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Richard Rider
Nova (Richard Rider) is a character appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. The character appeared historically as the star of his own series, and at other times, as a supporting character in team books such as ''The New Warriors''. He is a member of the intergalactic police force known as the Nova Corps. He has access to the Nova Force and superhuman abilities including enhanced strength, flight and resistance to injury. Publication history The character was created in 1966 by writer Marv Wolfman in issue #3 of his fanzine ''Super Adventures''. Then known as the Star, he was an alien doctor named Denteen who found a spaceship containing pills which gave him a different superhuman power every five minutes. In issue #6, Wolfman and writer Len Wein reimagined the character, now a prisoner named Kraken Roo who turns out to become the superhero Black Nova. Years later, Wolfman (working for Marvel Comics) and artist John Romita Sr. tweaked the design of the charact ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adi Granov
Adi Granov (; born 1977) is a Bosnian-American comic book artist and conceptual designer. He is best known for his painted work with Marvel Comics, for whom most of his comics work is produced, in particular his work on Iron Man. He is especially known for illustrating the story arc ''Iron Man: Extremis'', and for doing concept and keyframe artwork for the 2008 film ''Iron Man (2008 film), Iron Man'', a job for which director Jon Favreau personally selected him. Granov has also done concept work for the films ''The Avengers (2012 film), The Avengers'' and ''The Amazing Spider-Man 2'', has designed packaging for the DVDs and toys based on those properties, and has also done design work for video games. Early life Adi Granov was born in 1977 in Sarajevo, Socialist Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina, SR Bosnia and Herzegovina, SFR Yugoslavia, Yugoslavia.Booth, Cathy (June 10, 2009)"Superheroes 'made in Yorkshire'" BBC News. He began drawing at an early age, though he did not consider ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
