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Hawkman Annual
Hawkman is the name of several superheroes appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics. Created by writer Gardner Fox and artist Dennis Neville, the original Hawkman first appeared in '' Flash Comics'' #1, published by All-American Publications in 1940. Although iterations of Hawkman appeared throughout the character's publication history, they are commonly characterized as hawk-themed warriors with a preference for archaic weaponry, large wings with a harness attached to it, and possessing Nth metal, which is a special metal with gravity-negating effects. Most iterations are also connected as being involved in a cycle of reincarnation, characterized as sometimes having reoccurring elements within their lifetimes. Among the reoccurring includes a romantic connection to reincarnated Hawkwoman or Hawkgirl and an affiliation with superhero teams such as the Justice Society of America and Justice League, often serving as the team leader in the former. The character ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hawkman (Carter Hall)
Hawkman (Carter Hall) is a superhero appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics. He is the first character to use the name Hawkman. There are two separate origins of Carter Hall; the Golden Age origin and the Post-Hawkworld (or current) origin. The character made his live-action debut in the television series ''Smallville (TV series), Smallville'', played by Michael Shanks. He also appeared in the Arrowverse crossover "Heroes Join Forces" and the series ''Legends of Tomorrow'', portrayed by Falk Hentschel. Hawkman appears in the DC Extended Universe film ''Black Adam (film), Black Adam'' (2022), portrayed by Aldis Hodge. Creation Gardner F. Fox, Gardner Fox recalled the initial inspiration for the character stating, "As I sat by the window I noticed a bird collecting twigs for a nest. The bird would swoop down, pick up the twig, and fly away. I thought. 'Wouldn't it be great if the bird was a lawman and the twig was a crook! Publication history The character first ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Murphy Anderson
Murphy C. Anderson Jr. (July 9, 1926 – October 22, 2015) was an American comics artist, known as one of the premier inkers of his era, who worked for companies such as DC Comics for over fifty years, starting in the Golden Age of Comic Books in the 1940s. He worked on such characters as Hawkman, Batgirl, Zatanna, the Spectre, and Superman, as well as on the ''Buck Rogers'' daily syndicated newspaper comic strip. Anderson also contributed for many years to '' PS'', the preventive maintenance comics magazine of the U.S. Army. Early life and career Murphy Anderson was born on July 9, 1926, in Asheville, North Carolina, and while in grade school moved with his family to Greensboro, North Carolina. After graduating high school in 1943, he briefly attended the University of North Carolina before moving to New York City seeking work in the comics industry, and was hired by Jack Byrne as a staff artist at the comic-book publisher Fiction House. His first confirmed credit is the two-an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Art Thibert
Arthur Thibert () is an American comic book artist, primarily known as a freelance inker, although he has a substantial résumé as a penciler and has even written some comics. Thibert is best known for his work as an inker for Marvel Comics on their various ''X-Men'' titles during the 1990s. Freelance inker Thibert broke into comics in 1986, as an inker for WaRP Graphics' '' Myth Adventures''. He truly latched on to the industry in 1989, becoming regular inker (over Dan Jurgens' pencils) for DC's '' The Adventures of Superman'' until 1991. From 1991 to 2004 (with a break from 1993 to 1995), Thibert inked almost exclusively for Marvel, many of those years spent on their X-Men titles. He inked ''X-Factor'' for much of 1991, and was the regular inker of ''X-Men'' vol. 2 in 1992. From 1993 to 1995, Thibert associated himself with the "upstart" Image Comics, where he primarily inked covers, for such titles as ''Spawn'', '' Supreme'', '' Team Youngblood'', and ''Brigade''. Return ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Don Heck
Donald L. HeckDonald L. Heck at the Social Security Death Index. Retrieved on September 23, 2012 Archived from the original on September 23, 2012. (January 2, 1929 – February 23, 1995 In print issue #1650 (February 2009), p. 107) was an Americans, American comics artist best known for co-creating the Marvel Comics characters Iron Man, the Wasp (character), Wasp, Black Widow (Natasha Romanova), Black Widow, Hawkeye (Clint Barton), Hawkeye and Wonder Man and for his long run penciler, penciling the Marvel superhero-team series ''The Avengers (comic book), The Avengers'' during the 1960s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bryan Hitch
Bryan Hitch (born 22 April 1970) is a British comics artist and comic book writer, writer. Hitch began his career in the United Kingdom for Marvel UK, working on titles such as ''Action Force'' and ''Death's Head'', before gaining prominence on American titles such as Wildstorm's ''Stormwatch (comics), Stormwatch'' and ''The Authority (comics), The Authority'', DC Comics' ''JLA (comic book), JLA'', and Marvel Comics' ''The Ultimates''. Hitch's artwork and designs have appeared in direct-to-video animated films, television, and major feature films, such as the 2009 film ''Star Trek (2009 film), Star Trek'', for which he has been praised by director J. J. Abrams. Early life Bryan Hitch was born 22 April 1970 in what he described as "in the far Northern England, northern reaches of England." He began reading comics at an early age, likening them to his "underage drug habit" and the newsagent in northern England where he would buy his books from his "dealer". The newsagent was nex ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Philip Tan
Philip Tan (born 1978) is a comic book writer/artist best known for his work on ''Spawn'', ''Uncanny X-Men'' and ''Iron Man''. Career Tan graduated at the University of Santo Tomas with a Bachelor's Degree in Architecture. Tan was the penciller of '' Final Crisis: Revelations'' as well as the "Agent Orange" ''Green Lantern'' story arc, which started in ''Green Lantern'' #39 and ran through issue 42. Following Agent Orange he will be penciling the second three issue arc of Grant Morrison's Batman and Robin series with issue 6 being his last. Tan has illustrated cards for the '' Magic: The Gathering'' collectible card game. In 2011 Tan was the artist on ''Hawkman'', which was part of DC Comics' company-wide title relaunch, The New 52. In 2016, Philip Tan worked on the new Suicide Squad Rebirth series co-drawing with Jim Lee. In 2022, Philip Tan began work on Ronin Book 2 (with Frank Miller and Daniel Henriquez). Bibliography * ''Iron Man'', vol. 3, #79-82 (with John Jack ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joe Bennett (artist)
Benedito José Nascimento (born February 3, 1968), better known as Joe Bennett, is a Brazilian comic book artist. Career Joe Bennett was born in Belém. In the 1990s he used to publish horror comics for two major Brazilian horror comics magazines: ''Calafrio'' and ''Mestres do Terror''. His first major work in comics was for Marvel Comics in 1994. Since then, he has worked on several Marvel titles such as ''The Amazing Spider-Man'', ''Captain America'' (vol. 2), ''Fantastic Four'' (vol. 3), '' The Incredible Hulk'' (vol. 2), ''Thor'' (vol. 2) and most recently ''Captain America and the Falcon''. He has also worked for other major publishers such as in Chaos! Comics, CrossGen, Dark Horse, DC Comics and Vertigo. Other credits include ''Conan the Barbarian'', ''Doc Samson'', '' Elektra'' (vol. 2), '' Hawkeye'' (vol. 3), ''Nova'' (vol. 3), '' X-51: Machine Man'', ''Buffy the Vampire Slayer'', ''Birds of Prey'', ''Hawkman'' (vol. 4), ''Hawkgirl'', ''The Green Hornet'', '' Mark o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ryan Sook
Ryan Sook is an American comic book artist, known for his work on books such as '' Seven Soldiers: Zatanna'', ''X-Factor'' and '' The Spectre''. His style has been compared to that of Mike Mignola, Adam Hughes, and Kevin Nowlan. Career Sook's first professional work was in '' Challengers of the Unknown'' #15, published in 1998. For the next two years, he worked primarily on books for Dark Horse, including several stories set in the ''Buffy the Vampire Slayer'' universe, as well as two creator-owned projects in ''Dark Horse Presents'': ''Witch's Son'' & ''Ragnok'', with writer John Arcudi. He has also inked over Matt Smith's pencils in '' Lobster Johnson: The Killer in My Skull'', a back-up story in '' Hellboy: Box Full of Evil #1''. In 2001, he earned critical and fan praise for his work on The Spectre for DC Comics. He left the book in 2002 to draw the first spin-off mini-series from Mike Mignola's '' Hellboy'', '' BPRD: Hollow Earth''. From 2003 to 2010, Sook worked ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rags Morales
Ralph "Rags" Morales () is an American comic book artist known for his work on various books for DC Comics, including ''Identity Crisis'', ''Countdown to Infinite Crisis'', ''Batman Confidential'', and The New 52 reboot of then Superman-centric ''Action Comics''. Morales is the co-creator, along with Brian Augustyn, of the 1990s version of '' Black Condor''. Early life Rags Morales was born in New York. He is of Puerto Rican descent, and grew up in a predominantly white suburb of Landing NJ. Morales attended a number of vocational art classes, including The Kubert School in Dover, New Jersey. Career Morales' first professional work was penciling 19 issues of ''Forgotten Realms'' with writer Jeff Grubb as part of the TSR line of books. Following ''Forgotten Realms'', Morales co-created and pencilled '' Black Condor''. Morales left DC Comics to do work for Valiant Comics, including ''Turok'', ''Archer & Armstrong'' and '' Geomancer''. He also did some licensed work on a '' Slide ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Steve Lieber
Steve Lieber (born May 19, 1967) is an American comic book illustrator known for his work on books such as ''Detective Comics'' and ''Hawkman'', and the critically acclaimed miniseries ''Whiteout (Oni Press), Whiteout'', which was adapted into a Whiteout (2009 film), 2009 feature film starring Kate Beckinsale. His other works include the Eisner Award-winning sequel ''Whiteout: Melt'', and the thrillers ''Shooters'' and ''Underground''. With writer Nat Gertler, he co-authored ''The Complete Idiot's Guide to Creating a Graphic Novel''. Lieber has described his career as being about "telling your own unified stories with finality." Early life Lieber grew up in the Squirrel Hill (Pittsburgh), Squirrel Hill section of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Pittsburgh in the state of Pennsylvania. He graduated in 1985 from Taylor Allderdice High School, Allderdice High School, studied at Pennsylvania State University but left there before graduating to finish his artistic education at The Kubert Sch ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jan Duursema
Jan Duursema (; born October 27, 1954) is an American comics artist known for her work on the ''Star Wars'' comics franchise. She is the creator of Denin and Vila from Naldar, the Twi'lek Jedi Aayla Secura and the Kiffar Jedi Quinlan Vos. Career Jan Duursema's first published comics work appeared in '' Heavy Metal'' vol. 3 #3 (July 1979). She drew several stories for DC Comics' '' Sgt. Rock'' title beginning in 1980. With writer Paul Kupperberg, she co-created the Arion character in '' The Warlord'' #55 (March 1982) and the ''Arion, Lord of Atlantis'' series was launched in November 1982. Duursema was one of the artists of ''Wonder Woman'' #300 (Feb. 1983). She provided artwork to the '' Star Ace'' role-playing game from Pacesetter Ltd. Her first work for Marvel Comics, as well as her first work on the ''Star Wars'' franchise, appeared in ''Star Wars'' #92 (Feb. 1985). Back at DC, she was one of the contributors to the '' DC Challenge'' limited series in 1986 and drew the ''A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
