The introduction of Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster's Superman in 1938 turned comic books into a major industry, and is the start of the Golden Age of comics.

Tim Glovatsky and Joe Hacker voiced the character in audio adaptations of Dark Forces: Rebel Agent and the Dark Empire comics, respectively.

Valiant also established " knob row " — taking in raw talent and teaching them how to make comics Valiant-style — and launched many careers, most notably Joe Quesada's.

In the mid-1970s, there was a brief resurgence of talent, energized by Cuti, artist Joe Staton and the " CPL Gang " — a group of writer / artist comics fans including John Byrne, Roger Stern, Bob Layton, and Roger Slifer, who had all worked on the fanzine CPL ( Contemporary Pictorial Literature ).

With DC war comics stalwart Joe Kubert now concentrating on the comic strip The Green Berets, Adams saw an opening:

According to Joe Kubert, co-creator with the brothers Norman Maurer and Leonard Maurer, it sold an exceptional 1. 2 million copies at 25 cents apiece at a time when comics cost a dime.

Other notable writers of the turn of the 20th century include Michael Chabon, whose Pulitzer Prize-winning The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay ( 2000 ) tells the story of two friends, Joe Kavalier and Sam Clay, as they rise through the ranks of the comics industry in its heyday ; Denis Johnson, whose 2007 novel Tree of Smoke about falsified intelligence during Vietnam both won the National Book Award and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and was called by critic Michiko Kakutani " one of the classic works of literature produced by Vietnam War "; and Louise Erdrich, whose 2008 novel The Plague of Doves, a distinctly Faulknerian, polyphonic examination of the tribal experience set against the backdrop of murder in the fictional town of Pluto, North Dakota, was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize.

Ultimately, Warner Communications, DC's parent company, awarded Siegel and Shuster $ 20, 000 a year each for the rest of their lives and guaranteed that all comics, TV episodes, films, and, later, video games starring Superman would be required to carry the credit that Superman was " created by Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster.

* Joe Sacco, comics artist and journalist

Notes from a Defeatist is a collection of short journalistic comics by Joe Sacco.

Bazooka Joe is a comic strip character, featured on small comics included inside individually-wrapped pieces of Bazooka bubblegum.

As with almost all advertising characters of the 20th century who had any sort of longevity, the style of the Bazooka Joe comics changed with the times, with Joe eventually adopting a more contemporary look by the 1990s, complete with low-slung, baggy jeans.

Bazooka Joe comics were localized or translated for sale in other countries.

Joe Sacco ( born October 2, 1960 ) is a Maltese-American comics artist and journalist.

Notable penciller-inker teams like Kirby and Joe Sinnott, Curt Swan and Murphy Anderson, Gene Colan and Palmer, and John Byrne and Terry Austin ( particularly on The Uncanny X-Men ) proved that comics could truly became a collaborative art.

* Jack Kirby / Joe Simon — possibly the first true tandem, in their heydey they defined Captain America, The Red Skull, Sandman and Sandy, Manhunter, the Boy Commandos, romance comics, and much more.

" He would later cite Kane and Alex Toth as " pinnacle of excellence ," alongside " Curt Swan, Murphy Anderson, Syd Greene, Joe Kubert, Ross Andru, Mike Esposito, Nick Cardy and the under-rated Bruno Premiani ," whose influences showed in his " early crude stabs at drawing comics.

Rucka was featured as a character in the CSI: Crime Scene Investigation comic book miniseries Dying in the Gutters, as the accidental killer of a comics gossip columnist while intending to kill Joe Quesada over his perceived role in the ending of Gotham Central.

It was founded in 1997 by Bob Schreck and Joe Nozemack with the goal of publishing the kinds of comics and graphic novels they themselves would want to read.

Joe Rush ( born 1960 ) influenced by the film Mad Max and Judge Dredd comics, was the co-originator of the travelling multi media art group Eat my face, an underground art collective who specialised in building large scale installations out of waste material.

In the third volume of the Devil's Due comics G. I Joe vs the Transformers comics, the android Serpentor downloaded information on the history of Cybertron from Soundwave.

Joe vs the Transformers comics the android Serpentor downloads information on the history of Cybertron from Soundwave.

Besides having a shared interest in drawing, Sammy and Joe share several connections to Jewish stage magician Harry Houdini: Joe ( like comics legend Jim Steranko ) studied magic and escapology in Prague, which aided him in his departure from Europe, and Sammy is the son of the Mighty Molecule, a strongman on the vaudeville circuit.

" Uncle Joe ", as he was known, often clashed with fellow Republican Theodore Roosevelt, who Cannon remarked had " no more use for the Constitution than a tomcat has for a marriage license ".

In 1966, the same year as Joe Cuba's pop success, the Palladium closed because it lost its liquor license.

In 1970, he first regained a boxing license and promptly fought two comeback fights, against Jerry Quarry and Oscar Bonavena in an attempt to regain the heavyweight championship from Joe Frazier.

Joe Taylor first obtained his amateur radio license as a teenager, which led him to the field of radio astronomy.

The same year as Joe Cuba's pop success, 1966, saw the closing of New York City's Palladium Ballroom, when the venue, the home of big band mambo for years, lost its liquor license.

Donruss used its advantage of not having an MLB license to include baseball cards of both Joe Jackson and Pete Rose, who were banned from baseball for allegedly throwing the World Series in the Black Sox Scandal and betting on the game, respectively.

Boone County, Indiana Sheriff Joe C. Cain notified Grant County, Indiana Sheriff Renbarger of the list of items stolen from the Lebanon store and stated that the robbers were driving a Moon sedan, with the license 443-554, which was stolen from Indianapolis the night of the Lebanon robbery.

Vincent Tan obtained the license of his lottery business from an untendered privatisation in 1985 ( Studwell, Joe ; Asian Godfathers, page 130, Grove Press, 2007 )

It inspired Rogers Communications to license the Jack FM format at many of its stations, Corus Entertainment's subsequent Joe FM and Dave FM brands, and comparable moves at other stations.

The club got its start when the twenty-seven year old owners, Danny Stevens ( who owned the class A liquor license from the Hotel Hastings ) and Allan Fingerhut opened the doors on April 3, 1970 to showcase a two set evening with Joe Cocker's Mad Dogs and Englishmen.

For unknown reasons, this album was unreleased by Motown, but in April, 2011, the album's original tracks, along with fourteen unreleased original Contours 1960s Motown recordings, and new 2011 interviews with the Contours ' founder Joe Billingslea as well as with Sylvester Potts, was released as part of the CD compilation collection, Dance With The Contours on the import label, Kent Records, under legal license from, and with the full approval of, the owners of the Motown catalogue.

His uncle, Joe Moscoe, was the first licensed taxi driver in Toronto ( cab license # 1 ).

Joe license.

Upon his release from prison, Joe manages to go up to Bantamweight, but it isn't easy and Danpei has a very tough time getting him a boxing license due to his past record.

In May 2008, Gail finally met Ted Page, the father she'd never known and in 2009, Gail's boyfriend, Joe McIntyre became addicted to pain killers, which came to a head when he broke into the medical centre.

The most important of the new film producers at the time was Joe May, who made a series of thrillers and adventure films through the war years, but Ernst Lubitsch also came into prominence with a series of very successful comedies and dramas.

The German producer Artur Brauner expressed interest in remaking The Indian Tomb ( a story that Lang had developed in the twenties that was ultimately taken from him by studio heads and directed instead by Joe May ), so Lang abandoned his plans for retirement and returned to Germany in order to make his " Indian Epic ".

Houston sent second baseman Joe Morgan, infielder Denis Menke, pitcher Jack Billingham, outfielder Cesar Geronimo and prospect Ed Armbrister to Cincinnati for first baseman Lee May, second baseman Tommy Helms and infielder Jimmy Stewart.

James Brown was born in Barnwell, South Carolina on May 3, 1933, to Susie ( née Behlings ) Brown ( August 8, 1916-February 26, 2004 ) and Joseph (" Joe ") Gardner ( March 29, 1911-July 10, 1993 ) ( who changed his surname to Brown after Mattie Brown who raised him ).

The first capture of a Naval Enigma machine and associated cipher keys from a U-boat were made on May 9, 1941 by HMS Bulldog of Britain's Royal Navy, commanded by Captain Joe Baker-Cresswell.

* May 18 – Big Joe Turner, American singer ( d. 1985 )

* May 10 – Joe Weber, American vaudevillian ( b. 1867 )

* May 3 – Joe Murray, American animator

* May 25 – Joe De Grasse, Canadian film director ( b. 1873 )

* May 4 – Joe De Grasse, Canadian film director ( d. 1940 )

* May 22 – Joe Colombo, American gangster ( b. 1914 )

* May 25 – Joe Brown and George Band are the first to attain the summit of Kanchenjunga in the Himalayas, as part of a British team led by Charles Evans.

* May 19 – Joe Gilmore, Irish, longest running Head Barmen at The Savoy Hotel's American Bar

On May 2, 2011, the Tennessee Senate passed Resolution 30, congratulating Mike Curtis and Joe Staton on their professional accomplishments, including Dick Tracy.

The second half of the concert featured the three remaining Queen members-John Deacon ( on bass ), Brian May ( on guitar ) and Roger Taylor ( on drums )-along with guest singers and guitarists, including Elton John, Roger Daltrey ( of The Who ), Tony Iommi ( of Black Sabbath ), David Bowie, Mick Ronson ( of Spiders from Mars ), James Hetfield ( of Metallica ), George Michael, Seal, Paul Young, Annie Lennox, Lisa Stansfield, Robert Plant ( of Led Zeppelin ), Joe Elliott and Phil Collen ( of Def Leppard ), Axl Rose and Slash ( of Guns N ' Roses ), Liza Minnelli, and others.

According to a May 15, 2009 blog posting by Newsweek's Eleanor Clift, Vice President Joe Biden revealed the existence of what Clift described as a bunker-like room in the residence.

Joe " King " Oliver ( May 11, 1885 – April 10, 1938 ) was a jazz cornet player and bandleader.

Joe Jaworski is mayor, having replaced term-limited Lyda Ann Thomas May 2010.

The Liberals lost the federal election, of May, 1979 to a minority Conservative government led by Joe Clark.

Joe Louis " The Brown Bomber ", renowned heavyweight boxing champion, was born near LaFayette, on Buckaloo Mountain, May 13, 1914.

Other precursors to anarcho-punk include avant-garde art and political movements such as Fluxus, Dada, the Beat generation, England's angry young men ( such as Joe Orton ), the surrealism-inspired Situationist International, the May 1968 uprising in Paris, and the CND.

A provisional governing committee was set up in Dublin in May 1916, including Eamon Martin, Seamus Pounch, Theo Fitzgerald, Liam Staines and Joe Reynolds.

John Robert " Joe " Cocker ( born 20 May 1944 ) is an English rock and blues singer, who came to popularity in the 1960s, and is most known for his gritty voice, his idiosyncratic arm movements while performing, and his cover versions of popular songs, particularly those of the Beatles.

* With Joe Sample, for Randy Crawford: Now We May Begin