Encyclopedia of Comic Books and Graphic Novels

JUSTICE SOCIETY OF AMERICA 337 Speedy), the new version of Firestorm, and Black Lightning who had once turned down membership in ...

338 JUSTICE SOCIETY OF AMERICA some of their children. America Vs. Th e Justice Society (1985) recounted their 45-year history, ...

JUSTICE SOCIETY OF AMERICA 339 appeared would be hyped on their adventure) and then team up at the end of the story to fi nally ...

340 JUSTICE SOCIETY OF AMERICA new member also introduced at this time was Th e Huntress, the daughter of Batman and his enemy-t ...

K KANE, BOB (1916–98). Born Robert Kahn in New York, Kane, a self-professed “superb copycat” artist, would co-create Batman , on ...

342 KANE, GIL though concerned by the dark nature, accepted it. In May 1939, Batman debuted in “Th e Case of the Chemical Syndic ...

KATCHOR, BEN 343 In an eff ort to stretch beyond the limitations of the short stories he was doing at DC, Kane decided to create ...

344 KILLING JOKE, THE a 1999 documentary fi lm by Samuel Bell featuring a look at Katchor’s New York with a surprise appearance ...

KILLING JOKE, THE 345 objective of speaking to and achieving some sort of reconciliation with his nemesis. Th e Joker, however, ...

346 KILLRAVEN sympathetically, comic historian Les Daniels notes that the vileness of the villain’s actions in Th e Killing Joke ...

KILLRAVEN 347 he chose to withdraw from the project, enlisting Gerry Conway to script it in his stead (Conway would provide the ...

348 KING: A COMICS BIOGRAPHY OF MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR McGregor would later begin work on a new Killraven series intended to see ...

KING: A COMICS BIOGRAPHY OF MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR 349 shadow of his own father, an early Civil Rights activist and the minister ...

350 KINGDOM COME noir style (with occasional fl ares of red and orange) to a more abstract aesthetic that is dominated by color. ...

KINGDOM COME 351 worsens as relations between members degrade due to ideological diff erences; Batman creates a separate, more c ...

352 KIRBY, JACK parallel between Superman’s return and the second coming of Christ was also infl uenced by Ross’s religious back ...

KIRKMAN, ROBERT 353 After World War II, Kirby would again team up with Simon on several projects, most notably creating exceedin ...

354 KITCHEN SINK PRESS his buff oon sidekick Jesus H. Christ, this series not so discreetly exemplifi es Kirkman’s approach to c ...

KITCHEN SINK PRESS 355 Wisconsin, Kitchen attracted Midwestern artists, including Jim Mitchell (Smile) and Jay Lynch, but soon d ...

356 KURTZMAN, HARVEY and the concomitant contraction of the comic shop system led to the closing of the press at the end of 1999 ...