Author : Dennis O'Neil
Publisher : DC Comics
Page : 28 pages
File Size : 13,35 MB
Release : 2019-03-21
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN :
“THE PERFECT FIGHTING MACHINE.” A criminal employs Dr. Moon to transform a flabby, unloved man into a “perfect fighting machine” called the Gork, and sends him against an ailing Batman.
Author : Gardner Fox
Publisher : DC
Page : 58 pages
File Size : 30,52 MB
Release : 2016-07-07
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN :
When things go awry on set, Batman must save the day!
Author : Greg Rucka
Publisher : DC
Page : 24 pages
File Size : 40,13 MB
Release :
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN :
No Man's Land part 44 and "Shellgame" part 2, continued from BATMAN #573. While Joker and Harley's violent move against the rebuilding of Gotham City forces its benefactor to pull out the ultimate weapon, the Huntress questions her alliance with Pettit in the wake of his growing insanity.
Author : Mark Cotta Vaz
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 489 pages
File Size : 25,91 MB
Release : 2021-01-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1477316477
Superman may be faster than a speeding bullet, but even he can't outrun copyright law. Since the dawn of the pulp hero in the 1930s, publishers and authors have fought over the privilege of making money off of comics, and the authors and artists usually have lost. Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster, the creators of Superman, got all of $130 for the rights to the hero. In Empire of the Superheroes, Mark Cotta Vaz argues that licensing and litigation do as much as any ink-stained creator to shape the mythology of comic characters. Vaz reveals just how precarious life was for the legends of the industry. Siegel and Shuster—and their heirs—spent seventy years battling lawyers to regain rights to Superman. Jack Kirby and Joe Simon were cheated out of their interest in Captain America, and Kirby's children brought a case against Marvel to the doorstep of the Supreme Court. To make matters worse, the infant comics medium was nearly strangled in its crib by censorship and moral condemnation. For the writers and illustrators now celebrated as visionaries, the "golden age" of comics felt more like hard times. The fantastical characters that now earn Hollywood billions have all-too-human roots. Empire of the Superheroes digs them up, detailing the creative martyrdom at the heart of a pop-culture powerhouse.
Author : Sam Hamm
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 38,6 MB
Release : 1992
Category : Batman (Comic strip)
ISBN : 9781563890475
When Bruce Wayne refuses to allow illegal mindcontrol experiments to continue at Wayne Technology, he finds himself charged with being a traitor. During the police investigation, Wayne is forced to confront memories of the various people who trained him to become the feared Dark KnightBatman. Wayne not only must clear himself, but also protect his secret and save his company from ruin. Batman screenwriter Sam Hamm makes his comic-book debut with BATMAN: BLIND JUSTICE, introducing new elements to the Batman legend including the character of Henri Ducard, played by Liam Neeson in 2005s smash film Batman Begins.
Author : Bob Rozakis
Publisher : DC Comics
Page : 20 pages
File Size : 24,9 MB
Release : 2019-02-28
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN :
ÒTHE CAPE & COWL DEATHTRAP.Ó Batman terrorizes Harcourt, a criminal mastermind who admits to bribing a judge (Arnell) and the grand jury but swears he doesnÕt know the identity of the person who killed Senator Locksley. Batman, believing the man knows the killer though not the person who hired him, gets tangled up with Harcourt and assassin Jeremy Wormwood in order to find the person who ordered the kill, later to be revealed as Mike CarleyÑthe party boss.
Author : Joe Simon
Publisher : Titan Books (US, CA)
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 11,76 MB
Release : 2011-06-21
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1845769309
"Gripping from the first page... If you love comic books, history, or just love a story of a real self-made man, you must read this book." - Shadowlocked "A true visionary, Simon's book is laced with never-before-seen photos and illustrations, and told in his own words. If you're at all curious about the history of comics and one of its earliest visionaries, My Life in Comics is a must-read." - IGN "... a lovely memoir, often funny, sometimes thought-provoking, and never ostentatious. It’s a true pleasure to read." - Graphic Novel Reporter "... essential reading for any fan of comic book history and storytelling." - ComicBook.com -- In his own words, this is the life of Joe Simon, one of the most important figures in comics history, and half of the famous creative team Simon and Kirby. Joe Simon co-created Captain America, and was the first editor in chief of Marvel Comics (where he hired Stan Lee for his first job in comics). Simon began his prolific career in the Great Depression, and this book recounts his journey to New York City, his first comic book work, his meeting with Jack Kirby, and the role comics played in wartime America. He remembers the near-death of the comics, and the scramble to survive. And he reveals what it was like to bring comics out of their infancy, as they became an American art form.
Author : Elliot S! Maggin
Publisher : DC Comics
Page : 20 pages
File Size : 15,12 MB
Release : 2019-03-07
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN :
ÒHEART OF A VAMPIRE.Ó Alfred and Bruce are miles outside of town when their car mysteriously overheats. They go to a nearby boarded-up house to find some water for the radiator. Inside they discover a coffin and a very old sunlamp, which Bruce accidentally breaks. They split up to search when vampire Gustav Decobra exits the coffin and attacks Bruce, who changes to Batman. Batman puts a wooden beam through GustavÕs chest, but finds that his heart is not where it should be.
Author : Henning Mankell
Publisher : New Press/ORIM
Page : 407 pages
File Size : 31,58 MB
Release : 2005-02-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1595585575
International bestseller: Kurt Wallander and his daughter join forces to hunt for a ritual killer in this “gripping, beautifully orchestrated” mystery (The New York Times Book Review). Linda Wallander is bored. Having just graduated from the police academy, she’s waiting to start work with the Ystad police and move into her own apartment. In the meantime, she’s staying with her father and, like fathers and daughters everywhere, they are driving each other crazy. Nor will they be able to escape each other when she moves out. Her father is Inspector Kurt Wallander, a veteran of the Ystad police force, and the two of them are about to find themselves working a case that couldn’t be closer to home. Linda’s childhood friend Anna has disappeared. As the investigation proceeds, she makes a few rookie mistakes that are both understandable and life-threatening. But as the case her father is working on dovetails with her own, something far more dangerous, and chillingly calculated, begins to emerge. A “powerful” and “thoroughly engaging” thriller from “a master storyteller,” Before the Frost introduces an unforgettable new heroine to the acclaimed series that is the basis for the BBC television show starring Kenneth Branagh (San Francisco Chronicle).
Author : Charles Bazerman
Publisher : Parlor Press LLC
Page : 486 pages
File Size : 10,31 MB
Release : 2009-09-16
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1643170015
Genre studies and genre approaches to literacy instruction continue to develop in many regions and from a widening variety of approaches. Genre has provided a key to understanding the varying literacy cultures of regions, disciplines, professions, and educational settings. GENRE IN A CHANGING WORLD provides a wide-ranging sampler of the remarkable variety of current work. The twenty-four chapters in this volume, reflecting the work of scholars in Europe, Australasia, and North and South America, were selected from the over 400 presentations at SIGET IV (the Fourth International Symposium on Genre Studies) held on the campus of UNISUL in Tubarão, Santa Catarina, Brazil in August 2007—the largest gathering on genre to that date. The chapters also represent a wide variety of approaches, including rhetoric, Systemic Functional Linguistics, media and critical cultural studies, sociology, phenomenology, enunciation theory, the Geneva school of educational sequences, cognitive psychology, relevance theory, sociocultural psychology, activity theory, Gestalt psychology, and schema theory. Sections are devoted to theoretical issues, studies of genres in the professions, studies of genre and media, teaching and learning genre, and writing across the curriculum. The broad selection of material in this volume displays the full range of contemporary genre studies and sets the ground for a next generation of work.
