After Boston returned to Washington, DC, Somers was furloughed on 11 November 1802 to await orders.

After a period of high creative turnover, in 1991 DC sought to revive interest in Swamp Thing by bringing horror writer Nancy A. Collins on board to write the series.

After several additional complaints over DC interference, Moore decided to wind up his ABC projects, intending to only continue with League ( the only title he, with O ' Neill, actually owned ).

After an intervention by Animal Man, Hayden, seemingly happy, fades away into nothingness due to the strain from releasing all the forgotten characters, removing him from reality and heading into Limbo, where DC characters go when not being written about.

After selling encyclopedias and Fuller brushes door-to-door, Smith attended the National Academy of Broadcasting in Washington, DC.

After years of litigation due to a suit lodged by National Publications ( publishers of DC Comics ) against Fawcett for copyright infringement claiming that Captain Marvel was a copy of Superman, Fawcett in the early 1950s ( partly in response to flagging sales ) reached a settlement with DC in which it agreed to discontinue its comic line.

" After Bridwell returned it with extensive editorial changes Beck attempted to draw the rewritten version but became so dissatisfied with it that he tore up the artwork he had drawn thus far and returned the Bridwell draft to DC.

After arbitration by the Board of Trade the DC system was taken up and the railways began electrifying the routes, using multiple-unit stock.

After the forced retirement of Tim Drake ( by his father ) as Robin, Drake's on-and-off girlfriend, and an established DC Comics character named Stephanie Brown ( alternatively known as the Spoiler ) became the fourth incarnation of Robin and the first in-continuity female version of the character.

After the mini-series Crisis on Infinite Earths, much of DC Comics continuity was redone.

After the continuity changes as a result of the DC Comics relaunch, it was said that Tim Drake never took up the Robin mantle as he felt that it would be inappropriate to take it up so soon after Jason Todd's death, and that he served as Batman's sidekick under the name of Red Robin.

After the original Titans disbanded, he joined a band called Great Frog and became a drug addict, a first in DC comics, in an award-winning story in Green Lantern # 85-86 ( Sept. & November 1971 ), part of a classic, 14-issue run by the writer-artist team of Denny O ' Neil and Neal Adams.

( After the mid-1980s demise of Charlton, Captain Atom would go on to become a stalwart of the DC stable, as would Blue Beetle, the old Fox Comics superhero revived by Gill and artists Bill Fraccio and Tony Tallarico as a campy, comedic character in Blue Beetle # 1 1964.

After graduation in 1959, he unsuccessfully attempted to find freelance work at DC Comics, and turned then to Archie Comics, where he wanted to work on the publisher's fledgling superhero line, edited by Joe Simon.

After a number of moderately successful hits for Studio One, such as " Vanity ", " Hang On Natty ", " Mr. DC ", and " Jah Jah Children ", his debut LP Live Loving made his name and increased his popularity, and is regarded as pioneering the dancehall style that would dominate the early 1980s.

After ConocoPhillips abandoned the marketing of the Mobil brand name in the Washington, DC, area, Sunoco purchased these rights, and has since been converting Maryland and Virginia Mobil stations to the Sunoco brand, bringing the A-Plus convenience store with them – prior to this, these stations had convenience stores under the Circle K or On the Run brands.

After three albums of hip-hop oriented sound, the rock style of Jesus Freak was considered unexpected by fans and critics alike, but it helped to define DC Talk as serious artists and innovators and propelled them into the mainstream.

After three albums of hip-hop oriented sound, including DC Talk's Grammy-award winning third album, Free at Last, which was based primarily on hip-hop and pop oriented song writing, the trio decided to innovate and reinvent their style.

After three years, DC Talk returned with songs featuring a more alternative rock sound.

McDowell has lent his voice to Lord Maliss in Happily Ever After, the Superman villain Metallo in Superman: The Animated Series, Mad Mod in Teen Titans, Merlyn in DC Showcase: Green Arrow, Arkady Duvall ( son of Ra's Al Ghul ) in Batman: The Animated Series and as the voice of a Death Star commander in a Robot Chicken episode parodying Star Wars.

After the inductor or transformer secondary, the high frequency AC is rectified and filtered to produce the DC output voltage.

After the Civil War broke out, Conway located several dozen of his father's slaves in Washington, DC., who had fled from Virginia, and escorted them through Maryland — still a slave state — to safety in Ohio.

After leaving DC, Schwartz went into corporate market research and helped develop such techniques as psychographics and typological identification.

After leaving office, Abraham opened The Abraham Group, a Washington DC based international strategic consulting firm.

After the conclusion of the New Krypton event, Luthor became the lead character in Action Comics and will remain so until issue # 900.

After her aforementioned initial appearance, the Marvel Comics version of Firestar debuted in the pages of Uncanny X-Men # 193 as part of Emma Frost's Hellions team.

After his Legion series ended its run in Adventure Comics, Shooter retired from the comic book industry, as he concurrently graduated from high school and the Legion of Super-Heroes stories were relegated to a small back-up feature in Action Comics in the late 1960s.

After being ousted from Valiant in 1992, in early 1993 Shooter, together with several of his loyalist co-workers, went on to found Defiant Comics.

After Fawcett Comics folded, Beck left the comic book industry but continued doing commercial illustrations.

After becoming an editor at Lev Gleason and revamping Jack Binder's original Golden Age Daredevil in 1940, Cole hired on at Quality Comics.

After its license expired in 1998, Gladstone ceased publishing new material, and there were no more Disney comics in America ( except for occasional graphic novels of the movies put out by Dark Horse Comics ), until 2003, when Gemstone Publishing gained the publishing rights.

After Disney Comics shut down in 1993, Gladstone regained the comics license for the classic Disney characters, which they resumed publishing until 1998, while Marvel Comics obtained the license for the modern Disney characters in 1994 and published them until they sold their rights to Acclaim in 1997.

After Max Gaines ' death, Educational Comics was taken over by his son Bill Gaines, who transformed the company ( now known as EC Comics ) into a pioneer of horror, science fiction and satirical comics.

After the initial mini-series a regular series was published by Hero Comics ( later Hero Graphics, later still Heroic Publishing ).

After leaving Disney, Kelly worked for Dell Comics, a division of Western Publishing of Racine, Wisconsin.

* After the Golden Age, a column by Alvin Schwartz for World Famous Comics

After leaving WaRP, Colleen went on to completely rewrite and redraw the entire A Distant Soil series from scratch, self-publishing it for some years before moving on to Image Comics where it is now in multiple printings as a series of graphic novels.

After the end of Hitman, Ennis was lured to Marvel Comics with the promise from Editor-in-Chief Joe Quesada that he could write The Punisher as long as he cared to.

After the appeal of kid superheroes had been demonstrated by the success of Robin, the Boy Wonder and similar characters, Detective Comics reversed itself in late 1944 and started publishing a Superboy feature, in an effort to expand the Superman franchise by presenting a version of the character to whom younger readers could easily relate.

After a successful pilot of the cafe concept, the owners refused to roll it out company-wide, saying they didn't want to get into the restaurant business.

After the machine was installed and set up, a company-wide contest was held to choose a name for the machine: the winning suggestion was TMA-1.