Encyclopedia of Comic Books and Graphic Novels

TOPICAL LIST OF ENTRIES xix Themes and Genres Adaptations from Other Media Cold War Crime Comics Educational Comics Espionage Eu ...

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Preface Comic books have long been among the least respected forms of American popular culture, often regarded as mindless enter ...

xxii PREFACE graphic novels, and popular culture, have prepared 340 entries that provide as many as possible of the most importa ...

A ACTION COMICS. Action Comics is considered the birthplace of the superhero genre based upon the debut of Superman in its fi rs ...

2 ADAMS, NEAL of red hair. He was followed by other villains who made their initial appearances in Action Comics, such as Ultra- ...

ADAPTATIONS FROM OTHER MEDIA 3 he quickly went on to greater solo eff orts. At the young age of 20, he already had a syndicated ...

4 ADAPTATIONS FROM OTHER MEDIA aimed at adolescent readers. Some of these works are even adapted by the original author. In the ...

ADAPTATIONS FROM OTHER MEDIA 5 three similar-themed 16-page stories in one volume. Stone Arch Books, which has a line of origina ...

6 ADAPTATIONS FROM OTHER MEDIA Ambrose Bierce, Edgar Allan Poe, Mark Twain, Jack London, O. Henry, and Oscar Wilde, as well as v ...

ADAPTATIONS FROM OTHER MEDIA 7 Characters from animated cartoons were natural candidates for adaptation to the comics, and chara ...

8 ADAPTATIONS FROM OTHER MEDIA set prior, during, and after the events of the fi lm 28 Days Later. In 2009, IDW created best-sel ...

ADAPTATIONS FROM OTHER MEDIA 9 change was that certain horror characters were allowed in a code-approved title as long as they w ...

10 ADAPTATIONS FROM OTHER MEDIA the original series, Next Generation , and Th e New Frontier , as well as various alien races (s ...

ADVENTURE COMICS 11 work in another medium or a new ongoing title based on another work, adapted and licensed works have been a ...

12 AGES OF COMICS Steve Ditko’s version of Starman (Prince Gavyn) would be featured in issue #467 and subsequent issues; Dial “H ...

AGES OF COMICS 13 comics and further refi nement of generic conventions. In 1954, the Comics Magazine Association of America (CM ...

14 ALICE IN SUNDERLAND artistry. Starting in the 1980s, the publication of longer story arcs across single issues and their comp ...

ALICE IN SUNDERLAND 15 one “total falsehood,” which he challenges the audience to spot. He presents a history of the Empire on i ...

16 ALL-AMERICAN COMICS Elsewhere, Talbot draws upon a dizzying array of visual sources, including pop culture ephemera, photogra ...