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Very useful to keep track of what issues you have, versus what you still need. July 19, I can’t believe I didn’t get this sooner. Ease of use is insane but, you lose nothing regarding organization and cost of use! I have a lot of books and have only stumped the library twice with massively obscure books!

July 18, Great for keeping stock of my books. Facing the destruction of his world by planet-consuming Galactus , Radd bargains with the cosmic being. In return for the safety of Zenn-La and his lover, Shalla-Bal , Radd pledges to seek out planets for the world devourer to consume as his herald. Galactus imbues him with a portion of the Power Cosmic , transforming him into the Silver Surfer. Radd serves Galactus for an unspecified amount of time. Eventually, the Surfer summons his master to Earth.

Touched by their nobility, he rebels against Galactus, who is eventually driven off. Before he leaves, he confines the Surfer to Earth with an invisible barrier that affects only him. During his exile, the Surfer fights numerous villains, including Doctor Doom , who wants his Power Cosmic, and Mephisto , who wants his soul. The Surfer’s only ally during these trials is a physicist by the name of Al B.

Harper, who eventually sacrifices himself to save the world from the Stranger. Banding together with the Hulk and Namor during these wanderings, the Surfer forms the “Titans Three”, a group dedicated to battling evil on Earth. The Surfer finally pierces Galactus’s barrier with the aid of Reed Richards and temporarily escapes Earth. He discovers, though, that his homeworld has been ravaged by Galactus and Shalla-Bal has been abducted by Mephisto and taken to Earth.

Even though it means trapping himself once more, the Surfer returns to Earth to battle and defeat Mephisto. Before being vanquished, Mephisto sends Shalla-Bal back to Zenn-La, but the Surfer manages to endow her with a portion of his Power Cosmic, which she uses to revitalize the plant life of their ravaged homeworld.

After the Surfer aids the Fantastic Four against Galactus’s latest herald Terrax , [44] The Surfer eventually pierces Galactus’s barrier by acting on a suggestion of trying to pass through on a spaceship instead of via his own power on his surfboard. He also makes peace with Galactus by rescuing current herald Nova from the Skrulls.

Galactus declares the Surfer’s exile ended. Embroiled in fresh hostilities between the interstellar Kree and Skrull empires, the Surfer also intervenes in a series of plots by the Elders of the Universe , who plan to become supremely powerful by destroying Galactus and the universe with him.

The Surfer thwarts this plot with the aid of his new love interest, Mantis , the Earth-born cosmic heroine also known as the “Celestial Madonna”. The Surfer repeatedly battles space-born menaces, the chief of whom is Thanos, who attempts to kill half the life in the universe using the omnipotent Infinity Gauntlet. He convinces Galactus to restore it, [53] but once Galactus has done so, the Surfer is overcome with grief until he is able to forgive himself.

The Surfer returns home to Zenn-La to find that the planet has vanished, and learns it was actually destroyed in the s Earth time by the entity known as the Other. Zenn-La and its people which the Surfer repeatedly encountered since leaving Galactus’s service were actually reproductions, created by Galactus so that the Surfer would have a home to return to.

He later regains his personality during a time-travel adventure and sharing a romance with Alicia Masters. Silver Surfer temporarily bonds with and is controlled by the Carnage symbiote , which is seeking revenge for the destruction of its homeworld.

Later, the Surfer works with the alien Annunaki race to gather and protect some of Earth’s most extraordinarily gifted children.

During his travels, the Surfer is captured by a portal of the Sakaar Empire. Left weakened and vulnerable by his trip through the portal, the Surfer is subdued and implanted with an obedience disk to ensure he remains loyal to them. Fighting as a gladiator and believed to be the fabled ‘Sakaarson’ due to his appearance , the Surfer is finally forced to face the Hulk along with his Warbound.

Through teamwork and distraction, the Hulk is eventually able to destroy the Surfer’s obedience disk. The Hulk and several other slaves and gladiators are freed when the Surfer uses the Power Cosmic to remove their own obedience disks and give them a way out of the arena, although the Hulk declines the Surfer’s offer to take him back to Earth. During the Annihilation war, the Silver Surfer again becomes Galactus’s herald to help save the universe from the despot Annihilus.

Drax the Destroyer frees the Surfer, who in turn frees Galactus. An enraged Galactus destroys more than half the Annihilation Wave, and Annihilus is defeated.

The Silver Surfer returns to Sakaar in a plan to feed Galactus with the unique “Old Power” which he claims would sate his master’s hunger for thousands of years, sparing many other inhabited worlds. He is opposed by the Hulk’s son, Skaar , and is enslaved by an obedience disc. The conflict is ended when Skaar’s mother Caiera sacrifices her soul and Old Power as sustenance for Galactus.

The battle ended when the Silver Surfer chose to leave his post as herald and guard an Asgardian artifact. Galactus “tethers” him to Asgard’s location in Oklahoma , resulting in his powers waning the further he travels from Asgard, and grants him the ability to return to human form. Silver Surfer and Dawn meet Glorian the Maker of Miracles, who plans to rebuild our universe for the heroes to return to after they finish in Battleworld.

Glorian has also enlisted the help of the Shaper of Worlds. Dawn agreed to use her memories to restore Earth while Silver Surfer left to restore the rest of the universe, but Silver Surfer unmade Galactus while Dawn unknowingly created another version of Norrin. The Shaper of Worlds is not happy with the changes. When Silver Surfer was displaced in time, he had an encounter with Knull. Gathering the energy from the cosmos, Silver Surfer managed to defeat Knull. During the ” King in Black ” storyline, Silver Surfer passes by the planets that were ravaged by Knull.

Knull reels in pain and Eddie Brock is chosen to be the new Captain Universe. Howard the Duck is a three-foot-tall anthropomorphic duck. He generally wears a tie and shirt and is almost always found smoking a cigar. Originally, like many cartoon ducks, he wore no pants; Disney threatened legal action due to Howard’s resemblance to Donald Duck , [89] and Marvel redesigned that aspect of the character by writing into the script that Howard was the target of anti-nudity protests, and was forced to do business with “Wally Sidney”, a failed cartoonist who made his fortune through a chain of conservative clothing retailers known as “Sidney World”.

Howard tries on various outfits, including ones akin to Donald Duck’s sailor uniform and Uncle Scrooge ‘s coat and top hat , before settling on his new attire of a business suit complete with trousers.

Although Howard sulks that he has lost, Beverly reassures him that she does not want him to be a victim of a mob, and loves him no matter what he wears. Howard has an irritable and cynical attitude towards the often bizarre events around him; he feels there is nothing special about him except that he is a duck, and though he has no goals other than seeking comfort and to be left alone, he is often dragged into dangerous adventures simply because he is visibly unusual.

His series’ tagline, “Trapped in a world he never made”, played off the genre trappings of s science fiction. His near-constant companion and occasional girlfriend is former art model and Cleveland native Beverly Switzler.

Like Howard, Beverly wants an ordinary life but is frequently singled out for her appearance, though as a beautiful woman rather than a duck. Howard has worked with Spider-Man and the Man-Thing on various occasions. Howard found himself on Earth due to a shift in the “Cosmic Axis” from a world similar to Earth, but where there are “more ducks” and “apes don’t talk.

In , Gerber dismissed this idea, calling it “very pedestrian” and ‘comic-booky’ — in the worst sense of the term. Gerber later depicted his character Destroyer Duck as existing in such a world.

His antagonists who usually appear in a single story each are often parodies of science fiction , fantasy , or horror characters, as well as frequent parodies of political figures and organizations.

The chief recurring villain, Lester Verde, better known as Doctor Bong — modeled on Doctor Doom and writers Bob Greene and Lester Bangs — is a former tabloid reporter who has the power to “reorder reality” by smashing himself on the bell -shaped helmet on his head and his main goal is to marry Beverly.

Beverly eventually agreed to marry him to save Howard from Bong’s evil experimentation, but the two were divorced shortly thereafter. Doctor Bong would reappear in issues of She-Hulk and Deadpool in the mids. Other recurring villains include the Kidney Lady, an older woman who has been convinced by her former lover that the soul is in the kidneys and attacks anything she sees as a threat to them, and Reverend Jun Moon Yuc and his Yuccies, a parody of Reverend Sun Myung Moon and the Unification Church “Moonies”.

Another important villain was the organization S. Omega the Unknown appeared to him in a dream, as did Spider-Man and the founding members of the rock group Kiss on other occasions. In the miniseries, as a mocking gesture toward Disney’s mascot Mickey Mouse and as a reference to a previous lawsuit with the company over Howard’s similarity to Donald Duck, Howard was turned into various other animals, but primarily appeared in the series as an anthropomorphic mouse. This character is featured in its own one-shot comic book which like almost all of the other Amalgam Comics “falsely” implied that the one-shot was a continuation of multiple other, pre-existing Lobo The Duck stories.

In the letters page of Bat-Thing 1, there was mention of a fictional upcoming ‘special issue’ featuring Howard the Mxyzptlk, presumably a merging of Howard with Mister Mxyzptlk. An alternate version of Howard the Duck becomes infected with the zombie plague, and eats the brains of the alternate-Ash that is native to the zombie version of the Marvel Universe.

In the Marvel Comics 2 universe, Howard is seen as a blindfold-wearing martial arts teacher, a reference harkening back to his mastery of “Quack Fu” in the original s series. Duck is the President of the United States. In a parody of the Spider-Verse event, Howard and Leo Fitz team up with a group of Howards from across the Multiverse who collectively call themselves the Legion of Howards.

This version of Howard is brought to Cleveland by a laser spectroscope experiment gone awry and befriends rock singer Beverly Switzler. Plans have also occurred for Howard the Duck to star in his own film. In , Rob Zombie claimed that he had pitched a Howard the Duck film to Marvel, but was turned down.

He said that while there were several comics characters he loved, he was “not making films of them all”. In addition, Howard can briefly be seen in the background of the Collector’s welcome video in the attraction’s queue.

Between June 6, and October 29, , Howard the Duck appeared in a syndicated daily comic strip that comic strip historian Allan Holtz has described as having low distribution and that was eventually replaced by the Incredible Hulk comic strip. When the strip was dropped by the Cleveland Plain Dealer , a Cleveland TV station began televising the strip for two minutes each night. A total of eleven story arcs, as well as a number of single-joke strips, constitute the individual strips that were printed.

These were followed by an adaptation of the “Sleep of the Just” story from issue 4 of the Marvel comic, scripted by Gerber and illustrated by Alan Kupperberg. Gerber was fired from the strip in early over chronic problems with deadlines. In November , the first of a projected eight-issue series reprinting the entire strip was published by John Zawadzki. Titled It’s Adventure Time With Howard the Duck , only the initial issue was published. In , a pilot for a radio show version of Howard was recorded.

Marvel editor-in-chief Roy Thomas thought that Howard, as a “funny animal” character, was inappropriate for the horror comic book in which he was introduced. He told Gerber to dispose of the character “as fast as you can.

One fan even sent in a duck carcass to make his point. At San Diego Comic-Con , the auditorium stood up and applauded when a fan asked Thomas if Howard would ever come back. Marvel responded by bringing Howard back for more appearances and soon launching his own self-titled comic book series. The Howard the Duck comic book has been described as “the first successful title aimed at an older audience.

Stan Lee , Shooter and Gerber himself criticized the post-Gerber stories for their lack of substance and clever humor. Within three years of Gerber’s departure, Marvel had ceased publishing new Howard the Duck material. Lucasfilm’s big-budget Howard the Duck movie disappointed critics, audiences and the character’s fans alike. Although Marvel has occasionally released new Howard comic books, some written by Gerber, and sometimes features the character in other media, Howard’s popularity has never again approached what it was in the s.

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Pogo was a daily по ссылке strip that was created by cartoonist Comic book collector live free Kelly and syndicated to American newspapers from until Set in the Okefenokee Swamp in the Нажмите чтобы увидеть больше United StatesPogo followed the adventures of its anthropomorphic animal characters, including the title character, an opossum.

The strip was written for both children and adults, with layers of social and political satire targeted to the latter. Pogo was distributed by the Post-Hall Syndicate. The strip earned Kelly a Reuben Award coomic Walter Crawford Kelly Jr. His family moved to Bridgeport, Connecticutwhen he was only two. Kelly created the characters of Pogo the possum and Albert the alligator in for issue No. Bumbazine was retired early, since Kelly found it hard to write for a human child.

He eventually phased humans out of the comics entirely, preferring to use the animal characters for their comic potential.

Kelly said lkve used animals—nature’s creatures, or “nature’s screechers” as he called them—”largely because you can do more with animals. They don’t hurt as easily, and it’s possible to make them more believable in an exaggerated pose. In his autobiography for the Hall Syndicate, Kelly said he “fooled around with the Foreign Language Unit of the Army during World War II, illustrating grunts and groans, and made tree in download game need speed most wanted black newspaper and publishing business.

The first comic series to make the permanent transition to newspapers, Pogo debuted on October 4,and ran continuously until the paper больше информации on January 28, George Ward and Henry Shikuma were among Kelly’s assistants on the comic book collector live free.

It читать далее continuously until and past Kelly’s death collectoe complications of diabetes on October 18, At first, reprints, mostly with minor rewording in comic book collector live free word balloons, from the s and s were used, starting Sunday, June 4, Kelly returned for just eight Sunday pages, http://replace.me/27791.txt October 8 to November 26,comic book collector live free according to Selby was unable to draw the characters as large as he customarily did.

The strip ended July 20, Selby Kelly said in a interview that she decided to discontinue the strip because newspapers colledtor shrunk the size of strips to the point where people could not easily read it.

Doyle left the strip as of February 24,and Sternecky took over as both writer and artist until March 22, After Sternecky left, Kelly’s son Peter and daughter Carolyn continued to produce the strip until October 2,but interest waned. The strip continued to run for a couple months with reprints of Doyle and Sternecky’s work, and came to an end on November 28, The characters live, for the most part, in hollow trees amidst lushly rendered backdrops of North American wetlands, bayous, lagoons and backwoods.

Fictitious local landmarks—such as “Miggle’s General Store and Emporium” a. The landscape is fluid and vividly detailed, with a dense variety of often caricatured flora and fauna.

The richly textured trees and marshlands frequently change from panel to panel within the same strip. Like the Coconino County depicted in Krazy Kat and the Dogpatch of Li’l Abnerthe distinctive cartoon landscape of Kelly’s Okefenokee Swamp became as strongly identified with the strip as any of its characters.

There are occasional forays into exotic locations as well, including at least two visits to Australia during the Melbourne Olympics inand again in The Comic book collector live free natives include a bandicoota comkc wallabyand a mustachioed, aviator kangaroo named “Basher”. InPogo, Collfctor and Churchy boo primeval “Pandemonia”—a vivid, “prehysterical” place of Kelly’s imagination, complete with mythical beasts comic book collector live free dragons and a zebra-striped unicornprimitive fre, arks, volcanoes, saber-toothed catspterodactyls and dinosaurs.

Kelly also frequently parodied Mother Goose nursery rhymes and fairy tales featuring the characters in period costume: “Cinderola”, “Goldie Lox and the Fore-bears”, “Handle and Gristle”, etc. These offbeat sequences, usually presented as a staged play or a story within a story related by one of the characters, seem to take place in the fairy tale dreamscapes of children’s literature, with European storybook-style cottages and forests, etc.

The strip was notable for its distinctive comic book collector live free whimsical use of language. Kelly, a native northeasternerhad a sharply perceptive ear for language and used it to great humorous collecgor. The predominant vernacular in Pogosometimes referred bookk as “swamp-speak”, is essentially a rural southern U.

Pogo has been engaged in his favorite pastime, fishing in the swamp from a flat-bottomed boat, and has hooked смотрите подробнее small catfish. Kelly used Pogo to comment on the human condition, and from time to time, this drifted into politics. Perhaps the complexion of the strip changed a little in that direction after After all, it is жмите сюда hard to walk past an unguarded gold comic book collector live free and remain empty-handed.

Pogo was a reluctant “candidate” for President although he never campaigned in and Eisenhower ‘s iconic campaign slogan “I Like Ike”, appeared on giveaway promotional lapel pins featuring Pogo, and was also used by Kelly as a book title. A campaign rally at Harvard degenerated into chaos sufficient to be officially termed a riot, and police responded. The Pogo Riot was a significant event for the class of ’52; for its 25th reunion, Pogo was the official mascot. Kelly’s interest in keeping the strip topical collecgor that he sometimes worked closer to the deadline than the syndicate wanted.

Even then it gets rather difficult to forecast what is going to lvie six weeks, four weeks, ahead of time. For example, I have a sequence coming on this moonshot that the Russians made. I was able to file it just by a month, but I wish I had comic book collector live free about it a little in advance because I could have hit it right on the nose.

Perhaps the most famous example of the strip’s satirical edge came into being on May 1,when Kelly introduced a friend of Mole’s: a wildcat named “Simple J. Malarkey”, an obvious caricature of Senator Joseph McCarthy. This showed significant courage on Kelly’s part, considering the influence the politician wielded at the time and the possibility of scaring away subscribing newspapers.

When The Providence Bulletin issued an ultimatum inthreatening to drop the strip if Malarkey’s face appeared in the strip again, Kelly had Malarkey throw a bag over his head as Miss “Sis” Boombah a Comic book collector live free Island Red collectot approached, explaining comic book collector live free one from Providence should see me!

Malarkey appeared in the strip only once after that sequence ended, during Kelly’s tenure, on October 15, Again his face was covered, this time by his speech balloons as he stood on a soapbox shouting to general uninterest. Kelly had planned посетить страницу defy the threats made collectog the Bulletin comic book collector live free show Malarkey’s face, but decided it was more fun to see how many people recognized the character and the man he lampooned by speech patterns alone.

When Kelly got letters comic book collector live free complaint about kicking the senator when he was down McCarthy had been censured by that time, and had lost most of his influenceKelly responded, “They identified him, I didn’t. Malarkey reappeared on April 1,when the strip had been resurrected by Larry Doyle and Neal Sternecky. It was hinted that he was a ghost. A gag used several times in the original strip, for both Wiley Catt and Simple J Malarkey, was collwctor unexpected reappearance to the Swamp with a frightened regular saying “I didn’t know you was alive” – responded to with “Would you stop shakin’ if I tole you I AIN’T?!

As the s loomed, even foreign “gummint” figures found themselves caricatured in the pages of Pogoincluding in communist leaders Fidel Castrowho appeared as an agitator goat named Fido, and Nikita Khrushchevwho emerged as both an unnamed Russian bear and a pig. Other Soviet characters include a pair of cosmonaut seals who arrive at the swamp in via Sputnikinitiating a topical spoof of the Space Race.

RomneyLyndon B. Kennedy appeared induring the presidential election. Because some newspapers were wary of printing political satire on the comics collectog, Kelly sometimes drew two strips for the same day — the regular satirical Pogo strip, and a less-pointed version that he called the “Bunny Rabbit” strips. The book The Best of Pogo reprinted some of the alternate comic book collector live free from the presidential election years of and In the early s, Kelly used a collection of characters he called “the Bulldogs” to mock the secrecy and paranoia of the Nixon administration.

The Bulldogs included caricatures of J. Edgar Hoover dressed in an overcoat and fedora, and directing a covert bureau of identical frog operativesSpiro Agnew portrayed as an unnamed hyena festooned in ornate military regalia, a parody of the ridiculous uniforms supplied to the White House guards [24]and John Mitchell portrayed as a pipe-smoking eaglet wearing high-top sneakers. Kelly was an accomplished poet and frequently added pages of original comic verse to his Pogo reprint books, complete with cartoon illustrations.

The odd comic book collector live free parody or nonsense poem also occasionally appeared in the newspaper strip. InKelly published Songs of the Pogoan illustrated collection of his original songs, with lyrics by Kelly and music by Kelly and Norman Monath. The tunes were also issued on a vinyl LPwith Kelly himself contributing to the vocals. Each year at Christmas time, it was traditional for the strip to publish at least the first stanza — “Deck us all with Boston Charlie; Walla Comic book collector live free Wash.

Nora’s freezin’ on the trolley; Swaller dollar cauliflower Alleygaroo”. Some years also included other verses and versions: for example, the dog Beauregard knew it as “Bark us all bow-wows of folly, Polly wolly cracker ‘n’ too-da-loo! Walt Kelly frequently had his characters poling around the swamp in a flat-bottomed skiff. Invariably, it had a name on the side that was a personal reference of Kelly’s: the name of a friend, a political comic book collector live free, a fellow cartoonist, or the name of comix newspaper, its editor or publisher.

The name changed from one day to the next, and even from panel to panel collectog comic book collector live free same strip, but it was usually a tribute to a real-life person Kelly wished to salute in print. Long before I could grasp the satirical significance of his stuff, I was enchanted comic book collector live free Kelly’s magnificent artwork We’ll never see anything like Pogo again in the funnies, I’m afraid.

A good many of us used hoopla and hype to sell our wares, but Kelly didn’t need that. It seemed he simply emerged, was there, and was recognized for what he was, a true natural genius of comic art Hellhe could draw a tree that would send God and Joyce Kilmer back to the drawing board.

The creator and comic book collector live free have received a great deal of recognition over the years. FrostT. SullivantHeinrich Kley and Lawson Wood.

In his essay “The Decline of the Comics” Canadian ForumJanuaryliterary critic Hugh MacLean classified American comic strips into four types: daily gag, adventure, soap opera and “an almost lost comic ideal: the disinterested comment on life’s pattern and meaning. When the first Pogo collection was published inAnthony Boucher and J. Francis McComas declared that “nothing comparable has happened comkc the history of the comic strip since George Herriman’s Krazy Kat.

He was the first strip cartoonist invited to contribute originals to the Library of Congress. At its peak, Walt Kelly’s possum appeared in comic book collector live free newspapers in 14 countries. Pogo’s exploits were collected into more than four dozen books, which collectively sold close to 30 million copies. Pogo already had had a successful life in comic books, previous to syndication.

The increased visibility of the newspaper strip and popular trade paperback titles allowed Kelly’s characters to comic book collector live free into other media, such as television, children’s records, and even a theatrical comic book collector live free. In addition, Walt Kelly appeared as himself on television at least twice.

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Howard the Duck was created by writer Steve Gerber and penciler Val Mayerik in Adventure into Fear #19 (Dec. ) as a secondary character in that comic’s “Man-Thing” feature. He graduated to his own backup feature in Giant-Size Man-Thing #4–5 (May and Aug. ), confronting such bizarre horror-parody characters as Garko the Man-Frog and Bessie the . E-Book (deutsch E-Buch; englisch e-book, ebook) steht für ein elektronisches Buch (englisch electronic book) und bezeichnet Werke in elektronischer Buchform, die auf E-Book-Readern oder mit spezieller Software auf PCs, Tabletcomputern oder Smartphones gelesen werden können. Mit der Verbreitung von E-Book-Readern werden E-Books zunehmend in einem Format . Easily catalog your comic book collection. Automatic issue details and cover art. Just scan comic barcodes OR search by series title. Free trial editions. Available as web-based software, mobile app or downloadable desktop software for Windows. Masters of the Universe (sometimes referred to as the He-Man or She-Ra series) is a sword and planet-themed media franchise created by Mattel. The main premise revolves around the conflict between He-Man (the alter ego of Prince Adam) and Skeletor on the planet Eternia, with a vast lineup of supporting characters in a hybrid setting of medieval sword and sorcery, and sci-fi .

Masters of the Universe sometimes referred to as the He-Man or She-Ra series is a sword and planet -themed media franchise created by Mattel. He-Man and the accompanying Masters of the Universe franchise would make their debut in with Mattel ‘s release of the original “Masters of the Universe” 5. Masters of the Universe, often abbreviated as MOTU, would begin its mythos through the minicomics that accompanied the toys throughout the s.

These initial mini comics were soon followed by several children’s books and issues of DC Comics. However, the Masters of the Universe franchise would become best known through Filmation ‘s groundbreaking He-Man and the Masters of the Universe animated series. Since its inception, Masters of the Universe has usually placed its focus on the two primary characters, the blond muscular He-Man , “the most powerful man in the Universe,” and his nemesis, the evil skull-faced, blue-skinned sorcerer Skeletor and their many moral-themed encounters on the planet Eternia.

Skeletor is originally described as an evil being from another dimension and in some later MOTU lore as a disfigured and vengeful relative of the royal family, known as Keldor. These core minions usually include Beast Man , an orange-furred, apelike master of beasts; [24] Mer-Man , an aquatic fishlike ocean warlord; [25] Evil-Lyn , a powerful sorceress and one of Skeletor’s most feared and competent associates; [26] Trap Jaw , an iron-jawed criminal with a mechanical arm that can be fitted by a various assortment of weapons; [27] and Tri-Klops , a mercenary swordsman with a rotating three-eyed visor.

The series overall would feature a wide and ever-expanding cast of heroic and villainous characters added to the toy line, the Filmation cartoon, and other media; with the franchise far outshining prior expectations, continuing to grow through and He-Man would be brought back in in an entirely new and space-based cartoon series and toy line known as ” The New Adventures of He-Man.

Jetlag Productions would go on to produce 65 episodes of the New Adventures cartoon, with a few mini comics and adventure magazines also created for this new series. Ultimately, though, the series would not be as successful and the entire franchise would go on a hiatus for more than a decade. After some success with a “Commemorative Series” rerelease of the classic action figures in , Mattel relaunched the toy line with all-new action figures, playsets, and vehicles, sculpted by Four Horsemen Studios in Although popular with longtime fans and collectors with mini-statue figures being released by NECA until , the new series failed to catch on with a larger audience and was canceled in From to , a new assortment of Masters of the Universe action figures has been released under the banner of “Masters of the Universe Classics.

DC Comics would soon follow suit and relaunch a new grittier, contemporary version of the Masters of the Universe franchise, releasing various new comic book series from until ; featuring crossovers with the DC Comics Universe , ThunderCats , and a new origin for She-Ra, culminating in Hordak’s conquest of Eternia.

Glut , and several other contributors. In the race to design the next hit action figure, Roger Sweet , a lead designer working for Mattel’s Preliminary Design Department throughout much of the s and s, according to his book Mastering the Universe: He-Man and the Rise and Fall of a Billion-Dollar Idea , was the first to conceptualize the idea of He-Man.

I glued a Big Jim figure [from another Mattel toy line] into a battle action pose and I added a lot of clay to his body. I then had plaster casts made. These three prototypes, which I presented in late , brought He-Man into existence.

I simply explained that this was a powerful figure that could be taken anywhere and dropped into any context because he had a generic name: He-Man!

Originally set under the working title “Lords of Power,” the name “Masters of the Universe” came into being when it was suggested that the former name of the toy line was too religious in nature. This would eventually lead to a meeting with Filmation head Lou Scheimer and the creation of the He-Man and the Masters of the Universe animated series.

Earlier in , the rights-holders of Conan the Barbarian had been negotiating the character’s toy rights with Mattel and they entered into an agreement the following year regarding characters from the Conan movie. However, with Mattel introducing the Masters of the Universe toy line in , the rights-holders sued Mattel claiming the character was an infringement on the character of Conan. Joe: A Real American Hero lines. Later on that year, the first wave of action figures in would also include Teela “heroic warrior goddess” , Mer-Man “evil ocean warlord” , Stratos “heroic winged warrior” , and Zodac “the cosmic enforcer”.

Brief descriptions of the characters would appear on the packaging and box art with illustrations by Errol McCarthy, Rudy Obrero, William Garland, William George, and others. Glut , with artwork by Alfredo Alcala. He-Man is introduced in the first mini comic, He-man and the Power Sword , as a wandering barbarian , leaving behind his jungle tribe on Eternia. The events of the war have also opened a rift between dimensions, which has allowed the evil warlord Skeletor to travel into Eternia.

This inaugural incarnation of Skeletor sets his sights on obtaining both halves of the Power Sword originally split in two in these early stories , in order to gain entry into the ancient Castle Grayskull depicted, in these early comics, as being inhabited by the ghostly “Spirit of Castle Grayskull”. To combat Skeletor, He-Man is given special powers, armor, and weapons by the Sorceress she has green skin in her debut appearance and is wearing the “snake armor” that came with the original Teela action figure, instead of adorning her more familiar birdlike attire, as seen in the Filmation series.

This second series, consisting of seven new mini-comics and released in —83, was produced by DC Comics , written by Gary Cohn and featured artwork by Mark Texeira. Cohn did not continue the same canon as was set in the first four minicomics.

Additional waves of action figures, creatures, vehicles, and playsets were released every year until , totaling 70 distinct figures in all including 24 creatures, 12 vehicles, six playsets, and 10 accessories with the final overseas releases from the original line coming from Italy in This version of Adam, however, was originally depicted wearing a blue vest and portrayed as somewhat of a philanderer, rather than his later more wholesome pink-vest-wearing character.

In , Masters of the Universe would debut perhaps its most famous incarnation, with the animated series He-Man and the Masters of the Universe. Created by Filmation under the direction of executive producer Lou Scheimer , the cartoon made its television debut on September 5, , with the episode “The Diamond Ray of Disappearance”. Running through two seasons, He-Man and the Masters of the Universe was one of the first animated series produced directly for weekday syndication , as opposed to reruns primarily based on Saturday mornings.

Totaling episodes, with each season of 65 episodes stretching across 13 weeks, the series last episode, “The Cold Zone,” on November 21, Similar to the comics that came before, the series is set on Eternia, which is ruled by King Randor and Queen Marlena visibly younger in age and with more colorful attire than their previous comic versions.

He-Man’s nemesis, the evil wizard Skeletor now famously portrayed by voice actor Alan Oppenheimer as a cackling and more comedic villain , still wishes to conquer Castle Grayskull and learn of its secrets, but also now desires to take over the royal palace and rule Eternia; often seeking ancient and mysterious beasts and artifacts to try and stop He-Man and his allies.

Other villains not allied with Skeletor would occasionally appear as well, such as the powerful wizard Count Marzo , the plant-demon Evilseed , Kothos, Shokoti, Negator, and the rabbitlike space pirate Plundor, to name a few. Despite the limited animation techniques that were used to produce the series, He-Man and the Masters of the Universe was notable for breaking the boundaries of censorship that had severely restricted the narrative scope of children’s TV programming in the s.

As an attempt to mitigate the negative publicity generated by these controversies, a “life lesson” or “moral of the story” was played at the end of each episode, which was usually tied to the action or central theme of the episode in question although in the United Kingdom, the closing “morals” were often edited out of the original broadcasts. Brynne Stephens , and many others, including early script-writing work from Babylon 5 creator J.

Fontana of Star Trek fame. The series, although still popular, would not be renewed for a third season in However, the characters would make occasional guest appearances in the She-Ra: Princess of Power Series , which was set in the same universe and followed the same continuity. The She-Ra series began with a 5-part animated serial which was later condensed into the animated movie The Secret of the Sword , released theatrically in the spring of and featuring most of the main characters from both cartoons.

The characters would continue to appear in guest roles throughout the She-Ra series, as well as a Christmas Special. Sales of the toy line continued to increase with the exposure of the animated series, and new waves of figures and vehicles were produced during this peak of popularity. Making their toy-line debuts in were He-Man’s allies Buzz-Off “heroic spy in the sky”; beelike insectoid warrior with wings , [58] Fisto “heroic hand-to-hand fighter”; bearded warrior with a large smashing fist as an action feature , [] and Mekaneck “heroic human periscope”; featuring an extending bionic neck.

Series three of Mattel’s MOTU mini comics contained stories similar to the Filmation animated series, with mini comics such as Dragon’s Gift , Masks of Power , and Double-Edge Sword adapting stories straight from the first-season episodes of the same name.

The largest addition to the Masters of the Universe toy line came in the form of the Evil Horde , whose characters were set to debut in the animated He-Man and She-Ra: The Secret of the Sword motion picture.

Although villains in the soon-to-debut She-Ra: Princess of Power animated series, five out of the six initial Evil Horde action figures were produced for the Masters of Universe line instead of the Princess of Power toy line with the Horde villainess Catra being the sole exception.

The series would run for two seasons, 93 episodes, from to She-Ra: Princess of Power was produced in lieu of continuing He-Man and the Masters of the Universe for a third year; however, He-Man often appeared in episodes of She-Ra to aid his sister, and several other characters from He-Man and the Masters of the Universe , both heroic and evil, also appeared in multiple crossovers.

Unlike He-Man’s sword, She-Ra’s possesses the ability to transform into different weapons and accessories, such as a lasso, a shield, or a flaming blade. The premise of the She-Ra TV series was the reverse of the He-Man cartoon, where the heroes are actually rebels countering an evil establishment rather than Skeletor trying to conquer Eternia. Released in , Mattel’s toy line Princess of Power sometimes abbreviated as POP featured almost exclusively female characters, all of whom featured an emphasis on hair and clothing, with “real” hair and partially soft-goods costumes.

Described as “fashion action dolls,” essentially the line attempted to fuse the appeal of Masters of the Universe with Mattel’s successful line of fashion dolls , Barbie , and added many “Fantastic Fashions” clothing accessories packs to complement the female action figures. The line of Princess of Power figures included She-Ra without a separate action figure for Princess Adora , Bow the only male figure in the POP line, without his moustache, as seen in the cartoon series , Glimmer “the guide who lights the way” , Kowl “the know-it owl” , Angella “angelic winged guide” , Frosta “ice empress of Etheria” , Castaspella “enchantress who hypnotizes” , Catra “jealous beauty” and the main female antagonist , and Double Trouble “glamorous double agent”; created only for the toy line and mini comics, never appearing in the Filmation cartoon series.

She-Ra’s main playset was Crystal Castle, a “shimmering castle of fantasy and fun for She-Ra and her friends! Apart from the main Princess of Power line, the preeminent villains of the She-Ra series, Hordak and the Evil Horde originally created by Filmation in collaboration with Mattel , were released by Mattel under the Masters of the Universe branding.

The character Catra was the only villain to be released in the first wave of the Princess of Power figures, with Mattel downplaying her connection to the Evil Horde in the toy line. Also late into the line in were three original characters from the live-action movie: Blade “evil masters of swords” , Saurod “evil spark-shooting reptile” , and Gwildor “heroic creator of the Cosmic Key” , with their entry into the MOTU mythos explained in one of the last original mini comics, The Cosmic Key.

One of the main storylines of the later mini comics, released with these later waves of action figures, was the introduction of a new major villain faction known as the Snake Men, first appearing in the mini comic King of the Snake Men. All of this was leading toward what would have been a continuation of the series in “The Powers of Grayskull” line, before being discontinued.

The proposed exploration of the distant past of Eternia, dubbed “Preternia,” [] forms the basis of what was originally to be the next incarnation of the toy line, entitled “The Powers of Grayskull. The proposed storyline was to focus on Ancient Eternia, which was populated by many creatures, including the aforementioned cybernetic dinosaurs and giants.

When the Sorceress and He-Man arrive, followed by Skeletor, they find King Hiss leading an attack on a village in the hope of drawing out “The Elders,” using some of the cybernetic dinosaurs to their advantage. Hiss serves an “unnamed one” and agrees to unite with Skeletor on the basis that he might be an emissary.

Seeing Skeletor’s interference, the Sorceress allows He-Man to enter the battle but, “for reasons that will be made clear to you in the future,” he had to be disguised. He finds himself overwhelmed, but then a shadowy figure appears who turns the odds with a powerful wand.

The stranger then sends the Snake Men back to their base and all the time travelers home. However, some marketing press releases and prototypes have shed further information on this.

The wizard was to be He-Ro , an ancestor of He-Man. Raised by his mentor Eldor and discovering special powers in a cave, He-Ro would have led the fight against the Snake Men.

According to the mini comics’ writers, it was intended that the central antagonist would be Keldor, a character revealed similarly late in the line to have been He-Man’s uncle and also strongly hinted to have been the former identity of Skeletor. Whether or not Keldor was also supposed to be the “Unnamed One” Hiss served is not clear, although in an interview writer Steven Grant vaguely recalls that the intention was that the Unnamed One would be a greater evil who, as the Emperor was to Darth Vader , was intended to be the one who caused Keldor to become Skeletor.

In the years after the animated series ended, generally going along with the established Filmation continuity, Marvel Comics would release a younger-skewing Star Comics Masters of the Universe series that ran from to bimonthly and produced 13 issues; featuring many of the later characters introduced in the toy line, as well as new ones such as Lieutenant Andra.

Bitner’s creation, Fearless Photog , was never realized in the s and an action figure was not produced until the Masters of the Universe Classics collector’s toy line in Daily Masters of the Universe comic strips were also in newspaper syndication from until The strips were primarily written by Chris Weber and edited by Karen Willson, with distribution in the U. The newspaper strips were generally lesser known to the wider fan base until 1, of the 1, daily strips were finally collected in hardcover format with He-Man and the Masters of the Universe: The Newspaper Comic Strips , released by Dark Horse Books in The series was headed by Brian Clarke, and is often noted for in-depth stories expanding the canon and the origins of many Masters of the Universe characters.

Pogo was a daily comic strip that was created by cartoonist Walt Kelly and syndicated to American newspapers from until Set in the Okefenokee Swamp in the Southeastern United States, Pogo followed the adventures of its anthropomorphic animal characters, including the title character, an replace.me strip was written for both children and adults, with layers of . E-Book (deutsch E-Buch; englisch e-book, ebook) steht für ein elektronisches Buch (englisch electronic book) und bezeichnet Werke in elektronischer Buchform, die auf E-Book-Readern oder mit spezieller Software auf PCs, Tabletcomputern oder Smartphones gelesen werden können. Mit der Verbreitung von E-Book-Readern werden E-Books zunehmend in einem Format . The Silver Surfer is a fictional character appearing in American comic books published by Marvel replace.me character also appears in a number of movies, television, and video game adaptations. The character was created by Jack Kirby and first appeared in the comic book Fantastic Four #48, published in The Silver Surfer is a humanoid alien with metallic . Easily catalog your comic book collection. Automatic issue details and cover art. Just scan comic barcodes OR search by series title. Free trial editions. Available as web-based software, mobile app or downloadable desktop software for Windows.

Set in the Okefenokee Swamp in the Southeastern United States , Pogo followed the adventures of its anthropomorphic animal characters, including the title character, an opossum.

The strip was written for both children and adults, with layers of social and political satire targeted to the latter. Pogo was distributed by the Post-Hall Syndicate. The strip earned Kelly a Reuben Award in Walter Crawford Kelly Jr. His family moved to Bridgeport, Connecticut , when he was only two. Kelly created the characters of Pogo the possum and Albert the alligator in for issue No. Bumbazine was retired early, since Kelly found it hard to write for a human child.

He eventually phased humans out of the comics entirely, preferring to use the animal characters for their comic potential. Kelly said he used animals—nature’s creatures, or “nature’s screechers” as he called them—”largely because you can do more with animals. They don’t hurt as easily, and it’s possible to make them more believable in an exaggerated pose. In his autobiography for the Hall Syndicate, Kelly said he “fooled around with the Foreign Language Unit of the Army during World War II, illustrating grunts and groans, and made friends in the newspaper and publishing business.

The first comic series to make the permanent transition to newspapers, Pogo debuted on October 4, , and ran continuously until the paper folded on January 28, George Ward and Henry Shikuma were among Kelly’s assistants on the strip.

It ran continuously until and past Kelly’s death from complications of diabetes on October 18, At first, reprints, mostly with minor rewording in the word balloons, from the s and s were used, starting Sunday, June 4, Kelly returned for just eight Sunday pages, from October 8 to November 26, , but according to Selby was unable to draw the characters as large as he customarily did.

Doyle left the strip as of February 24, , and Sternecky took over as both writer and artist until March 22, After Sternecky left, Kelly’s son Peter and daughter Carolyn continued to produce the strip until October 2, , but interest waned.

The strip continued to run for a couple months with reprints of Doyle and Sternecky’s work, and came to an end on November 28, The characters live, for the most part, in hollow trees amidst lushly rendered backdrops of North American wetlands, bayous, lagoons and backwoods. Fictitious local landmarks—such as “Miggle’s General Store and Emporium” a. The landscape is fluid and vividly detailed, with a dense variety of often caricatured flora and fauna.

The richly textured trees and marshlands frequently change from panel to panel within the same strip. Like the Coconino County depicted in Krazy Kat and the Dogpatch of Li’l Abner , the distinctive cartoon landscape of Kelly’s Okefenokee Swamp became as strongly identified with the strip as any of its characters.

There are occasional forays into exotic locations as well, including at least two visits to Australia during the Melbourne Olympics in , and again in The Aussie natives include a bandicoot , a lady wallaby , and a mustachioed, aviator kangaroo named “Basher”. In , Pogo, Albert and Churchy visit primeval “Pandemonia”—a vivid, “prehysterical” place of Kelly’s imagination, complete with mythical beasts including dragons and a zebra-striped unicorn , primitive humans, arks, volcanoes, saber-toothed cats , pterodactyls and dinosaurs.

The strip was notable for its distinctive and whimsical use of language. Kelly, a native northeasterner , had a sharply perceptive ear for language and used it to great humorous effect.

The predominant vernacular in Pogo , sometimes referred to as “swamp-speak”, is essentially a rural southern U. Pogo has been engaged in his favorite pastime, fishing in the swamp from a flat-bottomed boat, and has hooked a small catfish. Kelly used Pogo to comment on the human condition, and from time to time, this drifted into politics.

Perhaps the complexion of the strip changed a little in that direction after After all, it is pretty hard to walk past an unguarded gold mine and remain empty-handed. Pogo was a reluctant “candidate” for President although he never campaigned in and Eisenhower ‘s iconic campaign slogan “I Like Ike”, appeared on giveaway promotional lapel pins featuring Pogo, and was also used by Kelly as a book title. A campaign rally at Harvard degenerated into chaos sufficient to be officially termed a riot, and police responded.

The Pogo Riot was a significant event for the class of ’52; for its 25th reunion, Pogo was the official mascot. Kelly’s interest in keeping the strip topical meant that he sometimes worked closer to the deadline than the syndicate wanted. Even then it gets rather difficult to forecast what is going to happen six weeks, four weeks, ahead of time.

For example, I have a sequence coming on this moonshot that the Russians made. I was able to file it just by a month, but I wish I had known about it a little in advance because I could have hit it right on the nose. Perhaps the most famous example of the strip’s satirical edge came into being on May 1, , when Kelly introduced a friend of Mole’s: a wildcat named “Simple J.

Malarkey”, an obvious caricature of Senator Joseph McCarthy. This showed significant courage on Kelly’s part, considering the influence the politician wielded at the time and the possibility of scaring away subscribing newspapers. When The Providence Bulletin issued an ultimatum in , threatening to drop the strip if Malarkey’s face appeared in the strip again, Kelly had Malarkey throw a bag over his head as Miss “Sis” Boombah a Rhode Island Red hen approached, explaining “no one from Providence should see me!

Malarkey appeared in the strip only once after that sequence ended, during Kelly’s tenure, on October 15, Again his face was covered, this time by his speech balloons as he stood on a soapbox shouting to general uninterest. Kelly had planned to defy the threats made by the Bulletin and show Malarkey’s face, but decided it was more fun to see how many people recognized the character and the man he lampooned by speech patterns alone. When Kelly got letters of complaint about kicking the senator when he was down McCarthy had been censured by that time, and had lost most of his influence , Kelly responded, “They identified him, I didn’t.

Malarkey reappeared on April 1, , when the strip had been resurrected by Larry Doyle and Neal Sternecky. It was hinted that he was a ghost. A gag used several times in the original strip, for both Wiley Catt and Simple J Malarkey, was his unexpected reappearance to the Swamp with a frightened regular saying “I didn’t know you was alive” – responded to with “Would you stop shakin’ if I tole you I AIN’T?!

As the s loomed, even foreign “gummint” figures found themselves caricatured in the pages of Pogo , including in communist leaders Fidel Castro , who appeared as an agitator goat named Fido, and Nikita Khrushchev , who emerged as both an unnamed Russian bear and a pig. Other Soviet characters include a pair of cosmonaut seals who arrive at the swamp in via Sputnik , initiating a topical spoof of the Space Race. Romney , Lyndon B. Kennedy appeared in , during the presidential election. Because some newspapers were wary of printing political satire on the comics page, Kelly sometimes drew two strips for the same day — the regular satirical Pogo strip, and a less-pointed version that he called the “Bunny Rabbit” strips.

The book The Best of Pogo reprinted some of the alternate strips from the presidential election years of and In the early s, Kelly used a collection of characters he called “the Bulldogs” to mock the secrecy and paranoia of the Nixon administration.

The Bulldogs included caricatures of J. Edgar Hoover dressed in an overcoat and fedora, and directing a covert bureau of identical frog operatives , Spiro Agnew portrayed as an unnamed hyena festooned in ornate military regalia, a parody of the ridiculous uniforms supplied to the White House guards [24] , and John Mitchell portrayed as a pipe-smoking eaglet wearing high-top sneakers.

Kelly was an accomplished poet and frequently added pages of original comic verse to his Pogo reprint books, complete with cartoon illustrations. The odd song parody or nonsense poem also occasionally appeared in the newspaper strip. In , Kelly published Songs of the Pogo , an illustrated collection of his original songs, with lyrics by Kelly and music by Kelly and Norman Monath.

The tunes were also issued on a vinyl LP , with Kelly himself contributing to the vocals. Fighting as a gladiator and believed to be the fabled ‘Sakaarson’ due to his appearance , the Surfer is finally forced to face the Hulk along with his Warbound. Through teamwork and distraction, the Hulk is eventually able to destroy the Surfer’s obedience disk.

The Hulk and several other slaves and gladiators are freed when the Surfer uses the Power Cosmic to remove their own obedience disks and give them a way out of the arena, although the Hulk declines the Surfer’s offer to take him back to Earth. During the Annihilation war, the Silver Surfer again becomes Galactus’s herald to help save the universe from the despot Annihilus. Drax the Destroyer frees the Surfer, who in turn frees Galactus. An enraged Galactus destroys more than half the Annihilation Wave, and Annihilus is defeated.

The Silver Surfer leads the world devourer to the populated planet Orbucen, which brings him into conflict with Richard Rider. He delays the planetary destruction to give the inhabitants more time to evacuate. The Silver Surfer returns to Sakaar in a plan to feed Galactus with the unique “Old Power” which he claims would sate his master’s hunger for thousands of years, sparing many other inhabited worlds.

He is opposed by the Hulk’s son, Skaar , and is enslaved by an obedience disc. The conflict is ended when Skaar’s mother Caiera sacrifices her soul and Old Power as sustenance for Galactus. The battle ended when the Silver Surfer chose to leave his post as herald and guard an Asgardian artifact.

Galactus “tethers” him to Asgard’s location in Oklahoma , resulting in his powers waning the further he travels from Asgard, and grants him the ability to return to human form. Silver Surfer and Dawn meet Glorian the Maker of Miracles, who plans to rebuild our universe for the heroes to return to after they finish in Battleworld.

Knull reels in pain and Eddie Brock is chosen to be the new Captain Universe. Through the God of Light, Silver Surfer assumes a chrome form and turns his surfboard into a sword while Knull transforms his armor into one that would enable him to combat Silver Surfer.

Just then, Venom appears having been transformed into Captain Universe stating that he will handle Knull for them. With their weapons separated from the battle axe form following Knull’s death, Thor and Silver Surfer noted that things will not be back to normal soon. The Silver Surfer wields the Power Cosmic , granting him superhuman strength, endurance, and senses and the ability to absorb and manipulate the universe’s ambient energy.

The Surfer can navigate through interstellar space [78] and hyperspace, which he can enter after exceeding the speed of light allowing traversing interstellar and intergalactic distances to other galaxies millions and even billions of light years away. The Surfer sustains himself by converting matter into energy; he does not require food, water, air, or sleep, but occasionally enters a sleep-like meditation to dream. He can survive in nearly any known natural environment, including deep space, hyperspace, black holes [81] and stars.

His senses enable him to detect objects and concentrations of energy light years away and to perceive matter and energy in subatomic detail, including life energies of living beings. The Surfer’s board is composed of a nearly impervious, cosmically powered silvery material similar to his own skin.

The board is mentally linked to the Surfer and moves in response to his mental commands even when he is not in physical contact with it. When Galactus exiled the Surfer to Earth, his means of imprisonment was linked to the board. When the Surfer and the Fantastic Four realized this, the Surfer put it to the test by leaving the board planet-side and entering space in the Four’s spacecraft. Once he was free of Earth, the Surfer remotely converted the board to energy, recalled it to him, and reformed it in space.

The Surfer has displayed the ability to shed his silver skin and revert to his original appearance as Norrin Radd, masking the Power Cosmic and allowing him to be more inconspicuous when needed. In this state, he can properly eat, drink and sleep. Warren Ellis ‘s Ultimate Galactus Trilogy originally suggested that the Ultimates ‘ ally the Vision was the herald of Galactus, a robotic probe that travels through space warning civilizations of the impending arrival of Gah Lak Tus.

In the final miniseries of the trilogy, Ultimate Extinction , silvery humanoids began to appear, sent to trigger mass suicides in order to reduce the population’s resistance.

Suicide cults founded by the creatures began to appear all across the globe as Gah Lak Tus drew near. These silvery beings had the ability to grow wings; morph into an ovoid ; form spikes; or take an intermediary form, gliding on an oval surface.

They also demonstrated the ability to manipulate large quantities of energy. He is teleported to Earth after Reed mistakes him for a star that he is trying to harness.

His appearance triggers planet-wide chaos and natural calamities. In 43, Reed comments that Gah Lak Tus seems to have modeled its drones on this surfer, and he gives his name as Norin Radd. The Searcher states that he will summon his “master”, who will make the population of the Earth happier than they have ever been. It is revealed that the Surfer has been exiled from Zenn-La for destroying the control that Psycho-Man had over Zenn-La, but because of finding Earth for his master to “save” he may return.

After Psycho-Man gains domain over Earth, the Silver Surfer, temporarily imprisoned in his own ‘memorial’ statue, rescues Mr. Fantastic, tells him his story, and asks him to save Earth. With the Surfers beaten and the insane Psycho-Man reprogrammed to experience the unthinking happiness he had imposed on others, Silver Surfer wanders the space ways. He informs Phoenix that the Watchers disapprove of the problems her flight across the universe is causing and briefly battles her before asking what she is looking for.

On Earth , Norrin Radd had been a great military scientist who accidentally destroyed his own world with his greatest invention. Determined to bring it back to existence, he approached Galactus , Restorer of Worlds, and became his herald in the hope that Galactus would resurrect his world in exchange for his service.

This led to the destruction of Earth, the coming of the Exiles , the deaths of the Shi’ar Imperial Elite Guard, and inevitably the Surfer’s own destruction at the claws of a cosmically empowered Sabretooth. Instead of coming to Earth and meeting the Fantastic Four, he is attacked by a horde of zombies. His corpse grants the zombies a portion each of his cosmic powers, which they use to kill all of the other zombie heroes and villains whom they consider “competition” for what’s left of the living.

Afterwards, Pym creates a machine that concentrates the Cosmic powers they all share to create a massive blast that kills Galactus , at which point they eat him. Now imbued with the power of Galactus himself and realizing they can now fly and survive in space , they adopt his role, traveling the universe and picking worlds clean of life. During the finale of Last Planet Standing , the Silver Surfer foils Galactus’s plan to create a new Big Bang, merging with Galactus himself in the process to become a new being.

Gaining control of Galactus’s powers, the new entity undoes the damage done by the old Galactus. In the alternate timeline of Earth, notably the Guardians of the Galaxy issues 24 and 25 story arc , Norrin Radd was featured as The Keeper. This new version of the Silver Surfer, sans his surfboard, had Quantum Bands , which augmented his “Power Cosmic” and designated him as the Protector of the Universe, as with other bearers of the Bands before him.

He works with the Guardians in an attempt to kill Galactus once and for all, his first attempt with Firelord and Dargo-Thor having failed. Eventually, the Keeper realizes that, with his augmented power, he can supply Galactus with the energy he needs and end the Planet-Eater’s consumption of worlds. Eon, cosmic being and creator of the Quantum Bands, reveals that this was the ultimate purpose of the Keeper becoming the Protector of the Universe, and he enters into a symbiotic partnership with Galactus, who accepts the Keeper as an equal; he is last seen leaving with Galactus, riding a silver surfboard once more.

The Silver Surfer accompanies him along with his love Shalla-Bal, who had now been turned into a silver herald of Galactus as well. Parallax beats the Cyborg, but the Silver Surfer lets him go and tries to sympathize with Parallax.

The two return to Earth to find Kyle Rayner with Thanos, leading them to believe they formed an alliance when in reality Thanos tricked Kyle. Kyle convinces the Surfer to help him stop Parallax and Thanos from destroying the universe and that he was duped into giving Thanos Oa’s power. The Surfer similarly gave most of his power to Parallax to reform the destroyed planet, forcing Kyle to use his ring to drain both villains of their enhanced powers before they can destroy everything.

Unable to contain the power himself, Kyle channels the power from the two villains into the Silver Surfer, who opens a portal and sucks the two inside. Silver Surfer was featured in different issues of What If? When the Kree Liberation Force set forth to invade Earth, they found the floating mutilated corpse of the Surfer near Earth’s moon. Mar-Vell says that he and his comrades concluded that the Surfer had been driven mad because of his lack of need for oxygen and clawed open his chest in order to expose his lungs to the atmosphere, but died of shock.

In addition to his history of publication in comic books, the Silver Surfer has appeared or starred in several prose fiction books:. One stamp shows the Silver Surfer on his board, and another features the cover of the first issue of the series. Satriani was actually unfamiliar with the character at the time; the album’s production manager suggested the character’s usage. The Silver Surfer has appeared in several Marvel-based action figure and toy lines, including one celebrating the 30th anniversary of the character’s first appearance, and three based on the animated series.

The Silver Surfer starred in his own “all-prism” trading card series in , released by Comics Images. He has also appeared in many of Marvel’s other trading card sets, notably each of the Marvel Universe Cards , Marvel Masterpieces , and Marvel Flair Cards trading card series as well as the Marvel OverPower trading card game.

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Writer Bill Mantlo, beginning with issue 30, returned the series to its former status quo, bringing Beverly back into the picture and having her divorce Doctor Bong. Howard’s creator Steve Gerber, who left the series after issue 27, originally intended for Beverly and Bong’s marriage to be lasting and for Beverly to be written out of the series from that point on.

Howard and Beverly’s friend Paul, who had ended up in a coma after he had previously been shot by the Ringmaster, awakens from his coma and is released from the hospital. Beverly’s uncle Lee brings everyone back to Cleveland and employs Howard as a cab driver, while Paul, back to being a somnambulist after his release from the hospital, becomes Winda’s boyfriend.

Howard dons a suit of “Iron Duck” armor made by Claude Starkowitz, a man who has delusions of being related to Tony Stark and dreams of being the personal armorer to Iron Man , and battles Doctor Bong in the final issue of the original 70s Howard the Duck series issue On a later occasion, She-Hulk accidentally pulls Howard though a cosmic wormhole along with theoretical physicist Brent Wilcox and they are able to prevent other universes from crowding out Earth During this time, Howard meets a character called the Critic, travels to a dimension known as the Baloneyverse and again battles a group called the Band of the Bland, whom he had previously battled with the Defenders.

During the fight, Howard and Beverly get stuck in a warehouse full of anthropomorphic ducks, briefly meeting the Savage Dragon and Destroyer Duck. Parker and Reilly leave the warehouse believing that they have the correct versions of Howard and Beverly with them. The disoriented dinosaur attempts to eat Howard, but spits him out when shot with John Blaze ‘s hellfire gun. Howard says that he relates to the pair being trapped in a world they never made before wandering off.

This origin traces the source of these dimensions to be projections from Franklin’s mind. Throughout the course of the adventure, Howard has a romance with Tana Nile, culminating in a kiss, after which he apologizes and tells her of his attachment to Beverly. While Man-Thing becomes a self-appointed guardian to Franklin Richards, Howard goes off on his own and is captured by the Cult of Entropy , who wrap him in swaddling clothes.

The cult wants Howard because he has part of the Nexus of All Realities , which shattered during Heroes Reborn , inside of him. Man-Thing then enters Howard’s mouth, and Howard vomits him back out with the fragment, but Man-Thing is left desiccated and practically dead. Howard sets the Man-Thing down in the water, and he revives during Howard’s conversation with Namor.

Once he sees that the Man-Thing is alive and well, he bids Namor farewell and says that he is returning to Cleveland. Years later, back with Beverly, he undergoes further shapeshifting experiences after an accident at a chemical facility of Doctor Bong’s. Beverly is hired by Bong’s Globally Branded Content Corporation, which manufactures boy bands from protein vats based on the sexual arousal of a focus group of gay men. Attempting to destroy an escapee whom Beverly has taken in, Bong inadvertently knocks Howard into a vat, which changes him, unstably, into a rat.

One of the officers on the case is the same beat cop who mistook Howard for a mutant many years before. Suzy is the inheritor of the doucheblade , which starts to take her over when she wears an enchanted bracelet.

In a skirmish, the bracelet is caught by Howard causing him to be the wielder of the doucheblade. The doucheblade causes its holder to grow enormous bare breasts and armor in a parody of Witchblade , and, possessed by this, Howard kills the male lover of a businessman who works with Verde as he and Verde break into Suzy’s house. Arriving at the Boarding House of Mystery, Howard and Beverly encounter Cain and Abel , the latter with a rock stuck in his head that allows him only moments of lucidity.

There, they are granted their every wish, including Howard’s return to his true form, and Beverly never being poor again, and meet parodies of John Constantine , Wesley Dodds , the Endless , Spider Jerusalem , and Gerber’s own Nevada called Utah , all characters from DC Comics ‘ Vertigo imprint. The downside to the House is that everyone staying there gets their every wish; so Che Guevara can have his revolution, but someone else can easily slaughter him.

Upon leaving the House of Mystery, Howard is once again transformed into an anthropomorphic mouse. It is revealed that Iprah has been merged with an experiment by the Angel Gabriel called Deuteronomy, intended to replace God, because God has been spending all his time in a bar in Hell since Deuteronomy is a creature half-id and half-superego, while Iprah is an all-ego promoter of self-indulgent pop psychology.

Considering her dangerous, Gabriel sends the cherub Thrasher to resurrect Sigmund Freud, whose cigar blasts out half of Thrasher’s brains being immortal, this just makes him act drunk.

Iprah destroys Freud, but Howard blasts her with the cigar, separating her from Deuteronomy. Puffing on the cigar, Howard disintegrates and arrives in Hell. Sometime later, Howard attempts to register under the Superhero Registration Act during the superhero Civil War , but learns his socially disrupted life has created so many bureaucratic headaches that the government’s official policy is that Howard does not exist.

This lack of government oversight delights him: “For the rest of my life, no more parking tickets, or taxes, or jury duty. Heck, I couldn’t even vote if I wanted to! After he defeats the supervillain M. Howard the Duck is briefly seen as part of the superpowered army gathered to battle invading Skrull forces.

During the Fear Itself storyline, Howard forms a team called the Fearsome Four with She-Hulk, Frankenstein’s Monster and Nighthawk to stop the Man-Thing when he goes on a rampage in Manhattan, due to the fear and chaos he senses on the citizens. They later discover a plot by Psycho-Man to use the Man-Thing’s volatile empathy to create a weapon. They promote S. Jonah Jameson. Spider-Man later interrupts a S. Spidey escapes with Howard and breaks his brainwashing when Beverly is threatened.

Howard quickly explains S. As Spider-Man publicly announces his long-standing support for S. Howard is able to break through to Beverly, reminding her of their past together.

The Supreme S. Spidey attacks the S. Howard states that he believes S. Because of his experience with zombie-infested worlds and his leadership of Machine Man, Howard is chosen as the leader of, as he dubs them, the Ducky Dozen. The team is composed of him, several Golden Age heroes, Dum-Dum Dugan , and Battlestar , who is also a veteran of a zombie incident.

Upon entering Earth, the Ducky Dozen fight hordes of zombie Nazis and Asgardians , but suffer grave losses as the team’s members are either killed or zombified during the battle. After successfully accomplishing their mission, Howard, Dugan, Taxi Taylor and Battlestar are the only members to survive and return to Earth along with the Riveter, the only survivor of Earth’s resistance team, the Suffragists. They beat the horde back with nothing but a broken sword, a rubber chicken with nails in it and a gun that shoots bees.

After the death of Uatu the Watcher and the activation of the secrets buried in his eye, Howard discovers that he has the potential to be the most intelligent being in Duckworld. After evading a squirrel while driving, he is thrown flying from his vehicle but uses his intellect to calculate a way to land safely in a nearby dumpster. Howard returns to his business as a private eye, working in the same building as She-Hulk, in Brooklyn. One of his first new clients is Jonathan Richards, who hires Howard to retrieve a necklace stolen by the Black Cat.

With the help of Tara Tam, his new friend and assistant, Howard manages to recover the necklace. However, on his way to give it back to Richards, he finds himself kidnapped by the Collector and allied with the Guardians of the Galaxy to escape the villain, who was attempting to add Howard to his collection of rare space objects and entities.

Upon returning to Earth, Howard is robbed by May Parker , Spider-Man’s aunt, and later re-encounters the Ringmaster, who is revealed to have brainwashed the elderly into committing robberies. After recovering the necklace for a third time, Howard is approached by Richards in the middle of his fight against the Ringmaster and Richards reveals himself to be Talos the Untamed, who reveals that the necklace was part of a marginally powerful item known as the Abundant Glove.

With help from Doctor Strange, Howard and Tara locate the final piece of the Abundant Glove, but are unable to put it back together when Talos grabs it and proceeds to use it to wreak havoc on the city. Talos is confronted by numerous heroes while Howard and Tara take cover. Howard is able to point out that Tara, who is revealed to possess shapeshifting powers similar to that of a Skrull, could help him defeat Talos. Talos is later apprehended by the Fantastic Four and everything returns to normal.

Howard has no superhuman powers, but he is skilled in the martial art known as Quak-Fu, enough to defeat, or at least to hold his own against, far larger opponents. In February , Fantagraphics Books announced the publication of a projected volume hardcover series collecting the complete chronological run of daily and full-color Sunday syndicated Pogo strips.

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However, Galactus had taken an oath to only revive those worlds destroyed by the Blight. An enraged Silver Surfer then turned against his master, destroying those who worshiped him and attempting to kill Galactus himself in order to steal the knowledge of world restoration. This led to the destruction of Earth, the coming of the Exiles , the deaths of the Shi’ar Imperial Elite Guard, and inevitably the Surfer’s own destruction at the claws of a cosmically empowered Sabretooth.

Instead of coming to Earth and meeting the Fantastic Four, he is attacked by a horde of zombies. His corpse grants the zombies a portion each of his cosmic powers, which they use to kill all of the other zombie heroes and villains whom they consider “competition” for what’s left of the living. Afterwards, Pym creates a machine that concentrates the Cosmic powers they all share to create a massive blast that kills Galactus , at which point they eat him.

Now imbued with the power of Galactus himself and realizing they can now fly and survive in space , they adopt his role, traveling the universe and picking worlds clean of life. During the finale of Last Planet Standing , the Silver Surfer foils Galactus’s plan to create a new Big Bang, merging with Galactus himself in the process to become a new being. Gaining control of Galactus’s powers, the new entity undoes the damage done by the old Galactus. In the alternate timeline of Earth, notably the Guardians of the Galaxy issues 24 and 25 story arc , Norrin Radd was featured as The Keeper.

This new version of the Silver Surfer, sans his surfboard, had Quantum Bands , which augmented his “Power Cosmic” and designated him as the Protector of the Universe, as with other bearers of the Bands before him.

Eon, cosmic being and creator of the Quantum Bands, reveals that this was the ultimate purpose of the Keeper becoming the Protector of the Universe, and he enters into a symbiotic partnership with Galactus, who accepts the Keeper as an equal; he is last seen leaving with Galactus, riding a silver surfboard once more. The Silver Surfer accompanies him along with his love Shalla-Bal, who had now been turned into a silver herald of Galactus as well.

Parallax beats the Cyborg, but the Silver Surfer lets him go and tries to sympathize with Parallax. The two return to Earth to find Kyle Rayner with Thanos, leading them to believe they formed an alliance when in reality Thanos tricked Kyle.

Kyle convinces the Surfer to help him stop Parallax and Thanos from destroying the universe and that he was duped into giving Thanos Oa’s power. The Surfer similarly gave most of his power to Parallax to reform the destroyed planet, forcing Kyle to use his ring to drain both villains of their enhanced powers before they can destroy everything.

Mar-Vell says that he and his comrades concluded that the Surfer had been driven mad because of his lack of need for oxygen and clawed open his chest in order to expose his lungs to the atmosphere, but died of shock.

The Silver Surfer was ranked as the 47th-greatest comic book character of all time by Wizard magazine. The series was given a negative review by Newsarama ‘s Pierce Lydon, who cites Laura Allred’s coloring as the issue’s biggest flaw. The character’s various series have been collected into the following trade paperbacks :. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

Fictional character in Marvel Comics. This article is about the comic book character. For other uses, see Silver Surfer disambiguation. Comics character. Retrieved Archived from the original on Kirby: King of Comics Harry N. Abrams , New York, , p. American Comic Book Chronicles: TwoMorrows Publishing.

ISBN Back Issue! TwoMorrows Publishing 65 : 3. At the time, Stan Lee had some exclusivity with the Silver Surfer and asked other writers not to use him.

The Silver Age of Comic Books was a period of artistic advancement and widespread commercial success in mainstream American comic books , predominantly those featuring the superhero archetype. Following the Golden Age of Comic Books and an interregnum in the early to mids, the Silver Age is considered to cover the period from to the end of , and was succeeded by the Bronze Age.

The popularity and circulation of comic books about superheroes had declined following World War II , and comic books about horror, crime and romance took larger shares of the market. However, controversy arose over alleged links between comic books and juvenile delinquency , focusing in particular on crime, horror, and superheroes.

In , publishers implemented the Comics Code Authority to regulate comic content. In the wake of these changes, publishers began introducing superhero stories again, a change that began with the introduction of a new version of DC Comics ‘ The Flash in Showcase 4 October In response to strong demand, DC began publishing more superhero titles including Justice League of America , which prompted Marvel Comics to follow suit beginning with The Fantastic Four 1.

Comics historian and movie producer Michael Uslan traces the origin of the “Silver Age” term to the letters column of Justice League of America 42 February , which went on sale December 9, Very soon, it was in our vernacular, replacing such expressions as It wasn’t long before dealers were Spanning World War II, when American comics provided cheap and disposable escapist entertainment that could be read and then discarded by the troops, [4] the Golden Age of comic books covered the late s to the late s.

The result was a decline in the comics industry. Batman and Robin were doing better, but Batman’s comics were “lackluster” in comparison to his earlier “atmospheric adventures” of the s, and Wonder Woman, having lost her original writer and artist, was no longer “idiosyncratic” or “interesting”. Jacobs describes the arrival of Showcase 4 on the newsstands as “begging to be bought”, the cover featured an undulating film strip depicting the Flash running so fast that he had escaped from the frame.

With the success of Showcase 4, several other s superheroes were reworked during Schwartz’ tenure, including Green Lantern , Aquaman , the Atom , and Hawkman , [14] and the Justice Society of America was reimagined as the Justice League of America. In the mids, DC established that characters appearing in comics published prior to the Silver Age lived on a parallel Earth the company dubbed Earth-Two.

Characters introduced in the Silver Age and onward lived on Earth-One. Although the Flash is generally regarded as the first superhero of the Silver Age, the introduction of the Martian Manhunter in Detective Comics predates Showcase 4 by almost a year, and at least one historian considers this character the first Silver Age superhero. In the United Kingdom, the Marvelman series was published during the interregnum between the Golden and Silver Ages, substituting for the British reprints of the Captain Marvel stories after Fawcett stopped publishing the character’s adventures.

The talking animal superheroes Supermouse and Mighty Mouse were published continuously in their own titles from the end of the Golden Age through the beginning of the Silver Age. Atomic Mouse was given his own title in , lasting ten years. Atomic Rabbit, later named Atomic Bunny, was published from to DC Comics sparked the superhero revival with its publications from to Marvel Comics then capitalized on the revived interest in superhero storytelling with sophisticated stories and characterization.

DC added to its momentum with its introduction of Justice League of America , a team consisting of the company’s most popular superhero characters. It was a book called The [sic] Justice League of America and it was composed of a team of superheroes”, Marvel editor Stan Lee recalled in Goodman directed Lee to likewise produce a superhero team book, resulting in The Fantastic Four 1 November In contrast to the straitlaced archetypes of superheroes at the time, this ushered in a revolution.

With dynamic artwork by Kirby, Steve Ditko, Don Heck, and others complementing Lee’s colorful, catchy prose, the new style became popular among college students who could identify with the angst and the irreverent nature of the characters such as Spider-Man , the X-Men and the Hulk during a time period of social upheaval and the rise of the counterculture of the s.

Comic books of the Silver Age explained superhero phenomena and origins through science, inspired by contemporary science fiction , as opposed to the Golden Age , which commonly relied on magic or mysticism. Comics historian Peter Sanderson compares the s DC to a large Hollywood studio, and argues that after having reinvented the superhero archetype, DC by the latter part of the decade was suffering from a creative drought. The audience for comics was no longer just children, and Sanderson sees the s Marvel as the comic equivalent of the French New Wave , developing new methods of storytelling that drew in and retained readers who were in their teens and older and thus influencing the comics writers and artists of the future.

One of the few most-selling American comics publishers in , Harvey Comics , discontinued its horror comics when the Comics Code was implemented and sought a new target audience. The publishers Gilberton , Dell Comics , and Gold Key Comics used their reputations as publishers of wholesome comic books to avoid becoming signatories to the Comics Code and found various ways to continue publishing horror-themed comics [26] in addition to other types.

Gilberton’s extensive Classics Illustrated line adapted literary classics, with the likes of Frankenstein alongside Don Quixote and Oliver Twist ; Classics Illustrated Junior reprinted comic book versions of children’s classics such as The Wizard of Oz , Rapunzel , and Pinocchio. During the late s and the s, Dell, which had published comics in , offered licensed TV series comic books from Twilight Zone to Top Cat , as well as numerous Walt Disney titles.

Cartoons characters as Bugs Bunny and such comic strip properties as Beetle Bailey. With the popularity of the Batman television show in , publishers that had specialized in other forms began adding campy superhero titles to their lines.

As well, new publishers sprang up, often using creative talent from the Golden Age. Dell published superhero versions of Frankenstein , Dracula and the Werewolf.

Even the iconic Archie Comics teens acquired super powers and superhero identities in comedic titles such as Archie as Capt. Pureheart and Jughead as Captain Hero.

In addition to their individual titles, they teamed in their group series The Mighty Crusaders , joined by the Comet and Flygirl.

Their stories blended typical superhero fare with the s’ camp. According to John Strausbaugh of The New York Times , “traditional” comic book historians feel that although the Silver Age deserves study, the only noteworthy aspect of the Silver Age was the advent of underground comics. The Silver Age of comic books was followed by the Bronze Age.

Historian Will Jacobs suggests the Silver Age ended in April when the man who had started it, Julius Schwartz, handed over Green Lantern —starring one of the first revived heroes of the era—to the new-guard team of Denny O’Neil and Neal Adams in response to reduced sales. He observes that in , the character embodied the can-do optimism of the era.

I was so young Young and cocky, that was Green Lantern. Well, I’ve changed. I’m older now Comics scholar Arnold T. Blumberg places the end of the Silver Age in June , when Gwen Stacy , girlfriend of Peter Parker Spider-Man , was killed in a story arc later dubbed ” The Night Gwen Stacy Died “, saying the era of “innocence” was ended by “the ‘snap’ heard round the comic book world—the startling, sickening snap of bone that heralded the death of Gwen Stacy.

Such a tragedy makes a strong symbolic ending. This theory gained adherents when Kurt Busiek and Alex Ross ‘s Marvels miniseries in ended with Gwen’s death, but I’m not buying it. It’s too late. Too many new directions—especially [the sword-and-sorcery trend begun by the character] Conan and monsters [in the wake of the Comics Code allowing vampires, werewolves and the like]—were on firm ground by this time.

According to historian Peter Sanderson, the “neo-silver movement” that began in with Superman: Whatever Happened to the Man of Tomorrow?

The Silver Age marked a decline in horror, romance, talking animal humor, and Westerns as American-comics genres. An important feature of the period was the development of the character makeup of superheroes. Young children and girls were targeted during the Silver Age by certain publishers; in particular, Harvey Comics attracted this group with titles such as Little Dot. Adult-oriented underground comics also began during the Silver Age. Some critics and historians argue that one characteristic of the Silver Age was that science fiction and aliens replaced magic and gods.

The Silver Age coincided with the rise of pop art , an artistic movement that used popular cultural artifacts, such as advertising and packaging, as source material for fine, or gallery-exhibited, art. Roy Lichtenstein , one of the best-known pop art painters, specifically chose individual panels from comic books and repainted the images, modifying them to some extent in the process but including in the painting word and thought balloons and captions as well as enlarged-to-scale color dots imitating the coloring process then used in newsprint comic books.

In January , a live-action Batman television show debuted to high ratings. Circulation for comic books in general and Batman merchandise in particular soared. By the end of the s, however, the fad had faded; in , the best-selling comic book in the United States was not a superhero series, but the teen-humor book Archie.

Swedish cartoonist Joakim Lindengren draws a Silver Age pastiche in his Kapten Stofil comic book series — about the powers of nostalgia in a grumpy, old comic book named Captain Geezer who longs to return to the Silver Age. Arlen Schumer, author of The Silver Age of Comic Book Art , singles out Carmine Infantino ‘s Flash as the embodiment of the design of the era: “as sleek and streamlined as the fins Detroit was sporting on all its models”.

Two artists that changed the comics industry dramatically in the late s were Neal Adams , considered one of his country’s greatest draftsmen, [51] and Jim Steranko. Both artists expressed a cinematic approach at times that occasionally altered the more conventional panel-based format that had been commonplace for decades. One of the few writer-artists at the time, Steranko made use of a cinematic style of storytelling.

The following comics are sought after by collectors due to their historic significance. Film producer and comics historian Michael Uslan later contradicted some specifics, while supporting the story’s framework:. Irwin said he never played golf with Goodman, so the story is untrue. I heard this story more than a couple of times while sitting in the lunchroom at DC’s Third Avenue and 75 Rockefeller Plaza office as Sol Harrison and [production chief] Jack Adler were schmoozing with some of us As the distributor of DC Comics, this man certainly knew all the sales figures and was in the best position to tell this tidbit to Goodman.

Of course, Goodman would want to be playing golf with this fellow and be in his good graces. Sol worked closely with Independent News’ top management over the decades and would have gotten this story straight from the horse’s mouth. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Mids to ’70s era of comic books. This article may be expanded with text translated from the corresponding article in French. June Click [show] for important translation instructions.

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The Silver Surfer received a sixth volume, an eponymous 5-issue miniseries written by Pak, debuting in February In , a 5 part mini-series titled Silver Surfer: Black was released featuring art from Tradd Moore in collaboration with writing from Donny Cates. The series is an extension of a Guardians of the Galaxy storyline which the Surfer was sucked into a black hole and ejected into unfamiliar space territory. This run follows the Surfer as he traverses the spaceways on a journey back home.

Facing the destruction of his world by planet-consuming Galactus , Radd bargains with the cosmic being. In return for the safety of Zenn-La and his lover, Shalla-Bal , Radd pledges to seek out planets for the world devourer to consume as his herald. Galactus imbues him with a portion of the Power Cosmic , transforming him into the Silver Surfer. Radd serves Galactus for an unspecified amount of time. Eventually, the Surfer summons his master to Earth. Touched by their nobility, he rebels against Galactus, who is eventually driven off.

Before he leaves, he confines the Surfer to Earth with an invisible barrier that affects only him. During his exile, the Surfer fights numerous villains, including Doctor Doom , who wants his Power Cosmic, and Mephisto , who wants his soul. The Surfer’s only ally during these trials is a physicist by the name of Al B. Harper, who eventually sacrifices himself to save the world from the Stranger.

Banding together with the Hulk and Namor during these wanderings, the Surfer forms the “Titans Three”, a group dedicated to battling evil on Earth. The Surfer finally pierces Galactus’s barrier with the aid of Reed Richards and temporarily escapes Earth.

He discovers, though, that his homeworld has been ravaged by Galactus and Shalla-Bal has been abducted by Mephisto and taken to Earth. Even though it means trapping himself once more, the Surfer returns to Earth to battle and defeat Mephisto.

Before being vanquished, Mephisto sends Shalla-Bal back to Zenn-La, but the Surfer manages to endow her with a portion of his Power Cosmic, which she uses to revitalize the plant life of their ravaged homeworld. After the Surfer aids the Fantastic Four against Galactus’s latest herald Terrax , [44] The Surfer eventually pierces Galactus’s barrier by acting on a suggestion of trying to pass through on a spaceship instead of via his own power on his surfboard.

He also makes peace with Galactus by rescuing current herald Nova from the Skrulls. Galactus declares the Surfer’s exile ended. Embroiled in fresh hostilities between the interstellar Kree and Skrull empires, the Surfer also intervenes in a series of plots by the Elders of the Universe , who plan to become supremely powerful by destroying Galactus and the universe with him.

He convinces Galactus to restore it, [53] but once Galactus has done so, the Surfer is overcome with grief until he is able to forgive himself. The Surfer returns home to Zenn-La to find that the planet has vanished, and learns it was actually destroyed in the s Earth time by the entity known as the Other.

Zenn-La and its people which the Surfer repeatedly encountered since leaving Galactus’s service were actually reproductions, created by Galactus so that the Surfer would have a home to return to. He later regains his personality during a time-travel adventure and sharing a romance with Alicia Masters. Silver Surfer temporarily bonds with and is controlled by the Carnage symbiote , which is seeking revenge for the destruction of its homeworld.

Later, the Surfer works with the alien Annunaki race to gather and protect some of Earth’s most extraordinarily gifted children. During his travels, the Surfer is captured by a portal of the Sakaar Empire.

Left weakened and vulnerable by his trip through the portal, the Surfer is subdued and implanted with an obedience disk to ensure he remains loyal to them. Fighting as a gladiator and believed to be the fabled ‘Sakaarson’ due to his appearance , the Surfer is finally forced to face the Hulk along with his Warbound. Through teamwork and distraction, the Hulk is eventually able to destroy the Surfer’s obedience disk.

Drax the Destroyer frees the Surfer, who in turn frees Galactus. An enraged Galactus destroys more than half the Annihilation Wave, and Annihilus is defeated.

The conflict is ended when Skaar’s mother Caiera sacrifices her soul and Old Power as sustenance for Galactus. The battle ended when the Silver Surfer chose to leave his post as herald and guard an Asgardian artifact. Galactus “tethers” him to Asgard’s location in Oklahoma , resulting in his powers waning the further he travels from Asgard, and grants him the ability to return to human form.

Silver Surfer and Dawn meet Glorian the Maker of Miracles, who plans to rebuild our universe for the heroes to return to after they finish in Battleworld.

Gathering the energy from the cosmos, Silver Surfer managed to defeat Knull. During the ” King in Black ” storyline, Silver Surfer passes by the planets that were ravaged by Knull.

Just then, Venom appears having been transformed into Captain Universe stating that he will handle Knull for them.

With their weapons separated from the battle axe form following Knull’s death, Thor and Silver Surfer noted that things will not be back to normal soon. The Silver Surfer wields the Power Cosmic , granting him superhuman strength, endurance, and senses and the ability to absorb and manipulate the universe’s ambient energy.

He can survive in nearly any known natural environment, including deep space, hyperspace, black holes [81] and stars. His senses enable him to detect objects and concentrations of energy light years away and to perceive matter and energy in subatomic detail, including life energies of living beings. His family moved to Bridgeport, Connecticut , when he was only two. Kelly created the characters of Pogo the possum and Albert the alligator in for issue No.

Bumbazine was retired early, since Kelly found it hard to write for a human child. He eventually phased humans out of the comics entirely, preferring to use the animal characters for their comic potential. Kelly said he used animals—nature’s creatures, or “nature’s screechers” as he called them—”largely because you can do more with animals. They don’t hurt as easily, and it’s possible to make them more believable in an exaggerated pose. In his autobiography for the Hall Syndicate, Kelly said he “fooled around with the Foreign Language Unit of the Army during World War II, illustrating grunts and groans, and made friends in the newspaper and publishing business.

The reprints with minor rewording returned, continuing until Kelly’s death. Other artists, notably Don Morgan, worked on the strip. Selby Kelly began to draw the strip with the Christmas strip from from scripts by Walt’s son Stephen. The strip ended July 20, Selby Kelly said in a interview that she decided to discontinue the strip because newspapers had shrunk the size of strips to the point where people could not easily read it. Doyle left the strip as of February 24, , and Sternecky took over as both writer and artist until March 22, After Sternecky left, Kelly’s son Peter and daughter Carolyn continued to produce the strip until October 2, , but interest waned.

Fictitious local landmarks—such as “Miggle’s General Store and Emporium” a. The landscape is fluid and vividly detailed, with a dense variety of often caricatured flora and fauna. The richly textured trees and marshlands frequently change from panel to panel within the same strip. Like the Coconino County depicted in Krazy Kat and the Dogpatch of Li’l Abner , the distinctive cartoon landscape of Kelly’s Okefenokee Swamp became as strongly identified with the strip as any of its characters.

These offbeat sequences, usually presented as a staged play or a story within a story related by one of the characters, seem to take place in the fairy tale dreamscapes of children’s literature, with European storybook-style cottages and forests, etc. The strip was notable for its distinctive and whimsical use of language. Kelly, a native northeasterner , had a sharply perceptive ear for language and used it to great humorous effect. The predominant vernacular in Pogo , sometimes referred to as “swamp-speak”, is essentially a rural southern U.

Pogo has been engaged in his favorite pastime, fishing in the swamp from a flat-bottomed boat, and has hooked a small catfish. Kelly used Pogo to comment on the human condition, and from time to time, this drifted into politics.

Perhaps the complexion of the strip changed a little in that direction after After all, it is pretty hard to walk past an unguarded gold mine and remain empty-handed.

Marvel agreed to a redesign of the character by Disney artists. A key feature of the redesign was that the character would wear pants.

In , Gerber was removed from the newspaper strip and the comic-book series due to chronic problems with deadlines. The final episode of the newspaper strip was published on October 29, Issue 31 May of the comic-book series announced on its letters page that it would be the final issue of Howard the Duck as a color comic. Marvel then relaunched the series that year as a bimonthly magazine, with scripts by Mantlo, art by Colan and Michael Golden and unrelated backup features by others.

The magazine was canceled after nine issues. On August 29, , after learning of Marvel’s efforts to license Howard for use in film and broadcast media, Steve Gerber filed a copyright infringement lawsuit against Marvel corporate parent Cadence Industries and other parties, alleging that he was the sole owner of the character.

On November 5, , Judge David Kenyon approved the motion and dismissed the case. The only new story featuring the character between and appeared in Bizarre Adventures 34 Scripted by Steven Grant , it featured a suicidal Howard being put through a parody of It’s a Wonderful Life.

The original comic book series reappeared with issue 32 January It featured a story that had been written by Grant four years earlier. Howard co-creator Val Mayerik co-plotted the story and provided the art. It was released alongside an adaptation of the Howard the Duck feature film, which was published in Marvel Super Special 41 November and a three-issue comic-book series.

The character was again living with Beverly Switzler, now working as a rent-a- ninja. How they got back together was never explained. Beverly was not involved in the story, in which She-Hulk takes Howard on a trip through several dimensions with a theoretical physicist from Empire State University. He had the idea to create an unofficial crossover between the two issues, where the characters would meet momentarily in the shadows, but which would not affect either story.

Soon after, Gerber discovered that Howard was scheduled to appear in Ghost Rider vol. Gerber was not pleased with this development, and changed the “unofficial crossover” somewhat. As Savage Dragon and Destroyer Duck escape the warehouse, they reveal that they rescued the “real” Howard and Beverly, while Spider-Man left with two of the clones.

Howard has his feathers dyed green, and is renamed “Leonard the Duck”, and Beverly has her hair dyed black and is renamed “Rhonda Martini”.

Featuring several familiar Howard the Duck characters, the series, like the original one, parodied a wide range of other comics and pop culture figures, but with considerably stronger language and sexual content than what would have been allowable 25 years earlier. The series has Doctor Bong causing Howard to go through multiple changes of form, principally into a mouse as a parody of Mickey Mouse , in retaliation for the Disney-mandated redesign , and entering a chain of events parodying comics such as Witchblade , Preacher and several others, with Howard ultimately having a conversation with God in Hell.

Howard had cameo appearances in She-Hulk vol. In , he returned in Howard the Duck vol. This series was rated for ages 9 and up, though one issue was published with a Marvel Zombies tie-in cover with a parental advisory claim. In November , Marvel announced an ongoing series starting in March featuring Howard as a private investigator on Earth. The creative team consisted of writer Chip Zdarsky and artist Joe Quinones. This led to a reboot produced by the same creative team starting with Howard the Duck vol.

Howard’s first appearance in comics is when he is abruptly abducted from his home planet by an unseen force and randomly dropped into the Florida Everglades by the demon-lord Thog the Nether-Spawn. He meets the Man-Thing , who had been attacked by Korrek of Katharta, and the three of them are confronted by warriors of the Congress of Realities. They then travel to the realm of Therea and destroy Thog the Nether-Spawn. Howard then accidentally falls off the inter-dimensional stepping stones that the group were traveling on [24] and materializes in Cleveland, Ohio, where he battles Garko the Man-Frog.

Howard also briefly encounters and kills a vampiric cow named Bessie the Hellcow. Howard makes friends with an artists’ model named Beverly Switzler and a bizarre series of encounters follow. He battles Pro-Rata , the cosmic accountant, then meets Spider-Man at the end of the battle.

Howard and Beverly hit the road, seeking shelter in a gothic mansion where they battle a girl named Patsy and her giant, animated-to-life gingerbread man. The Beaver falls to his death in a battle with Howard. Unfortunately, the bus’ passengers are all believers in various weird cults, and try to interest Howard in them. His seatmates are Winda Wester and the Kidney Lady, a woman who believes that the soul of a person lives in their kidneys and attempts to stop anything she sees as “anti-kidney health.

There he meets Daimon Hellstrom, and is briefly possessed by Hellstrom’s demonic soul, becoming the new Son of Satan. Later, while on the S. Damned , a cruise ship returning from scenic Bagmom, Howard and Beverly are taken captive by Lester Verde. Verde had known Beverly in college and had a crush on her and had assumed the identity of the supervillain Doctor Bong , [38] who illegally marries Beverly against her will and transforms Howard into a human.

After escaping back to New York and being restored to his natural form, Howard is hired as a dishwasher by Beverly’s uncle, Lee Switzler. Korrek pilots the ship the Epoch Weasel and drops Howard back off at Cleveland before he and their allies fly away.

Howard is later kidnapped by the Ringmaster and his Circus of Crime. Winda is abandoned by Paul and Iris and Paul is shot and left in a coma. Writer Bill Mantlo, beginning with issue 30, returned the series to its former status quo, bringing Beverly back into the picture and having her divorce Doctor Bong. Howard’s creator Steve Gerber, who left the series after issue 27, originally intended for Beverly and Bong’s marriage to be lasting and for Beverly to be written out of the series from that point on.

Man-Thing then enters Howard’s mouth, and Howard vomits him back out with the fragment, but Man-Thing is left desiccated and practically dead. Howard sets the Man-Thing down in the water, and he revives during Howard’s conversation with Namor. Once he sees that the Man-Thing is alive and well, he bids Namor farewell and says that he is returning to Cleveland. Years later, back with Beverly, he undergoes further shapeshifting experiences after an accident at a chemical facility of Doctor Bong’s.

Beverly is hired by Bong’s Globally Branded Content Corporation, which manufactures boy bands from protein vats based on the sexual arousal of a focus group of gay men. Attempting to destroy an escapee whom Beverly has taken in, Bong inadvertently knocks Howard into a vat, which changes him, unstably, into a rat.

Verde then goes to the press and claims that his building was attacked by Osama el-Barka “Osama the Duck” in Arabic. Howard and Beverly are sent back on the road after the junkyard office where they are living is destroyed by a S. One of the officers on the case is the same beat cop who mistook Howard for a mutant many years before. Suzy is the inheritor of the doucheblade , which starts to take her over when she wears an enchanted bracelet. In a skirmish, the bracelet is caught by Howard causing him to be the wielder of the doucheblade.

The doucheblade causes its holder to grow enormous bare breasts and armor in a parody of Witchblade , and, possessed by this, Howard kills the male lover of a businessman who works with Verde as he and Verde break into Suzy’s house.

Arriving at the Boarding House of Mystery, Howard and Beverly encounter Cain and Abel , the latter with a rock stuck in his head that allows him only moments of lucidity. There, they are granted their every wish, including Howard’s return to his true form, and Beverly never being poor again, and meet parodies of John Constantine , Wesley Dodds , the Endless , Spider Jerusalem , and Gerber’s own Nevada called Utah , all characters from DC Comics ‘ Vertigo imprint.

The downside to the House is that everyone staying there gets their every wish; so Che Guevara can have his revolution, but someone else can easily slaughter him. Upon leaving the House of Mystery, Howard is once again transformed into an anthropomorphic mouse.

It is revealed that Iprah has been merged with an experiment by the Angel Gabriel called Deuteronomy, intended to replace God, because God has been spending all his time in a bar in Hell since Deuteronomy is a creature half-id and half-superego, while Iprah is an all-ego promoter of self-indulgent pop psychology.

Considering her dangerous, Gabriel sends the cherub Thrasher to resurrect Sigmund Freud, whose cigar blasts out half of Thrasher’s brains being immortal, this just makes him act drunk.

E-Book (deutsch E-Buch; englisch e-book, ebook) steht für ein elektronisches Buch (englisch electronic book) und bezeichnet Werke in elektronischer Buchform, die auf E-Book-Readern oder mit spezieller Software auf PCs, Tabletcomputern oder Smartphones gelesen werden können. Mit der Verbreitung von E-Book-Readern werden E-Books zunehmend in einem Format . Action Comics #1 (cover dated June ) is the first issue of the original run of the comic book/magazine series Action replace.me features the first appearance of several comic-book heroes—most notably the Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster creation, Superman—and sold for 10 cents (equivalent to $2 in ). It is widely considered to be both the beginning of the . Easily catalog your comic book collection. Automatic issue details and cover art. Just scan comic barcodes OR search by series title. Free trial editions. Available as web-based software, mobile app or downloadable desktop software for Windows. Comic Collector Live is everything. Professional desktop software. Bargain shopping. Massive product library. comic book. SEP 01 Amazing Spider-Man () 6 – A. 7 for sale from $ Buy Now. Inflation fighting 20% Sale plus free shipping at Kirkcomics!! – view post. Pogo was a daily comic strip that was created by cartoonist Walt Kelly and syndicated to American newspapers from until Set in the Okefenokee Swamp in the Southeastern United States, Pogo followed the adventures of its anthropomorphic animal characters, including the title character, an replace.me strip was written for both children and adults, with layers of .
Howard the Duck was created by writer Steve Gerber and penciler Val Mayerik in Adventure into Fear #19 (Dec. ) as a secondary character in that comic’s “Man-Thing” feature. He graduated to his own backup feature in Giant-Size Man-Thing #4–5 (May and Aug. ), confronting such bizarre horror-parody characters as Garko the Man-Frog and Bessie the . Pogo was a daily comic strip that was created by cartoonist Walt Kelly and syndicated to American newspapers from until Set in the Okefenokee Swamp in the Southeastern United States, Pogo followed the adventures of its anthropomorphic animal characters, including the title character, an replace.me strip was written for both children and adults, with layers of . The Silver Surfer is a fictional character appearing in American comic books published by Marvel replace.me character also appears in a number of movies, television, and video game adaptations. The character was created by Jack Kirby and first appeared in the comic book Fantastic Four #48, published in The Silver Surfer is a humanoid alien with metallic . Action Comics #1 (cover dated June ) is the first issue of the original run of the comic book/magazine series Action replace.me features the first appearance of several comic-book heroes—most notably the Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster creation, Superman—and sold for 10 cents (equivalent to $2 in ). It is widely considered to be both the beginning of the . E-Book (deutsch E-Buch; englisch e-book, ebook) steht für ein elektronisches Buch (englisch electronic book) und bezeichnet Werke in elektronischer Buchform, die auf E-Book-Readern oder mit spezieller Software auf PCs, Tabletcomputern oder Smartphones gelesen werden können. Mit der Verbreitung von E-Book-Readern werden E-Books zunehmend in einem Format .

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According to John Strausbaugh of The New York Times , “traditional” comic book historians feel that although the Silver Age deserves study, the only noteworthy aspect of the Silver Age was the advent of underground comics. The Silver Age of comic books was followed by the Bronze Age. Historian Will Jacobs suggests the Silver Age ended in April when the man who had started it, Julius Schwartz, handed over Green Lantern —starring one of the first revived heroes of the era—to the new-guard team of Denny O’Neil and Neal Adams in response to reduced sales.

He observes that in , the character embodied the can-do optimism of the era. I was so young Young and cocky, that was Green Lantern. Well, I’ve changed. I’m older now Comics scholar Arnold T. Blumberg places the end of the Silver Age in June , when Gwen Stacy , girlfriend of Peter Parker Spider-Man , was killed in a story arc later dubbed ” The Night Gwen Stacy Died “, saying the era of “innocence” was ended by “the ‘snap’ heard round the comic book world—the startling, sickening snap of bone that heralded the death of Gwen Stacy.

According to historian Peter Sanderson, the “neo-silver movement” that began in with Superman: Whatever Happened to the Man of Tomorrow? The Silver Age marked a decline in horror, romance, talking animal humor, and Westerns as American-comics genres. An important feature of the period was the development of the character makeup of superheroes. Young children and girls were targeted during the Silver Age by certain publishers; in particular, Harvey Comics attracted this group with titles such as Little Dot.

Adult-oriented underground comics also began during the Silver Age. Some critics and historians argue that one characteristic of the Silver Age was that science fiction and aliens replaced magic and gods. The Silver Age coincided with the rise of pop art , an artistic movement that used popular cultural artifacts, such as advertising and packaging, as source material for fine, or gallery-exhibited, art.

Roy Lichtenstein , one of the best-known pop art painters, specifically chose individual panels from comic books and repainted the images, modifying them to some extent in the process but including in the painting word and thought balloons and captions as well as enlarged-to-scale color dots imitating the coloring process then used in newsprint comic books. In January , a live-action Batman television show debuted to high ratings. Circulation for comic books in general and Batman merchandise in particular soared.

By the end of the s, however, the fad had faded; in , the best-selling comic book in the United States was not a superhero series, but the teen-humor book Archie. Swedish cartoonist Joakim Lindengren draws a Silver Age pastiche in his Kapten Stofil comic book series — about the powers of nostalgia in a grumpy, old comic book named Captain Geezer who longs to return to the Silver Age.

Arlen Schumer, author of The Silver Age of Comic Book Art , singles out Carmine Infantino ‘s Flash as the embodiment of the design of the era: “as sleek and streamlined as the fins Detroit was sporting on all its models”.

One of the few writer-artists at the time, Steranko made use of a cinematic style of storytelling. The following comics are sought after by collectors due to their historic significance.

Film producer and comics historian Michael Uslan later contradicted some specifics, while supporting the story’s framework:. Irwin said he never played golf with Goodman, so the story is untrue. I heard this story more than a couple of times while sitting in the lunchroom at DC’s Third Avenue and 75 Rockefeller Plaza office as Sol Harrison and [production chief] Jack Adler were schmoozing with some of us As the distributor of DC Comics, this man certainly knew all the sales figures and was in the best position to tell this tidbit to Goodman.

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Since its inception, Masters of the Universe has usually placed its focus on the two primary characters, the blond muscular He-Man , “the most powerful man in the Universe,” and his nemesis, the evil skull-faced, blue-skinned sorcerer Skeletor and their many moral-themed encounters on the planet Eternia. Skeletor is originally described as an evil being from another dimension and in some later MOTU lore as a disfigured and vengeful relative of the royal family, known as Keldor.

These core minions usually include Beast Man , an orange-furred, apelike master of beasts; [24] Mer-Man , an aquatic fishlike ocean warlord; [25] Evil-Lyn , a powerful sorceress and one of Skeletor’s most feared and competent associates; [26] Trap Jaw , an iron-jawed criminal with a mechanical arm that can be fitted by a various assortment of weapons; [27] and Tri-Klops , a mercenary swordsman with a rotating three-eyed visor.

Jetlag Productions would go on to produce 65 episodes of the New Adventures cartoon, with a few mini comics and adventure magazines also created for this new series.

Ultimately, though, the series would not be as successful and the entire franchise would go on a hiatus for more than a decade. After some success with a “Commemorative Series” rerelease of the classic action figures in , Mattel relaunched the toy line with all-new action figures, playsets, and vehicles, sculpted by Four Horsemen Studios in Although popular with longtime fans and collectors with mini-statue figures being released by NECA until , the new series failed to catch on with a larger audience and was canceled in From to , a new assortment of Masters of the Universe action figures has been released under the banner of “Masters of the Universe Classics.

In , Mattel released a new line of 5. Netflix and DreamWorks released an animated series entitled She-Ra and the Princesses of Power in , which released five seasons until This was followed in by Masters of the Universe Revelation , a new Netflix animated series produced by Kevin Smith. Glut , and several other contributors. In the race to design the next hit action figure, Roger Sweet , a lead designer working for Mattel’s Preliminary Design Department throughout much of the s and s, according to his book Mastering the Universe: He-Man and the Rise and Fall of a Billion-Dollar Idea , was the first to conceptualize the idea of He-Man.

I glued a Big Jim figure [from another Mattel toy line] into a battle action pose and I added a lot of clay to his body. I then had plaster casts made.

These three prototypes, which I presented in late , brought He-Man into existence. I simply explained that this was a powerful figure that could be taken anywhere and dropped into any context because he had a generic name: He-Man! Originally set under the working title “Lords of Power,” the name “Masters of the Universe” came into being when it was suggested that the former name of the toy line was too religious in nature.

This would eventually lead to a meeting with Filmation head Lou Scheimer and the creation of the He-Man and the Masters of the Universe animated series. Earlier in , the rights-holders of Conan the Barbarian had been negotiating the character’s toy rights with Mattel and they entered into an agreement the following year regarding characters from the Conan movie.

However, with Mattel introducing the Masters of the Universe toy line in , the rights-holders sued Mattel claiming the character was an infringement on the character of Conan. Joe: A Real American Hero lines. Later on that year, the first wave of action figures in would also include Teela “heroic warrior goddess” , Mer-Man “evil ocean warlord” , Stratos “heroic winged warrior” , and Zodac “the cosmic enforcer”.

To combat Skeletor, He-Man is given special powers, armor, and weapons by the Sorceress she has green skin in her debut appearance and is wearing the “snake armor” that came with the original Teela action figure, instead of adorning her more familiar birdlike attire, as seen in the Filmation series.

Running through two seasons, He-Man and the Masters of the Universe was one of the first animated series produced directly for weekday syndication , as opposed to reruns primarily based on Saturday mornings. Totaling episodes, with each season of 65 episodes stretching across 13 weeks, the series last episode, “The Cold Zone,” on November 21, Similar to the comics that came before, the series is set on Eternia, which is ruled by King Randor and Queen Marlena visibly younger in age and with more colorful attire than their previous comic versions.

Despite the limited animation techniques that were used to produce the series, He-Man and the Masters of the Universe was notable for breaking the boundaries of censorship that had severely restricted the narrative scope of children’s TV programming in the s.

For the first time, a cartoon series could feature a muscular superhero who engage in on-screen combat although most of the time wrestling -style moves were utilized instead of direct violence. The cartoon was also groundbreaking in that it was produced in connection with marketing a line of toys, as advertising directly to children was controversial during this period. As an attempt to mitigate the negative publicity generated by these controversies, a “life lesson” or “moral of the story” was played at the end of each episode, which was usually tied to the action or central theme of the episode in question although in the United Kingdom, the closing “morals” were often edited out of the original broadcasts.

Brynne Stephens , and many others, including early script-writing work from Babylon 5 creator J. Fontana of Star Trek fame. The series, although still popular, would not be renewed for a third season in However, the characters would make occasional guest appearances in the She-Ra: Princess of Power Series , which was set in the same universe and followed the same continuity. The She-Ra series began with a 5-part animated serial which was later condensed into the animated movie The Secret of the Sword , released theatrically in the spring of and featuring most of the main characters from both cartoons.

The wave of action figures again included new versions of He-Man and Skeletor with special action features: Thunder-Punch He-Man whose backpack could be loaded with plastic ring caps to create a loud “bang” when turning He-Man’s waist and Dragon Blaster Skeletor which included a small water-squirting dragon chained to Skeletor’s armor. The largest addition to the Masters of the Universe toy line came in the form of the Evil Horde , whose characters were set to debut in the animated He-Man and She-Ra: The Secret of the Sword motion picture.

In , Mattel and Filmation decided to diversify the Masters of the Universe line beyond its traditional realm of “male action,” in the hopes of bringing in a young female audience as well. Michael Straczynski. The Secret of the Sword animated movie from earlier that spring was essentially a compilation of what would become the first five episodes of the She-Ra cartoon series. The series would run for two seasons, 93 episodes, from to She-Ra: Princess of Power was produced in lieu of continuing He-Man and the Masters of the Universe for a third year; however, He-Man often appeared in episodes of She-Ra to aid his sister, and several other characters from He-Man and the Masters of the Universe , both heroic and evil, also appeared in multiple crossovers.

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In addition, Howard can briefly be seen in the background of the Collector’s welcome video in the attraction’s queue. Between June 6, and October 29, , Howard the Duck appeared in a syndicated daily comic strip that comic strip historian Allan Holtz has described as having low distribution and that was eventually replaced by the Incredible Hulk comic strip.

When the strip was dropped by the Cleveland Plain Dealer , a Cleveland TV station began televising the strip for two minutes each night.

A total of eleven story arcs, as well as a number of single-joke strips, constitute the individual strips that were printed.

Titled It’s Adventure Time With Howard the Duck , only the initial issue was published. In , a pilot for a radio show version of Howard was recorded.

James Belushi played the role of Howard, although the program was never aired. Michael Burkett of the Orange County Register described Howard the Duck as a “cantankerous, stogie-chomping, nattily dressed” antihero with an “acerbic wit, irascible personality and down-and-dirty street smarts” that distinguished him from other cartoon animal characters. Marvel editor-in-chief Roy Thomas thought that Howard, as a “funny animal” character, was inappropriate for the horror comic book in which he was introduced.

He told Gerber to dispose of the character “as fast as you can. One fan even sent in a duck carcass to make his point. At San Diego Comic-Con , the auditorium stood up and applauded when a fan asked Thomas if Howard would ever come back.

Marvel responded by bringing Howard back for more appearances and soon launching his own self-titled comic book series. The Howard the Duck comic book has been described as “the first successful title aimed at an older audience.

He’s got every Howard the Duck comic ever. After Gerber parted ways with Marvel in amid numerous legal and creative disputes, and other writers took over for him, Howard the Duck’s popularity diminished rapidly. Stan Lee , Shooter and Gerber himself criticized the post-Gerber stories for their lack of substance and clever humor.

Within three years of Gerber’s departure, Marvel had ceased publishing new Howard the Duck material.

Lucasfilm’s big-budget Howard the Duck movie disappointed critics, audiences and the character’s fans alike. Although Marvel has occasionally released new Howard comic books, some written by Gerber, and sometimes features the character in other media, Howard’s popularity has never again approached what it was in the s.

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Romney , Lyndon B. Kennedy appeared in , during the presidential election. Because some newspapers were wary of printing political satire on the comics page, Kelly sometimes drew two strips for the same day — the regular satirical Pogo strip, and a less-pointed version that he called the “Bunny Rabbit” strips.

The tunes were also issued on a vinyl LP , with Kelly himself contributing to the vocals. Each year at Christmas time, it was traditional for the strip to publish at least the first stanza — “Deck us all with Boston Charlie; Walla Walla Wash. Nora’s freezin’ on the trolley; Swaller dollar cauliflower Alleygaroo”. Some years also included other verses and versions: for example, the dog Beauregard knew it as “Bark us all bow-wows of folly, Polly wolly cracker ‘n’ too-da-loo!

Walt Kelly frequently had his characters poling around the swamp in a flat-bottomed skiff. Invariably, it had a name on the side that was a personal reference of Kelly’s: the name of a friend, a political figure, a fellow cartoonist, or the name of a newspaper, its editor or publisher. The name changed from one day to the next, and even from panel to panel in the same strip, but it was usually a tribute to a real-life person Kelly wished to salute in print.

Long before I could grasp the satirical significance of his stuff, I was enchanted by Kelly’s magnificent artwork We’ll never see anything like Pogo again in the funnies, I’m afraid. A good many of us used hoopla and hype to sell our wares, but Kelly didn’t need that. It seemed he simply emerged, was there, and was recognized for what he was, a true natural genius of comic art Hell , he could draw a tree that would send God and Joyce Kilmer back to the drawing board.

The creator and series have received a great deal of recognition over the years. Frost , T. Sullivant , Heinrich Kley and Lawson Wood. In his essay “The Decline of the Comics” Canadian Forum , January , literary critic Hugh MacLean classified American comic strips into four types: daily gag, adventure, soap opera and “an almost lost comic ideal: the disinterested comment on life’s pattern and meaning.

When the first Pogo collection was published in , Anthony Boucher and J. Francis McComas declared that “nothing comparable has happened in the history of the comic strip since George Herriman’s Krazy Kat. He was the first strip cartoonist invited to contribute originals to the Library of Congress.