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Peacemaker (character)
Peacemaker is the name of a series of fictional antiheroes originally owned by Charlton Comics and later acquired by DC Comics. The original Peacemaker first appeared in ''Fightin' 5'' #40 (November 1966) and was created by writer Joe Gill and artist Pat Boyette. John Cena portrayed the Christopher Smith version of Peacemaker in the 2021 DC Extended Universe film ''The Suicide Squad (film), The Suicide Squad'' and the Peacemaker (TV series), eponymous 2022 television series on HBO Max. This portrayal will continue into the rebooted DC Universe (franchise), DC Universe. Publication history The Peacemaker first appeared as a backup series in Charlton Comics' espionage-team title ''Fightin' 5'' #40 (November 1966). When that series was canceled with issue #41, Peacemaker received his own title lasting five issues cover-dated March to November 1967, with ''Fightin' 5'' as a backup series and later a low reprint run on the Modern Comics imprint. Some of penciler-inker Pat Boyette's ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Who's Who In The DC Universe
''Who's Who: The Definitive Directory of the DC Universe'' (1985–87), usually referred to simply as ''Who's Who'', is the umbrella title for a number of comic book series which DC Comics published to catalogue the wide variety of fictional characters in their imaginary universe, the DC Universe. History ''Who's Who'' was the creation of Len Wein, Marv Wolfman, and Robert Greenberger, and its first incarnation (''Who's Who: The Definitive Directory of the DC Universe'') debuted in the last month of 1984 ( cover-dated March 1985) and ran for 26 issues until 1987 (cover-dated April 1987). It was essentially an encyclopedia in comic book form, listing the characters, places, and technology in the DC Universe, with a loose leaf format devised by editor Michael Eury. It began one month before the 12-issue limited series ''Crisis on Infinite Earths'' began; therefore, the earlier issues discuss Pre-''Crisis'' versions of the characters, whereas issues released after the conclusio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |