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unusual facts about Superman ''mythos''



100 Books by August Derleth

There is also an illustration repoducing a mock certificate awarding Derleth the degree of "Doctor of Philosophy in Mythos" to Derleth, from Miskatonic University.

Alexander Salkind

Following in his father's footsteps, he produced French films & others in Europe and Hollywood: Austerlitz directed by Abel Gance and Le Procès (The Trial) directed by Orson Welles and 1978's Superman starring Christopher Reeve and Margot Kidder.

Allan and the Sundered Veil

They are attacked by albino creatures known as both Morlocks (from The Time Machine) and Mi-go (from the Cthulhu Mythos).

Annette O'Toole

In October 2001, 18 years after portraying Lana Lang in a feature film (Superman III), she returned to the Superman mythos in the role of Martha Kent, Superman's adoptive mother, in the television series Smallville.

BBC Radio Northampton

The station was launched at 6:45am on 16 June 1982 on 1107 AM and 96.6 FM, with Jon Beynon's programme Start the Day, the first piece of music being John Williams's Superman theme, followed by Work that Body by Diana Ross.

Call of Cthulhu: The Wasted Land

The cult, headed by a mysterious figure called Docktor Kaul is using the stolen technology of Herbert West (the re-animator) combined with arcane mythos magic to build an undead army from the victims of the Great War as part of a larger plot to eliminate humanity from earth to clear it for a new hybrid species of part human, part Star Spawn of Cthulhu.

Chaosium

Green Knight Publishing formed to focus on Pendragon, Chaosium "proper" retained Call of Cthulhu, Stormbringer, and Mythos, while Greg Stafford (who left Chaosium in 1998) founded Issaries, Inc. to publish HeroQuest and focus on bringing new Glorantha related material into print.

CthulhuTech

Aside from these conflicts, the game focuses on other factions, such as ancient cults like the Esoteric Order of Dagon that are running amok across the planet and the eldritch horrors that are rising to destroy the world as, according to the prophecies of the Cthulhu Mythos, the "stars are right" and the Great Old Ones and their servitors are returning/reawakening to reclaim the Earth.

Daijōbu, My Friend

The film, written and directed by Ryu Murakami, based on his own novel, is a parody of such films as Superman, E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, and Attack of the Killer Tomatoes.

Daniel Harms

He is best known for the books The Encyclopedia Cthulhiana: A Guide to Lovecraftian Horror (which won an Origins Special Achievement Award), The Cthulhu Mythos Encyclopedia, The Necronomicon Files (co-authored with John Wisdom Gonce III), and The Long-Lost Friend: A 19th Century American Grimoire.

Doctor Sivana

In the Superman cartoon "The Magnetic Telescope" by Fleischer Studios, the astronomer (voiced by Bud Collyer) who built the titular device and as a result threatened the city strongly resembled Dr. Sivana.

Fall of man

J. R. R. Tolkien included as a note to his comments about the Dialogue of Finrod and Andreth (published posthumously in 1993), the Tale of Adanel that is a reimagining of the fall of man inside his Middle-earth's mythos.

Joseph S. Pulver, Sr.

He was also the co-editor for Crypt of Cthulhu, published by Mythos Books LLC working alongside Robert M. Price, Michael Cisco and David Wynn.

Just Keep Runnin'

It also greatly expanded the band's secret agent mythos, with the liner notes extensively detailing the comic book-style secret origins of the band and its members.

Let's Go With Pancho Villa

It stands apart among the many movies made about Villa in that it portrays the man and the Revolution in its cruelty; most other films, like those by Ismael Rodríguez in the 1960s, take an almost idyllic view of both, following the official (government) mythos.

Marc McClure

McClure's best known role was perhaps in the 1978 film Superman, playing photographer Jimmy Olsen.

Mario Puzo

Puzo also wrote the original screenplay for Richard Donner's Superman which, at the time, also included the plot for Superman II, as they were originally written as one film.

Martin Shapiro

Shapiro’s first feature-length screenplay Lair of the Fox, a military action-thriller, was optioned by Ilya Salkind (Producer of Superman).

Metamorphosis Odyssey

Although a part of the Dreadstar mythos, this is a solo story featuring Syzygy Darklock with Vanth Dreadstar making a brief appearance at the end.

Rayver Cruz

He played another lead role as Mythos in the primetime show Rounin in (2007).

S. Albert Kivinen

Besides his writings based on the mythos created by H. P. Lovecraft, he has also recorded politico-philosophic songs even with the co-operation of such notable Finnish artists as M. A. Numminen.

Sam Katzman

He is noted for numerous westerns of the '30s, his Bela Lugosi and East Side Kids features of the '40s, the 15-chapter Superman serial of 1948 and a string of rock-'n'-roll musicals in the '50s. At Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in the '60s Katzman produced several Elvis Presley films and singer Roy Orbison's only film, The Fastest Guitar Alive.

Steve Kahan

Kahan's first feature film role was in the 1978 classic film Superman as Armis, one of the two detectives following Otis, hoping to find out where Lex Luthor is hiding.

Superman Classic

The Metropolis scenery is heavily inspired by the architecture of Hugh Ferriss, while the film's music is taken from the 1948 Superman serial composed by Mischa Bakaleinikoff.

Tarrus Riley

It contained the hits Start Anew, Contagious, Good Girl Gone Bad featuring Konshens and Superman, a cover of a Robin Thicke original.2010 saw the release of the chart topper Protect the People, which scaled several charts in Jamaica and across the Caribbean.

Teaser campaign

An early example of the teaser trailer was the one for the 1978 Superman film by Richard Donner.

Tech noir

Where Altman's subversion of the film noir mythos was so irreverent as to anger many contemporary critics, around the same time Woody Allen was paying affectionate, at points idolatrous homage to the classic mode with Play It Again, Sam (1972).

Tommy Bond

Also, he is noted for being the first actor to appear onscreen as "Superman's pal" Jimmy Olsen, having portrayed the character in the film serials Superman (1948) and Atom Man vs. Superman (1950).

In the late 1940s, Bond became the first actor to portray cub reporter Jimmy Olsen in two Superman film serials: Superman (1948) and Atom Man vs. Superman (1950).

Valerie Perrine

She was Carlotta Monti in the biopic W.C. Fields and Me (1976) and one of her best remembered movie roles came as Miss Eve Teschmacher, moll of criminal mastermind Lex Luthor, in Superman (1978).

Vincent Marzello

He has since appeared in productions that include The Spy Who Loved Me, Superman, Never Say Never Again, Pulaski, The Witches, Taggart, The House of Eliott, Dalziel and Pascoe, Little Britain, Nuclear Secrets and Mile High.

YIG

Yig (the Father of Serpents), a deity in H.P. Lovecraft's Cthulhu mythos


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