According to critic Geoffrey Blum, the process that saw its beginnings in 1942's Pirate Gold first bore its full fruit in 1950's ' Vacation Time ,' which he describes as ' a visual primer for reading comics and understanding ... the form ...." From the early 1950s Barks undertook the quarterly adventures of Uncle Scrooge and the duck clan in Scrooge's own title.

The early Tintin adventures each took about a year to complete, after which they were released in book form by Le Petit Vingtième and, from 1934, by the Casterman publishing house.

He spent the next two years working with Jacobs, as well as a new assistant, Alice Devos, adapting many of the early Tintin adventures into colour.

The authors of that work expanded it with the Vulgate Suite du Merlin ( Vulgate Merlin Continuation ), which describes King Arthur's early adventures.

Explicit details about Sherlock Holmes's life outside of the adventures recorded by Dr. Watson are few and far between in Conan Doyle's original stories ; nevertheless, incidental details about his early life and extended families portray a loose biographical picture of the detective.

Burl Barer reveals that an obscure early work, Daredevil, not only featured a heroic lead who shared " Saintly " traits ( down to driving the same brand of automobile ) but also shared his adventures with Inspector Claud Eustace Teal — a character later a regular in Saint books.

At this early age, he began writing his own show tunes, which eventually helped him in his future adventures as a satirical composer and writer in his years of lecturing at Harvard University, and later at other universities.

Two early adventures for the game by Bill Willingham, Death Duel with the Destroyers and The Island of Dr. Apocalypse, used characters that would later appear in his Comico comic book series, Elementals.

Most of Fionn's early adventures are recounted in the narrative The Boyhood Deeds of Fionn.

Tom Swift's adventures have been popular since the character's inception in 1910: by 1914, 150, 000 copies a year were being sold and in a 1929 study found the series to be second in popularity only to the Bible for boys in their early teens.

In the early 1940s, the adventures of Batman and Robin appeared in daily newspapers.

Throughout the 1930s and early 1940s, Hall was in charge of Australia's leading domestic studio, Cinesound Productions, and was particularly successful with a series of comedies based on the popular writings of author Steele Rudd, which featured the adventures of a fictional Australian farming family, the Rudds, and the perennial father-and-son duo, ' Dad and Dave '.

* Theseus being on the list is inconsistent with accounts of his life usually including him encountering Medea at an early stage of his adventures, yet many years after the Argonauts completed their adventure ( Medea, by that time, was not only abandoned by Jason, but also bore a child from Aegeus ).

After that, he appeared in many Mickey Mouse comic strip adventures in the early 1930s.

There they teach him to hunt, and accompany him on some of his early adventures.

In Batman stories the character of Robin was intended to be the Batman's Watson: Bill Finger, writer for many early Batman adventures, wrote:

Others enjoyed the detail of the maps and praised many of the early adventures.

Several later works expand on Geoffrey's mention of Gawain's boyhood spent in Rome, the most important of which is the anonymous Medieval Latin romance The Rise of Gawain, Nephew of Arthur, which describes his birth, boyhood and early adventures leading up to his knighting by his uncle.

The early JSA adventures were written by Gardner Fox and illustrated by a legion of artists including E. E. Hibbard, Jack Burnley, Jack Kirby and Joe Kubert.

While Superman, Batman, and Wonder Woman continued to have their own adventures, most of the characters lay dormant for several years during the slump in superhero comic books in the early to mid-1950s.

His father, an Eagle Scout, encouraged Fossett to pursue these types of adventures and encouraged him to become involved with the Boy Scouts early.

The first half of Season 1 featured a gentle continuity, with early episodes following on from one another and establishing recurring concepts, although this became less common as the season transitioned into its second half, which comprised mostly incidental one-shot adventures.

It follows the adventures of the titular narrator Richmond, first his early wandering life, then cases he investigates when he later joins the Runners.

The text describes Thomas ' adventures in bringing Christianity to India, a tradition later expanded upon in early Indian sources such as the " Thomma Parvam " (" Song of Thomas ").

Other notable early disco hits include The Jackson 5 ’ s " Dancing Machine " ( 1974 ), Barry White ’ s " You're the First, the Last, My Everything " ( 1974 ), LaBelle ’ s " Lady Marmalade " ( 1975 ) and Silver Convention ’ s " Fly Robin Fly " ( 1975 ).

An early image of winged Daedalus appears on an Etruscan jug of ca 630 BC found at Cerveteri, where a winged figure captioned Taitale appears on one side of the vessel, paired on the other side, uniquely, with Metaia, Medea: " its linking of these two mythical figures is unparalleled ," Robin Lane Fox observes: " The link was probably based on their wondrous, miraculous art.

Robin Lane Fox states " By the early fifth century, we know of the ownership of private icons of saints ; by c. 480-500, we can be sure that the inside of a saint's shrine would be adorned with images and votive portraits, a practice which had probably begun earlier ".

In the early 1980s, Jarmusch was part of a revolving lineup of musicians in Robin Crutchfield's Dark Day project, and later became the keyboardist and one of two vocalists for The Del-Byzanteens, a No Wave band whose sole LP Lies to Live By was a minor underground hit in the United States and Britain in 1982.

ML is a general-purpose functional programming language developed by Robin Milner and others in the early 1970s at the University of Edinburgh, whose syntax is inspired by ISWIM.

In popular culture, Robin Hood and his band of " merry men " are usually portrayed as living in Sherwood Forest, in Nottinghamshire, where much of the action in the early ballads takes place.

So does the very first recorded Robin Hood rhyme, four lines from the early 15th century, beginning: " Robyn hode in scherewode stod.

" However, the overall picture from the surviving early ballads and other early references suggest that Robin Hood may have been based in the Barnsdale area of what is now South Yorkshire ( which borders Nottinghamshire ).

In these early accounts, Robin Hood's partisanship of the lower classes, his Marianism and associated special regard for women, his outstanding skill as an archer, his anti-clericalism, and his particular animosity towards the Sheriff of Nottingham are already clear.

The early compilation, A Gest of Robyn Hode, names the king as " Edward ", and while it does show Robin Hood as accepting the King's pardon he later repudiates it and returns to the greenwood.

The early ballads are also quite clear on Robin Hood's social status: he is a yeoman.

As well as ballads, the legend was also transmitted by " Robin Hood games " or plays that were an important part of the late medieval and early modern May Day festivities.

The early ballads link Robin Hood to identifiable real places and many are convinced that he was a real person, more or less accurately portrayed.

Another view is that Robin Hood's origins must be sought in folklore or mythology ; Despite the frequent Christian references in the early ballads, Robin Hood has been claimed for the pagan witch-cult supposed by Margaret Murray to have existed in medieval Europe.

Robin Hood's role in the traditional May Day games could suggest pagan connections, but that role has not been traced earlier than the early 15th century.

Some early Robin Hood stories appear to be unique, such as the story wherein Robin gives a knight, generally called Richard at the Lee, money to pay off his mortgage to an abbot, but this may merely indicate that no parallels have survived.

This could suggest two main possibilities: either that an early form of the Robin Hood legend was already well established in the mid-13th century ; or alternatively that the name " Robin Hood " preceded the outlaw hero that we know ; so that the " Robin Hood " of legend was so called because that was seen as an appropriate name for an outlaw.

Some problems with this theory are that there is no evidence that Godberd was ever known as Robin Hood and no sign in the early Robin Hood ballads of the specific concerns of de Montfort's revolt.

The only character to use a quarterstaff in the early ballads is the potter, and Robin Hood does not take to a staff until the 18th century Robin Hood and Little John.