Although spun out of licensed properties, Shang-Chi is a Marvel-owned character and has been firmly established as a part of the Marvel Universe with guest appearances in numerous other titles, such as Marvel Team-Up, Marvel Knights and X-Men.

Although Marvel planned to revive X-Factor as an ongoing title after Mutant X ended, this did not happen for another 4 years.

Although there were complaints among some that Shooter imposed a dictatorial style on the " Bullpen ," he cured many of the procedural ills at Marvel, successfully managed to keep the line of books on schedule ( ending the widespread practice of missed deadlines ), add new titles, and develop new talent.

Although extremely popular, the comic series ended on a cliffhanger when Marvel lost the Star Trek license rights.

Although Shazam is killed, as prophesied, by a giant granite block falling on him, Billy / Marvel can summon the ghost of Shazam for guidance by lighting a special brazier in Shazam's lair ( the Rock of Eternity ).

Although DC and Timely ( which evolved to become Marvel Comics ) characters are more famous today, circulation figures suggest that the best-selling superhero title of the era may have been Fawcett Comics ' Captain Marvel, whose approximately 1. 4 million copies per issue made it " the most widely circulated comic book in America.

Although Splinter was contradicted by later entries in the Star Wars film canon, it was the first " expanded universe " entry written ( although not the first published -- a Marvel Comics story holds that honor ), and as such remains highly regarded by many fans.

Although WildStorm considered attracting talent from the " Big Two " ( Marvel and DC ) such as John Romita Jr., Lee decided instead to find new talent.

Although the toy proved a failure, the licensed comic book published by Marvel Comics ran for years after the toy was discontinued.

Although successful, several members of the Squadron are killed, with the remainder ( Hyperion ; Doctor Spectrum, Whizzer, Power Princess, Lady Lark known as Skylark, Moonglow, Haywire and Shape ) marooned in the mainstream Marvel universe.

Although unrelated, after about five years of the block's quiet cancellation, Marvel Anime made its North American debut on G4, marking the first time the channel has aired anime since Anime Unleashed, followed by the premiere of Viper's Creed on October 21.

Although Marvel produced mainly superhero cartoons and animated series based on licensed toy lines, it continued to produce new productions starring the Pink Panther ( titles for Trail of the Pink Panther and Curse of the Pink Panther and a special for television, Pink at First Sight ).

Although the gems are eventually returned to the Marvel Universe, the Watch has not been fully reestablished yet ; however, Adam Warlock, Gamora, and Pip were shown attempting to overthrow the Champion of the Universe's rule of the planet Skardon in the 2004 – 2005 She-Hulk series, and at one point recruited Drax to aid in their efforts.

Although regarded as deceased, Warlock made a brief appearance in a Marvel Two-In-One # 61-63 ( March – May 1980 ).

Although not a regular artist on the book, he re-designed the costume for Ms. Marvel.

Although he failed to remove Black Adam's powers, Captain Marvel gathers with a group of mystics, including Zatanna and the Phantom Stranger, to work a spell which would allow him to use his powers to transform Black Adam back to his human form instead of himself.

Although Liefeld was too intimidated to approach the Marvel booth, he did so at his friend's urging, and as a result, editor Mark Gruenwald offered Liefeld a job illustrating an 8-page Avengers backup story featuring the Black Panther, much to the 19-year-old artist's surprise.

Although Pip has been seen rarely since the Infinity Watch disbanded, he appears in Marvel: The End # 5 – 6 and She-Hulk ( 2005 series ) # 12 – 13.

Although Thanos obtains the artifact the Cosmic Cube and succeeds in taking control of the universe, Death abandons the character when he is defeated by the combined might of Captain Marvel ; Drax the Destroyer and the Avengers.

Although the characters are not named in the panel in which they appear, a character looking like Mary Marvel is shown.

Although she and Billy are kidnapped in their regular form by Doctor Sivana and Mr. Mind and gagged, Billy escapes and rescues her as Captain Marvel when she is thrown from the top of a robot by Doctor Sivana and removes a piece of duct tape from her mouth, allowing her to transform.

Although intended as a one-off story focusing on Superboy, the Legion proved so popular that it returned for an encore in Adventure Comics # 267 ( December 1959 ).

Although McCloud sketches his layouts in pencil, the remainder of his work is done digitally, explaining in his 2006 book Making Comics that he had not used traditional materials like Bristol board, pens or brushes in years.

Although the manga are published both in the main magazine as well as in the Jump Comics line, they also are republished in various other editions such as kazenban and " Remixes " of the original work, usually publishing series older or previously established series.

Although the series, which was the last original funny animal property created by DC Comics, proved short-lived, it is still fondly remembered by many comic fans of its generation, and the characters appear occasionally in cameos in the mainstream DC Universe ( this is made possible due to the existence of a " multiverse " in the DCU, which allows the Zoo Crew characters to exist on a parallel Earth ).

Although he sketches his layouts in pencil, the remainder of his work is done digitally, explaining in his 2006 book Making Comics that he had not used traditional materials like Bristol board, pens or brushes in years.

Although told as an Elseworlds tale, the characters and their universe are part of the greater DC Comics continuum.

Although he would return to the X-Men once a year for the next three years, ( Uncanny X-Men # 198, # 205 and # 214 ), his mainstream comics output remained limited throughout the rest of the 1980s, amounting to just one issue each of Fantastic Four (# 296, November 1986 ) and Daredevil (# 236, November 1986 ), two issues of Iron Man (# 232, July 1988 and # 243, June 1989 ), two pages for DC Comics ' Heroes Against Hunger benefit project, and two small pieces for the Harvey Award-winning comics anthology A1 published by Atomeka Press.

Although an ownership dispute led to Evangeline moving to First Comics to be continued for two more years, Comico landed a major license in Robotech.

Although the name of the comic book was Flash Comics, the Flash was only one of many different series featured in the magazine.

Although Omega Supreme ’ s Marvel Comics origin was distinctly different, by pure coincidence his origin is still connected to the Constructicons.

Although not named Wonder Girl, a young Wonder Woman appeared as part of the character's origin story in All-Star Comics # 8 ( December 1941 ), Wonder Woman's first appearance.

Although many other Action Masters had appeared in the Marvel Comics continuity, Action Master Shockwave did not.

Although the company's assets were still seen attractive enough to sign a deal with the William Morris Agency, the company was purchased by Marvel Comics in late 1994.

Although " Jam Comics " no doubt have many other origins, " Sisterson " was name after a particular example that took place in the Humour Comic Strip class at the London Cartoon Centre, a series of comic strip classes that took place at various venues in West London in the late 1990s and early 1990s.

Although Milestone comics were published through DC Comics, they did not take place in the DC Universe.

Although the character of Crossfire was created by Mark Evanier and Will Meugniot in DNAgents published by Eclipse Comics, Spiegle is the artist most associated with Crossfire.

Although considered to be the most powerful being in the Liefeld universe, he had his share of defeats, including being killed in the cross-title Deathmate Black series ( published by both Image and Valiant Comics ), losing his powers in Extreme Prejudice, and being brutally killed by Crypt in Extreme Sacrifice.

Although the indicia for these titles indicated the publisher as Radio Comics ( and references in the comics referred to them as such ), the covers said nothing until January 1966, when they proclaimed them part of the Mighty Comics Group ( a possible attempt to capitalize on the popularity of " Marvel Comics Group "?

Although Miller noted in 1907 that a difference in the pleural blood supply existed between animals, nowhere in his published works is it found that he did a comparative study of the intrapulmonary features of various mammalian lungs other than in the dog and cat ( Miller, '13 ; ;

Although originally considered a subspecies of A. ramidus, in 2004 anthropologists Yohannes Haile-Selassie, Gen Suwa, and Tim D. White published an article elevating A. kadabba to species level on the basis of newly-discovered teeth from Ethiopia.

Although Grothendieck himself never published his work in this area, the proposal became the inspiration for work by other mathematicians and the source of the theory of dessins d ' enfants.

Although not published in his lifetime, a manuscript form of Ad locos planos et solidos isagoge ( Introduction to Plane and Solid Loci ) was circulating in Paris in 1637, just prior to the publication of Descartes ' Discourse.

Although Communications no longer publishes primary research, and is not considered a prestigious venue, many of the great debates and results in computing history have been published in its pages.

Although this document was subsequently adopted by International Organization for Standardization ( ISO ) and subsequent revisions published by ISO have been adopted by ANSI, the name ANSI C ( rather than ISO C ) is still more widely used.

Although bluetongue disease was already recognized in South Africa in the early 19th century, a comprehensive description of the disease was not published until the first decade of the 20th century.

Although details remain disputed, the vast majority of recent studies agree with Martin Noth's thesis, published in 1943, that the book of Samuel was composed as part of the Deuteronomistic history, the books of Deuteronomy, Joshua, Judges, Samuel and Kings.

Although The Tale of Pigling Bland was not published until 1930, it had been written much earlier.

Although no official membership figures are published, the Columbia Encyclopedia gives an estimated figure of 50, 000 Christadelphians, who are spread across approximately 120 countries ; there are established churches ( or ecclesias, as they are often called ) in many of those countries, along with isolated members.

Although a small adventure entitled ' Temple of the Frog ' was included in the Blackmoor rules supplement in 1975, the first stand-alone D & D module published by TSR was 1978's Steading of the Hill Giant Chief, written by Gygax.

Although these letters are not formally published in the Doctrine and Covenants, they are still deemed to be inspired, and are dealt with in the same manner that revelations are ( that is, they must be deliberated and approved by the voting members of a World Conference ).

Although the two parts are now normally published as a single work, Don Quixote, Part Two was a sequel published ten years after the original novel.

Although many of his works appeared in print while a teenager, it was the publication of " Light breaks where no sun shines ", published in 1934, that caught the attention of the literary world.

Although Ace and Wollheim have become the villains in the Tolkien publishing gospel, it's probable that the whole Tolkien boom would not have happened if Ace hadn't published them.

Although the original copy in which Fermat wrote this is lost today, Fermat's son edited the next edition of Diophantus, published in 1670.

Although Abel had already proved the impossibility of a " quintic formula " by radicals in 1824 and Ruffini had published a solution in 1799 that turned out to be flawed, Galois ' methods led to deeper research in what is now called Galois theory.

Although in later life he prided himself on always publishing his work under his own name, in the late nineteenth century he appears to have used pseudonyms such as and in some of his published writings.

Although careful programmers were coming to realize that use of incompatible extensions caused expensive portability problems, and were therefore using programs such as The PFORT Verifier, it was not until after the 1977 standard, when the National Bureau of Standards ( now NIST ) published FIPS PUB 69, that processors purchased by the U. S. Government were required to diagnose extensions of the standard.

Although several games based on the HERO System were published in the 1980s, including Champions, Danger International, Justice, Inc., Robot Warriors and the original versions of Fantasy HERO and Star HERO, each of the RPGs was self-contained, much as Chaosium's Basic Role-Playing games are.

Although two editions were published, it was very poorly received by Champions fans.

Although today Sophus Lie is rightfully recognized as the creator of the theory of continuous groups, a major stride in the development of their structure theory, which was to have a profound influence on subsequent development of mathematics, was made by Wilhelm Killing, who in 1888 published the first paper in a series entitled

Although many of these play's titles are known, only The Uplift of Lucifer is known to survive ( it was published in a limited edition in the 1960s ).

Although numerous political references to the " Wizard " appeared early in the 20th century, it was in a scholarly article by Henry Littlefield, an upstate New York high school history teacher, published in 1964 that there appeared the first full-fledged interpretation of the novel as an extended political allegory of the politics and characters of the 1890s.