Encyclopedia of Comic Books and Graphic Novels

378 MANGA sorts. Allred continued to chronicle the exploits of Frank and his friends in a second three-issue Tundra series, Madm ...

MANGA 379 Before World War II, manga barely resembled the popular mass medium it would eventually become, and was published in n ...

380 MANGA collectability in comic books largely does not translate to Japanese manga magazines and volumes. After 1970 and throu ...

MANGA 381 Magic girl titles include Sailor Moon (1992) by Naoko Takeuchi and Cardcaptor Sakura (1996) by CLAMP. Other popular sh ...

382 MANGA indie comics artist Adrian Tomine, and several titles by Tatsumi have been translated and published in English. Th e d ...

MANGA 383 and adult-oriented manga, and Japanese artists have built around this cartooning style a unique vocabulary of manga ca ...

384 MANGA A given manga title typically bears the name of a single creator, or at times a creative team whose members are largel ...

MANGA 385 the largest public comic convention in the world, although it consists entirely of a sales fl oor for publishers and c ...

386 MANGA Anime releases in the mid-to-late 1990s, such as Dragon Ball Z and Pokemon , helped to raise the profi le of manga to ...

MANHUNTER 387 Contemporary Japanese Society. London: Routledge Curzon, 2000; Schodt, Frederik. Manga! Manga! Th e World of Japan ...

388 MAN OF STEEL, THE Th e third Manhunter series, created by writer Marc Andreyko, ran from October 2004 to January 2009. Th is ...

MAN OF STEEL, THE 389 which had appeared under Mort Weisinger’s run as editor; however, Byrne’s miniseries was the fi rst large- ...

390 MARVEL BOY Smallville , all of which focus on interpersonal relationships and feature corporate Luthors. Jackson Jennings MA ...

MARVEL COMICS 391 imprisoned, but announces his intention to turn the prison into the capital of his new empire. A follow-up ser ...

392 MARVEL COMICS America , he directed Lee to create a superhero team. Lee and Kirby developed an entirely new superhero team, ...

MARVELS 393 Marvel was wholly owned by Goodman until 1969, when he sold the company to Cadence Industries. Th e 1970s were a tum ...

394 MARVELS have super powers or are integral to the plotline. Not so with Marvels. It is the average person who becomes the her ...

MARVEL SUPER HEROES SECRET WARS 395 into the “what if ” aspects of this battle. Religious and apocalyptic overtones abound as th ...

396 MARVEL SUPER HEROES SECRET WARS and the Fantastic Four (Human Torch, Th ing, and Mister Fantastic); as well as the Hulk , Sp ...

MATT, JOE 397 Another signifi cant aspect of the series is that of an all-powerful being in control of one’s fate. Th e characte ...