Encyclopedia of Comic Books and Graphic Novels

FANTAGRAPHICS 197 Famous Funnies had published 46 issues by the time Action Comics #1, which included the debut of Superman , ap ...

198 FANTASTIC FOUR Abel, Ho Che Anderson, Ivan Brunetti, Charles Burns, Dave Cooper, Kim Deitch, Roberta Gregory, Bill Griffi th ...

FANTASTIC FOUR 199 until the third issue. By the fourth issue, the comic’s cover boldly proclaimed it to be “Th e World’s Greate ...

200 FANTASY the inking of Joe Sinnott, who had inked most of Kirby’s pencils on the book, helped establish a visual consistency ...

FANTASY 201 Arthurian tales, which began appearing at the dawn of American comic books, have been especially prominent among tho ...

202 FANTASY issues of the anthology book Marvel Fanfare and were featured in the 2005 miniseries Th or: Blood Oath. DC presented ...

FANTASY 203 three-issue limited series adapting Th e Hobbit , the precursor to Tolkien’s grand epic, Th e Lord of the Rings , bu ...

204 FANTASY for 50 issues, from 1981 to 1983. An unpublished Red Sonja story was retooled as the Adventures of Marada in the Rom ...

FANTASY 205 Th e 1930s pulp magazine stories of Robert E. Howard are the wellspring of heroic fantasy in comic books. Gardner Fo ...

206 FANTASY fi lled the void with eight Conan miniseries from 1997 to 2000, but Conan would not appear in a regular series again ...

FANTASY 207 Barbarian , and a 1973 one-shot from Windy City Publications, a more fully realized Elric emerged in 1982 when Marve ...

208 FANTASY adventure characters is planned. Red Sonja, meanwhile, has become a cottage industry at Dynamite Entertainment. An o ...

FELDSTEIN, AL 209 a 1996 BBC television series he also wrote. Average guy Richard Mayhew ceases to exist for the regular world a ...

210 FELIX THE CAT book into magazine. Financially troubled, Gaines dismissed Feldstein in 1956. Feldstein’s sporadic employment ...

FELIX THE CAT 211 Felix’s creation has been increas- ingly acknowledged, with claims that he, rather than Sullivan, was responsi ...

212 FEMINISM Selected Bibliography: Canemaker, John. Felix: Th e Twisted Tale of the World’s Most Famous Cat. New York: Pantheon ...

FEMINISM 213 prefers a career to romance, says, “I guess I was what they called a woman’s libber.” Yet by the story’s climax, ha ...

214 FEMINISM male cartoonists would never touch: abortion, menstruation, sexual harassment, rape, domestic violence, incest, les ...

FEMINISM 215 Metal Hurlant (published in the United States as Heavy Metal ) came out with the all-woman anthology comics magazin ...

216 FEMINISM more positive, and thus has attracted many more female fans. Two such examples that were then adapted for comics ar ...