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continued from Fawcett Comics series, becomes Gunmaster: The Six Million Dollar Man (comic book) #1 – 9 June 1976 – June 1978 Based on the TV series (magazine) #1 – 7 July 1976 – Nov. 1977 Black and white magazine version Soldier & Marine Comics #9, 11 – 15 Dec. 1954 – Aug. 1955 becomes Fightin' Army: Son of Vulcan #49, 50
The company's most noteworthy period was during the "silver age" of comic books, which had begun with DC Comics' successful revival of superheroes in 1956. [2] In March 1960, Charlton's science-fiction anthology title Space Adventures introduced Captain Atom, by Gill and the future co-creator of Marvel Comics' Spider-Man, Steve Ditko. [15]
Comics scholar Arnold T. Blumberg places the end of the Silver Age in June 1973, when Gwen Stacy, girlfriend of Peter Parker (Spider-Man), was killed in a story arc later dubbed "The Night Gwen Stacy Died", saying the era of "innocence" was ended by "the 'snap' heard round the comic book world—the startling, sickening snap of bone that ...
Based on Archie comic book series: 16 The New Adventures of Gilligan: 1974–1975: ABC: First animated adaptation of Gilligan's Island: 24 Shazam! 1974–1976: CBS: DC Comics Live-action: DC Comics Warner Bros. Television: 28 The Secret Lives of Waldo Kitty: 1975–1976: NBC: Live-action/animated: 13 The Secrets of Isis: 1975–1977: CBS: DC ...
According to historian Michael A. Amundson, appealing comic-book characters helped ease young readers' fear of nuclear war and neutralize anxiety about the questions posed by atomic power. [32] It was during this period that long-running humor comics debuted, including EC Comics' series Mad and Dell's series Uncle Scrooge (both in 1952). [33] [34]
Apocalyptic fiction is a subgenre of science fiction that is concerned with the end of civilization due to a potentially existential catastrophe such as nuclear warfare, pandemic, extraterrestrial attack, impact event, cybernetic revolt, technological singularity, dysgenics, supernatural phenomena, divine judgment, climate change, resource depletion or some other general disaster.
This is a list of television series and films based on properties of Image Comics.This list includes live action and animated television series and films. For some of the television series and films below, Image Comics did not begin publishing the associated comic book until after the television series or film had been released.
Ace Magazines [1] was a comic book and pulp-magazine publishing company headed by Aaron A. Wyn and his wife Rose Wyn.The Wyns had been publishing pulp fiction under the Periodical House and A. A. Wyn's Magazine Publishers names since 1928, and published comics between 1940 and the end of 1956.