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Smallville: Chloe Sullivan Comes to Comic Books
After years of adapting many elements and components of Superman from its original comics genre to television’s Smallville, the magazine has finally taken one of Smallville’s own characters to become part of an upcoming issue. Chloe Sullivan, played by Allison Mack on The CW cult series, debuts in Superman Issue 674, which hits stands on March 12.
Comic book writer Kurt Busiek told Newsarama recently that he took inspiration from another Superman character, Jimmy Olsen, who also made the leap from one medium to another. According to Busiek, Jimmy was first introduced into Superman lore on the 1940 radio show called The Adventures of Superman. It was only a year later that his character was incorporated into the comic book.
“It made me think, ‘Yeah, and the next obvious choice would be bringing in someone like Chloe, but the problem with that would be…’ and then bam, a way to do it fell into place that I thought really served the book well, and made her a strong and useful and fun addition to the cast. One that would give us several elements to the cast structure that have been missing for years, but in a new and different way,” Busiek revealed.
One sticking point however, in the move to deliver Chloe from Smallville to Superman 674, has to do with rendering her in such a way as to look like Chloe, without appearing too much like actress Allison Mack. This has to do with issues surrounding likeness rights that need to be taken into consideration. Another challenge was to find a niche for the Chloe character, without overlapping with those that are already firmly set in the Superman comic book universe.
“The problem we’d have faced if we brought her in with the same background as the TV show is that she’d fill two basic roles – the Girl from Back Home and the Reporter – and those roles are both pretty solidly filled in the adult Superman cast, by Lana and Lois,” Busiek explained. “So she’s got to have a different spin, one that lets her occupy a different role from either of them. She’s the younger sister of someone Clark went to school with, not a classmate of Clark ’s herself. As a result, she’s the new intern at the Daily Planet, fresh out of journalism school and itching to make a name for herself. That’ll make her clearly different from Lois and Lana, and at the same time more familiar to watchers of the show.”
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Superman – Max Fleischer’s First Superman Cartoon (1941)
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Batman: The Animated Series, Vol. 4 (From the New Batman Adventures) $15.88 Twenty-four episodes–including “Holiday Knights,” “Joker’s Millions,” “Love Is a Croc,” “Legends of the Dark Knight,” and “Judgment Day”–are featured in a four-disc set. 8 2/3 hrs. total. Standard; Soundtracks: English Dolby Digital stereo, French Dolby Digital stereo; Subtitles: English, French, Spanish; audio commentary on selected episodes; featurette. **24 episodes on 4 discs. 8 2/3 hrs.**… |
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Lois & Clark – The New Adventures of Superman – The Complete First Season $4.00 Lois & Clark was one of the sweetest surprises of the 1993 television season, and while it certainly enjoyed a devoted following until the series jumped the tall building in its later years, we can probably thank the Phoenix-like rise of Desperate Housewives’ Teri Hatcher’s career to thank for its arrival on DVD. The premise of Lois & Clark is one fraught with peril, particularly for core fans. Th… |
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Adventures of Superman: The Complete First Season $9.27 In 1952 Superman flew right into the hearts and minds of the American TV audience faster than a speeding bullet. Though most people were already familiar with man of steel through his comic books, as well as the popular radio show, it was the new medium’s Adventures of Superman that transformed our resident Kryptonian into a timeless icon. For many young baby boomers, Superman was the ultimate sy… |
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SUPERMAN Justice Honor Peace Black Striped Fedora HAT $27.99 Brand New Licensed SUPERMAN JUSTICE HONOR PEACE Black Striped Fedora Hat one size fits most Brand New Licensed Superman Justice Honor Peace Black Striped Fedora Hat one size fits most… |
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SUPERMAN Symbol DC Comics Licensed Ankle Socks 1 pair $7.99 Brand New Licensed DC COMICS Brand New Licensed DC Comics Superman Symbol |
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DC Comics This Is A Job For SUPERMAN Large Print Mesh Trucker Baseball Cap HAT $14.99 Brand New Licensed DC THIS IS A JOB FOR SUPERMAN LARGE PRINT MESH TRUCKER Baseball Cap Hat adult size Adjustable. One size fits most. Brand New Licensed DC This Is A Job For Superman Mesh Trucker Black Baseball Cap Hat Adjustable strap to fit most sizes. poly/cotton… |
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DC Direct Justice League of America Classified: Classic Series 2: Batgirl Action Figure $14.94 The JLA Classified: Classic line expands with four all-new figures! Consistent in style and scale to Series 1, Series 2 features some of the most requested characters from DC Comics. Each figure features multiple points of articulation and a base on 4-color blister card packaging…. |
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Marvel Select 1st Appearance Wolverine Super-Poseable Action Figure (Chase Variant) as in Hulk #181 comic $54.90 As Wolverine appeared for the 1st time in the Incredible Hulk #180, 181 comics..now you can own the Marvel Select Action Figure based off these Comics. A Diamond Select Release! Bring home Marvel’s monstrous marauder with this all-new Marvel Select release featuring none other than Logan as Wolverine! Depicted in his first appearance costume, this figure stands just under six inches, features 14 p… |
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17 by 11 DC Direct First Appearance Action Figure Promo Poster: JLA Aquaman/The Atom/Martian Manhunter/Warlord/Blue Beetle This comic dealer promo poster was produced to advertise various action figure toys produced by DC Direct, and this listing is for the promo poster only. This promotional poster was produced in very small quantities and was distributed to comic book shop dealers only. This promo poster was never for sale to the public, and that’s why so few of them were ever made. And of the small number of these … |
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Batman: The Dark Knight Returns $10.00 Together with inker Klaus Janson and colorist Lynn Varley, writer/artist Frank Miller completely reinvents the legend of Batman in his saga of a near-future Gotham City gone to rot, ten years after the Dark Knight’s retirement. Crime runs rampant in the streets, and the man who was Batman is still tortured by the memories of his parents’ murders. As civil society crumbles around him, Bruce Wayne’s… |
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DC Universe as Written by Alan Moore $47.25 Used – Hailed as one of the best and most influential writers in comics today, Alan Moore has penned such important and critically-acclaimed titles as “Watchmen”, “V For Vendetta”, “Swamp Thing” and “The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen”. Now, some of his seminal superhero stories are collected for the first time in a single volume, including classic tales “Whatever Happened to the Man of Tomorrow” (featuring Superman) and “The Killing Joke” (featuring Batman). Illustrated by a host of comic’s |
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DC Universe as Written by Alan Moore $24.86 Used – Hailed as one of the best and most influential writers in comics today, Alan Moore has penned such important and critically-acclaimed titles as “Watchmen”, “V For Vendetta”, “Swamp Thing” and “The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen”. Now, some of his seminal superhero stories are collected for the first time in a single volume, including classic tales “Whatever Happened to the Man of Tomorrow” (featuring Superman) and “The Killing Joke” (featuring Batman). Illustrated by a host of comic’s |
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Superman, Doomsday and Beyond $15.99 Used – Released on CD for the first time, this thrilling full-cast original radio drama is based on the long-running comic strip. Whilst Daily Planet lovebirds Clark Kent and Lois Lane finally get engaged, the villainous Lex Luthor dies in a plane crash. Metropolis is thriving with prosperity and happiness under Superman’s care – or so it seems…Produced by Dirk Maggs, who directed the recent new episodes of “The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy”, this production is hugely acclaimed by fans. A |
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Superman, Doomsday and Beyond $15.94 New – Released on CD for the first time, this thrilling full-cast original radio drama is based on the long-running comic strip. Whilst Daily Planet lovebirds Clark Kent and Lois Lane finally get engaged, the villainous Lex Luthor dies in a plane crash. Metropolis is thriving with prosperity and happiness under Superman’s care – or so it seems…Produced by Dirk Maggs, who directed the recent new episodes of “The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy”, this production is hugely acclaimed by fans. A b |
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1930s Comics Characters Debuts $14.14 Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher’s book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: 1935 Comics Characters Debuts, 1936 Comics Characters Debuts, 1937 Comics Characters Debuts, 1938 Comics Characters Debuts, 1939 Comics Characters Debuts, Batman, Superman, Flash Gordon, Clark Kent, Bluto, Namor, James Gordon, Jimmy Olsen, Jor-El, Blue Beetle, Ma and Pa Kent, Human Torch, Thomas Wayne, Sandman, Ka-Zar, Ultra-Humanite, Joe Chill, Crimson Avenger, Doll Man, Batman, Lara Lor-Van, Merlin, Doctor Occult, Angel, Zatara, Doll Girl, Tex Thompson, Red Tornado, Slam Bradley, Julie Madison, Doctor Death, Eugene the Jeep, Monk, Wonder Man, Invisible Hood, Poopdeck Pappy, Alice the Goon, Batman, Eye, Swee’pea, Speed Saunders, George W. Geezil. Excerpt: Alice the Goon Alice the Goon is a fictional character in E.C. Segar ’s comic strip Thimble Theatre and in the Popeye cartoon series derived from it.History Alice made her debut in the Sunday , December 10, 1933 Thimble Theatre strip, part of the “Plunder Island” storyline. As yet unnamed (and her gender unspecified), she worked as a guard for the Sea Hag , a vicious pirate and the last sorceress on Earth . She is portrayed as an Amazonian giantess (her height is eight feet) with a big nose (reminiscent of a Proboscis Monkey , or of Rastapopoulos from Tintin ) and prominent, hairy forearms and calves . Her name and gender were given in the January 14, 1934 strip, after she had captured Wimpy .Alice first appeared when the Sea Hag returned to Sweethaven searching for a former slave of hers named Cringly, as he is the only one who knows the location of Plunder Island, the Sea Hag’s lair. At this time Alice was nameless and genderless, but when Wimpy is captured and locked in the deck of the Black Barnacle, the Hag’s ship , the Sea Hag orders, “Keep an eye on him, Alice!”. And from this moment on, the characters and the |
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1958 Television Series Endings $19.99 Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher’s book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Burns and Allen, Adventures of Superman, Twenty One, Westinghouse Studio One, the Life of Riley, Climax!, See It Now, the Gisele Mackenzie Show, Dotto, Arthur Godfrey’s Talent Scouts, Wide Wide World, Six-Five Special, Meet Mcgraw, Strike It Rich, Decoy, Date With the Angels, Boots and Saddles, Casey Jones, Mr. Adams and Eve, Fireside Theater, the Gray Ghost, Kraft Television Theatre, Sally, Jefferson Drum, Sheriff of Cochise, Broken Arrow, Shower of Stars, the People’s Choice, Dick and the Duchess, Harbor Command, the Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok, the Frank Sinatra Show, Harbourmaster, Walt Disney Presents: Annette, the Silent Service, the Court of Last Resort, Men of Annapolis, the Big Story, the Big Game, Navy Log, the Adventures of Jim Bowie, Keep It in the Family, Telephone Time, the Eve Arden Show, Living It Up, Youth on the March, the Guy Mitchell Show, Senda Prohibida, Sergeant Preston of the Yukon. Excerpt: Adventures of Superman Adventures of Superman is an American television series based on comic book characters and concepts created in 1938 by Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster . The show is the first television series to feature Superman and began filming in 1951 in California. Sponsored by cereal manufacturer Kellogg’s , the syndicated show’s first, and last, air dates are disputed but generally accepted as September 19, 1952 and April 28, 1958. The show’s first two seasons (episodes 1 52, 26 titles per season) were filmed in black-and-white; seasons three through six (episodes 53 104, 13 titles per season) were filmed in color but originally telecast monochromatically both on the ABC network and in first-run syndication . Television viewers would not see Superman in color until the series was syndicated to local stations in 1965. George Reeves plays Clark |
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1962 Comics Characters Debuts: Spider-Man, Doctor Doom, Hulk, Aunt May, Uncle Ben, Thor, Loki, Rick Jones, Henry Pym, Metal Men, Flash Thompson $19.99 Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher’s book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Spider-Man, Doctor Doom, Hulk, Aunt May, Uncle Ben, Thor, Loki, Rick Jones, Henry Pym, Metal Men, Flash Thompson, Lucifer, Doctor Light, Chronos, Doctor Polaris, Thunderbolt Ross, Puppet Master, Felix Faust, Will Magnus, Liz Allan, Sonar, Burglar, Betty Ross, Ringmaster, Ultra Boy, Alicia Masters, Floronic Man, Solar, Abra Kadabra, Egghead, G.i. Robot, Bluebird, Ant-Man, Chemo, Stel, Jane Foster, Demons Three, Superman Revenge Squad, Quex-Ul, Polka-Dot Man, Luma Lynai, Qwsp, Epoch. Excerpt: Abra Kadabra Abra Kadabra is a fictional character , a comic book supervillain in the DC Comics universe and an enemy of the Flash . He first appeared in Flash #128 (May 1962) and was created by John Broome and Carmine Infantino . Fictional character biography The Flash #133 (December, 1962), cover art by Carmine Infantino Abra Kadabra is from the 64th century, at a time when science has made stage magic obsolete. However, he desires a career as a performing magician, so he goes back in time to find an audience to entertain and soon clashes with the Flash (Barry Allen ). He is an actual sorcerer . In one of his many confrontations with the Flash, Abra Kadabra’s technology is damaged and his body becomes insubstantial and wraith-like. After his body is returned to normal, he is captured by a bounty hunter named Peregrine, and returned to his native century to serve a death sentence, although he is saved by the Flash before he can be executed. Shortly after returning to the 21st century, during the Underworld Unleashed storyline, he forgoes his technological implements and tricks five rogues into selling their souls to Neron so he can gain genuine magical powers. Abra Kadabra later kidnapped Linda Park , the girlfriend of Wally West (Barry Allen’s protege and successor), during their |
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1962 in Comics: 1962 Comic Debuts, 1962 Comics Characters Debuts, Spider-Man, Doctor Doom, Hulk, Aunt May, Uncle Ben, Aquaman, Thor, Loki $42.5 Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher’s book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: 1962 Comic Debuts, 1962 Comics Characters Debuts, Spider-Man, Doctor Doom, Hulk, Aunt May, Uncle Ben, Aquaman, Thor, Loki, Rick Jones, Henry Pym, Metal Men, Flash Thompson, Lucifer, Doctor Light, Chronos, Doctor Polaris, Thunderbolt Ross, Puppet Master, Felix Faust, Will Magnus, Liz Allan, Sonar, Burglar, Betty Ross, Ringmaster, Ultra Boy, Alicia Masters, Floronic Man, Solar, Abra Kadabra, Old Master Q, Egghead, G.i. Robot, Bluebird, Ant-Man, Chemo, Stel, Valiant, Jane Foster, Demons Three, Barbarella, Superman Revenge Squad, Quex-Ul, Polka-Dot Man, Luma Lynai, Qwsp, Epoch, Dr. No. Excerpt: Spider-Man is a fictional Marvel Comics superhero. The character was created by writer-editor Stan Lee and writer-artist Steve Ditko. He first appeared in Amazing Fantasy #15 (Aug. 1962). Lee and Ditko conceived of the character as an orphan being raised by his Aunt May and Uncle Ben, and as a teenager, having to deal with the normal struggles of youth in addition to those of a costumed crime fighter. Spider-Man’s creators gave him super strength and agility, the ability to cling to most surfaces, shoot spider-webs using devices of his own invention which he called “web-shooters,” and react to danger quickly with his “spider-sense”, enabling him to combat his foes. When Spider-Man first appeared in the early 1960s, teenagers in superhero comic books were usually relegated to the role of sidekick to the protagonist. The Spider-Man series broke ground by featuring Peter Parker, a teenage high school student to whose “self-obsessions with rejection, inadequacy, and loneliness” young readers could relate. Unlike previous teen heroes such as James Buchanan “Bucky” Barnes and Robin, Spider-Man did not benefit from being the protegé of any adult mentors like Capt… More: |
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1969 Comics Characters Debuts $26.9 Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher’s book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Black Canary, Havok, Falcon, Superman, Cain and Abel, Nighthawk, Viper, Hyperion, Doctor Spectrum, Frankenstein’s Monster, Prowler, Silvermane, Titanium Man, Controller, Vanessa Fisk, Machinesmith, Speed Demon, Jason Bard, Tala, Larry Trask, Galaxy Master, Man-Ape, Glob, Super-Patriot, Lorelei. Excerpt: Black Canary Black Canary is a fictional character , a DC Comics superheroine . Created by writer Robert Kanigher and artist Carmine Infantino , the character first appeared in Flash Comics #86 (August 1947 ). Black Canary is noted for her martial arts skills and her “Canary Cry” a high powered, sonic scream with the ability to shatter objects and incapacitate villains. Among the first generation of superheroes, she was a member of the Justice Society of America , the first superhero team to appear in comic books. In the 1980s, the character’s history was rewritten to make her two entities: Dinah Drake , who took part in Golden Age adventures and married Gotham City detective Larry Lance, and their daughter Dinah Laurel Lance , who has appeared in modern stories and joined the Justice League . Fictional character biography Golden Age history Cover to Flash Comics #92. Art by Carmine Infantino . Black Canary first appeared in Flash Comics #86 in 1947, as a supporting character in the Johnny Thunder feature of the Flash Comics anthology. Initially, she seemed to be a villain; Johnny Thunder was instantly infatuated with her and was reproached for this by his Thunderbolt. However, she was in fact infiltrating a criminal gang, a modus operandi she would follow throughout her career. Black Canary proved to be popular enough that in Flash Comics #92, she was given her own anthology feature, Black Canary , replacing the Johnny Thunder feature. The new series fleshed out Black |
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2008 In Comics $14.14 Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher’s book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Dark Reign, Batman R.i.p., Wolves at the Gate, Secret Invasion, X-Men: Divided We Stand, Time of Your Life, 2008 in Comics, World’s End, the Circle, Spider-Man: Brand New Day, Superman: New Krypton, the Coming of Atlas, Anywhere but Here, X-Men: Manifest Destiny, a Beautiful Sunset, After These Messages… We’ll Be Right Back!, Brainiac, Green Lantern: Secret Origin, Dead Wrong, Ends of the Earth, New Ways to Die, Old Man Logan, Kraven’s First Hunt, Heart of Hush, Secret Invasion: the Infiltration. Excerpt: Notable events of 2008 in comics . See also List of years in comics .References (URLs online) A hyperlinked version of this chapter is at “After These Messages… We’ll Be Right Back! ” is the twentieth issue of the Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season Eight series of comic books, a continuation of the television series of the same name. The issue is written by Jeph Loeb , and will follow in the style of the undeveloped Buffy the Animated Series spin-off proposed in 2002, on which he worked alongside series creator Joss Whedon .Plot As Buffy slays numerous demons, her thoughts say that she never gets any sleep anymore. When she is finally gets a chance to rest (dirty all over and in Xander’s bed), Buffy falls asleep while Xander screams for her to get out.Buffy awakes (in an animated style) to her mother’s voice telling her she’s going to be late for school. Buffy is shocked to hear Joyce and hides her face in her pillow muttering “Dream, dream, go away. Come again another… never.” Joyce enters her room with a younger Dawn as Buffy jumps from her bed and wraps her arms around Joyce. After moving to hugging Dawn and exclaiming that she isn’t a centaur anymore, Joyce goes to leave the room. Buffy stops her and says, “I really am happy to see you.” |
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500 Great Comicbook Action Heroes $43.18 New – With the release of the new Superman, and other comic-based, movies planned for Summer 2002, action heroes are once again in the headlines. Perfectly timed to catch this wave of interest, 500 Great Comicbook Action heroes is both a great pocket reference tool for aficionados – and a superb introduction to a host of fascinating information for newcomers to the subject. Want to know when Superman or Batman first appeared, and who created them? Or how Flash Gordeon got his name? Or who illust |
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500 Great Comicbook Action Heroes $19.52 New – With the release of the new Superman, and other comic-based, movies planned for Summer 2002, action heroes are once again in the headlines. Perfectly timed to catch this wave of interest, 500 Great Comicbook Action heroes is both a great pocket reference tool for aficionados – and a superb introduction to a host of fascinating information for newcomers to the subject. Want to know when Superman or Batman first appeared, and who created them? Or how Flash Gordeon got his name? Or who illust |
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500 Great Comicbook Action Heroes $2 Used – With the release of the new Superman, and other comic-based, movies planned for Summer 2002, action heroes are once again in the headlines. Perfectly timed to catch this wave of interest, 500 Great Comicbook Action heroes is both a great pocket reference tool for aficionados – and a superb introduction to a host of fascinating information for newcomers to the subject. Want to know when Superman or Batman first appeared, and who created them? Or how Flash Gordeon got his name? Or who illus |
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75 Years of DC Comics: The Art of Modern Mythmaking $200 In 1935, DC Comics founder Major Malcolm Wheeler-Nicholson published New Fun No. 1, the first comic book with all-new, original material—at a time when comic books were mere repositories for the castoffs of the newspaper strips. What was initially considered to be disposable media for children was well on its way to becoming the mythology of our time—the 20th century’s answer to Atlas or Zorro. More than 40,000 comic books later, in honor of the publisher’s 75th anniversary, TASCHEN has produced the single most comprehensive book on DC Comics, in an XL edition even Superman might have trouble lifting. More than 2,000 images—covers and interiors, original illustrations, photographs, film stills, and collectibles—are reproduced using the latest technology to bring the story lines, the characters, and their creators to vibrant life as they’ve never been seen before. Telling the tales behind the tomes is 38-year DC veteran Paul Levitz, whose in-depth essays trace the company’s history, from its pulp origins through to the future of digital publishing. Year-by-year timelines that fold out to nearly four feet and biographies of the legends who built DC make this an invaluable reference for any comic book fan.The 2nd printing of this book is now available. The second printing has a blue cloth cover under the jacket instead of red. We cannot guarantee which edition will be shipped. |
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A Gathering of Selves: The Spiritual Journey of the Legendary Writer of Superman and Batman $0.99 MEMOIR / METAPHYSICS“Alvin Schwartz is clearly one of the most amazing people ever to work in–maybe even out of–the nutty field of comic books. Channeling first Superman, then Batman, into an astonishing inner life and an equally astounding outer one, Alvin was living his life as a graphic novel before the term ever existed. Quite fitting for this unique talent and singular human being, who started out writing Fairy Tale Parade and made his four-color exit at stage left with Bizarro!” –Roy Thomas, author of Stan Lee’s Amazing Marvel Universe and longtime writer and editor at Marvel and DC Comics For nearly two decades Alvin Schwartz lived a double life, one half of which was spent writing the adventures of Batman and Superman, the other half writing novels and spending time with members of New York’s intellectual society such as Saul Bellow and Jackson Pollack. During this period, his characters had taken on lives of their own, and he realized that his writing of their adventures was more like dictation than creation. He found that personalities can be taken off and on like the suits worn by his superheroes and that the lives of Batman and Superman were melding into his own. The journey of inner awareness that Schwartz undertook at the prompting of the tulpa Thongden (who appeared in his earlier book An Unlikely Prophet) evoked a great sense of metaphysical unrest, which is where this story begins. With the aid of his mentor Thongden, Schwartz is carried beyond the ordinary boundaries of personal identity into an interpersonal consciousness inhabited by a multitude of selves, including the dark figure of Batman. While in An Unlikely Prophet Schwartz was able to channel the ever-present figure of Superman into a positive voyage of self-discovery, in A Gathering of Selves he uses the raw strength offered by Batman to carry him to the next stage of understanding: What we |
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Across the Universe – The DC Universe Stories of Alan Moore $56.17 Used – Hailed as one of the best and most influential writers in comics today, Alan Moore has penned such important and critically-acclaimed titles as Watchmen, Batman: The Dark Knight Returns, Batman: The Killing Joke, Swamp Thing and The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen. Now, collected for the first time ever, Moore’s rarely-seen and hard-to-find one-off stories can be enjoyed anew. Featuring such superheroes as Superman, Batman and Green Lantern, and illustrated by a host of comic luminaries |
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Across the Universe – The DC Universe Stories of Alan Moore $66.35 New – Hailed as one of the best and most influential writers in comics today, Alan Moore has penned such important and critically-acclaimed titles as Watchmen, Batman: The Dark Knight Returns, Batman: The Killing Joke, Swamp Thing and The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen. Now, collected for the first time ever, Moore’s rarely-seen and hard-to-find one-off stories can be enjoyed anew. Featuring such superheroes as Superman, Batman and Green Lantern, and illustrated by a host of comic luminaries |
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Action Comics $86.4 Used – High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Action Comics is an American comic book series which introduced Superman, the first major superhero character as the term is popularly defined. The publisher was originally known as Detective Comics, Inc., and later as National Comics and as National Periodical Publications, before taking on its current name of DC Comics, a subsidiary of Time Warner. Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster saw their creation, Superman, aka Kal-El (originally Kal-L), launch |
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Action Comics $86.4 New – High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Action Comics is an American comic book series which introduced Superman, the first major superhero character as the term is popularly defined. The publisher was originally known as Detective Comics, Inc., and later as National Comics and as National Periodical Publications, before taking on its current name of DC Comics, a subsidiary of Time Warner. Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster saw their creation, Superman, aka Kal-El (originally Kal-L), launche |
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Action Films By Series (Study Guide) $19.99 Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher’s book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Highlander, James Bond, Superman, the Lord of the Rings Film Trilogy, Indiana Jones, Batman in Film, Hulk, Spider-Man, X-Men, Terminator, Blade, Jurassic Park, the Punisher, Rush Hour, Rambo, Fantastic Four, the Matrix, Pirates of the Caribbean, the Chronicles of Riddick, Die Hard, Transformers, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Bourne, Police Story, Beverly Hills Cop, Megalopolis Expressway Trial, Spy Kids, the Chronicles of Narnia, Dirty Harry, Underworld, Cicak Man, Rocky, the Fast and the Furious, Mission: Impossible, the Mummy, Once Upon a Time in China, Mexico Trilogy, the Vengeance Trilogy, Hellboy Animated, Universal Soldier, Black Cobra, Zero Woman, Bourne Trilogy. Excerpt: The fictional character Batman , a comic book superhero featured in DC Comics publications, has appeared in various films since his inception. The character first starred in two serial films in the 1940s, Batman and Batman and Robin . The character also appeared in the 1966 film Batman , which was a feature film adaptation of the campy 1960s TV series Batman . The actor from the TV series, Adam West , played Batman in the film.Toward the end of the 1980s, The studio Warner Bros. began producing a series of feature films starring Batman, beginning with the 1989 film Batman , directed by Tim Burton with Batman played by Michael Keaton . Burton and Keaton reprised their roles for the 1992 film Batman Returns , and in 1995, Joel Schumacher directed Batman Forever with Val Kilmer as Batman. Schumacher also directed the 1997 film Batman |
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Adventures of Superman (TV Series): Adventures of Superman $14.9 New – Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher’s book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Adventures of Superman is an American television series based on comic book characters and concepts created in 1938 by Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster. The show is the first television series to feature Superman and began filming in 1951 in California. Sponsored by cereal manufacturer Kellogg’s, the syndicate |
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Alien (Franchise) Comics: Aliens, Wildc.A.T.S-Aliens, Superman-Aliens, Judge Dredd vs. Aliens, Green Lantern Versus Aliens, Batman-Aliens $13.43 New – Chapters: Aliens, Wildc.a.t.s/aliens, Superman/aliens, Judge Dredd Vs. Aliens, Green Lantern Versus Aliens, Batman/aliens. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 33. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher’s book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Aliens is the key word in the titles of a number of comic book limited series and one-shots, first published by Dark Horse Comics in 1988 and set in the Al |
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All Star Dc Comics: All Star Superman $9.05 Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher’s book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: All Star Superman is a twelve-issue comic book series featuring Superman that ran from November 2005 to October 2008. The series was written by Grant Morrison, drawn by Frank Quitely, digitally inked by Jamie Grant and published by DC Comics. DC claimed that this series would “strip down the Man of Steel to his timeless, essential elements”. The series was the second to be launched in 2005 under DC’s All Star imprint, the first being All Star Batman and Robin the Boy Wonder. These series are attempts by DC to allow major comics creators a chance to tell stories showcasing these characters without being restricted by DC Universe continuity. Grant Morrison’s approach to writing this series was to make the reading as universal as possible. He stated that he wasn’t interested in “re-doing origin stories or unpacking classic narratives” but instead wanted to do “a total update, rehaul and refit”. However, rather than just creating a “fresh and relevant” update for new readers, Morrison wanted to write a “collection of timeless Superman issues”. The origins of this lie in a revamp of Superman, Superman Now, which began when Morrison and editor Dan Raspler were unsuccessfully brainstorming ideas for a new take on the character outside the San Diego Comic Con, when they had a “shamanic” encounter with a man dressed as Superman which helped spark the creative process and inspired the cover to the first issue: The ideas generated by that meeting were refined and pitched to DC in 1998 by Morrison, Mark Millar, Mark Waid and Tom Peyer. They picked up on the fifteen-year cycle of reboots to the character, the previous one being John Byrne’s The Man of Steel, and suggested a new approach: Although initially greenlit, it was eventually turned down and Morr… More: |
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Apollo (Comics) $92.4 Used – Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Apollo is a fictional character, a comic book superhero who first appeared in the Stormwatch series, but is best known for his role in The Authority. While visually distinct, Apollo is cast in the mold of the Superman archetype. Apollo is notable for being among the first openly gay superheroes in print, although several years behind Marvel Comics’ Northstar. He’ |
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Apollo (Comics) $92.4 Used – Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Apollo is a fictional character, a comic book superhero who first appeared in the Stormwatch series, but is best known for his role in The Authority. While visually distinct, Apollo is cast in the mold of the Superman archetype. Apollo is notable for being among the first openly gay superheroes in print, although several years behind Marvel Comics’ Northstar. He’ |
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Articles on 2009 Comic Debuts, Including: Strange Adventures, Jon Sable, RoboCop (Comics), the Surrogates, X-Men: First Class, Sonic Universe, Resistance (Comics), Superman: Secret Origin, Dawn of the Dread Force $13.68 Used – Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Hephaestus Books represents a new publishing paradigm, allowing disparate content sources to be curated into cohesive, relevant, and informative books. To date, this content has been curated from Wikipedia articles and images under Creative Commons licensing, although as Hephaestus Books continues to increase in scope and dimension, more licensed and public domai |
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Articles on 2009 Comic Debuts, Including: Strange Adventures, Jon Sable, RoboCop (Comics), the Surrogates, X-Men: First Class, Sonic Universe, Resistance (Comics), Superman: Secret Origin, Dawn of the Dread Force $18.27 Used – Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Hephaestus Books represents a new publishing paradigm, allowing disparate content sources to be curated into cohesive, relevant, and informative books. To date, this content has been curated from Wikipedia articles and images under Creative Commons licensing, although as Hephaestus Books continues to increase in scope and dimension, more licensed and public domai |
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Batman Television Series $29.62 Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher’s book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Batman: the Animated Series, Super Friends, Batman Beyond, Batman Franchise Media, the Batman, Batman: the Brave and the Bold, Birds of Prey, the New Batman Adventures, the New Adventures of Batman, Justice League, Justice League Unlimited, Challenge of the Super Friends, List of Batman Television Series Cast Members, Batman Onstar Commercials, the Batman/superman Hour, Super Friends: the Legendary Super Powers Show, the Super Powers Team: Galactic Guardians, Bruce Wayne, the All-New Super Friends Hour, the New Batman/superman Adventures, Tarzan and the Super 7, the World’s Greatest Super Friends, Legends of the Superheroes, Batman With Robin the Boy Wonder, the Superman/batman Adventures, the Batman/tarzan Adventure Hour, the Adventures of Batman. Excerpt: Super Friends was an American animated television series about a team of superheroes, which ran from 1973 to 1986 on ABC as part of its Saturday morning cartoon lineup. It was produced by Hanna-Barbera and was based on the Justice League of America and associated comic book characters published by DC Comics. The name of the program, and the JLA members featured with the Super Friends, have been variously represented (such as Super Friends and Challenge of the Super Friends for example) at different points in its broadcast history. There were a total of 109 episodes, along with two back door pilot episodes of The New Scooby-Doo Movies, with Batman and Robin appearing in “The Dynamic Scooby Doo Affair” and “The Caped Crusader Caper.” Over the years, the show existed under several titles: Plotlines for the first incarnation of the Super Friends did not involve any of the familiar DC Comics supervillains. Rather, they focused on the often far-fetched schemes of various mad scientists and alie… |
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Batman/Superman/Wonder Woman: Trinity $62.4 Used – High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Batman/Superman/Wonder Woman: Trinity is a three issue comic book limited series published by DC Comics in 2003. Written and drawn by Matt Wagner, the series focused on the first meeting and first alliance between DC’s Trinity: Superman, Batman, and Wonder Woman. |
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Batman: The Animated Series: List of Adventures of Superman Episodes $16.97 New – Chapters: List of Adventures of Superman Episodes. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 62. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher’s book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Batman: The Animated Series is an American animated series adaptation of the comic book series starring the DC Comics superhero, Batman. The series is noted for being the first to take place in the DC Animated Universe. It was |
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Batman: The Lazarus Syndrome & Superman: On Trial: Value-Priced Collection $13.12 Used – This value-priced collection features two of the greatest comic book heroes ever to fight evil! These stunning audio productions were first broadcast on BBC Radio, and this all-action adventure can now be heard remastered–complete with dazzling sound effects. “Batman: The Lazarus Syndrome” The Batman is dead. Police Commissioner Gordon has received a recording by the Batman that reveals his real identity. But who is the occupant of Wayne Manor? It soon becomes a desperate journey into th |
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Batzarro $49.2 Used – Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Batzarro (Wayne Bruce) is a fictional comic book supervillain in the DC Comics Universe. He is a twisted doppelg?nger of Batman, in the same vein as Bizarro, the similar doppelg?nger to Superman. While a Bizarro version of Batman had first appeared in pre-Crisis continuity in World’s Finest Comics #156 (March 1966), his first appearance in post-Crisis continuity |
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Batzarro $42.56 Used – Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Batzarro (Wayne Bruce) is a fictional comic book supervillain in the DC Comics Universe. He is a twisted doppelg?nger of Batman, in the same vein as Bizarro, the similar doppelg?nger to Superman. While a Bizarro version of Batman had first appeared in pre-Crisis continuity in World’s Finest Comics #156 (March 1966), his first appearance in post-Crisis continuity |
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Beginner’s Guide to Comic Book Collecting $2.99 Bang! Pow! Shezaam! Zap! As it is with me, I am sure those words bring back memories for you, right? And, as such, you probably even remember where those were first seen. That’s right! Inside the pages of your favorite comic books!Many of us grew up reading about the adventures of Superman, the exploits of Batman and his sidekick Robin, or the misadventures of Hue, Dewey and Louie as they frustrated their Uncle Donald. You may even remember those Saturday afternoon trips to the local store, searching the shelves for the latest edition of the Green Hornet or Wonder Woman comic books. You saved your allowance and lawn mowing money to afford those treasured comics and couldn’t wait to get back home, hurry to your bedroom or hiding place and enter the wonderful world of your favorite characters’ lives.Well, those days might be gone, but they sure aren’t forgotten, right? In fact, if you could, wouldn’t it be great to recapture that time in your life and lay hands on some of those comic books today? Well, the fact is, you can! The question is, where to begin?That is where we come in.We have assembled a powerful eBook that will show you how to start collecting comic books, one edition at a time. You can start collecting comic books just like you did as a child but with a whole new reason behind it!As a child, those comics were only interesting as long as you hadn’t finished reading them. After that, they eventually became lost in the shuffle of life. However, now that you are all grown up, you understand the value they held beyond the adventures. Much more than just the story line or great artistry, there is money to be made! The fact is, comic book collecting has become big business.If you have been considering a hobby, maybe comic book collecting is right for you. After all, as a child you knew what was a good comic book and what wasn’t. Now you could draw from that insight |
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Blue Beetle Companion $7.84 The Blue Beetle debuted in 1939, rivaling such icons as Superman and Batman for longevity in comics, but not in popularity until his recent death and resurrection as a result of DC Comics’ hit Infinite Crisis series. Now, Comic Book Artist Magazine’s Christopher Irving explores the history and uncovers the secrets lurking under the cover of the character’s comics in The Blue Beetle Companion! Follow his 60-plus years of evolution – from the world of Fox Comics to an in-depth history of Charlton Comics – all the way to the hall of today’s DC Comics. Find out what really happened to infamous Golden Age publisher Victor Fox, and get an in-depth look at the Blue Beetle radio show and Jack “King” Kirby’s Blue Beetle comic strip. Also, presented for the first time since 1939: the first appearance of The Blue Beetle from Mystery Men Comics #1! Featuring interviews with Will Eisner, Joe Simon, Joe Gill, Roy Thomas, Geoff Johns, Cully Hamner, Keith Giffen, Len Wein, and others, plus never-before-seen Blue Beetle designs by Alex Ross and Alan Weiss, as well as artwork by Will Eisner, Charles Nicholas, Steve Ditko, Kevin Maguire and more! It also features an introduction by Tom DeHaven, the acclaimed author of the novel It’s Superman! and Derby Dugan’s Depression Funnies. Featuring a new cover by current Blue Beetle artist Cully Hamner, this is the ultimate look at one of comicdom’s longest-living heroes! |
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Bronze Age Of Comic Books $19.99 Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher’s book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Dc Implosion. Source: Wikipedia. Free updates online. Not illustrated. Excerpt: The Bronze Age of Comic Books is an informal name for a period in the history of mainstream American comic books usually said to run from the early 1970s to the mid-1980s. It follows the Silver Age of Comic Books. The Bronze Age retained many of the conventions of the Silver Age, with brightly colored superhero titles remaining the mainstay of the industry. However darker plot elements and more mature storylines featuring real-world issues, such as drug use, began to appear during the period, prefiguring the later Modern Age of Comic Books. The term Bronze Age was first used by comic book fandom and later the Overstreet Price Guide to refer to the more mature and modern comic books of the early 70s to the mid-80s. There is no one single event that can be said to herald the beginning of the Bronze Age. Instead a number of events at the beginning of the 1970s, taken together, can be seen as a shift away from the tone of comics in the previous decade. Green Lantern/Green Arrow #85 (October 1971), one of the first comic stories to tackle the issue of drug use, cover art by Neal Adams.One such event was Jack Kirby’s departure from Marvel Comics in 1970, ending arguably the most important creative partnership of the Silver Age (with Stan Lee). Kirby then turned to DC, where he created The Fourth World series of titles starting with Jimmy Olsen #133 in December 1970. Also in 1970 Mort Weisinger, the long term editor of the various Superman titles, retired to be replaced by Julius Schwartz. Schwartz set about toning down some of the more fanciful aspects of the Weisinger era, removing most Kryptonite from continuity and scaling back Superman’s, by that point, near infinite powers. In 1970, Marvel published |
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Cartoon Crazys-Comic Book Heroes $3.12 Before they made the super-sized leap to the small screen, these cartoon heroes were in comic books first! Join Cartoon Crazys and legions of some of the most beloved characters of all time, including Superman, Popeye, Little Lulu, Betty Boop and all their friends for a remastered walk down an animated memory lane. |
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Clark Kent $86.4 Used – High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Clark Kent is a fictional character on the television series Smallville. The character of Clark Kent, first created for comic books by Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster in 1938 as the alternate identity of Superman, was adapted to television in 2001 by Alfred Gough and Miles Millar-this is the fourth time the character has been adapted to a live-action television series. Clark Kent has been played continually by Tom Welling, with various other actors |
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Clark Kent $60 Used – High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Clark Kent is a fictional character on the television series Smallville. The character of Clark Kent, first created for comic books by Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster in 1938 as the alternate identity of Superman, was adapted to television in 2001 by Alfred Gough and Miles Millar-this is the fourth time the character has been adapted to a live-action television series. Clark Kent has been played continually by Tom Welling, with various other actors |
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Clark Kent $68.37 New – High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Clark Kent is a fictional character on the television series Smallville. The character of Clark Kent, first created for comic books by Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster in 1938 as the alternate identity of Superman, was adapted to television in 2001 by Alfred Gough and Miles Millar-this is the fourth time the character has been adapted to a live-action television series. Clark Kent has been played continually by Tom Welling, with various other actors |
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Comic Book Artist Collection Volume 1 $56.47 New – Reprints the first three sold-out issues of the magazine, plus over 45 new pages of features and art, including: An unpublished story by Jack Kirby, an interview with Neal Adams about his Superman vs. Muhammad Ali book (including unused art), unpublished art by Bernie Wrightson, an unused story by Jeff Jones, an extensive new interview with Alan Weiss, and more! Experience DC Comics from 1967-74 through interviews with and unpublished art by Neal Adams, Carmine Infantino, Dick Giordano, Ja |
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Comic Book Artist Collection Volume 1 $13.5 Used – Reprints the first three sold-out issues of the magazine, plus over 45 new pages of features and art, including: An unpublished story by Jack Kirby, an interview with Neal Adams about his Superman vs. Muhammad Ali book (including unused art), unpublished art by Bernie Wrightson, an unused story by Jeff Jones, an extensive new interview with Alan Weiss, and more! Experience DC Comics from 1967-74 through interviews with and unpublished art by Neal Adams, Carmine Infantino, Dick Giordano, J |
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Comic Book Culture: An Illustrated History $13.89 New – Drawing from one of the most extensive collections in America, comic expert Ron Goulart leads readers on a fantastic cultural journey back to the legends of Superman, Batman, Captain America, and many other classic characters from the golden age of comic book art. Full-color reproductions of over 440 popular comic book covers, many reprinted here for the first time, showcase the work of artists both famous and forgotten. |
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Comic Book Culture: An Illustrated History $5.82 Used – Drawing from one of the most extensive collections in America, comic expert Ron Goulart leads readers on a fantastic cultural journey back to the legends of Superman, Batman, Captain America, and many other classic characters from the golden age of comic book art. Full-color reproductions of over 440 popular comic book covers, many reprinted here for the first time, showcase the work of artists both famous and forgotten. |
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Comic Book Culture: An Illustrated History $32.95 New – Drawing from one of the most extensive collections in America, comic expert Ron Goulart leads readers on a fantastic cultural journey back to the legends of Superman, Batman, Captain America, and many other classic characters from the golden age of comic book art. Full-color reproductions of over 440 popular comic book covers, many reprinted here for the first time, showcase the work of artists both famous and forgotten. |
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Comic Book Culture: An Illustrated History $4.23 Used – Drawing from one of the most extensive collections in America, comic expert Ron Goulart leads readers on a fantastic cultural journey back to the legends of Superman, Batman, Captain America, and many other classic characters from the golden age of comic book art. Full-color reproductions of over 440 popular comic book covers, many reprinted here for the first time, showcase the work of artists both famous and forgotten. |
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Comics Made Into Films (Study Guide) $46.31 Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher’s book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Batman, Superman, Spider-Man, Fantastic Four, Hulk, Watchmen, the League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, From Hell, Iron Man, V for Vendetta, Red Sonja, Sin City, Daredevil, Hellboy, Scott Pilgrim, Ghost Rider, Spirit, Steel, the Mask, Persepolis, Ghost World, the Crow, 300, the Losers, the Surrogates, Whiteout, Gainsbourg, Virus. Excerpt: 300 300 is a historically-inspired 1998 comic book limited series written and illustrated by Frank Miller with painted colors by Lynn Varley . The comic is a fictional retelling of the Battle of Thermopylae and the events leading up to it from the perspective of Leonidas of Sparta . 300 was particularly inspired by the 1962 film The 300 Spartans , a movie that Miller watched as a young boy. The work was adapted in 2007 to a film of the same name . Publication and awards Every page of the comic was illustrated as a double-page spread. When the series was gathered into hardcover form, the individual pages were twice as wide as a normal comic. Miller’s art style for this project was similar to his Sin City work, although the addition of consistent color is an obvious difference. 300 was initially published as a monthly five-issue comic book limited series by Dark Horse Comics , the first issue published in May 1998. The issues were titled Honor , Duty , Glory , Combat and Victory . The series won three Eisner Awards in 1999: “Best Limited Series”, “Best Writer/Artist” for Frank Miller and “Best Colorist” for Lynn Varley. The work was collected as a hardcover volume in 1999. The popularity of the film has boosted sales of the trade paperback edition. The 10th printing had an announced print run of 40,000 copies, with an 11th printing to follow. This is in addition to the 88,000 copies already sold since the initial volume was released in |
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Comics, Comix & Graphic Novels $35 Comics, Comix & Graphic Novels is the first fully documented study to explore the graphic qualities of the comic book, and the development of the genre into a sophisticated and culturally revealing popular art form. The book traces the history of the comic from early cartoon-like woodcuts through to the graphic strips of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Organized thematically it explores the various genres of the comic book, including humour, adventure, girls’ comics, underground and alternative. The careers of the creators of the best-known characters — from Superman and Tintin to Tank Girl — are revealed, as are the stories behind the much-loved comics such as The Beano and The Incredible Hulk. |
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Cover Girls of the DC Universe Supergirl Statue $79.99 Posed to depict the Maid of Steel taking flight, Statue stands 11 3/4 high, High quality resin, Limited edition, Hand painted, Brand new in manufacturer packagingSupergirl is a comic book Superhero that is depicted as a female counterpart to the DC Comics iconic superhero Superman.She first appeared in Action Comics, in whose first issue Superman himself was introduced. The character first appeared in comic books and later appeared children’s cartoon animation, film, and television. |
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DC Universe: 3-Pack Action DVD $14.99 This action packed release offers three different full length animated movies, each starring the famous super heroes of the DC comic book universe: GREEN LANTERN: FIRST FLIGHT, SUPERMAN DOOMSDAY, a… |
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Dark Horse Titles: Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season Eight, the Umbrella Academy, Give Me Liberty, Hellboy: Weird Tales $24.95 Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher’s book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season Eight, the Umbrella Academy, Give Me Liberty, Hellboy: Weird Tales, the Umbrella Academy: Dallas, Hellboy: Seed of Destruction, the Umbrella Academy: Apocalypse Suite, That Yellow Bastard, Aliens Versus Predator Versus the Terminator, the Big Fat Kill, 300, Hellboy Junior, Hell and Back, B.p.r.d.: Plague of Frogs, Hellboy: Darkness Calls, Billy the Kid’s Old Timey Oddities, Archenemies, B.p.r.d.: Garden of Souls, Will to Power, Ghost/hellboy, the Tale of One Bad Rat, a Dame to Kill For, Superman Vs. the Terminator: Death to the Future, Fort: Prophet of the Unexplained, Babe, Damn Nation, Angel: the Hollower, the Blackburne Covenant, Hard Boiled, Timecop, Red Rocket 7, Rascals in Paradise, Indiana Jones and the Spear of Destiny. Excerpt: 300 300 is a historically-inspired 1998 comic book limited series written and illustrated by Frank Miller with painted colors by Lynn Varley . The comic is a fictional retelling of the Battle of Thermopylae and the events leading up to it from the perspective of Leonidas of Sparta . 300 was particularly inspired by the 1962 film The 300 Spartans , a movie that Miller watched as a young boy. The work was adapted in 2007 to a film of the same name . Publication and awards Every page of the comic was illustrated as a double-page spread. When the series was gathered into hardcover form, the individual pages were twice as wide as a normal comic. Miller’s art style for this project was similar to his Sin City work, although the addition of consistent color is an obvious difference. 300 was initially published as a monthly five-issue comic book limited series by Dark Horse Comics , the first issue published in May 1998. The issues were titled Honor , Duty , Glory , Combat |
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Darkseid $75.6 Used – Darkseid is a fictional character that appears in comic books published by DC Comics. The character first appeared in Superman’s Pal Jimmy Olsen #134 (Nov. 1970) and was created by writer-artist Jack Kirby. Debuting in the Bronze Age of comic books, Darkseid has appeared in over four decades of DC Comics publications, featuring prominently in the New Gods titles and limited series as the recurring nemesis of the New Gods and Superman. The character has also appeared in associated DC Comic |
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Dave Gibbons $75.6 Used – Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Dave Gibbons is an English comic book artist, writer and sometime letterer. He is best known for his collaborations with writer Alan Moore, which include the miniseries Watchmen and the Superman story “For the Man Who Has Everything.” He also was an artist for the UK anthology 2000 AD, for which he contributed a large body of work from its first issue in 1977. Gi |
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Dave Gibbons $75.6 New – Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Dave Gibbons is an English comic book artist, writer and sometime letterer. He is best known for his collaborations with writer Alan Moore, which include the miniseries Watchmen and the Superman story “For the Man Who Has Everything.” He also was an artist for the UK anthology 2000 AD, for which he contributed a large body of work from its first issue in 1977. Gib |
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Dingbats of Danger Street $91.42 Used – Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. The Dingbats of Danger Street are a fictional comic book gang of kids published by DC Comics. The Dingbats debuted in 1st Issue Special #6 (September 1975), and were created by Jack Kirby.The Dingbats later reappeared in Adventures of Superman, one of a number of Kirby homages by Karl Kesel. They first appear in brief cameos, but are subsequently seen in full in |
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Dingbats of Danger Street $92.4 New – Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. The Dingbats of Danger Street are a fictional comic book gang of kids published by DC Comics. The Dingbats debuted in 1st Issue Special #6 (September 1975), and were created by Jack Kirby.The Dingbats later reappeared in Adventures of Superman, one of a number of Kirby homages by Karl Kesel. They first appear in brief cameos, but are subsequently seen in full in A |
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Don Winslow of the Navy – May 1937 $37.95 New – Pulp magazines were king of popular culture. Comic books in the mid to late 30s were reprinting comic strips. Along comes Harry Donenfeld who has made his fortune selling girlie pulps, as well as an assortment of pulp titles like SPICY MYSTERY STORIES, SPICY DETECTIVE STORIES, PRIVATE DETECTIVE STORIES and introduces his first combination pulp/comic in DON WINSLOW OF THE NAVY. Donenfeld would later go on to much greater fame and riches being the publisher of SUPERMAN, BATMAN and a whole st |
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Dorothy Woolfolk $66 New – Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Dorothy A. Woolfolk n e Dorothy Roubicek was a pioneering woman in the American comic book industry. The first female editor at DC Comics, one of the two largest companies in the field, she is credited with helping to create the fictional metal kryptonite in the Superman mythos. Dorothy Woolfolk, a New York City high school graduate who never attended college but |
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Dorothy Woolfolk $66 Used – Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Dorothy A. Woolfolk n e Dorothy Roubicek was a pioneering woman in the American comic book industry. The first female editor at DC Comics, one of the two largest companies in the field, she is credited with helping to create the fictional metal kryptonite in the Superman mythos. Dorothy Woolfolk, a New York City high school graduate who never attended college but |
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Ferrous The Venus Fly Trap Meets The Cactus $23.88 This is my first book. Many people have asked me, “Where did you get the idea of having a venus fly trap as a lead character?” Well it’s a strange story from my childhood. It started at the age of ten. I was like any boy of that time, reading a lot of comic books. My favorite was Superman. In the back were ads for items like joy buzzers and x-ray glasses, and one for meat-eating plants. Not many boys could resist that! When it arrived, I planted the magic seed in the magic soil and in a few days something resembling a green taco with teeth emerged. I fed it lovingly with a pair of tweezers and my mom’s meatloaf. The little plant and my childhood are long gone, but in Ferrous, the memory will always live on. |
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Ferrous the Venus Fly Trap Meets the Cactus $25.29 New – This is my first book. Many people have asked me, aWhere did you get the idea of having a venus fly trap as a lead character?a Well itas a strange story from my childhood. It started at the age of ten. I was like any boy of that time, reading a lot of comic books. My favorite was Superman. In the back were ads for items like joy buzzers and x-ray glasses, and one for meat-eating plants. Not many boys could resist that! When it arrived, I planted the magic seed in the magic soil and in a fe |
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Ferrous the Venus Fly Trap Meets the Cactus $25.29 Used – This is my first book. Many people have asked me, aWhere did you get the idea of having a venus fly trap as a lead character?a Well itas a strange story from my childhood. It started at the age of ten. I was like any boy of that time, reading a lot of comic books. My favorite was Superman. In the back were ads for items like joy buzzers and x-ray glasses, and one for meat-eating plants. Not many boys could resist that! When it arrived, I planted the magic seed in the magic soil and in a f |
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Fictional Immigrants To The United States $27.36 Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher’s book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Scrooge Mcduck, Superman, Apu Nahasapeemapetilon, Wonder Woman, Nero Wolfe, Doctor Zoidberg, Nightcrawler, Clark Kent, Borat Sagdiyev, Elektra, Mister Mxyzptlk, Colossus, Wolfsbane, Vixen, Terra, Karma, Connor Macleod, Samuel Loomis, Banshee, Niko Bellic, Tony Montana, Abby Holland, Fez, Vito Corleone, Superman, Jinx, Raiden, Robert Chase, Mister Negative, Groundskeeper Willie, Wong, Rocko, Simon Adebisi, Luka Kovac, Christina Mckinney, Carmine Falcone, Chibs Telford, Unus the Untouchable, Klara Prast, Superman, Michael Corvin, Miranda Priestly, Balki Bartokomous, Daphne Moon, Furio Giunta, Celsius, Vext, Sophia Petrillo, Warkiller, Ignacio Suarez, Maximillian Arturo, Rainier Wolfcastle, Asok, Kimi Finster, Latka Gravas, Nadia Yassir, Santiago Muñez, Kahn Souphanousinphone, Geldoff, Kung, Valentina Vostok, Chev Chelios, Carmella Corleone, Nikolai Stanislofsky, Century, Ricardo Alvarez, Jacob Shaw, Sandra Corleone, Ms. Gsptlsnz, Ivan Yugorsky, Anzor Yugorsky, Mila Yugorsky, Pavel Lubyarsky, Vadim Nezhinski. Excerpt: Abby Holland Abigail “Abby” Arcane Cable Holland is a fictional comic book character in the DC Comics Universe . She is the wife and partner of the Swamp Thing and is the mother of Tefé Holland . Hollland possesses natural shining white hair , the color of fresh snow, with two overlapping black streaks of hair starting from above her evenly wide forehead . Holland’s psychic powers include empathy, telepathy and telekinesis. She first appeared in Swamp Thing #3 (1973) Fictional character biography Early years Abby Holland is born Abigail Arcane, in Transylvania , Romania in late 1955. The birth takes place at Castle Arcane, her family’s ancestral home. Abby is born to Count Gregori Arcane and his beautiful wife Anise. Soon after, however, Gregori’s |
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Filmation Produced Superman Television Series: The New Adventures of Superman, the Batmansuperman Hour, the Supermanaquaman Hour of Adventure $8.96 Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher’s book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: The New Adventures of Superman, the Batman/superman Hour, the Superman/aquaman Hour of Adventure, the Adventures of Superboy. Excerpt: The New Adventures of Superman was a series of six-minute animated Superman adventures produced by Filmation that were broadcast on CBS between 1966 and 1970. The 68 segments appeared as part of three different programs during that time, packaged with similar shorts featuring The Adventures of Superboy other DC Comics superheroes. These adventures were the first time that Superman (and his guise of Clark Kent), Lois Lane and Perry White had been seen in animated form since they were immortalized in the Superman short films of the 1940s. The first TV series produced by Filmation Associates, The New Adventures of Superman was extremely popular in its Saturday morning time slot and, despite having obviously been developed for young children, employed the services of several DC comic book writers including George Kashdan. Many of the character designs (later based upon the artwork of Superman artist Curt Swan in the show’s third season) stayed true to their comic book counterparts; iconic shirt-rip shots and related transformations from Clark Kent into Superman were incorporated into almost every episode, and such lines as “Up, up, and away!” and “This is a job for Superman!” were also borrowed from comics and the original Superman radio show. In addition, this series marked the animation debut of Jimmy Olsen and classic Superman villains such as Lex Luthor, The Toyman, and Brainiac. Due to a limited production budget, stock animation was often re-used for certain shots of Superman flying (or switching identities from Clark Kent into the Man of Steel), while character movement was often kept at a minimum. Produc… More: |
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For the Man Who Has Everything $92.4 Used – Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. “For the Man Who Has Everything” is a comic book story by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons, first published in Superman Annual #11 (1985) and later adapted into a Justice League Unlimited episode in 2004.Batman and Wonder Woman visit the Fortress of Solitude with gifts on Superman’s birthday, only to find him in a vegetative state, a large alien plant stuck to his che |
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From Krakow to Krypton: Jews and Comic Books $16.33 New – Jews created the first comic book, the first graphic novel, the first comic book convention, the first comic book specialty store, and they helped create the underground comics (or “Comix”) movement of the late ’60s and early ’70s. Many of the creators of the most famous comic books, such as Superman, Spiderman, X-Men, and Batman, as well as the founders of MAD Magazine, were Jewish. From Krakow to Krypton: Jews and Comic Books tells their stories and demonstrates how they brought a unique |
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From Krakow to Krypton: Jews and Comic Books $8.18 Used – Jews created the first comic book, the first graphic novel, the first comic book convention, the first comic book specialty store, and they helped create the underground comics (or “Comix”) movement of the late ’60s and early ’70s. Many of the creators of the most famous comic books, such as Superman, Spiderman, X-Men, and Batman, as well as the founders of MAD Magazine, were Jewish. From Krakow to Krypton: Jews and Comic Books tells their stories and demonstrates how they brought a uniqu |
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From Krakow to Krypton: Jews and Comic Books $25 Jews created the first comic book, the first graphic novel, the first comic book convention, the first comic book specialty store, and they helped create the underground comics (or “Comix”) movement of the late ‘60s and early ‘70s. Many of the creators of the most famous comic books, such as Superman, Spiderman, X-Men, and Batman, as well as the founders of MAD magazine, were Jewish. From Krakow to Krypton: Jews and Comic Books tells their stories and demonstrates how they brought a uniquely Jewish perspective to their work and to the comics industry as a whole. Over-sized and in full color, From Krakow to Krypton is filled with sidebars, cartoon bubbles, comic book graphics, original design sketches, and photographs. It is a visually stunning and exhilarating history. |
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Gangbuster $56.4 Used – High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Gangbuster is a comic book fictional character, a DC Comics superhero. He first appeared as Jose Delgado in Adventures of Superman #428 (May 1987), and as Gangbuster in Adventures of Superman #434 (November 1987). He was created by Marv Wolfman and Jerry Ordway. |
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Great Comic Book Heroes $16.07 New – Fantagraphics is proud to publish Jules Feiffer’s long out-of-print and seminal essay of comics criticism, The Great Comic Book Heroes, in a compact and affordable size. In 1965, Feiffer wrote what is arguably the first critical history of the comic book superheroes of the late 1930s and early 1940s, including Plastic Man, Batman, Superman, The Spirit and others. In the book, Feiffer writes about the unique the place of comics in the space between high and low art and the power which this |
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Great Comic Book Heroes $2.26 Used – Fantagraphics is proud to publish Jules Feiffer’s long out-of-print and seminal essay of comics criticism, The Great Comic Book Heroes, in a compact and affordable size. In 1965, Feiffer wrote what is arguably the first critical history of the comic book superheroes of the late 1930s and early 1940s, including Plastic Man, Batman, Superman, The Spirit and others. In the book, Feiffer writes about the unique the place of comics in the space between high and low art and the power which this |
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Jack Kirby’s Fourth World Omnibus, Volume 2 $286.35 New – After co-creating comic book heroes including The Fantastic Four and The Hulk, legendary writer/artist Jack Kirby came to DC Comics in 1970 to write and illustrate his magunum opus: four interlocked adventure series that were known collectively as “The Fourth World.” Now, for the first time, DC collects these four series — The New Gods, The Forever People, Mister Miracle and Superman’s Pal Jimmy Olsen — in chronological order as they originally appeared. These comics spanned galaxies, fr |
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Jack Kirby’s Fourth World Omnibus, Volume 2 $102.67 Used – After co-creating comic book heroes including The Fantastic Four and The Hulk, legendary writer/artist Jack Kirby came to DC Comics in 1970 to write and illustrate his magunum opus: four interlocked adventure series that were known collectively as “The Fourth World.” Now, for the first time, DC collects these four series — The New Gods, The Forever People, Mister Miracle and Superman’s Pal Jimmy Olsen — in chronological order as they originally appeared. These comics spanned galaxies, f |
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Jack Kirby’s Fourth World Omnibus, Volume 4 $159.12 New – After co-creating comic book heroes including The Fantastic Four and The Hulk, legendary writer/artist Jack Kirby came to DC Comics in 1970 to write and illustrate four interlocking series known collectively as “The Fourth World.” Now, for the first time, DC collects these four series — The New Gods, The Forever People, Mister Miracle and Superman’s Pal Jimmy Olsen — in chronological order as they originally appeared. These comics spanned galaxies, from the streets of Metropolis to the f |
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Jack Kirby’s Fourth World Omnibus, Volume One $41.55 Used – After co-creating comic book heroes including The Fantastic Four and The Hulk, legendary writer/artist Jack Kirby came to DC Comics in 1970 to write and illustrate four interlocking series known collectively as “The Fourth World.” Now, for the first time, DC collects these four series — The New Gods, The Forever People, Mister Miracle and Superman’s Pal Jimmy Olsen — in chronological order as they originally appeared. These comics spanned galaxies, from the streets of Metropolis to the |
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Justice League (TV Series) $52.8 Used – The Justice League, also called the Justice League of America or JLA, is a fictional superhero team that appears in comic books published by DC Comics. First appearing in The Brave and the Bold #28 (1960), the League originally appeared with a line-up that included Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, Flash, Green Lantern, Aquaman, and the Martian Manhunter. However, the team roster has been rotated throughout the years with characters such as Green Arrow, Atom, Hawkman, Black Canary, Captain |
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Justice League (TV Series) $51.6 Used – The Justice League, also called the Justice League of America or JLA, is a fictional superhero team that appears in comic books published by DC Comics. First appearing in The Brave and the Bold #28 (1960), the League originally appeared with a line-up that included Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, Flash, Green Lantern, Aquaman, and the Martian Manhunter. However, the team roster has been rotated throughout the years with characters such as Green Arrow, Atom, Hawkman, Black Canary, Captain |
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Kelex $94.8 New – Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Kelex is a fictional robot created by John Byrne as caretaker of Superman’s Fortress of Solitude in Superman comic books published by DC Comics. He has a rounded body, no legs, a tapered head with a ‘goggle’ face and two controlling arms.He first appeared in The Man of Steel #1, in which he was one of Jor-El’s robotic servants on the planet Krypton. Presumed destr |
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Kelex $93.16 Used – Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Kelex is a fictional robot created by John Byrne as caretaker of Superman’s Fortress of Solitude in Superman comic books published by DC Comics. He has a rounded body, no legs, a tapered head with a ‘goggle’ face and two controlling arms.He first appeared in The Man of Steel #1, in which he was one of Jor-El’s robotic servants on the planet Krypton. Presumed dest |
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Kingdom Come(Explicit Version)(Bonus Tracks) $13.04 It’s been said that Jay-Z put on his retirement show just so he could call himself the Mike Jordan of rap. He might’ve also named his ninth studio album (and his first post-retirement) KINGDOM COME to draw equally boastful Superman comparisons. Supposedly taking the title from a Superman comic book in which the Man of Steel comes out of retirement to save the world yet again, Jiggaman seems to think hip-hop needs rescuing once more. Whether KINGDOM COME is the album to do it is debatable; however, Jay-Z’s 2006 comeback offering might live up to the hype, after all. The album sparkles musically, thanks in large part to wisely chosen production from Just Blaze, Swizz Beatz, the Neptunes, B-Money, DJ Khalil, Kanye West, and Dr. Dre (who serves up four tight beats), and Jay’s plain-and-simple, top-shelf mic command finds new focus here as he spits as much about mid-life introspection as he does on standard hustler-to-mogul braggadocio. On Lost Ones, Jigga speaks of his split with Dame Dash and the trials of his highly publicized love life, and Minority Report is yet another hip-hop protest song dedicated to Hurricane Katrina victims. KINGDOM COME also benefits from a typically all-star guest list that includes John Legend, Usher, Pharrell, Nelly, Chrissette Michelle, Sterling Simms, Beyonce, and, most surprisingly, Chris Martin of Coldplay. |
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Little Book of Superheroes $1.99 Used – Superheroes fictional characters fighting evil with superhuman powers, gadgets and way-out weapons have fascinated us ever since Superman first donned his cape and tights back in 1938. Once the province of comic books, they have made their way first to the small and then the big screen. Batman, for instance, was one of the icons of the Sixties, while the array of villains opposing him, like the Joker, Penguin and Riddler, became every bit as notorious. Not to mention to Catwoman, an early |
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Lois Lane $66.88 New – Lois Joanne Lane-Kent is a fictional character, the primary love interest of Superman in the comic books of DC Comics. Created by writer Jerry Siegel and artist Joe Shuster, she first appeared in Action Comics #1 (1938). Lois is Superman’s chief romantic interest and, in the current DC continuity, his wife. Like Superman’s alter ego Clark Kent, she is a reporter for the Metropolis newspaper, The Daily Planet. Lois’s physical appearance was originally based on a model hired by Siegel and Sh |
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Lois Lane $85.2 New – Lois Joanne Lane-Kent is a fictional character, the primary love interest of Superman in the comic books of DC Comics. Created by writer Jerry Siegel and artist Joe Shuster, she first appeared in Action Comics #1 (1938). Lois is Superman’s chief romantic interest and, in the current DC continuity, his wife. Like Superman’s alter ego Clark Kent, she is a reporter for the Metropolis newspaper, The Daily Planet. Lois’s physical appearance was originally based on a model hired by Siegel and Sh |
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Lois Lane (Smallville) $66.88 Used – Lois Lane is a fictional character on the television series Smallville; she has been portrayed continually by Erica Durance since her first appearance in the season four premier “Crusade.” Durance began as a guest star in season four, but was promoted to series regular status beginning in season five. The character of Lois Lane, first created for comic books by Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster in 1938 to be the love interest for Clark Kent and his alter-ego Superman, was adapted to television |
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Lois Lane (Smallville) $85.2 Used – Lois Lane is a fictional character on the television series Smallville; she has been portrayed continually by Erica Durance since her first appearance in the season four premier “Crusade.” Durance began as a guest star in season four, but was promoted to series regular status beginning in season five. The character of Lois Lane, first created for comic books by Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster in 1938 to be the love interest for Clark Kent and his alter-ego Superman, was adapted to television |
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May Contain Graphic Material: Comic Books, Graphic Novels, and Film $45 Since the first Superman film came to the screen in 1978, films adapted from comics have become increasingly important as a film form. But 1978 was also important because it was the year of release for Will Eisner’s A Contract with God, and Other Stories, generally credited as the first long-form comic book to label itself a graphic novel. Since that time, advances in computer-generated special effects have significantly improved the ability of film to capture the style and action of comics, producing such hugely successful films as X-Men (2000) and Spider-Man (2002). Meanwhile, the genre of the graphic novel has greatly evolved as a form—especially through the works of people like Frank Miller and Alan Moore—taking comics in dramatically new and different directions, generally darker and more serious than conventional comics. Graphic novels have also formed the basis for less visually spectacular, but intelligent and thoughtful films such as Ghost World (2001) and American Splendor (2002). Booker surveys this important development in film history, tracking the movement to a more mature style in comics, and then a more mature style in films about comics. He focuses on detailed discussions of 15 major films or franchises, but also considers the general impact of graphic novels on the style and content of American film in general.The Batman franchise, especially in the 1989 film and in 2005’s Batman Begins, has provided adaptations of a classic comic-book motif inflected through the Dark Knight graphic novels of Frank Miller. The marriage of new film technology and the development of the genre of the graphic novel has produced a number of important innovations in film, including such breakthrough efforts in visual art as The Crow (1994), and Sin City (2005). Films such as Road to Perdition (2002) and A History of Violence (2005) have provided |
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Midnighter $54 Used – High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Midnighter is a fictional comic book superhero, best known as a member of the rogue superhero team The Authority. Created by writer Warren Ellis and artist Bryan Hitch, he first appeared in Stormwatch (vol. 2) #4, before appearing in various Authority books and series and his own eponymous ongoing series. He and his partner, Apollo, have also been interpreted as a parallel of the Batman/Superman “World’s Finest” partnership. Unlike Batman, Midni |
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Mike Kelley: Kandors $49.95 Kandor is the former capital of the doomed planet of Krypton—and the last surviving vestige of Superman’s destroyed home. Captured and miniaturized by an evil alien nemesis, it is now maintained by Superman under a glass bell in his icy headquarters, the Fortress of Solitude. Because the image of Kandor was never codified, its depiction in comics has varied greatly over the years. Presenting a group of artworks entitled Kandors, American mixed-media artist Mike Kelley takes up this theme and realizes a number of versions of the imaginary city beneath enormous hand-blown glass bells. In spite of their obvious differences, they all claim to be the same city, showing Kandor to be both a constant and a continually reshaped relic of Superman’s traumatic childhood. Documenting the transformation of two-dimensional comic images into the fantastical sculptures reproduced here, the book chronicles Kelley’s attempts at a work that operates in three dimensions yet preserves the impression of graphic flatness.  Since Superman’s first appearance more than seventy years ago, he has become a full-fledged pop cultural icon, and his devotees will delight in the opportunity to delve deeper into his backstory. Fans of comic books, graphic novels, and contemporary art will also be enchanted by this fascinating look at the show Frieze Magazine called “a visual tour de force, a ghostly yet breathtaking spectacle that leaves gallery-goers feeling as though they’ve landed on another planet.”  |
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Mythology $75 Here is the incomparable cast of the DC Comics universe: Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, the Flash, Aquaman, the Green Lantern, and the rest of the Justice League as you’ve never seen them before. Mythology brings together the best-loved comic characters in the world, brought to life by one of the most astonishing young artists working in the medium today, Alex Ross. The award-winning designer/writer Chip Kidd and photographer Geoff Spear have teamed up to create a book like no other, with an introduction by M. Night Shyamalan, the acclaimed director of Signs and The Sixth Sense. Ross has often been called the Norman Rockwell of comics, and this book reveals not only his lifelong love of these classic super heroes but also his vision: Mythology takes you into the studio for a behind-the-scenes look at his fascinating creative process. The combination of Ross’s dynamic art and Kidd’s kinetic design make images from his most memorable stories-including Kingdom Come, Superman: Peace on Earth, Batman: War on Crime, and Uncle Sam-soar off the more than 280 pages. There are also hundreds of never-before-seen sketches, limited edition prints, and prototype sculptures. Vintage DC comic panels are interspersed throughout, as reference points from which Ross launches his extraordinary interpretations. And most exciting for Ross fans, inside is a DC Comics first: an exclusive, original Superman-Batman story, written by Kidd and painted by Ross. Also included is an all-new origin of Robin, written by Paul Dini. Mythology is a book in which every page explodes with the power of the icons it celebrates. |
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One-Shot Comic Titles $21.79 Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher’s book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Captain Marvel, Sin City, the Authority, Nocturnals, Batman: the Killing Joke, Newuniversal, the Transformers: Spotlight, Executional, Marvel Zombies, the Dark Horse Book Of…, Secret Files and Origins, Timestorm 2009-2099, What If, Indiana Jones Comic Books, Pilot Season, Ant-Man’s Big Christmas, Superman Vs. Muhammad Ali, Heroes for Hope, Silent Hill, Superman Vs. the Amazing Spider-Man, Army of Darkness, Tomb Raider, Hellboy Junior, the Pitt, Batman: Leatherwing, Spike: Old Wounds, Batman: Holy Terror, Gotham by Gaslight, Criminal Macabre: a Cal Mcdonald Mystery, Faces of Evil, Superman and Spider-Man, Batman: the Man Who Laughs, Connor: Spotlight, Batman: in Darkest Knight, Superman: the Feral Man of Steel, Illyria: Spotlight, Comix 2000, Wildc.a.t.s/aliens, Superman: War of the Worlds, Wesley: Spotlight, 2001: a Space Odyssey, Sergio Aragonés Destroys Dc, Marvel Zombies: Dead Days, the Amazing Screw-On Head, Aristocratic Xtraterrestrial Time-Traveling Thieves, Gunn: Spotlight, Superman and Batman: World’s Funnest, the Uncanny X-Men and the New Teen Titans, Punisher Kills the Marvel Universe, X-Men Forever, Spike: Lost and Found, Doyle: Spotlight, X-Men: First Class, Batman: Nosferatu, Hip Flask, Watchmensch, the Superman Monster, Elseworlds 80-Page Giant, Mythos, Planetary/jla: Terra Occulta, St. Swithin’s Day, Hellboy Christmas Special, Van Helsing: From Beneath the Rue Morgue, Superman: at Earth’s End, Mad Love, Supergirl: Wings, Big Apple Comix, Purge, Next Issue Project, the Dome: Ground Zero, Green Lantern/superman: Legend of the Green Flame, Jack’s Luck Runs Out, Batman/houdini: the Devil’s Workshop, Archie Meets the Punisher, Tainted, the |
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Our Gods Wear Spandex: The Secret History of Comic Book Heroes $19.95 From occult underground to superhero! Was Superman’s arch nemesis Lex Luthor based on Aleister Crowley? Can Captain Marvel be linked to the Sun gods on antiquity? In Our Gods Wear Spandex, Christopher Knowles answers these questions and brings to light many other intriguing links between superheroes and the enchanted world of estoerica. Occult students and comic-book fans alike will discover countless fascinating connections, from little known facts such as that DC Comics editor Julius Schwartz started his career as H.P. Lovecraft’s agent, to the tantalizingly extensive influence of Madame Blavatsky’s Theosophy on the birth of comics, to the mystic roots of Superman. The book also traces the rise of the comic superheroes and how they relate to several cultural trends in the late 19th century, specifically the occult explosion in Western Europe and America. Knowles reveals the four basic superhero archetypes–the Messiah, the Golem, the Amazon, and the Brotherhood–and shows how the occult Bohemian underground of the early 20th century provided the inspiration for the modern comic book hero. With the popularity of occult comics writers like Invisibles creator Grant Morrison and V for Vendetta creator Alan Moore, the vast ComiCon audience is poised for someone to seriously introduce them to the esoteric mysteries. Chris Knowles is doing just that in this epic book. Chapters include: Ancient of Days, Ascended Masters, God and Gangsters, Mad Scientists and Modern Sorcerers, and many more. From the ghettos of Prague to the halls of Valhalla to the Fortress of Solitude and the aisles of BEA and ComiCon, this is the first book to show the inextricable link between superheroes and theenchanted world of esoterica. |
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Our Gods Wear Spandex: The Secret History of Comic Book Heroes $7.4 From occult underground to superhero! Was Superman’s arch nemesis Lex Luthor based on Aleister Crowley? Can Captain Marvel be linked to the Sun gods on antiquity? In Our Gods Wear Spandex, Christopher Knowles answers these questions and brings to light many other intriguing links between superheroes and the enchanted world of estoerica. Occult students and comic-book fans alike will discover countless fascinating connections, from little known facts such as that DC Comics editor Julius Schwartz started his career as H.P. Lovecraft’s agent, to the tantalizingly extensive influence of Madame Blavatsky’s Theosophy on the birth of comics, to the mystic roots of Superman. The book also traces the rise of the comic superheroes and how they relate to several cultural trends in the late 19th century, specifically the occult explosion in Western Europe and America. Knowles reveals the four basic superhero archetypes–the Messiah, the Golem, the Amazon, and the Brotherhood–and shows how the occult Bohemian underground of the early 20th century provided the inspiration for the modern comic book hero. With the popularity of occult comics writers like Invisibles creator Grant Morrison and V for Vendetta creator Alan Moore, the vast ComiCon audience is poised for someone to seriously introduce them to the esoteric mysteries. Chris Knowles is doing just that in this epic book. Chapters include: Ancient of Days, Ascended Masters, God and Gangsters, Mad Scientists and Modern Sorcerers, and many more. From the ghettos of Prague to the halls of Valhalla to the Fortress of Solitude and the aisles of BEA and ComiCon, this is the first book to show the inextricable link between superheroes and theenchanted world of esoterica. |
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Our Hero: Superman on Earth $24 Since his first appearance in Action Comics Number One, published in late spring of 1938, Superman has represented the essence of American heroism. “Faster than a speeding bullet, more powerful than a locomotive, and able to leap tall buildings in a single bound,” the Man of Steel has thrilled audiences across the globe, yet as life-long “Superman Guy” Tom De Haven argues in this highly entertaining book, his story is uniquely American.Created by Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster in the midst of the Great Depression, Superman is both a transcendent figure and, when posing as his alter-ego, reporter Clark Kent, a humble working-class citizen. An orphan and an immigrant, he shares a personal history with the many Americans who came to this country in search of a better life, and his amazing feats represent the wildest realization of the American dream. As De Haven reveals through behind-the-scenes vignettes, personal anecdotes, and lively interpretations of more than 70 years of comic books, radio programs, TV shows, and Hollywood films, Superman’s legacy seems, like the Man of Steel himself, to be utterly invincible. |
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Our Hero: Superman on Earth $9.54 Since his first appearance in Action Comics Number One, published in late spring of 1938, Superman has represented the essence of American heroism. “Faster than a speeding bullet, more powerful than a locomotive, and able to leap tall buildings in a single bound,” the Man of Steel has thrilled audiences across the globe, yet as life-long “Superman Guy” Tom De Haven argues in this highly entertaining book, his story is uniquely American.Created by Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster in the midst of the Great Depression, Superman is both a transcendent figure and, when posing as his alter-ego, reporter Clark Kent, a humble working-class citizen. An orphan and an immigrant, he shares a personal history with the many Americans who came to this country in search of a better life, and his amazing feats represent the wildest realization of the American dream. As De Haven reveals through behind-the-scenes vignettes, personal anecdotes, and lively interpretations of more than 70 years of comic books, radio programs, TV shows, and Hollywood films, Superman’s legacy seems, like the Man of Steel himself, to be utterly invincible. |
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Persuader (Comics) $82.8 Used – Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. The Persuader is the name of three fictional characters featured in comic books published by DC Comics. Nyeun Chun Ti first appeared in Adventure Comics #352 (January 1967), and was created by Jim Shooter and Curt Swan. Cole Parker first appeared in Adventures of Superman #598 (January 2002), and was created by Joe Casey and Pete Woods.The second Persuader (the s |
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Persuader (Comics) $82.8 New – Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. The Persuader is the name of three fictional characters featured in comic books published by DC Comics. Nyeun Chun Ti first appeared in Adventure Comics #352 (January 1967), and was created by Jim Shooter and Curt Swan. Cole Parker first appeared in Adventures of Superman #598 (January 2002), and was created by Joe Casey and Pete Woods.The second Persuader (the se |
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Pocket Full Of Kryptonite $57.99 High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Pocket Full of Kryptonite is the first studio album by American band Spin Doctors, released in August 1991. It peaked at #1 and #3 on Billboard’s Heatseekers and Billboard 200 albums charts, respectively. It was the band’s best selling album, and was certified 5x Platinum by the RIAA. The album’s title is a reference to Kryptonite, a fictional substance from the Superman mythos, and the phone booth on the cover is a reference to several comic book stories where Clark Kent would duck into a phone booth to change into his Superman costume. The title is a line from the album’s first track, “Jimmy Olsen’s Blues”, which refers to Jimmy Olsen, a supporting character from the same mythos, supposedly being attracted to another character, Lois Lane, and is jealous of Lane’s romantic feelings for Superman. The full line, “I’ve got a pocket full of Kryptonite”, is a sexual double entendre. |
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Pocket Full of Kryptonite $69.6 Used – High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Pocket Full of Kryptonite is the first studio album by American band Spin Doctors, released in August 1991. It peaked at #1 and #3 on Billboard’s Heatseekers and Billboard 200 albums charts, respectively. It was the band’s best selling album, and was certified 5x Platinum by the RIAA. The album’s title is a reference to Kryptonite, a fictional substance from the Superman mythos, and the phone booth on the cover is a reference to several comic bo |
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Psimon $99.6 Used – Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Psimon is a fictional comic book supervillain from DC Comics created by George P rez and Marv Wolfman. He first appeared in New Teen Titans #3 (January 1981) as one of the founding members of the Fearsome Five, which became a frequent enemy of the Teen Titans, Superman, and the Outsiders. Physicist Dr. Simon Jones was working on experiments in contacting other di |
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Radioactive Man (The Simpsons Character) $80.99 Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Radioactive Man is a fictional fictional comic book superhero in the animated sitcom The Simpsons. Within the Simpsons universe, Radioactive Man was created by Morty Mann. He has been portrayed in many media since his debut in “Radioactive Man” #1 in 1952. In addition to comic books, he was featured in at least one 1940s or 1950s era black-and-white serial, sponsored by Laramie Cigarettes. The serials featured fictional actor Dirk Richter – a parody of Adam West and George Reeves – as Radioactive Man, and Buddy Hodges played Fallout Boy. Richter, reportedly born in 1922 (he was said to be “72 years old and … dead” in 1995), was apparently shot to death in a bordello sometime in the 1960s (a reference to the mysterious death of George Reeves, the first actor to portray Superman on television). |