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  Earth-349: Zatanna   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Zatara glanced at the television, where a group of colorful dressers were being interviewed: The Human Torch, a huge woman holding a mallet, and a robot -- no, not a robot, it was that armored mercenary, Iron Maiden.
And Zatara could feel that his fate was not merely to lose his genitals, but to be stripped of all sexual identity and nature at the most basic level.
Zatara felt his organs shrinking in his pants, and knew that his manhood and his power would soon be gone.
www.tgfa.org /fiction/earth349/349_Zatanna.htm   (2100 words)

  
 Zatara
Giovanni "John" Zatara, aka simply Zatara, was a fictional magician appearing in various publications of DC Comics, beginning with 1938's Action Comics #1, which was also the first appearance of Superman.
Zatara II Another Zatara was featured in a supporting role in the miniseries Kingdom Come and its follow-up, The Kingdom.
This Zatara is the son of Zatanna and magician John Constantine, which makes him the grandson of the original.
www.paleorama.com /Disney-Z/Zatara.php   (500 words)

  
 SailNet Articles   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Zatara is a custom-built 1979, 50-foot cutter with nice deck lines and a great interior that offers the basic amenities for long-distance cruising.
We found old pictures of Zatara from the early ‘80s on the wall at Doug's Harbor Reef at the Isthmus of Catalina Island showing the boat when she still had her teak decks.
The teak atop Zatara's doghouse was laid in a quarter-inch veneer, and the partners used it as an experiment to refine their technique.
www.sailnet.com /collections/articles/index.cfm?articleid=sailne1551   (1589 words)

  
 EpoxyWorks Article - May 01, 2003 - Installing a teak deck on Zatara   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Zatara sitting in her dock in Marina Del Rey before the start of the refit.
Zatara is a 1979 custom-built 50' cutter with nice deck lines, a great interior, and basic amenities for long distance cruising.
At some time, Zatara's previous owner had decided that the original teak deck was too much trouble to maintain and had pulled it up and paid for a fiberglass deck to be laid.
www.p3magazine.com /scripts/article_view.cfm?ArticleID=1&NewspaperID=2&PublicationID=EPOXYWORKS   (3178 words)

  
 Don Markstein's Toonopedia: Zatara the Magician
At first, Zatara was considered a big enough draw to wrest a few covers away from the Man of Steel, but he soon settled into a comfortable niche in the back pages.
Once he'd returned, Zatara spent many years as an occasionally-seen background character in the DC Universe, tho he never again had a series of his own.
Zatara's ghost has turned up here and there, but with Mandrake-like magicians decades out of fashion in comic books, his corporeal form has scarcely been missed.
www.toonopedia.com /zatara.htm   (459 words)

  
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The one broadcast depiction of the character was in Batman: The Animated Series in the episode "Zatanna", where the character trained Bruce Wayne in escapology.
In addition, in the Cartoon Monsoon contest, Zatara appeared in the Zatanna entry as a frustrated father.
Another Zatara was featured in a supporting role in the miniseries Kingdom Come and its follow-up, The Kingdom.
www.nobeltrader.com /zatara.htm   (436 words)

  
 Oscar De Majo: Gardner Fox
Allí se enteran de que, efectivamente, Zatara estuvo en este mundo mágico, pero el malvado hechicero que lo gobierna, Druid, lo exilió a un mundo desconocido por todos.
Zatara se había exiliado voluntariamente de la Tierra y había vagado todos estos años por varias dimensiones, buscando a la contrapartida buena de Allura para que rompiera el hechizo, y la había encontrado por fin en la dimensión mágica de Kharma.
Súbitamente, Zatara aparece en la reunión cuando su hija termina de relatarles lo ocurrido, y ambos agradecen a los héroes su invalorable ayuda.
www.tebeosfera.com /Documento/Articulo/Clasicos/Gardner/Fox.htm   (2831 words)

  
 Sandman Mystery Theater #7
The silence of the bust was but a deception to all, as Zatara used it to channel to another realm.
Zatara came to his side, and held on to the doll.
Zatara turned to him, as he watched the brilliant dust fall to the earth.
solo.abac.com /lubakmetyk/others/merging/smt07.htm   (2132 words)

  
 Zatara   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Zatara reluctantly joined the All Star Squadron and used his magic to weaken Hitler to ease his defeat.
Zatara focused on his daughter Zatanna and taught her magic.
Finally, Zatara decided to retire, but John Constantine came to his door and asked Zatanna to join the war against the Shadow Creature.
pc59te.dte.uma.es /cdb/series/dc/zatara.htm   (394 words)

  
 The Dartford Druids - Messages from Zatara   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Thinking a while, watching the fading torches disappear into the forest, Zatara wishes Norris well silently, and then agreed to join Leopold in his noble quest.
And so Leopold and Zatara pass from the written journals of the Eisen Journey, and make a chronicle of their own to surpass all others.
Posted - 05 Nov 2004 : 6:34:36 PM Norris wonders where Zatara has buggered off to just when he is needed.
m.1asphost.com /Lawbag/Forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=9   (214 words)

  
 Titans Tower: Zatara
Zatara Quick Bio: As cousin to Zatanna, Zachary Zatara's latent magic powers sparked as a new age of magic dawned.
Hawk, Dove, Aquagirl II, Zatara III, Offspring and Miss Martian are revealed as Titans members during the one year gap in a brief flashback panel.
The KINGDOM COME Revelations supplement says this about Zatara II: "The son of the late Zatanna and grandson of the original Zatara is a youthful Harry Houdini-like successor to the magician super-hero lineage." The Revelations genealogy reveals that Zatara II's father was John Constantine.
www.titanstower.com /source/whoswho/OYG/zatara.html   (1491 words)

  
 Sequential Tart: Seven Soldiers: Zatanna #1 - Under a Microscope (vol VIII/iss 6/June 2005)
There's very little sense to be made from any angle out of the flashback scene of Zatara's changing the entire studio audience into rabbits on a whim, even as Zatanna's voiceover claims that her father never abused magic even when provoked by other people's annoying behavior.
Unless Zatara subsequently used some sort of hypnosis to convince everyone present, along with those watching on TV, that the audience-into-rabbits affair was merely some kind of amusing illusion, it's a mystery how a magic-user who pulled a Mr.
Yet Zatara is evidently still widely viewed as a revered magical elder statesman, while his less arrogant daughter comes across as a romantically-desperate loser whose ill-advised attempt to rectify her messed-up lovelife could end up destroying the universe.
www.sequentialtart.com /archive/june05/art_0605_3.shtml   (904 words)

  
 Zatanna and Zatara
As Zatanna was still a teenager, Zatara always disapproved of this union; he felt his daughter deserved a better, smarter, more heroic man than Constantine.
Since the nature of Allura's curse was such that both Zatanna and Zatara would die if the two ever set eyes on one another again, Zatara decided to leave Earth and travel among various mystical realms in order to protect his daughter.
Both Zatara and Zatanna have the power to manipulate magical forces by means of words spoken backwards.
www.mykey3000.com /cosmicteams/profiles/zatanna.html   (1056 words)

  
 NOVA NOTES : ZATANNA: THE MYSTIC LEGACY OF THE ZATARAS
Zatanna Zatara is the son of Giovanni (John) Zatara, an Italian-American stage magician---with the same mystical powers as she---and Sindella, a Turkish member of the Hidden Ones, a Turkish inclave of homo magi....a subspecies of the human race to whom magical powers comes more easily.
Piero Zatara's granddaughter had an affair with one of Michel de Nostredame's grandsons, and so the blood of the prophet Nostradamus was linked with the Zataras, through her son by him.
Zatara's great-grandfather, Luigi Zatara, born 1866, was a stage magician.
www.novanotes.com /nov2003/nov12003.htm   (2159 words)

  
 DC Comics Message Boards   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
So, my question is this: When Spectre finally gets his hands on Zatara, will he reverse what she & the JLA did to the villains as mentioned in "Identity Crisis"?
Zatara was her father, who, last I knew, was still dead.
It's Eclipso who is at war with Shazam the Spectre without a human host to guide it is more like a latant force of nature than a sentient being and is being manipulated by the new Eclipso.
dcboards.warnerbros.com /web/thread.jspa?messageID=2002090442   (555 words)

  
 Zatanna
Zatanna Zatara is the daughter of the famed Magician and Occult Investigator, John (Giovanni) Zatara and a mysterious woman known as Sindella.
Zatara did his best to protect his daughter from what he knew was coming and to his credit John was never more then a good friend to the teen age girl, despite her obvious affection for him.
When Zatanna asked her father about it, he simply told her that John had learned all he needed from him and that he was fulfilling a greater destiny.
www.ans.com.au /~gsuter/Zee.htm   (876 words)

  
 Tigress (comics) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The first Golden Age Tigress was a thief/spy and foe of Zatara in the late 1930s.
Synopsis: Regan of police headquarters asks Zatara for help in a case where wealthy men are killed by the "mottled death." Zatara deduces that it was from the bite of an insect, a South American jungle jumbo.
Zatara leaves Bill with the Tigress, but she quickly double-crosses him.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Tigress_(comics)   (574 words)

  
 Earth-1's heroes who were active during the Golden Age
Zatara the magician, whose first Golden Age appearance was Action Comics #1 (June 1938), and whose last was World's Finest Comics #51 (April-May 1951), of course, is the father of Zatanna, so he must have existed on Earth-1.
It was later established that the Earth-1 Zatara had married a sorceress named Sindella who was part of a group of conjurers called the Hidden Ones/homo magi.
It was also revealed that Zatara had been forced to flee from Zatanna as an enemy had placed a clever spell on him that would have caused both and Zatanna to die if he ever saw her again.
www.angelfire.com /mn/blaklion/Earth1.html   (8416 words)

  
 Moon Man
What Zatara had going for him, though, and what sets Zatara apart from El Carim, Monako, Top, and the rest of the Mandrake knock-offs, was the writing of Gardner Fox and the art of Fred Guardineer.
Goulart is right about Guardineer's Zatara; Guardineer will never be reckoned among the greatest of Golden Age talents, but he had a definite flare for magic strips, and his Zatara stories are well worth finding and reading.
He retains his knack for panel composition, though, and by that I mean the blocking and positioning of characters within the panel, as well as the point of view of the panel.
www.geocities.com /jjnevins/moon.html   (2421 words)

  
 IsraelFaxx.com newsletter: 6fax0118.txt
With Palestinians scheduled to go to the polls in their first elections Saturday, and candidates bombarding voters with campaign material, efforts are intensifying to teach Palestinians the proper procedures to ensure their votes are counted.
But on this particular day, the audience is all male -- about 50 residents of Zatara, including two clan leaders, or sheikhs, who sit in the front row and pepper the young presenters with questions.
One member of the audience in Zatara was local teacher Mohammed abu Amariha.
www.israelfaxx.com /webarchive/1996/01/6fax0118.html   (732 words)

  
 New York World's Fair 1939-1940 Annex
Zatara is not yet using his backwards magic in this story; he does use it in the 1940 World's Fair story, but even then, sometimes he does magic without speaking at all.
Luckily, the necklace is located right in the open in a palace that doesn't seem to belong to anyone, so he can just go in and take it without any inhabitants being there to complain about this crazy white man stealing another country's cultural heritage.
It did, however, include a lot more superheroes (Superman, Zatara, Hourman, Sandman, Johnny Thunder, and Batman) and seemed somewhat less connected to the fair, though ironically, the Zatara story, which was only peripherally connected in 1939, had a full World's Fair theme in this issue.
websyte.com /alan/nywfannx.htm   (1495 words)

  
 Teen Titans Now   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Zachery Zatara had a knack for the family business in magic and illusions.
Zatara started growing wearing of his place on the team.
Known Whereabouts: Zatara is currently touring in Asia and had a brief encounter with the current Teen Titans when they came to talk to him about the location of missing member, Raven.
www.anycities.com /thunderfront/titansprofile.html   (245 words)

  
 Zatanna
Sindella faked her death to return to her people, leaving Zatara to raise Zatanna by himself.
Zatara left to search the countless dimensions for help and Zatanna was raised by others.
When she came of age, Zatanna used her magical powers to create her stage magician persona and became an international celebrity, This celebrity status allowed her to contact many super-heroes in her search for her natural father.
galileo.spaceports.com /~xsufiru/databank/Zatanna   (547 words)

  
 Slushfactory.com: Skiing on the slopes of pop culture love
And while Captain Marvel beat him to films, the Superman movie is still hailed as a landmark in special effects and considered one of the greatest movies ever made.
Zatara was a minor player in Golden Age DC comics, really not much more than a rip-off of Mandrake, a magician in the comic strips.
Zatara has since been retconned into an important character in the Golden Age of the DCU.
www.slushfactory.com /columns/me/archive/1.php   (1169 words)

  
 Zatanna - DCDatabase
The story of this search was the subject of the first major comic book crossover story arc as she meets various superheroes like Batman, Hawkman and Hawkgirl and Green Lantern.
Her father, Giovanni Zatara, is a descendant of a long line of powerful magicians and wizards, while her mother is a homo magi, a species of human with innate magical powers.
He came to Zatara as "John Smith" to learn to be an escape artist, but also found his young daughter growing attracted to him.
www.dcdatabaseproject.com /wiki/index.php/Zatanna   (1270 words)

  
 COMICON.com: ZATANNA CENTER STAGE IN TPB
When we first meet her, Zatara is long gone and she is now a young woman, old enough to go on the hunt to find him.
Zatara, along with other heroes, such as The Golden Age Robotman and The Golden Age Air-Wave migrated to Earth-1.
I remember reading a Superbaby story in Superman Family, which had Zatara meeting the infant of steel, so John Zatara was in residence on Earth-1 by that time.
www.comicon.com /cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic&f=36&t=001518   (4137 words)

  
 Zatanna - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Zatanna Zatara is a fictional wizard and a superheroine in the DC universe.
In addition to John Zatara and Sindella, it is implied that Zatara was a direct relative of the artist Leonardo da Vinci (who was secretly a magician in the DC universe); Nostradamus; the Freemason Cagliostro; alchemists Nicholas Flamel and Evan Fulcanelli; and King Arion of Atlantis.
Wayne came to Zatara as "John Smith" to learn to be an escape artist but also found his young daughter to be growing attracted to him.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Zatanna   (1534 words)

  
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Zatanna Zatara, in DC Continuity, is a sorceress who used to be (pre-Crisis, pre-Zero Hour) a member of the Justice League of America.
Wanda Zatara has the white motif of the LSH White Witch; her costume is a combination of the Scarlet Witch's and Zatanna's.
Kevin Wong points out that Wanda Zatara might also be influenced by the Marvel Continuity character the White Queen, an enemy of the X-Men, especially given her blatantly sexual nature and costume.
www.io.com /~woodward/chroma/amannosf.txt   (828 words)

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