Encyclopedia of Comic Books and Graphic Novels

578 SIMONE, GAIL assistant. At Timely, Simon and Kirby created the one of the most famous comic book superheroes, Captain Americ ...

SIMONSON, WALTER (WALT) 579 their thoughts. Simone went on to write a weekly column called “You’ll All Be Sorry” for the Web sit ...

580 SIN CITY Jack Kirby days. Although Simonson injected a fi ne mixture of science fi ction and mythology, fans typically remem ...

SIN CITY 581 worn-down projects, and city landmarks help anchor the fast-paced plot lines in areas like the surreal Tar Pits of ...

582 SIN CITY In A Dame to Kill for (1994) the photographer Dwight gets framed by his devious ex-girlfriend Ava Lord. Enlisting t ...

SPAWN 583 Sin City was made into a movie in 2005 directed by Robert Rodriguez and co- directed by Miller himself. In the making ...

584 SPAWN himself, and reveals himself as the Biblical Cain. Cagliostro returns Spawn to Earth seemingly trans- formed back to h ...

SPEEDING BULLETS 585 American family. He is shot in the head by the Klan members and then hanged, though he lives to exact reven ...

586 SPEEDING BULLETS are murdered. Th e kindly farm couple takes the sullen boy into their home so that their son Clark can have ...

SPIDER-MAN 587 new settings, such as medieval England, Soviet Russia, or Hollywood in the 1920s. Elseworlds stories provided int ...

588 SPIDER-MAN who made the mistake would be held accountable for it, in this story the martyr- dom of Uncle Ben establishes the ...

SPIEGELMAN, ART 589 and city politics, in which Peter is loath to get involved. A story arc in 1971 features Harry Osborn’s addi ...

590 SPIEGELMAN, ART Tensions between independent artistry and the demands of commer- cial fame characterized Spiegelman’s profes ...

SPIRIT, THE 591 Selected Bibliography: Spiegelman, Art. Breakdowns: Portrait of the Artist as a Young %@&*! New York: Panthe ...

592 SPIRIT, THE Th e Spirit included lovingly depicted femmes fatales, notably P’Gelle, a dark-haired international adventuress; ...

STAGGER LEE 593 produced mostly unremarkable stories. Political cartoonist, playwright, and children’s book author Jules Feiff e ...

594 STAR SPANGLED COMICS addiction, a blues musician who was among the fi rst to tell Stagger Lee’s story through song, a woman ...

STERANKO, JAMES (JIM) 595 on the patriotic hero market. Like Timely’s new fl agship, the fi rst six issues featured its Jerry Si ...

596 STEVENS, DAVE series Nick Fury, Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D., Pennsylvania-born visionary artist Jim Steranko has worked in many me ...

STRACZYNSKI, J. MICHAEL 597 Diego resident late in his life. Stevens was also employed as a storyboard illustrator for Steven Sp ...