Encyclopedia of Comic Books and Graphic Novels

478 POST-APOCALYPTIC NARRATIVES Many comics stories have dealt with the eminent destruction of Earth, but it is typically either ...

POST-APOCALYPTIC NARRATIVES 479 Th e Last Man on Earth (1964), Planet of the Apes (1968), and Th e Omega Man (1971) all started ...

480 POST-APOCALYPTIC NARRATIVES the population. Five genetically-corrected people (ex-mutants) are sent to help bring hope to hu ...

POST-APOCALYPTIC NARRATIVES 481 warlords and villains who prey upon the innocent. In the United States, Epic Comics began publis ...

482 PREACHER in 1968), as well as Stephen King’s novel Th e Stand (1978). We s t e r n motifs infl ected through such fi lms as ...

PREACHER 483 for God to rid him of Genesis, which will allow God to escape Jesse. In return, both Jesse and Cassidy survive the ...

484 PRIDE OF BAGHDAD self-made man; he educated himself from the public library and lives by his wits and the skills he learned ...

PRIDE OF BAGHDAD 485 has known nothing but captivity. At the onset of the story, Noor is attempting to forge a peace and overthr ...

486 PRIEST, CHRISTOPHER IGN.com. Independent publishers had directly dealt with the Iraq War by 2006 and both Marvel and DC had ...

PROMETHEA 487 several increasingly ambitious treatments of race , politics , and the superhero genre. His short-lived series for ...

488 PROMETHEA Promethea inhabited before; Act II sees Sophie on a mystical journey through the 10 sephiroths , or spheres, that ...

PUNISHER, THE 489 up out” of material life. Th e snake replies, “No. It’sss there becaussse I am her ssservant.” In other words, ...

490 PUNISHER, THE Thomas Jane as Frank Castle, a.k.a. the Punisher, in the 2004 live-action film by the same name. Photofest app ...

PUNISHER, THE 491 drawn by Mike Zeck, Mike Vosburg, and John Beatty. Th e story features the return of Jigsaw and the escape of ...

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Q QUALITY COMICS. Founded by Everett M. “Busy” Arnold, Quality Comics was an American comic book publishing company from 1939 to ...

494 QUALITY COMICS studios. At their peak, Quality’s nine titles collectively sold over one million copies per month. As the pop ...

R RACE AND ETHNICITY. Th e history of comics has been complicated by authors’ considerations of racial and ethnic identity at le ...

496 RACE AND ETHNICITY assimilation for many immigrants, helping to undermine widespread nativist views in favor of a patriotism ...

RACE AND ETHNICITY 497 Another specifi cally racialized perspective on superheroic abilities and responsibilities appeared in th ...