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8 unusual facts about Peter David


Adventurers Club

Peter David, who wrote the comic, proposed to his wife at the Adventurer's Club.

Claudio Sanchez

Alongside Peter David, Sanchez co-wrote the novel The Amory Wars: Year of the Black Rainbow, chronicling the events of the Year of the Black Rainbow album.

Sanchez co-authored the novel Year of the Black Rainbow with Peter David.

New Gods

Writer Peter David introduced the idea in Supergirl Vol. 4, issue 29 that the New Gods were giants and that the Boom Tube would shrink them as they traveled to normal time and space or enlarge beings who traveled to the Fourth World realm.

Photon: The Ultimate Game on Planet Earth

The company also came out with a home lasertag game, and there were various media tie-ins: a TV show also called Photon and a series of novels by Peter David.

Trancers 5: Sudden Deth

Trancers 5: Sudden Deth is a 1994 sci-fi fantasy adventure film written by Peter David and starring Tim Thomerson as the time traveling "trancer hunter" Jack Deth.

Vonda N. McIntyre

McIntyre invented the first name of the Star Trek character Mr. Sulu, which became canon after Peter David, author of the comic book adaptation, visited the set of Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country and convinced director Nicholas Meyer to insert the name into the film's script.

Wolfwere

In the Peter David novella Howling Mad, the main character is a wolf, who after being bitten by a werewolf, is able to transform into a human.


Assault on the Senses

In the Sept. 2007 (issue 1633) edition of Comics Buyer's Guide, columnist Beau Smith reviewed a copy of Assault on the Senses with positive reviews pointing out, "there is a very cool tint of homage to the Silver Age of comics in this story, and if you're a master of comic trivia like Mark Waid or Peter David you may just figure it out."

Claypool Comics

Claypool Comics is an American comic book publishing company created in 1993, known for publishing such titles as Peter David's Soulsearchers and Company and Elvira, Mistress of the Dark comics, as well as Richard Howell's Deadbeats and, (with Steve Englehart), Phantom of Fear City.

Dreams with Sharp Teeth

It is composed of original and archive footage of Ellison and talking head segments from colleagues and fans including Robin Williams, Peter David and Neil Gaiman.

Eaton's Corrasable Bond

Writer Peter David, who worked as an editor's assistant at the E. P. Dutton imprint Elsevier/Nelson before becoming a professional writer, once related finding a submission written on erasable bond, which made the print difficult to read.

Hulk: The End

Written by Peter David, pencilled by Dale Keown and inked by Joe Weems, the story depicts a possible future for the Hulk like all of the other The End stories.

Kobayashi Maru

In his Star Trek: New Frontier novels, Peter David suggests that future versions of the scenario would involve the Romulans.

The Dark Tower: The Long Road Home

The series is written and illustrated by the same creative team as The Gunslinger Born, which includes writers Robin Furth and Peter David, and illustrators Jae Lee and Richard Isanove.

The Dark Tower: Treachery

The series is written and illustrated by the same creative team as The Gunslinger Born and The Long Road Home, which includes writers Robin Furth and Peter David, and illustrators Jae Lee and Richard Isanove.


see also

Robotoid

According to Peter Beter in his May 28, 1979 Dr. Peter David Better Audio Letter #46 series of audio books, organic robotoid technology is being made to make nearly exact copies of important people.