Encyclopedia of Comic Books and Graphic Novels

ALLRED, MIKE 17 Edited by Sheldon Mayer, All-American Comics focused primarily on superhero stories. Other publishers, particula ...

18 ALL-STAR COMICS psychologist, and to establish works that are character driven, not profi t driven. Allred, however, thinks t ...

ALL-STAR COMICS 19 In the fi rst issue, the heroes simply have an informal get-together. No major threat presents itself. Instea ...

20 ALPHA FLIGHT Th e Wizard, along with Flash’s foe, Th e Th inker, and Green Lantern’s villains Vandal Savage and Th e Gambler. ...

ALPHA FLIGHT 21 a special, and a two issue-limited series, X-Men and Alpha Flight (1985). Th e fi rst eight issues have been col ...

22 AMAZING FANTASY had mystical powers of her own; Guardian’s wife Heather, who became Vindicator after receiving her own supers ...

AMAZING FANTASY 23 volume of Amazing Fantasy was published (2004–6, #1–20), essentially as a plat- form for introducing new supe ...

24 AMERICAN BORN CHINESE AAF #14). In virtually all of the stories, the protagonists are male, and women—to the extent that they ...

AMERICAN BORN CHINESE 25 Th e novel consists of a trilogy of interspliced narratives. Th e fi rst follows the adventures of the ...

26 AMERICAN FLAGG! friendship show both how delicate this bond of friendship is, and how necessary it is if one is to survive ad ...

AMERICAN FLAGG! 27 have combined to radically remake the face of global civilization. Lauded for its sophisticated political cri ...

28 AMERICAN SPLENDOR Yet despite widespread acclaim, the series proved controversial as well. A 1984 essay in Psychology Today a ...

AMERICAN SPLENDOR 29 and work as a government fi le clerk in a Veteran’s Administration hospital. Th e title is satirical—in a 2 ...

30 AMERICAN SPLENDOR Letterman used him as a Rust Belt foil. Pekar used his appearances on Letterman’s show as recurring stories ...

ANT-MAN 31 Comics’ Vertigo imprint also published two four-issue miniseries between 2006–8, using artists new to Pekar such as R ...

32 AQUAMAN In 2006, the most recent Ant-Man, alias Eric O’Grady, debuted in Th e Irredeemable Ant-Man #1, by Robert Kirkman and ...

AQUAMAN 33 Th e expansion of Aquaman’s world began in 1959 with the addition of a teen side- kick known as Aqualad. Th e boy, wh ...

34 ARCHIE on Justice League Unlimited. Be- ginning in 2005, Aquaman was portrayed by actor Alan Ritchson in several episodes of ...

ASTRO CITY 35 killed by a former patient. Th ere is very little action going on in this graphic novel, since most of the pages d ...

36 ASTRO CITY his fi ctional world are based on more popular mainstream characters. For example, the character Samaritan is a Su ...