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	Toward a Red Planet (Superman goes Communist)
		In Superman: Red Son the famous Kryptonian is shown battling against such practical problems as breadlines and the arms race.
		Graced by strong, muscular art by Dave Johnson, the first issue of Superman: Red Son also demonstrates that there is a deep affinity between the aesthetics of superheroes and traditional socialist realism; both styles favour strong, manly physiques flexing their muscles.
		"Superman didn't really come from the planet Krypton, he came from the planet Minsk or Pinsk," political cartoonist Jules Feiffer once observed in a wry discussion of the immigrant origins of many early American comic book artists.
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-news/912901/posts (3296 words)

	Graphic Novel Journal on McGurr.com
		The Graphic Novel Journal is going to be on hiatus for the month of August (and possibly September; check back for details at the end of August).
		Once there is a healthy backlog of reviews, the Graphic Novel Journal will return to its regular schedule.
		Reviews of graphic novels and comic book collections every Tuesday and Thursday.
	www.mcgurr.com /gnovels.html (3296 words)

	Outcyclopedia - Billy Budd
		Billy Budd was adapted as a film in 1962 by Peter Ustinov, with the title role played by Terrence Stamp, who would go on to play General Zod in the Superman movies and Bernadette (aka "Ralph") in The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert.
		The novel is partly inspired by Young Goodman Brown by Nathaniel Hawthorne, with whom Meliville is known to have been secretly in love, and also by actual mutinies and trials of the period, especially that of the Somers.
		Billy Budd is replete with both religious symbolism and homoerotic elements, likening Billy to Christ and the beautiful dying gods of myth, all innocent and dying for the deeds of others.
	members.fortunecity.com /outcyclopedia/billybudd.html (3296 words)

	79.01.01: The American Hero-Quester
		Whether the hero is Perseus, Superman, or the poet who pities mankind, his importance lies in his potential for recreating the perfect human community.
		The hero in the poem is the poet-narrator.
		One of my objectives is to place the hero of American fiction squarely into the tradition of the hero-quester, to view him as yet another journeyman on the standard path taken by all mythological heroes in their search for identity.
	www.yale.edu /ynhti/curriculum/units/1979/1/79.01.01.x.html (3296 words)

	THE PHILOSOPHY OF JACK LONDON
		It was the idea of the "superman" that Jack London would incorporate into many of his novels and short stories.
		There are several other novels that portray London's belief in the biological superiority of the white man, namely Burning Daylight, Adventure, and The Mutiny of the Elsinore.
		In a 1899 letter London wrote, Herbert Spencer's First Principles "has done more for mankind, and through the ages will have done far more for mankind, than a thousand books." In Martin Eden, the novel's namesake, drawn from London's own experiences, is enraptured by Spencer after reading First Principles:
	sunsite.berkeley.edu /London/Essays/philosophy.html (2914 words)

	eBay - book novel, Fiction Books, Antiquarian Collectible, Comics items at low prices
		SUPERMAN V ALIENS graphic novel BOOK 1
		THE AXE OF WANDSBEK A NOVEL BY ARNOLD ZWEIG
		The Sixth Poldark Novel - The Four Swans-Winston Graham
	search-desc.ebay.com /search/search.dll?query=book+novel&newu=1&krd=1 (2914 words)

	The Death of Superman - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The trade paperback The Death of Superman received the Comics Buyer's Guide Fan Award for Favorite Reprint Graphic Novel or Album for 1992 The storyline of The Reign of the Supermen won the Comics Buyer's Guide Award Favorite Comic Book Story for 1992.
		Superman's inexplicable hair growth between his awakening in the Fortress to his arrival in Metropolis was never explained.
		The Death and Life of Superman storyline brought in millions of readers to DC Comics, despite the entirety of the story being intertwined through numerous different comic series, including Action Comics, Superman, Superman: The Man of Steel, and Adventures of Superman, among others.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_Death_of_Superman (2538 words)

	Youth Graphic Novel Booklist - Tippecanoe County Public Library Youth Department
		Youth Graphic Novel Booklist - Tippecanoe County Public Library Youth Department
		Graphic Novels, also known as Comic Books, can be found at the library!
		Superman: the Ultimate Guide to the man of Steel (J 741.59 Supe).
	www.tcpl.lib.in.us /youth/youthgraphicn.htm (2538 words)

	THE SUPERMAN FORUM
		RE: RE: George Lowther's Superman Novel - Gernot,
		RE: RE: Superman and Spectre - Mr Superman,
		RE: That song about superman with the actions - Once Was Superman,
	superman.ws /forum/index.php?page=2 (2538 words)

	Red Hot Planet
		During the early 1950’s when children’s television was beginning to come into it’s own, George Reeves donned a flaming red cape and ascended, suspended by wires, into television history as the man of steel in The Adventures of Superman.
		Ivanhoe, once again featuring Robert Taylor, this time far more effectively, was a wonderful knights in shining armor tale, based upon the classic novel by Sir.
		Rozsa felt certain that she would win the part, but the director remarked to him that she wasn’t photogenic and he dismissed her.
	www.redhotplanet.net /hof_rozsa_miklos.html (7614 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Zorba the Greek: Books
		Zorba is Nietche's Superman not constained by morality - he does as he pleases.
		The novel has ist origins in the author's own experiences of mining and harvesting in the Peleponnesus in the 1920s.
		Zorba and the author are reaslly just metaphors - the message is live life to the full because you might just be dead tomorrow.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/0684825546 (727 words)

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		Superman That Healing Touch graphic novel JLA DC
		Sandman - The Kindly Ones - Graphic Novel
		Sandman - Fables and Reflections - Graphic Novel
	search.ebay.co.uk /graphic-novel (379 words)

	Graphic Novel Reviews
		Yes blood and death comes into play but it isn't like Dragonball Z or those other bloody gorey stupid novels.
		It provides a look into life back then, death, sins, choices, words of wisdom, and life in general.
		Anyway the book is drawn very well (although the length of someone in the books arms are a bit off) and the story line is good.
	www.e-book-store.com /Graphic_Novel/Graphic_Novel_141.html (5471 words)

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		The Death of Superman Graphic Novel Book
		The War- Books 1-4, 1st ed graphic novels Marvel Comics
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	BIG NOSTRIL PRODUCTIONS
		The movie adapts the graphic novel's plot of a down-and-out reporter -- Peter Sands, played by city resident Bill Reeves -- who's murdered by Superman's arch-nemesis Lex Luthor -- played by Pulino's cousin and former campaign manager, Anthony Pulino -- for digging up dirt on the villain for an unauthorized biography.
		Staying true to the graphic novel, the movie follows Peter Sands as he interviews people from Luthor's past and Clark Kent as he sweats under the ranting of a homicide detective.
		"The Sands of Destiny," which Pulino wrote and directed, is based on the DC Comics graphic novel "Lex Luthor: An Unauthorized Biography."
	members.aol.com /jpulino007 (5471 words)

	Toon Zone - Comics - Batman & Superman - September 2004
		Get ready for SUPERMAN: TRUE BRIT, an original hardcover graphic novel with a humorous new take on the Superman legend, courtesy of writer Kim “Howard” Johnson (Monty Python: The First 280 Years) with some help in his comics debut from Monty Python’s John Cleese (Fawlty Towers, A Fish Called Wanda)!
		Pushed to his mental limits, Superman decides to destroy the cause of the mysterious vanishings in front of the world.
		Don’t miss what’s sure to be one of the most talked-about Superman stories in years!
	comics.toonzone.net /solicitations/2004-09 (2054 words)

	Robert Mayer's SUPERFOLKS
		Although Mayer suprisingly did not use Logar and Univac much in his novel, despite the prominence of Brainiac and Luthor in the Superman stories, Pxyzsyzygy is elaborated upon as wearing a "violet bowler" (page 197), and the speaking of a special word banishs him from the Earth's dimension for a set period of time.
		Mayer, by writing a novel in homage to comic book heroes, inadvertently ending up affecting the development of comic books subsequent to the publication of his novel.
		However, due to copyright reasons undoubtbly, Mayer mentions only briefly in passing actual comic book heroes, and most of the ones he does mention are said to have died before the main action of the novel took place.
	www.angelfire.com /mn/blaklion/superfolks.html (2405 words)

	LAST SON OF KRYPTON
		In 1996, when DC Comics approached famed Superman writer Elliot S! Maggin and asked him to write the novel adaptation of the Kingdom Come comic book mini-series, the author was initially hesitant about undertaking the project.
		The Kingdon Come novel was published in 1998, but these two Superman novels have not yet been reprinted.
		Last Son of Krypton started out as a treatment for a movie -- the Superman movie that I was trying to convince DC Comics needed to be made as far back as 1974.
	superman.ws /Maggin/lsok.php (804 words)

	Jor-El - Psychology Central
		Jor-El was first referred to in Action Comics #1 in 1938, but made his first full-fledged appearance in the Superman newspaper comic strip in 1939, where his name was spelled as "Jor-L"; his name first appeared as being spelled "Jor-El" in a 1942 Superman novel.
		After the introduction of DC's multiverse system in the 1960s, it was established that the Golden Age version of Superman's father was named "Jor-L" and lived on the Krypton of the Earth-Two universe, while "Jor-El" was the father of the Silver Age version of Superman and lived on the Krypton of the Earth-One universe.
		Jor-El's legacy on the show is carried on by the constant battles between Superman and Brainiac (he is as much Jor-El's enemy as he is Superman's) and the Phantom Zone criminals Jax-Ur and Mala, who were foiled by Jor-El.
	psychcentral.com /psypsych/Jor-El (1438 words)

	Fortress of Solitude - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Fortress of Solitude is a 2003 novel by Jonathan Lethem.
		The Fortress contained an alien zoo, a giant steel diary in which Superman wrote his memoirs (using either his invulnerable finger or heat vision to engrave entries into its pages), a chess-playing robot, specialized exercise equipment, a laboratory, a computer, communications equipment, and rooms dedicated to all of his friends.
		Superman has replaced the giant key with a normal-sized key which is made from dwarf star material and is therefore too dense for any mortal to lift.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Fortress_of_Solitude (1431 words)

	Elliot S. Maggin's Superman: Last Son of Krypton
		Maggin, a long-time writer of the Superman comics (among many other major comic book series) was hired to write this novel, which was marketed along with the opening of Superman: The Movie.
		Maggin had no way of knowing how his subject material would be updated for modern tastes in the decade after he wrote his novel.
		Maggin is a practicing Jew; his novel is respectful of all peoples, and respectful of Judeo-Christian beliefs and values.
	www.adherents.com /lit/bk_Maggin_LastSon.html (1807 words)

	TICAC: News Archive - Teddy Kristiansen
		Artist Teddy Kristiansen and his creative partner on House of Secrets and HOS: Façade, writer Steve T. Seagle are working together on an upcoming 128-page hardcover Superman graphic novel Superman: It's A Bird.
		Comprised of 20 short stories and one main story, "It’s a Bird" is Steve Seagle and Teddy Kristiansen’s look at Superman, as told form the viewpoint of a scriptwriter assigned to work on a Superman movie script.
		Fans of Steve Seagle's and Teddy Kristiansen's Vertigo series House of Secrets can be encouraged in the fact that work is progressing on a new long-awaited HOS project.
	home.wanadoo.nl /pafrankn/tk_archive.htm (626 words)

	Superman/Batman: Supergirl - Jeph Loeb, Michael Turner, Peter Steigerwald - Graphic novel review
		Superman/Batman: Supergirl- Jeph Loeb, Michael Turner, Peter Steigerwald - Graphic novel review
		In the first Superman/Batman book we bemoaned a lack of decent plot, built as it was around a series of punch-ups between heroes.
		Loeb has drawn little sophistication into the characters but then this seems to be what Superman/Batman is all about.
	www.grovel.org.uk /reviews/superman-batman-02/supergirl-01.htm (325 words)

	The Fortress of Solitude by Jonathan Lethem - read review
		Superman imagery fills this huge novel, as Dylan and Mingus grow up, and Mingus, in particular, begins to prove his neighborhood influence by leaving his mark in graffiti all over the neighborhood.
		Superman, a DC Comics hero, is considered a "flattened reality," an ineffective presence living in his "Fortress of Solitude," much like Dylan's artist father living in his studio.
		Overall, however, the novel is a huge and imaginative recreation of growing up in the city a generation ago, with Brooklyn itself providing the heartbeat for the characters.
	mostlyfiction.com /contemp/lethem.htm (1292 words)

	Quasar Comics and Collectibles Auction #23 DC Page
		1303 D.C. Superman Distant Fires; Superman Speeding Bullets; Justice Riders; Chronos #1, 2; 1997 Direct Currents Special (VF); Marvel Fanfare #1; Cartoon Network 1997 giveaway; Mage #5 (Comico 1984) VF; Disney Movie Book Roger Rabbit in Tummy Trouble Graphic Novel; Rocketeer Graphic Novel VG.
		466 BATMAN #470-499: All 30 VF to NM, VFNM ave.
		682 D.C. HORROR 1970s READING LOT, 11 BOOKS: House of Mystery #261, 305; House of Secrets #100, 137; Unexpected #174; Weird Mystery Tales #1, 19, 22, 24; Witching Hour #46, 61.
	www.quasarcomics.com /auction23/dc.htm (1292 words)

	2006 in film: Facts and details from Encyclopedia Topic
		His dark materials: the golden compass, is a film based upon the first novel in philip pullmans trilogy his dark materials, slated for release in 2006...
		A princess of mars is a 2006 film adaptation of edgar rice burroughs first successful novel, also titled a princess of mars....
		Superman returns is a 2006 united statesamerican superhero film based on the character superman....
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/2/20/2006_in_film.htm (775 words)

	2006 in film: Facts and details from Encyclopedia Topic
		His dark materials: the golden compass, is a film based upon the first novel in philip pullmans trilogy his dark materials, slated for release in 2006...
		A princess of mars is a 2006 film adaptation of edgar rice burroughs first successful novel, also titled a princess of mars....
		Superman returns is a 2006 united statesamerican superhero film based on the character superman....
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/2/20/2006_in_film.htm (775 words)

	Comic Book Galaxy - Pushing Comix Forward Since 2000.
		The real star of this graphic novel is Teddy Kristiansen, who communicates all the emotion, majesty, and power lacking in the script.
		It is important to note the subtle changes in shading and colouring Kretiansen uses to distinguish between the three main settings: the present, the past, and the fiction of Superman.
		Given how frequently the character has been examined both inside and outside of comics almost since the moment of his creation, the concept has ceased being novel.
	www.comicbookgalaxy.com /120204_MP_itsabird_review.html (462 words)

	Interview with Roger Stern, Author of "Strange Visitors"
		Author Roger Stern, who is well liked for his great comics featuring Superman, the Will Payton Starman, the Avengers, Spider-Man, the Hobgoblin, and more, also happens to be the writer of the first Smallville novel, which is due out in October.
		The Smallville novels won't arrive until later this year, but the first is one of the novel series, seen here, is written by comics author Roger Stern, who also wrote the excellent "The Death and Life of Superman" novelization.
		ROGER STERN: If you like the series, if you like the characters as they've developed on the series, if you'd like to maybe learn a little more about some of the characters … if you like to READ … I think you're going to like SMALLVILLE: STRANGE VISITORS.
	www.kryptonsite.com /stern2002.htm (1502 words)

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