Encyclopedia of Comic Books and Graphic Novels

558 SEAGUY Th is shift toward more adult audiences is often located in two major works, Frank Miller’s Th e Dark Knight Returns ...

SEAGUY 559 Seaguy is a non-powered superhero who wears a scuba suit. He is accompanied by his sidekick Chubby Da Choona, a talki ...

560 SETH concerns to the fore. He has declared it to be a new type of superhero comic, one which consciously avoids current tren ...

SEVEN SOLDIERS OF VICTORY 561 autobiography and history in Seth’s search for a New Yorker cartoonist named Jack “Kalo” Kalloway, ...

562 SEVEN SOLDIERS OF VICTORY utilized in the popular Justice Society of America, and ran for the fi rst 14 issues of Leading Co ...

SEVERIN, JOHN 563 traitor. Another prophesy states that one soldier will die, which seemingly comes to pass when Shilo Norman, M ...

564 SEVERIN, MARIE In 1950, Severin and Elder followed Kurtzman over to EC Comics to work on Two-Fisted Tales and Frontline Comb ...

SGT. FURY AND HIS HOWLING COMMANDOS 565 a result of the 1954 Kefauver hearings, EC canceled all their comic book titles and turn ...

566 SGT. FURY AND HIS HOWLING COMMANDOS the comic book coincided with the height of the Civil Rights movement in the United Stat ...

SHADOW, THE 567 and violently. Th e stories also often addressed current events, as in several issues that dealt with racism. Th ...

568 SHADOW, THE headquarters. His most prominent alias was that of Lamont Cranston, a millionaire playboy. In 1937, Th e Shadow ...

SHOOTING WAR 569 the adventure series. Welles’s Shadow was less deadly than the version seen routinely in the pulps. Although We ...

570 SHUSTER, JOE Starbucks coff ee shop, the shop explodes. Th e explosion, a result of a terrorist attack, has Burns in the rig ...

SHUSTER, JOE 571 He also won a citywide poster contest for a football game. Shuster agreed to illustrate and design a fi ve-issu ...

572 SIEGEL, JERRY Selected Bibliography: Benton, Mike. Masters of Imagination: Th e Comic Book Artists Hall of Fame. New York: N ...

SIENKIEWICZ, BILL 573 War II, instigated a complicated set of lawsuits in 1946 to regain control over Superman and the new chara ...

574 SILVER SURFER, THE the boundaries of superhero comics even further with its adult themes and political commentary. For his w ...

SILVER SURFER, THE 575 Th e Silver Surfer fi rst appears in a three-issue sequence of Fantastic Four (known today as the “Th e G ...

576 SIM, DAVE the challenge of breaking the Surfer’s will. As with many comics characters, the themes of willpower and moral cla ...

SIMON, JOE 577 productions from Marvel Comics, particularly Conan the Barbarian. Sim, along with his then-wife, Deni Loubert, es ...