Among them was an explanation of why the natives of Krypton perished if they had possessed super powers on their native world ( as was the case in the earliest versions of Krypton outlined above, although this only became a problem once Superman — and by extension anyone from Krypton — was portrayed as increasingly powerful, able to withstand nuclear explosions, contrasted with his original power level in which a bursting mortar shell could penetrate his skin ).

One of the earliest, and most frequently cited examples of a damsel in distress in comics is Lois Lane, who is eternally getting into trouble and needing to be rescued by Superman.

Virtually every issue featured DC's two leading superheroes, Superman and Batman, with the earliest issues also featuring Batman's sidekick, Robin.

The earliest Superman comics present Clark Kent and Lois Lane as working for the Daily Star for an editor named George Taylor.

Steppenwolf is one of the earliest survivors of Doomsday, the monster who once killed Superman.

One of the earliest proper Belgian comics was Hergé's The Adventures of Tintin, with the story Tintin in the Land of the Soviets which was published in Le Petit Vingtième in 1929.

Campbell made his earliest attempts at autobiographical comics in the late 1970s with In the Days of the Ace Rock and Roll Club.

In the earliest Golden Age Superboy comics, the name of Clark Kent's hometown is uncertain.

J. M. DeMatteis began his comics career on DC's House of Mystery title over a decade before the formation of Vertigo, and later became one of the earliest Vertigo creators thanks in large part to his proposed Touchmark projects.

Sean Phillips earliest American comics work was in the pages of pre-Vertigo Hellblazer, and in May 1993 he became one of the early Vertigo artists by illustrating ( with assists from Paul Peart and Sean Harrison Scoffield ) the entire 16-issue run of Kid Eternity ( 1993-4 ).

While the more recent Archie comics have been deliberately vague about Riverdale's location, it was not ambiguous in the earliest run of the comic.

* The Origin of the Bat Cave A blog post by Bill Jourdain about the earliest comics appearances of the Batcave

In the late 1940s, the duo created the field of romance comics, and were among the earliest pioneers of horror comics.

* Several Marsupilami cameos and tributes have been produced in Franco-Belgian comics ; among the earliest in Jijé's series Blondin et Cirage, in the volume Les soucoupes volantes ( 1956 ), where the characters Blondin and Cirage find the creature Marsupilami Africanis, a slightly different species than the South American Marsupilamus Fantasii.

Howe's earliest commissions included political cartoons, magazine illustrations, comics, animated films, advertising, of which he says were nightmares.

Ghost World was among the earliest " literary " comics to be marketed and sold through conventional book stores as a graphic novel ( this despite the fact that Clowes has been critical of the term " graphic novel ").

Charles Burns ' earliest works include illustrations for the Sub Pop fanzine, and Another Room Magazine of Oakland, CA, but he came to prominence when his comics were published for the first time in early issues of RAW, the avant-garde comics magazine founded in 1980 by Françoise Mouly and Art Spiegelman.

( The earliest and most popular comics in mini-and digest sizes — predating not only the term minicomic, but even the standard comic-book format — were the anonymous and pornographic Tijuana bibles of the 1920s.

* The Girl in the Coffee Cup ( initially started on comics. com, then restarted 2002-02-19 ; the strip changed to color on 2002-03-11, the earliest strip in the GoComics. com archive ).

In the earliest comics, He-Man is a wandering barbarian on Eternia, a world dealing with the aftermath of a Great War that has devastated the civilizations that once reigned, but has left behind fantastical machinery and weapons.

First written in the earliest Wonder Woman comics, Diana Prince's role was multifaceted.

Megatron's earliest fictional depiction in comics was in a two part short story told in Dreamwave's Transformers: More Than Meets The Eye series of character profiles.

Though comics were the main focus, many issues included galleries of non-comics illustration and illustrated prose or non-fiction pieces ; for example, Raw Volume 2 Number 2 featured one of the earliest published articles on Henry Darger, complete with fold-out color reproductions of his paintings and diaries.

His earliest strips in the 1970s appeared in such British small press comics as Graphixus, Moon Comix, Yikes, Animal Bite Comix, No Ducks, Phobos, Streetcomix, Free Comix, Warrior and Fish.

Dringenberg's earliest work was in independent comics in the 1980s for publishers such as Eclipse and Vortex, including Enchanter, Alien Worlds, Total Eclipse and Kelvin Mace.

The Herculoids, made up of Herc, Coke La Rock, and DJ Clark Kent, were the earliest to gain major fame.

The earliest authorized edition of the Lewis and Clark journals reside in the Maureen and Mike Mansfield Library at the University of Montana.

" Clark Humphrey, editor of Desperate Times, cites this as the earliest use of the term to refer to a Seattle band, and mentions that Bruce Pavitt of Sub Pop popularized the term as a musical label in 1987 – 88, using it on several occasions to describe Green River.

Arkham House also published fiction by many of Lovecraft's contemporaries, including Ray Bradbury, Robert E. Howard, Frank Belknap Long, Clark Ashton Smith, Robert Bloch, and Derleth himself ; classic genre fiction by authors such as William Hope Hodgson, Algernon Blackwood, H. Russell Wakefield, Seabury Quinn, and Sheridan Le Fanu ; and later writers in the Lovecraft school, such as Ramsey Campbell and Brian Lumley to whom Derleth gave their earliest publication in hardcover.

After the Lewis and Clark Expedition of the early 19th century, white settlers came to the area, many from Kentucky, Tennessee and the Carolinas ; the earliest pioneers appeared to have settled as early as 1818, and the town of Waynesville was designated the county seat by the Missouri Legislature in 1833.

Among some of the earliest land grants are Maiden's Fancy, a tract surveyed for Neal Clark in 1700, and Bear Bacon nearby, a tract of land surveyed in 1703 for a Mark Richardson.

The Clark County administration consisted of various officers and a 3 man board of commissioners in its earliest days.

Directed by Bob Clark ( later the director of A Christmas Story ), Black Christmas was one of the earliest films to present some of the characteristics that the slasher subgenre would come to be known for: a mysterious stalker, a set of adolescent or young adult victims, a secluded location with little or no adult supervision, point-of-view camera shots representing the " killer's perspective ", a jolting score and graphic depictions of violence and murder.

In 1949, Henderson introduced Clark to Alan A. Freeman, who, together with her father Leslie, formed the Polygon Records, for which she recorded her earliest hits.

The earliest surviving footage dates from 26 February 1964 and consists of performances by Billy J. Kramer and the Dakotas and The Dave Clark Five.

Clark felt however that he did not have clear mandate from the riding associations and recommended that the party executive hold a leadership convention at the earliest possible time, of he would be a candidate in.

The towns and barrios surrounding the numerous American military bases that were scattered throughout that country such as Clark Air Base in Angeles City and Subic Bay Naval Base in Olongapo were among the earliest to be exposed to the culture ; as contact with African-American, Filipino American and Latino servicemen resulted in some of the earliest exposure the locals had to the new musical genre.

These claims originated in the early 1970s and received their earliest full articulation in English in Clark and Holquist's 1984 biography of Bakhtin.

The University of Montana's Maureen and Mike Mansfield Library houses the earliest authorized edition of the Lewis and Clark journals.

Clark was one of the earliest exponents of psychedelic rock, baroque pop, newgrass, country rock and alternative country.

Randy Clark had been influenced by the ministry of Rodney Howard-Browne, a South African preacher, founder of the Rodney Howard-Browne Evangelistic Association in Louisville, Kentucky, and the earliest known proponent of the " holy laughter " revival phenomenon.

" ( Jacobs, 15 ) Some have suggested this was the earliest report of cattle mutilation ( In 1982, however, UFO researcher Jerome Clark debunked this story, and confirmed via interviews and Hamilton's own affidavit that the story was a successful attempt to win a Liar's Club competition to create the most outlandish tall tale ).

Clark was duly crowned as champion at the start of August, the earliest the championship had been won until 2002, when Michael Schumacher obtained his 5th title on July 21st.

In 1949, Henderson introduced Clark to Alan A. Freeman, who, together with her father Leslie, formed the Polygon record label, for which she recorded her earliest hits.

The earliest voltage references or standards were wet-chemical cells such as the Clark cell and Weston cell, which are still used in some laboratory and calibration applications.

United possessed a solid eleven and Newcastle's tradition of fielding a famous Number 9 at centre-forward since earliest years continued as big Welshman Wyn Davies was prominent along with the likes of Pop Robson, Bobby Moncur and Frank Clark.