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Markstein began the project during 1999 with several earlier titles: He changed Don's Cartoon Encyberpedia ( 1999 ) to Don Markstein's Cartoonopedia ( 2000 ) after learning the word " Encyberpedia " had been trademarked.
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James Follett, who began writing professionally in 1973, has described George Markstein as his " guru ", and is still represented by Markstein's company Marjacq.
Markstein and project
When the episodes were completed, McGoohan announced he was resigning from the series to create, produce, and star in a project titled The Prisoner, with David Tomblin as co-producer and George Markstein as script editor.
Markstein and during
Markstein died of respiratory failure during March, 2012.
Markstein and with
Other sources, however, credit Markstein, who was then a script editor for Danger Man, with a significant or even primary portion of the development of the show.
Markstein was born in Berlin, Germany, but emigrated with his family to England with the rise of Nazism.
Together with producer David Tomblin and the star McGoohan ( uncredited ), Markstein co-wrote the first story " Arrival ," and then settled in as script editor for the series.
He continued to write for television, including working on two series of Shades of Greene ( 1975 – 76 ) for Thames, a series of adaptations of short stories by Graham Greene, for which Markstein acted as script consultant jointly with Greene's brother, former director-general of the BBC, Sir Hugh Carleton Greene.
* An interview with George Markstein, conducted by Chris Rodley in 1984.
Toonopedia author Don Markstein ( March 21, 1947-March 10, 2012 ) was fascinated with all forms of cartoon art since his childhood.
A writer for Walt Disney Comics, Markstein based Toonopedia on American and other English language cartoons with the goal of developing the largest online resource concerning American cartoons.
The subject matter of Toonopedia overlaps with the books Markstein wrote, edited and compiled.
Don Markstein writes that they touched on " all the genre's cliches of the time ", with Siegel's writing on the book being a " hokey rendition of Stan Lee ".
Markstein and several
After The Prisoner, Markstein went to the new Thames Television, initially as an in-house script editor, then as story editor for the first series of a new counter-espionage drama Special Branch ( 1969 ); the third and final fourth series of spy drama Callan ( 1970, 1972 ); several episodes of Armchair Theatre ( 1969, 1971 ); and the first series of The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes ( 1971 ).
Markstein and Don
Comic strip historian Don Markstein described the work Swinnerton did at the Examiner and how the bears evolved:
Though produced in Denmark, these Horace stories were written by Americans: Stefan Petrucha, Sarah Kinney, and Don Markstein.
* A Prince Valiant Companion by Todd Goldberg and Carl Horak, edited by Don Markstein and Rick Norwood, Manuscript Press.
That obstacle was avoided when Walt found a baby on his doorstep, as described by comics historian Don Markstein:
According to Don Markstein,
Smokey " often called himself a foo fighter when anyone else would have said firefighter ", according to Don Markstein ’ s Toonopedia.
Comics historian Don Markstein wrote about McManus ' characters:
Comics historian Don Markstein detailed the evolution, as the readership of Fritzi Ritz increased:
Comics historian Don Markstein noted the transition:
Don Markstein traced the proliferation of Puffle and other Hoople variations:
Its members have included Dwight Decker, Mark Evanier, Carl Gafford, Fred Patten, Richard and Wendy Pini, Roy Thomas, Dan Alderson, Rick Norwood, Don Markstein, and Don and Maggie Thompson.
Alumni include Mark Evanier, Carl Gafford, Fred Patten, Richard and Wendy Pini, Roy Thomas, Tony Isabella, Dan Alderson, Rick Norwood, Don Markstein, and Don and Maggie Thompson.
Comics historian Don Markstein observed:
Comics historian Don Markstein described the Male Call characters:
Don Markstein edited the publication from 1984 to 1987 and 1992 to 1996.
* A Prince Valiant Companion, by Hal Foster, Carl Horak, Todd Goldberg ; production design by Don Markstein
Comics historian Don Markstein traced the history of the strip:
Comics historian Don Markstein noted how the character of Remington " Rip " Kirby broke away from the usual pulp detective archetype:
Many tales took place in Africa, as noted by comic strip historian Don Markstein:
Comics historian Don Markstein described the couple's battle of wits:
Markstein and after
Although the majority opinion has McGoohan as the sole creator of the series, later a disputed co-creator status was ascribed to Markstein after a series of fan interviews published in the 1980s.
It is a common belief among McGoohan's fans that the character of Number Six in The Prisoner, the show that McGoohan did after Danger Man, was meant to be Drake ; McGoohan denied this but his co-creator of The Prisoner, George Markstein, claimed otherwise.
However as McGoohan controlled the series as Executive Producer and owner of Everyman Films, Markstein became increasingly dissatisfied as an employee and ultimately left the series after the conclusion of the initial block of thirteen episodes.
Markstein and had
Furthermore, Rogers states that Markstein had wanted the character to be a continuation of Drake, but that doing so would have meant paying royalties to Ralph Smart, creator of Danger Man.
When Patrick McGoohan announced his decision to leave Danger Man, Markstein edited the basic ideas that McGoohan had worked on since 1962 that became The Prisoner series, cocreated and starring McGoohan.
Markstein became Thames's Head of Script Development, where he had input into the development of the 1974 Armchair Cinema season made by Thames's film subsidiary Euston Films, including one-off drama Regan and its celebrated successor series The Sweeney.
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A four page document, generally agreed to have been written by Markstein, setting out an overview of the series ' themes, was published as part of an ITC / ATV press book in 1967.
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For example, Dave Rogers, in the book The Prisoner and Danger Man, said that Markstein claimed to have created the concept first and McGoohan later attempted to take credit for it, though Rogers himself doubted that McGoohan would have wanted or needed to do that.
Markstein suggested that Danger Man lead, John Drake ( played by McGoohan ), could suddenly resign, and be kidnapped and sent to such a location.
Markstein was then the Danger Man script consultant.
In 2006, the College of Business Administration's Markstein Hall opened, funded by a 2003 state grant of almost $ 25 million and a 2005 pledge of $ 5 million from Kenneth and Carole Markstein.
George Markstein ( 29 August 1929 – 15 January 1987 ) was a German-born British journalist and subsequent writer of thrillers and teleplays.
Markstein also wrote for or story-edited other television series, specialising in espionage stories, and jointly ran a successful literary agency for screenwriters.
Markstein worked as a newspaper reporter for the Southport Guardian of Southport England in 1947.
Markstein later became a journalist for the American military tabloid, The Overseas Weekly.
The masthead of the newspaper lists Markstein as head of the London desk.
Markstein makes a fleeting appearance at the start of almost every episode of The Prisoner-as the balding, bespectacled ' man behind the desk ', to whom McGoohan's character is seen angrily handing his letter of resignation ; and played the same, non-speaking character in the episode " Many Happy Returns.
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