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unusual facts about comic books



Duke of Oil

The Duke of Oil (Earl J. Dukeston) is a fictional cyborg supervillain appearing in comic books published by DC Comics.

Janice Em

She would have been a major character in the storyline of the aborted animated sequel series Robotech II: The Sentinels, which was later realized as both a series of a novels and comic books, and went on to play a key role in the animated feature, Robotech: The Shadow Chronicles.

Jingle Belle

Jing appears in a number of comic books, all written by Dini and illustrated by a wide roster of comic artists, including Stephen DeStefano, Bill Morrison, J. Bone and Sergio Aragonés.

Supersnipe

Supersnipe is a fictional character who appeared in a series of comic books published by Street & Smith from 1942 to 1949.

Tintin's Travel Diaries

These books were inspired by characters from The Adventures of Tintin series of classic comic books drawn and written by Hergé, and were based on notebooks that Tintin may have kept as he traveled on to his adventures.

United States Senate Subcommittee on Juvenile Delinquency

They focused on particularly graphic "crime and horror" comic books of the day, and their potential impact on juvenile delinquency.

Yoshitomo Nara

He grew up in a time when Japan was experiencing an inundation of Western pop culture; comic books, Walt Disney animation, and Western rock music are just a few examples.


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Adult comics

This led to Dr. Fredric Wertham's book Seduction of the Innocent, which blamed violent media (but almost exclusively comic books) for the rising number of cases of juvenile delinquency nationwide.

Bumble

Oliver B. Bumble, a fictional bear in a series of Dutch comic books by Marten Toonder

Canada Dry

In 1934, it was one of the first society to give comic books (a very recent creation of Max Gaines) as a free gift to appeal people.

Capital City

Capital City Distribution, a company that distributed comic books from 1980 to 1996.

Comic Book Men

He has also written comic books, including Karney and War of the Undead, both of which were illustrated by Walt Flanagan.

DC Direct

DC Direct was the collectibles division of DC Comics, the Time Warner subsidiary that publishes comic books and licenses characters such as Superman, Wonder Woman, Green Lantern, Flash, Batman, Aquaman and Hawkgirl, from 1998 until April of 2012.

Diana Gabaldon

During the mid-1980s, Gabaldon wrote software reviews and technical articles for computer publications, as well as popular-science articles and comic books for Disney.

Doug Wheatley

Doug Wheatley, sometimes credited as Douglas H. Wheatley or Doug Tropea-Wheatley, is a Canadian comic book artist that has illustrated numerous comic books including several Star Wars stories for Dark Horse Comics.

Gay Ghost

Gay Ghost comic books were mentioned in Law & Order Season 20, Episode 22 "Love Eternal", which first aired on 5/17/2010.

Glen David Gold

Gold has also ventured into comic books, writing a short story featuring Will Eisner's classic creation The Spirit.

Graphic Imaging Technology

For a time, GIT held the license to release collections of scanned Marvel comic books, which included some of their classic characters such as Spider-Man, Captain America, The Hulk, Iron Man, and the Fantastic Four.

Harold Zirin

Zirin's zeal and infectious enthusiasm in the study of the sun led his Caltech astronomy students in the 1970s (led by David Brin and Dick Trtek) to produce comic books and graffiti on construction fences of Zirin as a mild-mannered professor who transformed into the super-hero Captain Corona whenever he stepped into a solar observatory.

Human Bomb

In "The Education of Jaime Sommers" episode of Bionic Woman, Tom Gilchrist (played by Jordan Bridges) notes "One of my favorite comic books was The Freedom Fighters. There was a character called The Human Bomb" -- and pulls back his tuxedo jacket to reveal explosives strapped to his body.

Josef Rubinstein

Among his extensive inking credits (which include more than 2,500 comic books), were work with Michael Golden on Micronauts, Jim Starlin's Warlock and Aquaman with Don Newton.

Judith Hunt

From 1980–1985, Hunt co-created and wrote cartoon and comic books with her then-husband, Chuck Dixon, including Robotech Defenders, Evangeline, and Winnie-the-Pooh word books, besides being the designer and illustrator on these projects.

Kane County

Kane County (comics), the county-level jurisdiction in which Gotham City is located in the DC Universe line of comic books, named for Bob Kane, the creator of Batman

Kristi Myst

In a 2005 interview, she described herself as a "full time mom," and a fan of X-Men comic books.

Lady Punisher

Lynn Michaels, a Marvel Comics character seen in the Punisher comic books.

Landau, Luckman, and Lake

Landau, Luckman, and Lake or LLL is the name of a fictional holding company featured in the pages of the Wolverine, Uncanny X-Men and Deadpool comic books, published by Marvel Comics.

Leon Lazarus

Lazarus additionally wrote for Ziff-Davis, under editor Jerry Siegel, doing stories for Kid Cowboy, G.I. Joe (unrelated to the later Hasbro action figures) and other comic books for about a year, and also did work for the writer/artist team of Joe Simon and Jack Kirby, and for American Comics Group (AGC), under editor Richard E. Hughes.

LMDS

Life Model Decoy, in plural LMDs, fictional androids appearing in comic books

Locations in the Bionicle Saga

The Bionicle story is set in a science fantasy world and is primarily told through the book series Bionicle Chronicles, Bionicle Adventures, and Bionicle Legends, as well as through comic books published by DC Comics.

Lordi 3: Verensininen

Lordi 3: Verensininen was published on October 29, 2008 and is the third in the series of comic books released by Lordi.

Martin Taras

Known for the creation of Baby Huey, Taras also animated films and drew comic books featuring characters such as Casper the Friendly Ghost, Spooky the Tuff Little Ghost, Rags Rabbit, Wendy the Good Little Witch, Herman and Katnip, and Buzzy the Funny Crow.

Mass media and politics in Japan

The latter range from high-quality comprehensive general circulation intellectual periodicals such as Sekai (World), Chuo Koron (Central Review), and Bungei Shunju (Literary Annals) to sarariman manga (salaryman comics), comic books for adults that depict the vicissitudes and fantasies of contemporary office workers, and weeklies specializing in scandals.

Matthew H. Gore

He has also served several terms on the board of directors of the Grand Comics Database (GCD), a volunteer organization devoted to indexing all world comic books.

Odic force

2010: The villainous fictional version of Thomas Edison who appears in Atomic Robo comic books is obsessed with harnessing the Odic force (via direct current) to unlock the secret of immortality.

Picard language

Picard, although primarily a spoken language, does also have a body of written literature: poetry, songs ("P'tit quinquin" for example), comic books etc.

Robert L. Washington III

Subsequently, he contributed to several additional comic books (mostly published by DC), including co-creating Shadow Cabinet and writing for Extreme Justice, The Batman Chronicles, JLA Secret Files, and (for Acclaim Comics) Ninjak.

Roy Carson

Roy Carson was a British hard-boiled detective created in 1948 by Denis McLoughlin and his brother Colin and first published by Boardman Books in their series of rotogravure comic books (1948–1954).

Ruby character

because the author is using a nonstandard pronunciation for a character or a term—for example, comic books often employ ruby to emphasize dajare puns, as in Hana Yori Dango (rather than standard "Danshi" reading), and show both of the pronunciation and meaning, as in "One Piece" in One Piece (displayed by ruby character "Wan Piisu" ("One Piece") as the pronunciation and main character "Hitotsunagi no Daihihou" ("The Great Treasure of One Piece") as meaning).

Sanctum

Sanctum Sanctorum, a fictional location in Doctor Strange comic books

Seth Cohen

He's also passionate about comic books, citing Brian Michael Bendis as one of the greatest comic book writers of all time.

Space Cadets

Tom Corbett, Space Cadet series on radio, television, and in comic books, novels

Starborn

Starborn (Benjamin Warner) is a fictional character, a superhero that appears in comic books published by Boom! Studios.

Steve Ekstrom

Initially, he started out reviewing comic books independently via MySpace.com under the pseudonym "The Masked Comic Dork", in an attempt to enter the American comic book industry.

Superdog

Krypto, also known as Krypto the Superdog, is Superman's pet dog in the various Superman comic books published by DC Comics.

Supernatural Law

The characters made occasional appearances in comic books over the years (Mr. Monster, Munden's Bar Special, Satan's Six).

Tales from the Heart

Tales from the Heart is the title of a series of comic books, written by Cindy Goff and Rafael Nieves and illustrated by Seitu Hayden.

The Anti-Gravity Room

Viewers would call in with questions on comic books and host Nick Scoullar would answer them.

The Command

The Command (comic) part of the series Fifty State Initiative, a fictional governmental plan that appears in comic books published by Marvel Comics

Tom Platz

His character portrayed the Charles Atlas-like character from those "tired of bullies kicking sand in your face and stealing your girlfriend"-type of advertisements that were in a lot of comic books during the 50's and 60's.

Tomm Coker

Coker's career started in the early nineties drawing comic books for Image Comics, Dark Horse Comics, Marvel Comics and DC Comics.

Torus Tammer

Both projects were adaptations of comic books; "Golgo 13" (AKA The Professional) by the legendary Japanese comic book artist Takao Saito and "Preacher" which at the time, was a cutting edge new series for Vertigo/DC comics created by Garth Ennis.

Unknown Armies

The style and setting of the game draw on a number of influences, including the fantasy novels of Tim Powers, the crime novels of James Ellroy, the films of David Lynch, the Illuminatus! Trilogy, and comic books such as Grant Morrison's The Invisibles.

Yomics World

Yomics World, or 'Yomics' is the comic book division of Yash Raj Films Studios, specializing in creating comic books predominantly based on Yash Raj Films movies and suitable for readers of all ages.

Zot!

McCloud credited Astro Boy creator Osamu Tezuka as a major influence on the book, making it one of the first manga-inspired American comic books.