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Mark Ellis (American Author)
Mark Ellis is an American novelist/graphic novelist, journalist, and comics creator who under the pen name James Axler has written scores of books for the ''Outlanders'' and '' Deathlands'' paperback novel series as well as numerous other books under his own name. Career In 1980, Ellis married Melissa Martin, a graphic designer, photographer and writer who served as his business partner. He began working as a full-time writer in 1986. Rafter, Dan"Conquering Comics ... and Marriage, Too" Firefox News, October 9, 2007 A busy comics creator in the 1980s and 90s, Ellis created the popular '' Death Hawk'' character and also developed/created ''Star Rangers'', ''Ninja Elite'', ''The Justice Machine'', as well as working on such popular properties as Doc Savage, ''The Man From U.N.C.L.E.'', ''H.P. Lovecraft's Cthulhu'', The Green Hornet, and '' The Wild Wild West.'' Millennium Publications In 1990, Ellis co-founded Millennium Publications, serving as editor, with his wife and co-found ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pen Name
A pen name, also called a ''nom de plume'' or a literary double, is a pseudonym (or, in some cases, a variant form of a real name) adopted by an author and printed on the title page or by-line of their works in place of their real name. A pen name may be used to make the author's name more distinctive, to disguise the author's gender, to distance the author from their other works, to protect the author from retribution for their writings, to merge multiple persons into a single identifiable author, or for any of a number of reasons related to the marketing or aesthetic presentation of the work. The author's real identity may be known only to the publisher or may become common knowledge. Etymology The French-language phrase is occasionally still seen as a synonym for the English term "pen name", which is a "back-translation" and originated in England rather than France. H. W. Fowler and F. G. Fowler, in '' The King's English'' state that the term ''nom de plume'' evol ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Don Heck
Donald L. HeckComic_Media.html" ;"title="ic; actually Comic Media">ic; actually Comic Media/nowiki>, in 1952," Heck recalled in 1993, Hardy “called me up and asked me to join."Heck, ''Comics Scene'' #37, p. 55 Heck's first known comics work appeared in two Comic Media titles both cover-dated September 1952: the war comic ''War Fury'' #1, for which he penciler, penciled and inker, inked the cover and the eight-page story "The Unconquered", by an unknown writer; and the cover and the six-page story "Hitler's Head", also by an unknown writer, in the horror comic ''Weird Terror'' #1. Heck's work continued to appear in those titles and in the horror anthology ''Horrific'', for which he designed the logo;Heck, quoted in the adventure-drama anthology ''Danger''; the Western anthology ''Death Valley''; and other titles through the company's demise in late 1954. Heck also did freelance assignments for Quality Comics, Hillman Comics, and Toby Press. For publisher U.S. Pictorial in 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Markosia
Markosia is a British comic book publishing company. History Markosia was founded by Harry Markos in 2004. He employed Richard Emms (previously of APC) as the Editor-in-chief as well as lead designer. in 2005. Markosia had already published Harry Gallan's '' The Lexian Chronicles'' novel and the initial plan was to produce comic adaptations of novels, such as ''The Lexian Chronicles'' and G.P. Taylor's ''Shadowmancer''. They subsequently secured the license to adapt ''Starship Troopers'', leading to a broadening in the business plan. This would further expand when Markosia brought Chuck Satterlee on board as Director of Operations. Satterlee moved over from Speakeasy Comics after their troubles in 2006 and he assisted in bringing over a number of titles with him, giving Markosia a range of original comic titles. These included ''The Hunger'' by creators Jose Torres and Chris Dibari and Chimaera Studios's with their 8 titles. In 2007 Markosia re-branded themselves for the co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Caliber Comics
Caliber Comics or Caliber Press is an American comic book publisher founded in 1989 by Gary Reed. Featuring primarily creator-owned comics, Caliber published over 1,300 comics in the decade following its inception and is ranked as one of America's leading independent publishers. Caliber ceased publishing in 2000, but resumed operations in 2015, and continued after Reed died in 2016. History Beginnings Gary Reed, who previously owned a chain of bookstores, began publishing with the release of two titles acquired from Arrow Comics—''Deadworld'' and '' The Realm''. Other initial launches included ''Caliber Presents'', featuring the work of Vince Locke, Mark Bloodworth, Tim Vigil, James O'Barr, and Guy Davis; the first issue of ''Baker Street'', co-created by Reed and Guy Davis; and the initial appearance of O’Barr’s '' The Crow''. Expansion Reed arranged with "Pocket Classics", a series of illustrated books similar in design to Classics Illustrated, to be released to the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mack Bolan
Mack Bolan, alias '' The Executioner'', is a fictional character who has been serialized in 631 novels with sales of more than 200 million books. Created by Don Pendleton, Bolan made his first appearance on the printed page in ''The Executioner #1: War Against the Mafia'' (1969). Pendleton wrote 37 other novels featuring Bolan, often referred to as the "Mafia Wars". In 1980, Pendleton sold his rights to the character to Gold Eagle, which hired a number of ghostwriters to continue publishing Bolan monthly, to satisfy reader demand worldwide. Don Pendleton remained credited as the sole author and supervised these new adventures, which took the Bolan character all over the world fighting terrorism. This new series of books featured Bolan as a principled warrior fighting larger-than-life adversaries in the spirit of a tougher, American version of James Bond. The demand for the books continued, and Gold Eagle began releasing as many as 15 titles annually. In 2014, more than a doz ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harlequin Enterprises
Harlequin Enterprises ULC (known simply as Harlequin) is a romance and women's fiction publisher founded in Winnipeg, Canada in 1949. From the 1960s, it grew into the largest publisher of romance fiction in the world. Based in Toronto, Canada since 1969, Harlequin was owned by the Torstar Corporation, the largest newspaper publisher in Canada, from 1981 to 2014. It was then purchased by News Corp and is now a division of HarperCollins. In 1971 Harlequin purchased the London-based publisher Mills & Boon Limited and began a global expansion program opening offices in Australia and major European markets such as Germany, France, Italy, Spain, Greece, Netherlands and Scandinavia. Early years In May 1949, Harlequin was founded in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada as a paperback reprinting company. The business was a partnership between Advocate Printers and Doug Weld of Bryant Press, Richard Bonnycastle, plus Jack Palmer, head of the Canadian distributor of the ''Saturday Evening Post '' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Miniseries
A miniseries or mini-series is a television series that tells a story in a predetermined, limited number of episodes. "Limited series" is another more recent US term which is sometimes used interchangeably. , the popularity of miniseries format has increased in both streaming services and broadcast television. The term " serial" is used in the United Kingdom and in other Commonwealth nations to describe a show that has an ongoing narrative plotline, while " series" is used for a set of episodes in a similar way that "season" is used in North America. Definitions A miniseries is distinguished from an ongoing television series; the latter does not usually have a predetermined number of episodes and may continue for several years. Before the term was coined in the US in the early 1970s, the ongoing episodic form was always called a " serial", just as a novel appearing in episodes in successive editions of magazines or newspapers is called a serial. In Britain, miniseries are of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pulp Magazine
Pulp magazines (also referred to as "the pulps") were inexpensive fiction magazines that were published from 1896 to the late 1950s. The term "pulp" derives from the cheap wood pulp paper on which the magazines were printed. In contrast, magazines printed on higher-quality paper were called "glossies" or "slicks". The typical pulp magazine had 128 pages; it was wide by high, and thick, with ragged, untrimmed edges. The pulps gave rise to the term pulp fiction in reference to run-of-the-mill, low-quality literature. Pulps were the successors to the penny dreadfuls, dime novels, and short-fiction magazines of the 19th century. Although many respected writers wrote for pulps, the magazines were best known for their lurid, exploitative, and sensational subject matter, even though this was but a small part of what existed in the pulps. Successors of pulps include paperback books, digest magazines, and men's adventure magazines. Modern superhero comic books are sometimes consider ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
It! The Terror From Beyond Space
''It! The Terror from Beyond Space'' is an independently made 1958 American science fiction horror film, produced by Robert Kent, directed by Edward L. Cahn, that stars Marshall Thompson, Shawn Smith (Shirley Patterson), and Kim Spalding. The film was distributed by United Artists as a double feature with ''Curse of the Faceless Man''.Maçek III, J.C"Building the Perfect Star Beast: The Antecedents of 'Alien'." ''PopMatters'', November 21, 2012. The story involves Earth's second mission to Mars to discover the fate of the Challenge 141 and its crew. Only a single survivor is found still alive from that crashed spaceship. The survivor, the expedition's former commander, claims that his crew were killed by a hostile Martian life form. No one from the rescue ship believes him until the creature, now a stowaway, begins hunting the crew on their return trip to Earth. The film's premise has been cited as an inspiration for screenwriter Dan O'Bannon's screenplay for Ridley Scott's c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dracula
''Dracula'' is a novel by Bram Stoker, published in 1897. As an epistolary novel, the narrative is related through letters, diary entries, and newspaper articles. It has no single protagonist, but opens with solicitor Jonathan Harker taking a business trip to stay at the castle of a Transylvanian nobleman, Count Dracula. Harker escapes the castle after discovering that Dracula is a vampire, and the Count moves to England and plagues the seaside town of Whitby. A small group, led by Abraham Van Helsing, hunt Dracula and, in the end, kill him. ''Dracula'' was mostly written in the 1890s. Stoker produced over a hundred pages of notes for the novel, drawing extensively from Transylvanian folklore and history. Some scholars have suggested that the character of Dracula was inspired by historical figures like the Wallachian prince Vlad the Impaler or the countess Elizabeth Báthory, but there is widespread disagreement. Stoker's notes mention neither figure. He found the nam ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Plague Of Terror
''Plague of Terror'' is a generic role-playing game adventure published by The Companions in 1983, the second in the five-part "Islandia Campaign" series. Plot summary The adventure is set in the village of Wentworth, where the player characters find themselves involved in preventing a plot to depose the current baron and break with the King. In terms of game system, the adventure is generic, and can be adapted for any role-playing system such as ''Dungeons & Dragons'' or ''RuneQuest''. Publication history Peter L. Rice and Wm. John Wheeler, through their company The Companions, had previously published the first adventure in the five-part "Islandia Campaign", '' The Curse on Hareth'' (1982). ''Plague of Terror'', published in 1983, was the second part, a 56-page book with a center-bound color map written by Rice and Wheeler with additional material by Terry Ashbury, Chip Kestenbaum, and Lenard Lakofka, with illustrations by John Carlson, Mary Coman, David J. Hutchins, Kevin Pf ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Mummy (novel)
''The Mummy, or Ramses the Damned'' is a 1989 horror novel by American writer Anne Rice. Taking place during the early twentieth century, it follows the collision between a British archeologist's family and a resurrected mummy. The novel ends with the statement, "The Adventures of Ramses the Damned Shall Continue", and twenty-eight years later, Rice fulfilled this promise with '' Ramses the Damned: The Passion of Cleopatra'', written in collaboration with her son, novelist Christopher Rice. A third jointly-authored novel in this series, ''Ramses the Damned: The Reign of Osiris,'' was released on February 1, 2022, two months after Anne Rice's death. Plot introduction During the Edwardian period in 1914, a wealthy shipping-magnate-turned- archaeologist, Lawrence Stratford, discovers an unusual tomb. The mummy inside, in its left-behind notes, claims to be the famed pharaoh Ramses II, despite the tomb's dating only to the first century B.C. (the historical Ramses II died in 1224 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
