Encyclopedia of Comic Books and Graphic Novels

CIVIL WAR 97 own detective novels, P. I. Max Work. In addition to Auster’s appearance in the graphic novel as a character, Auste ...

98 CIVIL WAR and penciler Steve McNiven, but ultimately generated numerous tie-ins and spilled over into many Marvel titles. One ...

CLAREMONT, CHRIS 99 Most importantly, others asked what ultimately motivated them: their own glory, or the good of society. (Cap ...

100 CLASSICS ILLUSTRATED tried to launch the creator-owned Sovereign Seven (beginning in 1995) and later reprise Gen-13 for DC C ...

CLASSICS ILLUSTRATED 101 34 issues before changing to Classics Illustrated in 1947. Th e name change may have been in response t ...

102 CLOWES, DANIEL Th ese books were bound on cardstock rather than in the pamphlet style of the originals and also included not ...

COLAN, GENE 103 story featuring his character Lloyd Llewellyn to the Seattle publisher Fantagraphics, which promptly ran it in i ...

104 COLD WAR or mundane (such as a hand on a doorknob), thus giving each page a dynamic and highly dramatic sense. Still, authen ...

COLD WAR 105 the Russians were just like them, allies to be trusted. Th is was important as much of the aid sent overseas was be ...

106 COLD WAR communism, suggesting a battle of apocalyptic proportions. Th is comic appeared at the same time as President Truma ...

COLD WAR 107 and Kirby even created a new superhero, modeled on Captain America, the Fighting American (1954). However, despite ...

108 COLD WAR hysteria. Th e conclusion reached by many was that the comics industry was populated with perverts and communist co ...

COLD WAR 109 In the late 1960s and 1970s, as the Cold War became increasingly complicated, with the Soviet Union moving from pur ...

110 COLLINS, MAX ALLAN COLLINS, MAX ALLAN (1948–). Prolifi c writer of mystery novels and media tie-ins, Max Allan Collins is al ...

COMICS SCHOLARSHIP 111 the important political movements of the 1960s and 1970s and rendering them largely irrelevant to real-wo ...

112 COMICS SCHOLARSHIP the appearance of symposia or special issues on comics in peer-reviewed journals, from Modern Fiction Stu ...

CONAN THE BARBARIAN 113 byways of comics history, the knotty formal issues, the range of artistic styles, and the multiplicity o ...

114 CONCRETE adventures faithful to the spirit and tone of the Howard stories. With the success of the mainstream series, Marvel ...

CONCRETE 115 the end of its run in 1995, Concrete tells the story of Ronald Lithgow, a middle-aged American divorcé whose human ...

116 CONTRACT WITH GOD, A across the page to protect the activists from harm at the hands of logging company security forces, onl ...