The 1996 release Illadelph Halflife was the group's first album to break the Top 40 on the Billboard 200 chart, spurred in part by MTV's airplay of the video for " What They Do " ( a parody of rap video clichés ) and " Clones ", which was their first single to reach the top five on the rap charts.

The first Halflife is an extraterrestrial with the ability to age any living being, through touching, halfway to the point that he or she would eventually die of old age, through their full life span ( one would presume " remaining " lifespan, thus stealing half of their life ).

Illadelph Halflife, the band's 1996 album, became its first album to chart within the top 40 spots on the Billboard 200 because of the successful single " What They Do ".

Even the knowledge that she was losing another boy, as a mother always does when a marriage is made, did not prevent her from having the first carefree, dreamless sleep that she had known since they dropped down the canyon and into Bear Valley, way, way back there when they were crossing those other mountains.

And that is the way I first saw her when my Uncle brought her into his antique store.

Why, in the first place, call himself a liberal if he is against laissez-faire and favors an authoritarian central government with womb-to-tomb controls over everybody??

Life is further characterized, in antithesis to Piepsam, as animal: the image of a dog, which appears at several places, is first given as the criterion of amiable, irrelevant interest aroused by life considered simply as a spectacle: a dog in a wagon is `` admirable '', `` a pleasure to contemplate '' ; ;

In the first instance, `` mimesis '' is here used to mean the recalling of experience in terms of vivid images rather than in terms of abstract ideas or conventional designations.

This is the primary function of the imagination operating in the absence of the original experiential stimulus by which the images were first appropriated.

The first half of The Charles Men, ending on the climax of the battle of Poltava in 1709, is more dramatically coherent than the second.

He is, first and foremost, a defender of public morals, a servant of society.

The first of two possible variations on this theme is symbolized by Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer.

Noting such evidence is the first step ; ;

So it is that we relive his opening statement in the first television address with the dramatic immediacy of the present.

and it is surely clear that the first of these is the result of the way in which the individual's command of language interacts with the other two.

The first thing to do is get her some money by a temporary but definite adjustment pending a final disposition of the case.

When I take over Taliesin, the first thing I'll do is fire you ''.

If `` Jack the Courtier '' is really to be taken as Swift, the following remark is obviously Steele's comment on Swift's change of parties and its effect on their friendship: `` I assure you, dear Jack, when I first found out such an Allay in you, as makes you of so malleable a Constitution, that you may be worked into any Form an Artificer pleases, I foresaw I should not enjoy your Favour much longer ''.

At this point a working definition of idea is in order, although our first definition will have to be qualified somewhat as we proceed.

`` History has this in common with every other science: that the historian is not allowed to claim any single piece of knowledge, except where he can justify his claim by exhibiting to himself in the first place, and secondly to any one else who is both able and willing to follow his demonstration, the grounds upon which it is based.

We saw it frequently afterward, but our suggestion for the very first encounter is near sunset.

Master Gorton, having foully abused high and low at Aquidneck is now bewitching and bemaddening poor Providence, both with his unclean and foul censures of all the ministers of this country ( for which myself have in Christ's name withstood him ), and also denying all visible and external ordinances in depth of Familism: almost all suck in his poison, as at first they did at Aquidneck.

* In 2010 Marvel Comics series S. H. I. E. L. D., Imhotep was the man who formed the very first SHIELD.

She has faced death numerous times in the history of the series, the first being when, in her guise as Marvel Girl, she died and was " reborn " as Phoenix, which in time led to her second-though not last-death in the classic " Dark Phoenix Saga ".

She is a playable character in X-Men Legends ( 2004 ), X-Men Legends II: Rise of Apocalypse ( 2005 ), Marvel Ultimate Alliance 2 ( 2009 ), and Marvel vs Capcom 3: Fate of Two Worlds ( 2011 ), and appeared as an enemy in the first Marvel: Ultimate Alliance.

* 1962 – Marvel Comics publishes the first issue of The Incredible Hulk.

Shang-Chi first appeared in Special Marvel Edition # 15 ( December 1973 ) by Englehart and Starlin ( SME # 1 – 14 were reprints of older Marvel superhero stories ).

The character also had two stories in the anthology series Marvel Comics Presents ( including one by Moench that ran in the series ' first eight issues in 1988 ), and co-starred in the Moon Knight Special ( 1992 ).

In the Ultimate Marvel universe, Shang-Chi first appeared in Ultimate Marvel Team-Up # 15.

Marvel Mystery Comics | Marvel Comics # 1 ( Oct. 1939 ), the first comic from Marvel precursor Timely Comics.

Timely's first publication, Marvel Comics # 1 ( cover dated Oct. 1939 ), included the first appearance of Carl Burgos ' android superhero the Human Torch, and the first generally available appearance of Bill Everett's anti-hero Namor the Sub-Mariner, among other features.

In early 2007 Marvel and developer the Al Ahli Group announced plans to build Marvel's first full theme park, in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, by 2011.

In 1967, Marvel Comics produced the first of 13 issues of Not Brand Echh, which parodied their own superhero titles as well as DC's ; the series owed its inspiration and format to the original " Mad " comic books of a decade earlier.

He made his first appearance in 1971 in the issue Marvel Spotlight # 1.

In Ultimate X-Men, the Sentinels, created by the Ultimate Marvel version of Bolivar Trask, were already in action at the beginning of the first story arc, hunting down and killing mutants on the streets, in a program apparently openly and publicly acknowledged by the U. S. government.

" Robinson, who invited artists and editors to speak with his class, once brought in Stan Lee, then editor of Marvel Comics ' 1950s precursor, Atlas Comics, and, " I think that was when Stan first saw Steve's work.

He first appeared in Marvel Two-in-One Annual # 7.

In an episode that spoofed the contest between the Champion and Earth's strongest superheroes from the Champion's first appearance in Marvel Two-in-One Annual # 7, the villain Rasslor ( voiced by professional wrestler " Macho Man " Randy Savage ) challenges and easily defeats Earth's superheroes ( consisting of Valhallen, Major Glory, Sam-R-I, Phan Tone, Krunk, White Tiger, Capital G, and Living Bullet ) in single combat until Monkey was the sole remaining challenger, having been dismissed as being unworthy of Rasslor repeatedly throughout the event.

In the Marvel Universe, " Varnae " is the name of the first vampire, created by the people of Atlantis before it sank.

These longer strips include The Bash Street Kids Adventures written and drawn by Kev F Sutherland which since 2004 have featured parodies of famous comic strip images, including Amazing Fantasy's first Spider-Man cover, Action Comics ' first Superman cover, and most recently the cover of X Men # 100.

Comics as a print medium have existed in America since the printing of The Adventures of Obadiah Oldbuck in 1842 in hardcover — making it the first known American prototype comic book.

While the Platinum Age saw the first use of the term " comic book " ( The Yellow Kid in McFadden's Flats ( 1897 )), the first known full-color comic ( The Blackberries ( 1901 )), and the first monthly comic book ( Comics Monthly ( 1922 )), it was not until the Golden Age that the archetype of the superhero would originate.

Four comic books to have sold for over $ 1 million USD as of December 2010, including two examples of Action Comics No. 1, the first appearance of Superman, both sold privately through online dealer ComicConnect. com in 2010, and Detective Comics No. 27, the first appearance of Batman, via public auction.

First Comics published The Chronicles of Corum, a twelve issue limited series ( Jan. 1986-Dec. 1988 ) that adapted the " Swords Trilogy ", and was followed by the four issue limited series Corum: The Bull and the Spear ( Jan .-July ( bi-monthly ) 1989 ), which adapted the first book in the second trilogy.

The first instance of Captain America's trademark ricocheting shield-toss occurs in Stan Lee's first comics writing, the two-page text story " Captain America Foils the Traitor's Revenge " in Captain America Comics # 3 ( May 1941 ).

Dark Horse Comics published American-style Digimon comic books, adapting the first thirteen episodes of the English dub of Digimon Adventure in 2001.

Action Comics # 1 ( June 1938 ), the first comic book to feature the new character archetype — soon known as " superheroes " — proved a major sales hit.

The first English-language adaptation of the original manga The Ghost in the Shell was released in December 1995 in the United States, published by Dark Horse Comics and translated by Studio Proteus.

Created by Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster, he first appeared in Action Comics # 23 ( April 1940 ).

A concise biography for Luthor, later outlined in Action Comics # 850, first appeared in the 2007 limited series Countdown to Final Crisis.

Lex Luthor himself later marries Ardora of the planet Lexor and, in Action Comics # 544 ( June, 1983 ), first learns of his infant son by Ardora, Lex Luthor, Jr. A short time later, Lexor is destroyed and both Ardora and Lex, Jr. die as a direct result.