Maggin contains descriptions of Krypton, mainly referencing the Silver Age version ; it describes the planet as a " failed star " with massive surface gravity and extremely hostile, glaciated conditions, which forced extreme adaptation and rapid evolution in the descendants of humanoid space travelers ( and their dogs ) who became stranded on its surface in prehistory.

Maggin used the idea, which became his initial foray into the Superman comic book, and it was published in Superman # 247 ( Jan. 1972 ).

He was the initial writer of the Batman Family title and paired Batgirl and Robin together as a team in the first issue ( Sept .- Oct. 1975 ) Maggin wrote a licensed Welcome Back, Kotter comic book series which was based on the popular ABC sitcom.

Maggin wrote Superman # 400 ( Oct. 1984 ) which featured work by several popular comics artists including the only major DC work by Jim Steranko as well as an introduction by noted science-fiction author Ray Bradbury.

The Kingdom Come story, in which the Blue Beetle took part, has been adapted as an audio drama by John Whitman, based on the story by Mark Waid and Alex Ross and the novelization by Elliot S. Maggin ( Time Warner Audio Books, 1998 ).

In 1984, Maggin first ran for political office as a candidate for the U. S. House of Representatives in New Hampshire's 2nd congressional district but was defeated in the Democratic primary.

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Other fledgling work at DC included the six-page " The Greatest Story Never Told ", by writer Paul Kupperberg, in that same issue, and the five-page " The Edge of History ", written by Elliot S. Maggin, in Unknown Soldier No. 219 ( Sept. 1978 ).

Elliot S. Maggin, also spelled Elliot S!

Maggin ( born 1950 ), is an American writer of comic books, film, television and novels.

Maggin started working as a professional writer in his teens, selling historical stories about the Boer War to a boys ' magazine.

When it received a grade of B +, Maggin disagreed with the assessment, remade it as a comic book script, and sent his script to DC Comics.

Though the initial grade was not amended, Maggin became a writer for DC.

The first issue of DC Graphic Novel featured an adaptation of the Star Raiders video game by Maggin and artist José Luis García-López.

Maggin served as an editor for DC from 1989 to 1991 and oversaw the licensed TSR titles Advanced Dungeons and Dragons, Avatar, Dragonlance, Forgotten Realms, Gammarauders, and Spelljammer.

Because comic book scripts tend to favor the exclamation mark as the punctuation of choice, Maggin routinely used it instead of a full stop.

Maggin " and editor Julius Schwartz liked the distinctive rhythm of the name, insisting that Maggin's name henceforth be written that way.

In addition to the hundreds of stories Maggin wrote for the DC comics universe, he has also written television scripts, stories for film, animation and journalistic pieces.

Maggin was the Democratic nominee for a seat in the New York State Assembly in 1990.

This definition describes the entropy as being proportional to the natural logarithm of the number of possible microscopic configurations of the individual atoms and molecules of the system ( microstates ) which could give rise to the observed macroscopic state ( macrostate ) of the system.

The story describes the encounters between Farmer Giles and a wily dragon named Chrysophylax, and how Giles manages to use these to rise from humble beginnings to rival the king of the land.

The first volume, ' Hubris ', describes Hitler's early life and rise to power.

The work describes in part the rise of the Roman Republic and its gradual domination over Greece.

It also describes in its stage directions the prominence that technical aspects of theatre should play in a production, most notably in the use of signs or projections appearing after certain scenes which present the audience with relevant information about Hitler's own rise to power, in order to clarify the parallels.

Capra describes it as " presenting a general picture of two worlds ; the slave and the free, and the rise of totalitarian militarism from Japan's conquest of Manchuria to Mussolini's conquest of Ethiopia.

Gore Vidal, in his historical fiction novel Creation, describes at length the rise of Achemenids, and especially Darius I and presents the life and death circumstances of Xerxes.

They conceived of a concept referred to as " the Beast ", which Wilkinson describes as " a headless monster that lurches through postwar history ," a metaphor for a system of dark forces that resulted in the assassinations of John F. Kennedy, Robert F. Kennedy, and Martin Luther King, Jr., the Vietnam War, and helped Nixon's rise to power and his fall from it as well.

* Dragons of a New Age describes the rise of the Dragon Overlords and introduces the Fifth Age of Dragonlance.

Published during the rise of fascism in Europe, the novel describes the rise of Buzz Windrip, a populist United States senator who is elected to the presidency after promising drastic economic and social reforms while promoting a return to patriotism and traditional values.

In his novel Marryat, who was himself a seaman before he turned to writing, vividly describes the unlikely rise of a fictional mudlark, Thomas Saunders, to the position of river pilot.

The next chapter describes the rise of Gao Qiu, one of the primary antagonists of the story.

With rather strict logical coherence the books describes what types of societies these forms of intelligence have given rise to.

* Owen Richardson describes the phenomenon in thermionic emission which gives rise to Richardson's Law.

He describes the structural characteristics of California-Yuman music, including that of Pomo, Miwak, Luiseno, Catalineno, and Gabrielino, and the Yuman tribes, including, Mohave, Yuman, Havasupai, Maricopa, as using the rise in almost all songs, a relaxed nonpulsating vocal technique ( like European classical music ), a relatively large amount of isorhythmic material, some isorhythmic tendencies, simple rhythms, pentatonic scales without semitones, an average melodic range of an octave, sequence, and syncopated figures such as a sixteenth-note, eight-note, sixteenth-note figure.

The chapter describes the rise of the Taira clan and early conflicts at the court.

The hydrogen hypothesis is a model proposed by William F. Martin and Miklós Müller in 1998 that describes a possible way in which the mitochondrion arose as an endosymbiont within a prokaryote ( an archaea ), giving rise to a symbiotic association of two cells from which the first eukaryotic cell could have arisen.

He describes the initial thought of the novel as, “ you mustn ’ t think that the evolution that gave rise to our form of life was the only evolutionary process on the planet .” On August 27, 1935, Čapek wrote, “ Today I completed the last chapter of my utopian novel.

The Hervarar saga describes the rise of Sweyn, the abdication and how Inge was exiled in Västergötland:

He describes how two such systems have come to rise in America that attempt to guide young students as they leave school to they chosen vocation, and a newer system marked by a movement toward scientific management in commerce and industry.

Musaddas e-madd o-Jazr e-Islam describes the rise and fall of the Islamic empire in the sub-continent.

The book describes the rise of antisemitism in central and western Europe in the early and middle 19th century and continues with an examination of the New Imperialism period from 1884 to the outbreak of World War I.

# King of the Jews – 74 BCE – 4 CE: this chapter is told in epistolary form and describes the rise of the ambitious Herod the Great to his eventual downfall into madness.