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Star-Studded Comics
''Star Studded Comics'' is the name of three comics-related publications, including a comic from the Golden Age of Comics, a comics fanzine, and a modern comic homage to the previous. Cambridge House Publishers title The first publication to use the name was published in 1945 by Cambridge House Publishers, and featured Captain Combat, Comandette, Red Rogue, Ghost Woman (the inspiration for the later Dark Horse Comics character, The Ghost), and several other characters. In 1946, a comic of the same name was published in Canada by Superior Publishers Limited. Whether this was a reprint of Cambridge House's or not is uncertain. Fanzine The second ''Star-Studded Comics'' was a fanzine that ran for 18 issues, from September 1963 to the summer of 1972. Published in the U.S. by the "Texas Trio" (Larry Herndon, Buddy Saunders, and Howard Keltner), it featured early amateur superhero comics drawn or written by George R. R. Martin, Grass Green, Jim Starlin, Roy Thomas, Sam ...
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Comics
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 ...
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Grass Green
Richard Edward "Grass" Green (May 7, 1939Social Security Death Index. – August 5, 2002) was an African American cartoonist notable for being the first black participant in both the 1960s fan art movement and the 1970s underground comics movement.Grass Green
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DC Comics
DC Comics (originally DC Comics, Inc., and also known simply as DC) is an American comic book publisher owned by DC Entertainment, a subsidiary of Warner Bros. Discovery. DC is an initialism for "Detective Comics", an American comic book series first published in 1937. DC Comics is one of the largest and oldest American comic book companies, the first comic under the DC banner being published in 1937. The majority of its published stories are set in the fictional DC Universe and feature numerous List of DC Comics characters, culturally iconic heroic characters, such as Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, and the Flash (DC Comics character), Flash; as well as famous fictional teams, including the Justice League, the Teen Titans, the Suicide Squad, and the Legion of Superheroes. The universe contains an assortment of well-known supervillains, such as Lex Luthor, the Joker (character), Joker, Darkseid, and the antihero Catwoman. The company has published non-DC Universe-related mater ...
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Showcase (comics)
''Showcase'' is a comic anthology series published by DC Comics. The general theme of the series was to feature new and minor characters as a way to gauge reader interest in them, without the difficulty and risk of featuring untested characters in their own ongoing titles. ''Showcase'' is regarded as the most successful of such tryout series, having been published continuously for more than 14 years, launching numerous popular titles, and maintaining a considerable readership of its own. The series ran from March–April 1956 to September 1970, suspending publication with issue #93, and then was revived for eleven issues from August 1977 to September 1978. Original series ''Showcase'' featured characters in either one-shot appearances or brief two- or three-issue runs as a way to determine reader interest, without the financial risk of featuring "untested" characters in their own ongoing titles. The series began in March–April 1956 and saw the first appearance of several major ...
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Big Bang Comics
''Big Bang Comics'' is an American comic book anthology series, designed to be an homage to Golden Age and Silver Age comics. Most stories in ''Big Bang Comics'' take place either on "Earth-A" during the 1960s, or on "Earth-B" during the 1940s, featuring characters such as Ultiman, Thunder Girl, and Dr. Weird. ''Big Bang Comics'' first appeared in 1994, with a five-issue limited series (numbered #1–4 and #0), published by Caliber Comics. A second series lasting 35 issues, set in the Image Universe, was published by Image Comics from 1996 to 2001. Publication history Gary Carlson was exposed to Dr. Weird (who originally appeared in the fanzine ''Star Studded Comics'' #1 in 1963) in one of the character's earliest collected appearances, ''Comic Crusader Storybook'' #1 (Al Greim, 1977), in a story by Howard Keltner and Dennis Fujitake. ''The Comic Crusader Storybook'' was a trade paperback fanzine anthology which included short stories featuring the work of many independen ...
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Metafictional
Metafiction is a form of fiction that emphasizes its own narrative structure in a way that inherently reminds the audience that they are reading or viewing a fictional work. Metafiction is self-conscious about language, literary form, and storytelling, and works of metafiction directly or indirectly draw attention to their status as artifacts. Metafiction is frequently used as a form of parody or a tool to undermine literary conventions and explore the relationship between literature and reality, life and art. Although metafiction is most commonly associated with postmodern literature that developed in the mid-20th century, its use can be traced back to much earlier works of fiction, such as ''The Canterbury Tales'' (Geoffrey Chaucer, 1387), ''Don Quixote'' Part Two (Miguel de Cervantes, 1615), ''Chymical Wedding of Christian Rosenkreutz'' ( Johann Valentin Andreae, 1617), ''The Cloud Dream of the Nine'' ( Kim Man-jung, 1687), ''The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentlema ...
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Alley Award
The Alley Award was an American annual series of comic book fan awards, first presented in 1962 for comics published in 1961. Officially organized under the aegis of the Academy of Comic Book Arts and Sciences, the award shared close ties with the fanzine ''Alter Ego'' magazine. The Alley is the first known comic book fan award. The Alley Awards were tallied for comic books produced during the previous year. The Alley statuette — a likeness of the comic strip character Alley Oop — was initially sculpted by Academy member Ron Foss out of redwood, from which "plaster duplications" were made to be handed out to the various winners. History The Alley Award traces its origin to "a letter to Jerry dated October 25, 1961" by Roy Thomas, in which he suggested that Jerry Bails' fanzine ''Alter-Ego'', which had debuted in March 1961, create an award for fandom's "favorite comic books in a number of categories". Initially suggested as the "Alter-Ego Award", the name evolved into the A ...
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Biljo White
''Batmania'' is a term coined by Billy Joe (Biljo) White in the early 1960s and the title of his influential fanzine dedicated to the DC comic book character Batman. The name is "almost certainly" a nod to the then-prominent term "Beatlemania" used to describe the impact of the Beatles in popular culture. When White first published ''Batmania'', interest in the Batman character was at a low point; however, due to changes credited largely to DC editor Julie Schwartz, comic sales improved and the character built a wave of popularity that led to the 1966 ''Batman'' television series. White and his fanzine were credited with helping to focus the energy of the dedicated fans during this time. The term "Batmania" was used extensively — and without apparent awareness of White's publication — in the popular press to describe the high level of interest surrounding the premiere of the 1960s TV Show and was revived in media references to levels of interest displayed around the prem ...
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Mike Vosburg
Michael Vosburg (; born July 23, 1947) is an American comic book artist primarily known for his work on the '' Tales from the Crypt'' TV series. Career Mike Vosburg's comics career began in the 1960s, when as a 15-year-old teenager he started ''Masquerader'' in 1962, one of the first comic book fanzines, which lasted eight issues (0-7) until 1964. He began working in underground comics in the 1970s, with creations such as ''Split Screen,'' written by Tom Veitch. Later in the 1970s and 1980s, Vosburg contributed to horror titles by Western Publishing and Charlton Comics. His story "Mail Order Brides", published in Kitchen Sink Press's ''Bizarre Sex'' #3, was in a similar horror/mystery vein. Around this time, Vosburg also did various work for DC Comics and Marvel Comics. His works from that period inxlide '' Savage She-Hulk'', '' Sisterhood of Steel'', and '' G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero''. He also worked on the Valiant Comics' titles '' Bloodshot'' and ''Archer & Armstrong''. ...
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Dave Cockrum
David Emmett Cockrum (; November 11, 1943 – November 26, 2006) was an American comics artist known for his co-creation of the new X-Men characters Nightcrawler (character), Nightcrawler, Storm (Marvel Comics), Storm, Colossus (character), Colossus, and Mystique (character), Mystique, as well as the antiheroine Black Cat (Marvel Comics), Black Cat. Cockrum was a prolific and inventive costume designer who updated the uniforms of the Legion of Super-Heroes and the X-Men in the 1970s and early 1980s. Early life Cockrum was born on November 11, 1943, in Pendleton, Oregon. His father was a Lieutenant colonel (United States), lieutenant colonel of the United States Air Force, resulting in the Cockrums frequently transporting their household from one city to another for years. Cockrum discovered comic books at a young age; an early favorite was Fawcett Comics, Fawcett's ''Captain Marvel (DC Comics), Captain Marvel'', especially Mac Raboy's Captain Marvel Jr. Other artists whose work th ...
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Alan Weiss (comics)
Alan Weiss (born March 7, 1948) is an American comics artist and writer known for his work for DC Comics and Marvel Comics. Career Alan Weiss began his professional comics career at Warren Publishing by drawing the story "Gunsmoke Charly!" in '' Creepy'' #35 (Sept. 1970). The following year, he began working for Marvel Comics as well where he drew '' The Avengers'', ''Captain America'', '' Daredevil'', '' Sub-Mariner'', and ''The Amazing Spider-Man''. Weiss recalled in a 2006 interview there was a " lost" Adam Warlock story, which if completed would have been reminiscent of the Jonathan Swift novel ''Gulliver's Travels''. Portions of it were printed in the second volume of '' Marvel Masterworks: Warlock''. The remainder of the artwork was lost in a New York City taxicab in 1976. In 1977, Weiss was one of the artists on the first issue of ''Marvel Comics Super Special'' which featured the rock band Kiss in a 40-page fictional adventure written by Steve Gerber. Kiss reappeared ...
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