* June 8 – The Australian city of Melbourne is founded by John Batman and John Pascoe Fawkner.

Tracking the image of the demented or deviant clown across popular culture, Dery analyzes the " Pogo the Clown " persona of the serial killer John Wayne Gacy ; the obscene clowns of the neo-situationist Cacophony Society ; the Joker ( of " Batman " Fame ); the grotesque art of R. K. Sloane ; the sick-funny Bobcat Goldthwaite comedy Shakes the Clown ; and Stephen King's It.

Pastoralist John Batman and surveyor John Wedge planned an expedition from Launceston in 1825 but permission was not granted.

Melbourne was founded in 1835 by John Batman, also from Van Diemen's Land and quickly grew into a thriving community, although at great human cost to the original inhabitants.

This 3 issue mini series follows immediately after the events of " Brightest Day ", and follows the actions of John Constantine as he tries to work out what has changed with Swamp Thing, and track him down, with the assistance of Zatanna, Batman and Superman.

Frank Miller's revamp of Batman with Batman: Year One, George Pérez's relaunching of Wonder Woman in Gods and Mortals, and John Byrne's reboot of Superman in The Man of Steel all took place shortly following Crisis on Infinite Earths, and changed substantial elements of the characters ' backstories.

* Contrary to the popular belief that Bruce Wayne ( the real name of the superhero character Batman ) was named after John Wayne, comic book writer Bill Finger named Batman's alter ego after Robert the Bruce and Anthony Wayne.

Features a guest appearance by Wesley Dodds, and cameos by Batman, J ' onn J ' onnz, Clark Kent, Darkseid, Phantom Stranger, Doctor Occult, John Constantine, and Black Spider.

John Byrne later worked this aspect into his non-canonical story Superman & Batman: Generations.

The JLA consisted of Batman, Superman, Wonder Woman, Green Lantern ( John Stewart ), the Flash ( Barry Allen ), the Atom ( Ray Palmer ), Doctor Light ( Kimiyo Hoshi ), Hawkman, and Firestorm ( Jason Rusch ).

In September 1829, John Batman ( aged 28 ), with the assistance of several " Sydney blacks " he brought to Tasmania, led an attack on an Aboriginal family group together numbering 60 – 70 men, women and children in the Ben Lomond district of north-east Tasmania.

" Batman reported afterwards to British Colonial Secretary, John Burnett, in a letter of 7 September 1829, that he kept the child because he wanted "... to rear it ...".

Later, Rolepana ( aged 8 years ), child-survivor of a massacre by a ' roving party ' led by John Batman, travelled with him as part of the founding party of Melbourne in 1835.

: Batman openly defied Governor Arthur and Augustus Robinson by refusing to hand over two Aboriginal boys in his employ: Rolepana ( or Benny Ben Lomond ) and Lurnerminer ( John or Jack Allen ), captured by Batman in 1828.

Some of the most famous included Larry Storch, Dallas McKennon ( best known as the voice of Archie in the Archie cartoon and as Cincinnatus, in the Daniel Boone TV series ), Adam West and Burt Ward ( who recreated their roles as " Batman and Robin " from their 1960s live-action series for Filmation's 1977 animated incarnation ), Jane Webb, and good friends and colleagues Ed Asner and Linda Gary ( Gary voiced a majority of Filmation's work in the 1980s ), along with John Erwin ( voice of Reggie Mantle, and later the voice of He-Man ), Alan Oppenheimer ( character actor in TV and film ), Ted Knight, George DiCenzo ( John BlackStar, Hordak, Bow on She-ra ), Melendy Britt, Howard Morris, Pat Fraley, Charlie Adler, Ed Gilbert, Susan Blu, Erika Scheimer ( daughter of Lou Scheimer ), and even Lou Scheimer himself ( either uncredited, or under the pseudonym of " Erik ( sometimes " Eric ") Gunden ").

For the company's 1960s superhero efforts composer John Gart ( under the stage name John Marion ) and music supervisor Gordon Zahler created strong themes and backing cues using a large orchestra until 1968's Batman entry, which used sparser production and jazzier themes.

** Batman Forever -- John Leveque, Bruce Stambler

Azzarello's run is one large meta-story, that follows John Constantine on a trip across America, starting with his incarceration in prison, then variously uncovering a pornography ring, catching a serial killer, taking on a Neo Nazi group before finally dealing with the architect of his incarceration, Stanley W. Manor, a thinly veiled pastiche of Batman.

Michael John Douglas ( born September 5, 1951 ), better known by the stage name Michael Keaton, is an American actor who became known for his early comedic film roles, most notably his performance as the title character of Tim Burton's Beetlejuice, and gained international fame for his dramatic portrayal of Bruce Wayne / Batman in Tim Burton's Batman and Batman Returns.

When the platypus was first encountered by Europeans in 1798, a pelt and sketch were sent back to Great Britain by Captain John Hunter, the second Governor of New South Wales.

In a late Greek myth, recorded in Eustathius ' commentary on Homer and John Tzetzes, Heracles encountered Scylla during a journey to Sicily and slew her.

In 1384 a Castilian army invested Lisbon, but encountered a heroic resistance, and after five months an outbreak of plague compelled them to raise the siege, John I of Castile, discovering or alleging that Leonora had plotted to poison him, imprisoned her in a convent at Tordesillas, where she died in 1386.

The setting was somewhat comparable to the Barsoom of the John Carter novels of Edgar Rice Burroughs, in that it was a barbaric fantasy world populated by sword-wielding heroes who encountered strange alien beings and technologies.

An example of this is the Gospel of John which shows that while passing through Samaria, Jesus encountered a woman who had been married five times.

When Young visited Darmstadt in 1959, he encountered the music and writings of John Cage.

Gen. John Buford ’ s Federal cavalry division cautiously approached Funkstown via the National Road on Friday morning July 10, 1863, it encountered Stuart ’ s crescent-shaped, three-mile-long battle line.

Early contact with Europeans came about in the mid-16th century, when Portuguese missionarries encountered Mandaeans in Southern Iraq and controversially designated them " Christians of St. John ".

John Bunyan, author of Pilgrim's Progress, claimed in his autobiography, Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners, to have encountered Ranters prior to his Baptist conversion.

When the Portuguese first encountered them, they mistakenly identified them as " St. John Christians ," analogous to the St. Thomas Christians of India.

Many of the characters in the film were based on characters they had encountered through their various experiences at the club, including a young woman upon whom the character of Maggie is based and the Haverkampfs, a doddery old couple, John & Ilma, longtime members of the club, who can barely hit the ball out of their shadows (" That's a peach, hon ").

The Jackalope was first encountered by John Colter, one of the first white men to enter what would one day be the State of Wyoming.

* Richard the Lionheart, King of England ( John Rhys-Davies ) First encountered by Robin's band in Sherwood while returning to Nottingham from the Crusades in disguise.

Marching from Fort Monroe, Union Maj. Gen. George B. McClellan's Army of the Potomac encountered Maj. Gen. John B. Magruder's small Confederate force at Yorktown behind the Warwick Line.

In the autumn of 1786 during Shays ' Rebellion, about 250 followers of Daniel Shays encountered state troops commanded by General John Paterson near East Lee.

On November 19, 1493, during his second voyage to the New World, Christopher Columbus encountered the island now known as Puerto Rico, which the natives called Borinquen ( or Borikén according to some historians ), and which Columbus named San Juan Bautista ( Saint John the Baptist ).

Arcadius ' reign was marked by the conflict between his wife and the Bishop of Constantinople ,“ Although his reign ( Arcadius ) was short, it is remembered in part for the controversial conflicts Eudoxia encountered with John Chrysostom, bishop of Constantinople from 398 to 404.

In 1938 he encountered John Lyman, a Montréal painter and critic, at the first exhibition of one of Borduas ' paintings.

En route he encountered Kit Carson, a scout of John C. Frémont's California Battalion, carrying messages back to Washington on the status of hostilities in California.

In their chapter of The New Everyday: Views on Ambient Intelligence, entitled Intimate Media: Emotional Needs and Ambient Intelligence, John Cass, Lorna Goulden, and Slava Kozlov discuss the ways in which humans, as they " become familiar with the potential of new technologies in their workplaces ... find ways to re-use what they have encountered there and find benefits in other parts of their lives.

His work in this field was originally prompted by his research into the origins of statics, where he encountered the works of medieval mathematicians and philosophers such as John Buridan, Nicole Oresme and Roger Bacon, whose sophistication surprised him.

There all three encountered, and became friends with fellow students such as George Lucas, Hal Barwood, Robert Dalva, Willard Huyck, Don Glut and John Milius ; all of them would go on to be successful filmmakers.

The figure of Saint John of Nepomuk is often encountered in Central and Eastern Europe, including the Czech Republic, Italy, Germany, Poland and Lithuania.

On the way to this destination the battalion encountered the veteran Fenian, John MacBride, who on the spot joined the battalion as second-in-command, and in fact took over part of the command throughout Easter Week, although he had had no prior knowledge and was in the area by accident.