an album by Rachael Sage, 2020 * ''Characters'' (John Abercrombie album), 1977 * ''Characters'' (Stevie Wonder album), 1987 * "Character", a song by Ryokuoushoku Shakai, 2022 Types of entity * Character (arts), an agent within a work of art, including literature, drama, cinema, opera, etc. ** Character actor, an actor known for playing unusual, eccentric or interesting characters in supporting roles ** Character sketch or character, a literary description of a character type * Game character (other), various types of characters in a video game or role playing game ** Player character, as above but who is c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A DC Comics Adventure
A, or a, is the first letter and the first vowel letter of the Latin alphabet, used in the modern English alphabet, and others worldwide. Its name in English is '' a'' (pronounced ), plural ''aes''. It is similar in shape to the Ancient Greek letter alpha, from which it derives. The uppercase version consists of the two slanting sides of a triangle, crossed in the middle by a horizontal bar. The lowercase version is often written in one of two forms: the double-storey and single-storey . The latter is commonly used in handwriting and fonts based on it, especially fonts intended to be read by children, and is also found in italic type. In English, '' a'' is the indefinite article, with the alternative form ''an''. Name In English, the name of the letter is the ''long A'' sound, pronounced . Its name in most other languages matches the letter's pronunciation in open syllables. History The earliest known ancestor of A is ''aleph''—the first letter of the Phoenician ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kari Wahlgren
Kari Wahlgren (born July 13, 1977) is an American voice actress who has provided English-language roles for animated movies, TV series, and video games. She got her start in anime voice-overs as List of FLCL characters#Haruko Haruhara, Haruko Haruhara in ''FLCL'', and would later land major roles in a number of shows and films: Saya Otonashi in ''Blood+'', Robin Sena in ''Witch Hunter Robin'', List of Last Exile characters#Lavie Head, Lavie Head in ''Last Exile'', List of Samurai Champloo characters#Fuu, Fuu in ''Samurai Champloo'', List_of_Hellsing_characters#Rip_van_Winkle, Rip van Winkle in ''Hellsing#Anime, Hellsing'', Scarlett in ''Steamboy'', Pacifica Casull in the ''Scrapped Princess'', List of Immortal Grand Prix characters#Team Satomi, Michiru Satomi and List of Immortal Grand Prix characters#Luca, Luca in ''Immortal Grand Prix'', Kagami Hiiragi in ''Lucky Star (manga), Lucky Star'', Saber (Fate/stay night), Saber in ''Fate/Zero'', ''Fate/stay night: Unlimited Blade Work ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Warworld
War World may refer to: * ''War World'' (series), collaborative science fiction books set in the CoDominium universe of Jerry Pournelle * ''War World'' (video game), a 2005 mech combat video game * Warworld, a fictional planet in the DC Universe * "War World", a 2002 episode of ''Justice League'' * '' Justice League: Warworld'', a 2023 U.S. animated film based on D.C. Comics See also * The War of the Worlds (other) ''The War of the Worlds'' is an 1898 science fiction novel by H. G. Wells. (The) War of the Worlds may also refer to these adaptations thereof: Radio * ''The War of the Worlds'' (1938 radio drama), a ''The Mercury Theatre on the Air'' episode on ... * World at War (other) * World war (other) {{disambiguation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anna Deavere Smith
Anna Deavere Smith (born September 18, 1950) is an American actress, playwright, and professor. She is known for her roles as National Security Advisor Dr. Nancy McNally in ''The West Wing'' (2000–06), hospital administrator Gloria Akalitus in the Showtime series '' Nurse Jackie'' (2009–15), and U.S. District Court Clerk Tina Krissman on the ABC show '' For the People'' (2018–19). Smith is a recipient of The Dorothy and Lillian Gish Prize (2013). In 2015 she was selected as the Jefferson Lecturer by the National Endowment for the Humanities. In 2016, she received a Guggenheim Fellowship in Theatre Arts. She is the founding director of the Institute on the Arts and Civic Dialogue at New York University. Early life Smith was born in 1950 into an African-American family in Baltimore, Maryland, the daughter of Anna Rosalind (née Young), an elementary school principal, and Deaver Young Smith Jr., a coffee merchant. She has four younger siblings. She started attending sch ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Legends Of Tomorrow
''DC's Legends of Tomorrow'', or simply ''Legends of Tomorrow'', is an American Time travel in fiction, time travel superhero fiction, superhero television series developed by Greg Berlanti, Marc Guggenheim, Andrew Kreisberg, and Phil Klemmer, who are also executive producers along with Sarah Schechter (producer), Sarah Schechter and Chris Fedak; Klemmer and Fedak originally served as showrunners, while Keto Shimizu became co-showrunner with Klemmer starting with the fourth season. The series, based on the characters of DC Comics, premiered on The CW on January 21, 2016, and ran for seven seasons until March 2, 2022, before its cancellation on April 29. It is a spin-off set in the Arrowverse and features characters introduced in ''Arrow (TV series), Arrow'' and ''The Flash (2014 TV series), The Flash'', along with new characters. While the first season received mixed reviews, the series enjoyed improved reception in subsequent seasons, which saw a shift in tone, as well as freq ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Royal Flush Gang
The Royal Flush Gang is a group of supervillains appearing in DC Comics. The group, which debuted in ''Justice League of America'' #43 (March 1966), use a playing card theme. Their code names are based on the cards needed to form a royal flush in poker: Ace, King, Queen, Jack, and Ten. Joker occasionally affiliates himself with the gang, but is not a consistent member. The group returned to battle the Justice League of America many times, and also appeared in other comics, including ''Wonder Woman'', '' Formerly Known as the Justice League'' and ''Superman''. The group has been described as "some of the most original villains of their time". The gang has also appeared in many animated television adaptations, including '' The Super Powers Team: Galactic Guardians'' in 1985, '' Batman Beyond'' in 1999 and 2000, ''Justice League'' in 2003 and 2005, and '' Batman: The Brave and the Bold'' in 2009 and 2010. The Royal Flush Gang also made appearances in the live-action Arrowverse TV sh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
