Encyclopedia of Comic Books and Graphic Novels

678 WATCHMEN with the January, 1947 one-shot horror comic of the same name published by Avon Publications, which ran for 17 issu ...

WATCHMEN 679 September 1986, Wa t c h m e n was collected as a book in 1987, fi nding enormous success alongside other adult com ...

680 WATCHMEN In terms of the story, Moore broke with the conventions of the superhero story from the outset, displacing the acti ...

WEIRDO 681 Moore’s treatment of superheroes is a satire of the genre, as it undermines the clichés and generic codes, allowing M ...

682 WEIRDO We i r d o began as Crumb’s attempt to emulate comics magazines that had infl uenced him, especially the early Mad an ...

WERTHAM, FREDRIC 683 science fi ction writer Philip K. Dick (#17), each produced in what had become Crumb’s increasingly distinc ...

684 WERTHAM, FREDRIC Clinic, NAACP Legal Defense Fund lawyers Jack Greenberg and Th urgood Marshall asked Wertham to research th ...

WESTERNS (COMICS) 685 Madison: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1999; Nyberg, Amy. Seal of Approval: History of the Comics ...

686 WESTERNS (COMICS) merciless sun. Th e latter is often used as an instrument for torture, examples of which can be seen in Bl ...

WESTERNS (COMICS) 687 Th e archetype of the Western hero is the cowboy, still virtually a national symbol in the present-day Uni ...

688 WESTERNS (COMICS) Th e “Kid-characters” diminished the idealized image of the ethically conscious cow- boy. One alternative ...

WESTERNS (COMICS) 689 explained by the open-ended structure of the comics. Lawmen in long-lasting series like Tex often bend the ...

690 WESTERNS (COMICS) adventures without any “White Men,” as the stories take place long before the European colonization. In ad ...

WESTERNS (COMICS) 691 of the genre declined. Th e same period, however, saw a rise of the Western in Europe, where American West ...

692 WHAT IF? mix of media; several Western television series were adapted to comics, which became a form of merchandising for th ...

WHAT IF? 693 keep up with continuity of the main characters)... just as Conan , Th e Invaders , et al., were doing. Still, I lik ...

694 WHATEVER HAPPENED TO THE MAN OF TOMORROW? What If: Event Horizon , What If: Civil War , and What If: Secret Wars. While most ...

WHATEVER HAPPENED TO THE MAN OF TOMORROW? 695 “heart’s desire” to live a normal life on his native planet Krypton, married with ...

696 WHEDON, JOSS So, before they are banished, Moore makes grand use of the “Superman family” that had included not only spin-of ...

WHEDON, JOSS 697 Whedon began his career in Hollywood writing for the sitcom Roseanne —a job that made him a third generation te ...