Coma was included in the Fiction category of " The New York Times Outstanding Book of the Year " listing ( forerunner to The New York Timess current " 100 Notable Books of " listing ) from which the " Best Book of the Year " is selected.

The Masterworks line has expanded from such reprints of the 1960s period that fans and historians call the Silver Age of Comic Books to include the 1930s – 1940s Golden Age ; comics of Marvel's 1950s Pre-Code forerunner, Atlas Comics ; and even some reprints from the 1970s period called the Bronze Age of Comic Books.

His most notable creations during the Golden Age of Comic Books were The Human Bomb for Quality Comics, and the Angel, who debuted in Marvel Comics # 1 ( Oct. 1939 ), the first publication of Marvel Comics forerunner Timely Comics.

In 1921 Nearing was, along with his colleague Louis Lochner, a co-founder of a forerunner of the Federated Press, a news service which sent out domestic and international news releases and picture mats five days a week to the labor and radical press in America.

Martin was seen as the forerunner of a trend in pop music of using Latin tropes which the press dubbed a " Latin Pop explosion " or " Latin Invasion ".

English popular mathematics writer Karl Sabbagh also makes a lot of Daher el Omar's legacy as a forerunner of the Palestinian national movement in his book Palestine: A Personal History which was widely reviewed in the British press in 2010.

Though his election was interpreted by many Southerners as the forerunner of a dangerous shift in the federal balance in favor of the Union, Lincoln himself proposed no such change in the rights the Constitution gave the states.

Lublin generally was the forerunner of what would happen elsewhere.

Anacharsis (; ) was a Scythian philosopher who travelled from his homeland on the northern shores of the Black Sea to Athens in the early 6th century BC and made a great impression as a forthright, outspoken " barbarian ", apparently a forerunner of the Cynics, though none of his works have survived.

The reports of his philosophical views suggest that he was a forerunner of the Greek skeptics.

It is the 1924 tour that is credited as being the first in which the team were referred to as " the Lions ", the irony being that it was on this tour that the single lion-rampant crest was replaced with the forerunner of the four-quartered badge with the symbols of the four represented unions, that is still worn today.

It is regarded as the forerunner of the modern bicycle and was introduced by Drais to the public in Mannheim in summer 1817 and in Paris in 1818.

Positive-Historical Judaism, the intellectual forerunner to Conservative Judaism, was developed as a school of thought in the 1840s and 1850s in Germany.

Although the Rutgers-Princeton game was undoubtedly different from what we today know as American football, it was the forerunner of what evolved into American football.

When he suspected that the American Office of Strategic Services ( forerunner of the CIA ) was showing an interest in seizing control of Chiang's regime, Chiang ordered the plotters arrested and executed.

The Concordat of London in 1107 was a forerunner of the compromise that was taken up in the Concordat of Worms.

However, his style of painting, which was a forerunner of what was later called “ Impressionism ,” did not do well.

The forerunner of today's City University of New York was governed by the Board of Education of New York City.

Until recently, Hume was seen as a forerunner of the logical positivist movement ; a form of anti-metaphysical empiricism.

It was the first platform specifically designed for building Information Centers ( a forerunner of contemporary Enterprise Data Warehousing platforms )

According to Dumezil the forerunner of all frame gods is an Indian epic hero who was the image ( avatar ) of the Vedic god Dyaus.

" Even today, though these errors have been recognized for more than a century, the general notion that Lao Tzu was Christ's forerunner has lost none of its romantic appeal.

This model was the direct forerunner of the first post-war Audi, the F103.

The Japanese torpedo boatKotaka ( Falcon ) of 1885 was " the forerunner of torpedo boat destroyers that appeared a decade later ".

In some groups, the slap bass was utilized as band percussion in lieu of a drummer ; such was the case with Bill Haley & His Saddlemen ( the forerunner group to the Comets ), which did not use drummers on recordings and live performances until late 1952 ; prior to this the slap bass was relied on for percussion, including on recordings such as Haley's versions of Rock the Joint and Rocket 88.

In 1899, the Cadillac Club formed, the forerunner of the Cadillac Area Chamber of Commerce.

The forerunner of the League of Nations, the Inter-Parliamentary Union, was formed by peace activists William Randal Cremer and Frédéric Passy in 1889.

By 1905, the two institutions were large and active forces in the area, and the Municipal College of Technology, forerunner of UMIST, formed the Faculty of Technology of the Victoria University of Manchester while continuing as a technical college in parallel with the advanced courses of study in the faculty.

The Commercial Club ( formed on November 18, 1905 ) was the forerunner of the present chamber of commerce.

An organisation which resurrected the name Scottish Workers Republican Party was formed in 1974 as a split from the Scottish Republican Socialist Clubs ( forerunner of the Scottish Republican Socialist Party ).

Filene also created the Credit Union National Extension Bureau, the forerunner of the Credit Union National Association, which was formed as a confederation of state leagues at a meeting in Estes Park, Colorado, in 1934.

The United Kingdom Alliance of Organised Trades, founded in Sheffield, Yorkshire, in 1866, was the immediate forerunner of the TUC, although efforts to expand local unions into regional or national organisations date back at least forty years earlier ; in 1822, John Gast formed a " Committee of the Useful Classes ", sometimes described as an early national trades council.

The emergence of the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation ( CCF ), forerunner of the NDP – a left-of-centre political party formed by the coming together of various socialist, farm and labour groups under a united front – forced the Liberals to the right.

He formed the Seychelles People's United Party ( the forerunner to today's Seychelles People's Progressive Front ) in 1964.

In many ways, Democratic Labour can be seen as a forerunner of the Social Democratic Party, which was formed by many of the viewpoints as Taverne, that broke away from Labour in the early 1980s.

Together with Reb Chaim he joined and supported Machazikei Hadas-a union of Eastern European haredim and the forerunner of the Agudah-but in 1912, when the Agudah was formed in Katowice, Reb Chaim raised 18 objections to its constitution, and the Rashab kept Lubavitch out of the Agudah.

* November 19 – Malert ( Magyar Legiforgalmi ), a forerunner of MALÉV Hungarian Airlines, is formed.

McClelland was appointed 1836 as the secretary of the " Coal Committee ", the forerunner of the Geological Survey of India ( GSI ), formed to explore possibilities to exploit Indian coal.

Commercial National Bank ( CNB ), the earliest forerunner of NationsBank, was formed in 1874.

He formed the Pioneer Youth League, the forerunner to the Progressive Youth Organisation ( PYO ).

From among his students in America he formed a new Mordkin Ballet in 1937, the forerunner of Ballet Theatre ( now American Ballet Theatre ).

The local Health Board ( the forerunner of the Urban District Council ) was formed in 1863.

The Institute of Taxation ( the forerunner of the Chartered Institute ) was formed in 1930, incorporated as a Company Limited by Guarantee.

London Citizens ' forerunner TELCO was formed in 1996.

In 1996, Wade, Andrande, and Jon " Diff " Palmer formed " Blyss ", the forerunner of Lifehouse, and began to play live shows at high schools and colleges to build up a reputation.

The scheme, originally funded by the Pilgrim Trust, was taken over by the newly formed Council for the Encouragement of Music and the Arts, forerunner of the Arts Council of Great Britain.

The forerunner of the League of Nations, the Inter-Parliamentary Union ( IPU ), was formed by peace activists William Randal Cremer and Frédéric Passy in 1889.

The Southern African Development Coordination Conference ( SADCC ), which was the forerunner of the Southern African Development Community ( SADC ), was formed in Lusaka, Zambia, on 1 April 1980, following the adoption of the Lusaka Declaration ( entitled Southern Africa: Towards Economic Liberation ) by the nine founding member states ( Angola, Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Swaziland, Tanzania, Zambia, Zimbabwe ).

Plans for its restoration began in 1975 and the forerunner to the Lichfield and Hatherton Canals Restoration Trust was formed in 1989.

No more major land acquisitions took place until the 1960s, when the State Parks Council, forerunner of NYSOPRHP, formed the temporary Hudson River Valley Study Committee to develop a comprehensive plan in response to increasing industrial interest in the area, exemplified by Consolidated Edison's proposal to excavate a large chunk of Storm King Mountain, across from Breakneck, for a hydroelectric plant, which would have involved running power lines across the river and into the eastern Highlands.