1984 – 2000 ) has even more potential starting points, but is generally agreed to be the publication of Frank Miller's Batman: The Dark Knight Returns and Alan Moore's Watchmen by DC Comics in 1986, as well as the publication of DC's Crisis on Infinite Earths, written by Marv Wolfman with pencils by George Pérez.

Alan Moore's retcons often involve false memories, for example Marvelman ( aka Miracleman in America ), and Batman: The Killing Joke.

Alan Moore's additional information about the Swamp Thing's origins did not contradict or change any of the events depicted in the character's previous appearances, but changed the reader's interpretation of them.

In Alan Moore's graphic novel, V for Vendetta, the character Dr. Delia Surridge discusses Milgram's experiment without directly naming Milgram, comparing it with the atrocities she herself had performed in the Larkhill Concentration camps.

Gilliam has attempted twice to adapt Alan Moore's Watchmen comics into a film.

In Alan Moore's League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: 1969, a young Tom Marvolo Riddle ( introduced as " Tom ", whose middle name is a " marvel " and last name is a " conundrum ") appears, and becomes the new avatar of Oliver Haddo at the story's conclusion.

* Alan Moore's miniseries 1963 features a character called the Hypernaut that lives in a space station shaped like an impossible object.

This was Alan Moore's second re-invention of a comic book character, the first being Miracleman.

* Much like the films of the 1980s, both the live action series and animated series followed the original version of Swamp Thing rather than Alan Moore's vision.

CASS / Hawley Griffin's lyrics often contain references to themes and plot issues within Alan Moore's and H. G. Wells ' works, including but not restricted to The League of Extraordinary Gentleman series or The Invisible Man.

Examples of this include alien dialogue in comic strips and graphic novels ( such as Alan Moore's The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, and the Valérian and Laureline series ).

" Along with Alan Moore's Watchmen and Frank Miller's Batman: The Dark Knight Returns, it contributed to the commercial and creative revitalization of DC Comics after years of being dominated in the market by rival publisher Marvel Comics.

In Alan Moore's graphic novel The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Black Dossier, Bertie appears in the segment " What Ho, Gods of the Abyss?

* Moriarty appears in Alan Moore's The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen.

Beginning in 1989 Campbell illustrated Alan Moore's ambitious Jack the Ripper graphic novel From Hell, serialised initially in Steve Bissette's horror anthology Taboo.

He also published the collected edition of From Hell, and comics adaptations of two of Alan Moore's performance art pieces, The Birth Caul and Snakes and Ladders.

( Rick Veitch's graphic novel Brat Pack, and issues of Alan Moore's Top 10, directly address the seamy, exploitative, and potentially pedophilia-related aspects of the adult hero-teen sidekick relationship.

* The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: In Volume II of Alan Moore's comic, the Snow Queen's palace is featured in the New Traveller's Almanac.

Parsons ' relationship with Hubbard also appears in Feral House's Apocalypse Culture, Paradox's Big Book of Conspiracies, Alan Moore's Cobweb story in Top Shelf Asks the Big Questions, and in the Jon Atack nonfiction book A Piece of Blue Sky.

He briefly appears in a 2002 issue of Alan Moore's comic book series Promethea entitled " The Wine Of Her Fornications " where he is one of the adepts in the " city of pyramids " in Moore's version of the Binah sphere of the Tree of Life and is watched over by John Dee.

* The Orlando character who appears in Alan Moore's The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen series is an amalgamation of this character and several other fictional Orlandoes / Rolands.

She took over editorship of Alan Moore's Swamp Thing run from Swamp Thing co-creator Len Wein in 1984, and in 1986 " became DC's British liaison ," bringing to DC's pre-Vertigo titles the individuals who would be instrumental in the creation and evolution of Vertigo seven years later.

Cornelius is also seen in Alan Moore's The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Black Dossier as a child.

Cornelius appears in the second part of Alan Moore's three-part comic The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Volume III: Century.

Another character in the short horror story " The Courtyard " by Alan Moore is named Carcosa and it's later revealed to be originally from another planet or dimension.

Alan Moore has touched on Lovecraftian themes, most obviously in his The Courtyard and Yuggoth Cultures and Other Growths ( and Antony Johnston's spin-off Yuggoth Creatures ), but also in his Black Dossier where the story " What Ho, Gods of the Abyss?

This latest incarnation is called the Alan Parsons Live Project, the name distinct from " The Alan Parsons Project ", due to founder Parsons ' break-up with Woolfson.

The U. S. Library of Congress has a collection of 3, 000 versions of and songs inspired by " Amazing Grace ", some of which were first-time recordings by folklorists Alan and John Lomax, a father and son team who in 1932 traveled thousands of miles across the South to capture the different regional styles of the song.

Alan Cameron, however, argues that it should be interpreted as referring to Plato, and that when Proclus writes that " we must bear in mind concerning this whole feat of the Athenians, that it is neither a mere myth nor unadorned history, although some take it as history and others as myth ", he is treating " Crantor's view as mere personal opinion, nothing more ; in fact he first quotes and then dismisses it as representing one of the two unacceptable extremes ".

William Forbes Skene and Alan Orr Anderson proposed that it should be read as " in conformity with the customs of the Gaels ", relating it to the claims in the king lists that Giric liberated the church from secular oppression and adopted Irish customs.

By the mid-20th century many rhyming slang expressions used the names of contemporary personalities, especially actors and performers: for example " Gregory Peck " meaning " neck " and also " cheque "; " Ruby Murray " meaning " curry "; " Alans ", meaning " knickers " from Alan Whicker ; " Max Miller " meaning " pillow " when pronounced / ˈpilə / and " Henry Halls ".

* Alan Turing, " On computable numbers, with an application to the Entscheidungsproblem ", Proceedings of the London Mathematical Society, Series 2, 42 ( 1937 ), pp 230 – 265.

* Toulmin, Stephen, " Fall of a Genius ", a book review of " Alan Turing: The Enigma by Andrew Hodges ", in The New York Review of Books, 19 January 1984, p. 3ff.

" Ed Sullivan will last ", comedian Fred Allen said, " as long as someone else has talent ", and frequent guest Alan King said " Ed does nothing, but he does it better than anyone else in television.

Of Alexander, Alan Brooke felt that he needed an able chief of staff " to think for him ", while Montgomery ( Alexander's subordinate in Africa and Italy ) claimed to think of Alexander as " incompetent " and success was only attained in Tunisia only because Montgomery lent Brian Horrocks to organise the coup de grace.

* Kirkness, Alan ( 2004 ) " Lexicography ", in The Handbook of Applied Linguistics ed.

In the early 1960s the use of LSD and other hallucinogens was advocated by proponents of the new " consciousness expansion ", such as Timothy Leary, Alan Watts, Aldous Huxley and Arthur Koestler, their writings profoundly influenced the thinking of the new generation of youth.

* C. Gordon Bell, Alan Kotok, Thomas N. Hasting, Richard Hill, " The Evolution of the DECsystem-10 ", in C. Gordon Bell, J. Craig Mudge, John E. McNamara, Computer Engineering: A DEC View of Hardware Systems Design ( Digital Equipment, Beford, 1979 )

They scored another hit with songwriter, Alan O ' Day's " Rock and Roll Heaven ", a paean to several deceased rock singers: Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix, Jim Morrison, Otis Redding, Jim Croce and Bobby Darin are among the mentioned ( Croce and Darin died within three months of each other in late 1973, shortly before the song was released ).

In spring of 1997, the postmodern philosopher Fred Newman responded to the Sokal Affair publishing hoax in the paper " Science Can Do Better than Sokal: A Commentary on the So-Called Science Wars ", which he presented at the Postmodernism and the Social Sciences conference at the New School for Social Research ; Alan Sokal was a participant.

Their defense, considered the most intimidating in the NFL, was anchored by a defensive line nicknamed the " Purple People Eaters ", consisting of defensive tackles Gary Larsen and Alan Page, and defensive ends Carl Eller and Jim Marshall.

Their defense was once again anchored by a defensive line nicknamed the " Purple People Eaters ", consisting of defensive tackles Gary Larsen and Alan Page, and defensive ends Jim Marshall and Carl Eller.

Highlights of the album are a reggae version of the Beatles song " I Will ", a rendition of " Wake Nicodemus " featuring the Pipes and Drums of the 48th Highlanders of Canada, and a bar-room ballad, " Alan ", composed by Canadian singer / songwriter Tony Kosinec.

*" Words ", a song by Gregory Alan Isakov

For the sake of his budding comedic career, he changed his surname to " Prinze ", which he chose because, according to his friend David Brenner, he originally wanted to be known as the King of comedy, but Alan King already had that last name, so he would be the Prince of comedy instead.

There are some vestiges of the Alans in Portugal, namely in Alenquer ( whose name may be Germanic for the Temple of the Alans, from " Alan Kerk ", and whose castle may have been established by them ; the Alaunt is still represented in that city's coat of arms ), in the construction of the castles of Torres Vedras and Almourol, and in the city walls of Lisbon, where vestiges of their presence may be found under the foundations of the Church of Santa Luzia.