A 1987 magazine retrospective on the character said this revival had been initially announced as a team-up with Doctor Mid-Nite After a three-issue try-out in Showcase, the Spectre appeared in the superhero-team comic Justice League of America # 46-47 ( Sept-Oct 1966 ) in that year's team-up of the titular group and its 1940s predecessors, the Justice Society of America ( which had also been written by Fox ).

Within a year, Buscema was penciling the superhero-team comic The Avengers, and for the next thirty years, he was one of the most prolific artists at the company.

Through Hellstrom's manipulation of the superhero Hawkeye, she was resurrected, in Thunderbolts 2000, a summer Annual of the superhero-team comic Thunderbolts, and returned to Earth with new abilities acquired while in Hell.

Wonder Man debuted in the superhero-team title The Avengers # 9 ( cover-dated Oct. 1964 ), and after ostensibly dying in that issue was not seen again until The Avengers # 102 ( Aug. 1972 ), where he made a cameo appearance in a comatose state.

Moving back to DC, DeMatteis succeeded Gerry Conway as writer of the superhero-team title Justice League of America.

Her government later supplied her with her first Black Widow costume and high-tech weaponry, but she eventually defected to the United States after appearing, temporarily brainwashed against the U. S., in the superhero-team series The Avengers No. 29 ( July 1966 ).

In 1981, Phantom Lady became a recurring guest star of All-Star Squadron, a superhero-team title set on " Earth-2 ", the locale for DC's World War II-era superheroes, and at a time prior to when she and the other Freedom Fighters were supposed to have left for Earth-X.

The Chouseishin Series ( 超星神シリーズ ) is the name of a superhero-team franchise produced by Toho Company Ltd.

Two decades later, he appeared in a flashback story in the World War II-set superhero-team series The Invaders vol.

Hellcat joined the superhero team the Defenders in issue # 44 ( Feb. 1977 ) of the eponymous comic.

He was also known for including lengthy text pages in the midst of a comic book story, such as in Man-Thing, Howard the Duck, Son of Satan, Defenders, Nevada, and his graphic novel, Stewart the Rat.

* Defenders ( comics ), several superhero groups and comic book series in the Marvel Comics universe

The Hulk was a popular character – Rampage Weekly which starred The Defenders had been added to Marvel's list of publications under Tennant's editorship as a second vehicle for the green giant – and now with his own TV series Skinn saw the Hulk as the lead feature of another adventure style comic.

Defenders of the Earth is an American animated television series produced in 1986, featuring characters from three comic strips distributed by King Features Syndicate — Flash Gordon, the Phantom, and Mandrake the Magician — opposing Ming the Merciless in the year 2015.

# The image is used as visual identification for the characters depicted, who debuted as the superhero team " the Defenders " in the comic book issue from which the cover image was taken.

The universe of the "' Robotech Defenders '" comic book series bears no resemblance at all to the Robotech universe adapted by Harmony Gold USA.

The Robotech Defenders comic predates the conception of the original Robotech cartoon show by about a year.

Bill Foster has appeared in the pages various comic books, including among others The Avengers, Power Man, Marvel Two-in-One, The Champions, The Defenders, Marvel Super-Heroes ( vol.

* 1939 – DC Comics publishes its second major superhero in Detective Comics # 27 ; he is Batman, one of the most popular comic book superheroes of all time.

( Siegel and Shuster had earlier poked fun at Capp in a Superman story in Action Comics # 55, December 1942, in which a cartoonist named " Al Hatt " invents a comic strip featuring the hillbilly " Tiny Rufe.

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.

This 64-page story was adapted by Donald Duck comic strip writer Bob Karp from an unproduced feature, and published in October 1942 in Four Color Comics # 9.

# Cubes and Punishment — 2007 ; a collection of comic strips on workplace cruelty.

The company's second title, New Comics # 1 ( cover date December 1934 ), appeared in a size close to what would become comic books ' standard during the period fans and historians call the Golden Age of Comic Books, with slightly larger dimensions than today's.

That title evolved into Adventure Comics, which continued through issue # 503 in 1983, becoming one of the longest-running comic book series.

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

On February 22, 2010, a copy of Action Comics # 1 ( June 1938 ) sold at auction from an anonymous seller to an anonymous buyer for $ 1 million, besting the $ 317, 000 record for a comic book set by a different copy, in lesser condition, the previous year.

The Flash's reimagining in Showcase # 4 ( October 1956 ) proved sufficiently popular that it soon led to a similar revamping of the Green Lantern character, the introduction of the modern all-star team Justice League of America ( JLA ), and many more superheroes, heralding what historians and fans call the Silver Age of comic books.

* In Issue # 3 ( January 1976, shortly after Monty Python began being broadcast in the U. S .) of the comic book title Batman Family the joint exploits of Batgirl ( Barbara Gordon ) and Robin ( Dick Grayson ) the story " Isle of a Thousand Thrills " borrowed the scenario of a land where anything anybody thinks of is quickly brought to life.

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

To retain Kurtzman as its editor, the comic book converted to magazine format as of issue # 24 ( 1955 ).

* Polyphemus first appeared in comics in the 1943 Fiction House comic Jumbo Comics # 52.

* He also was featured in the Topps comic series Xena: Warrior Princess / Joxer: Warrior Prince in 1997 and 1998 battling the title heroine in issues # 2 and # 3.

The Sontarans also feature in the Kroton solo strip Unnatural Born Killers ( DWM # 277 ) and the Tenth Doctor's comic strip debut The Betrothal of Sontar ( DWM # 365 -# 368 ), by John Tomlinson and Nick Abadzis, where a Sontaran mining rig on the ice planet Serac comes under attack by a mysterious force.

Ditko began professionally illustrating comic books in early 1953, drawing writer Bruce Hamilton's science-fiction story " Stretching Things " for the Key Publications imprint Stanmor Publications, which sold the story to Ajax / Farrell, where it finally found publication in Fantastic Fears # 5 ( cover-dated Feb. 1954 ).

He has a 1-3 page comic strip called, " Maggie's Crib " in every issue of Bart Simpson since # 50

*" The Black Cat " was adapted into a 7-page comic strip in Yellowjack Comics # 1 ( 1944 ).

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* November – The Fantastic Four # 1 comic debuts, launching the Marvel Universe and revolutionizing the American comic book industry.

Firestar makes her debut in Marvel's mainstream comic book universe in Uncanny X-Men # 193 ( May 1985 ).

Given the subsequent emergence of organized fandom for comic books among adults who grew up reading them during Comics ' Golden Age, it is ironic Wertham at one point in Seduction ( pp. 89 – 90 ) asserts " I have known many adults who have treasured throughout their lives some of the books they read as children.