In the April 2012 issue of Playboy, long time Batman writer Grant Morrison said that " Gayness is built into Batman.

In both " JLA " and " 52 ," Grant Morrison states that Luthor's ego leads him to believe that the only reason Superman commits good deeds is to somehow strike at Luthor and prove who is better, arguing that it is impossible for Superman to be as good as he appears to be.

When Chief Justice Chase died, Grant initially delayed in making the replacement, and after muddling through two failed nominations, the ultimate choice, Morrison Remick Waite was finally confirmed by the Senate.

X-Men had its title changed at this time to New X-Men and new writer Grant Morrison took over.

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Trilogy can be credited with popularizing the genre of conspiracy fiction, a field later mined by authors like Umberto Eco ( Foucault's Pendulum ) and Dan Brown ( Angels and Demons, The Da Vinci Code, The Lost Symbol ), comic book writers like Alan Moore ( V for Vendetta, Watchmen ), Dave Sim ( Cerebus ) and Grant Morrison ( The Invisibles ), and screenwriters like Chris Carter ( The X-Files ) and Damon Lindelof ( Lost ).

Grant, however, appointed Morrison R. Waite.

Also in 1990, comic book writer Grant Morrison created the Polari-speaking character Danny the Street ( based on Danny La Rue ), a sentient transvestite street, for the comic Doom Patrol.

With issue # 140 ( March 1994 ), the title was handed over to Grant Morrison for a four-issue arc, co-written by the then unknown Mark Millar.

Dream originally began as a mainstream DC character able to interact with DC superheroes, and Gaiman's versions of Dream have appeared in DC superhero titles written by Keith Giffen and by Grant Morrison, as well as in Gaiman's own The Books of Magic series and in a Rick Veitch-authored issue of Swamp Thing ( where he meets Matthew Cable ).

The title was relaunched from issue # 1 by the creative team of writer Grant Morrison and artist Rags Morales.

In order to concentrate on the 1994 Spawn / Batman crossover ( with Miller writing ), he brought on Grant Morrison ( as writer ) and Greg Capullo ( penciller ) from issues # 16 -# 18.

The concept of the Alpha Lantern Corps was conceived by Grant Morrison.

Based on comments by Grant Morrison, this alternate universe is not the pre-Crisis Earth-2.

These included Neil Gaiman, whom she met in 1987 on a talent-scouting trip, as well as Peter Milligan and Grant Morrison.

Having spearheaded the " British invasion ," by head-hunting such writers as Moore, Gaiman, Delano, Grant Morrison, Garth Ennis and Peter Milligan, Berger was well suited to head up the new line, as she was already editing many of the series which would form the core of the early Vertigo output.

Nor were any of the initial launch titles written by Grant Morrison, who had similarly finished his seminal runs on both Animal Man and Doom Patrol under the DC logo.

" Joining Mystery Theatre in February ( cover-dated April, 1993 ) was J. Marc DeMatteis ( and Paul Johnson )' s 64-page one-shot Mercy, while other initially talked about Vertigo projects included Grant Morrison and Steve Yeowell's 3-issue steampunk miniseries Sebastian O-another ex-Touchmark project.

* The Filth # 9-13 ( Apr-Oct ) by Grant Morrison and Chris Weston

Berger included in the initial Vertigo line-up the five titles she had had some hand in creating or editing ( Swamp Thing, Hellblazer, Animal Man, Sandman and Shade ) as well as Doom Patrol which she " decided to include ... because Grant Morrison was working on it and the sensibility was very much like the other series.

Although the " mature reader " works of Alan Moore, Grant Morrison ( with Jamie Delano and Neil Gaiman ) under the DC imprint paved the way for Vertigo's launch, neither author was part of the initial line-up.

Grant Morrison, whose pre-Vertigo work on Animal Man and Doom Patrol was similarly retroactively branded as " Vertigo " when collected, also wrote two issues of Hellblazer pre-Vertigo, which are collected in a 2005 trade paperback.

Duncan Fegredo < nowiki >'</ nowiki > s first major American work was on the 1991 Kid Eternity miniseries with Grant Morrison.

* New Line Cinema announced in June 2005 that it had optioned We3, with that comic's writer, Grant Morrison, then in negotiations to write the screenplay.

" Hughes invited Grant Wood to create the Library ’ s agricultural murals that speak to the founding of Iowa and Iowa State College and Model Farm.

Sinatra received her own star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame on May 11, 2006, which was also declared " Nancy Sinatra Day " by Hollywood ’ s mayor, Johnny Grant.

* Swanson, Vern G: Alma-Tadema: The Painter of the Victorian Vision of the Ancient World, Ash & Grant, London, 1977, ISBN 978-0-904069-08-2 ; Charles Scribner ’ s Sons, New York, 1977, ISBN 0-684-15304-1

Grant ’ s terms were repeated across the North: " No terms except unconditional and immediate surrender.

Beauregard, vigorously attacked five divisions of Grant ’ s army bivouacked nine miles south at Pittsburgh Landing.

The Vicksburg Campaign was Grant ’ s greatest achievement up to this time, opening the south to Chattanooga and giving the Union army access to the vital grain supply in Georgia.

In 1871, Grant ’ s Secretary of State Hamilton Fish orchestrated the negotiation.

Lytton Strachey and Duncan Grant – later Vanessa ’ s partner – were cousins, so that a web of kinship, intellectual, social, sexual and amicable ties bound the group, while throughout the group ’ s history there were various ( and complicated!

Of the male members of the early Bloomsbury Group, all but Duncan Grant were educated at Trinity or King ’ s.

Grant ( serving as President when Sherman ’ s memoirs first appeared ) later remarked that others had told him that Sherman treated Grant unfairly but " when I finished the book, I found I approved every word ; that ... it was a true book, an honorable book, creditable to Sherman, just to his companions — to myself particularly so — just such a book as I expected Sherman would write.

In 1886, after the publication of Grant ’ s memoirs, Sherman produced a " second edition, revised and corrected " of his memoirs with Appleton.

Subsequently, Sherman shifted to the publishing house of Charles L. Webster & Co., the publisher of Grant ’ s memoirs.

Former Stars and Stripes staffers also include 60 Minutes ’ Andy Rooney and Steve Kroft, songwriter and author Shel Silverstein, comic book illustrator Tom Sutton, author Ralph G. Martin, painter and cartoonist Paul Fontaine, author and television news correspondent Tony Zappone, cartoonist Vernon Grant ( A Monster Is Loose in Tokyo ), Hollywood photographer Phil Stern and the late stock market reporter and host of public television's Wall Street Week, Louis Rukeyser.

Governor King, disappointed at the vagueness of Grant ’ s chart, sent him back to survey the strait more thoroughly.

That was followed by Blake Edwards ’ comedy Operation Petticoat ( 1959 ) with Cary Grant.

Cary Grant ’ s Roger Thornhill, the film ’ s sharply dressed ad exec who is sucked into a vortex of mistaken identity, certainly wouldn ’ t be out of place in Mad Men.

But there ’ s nothing dated about this perfect storm of talent, from Hitchcock and Grant to writer Ernest Lehman ( Sweet Smell of Success ), co-stars James Mason and Eva Marie Saint, composer Bernard Herrmann and even designer Saul Bass, whose opening-credits sequence still manages to send a shiver down the spine.

He rejected ones from the likes of Cary Grant and David Selznick and signed on with independent production company Hecht-Hill-Lancaster, enticed by their offer to adapt George Bernard Shaw ’ s play The Devil's Disciple.

When the guns fell silent on May 7, over 29, 000 soldiers lay dead or wounded on the fields at the Wilderness, and Grant ’ s Union army was able to disengage and press on toward Richmond.

Grant County ’ s government operates in accordance with the Oregon Constitution which was ratified by the People of Oregon in November 1857, and the revised Statutes of Oregon.