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  Encyclopedia: Starman (comics)
Starman I is Ted Knight, a 1940s DC Comics superhero who wore a costume of red tights with a fin on his helmet, and wielded a gravity rod (later cosmic rod) as a member of the Justice Society of America.
Starman VI is David Knight, a 1990s DC Comics superhero, the son of the original Starman and older brother of the 1990s Starman.
Starman IX is Farris Knight, a DC Comics superhero in the 853rd Century, and a member of Justice Legion A. He is a descendant of the original Starman, and was a major character in the series DC One Million.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Starman-(comics)   (2107 words)

  
 Starman (DC Comics Modern Age) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Starman VII is Jack Knight, a comic book superhero in the DC Comics universe, and a member of the Justice Society of America.
Starman is also the name of the popular comic book series chronicling Jack Knight's adventures, which ran from #0 to #80 (2001), as well as some annuals and special issues.
Jack is the son of Ted Knight, who, as Starman, was a Golden-Age super-hero.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Starman_(DC_Comics_Modern_Age)   (656 words)

  
 Golden Age Starman Archives Vol. 1 Review - Silver Bullet Comics
Starman was also more of a street brawler in his day, and more of a wisecracker, than the modern reader might expect (perhaps dues to the dictates of the editors of the day that stories be filled with the kind of action that would appeal to young boys).
Modern readers may not notice at first, but there was a sophistication to his work that was ahead of its time in 1941.
Modern readers can have a lot of fun with these stories and characters, so long as they’re prepared to set aside their 21st century standards of narrative and characterization.
www.silverbulletcomicbooks.com /reviews/96123478235964.htm   (602 words)

  
 dc comics
DC Comics is one of the largest companies in comic book publishing and related media involving the characters.
It took years for DC to understand the appeal of the competitor and even then it was mainly with defectors from Marvel like Ditko, or newer talents like Neal Adams that the new sophistication in storytelling took hold at DC.
DC Comics has also enjoyed several successful other media adoptions of their characters in feature films and live action and animated series.
www.fact-library.com /dc_comics.html   (870 words)

  
 TheFourthRail.com - Snap Judgments   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
If you are a DC comics fan, or just a superhero fan in general, this one is for you.
There are standouts, like the beautiful page for Starman that serves as a loving tribute to James Robinson's series and what he did for the legacy of that character, and then there are the expected spotlights like a nifty two-page spread on Superman.
To DC and comics fans everywhere, I offer a strong suggestion that you seek this book out, as it should be on every superhero fan's bookshelf.
www.thefourthrail.com /reviews/snapjudgments/100404/dccomicsencyclopedia.shtml   (1166 words)

  
 Encyclopedia: Starman (DC Comics Modern Age)
The current DC Comics logo, adopted in May 2005.
Zero Hour was a weekly comic event miniseries/crossover published by DC Comics in the summer of 1994.
The Star-Spangled Kid is the name of two DC Comics superheroes.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Starman-(DC-Comics-Modern-Age)   (1006 words)

  
 The Comic Treadmill
At this time, the Haneyverse, defined as that offshoot of the regular DC Universe in which characters seem the same but act melodramatically and inconsistently with most other appearances, and frequently team up with heroes that aren’t supposed to be on the same earth or time, has not yet been born.
Evanier is a living encyclopedia of comics and animation history and an entertaining writer whether it be the non-fiction on News From ME or his fiction in titles such as Blackhawk.
Either that or DC is waiting to reveal Technocrat is the force behind Infinite Crisis in an attempt to bring back the time when all super heroes and villains and to have claws or guns for arms.
www.comictreadmill.com   (7332 words)

  
 dc universe
The DC Universe is the fictional shared setting where most of the comic stories published by DC Comics takes place.
DC Comics, in contrast to Marvel Comics, drastically rebooted their continuity several times.
DC Comics had used a sophisticated alternate world theory to explain the multiple occurrences of their major characters written at various times in history.
www.fact-library.com /dc_universe.html   (463 words)

  
 Comic-Book Superstore: Super-Heroes: DC Comics: Starman
This trade paperback collects STARMAN #0-5 of the critically acclaimed series--nominated for five Eisner Awards-- and tells the story of the new Starman's origin.
One of the best things about Starman is that you can pick up nearly any of the trade paperbacks and understand the story as you read along, but reading ALL of the trade paperbacks before it (STARRY KNIGHT is the 7th in a continuing series of volumes) creates such a richer enjoyment of the book.
All comics, characters, and related indicia are copyright © their respective creators, unless otherwise indicated.
www.zianet.com /comic-booksuperstore/dc/starman.html   (616 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Books: Starman: Sins of the Father (Book 1)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Jack is also the most human of all the DC heroes...not only do we see his heroic role, but with later books, we see more of his personal life than those of other heros...not just his relationships with women, but his day-to-day interactions.
Starman has since departed from the superheroe scene(i think?) but this run of stories has many many great moments in the modern super hero context.
They show this Starman superhero and related friends, associates, as very human persons, equiped with fallen human nature, and have to go through their own personal, yet in some cases, universal, spiritual and vocational superhero trials and tribulations.
www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1563892480?v=glance   (2888 words)

  
 COMICON.com: SHOOTING STAR'S McCULLAR
Becoming a comic creator has become a side venture for me, but I have no plans of ever quitting my “day job” as a college art professor and graphic designer.
McCullar: Well, the concept of my Thrill Seeker Comics Universe is to take archetypes from nearly 60 years of history of comics and combine them with other fascinating characters from films, television, novels and some other ideas floating around my head and amalgamate them into something new.
I hope to see Shooting Star become a legitimate leader in independent comics at some point where my own THRILL SEEKER COMICS series will be housed with my own universe of characters that will allow my pals and fellow collaborators to also self-publish their own titles in our cooperative venture.
www.comicon.com /cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic&f=37&t=001237   (2088 words)

  
 Explaining Social Institutions - Jack Knight   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Starman is Jack Knight, a comic book superhero in the DC Comics universe, and a member of the Justice Society of America.He is the son of the original Starman.Created by James Robinson and Tony Harris, he first appeared in Starman #0 (October 1994).
Starman is also the name of the popular comic book series chronicling Jack Knights adventures, which ran from #0 to #80 (2001).Jack is the son of Ted Knight, who, as Starman, was one of Golden-Age super-heroes.
When she revealed that she was the sister of Will Payton, yet another hero to bear the name of Starman, he vowed to set off into space to find her missing brother.After his return, he would face almost all of his foes in a massive battle that nearly destroyed Opal.
booksearchbyauthor.com /413167_jack-knight_0472105884explainingsocia...   (697 words)

  
 Printer Friendly: JSA #72 Review - Silver Bullet Comics
However, the modern day Hourman's hourglass and the arrival of another temporal traveller allows the heroes to change the outcome of this battle, and Degaton escapes into the time-stream to lick his wounds.
I'll also give the issue full marks for its work on Degaton as the character manages to deftly convey the degree of certainty that the story required to make one believe that there was a very good chance that the JSA were fighting a battle they couldn't win.
At first, I thought that DC had simply switched over to a higher grade paper on this book, but none of the other titles in the same price range look to have made the change, so I'm not quite sure what to make of it.
www.silverbulletcomicbooks.com /reviews/111407029874986,print.htm   (418 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Books: The Golden Age Starman Archives, Vol. 1 (DC Archive Editions)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Part of Starman's problem is that, as a clearly sci-fi hero, he spent a good deal of time dealing with some fairly conventional menaces, mostly powerless gangsters, Axis saboteurs, and the like, rather than super-villains.
He was put to somewhat better use in the Silver Age with the advent of Earth-2, and the later years would bring completely different versions of the character...
The modern-day Starman is the son of the 1940s hero, who is the (ahem) star of this collection.
www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1563896222?v=glance   (1342 words)

  
 DC Comics Message Boards   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
I had heard so much about this comic over the past few years, I figured "What the hey?" and see for myself what all the hub-bub was about.
I guess I should have known, given James Robinson is/was the writer (and I was mighty fond of "The Golden Age").
A comic that not only honors the Golden Age characters, but is among the best of any Modern Age characterizations I have ever read.
dcboards.warnerbros.com /web/thread.jspa?threadID=2000001085   (614 words)

  
 Comic-Book Superstore
DC Comics at the birth of its Silver Age...
DC was trying to regain its footing in the comic book market and these efforts helped it accomplish that goal.
DC Comics made history again, this time with the publication of the first super hero comic book.
www.zianet.com /comic-booksuperstore/dc   (846 words)

  
 Unca Cheeks Silver Age Comics Site: Golden Age Heroes 2
Another such hastily-improvised super-hero duo -- redoubtable Golden Age stalwarts Starman (who channeled "stellar energy" through a "Cosmic Rod" of his own invention) and the Black Canary (a martial arts mistress supreme, who -- inexplicably -- chose to make fishnet stockings an integral part of her crime-fighting ensemble) was, perhaps, marginally less interesting...
Over the ensuing years, various writers have attempted to "modernize" the character (giving her additional super-powers; a spandexed "love interest" in the person of fellow JLAer Green Arrow; frequent -- and, frequently, ludicrous -- costume changes; and so on, and so forth)...
Possibly the most successfully revitalized of all theGolden Age characters, however -- given the number of times he's held his own ongoing series in one venue or another, with varying degrees of artistic and/or commercial success -- was the bleak, unsmiling ghostly avatar known only as: the Spectre.
www.geocities.com /cheeksilver/goldenage2.htm   (749 words)

  
 Starman (DC Comics Modern Age)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Starman is Jack Knight, a comic book superhero in the DC Comics universe, and a member of the Justice Society of America.
Created by James Robinson and Tony Harris, he first appeared in Starman #0 (October 1994).
Starman is also the name of the popular comic book series chronicling Jack Knight's adventures, which ran from #0 to #80 (2001).
www.sciencedaily.com /encyclopedia/starman__dc_comics_modern_age_   (627 words)

  
 Zero Hour - Art History Online Reference and Guide
In it, a supervillain attempts to destroy and remake the DC Universe.
DC published a timeline at the end of Zero Hour #0 which identified various events and key stories which were part of its newly singular timeline, and when they occurred.
For those and other reasons, DC later introduced a variation of the pre-Crisis concept of the Multiverse, in the form of Hypertime.
www.arthistoryclub.com /art_history/Zero_Hour   (817 words)

  
 AGE   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Search the AGE Family Message Boards at Ancestry.com (if available).
Search the AGE Family Resource Center at RootsWeb.com (if available).
Find graves of people named AGE at Find-a-Grave.com (or add one that you know).
www.worldhistory.com /surname/US/A/AGE.htm   (137 words)

  
 DC Comics News   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Now, DC is pleased to announce that the first issue of the series is sold out at the publisher.
DC Editor Emeritus Julie Schwartz is interviewed in "Catching Up," while the "In Brief" column mentions the "World War II Portfolio" section in THE SPIRIT ARCHIVES Volume 8.
DC has been supplied with the following episode schedule for Smallville, Static Shock and The Zeta Project on the WB and the animated Justice League on the Cartoon Network.
www.dccomics.com /news/newsarc/070302.html   (1944 words)

  
 Comics Bookstore - Golden Age   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
This team of heroes set the stage of their silver age counterparts, as well as, the Justice League of America.
I am glad DC has put together these Archive Editions as an easy way to capture hard to find and out of print titles.
Definitely a must have book for any GL fan whether you were a fan of the Golden Age, Silver Age, or Modern Age Green Lanterns.
www.neponset.com /bcemylar/golden.htm   (441 words)

  
 Comics Continuum
Following are DC Comics' solicitations for August, with information coming from the publisher.
DC's first archive of Charlton material gathers some of Ditko's greatest Captain Atom adventures, originally published from 1960-1966 in Space Adventures #33-42 and Captan Atom #78-82.
DC's tribute to Julius Schwartz concludes with this one-shot, inspired by the cover to Justice League of America #53.
www.comicscontinuum.com /stories/0405/17/dcaug.htm   (8135 words)

  
 Collected Comics Library - DC Comics Archive Editions, Marvel Masterworks and Marvel Essentials   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Notable DC Comics and Marvel for Jan. and Feb. 2006
Alan Moore and Dave Gibbon´s landmark WATCHMEN made it onto the list, joining such modern literary stalwarts as The Catcher in the Rye, The Grapes of Wrath, The Sun Also Rises, and 1984.
Because of this staggered shipment schedule, DC Comics will allow retailers to reduce their orders on this item through November 11.
collectedcomicslibrary.blogspot.com   (972 words)

  
 Comic Book Resources - CBR News - The Comic Wire
DC Comics has provided CBR News with their solicitation text and cover images for comics and product shipping in February of 2005.
But when Shelly answers an ad to join the aging crimebuster Vigilante and his new team of "Seven Soldiers" in the hunt for an ancient monster haunting the deserts of the southwest, her super-hero dream becomes a terror-trip into the heart of an undying nightmare.
While other comics allow the reader only one way to read a book, this issue gives you several options - one of which is assembling its 32 pages into a giant double-sided poster.
www.comicbookresources.com /news/newsitem.cgi?id=4435   (8702 words)

  
 Toon Zone - Comics - DC Feature Articles - May 2004
The remaining chapters feature solo stories, with modern day tales featuring the newest members of the JSA and accompanying stories featuring their Golden Age counterparts.
In 1971, DC Comics experimented with 100-page reprint comics, all of which became must-have collector's items.
DC 100-PAGE SUPER SPECTACULAR: WORLD'S GREATEST SUPER-HEROES is a 96-page Special arriving in comic-book stores on May 5 with a cover price of $6.95 U.S. LANTERN/GREEN ARROW Vol.
comics.toonzone.net /solicitations/2004-05   (3032 words)

  
 The Unofficial History of the DC Universe
To find more great DC stuff, just click here and Legion Outpost II opens in a new browser window.
All titles, characters, character names, slogans, logos, and related indicia are trademarks ® of and copyright © DC Comics unless otherwise noted and are used without permission.
This page is Copyright © The Unofficial Guide to the DC Universe and John Cencullo's Legion Outpost II.
www.dcuguide.com /History/History_Beginning.php   (5440 words)

  
 Super Hero Tarot - DC Comics - Minor Arcana
In addition to the 22 cards of the Major Arcana, the images most people associate with the Tarot, there ia also the Minor Arcana, 56 cards divided into four "suits" - Coins, Cups, Swords, and Wands (or Batons) - of 14 cards each.
(The Minor Arcana is thought to be the forerunner of the modern deck of playing cards.) Along with their individual images, the suits are also linked to the four Classical Elements - Air, Earth, Fire, and Water - and often to four stages of life - Baby/Child/Man/Elder - or four Medival occupations - Craftsman/Bard/Soldier/Banker.
For the DC Tarot, we keep the standard Elemental correlations, and add a relationship to four of the important "eras" of DC Comics, The Golden Age, Jack Kirby's Fourth World characters, The Modern Age, and the Vertigo imprint.
members.cox.net /djoakes/dctrts.htm   (144 words)

  
 Sunglasses   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
The Corinthian, from The Sandman (DC Comics Modern Age)
Sparky the Penguin from This Modern World comic strip
Interestingly, all of the protagonists wear rounded lenses, while the antagonists wear rectangular lenses
hallencyclopedia.com /Sunglasses   (787 words)

  
 Comics - Figurines
DC Direct Impulse Young Justice Statue 459/1000 league
DC Direct Superboy Young Justice Statue 378/1000 league
DC Direct Robin Young Justice Statue 294/1500 league
www.icollections.net /Collectibles/Comics/Figurines_15.shtml   (205 words)

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