According to George Pérez in a Wizard magazine interview in 1994, Chris Claremont suggested that Superman of Earth-One dies in the final battle with the Anti-Monitor in issue # 12.

According to the publication's representatives, Wizard would be relaunched in February 2011 as an online magazine called Wizard World.

According to the production notes on the DVD edition, it was Garland who suggested that her Wizard of Oz songwriters, Harold Arlen and E. Y.

According to David Robinson, unlike in more conventional slapstick comedies, the comic moments in Chaplin's films centred on the Tramp's attitude to the things happening to him: the humour did not come from the Tramp bumping into a tree but from his lifting of his hat to the tree in apology.

According to his introduction: " Scrooge being my favorite character in comic history and Barks my favourite pure cartoonist, I'll try not to get carried away too much.

According to another comic poet, Teleclides, the plays of Euripides were co-authored by the philosopher Socrates.

According to the 2009 film Star Trek and the prequel comic series Star Trek: Countdown, Romulus ( and presumably Remus ) is destroyed in 2387 by a star going supernova.

According to comic book writer and editor Bob Budiansky, The Transformers character Shockwave was inspired by Spock.

According to a surviving fragment from a work (" Brothers ") by the comic playwright Philemon, Solon established publicly funded brothels at Athens in order to " democratize " the availability of sexual pleasure.

According to commentary on the DVD collection for the show's first season, part of Krypton's appearance was influenced by the artistic style of American comic book artist Jack Kirby.

According to a comic story by Don Rosa, it is an 1875 Seated Liberty dime, but in a comic story written by Pat and Carol McGreal and drawn by Maximino Tortajada Aguilar, the last two digits have been swapped, making it an 1857 Seated Liberty dime.

According to an anonymous biographer of Aeschylus, the Athenians chose Simonides ahead of Aeschylus to be the author of an epigram honouring their war-dead at Marathon, which led the tragedian ( who had fought at the battle and whose brother had died there ) to withdraw sulking to the court of Hieron of Syracuse — the story is probably based on the inventions of comic dramatists but it is likely that Simonides did in fact write some kind of commemorative verses for the Athenian victory at Marathon.

According to Footnotes in Gaza, a comic book by Joe Sacco, The Israeli Army rounded up residents of the town and the neighbouring refugee camp and shot them on the streets and in their homes.

According to sf historian and critic Mike Ashley, its success was the main reason for a subsequent flood of new releases: 22 more science fiction magazines appeared by 1954, when the market dipped again as a side effect of US Senate hearings into the putative connection between comic books and juvenile delinquency.

According to Wertham, news vendors were told by the distributors that if they did not sell the objectionable comic books, they would not be allowed to sell any of the other publications being distributed.

According to the live-action series, The Tick is 6 feet 6 inches tall, weighs 230 pounds ( 6 inches and 170 pounds less than his dimensions in the comic ), and has blue hair and eyes.

According to Kip Winger, in a 2008 interview with rock and roll comic C. C.

According to a NODA National News feature in 2007, the Murgatroyd family are reputed to be the inspiration for the Murgatroyd Baronets in the comic opera Ruddigore by Gilbert and Sullivan, and the opera has been performed at the Hall.

According to Seinfeld's biography ( written by Jerry Oppenheimer ), Elaine was based in part on Susan McNabb ( who was dating Seinfeld when the character was created ), though eventually named after friend and fellow comic Elayne Boosler.

According to Woody Allen ( in a New York Times interview from January 30, 2000 ), W. C. Fields is one of only six " genuine comic geniuses " he recognized as such in movie history, along with Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton, Groucho and Harpo Marx, and Peter Sellers.

According to an interview with famous comic book artist Jack Kirby some time after the hijacking, he and Leon were close friends, having grown up together in New York's lower east side on Suffolk Street.

According to the first chapter of Wildstorm ’ s comic ThunderCats Origins: Heroes and Villains, the Third Earth is actually our Earth in the future ; the present day is " First Earth.

According to an ongoing comic book series from Dark Horse called Star Wars: Legacy, which takes place 125 years after Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi, Cade Skywalker, son of Kol Skywalker and a direct descendant of Luke Skywalker, is the last surviving Skywalker of his time.

According to the Stingray comic strip in the weekly Countdown comic there was more than one Stingray class submarine in the Marineville fleet.

According to longtime NSA computer expert Samuel Simon Snyder, " We chose the name from Li ' l Abner Yokum, the comic strip character who was a big brute, but not very smart, because we believed that computers, which can be big and do brute-force operations, aren't very bright either.

According to Festus, Marcius had the surname of Ancus from his crooked arm.

According to genealogist Edward MacLysaght the surname Lundy is from Norman de la Lounde, a name recorded in medieval documents in counties Tipperary and Kilkenny in Ireland.

) According to Suetonius, the Octavian family held some renown there, and Gaius Octavius ( father of the future Caesar Augustus ) defeated a Spartacist army near there ; as a result, the future emperor was granted the surname Thurinus shortly after birth.

According to George Fraser Black, in southern Argyllshire the surname is an Anglicised form of the surnames MacLucas, MacLugash ( which are derived from the Gaelic Mac Lùcais ).

According to Joe Adamson's biography, The Walter Lantz Story, Lantz's father was given his new surname by an immigration official who Anglicized it.

According to the 2012 edition of the Random House Dictionary, cognomen can mean " a surname " or " any name, especially a nickname ".

" According to Seneca, he obtained the surname from his attention to naval affairs.

According to the 1990 United States Census, Clark was the twenty-first most frequently encountered surname, accounting for 0. 23 % of the population.

According to Lê Trung Hoa, a Vietnamese scholar, approximately 5. 1 percent of Vietnamese people have this surname.

According to Till Lindemann, the song was originally written as an entrance song for the boxer Vitali Klitschko, whose surname was also the working title of the song.

According to Statistics Norway 100 persons have Galtung as their surname as of 2009.

According to the will of the Duke of Bridgewater, the Egerton estates passed on the death of the first Duke of Sutherland to his third son Lord Francis Leveson-Gower, who changed his surname to Egerton by Royal license.

According to prominent historian R. C. Majumdar, the surname Gupta was adopted by several different communities in northern and eastern India at different times.

According to the Song dynasty history book Lushi ( 路史 ), Chi You's surname was Jiang ( 姜 ), and he was a descendant of Yandi.

According to this patent Lady Rothes was succeeded by her eldest son John, the ninth Earl ( who assumed the surname of Leslie ; see the Earl of Rothes for further history of this branch of the family ).

According to Anand himself, Anand inherited his Chinese heritage from his maternal grandmother, whose surname was Lau ().

According to others, the name Keita is a clan name rather than a surname.

According to the Durnings, the surname Akin can also be an Anglicisation of the Irish name Ó hÓgáin ( O ' Eakin ).

According to Black, the first recorded appearance of the Scottish surname Aiken ( and its variations: Aitken, Aitkin, Aitkins, Atkin, Atkins ) occurs in the year 1405, in the court records of a Scottish sea merchant named " John of Akyne ", who sought restitution for having been illegally detained for eight weeks by " Laurence Tuttebury of Hulle ".

According to a study published in 2006, it is the 76th most common Chinese surname.

According to tradition, the surname originated from a noble family of the ancient state of Chen, in what is now eastern Henan province.

According to one source the first Indian Muslims to settle here were several brothers with the surname Rawat, who came from Nasirpoor Bhatti, a place near Navsari.

According to this perspective, Ştefan Caragiali was a native of Kefalonia, and his original surname, Karaialis, was changed on Prince Caragea's request.

According to his autobiography he states that his surname is Armenian ( Torossian ), while his maternal grandmother was German and his maternal grandfather was of mixed Georgian and Armenian descent.