Encyclopedia of Comic Books and Graphic Novels

698 WILLIAMSON, AL Selected Bibliography: Kaveney, Roz. Superheroes! Capes and Crusaders in Comics and Films. New York: I. B. Ta ...

WILSON, S. CLAY 699 Spider-Man (Miguel O’Hara) character from being an overstated heavy metal basher. In the 1990s, he created a ...

700 WITCHBLADE publishing event in San Francisco, Wilson left the house of a friend and was later found unconscious, with injuri ...

WOLFMAN, MARV 701 series, Witchblade , which debuted on August 27, 2000 on TNT as a pilot fi lm, directed by Ralph Hemeker and w ...

702 WOLVERTON, BASIL Robin from Batman’s sidekick to the independent hero, Nightwing. Wolfman also reunited with his Tomb of Dra ...

WONDER WOMAN 703 Horror ( Dark Horse Comics , 1988), and Th e Basil Wolverton Reader , volumes one and two (2003 and 2004, Pure ...

704 WONDER WOMAN mores of various eras—many of which deprived the Amazon of her authority in favor of a more normative femininit ...

WONDER WOMAN 705 career has included appearances in her own long-running self-titled comic; indeed, along with Superman and Batm ...

706 WOOD, WALLACE (WALLY) behind the recent rise of action-oriented female heroes in television and fi lm, such as the protagoni ...

WORLD’S FINEST COMICS 707 NYC comic convention, artist Gil Kane spoke of how witzend represented the future of comic book art. D ...

708 WORLD’S GREATEST SUPERHEROES, THE half-Batman appearance was introduced in issue #142, while the Adult Legion would make an ...

WORLD’S GREATEST SUPERHEROES, THE 709 Batman to confront poverty as he attempts to keep a juvenile whose parents were killed in ...

710 WORLD’S GREATEST SUPERHEROES, THE Th e works comprising Th e World’s Greatest Superheroes are meant to ground super- heroes ...

X X-MEN. Th e X-Men superhero team was created by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby ; they fi rst appeared in September 1963 and have sinc ...

712 X-MEN Luther King to Magneto’s Malcolm X; joined by the recognition that they are victims of human violence and exclusion, b ...

X-MEN 713 from a public unable and unwilling to understand that mutants deserved the same rights as humans. Yet Xavier’s liberal ...

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Y YOSSEL. In this historical graphic novel, fi rst published in 2003, writer and artist Joe Kubert combines an account of the Ho ...

716 YOUTH CULTURE IN COMICS As the full story of the horrors visited on Jews becomes clear, so too does the need to fi ght back, ...

YOUTH CULTURE IN COMICS 717 started a slow decay; at the same time, works like Archie or Dell’s funny animals titles had been sh ...