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.

While continuing to freelance for DC, Adams in 1969 also began freelancing for Marvel Comics, where he penciled several issues of the mutant-superhero team title X-Men and one story for a horror anthology title.

While the detectives in Powers were " normal " ( unpowered ) humans dealing with super-powered crime, Alan Moore and Gene Ha's Top 10 mini-series, published by America's Best Comics in 2000-2001, centered around the super-powered police force in a setting where powers are omnipresent.

While Marvel Comics reprinted some of Gibbons ' Marvel UK Doctor Who work, Eclipse Comics reprinted some of his Warrior work and Eagle reprinted various Judge Dredd tales, Gibbons continued to produce new work almost exclusively for DC throughout the 1980s.

While Kubert started at DC Comics, drawing Adam Strange and the Batman vs.

While his brother Adam has returned to Marvel Comics following his three year deal with DC, Dan DiDio has confirmed that following " Whatever Happened to the Caped Crusader?

While such codes are not generally enforced by governmental action, they are generally enforced on content producers by gatekeepers in the marketing chain: studios in the case of the Hays Code, distributors in the case of the Comics Code, and theater chains in the case of the MPAA rating system.

While working on production of Donner's 1997 film Conspiracy Theory, Johns visited New York City, where he met DC Comics personnel such as Eddie Berganza, reigniting his childhood interest in comics.

) While trying to fix one of the miniature bugs, it exploded, causing a chain reaction and a blast that destroyed all of the bugs and tinted Ambush Bug's costume temporarily black in a nod to Spider-Man's costume change during Marvel Comics ' " Secret Wars " crossover ; he then became capable of teleporting even without the bugs ( briefly considering changing his moniker to Black Beetle instead ).

While there has not been an official English-language release of the manga, it has been translated and released in Italy, Spain, Germany and Taiwan, by Star Comics, Planeta DeAgostini Comics, Egmont Manga & Anime and Chingwin Publishing Group respectively.

While most characters that appeared in Acclaim Comics were altered versions of previous characters, some were created specifically for Acclaim.

While at DC Comics, Bachalo illustrated the first issue of X-Men Unlimited, which Marvel published as an anthology X-Men comic book.

While drawing Action Comics, he also worked with writer James Robinson on Dark Horse Comics ' The Terminator: Endgame miniseries ( September – October 1992 ), and with Chris Claremont on the first four issues of the Aliens / Predator: The Deadliest of the Species ( July ' 93-January ' 94 ).

While in college, DeFalco " wrote for a few local newspapers, a weekly comic strip and did a few short stories ", and after graduation " got in touch with the various comic book companies ", which led to him beginning his comics career as an editorial assistant with Archie Comics in summer 1972.

While doing research for his decorations, he read in an American magazine the article Comics in your Life.

While this title lasted only three issues, she regularly appeared with Namor in Marvel Mystery Comics and Sub-Mariner ( and in the latter until the series ended in the mid-fifties ).

While the magazine did carve out an important niche and break new ground, the work of Knockabout and Warrior and aspects of the Harrier Comics line should be taken into account.

While at Dark Horse Comics, he took over the writing of Conan from Kurt Busiek in 2006, and after that series ended he started Conan The Cimmerian

While writing the biography of one of his favorite guitarists, Carlos Santana, for Rock-It Comics, Truman found out that the musician had been a longtime fan of his comic, Scout whose main character, Emanuel Santanna, is the namesake of the famous guitarist.

While DC Comics licensed the rights to Tarzan in 1972, the Brothers of the Spear remained with Gold Key Comics which published their own 17-issue Brothers of the Spear title ( June 1972-Feb. 1976 ).

While Thomas' injured back led him to restrain his mount from its most violent gait he moved quickly enough when he had to.

While the two herbicides that make up Agent Orange, 2, 4-D and 2, 4, 5-T, remain toxic over a short period — a scale of days or weeks — they quickly degrade.

While he quickly gains the respect of Planet editor Perry White, he is forced to contend with rival reporter Lois Lane, who often uses trickery to prevent Clark from pursuing a lead ( giving her the chance to scoop him ).

While the community was skeptical that this new method could possibly outperform hand-coding, it reduced the number of programming statements necessary to operate a machine by a factor of 20, and quickly gained acceptance.

While the Narodnik movement was gaining momentum, the government quickly moved to extirpate it.

While a business continuity plan ( BCP ) takes a broad approach to dealing with organizational-wide effects of a disaster, a disaster recovery plan ( DRP ), which is a subset of the business continuity plan, is instead focused on taking the necessary steps to resume normal business operations as quickly as possible.

While a large linear table seems a bit arcane, it can be of great value, as one can quickly search without wandering across the disk ( thus reducing seek time ).

While modern identification of mushrooms is quickly becoming molecular, the standard methods for identification are still used by most and have developed into a fine art harking back to medieval times and the Victorian era, combined with microscopic examination.

While the rapid pace of computer advancement quickly rendered the 68000 obsolete as desktop / workstation CPU, the processor found substantial use in embedded applications.

While on tour in Europe, the group quickly made their first official recording, Miles in Berlin ( September 1964 ).

While the victory condition in Suber's initial ruleset is the accumulation of 100 points by the roll of a die, he once said that " this rule is deliberately boring so that players will quickly amend it to please themselves.

While the assassin quickly died in a hail of gunfire, Somoza himself died a few days later, in an American hospital in the Panama Canal Zone.

While recognition of the distinct Ordovician Period was slow in the United Kingdom, other areas of the world accepted it quickly.

While this phase is executed, the pole begins to recoil, propelling the vaulter quickly upward.

While some items never get outdated, such as hammers and hand saws, electronics and computer items quickly become obsolete and unsalable.

In the army, Nurmi quickly impressed in the athletic competitions: While others marched, Nurmi ran the whole distances with a rifle on his shoulder and a backpack full of sand.

While QSOs could be accomplished, it was quickly realized that FSK was technically superior to make and break keying.

While these were basically renamed Dutch core settlements, they were quickly converted to English purposes, while the Dutch remained within the colony, as opposed to later practice of the Acadian Expulsion.

While no solid proofs exists, it is often assumed the Three Crown Castle, which preceded the present Stockholm Palace, originated from these wooden structures, and that the medieval city quickly expanded around it in the mid 13th century.

While the idea was popular with Michigan residents, the effort failed: the judges held a midnight court before quickly retreating south of the Maumee River, where Ohio forces were positioned.

While in Minnesota, Williams quickly became the team's star.

While the townspeople received him kindly, it was only a matter of time before word spread and the boy was quickly taken for examination and documentation.

While the city was burned to force the Mongols to withdraw quickly, most of the population probably survived.

While Taft stressed that America needed to prevent the New Deal from using the international crisis to extend socialism and dictatorship at home, the German blitzkrieg that quickly defeated France shook public opinion.

While originally a civil war, it quickly escalated into a war between the western powers under the United Nations Command led by the United States and its allies and the communist powers of the People's Republic of China and the Soviet Union.