Encyclopedia of Comic Books and Graphic Novels

IRON MAN 317 technology, however, Stark fell victim to an attack by warlords in Vietnam; he was taken prisoner and seriously inj ...

318 IT’S A GOOD LIFE, IF YOU DON’T WEAKEN Man. Th e other major female foil to duel with Stark is Madame Masque (née Whitney Fro ...

IT’S A GOOD LIFE, IF YOU DON’T WEAKEN 319 as an Outstanding Graphic Novel or Collection award. Th e Ignatz is a festival prize d ...

320 IT’S A GOOD LIFE, IF YOU DON’T WEAKEN that of a young woman, a French major named Ruthie, whom he dates and then dumps. She ...

J JACKSON, JACK (JAXON) (1941–2006). Jack Jackson was a pioneering underground comics artist (using the pen name “Jaxon”), a fi ...

322 JIMMY CORRIGAN: THE SMARTEST KID ON EARTH In addition to his comics work, Jackson became a respected scholar of Texas histor ...

JIMMY CORRIGAN: THE SMARTEST KID ON EARTH 323 Columbian Exposition in Chicago. Th e story of the lonely Jimmy Corrigan reveals i ...

324 JLA/AVENGERS all in the service of a narrative that moves between the intimate explorations of human emotion and the histori ...

JLA/AVENGERS 325 variety of editorial diffi culties. After DC had given their creative team the go-ahead to begin writing and dr ...

326 JOHNS, GEOFF In late 2004, the series was reprinted as a boxed hardbound two-volume set; the fi rst volume reprinted the min ...

JOURNEY INTO MYSTERY 327 While the majority of Johns’s work has been for DC, he done some work for other publishers, most notabl ...

328 JUNGLE COMICS During its Atlas run Journey into Mystery displayed the art of Bill Everett, Russ Heath, Tony DiPreta, Vic Car ...

JUNGLE COMICS 329 for their own, although, judging from his ineptitude, one wonders why. In one story, the villainess, thinking ...

330 JUNGLE COMICS be considered a slightly short minidress.). When the series ended, McCalla fi nally took acting lessons, but i ...

JUNGLE COMICS 331 tended to fi ght the usual evil slave traders and bad white guys who were out to steal some innocent native tr ...

332 JUNGLE COMICS plays a sort of Wonder Dog role. When Rulah is held prisoner by killer gorillas, Saber races to get help from ...

JUNGLE COMICS 333 Even sarong-wearing movie star Dorothy Lamour had her own comic, in which she starred as a sarong-wearing jung ...

334 JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA Reacting to America’s new anti-comics attitude partly caused by Wertham’s book, the comics industr ...

JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA 335 Th ere have been many collections of Justice League–related comics. Th e original series has been ...

336 JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA Batman and others. After the events of the Legends limited series, this incarnation of the team en ...