DeFalco has personally created and developed over three dozen characters that have all been licensed for television, toys, t-shirts, posters, trading cards and other merchandise, and has written Khan and The Phantom for Moonstone Books.

The MC2 Nova ( co-created by Tom DeFalco and Ron Frenz ) first appeared in Spider-Girl # 7 and wrongly believed Spider-Girl was a supervillain since she was fighting Darkdevil at the time.

However, all sources agree that DeFalco, who had taken over the writing chores on the title, was due to bring the storyline to a revelation when he suddenly departed the title.

Originally, the name Shadowhawk was to be used for the Marvel character Starhawk while he had darkness powers, but Tom DeFalco convinced Valentino to use the name for a new character instead.

Valentino had initially decided to call him Shadowhawk, but Tom DeFalco convinced him to save the name for a brand new character.

During his tenure as Editor-in-Chief, DeFalco had continued to write as well, with noted runs on Thor ( where he created the New Warriors with artist Ron Frenz ) and the spin-off Thunderstrike, as well as Fantastic Four.

Frequent writers, artists, and colorists for their books include Eric M. Esquivel, Dave Ulanski, Mike Bullock, Chuck Dixon, Amin Amat, Ben Raab, Rafael Nieves, Renato Guerra, Peter David, Graham Nolan, David Gallaher, Eric Theriault, EricJ, Nancy Holder, Tom Mandrake, Vatche Mavlian, Richard Dean Starr, Doug Klauba, Paul Storrie, Mike W. Barr, Tom DeFalco, Max Allan Collins, Steve Ellis, Ron Goulart, Ken Wolak and Stefan Petrucha.

After co-writing two issues of Fantastic Four (# 301-2 ; April – May 1987 ) with Roger Stern ( DeFalco would return to writing the title between 1991 and 1996 ), DeFalco took over writing duties on Thor from Walt Simonson with # 383 in September.

Interviews and articles written by various writers, most notably Tom DeFalco and Peter David, artist Ron Frenz and editor James Owsley ( now known as Christopher Priest ) are all somewhat at odds with one another over many details about the course of events and what was agreed.

It was created by Jim Shooter, Archie Goodwin, Eliot R. Brown, John Morelli, Mark Gruenwald, Tom DeFalco and edited by Michael Higgins.

In an effort to save the line, then Editor-In-Chief Tom DeFalco and Editor Howard Mackie ended up removing some of the more fantastic elements from it and in a few cases doing radical revamps-John Byrne was enlisted to write and do breakdowns on Star Brand, altering the title so that it focused less on Ken Connell and more on the power of the Star Brand itself.

Gruenwald ( or " Gru " or " Grueny " as he was often referred to ) was a recurring character along with Tom DeFalco in the single-panel comic The Bull's Eye that ran in " Bullpen Bulletins " in the late 1980s – early 1990s.

Originally known as Speedball, the character was created by artist Steve Ditko and writer Tom DeFalco, initially as a candidate for Marvel's separate New Universe imprint.

It was co-written by Tom DeFalco and inked by several different artists.

He first appeared in Thor # 411 ( December 1989 ), and was created by Tom DeFalco and Ron Frenz.

He then started submitting various stories to Marvel, but was systematically rejected by various editors including Tom DeFalco.

He was created by writer and then Marvel editor-in-chief Tom DeFalco, and artist Mike Manley.

The MC2 Universe was conceived by writer / editor Tom DeFalco as a possible alternate future for the Marvel Universe, which is set in the present day, with the first appearances of most Marvel heroes having taken place fifteen years earlier than in main continuity.

Jackal appears in the re-imagining of the Clone Saga by Tom DeFalco exploring the storyline as it was originally conceived.

Learning fast, DeFalco was soon writing for the flagship title Archie as well as for other titles including Scooby-Doo and Josie and the Pussycats.

DeFalco was the chief designer and author for Dazzler, and later became one of the most popular writers for the Spider-Man comic book series while at the same time rising through the editorial ranks.

DeFalco was also " part of the creative team that introduced the Transformers to the American public " in 1984.

Concurrent with editing Jim Shooter's Secret Wars, DeFalco was introducing Spider-Man's " black costume " in the pages of Amazing.

After clashing with the company's upper management, DeFalco was forced out in 1994.

In early 2009, as the Spider-Girl series was drawing to a close, DeFalco said it might be some of his last work for Marvel as he was in danger of being typecast because of his long run with the characters

She was created by Tom DeFalco, Mike W. Barr, Terry Kavanagh, Ron Lim, Jerry Bingham, and Mark Bagley and first appeared in Spider-Man Unlimited volume 1 # 1 ( May 1993 ).

* Kickers, Inc. ( created by Tom DeFalco and Ron Frenz ) ( 12 issues )

In March 1986, Tom DeFalco, Mary Wilshire, and Steve Leialoha were the creative team for the four issue Firestar miniseries, where Emma predominantly appeared alongside her Hellions.

The one-episode stories generally featured obscure or little-seen characters from the Marvel universe, and often featured work by creators previously unpublished in the comics field, including Scott Lobdell ( later X-Men Writer ) who started work under the editorship of Tom DeFalco.

Although created by DeFalco, most issues of the series ( including the very first ) credit Danny Fingeroth as writer.

Campaigns by Tom DeFalco and fans of the title led to Marvel giving the title a reprieve several times.

Due to backlash from DeFalco and fans, Marvel quashed the move and announced the relaunching of Spider-Girl under the title of Amazing Spider-Girl.

DeFalco confirmed on the official Spider-Girl boards that this strip would serve as the definitive continuity of the MC2 Spider-Man timeline.

* Volcana appears in the novel Spider-Man / X-Men: Time's Arrow: The Present by Tom DeFalco and Adam-Troy Castro, in which she is hired by agents of Kang the Conqueror to fight Cable and the Beast.

The situation of the South since 1865 has been unique in the western world.

For lawyers, reflecting perhaps their parochial preferences, there has been a special fascination since then in the role played by the Supreme Court in that transformation -- the manner in which its decisions altered in `` the switch in time that saved nine '', President Roosevelt's ill-starred but in effect victorious `` Court-packing plan '', the imprimatur of judicial approval that was finally placed upon social legislation.

He returned to Germany for the first time in 1953, where he has since conducted in Cologne, Frankfurt, and Berlin.

according to many critics, in fact, the South has led the North in literature since the Civil War, both quantitatively and qualitatively.

An example of the changes which have crept over the Southern region may be seen in the Southern Negro's quest for a position in the white-dominated society, a problem that has been reflected in regional fiction especially since 1865.

There was also a lesson, one that has served ever since to keep Americans, in their conflicts with one another, from turning from the ballot to the bullet.

We have staved off a war and, since our behavior has involved all these elements, we can only keep adding to our ritual without daring to abandon any part of it, since we have not the slightest notion which parts are effective.

It had a bucolic atmosphere that it has lost long since.

Also, since the man questioned feels a strong compulsion to answer ( and thereby avoid the consequences of being thought queer ) the question has assumed some measurable properties of a command.

The novelist who has been badly baptized in psychoanalysis often gives us the impression that since all men must have an Oedipus complex all men must have the same faces.

`` We were possessed by visions of a new civilization to come, very pure and elevated '', he has said, `` in fact some ideal form of socialism such as we had dreamed of since the war of 1914-1918 ''.

The young William Faulkner in New Orleans in the 1920's impressed the novelist Hamilton Basso as obviously conscious of being a Southerner, and there is no evidence that since then he has ever considered himself any less so.

The planter aristocracy has appeared in literature at least since John Pendleton Kennedy published Swallow-Barn in 1832 and in his genial portrait of Frank Meriwether presiding over his plantation dominion initiated the most persistent tradition of Southern literature.

The book, published in 1927, has been selling steadily ever since.

Some of the children of the family could not pronounce this name and called her Paula, a soubriquet Carl liked so much she has been Paula ever since.

This rather detached attitude toward life's encumbrances has seemed to be the dominant trait in Mercer's personality ever since.

It has been a long time since he has seen any campaign money, and when the proposition is laid down to him as the friends of Mr. Hearst are laying it down these days he is quite likely to get aboard the Hearst bandwagon ''.

At about the age of twelve I became a Spencerian liberal, and I have always considered myself a liberal of some kind even though the definition has changed repeatedly since Spencer became a reactionary.

But since 1945, Sam Spade has undergone a metamorphosis ; ;

But since last fall the United States has been moving toward a pro-neutralist position and now is ready to back the British plan for a cease-fire patrolled by outside observers and followed by a conference of interested powers.

Less than half the sum has been spent, since the Interama board pinched pennies during that period of painstaking negotiations.

Chancellor Adenauer's Christian Democratic Party slipped only a little in the voting but it was enough to lose the absolute Bundestag majority it has enjoyed since 1957.

The crisis has been renewed since then but the confusion has hardly been compounded.