In an article written shortly before his death, Bradbury said the " John Carter of Mars " books and Harold Foster's 1931 series of Tarzan Sunday comics had such an impact on his life that " The Martian Chronicles would never have happened " otherwise.

Run above Flash Gordon, Raymond's Jungle Jim is described by Armando Mendez as " a thing of beauty ... always more than just a topper or a shallow response to Hal Foster's exquisite Tarzan ".

Inspired by his father's love of newspaper comic strips, particularly Hal Foster's Prince Valiant, Ditko found his interest in comics accelerated by the introduction of superhero Batman in 1940, and by Will Eisner's The Spirit, which appeared in a tabloid-sized comic-book insert in Sunday newspapers.

William Randolph Hearst, who had long wanted Foster to do a comic strip for his newspapers, was so impressed with Foster's pitch for Prince Valiant that he promised Foster a 50-50 split of the gross income on the strip, a very rare offer in those days.

Foster's impact on comic art was especially significant in the development of adventure strips, due to his controlled compositions, action scenes and detailed drawings of human anatomy and costume.

The character appears in a positive light in novels like Gillian Bradshaw's Hawk of May, Thomas Berger's Arthur Rex, Hal Foster's comic strip Prince Valiant, and Stephen R. Lawhead's Pendragon Cycle.

White's novel The Once and Future King ( where Mordred plays the role of a bitter but successful populist and faux-Bolshevik ) and the musical based on it, Camelot, and Hal Foster's popular comic strip Prince Valiant.

" His work and Foster's created the visual standard by which all such comic strips would henceforth be measured.

It includes plot summaries of the Prince Valiant comic strip from its beginning duirng 1937 to the 1980 retirement of the strip's creator, Hal Foster, along with additional material on the series and Foster's other work.

Chandler: Red Tide is similar to Harold Foster's comic strip Prince Valiant in that the narrative is carried by a combination of graphics and text blocks without word balloons.

The strip employed Foster's illustrations with captions format.

The strip itself began with Hal Foster's adaptation of the story.

In Canada, Foster's is brewed by Molson Canada under licence from Foster's Brewing International.

Foster's Lager has been imported into the UK from Australia in its 16 oz distinctive blue, white and gold cans since the early 1970s.

Awareness of the brand was spread in Britain by the satirical political magazine " Private Eye " which ran a cartoon series " The Adventures of Barry McKenzie ", featuring a bumbling Foster's swilling Australian expatriate, from about 1964 onwards.

In August 2006, SABMiller announced that it had bought the rights to the Foster's brand in India for a reported $ 120m from private investors.

In the film Contact, the message intercepted by Jodi Foster's character is coming from Vega, the brightest star in the Lyra constellation.

Stella Artois is also brewed in Abbotsford, Victoria, by Foster's Group for the Australian market under license from InBev.

Columbia Pictures originally purchased Lewis R. Foster's unpublished story, variously called The Gentleman from Montana and The Gentleman from Wyoming, as a vehicle for Ralph Bellamy, but once Frank Capra came on board as director – after Rouben Mamoulian had expressed interest – the film was to be a sequel to his Mr. Deeds Goes to Town, called Mr. Deeds Goes to Washington, with Gary Cooper reprising his role as Longfellow Deeds. Because Cooper was unavailable, Capra then " saw it immediately as a vehicle for Jimmy Stewart and Jean Arthur ," and Stewart was borrowed from MGM.

Note Foster's compositional techniques, particularly how perspective creates a visual flow of Viking raiders from left to right, a flow that stops abruptly just before the figure of Prince Valiant highlighted against a dark background.

In other work, he completed and discussed H. Foster's pendulum experiments, deducing from them an ellipticity for the earth of 1 / 289. 48 ( Memoirs R. Astr.

The term Whitewater is also sometimes used to include other controversies from the Bill Clinton administration, especially those such as Travelgate, Filegate, and the circumstances surrounding Vince Foster's death, that were investigated by the Whitewater Independent Counsel.

Douglas Jimerson, a tenor from Baltimore who has released CDs of music from the Civil War era, released Stephen Foster's America in 1998.

* Journalist Nellie Bly took her pseudonym from the title character of Foster's song Nelly Bly.

* Erika M Anderson of the band EMA says in reference to Foster's Camptown Races, " I bet my money on the bobtail nag / somebody bet on the bay " in the song California from her 2011 release Past Life Martyred Saints.

Prior to the start of the festival, Lee wrote an e-mail to the publicist of the Foster's Edinburgh Comedy Awards, copying in other comedians, in response to the announcement of a poll to find the public's favourite act from 30 years of the award, which was previously known as the Perrier Award.

The current host is Foster's biological father, who is old and has become severely worn out from his symbiosis with LINC.

Residents decided to change the area's name from Foster's Meadow to Elmont in 1882, 23 years before Belmont's inaugural.

The Republicans had not coalesced on a candidate, and Foster's announcement that he was switching parties vaulted him from single digits in the polls to serious contention.

The two Speakers of the House under Foster's administration were Democrat ( later Republican ) Hunt Downer of Terrebonne Parish and Charles W. DeWitt, Jr., a Democrat from Rapides Parish.

Jack Shulman, Foster's secretary, also played a role in these organizations ; he was not expelled from the CP, but resigned.

In 1888, he left London to take over from William Alexander Foster's successful law firm in Toronto.

* Alan Dean Foster's Humanx Commonwealth novels

Following Foster's departure, Bronski Beat began work on their next album, Out and About.

As the horses are paraded before the grandstands, the University of Louisville Marching Band plays Stephen Foster's " My Old Kentucky Home ," a tradition which began in 1924.

In response, the Luddites began to focus their attacks on nearby towns and villages, which were less well-protected ; the largest act of damage that they ever did was the complete destruction of Foster's Mill at Horbury — a village which is about east of Huddersfield.

The area's country music broadcasting history, however, can be traced to Springfield in the mid-1930s, when Ralph D. Foster's KWTO-AM began carrying live performances and syndicating them to other stations across the country.

Foster's letter to the National Committee subsequently formed the basis for the Duclos letter published as the Cold War began in 1945 that signaled the Soviet Union's change in line.

In 2004, Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends began airing on Cartoon Network.

Foster's men began destroying the tracks north toward the Goldsborough Bridge.

Convinced that by becoming a national figure he would be Foster's equal, Hinckley decided to emulate Bickle and began to stalk President Jimmy Carter.