Comic Book Series
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This type is the top level object for modeling comics.It contains all series specific information, i.e. publisher, number of issues, what series it continues. Finer grain information is recorded at the issue and story level.The Continues ...
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| The Uncanny X-Men |
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Topic | Marvel Comics |
Uncanny X-Men, first published as simply The X-Men, is the flagship Marvel Comics comic book series for the X-Men franchise, it features the adventures of the eponymous group of mutant superhero. While hugely successful now, it took a number of years since the X-Men's first issue (cover date September 1963) to become even a mild success. The series had been out of production since 1970 until interest was rekindled with 1975's Giant-Size X-Men and the debut of a new, international team. Under...
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| X-Men |
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X-Men: Legacy is a Marvel Comics series featuring the eponymous group of mutant superhero.
The title began its publication in October 1991 as X-Men. From 2001 until 2004 it was published as New X-Men. It had reverted (as of issue #157) to its original title, but changed again (from issue #208) to X-Men: Legacy. It is usually referred to as "X-Men Volume 2" because the first series, currently Uncanny X-Men, was titled The X-Men prior to 1981.
X-Men is the second monthly series to portray the...
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| The Amazing Spider-Man |
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Topic | Stan Lee | Marvel Comics |
The Amazing Spider-Man is an American comic book series published by Marvel Comics, featuring the adventures of the superhero Spider-Man.
Spider-Man first appeared in the comic book Amazing Fantasy #15 (Aug. 1962). The series was cancelled with that issue, but response to the character was so positive that a solo title, The Amazing Spider-Man, was launched with a March 1963 cover-date.
The character was created by writer-editor Stan Lee and artist and co-plotter Steve Ditko, and the pair...
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| Ronin |
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Topic | Frank Miller |
Ronin is a limited series published between 1983 and 1984, by Frank Miller and Lynn Varley published by DC Comics, in which a ronin is re-incarnated in a dystopic near-future New York. The six-issue work shows some of the strongest influences of manga on Miller's style, both in the artwork and narrative style.
In feudal Japan, a young, nameless samurai has sworn to protect his master, Lord Ozaki, from assassins. But despite his dedication, Ozaki is assassinated at night by a demon geisha...
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| Batman: The Dark Knight Returns |
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Topic | Frank Miller | DC Comics |
Batman: The Dark Knight Returns is a Batman comic book miniseries written and drawn by Frank Miller and published by DC Comics from February to June 1986. It reintroduced Batman to the general public as the psychologically dark character of his original 1930s conception and helped to usher in an era of "grim and gritty" superheroes from the mid-1980s to mid-1990s.
A sequel, Batman: The Dark Knight Strikes Again, was published in 2001.
Batman: The Dark Knight Returns is set twenty years into...
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| Batman: The Dark Knight Strikes Again |
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Topic | Frank Miller |
Batman: The Dark Knight Strikes Again (also referred to as DK2) is a Batman mini-series by Frank Miller with Lynn Varley. It is a sequel to Miller's Batman: The Dark Knight Returns and the ending (so far) of the "Dark Knight Universe".
Originally published as a three-issue limited series (November 2001 - July 2002) by DC Comics, and since collected into hardcover and paperback one-volume editions and ''Absolute Dark Knight'' edition (which also features The Dark Knight Returns). Like its...
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| Avengers Forever |
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Topic | Marvel Comics |
Avengers Forever is a twelve-issue comic book limited series published by Marvel Comics from 1998 to 2000, starring the superhero team called the Avengers. The series was written by Kurt Busiek and Roger Stern with artwork provided by Carlos Pacheco and Jesus Merino. It won the R.A.C. Squiddy Award for Best Limited Comic Series in 1999 as well as the CBG Award for Favorite Limited Series in 2000.
The story revolves around the "Destiny War", a time travel-based conflict between Kang the...
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| Runaways |
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Topic | Brian K. Vaughan | Marvel Comics |
Runaways is a Marvel Comics comic book series created by Brian K. Vaughan and Adrian Alphona. The series features a group of teenagers who try to make up for the evil done by their super villain parents by becoming superhero. They are known as "the Pride's kids" or "those kids in L.A." by other characters in the Marvel Universe, due to the team's lack of an official name and the majority of Marvel's characters being based in New York.
In 2006, the series won the Harvey Award for best...
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| Trouble |
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Topic | Marvel Comics |
Trouble is a five-issue romance comic book limited series published by Marvel Comics under its Epic line in 2003. Written by Mark Millar and illustrated by Terry and Rachel Dodson the series deals with teen pregnancy. The basic concept was created by Bill Jemas and Joe Quesada.
Trouble was originally considered by Marvel's editorial group as the possible origin of Spider-Man, but after the book was not received very well by many comic book fans the story was declared not "official" Marvel...
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| Araña |
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Araña (Anya Sofia Corazon) is a fictional character, a superhero from the Marvel Universe.
Araña was created by writer Fiona Avery and artist Mark Brooks and is based on ideas J. Michael Straczynski used in his run on Amazing Spider-Man. She was the star of the resurrected Amazing Fantasy comic book in 2004.
After her story-line ended in Amazing Fantasy vol. 2 #6, she appeared in her own title, Araña: The Heart of the Spider, starting in January 2005 as part of Marvel Next. This series ran...
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| Midnight Nation |
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Midnight Nation is a religious-themed twelve issue American comic book limited series, created by J. Michael Straczynski and published in 2000 by Top Cow Productions under their now defunct Joe's Comics imprint. It is about a man who is killed, in a sense, and is on a journey to save his soul.
Los Angeles police officer Lieutenant David Grey encounters a brutal murder. When he tracks down a possible lead he encounters strange, goblin-like men who attack him. When he awakes, Grey finds himself...
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| Ultimate Spider-Man |
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Topic | Brian Michael Bendis |
Ultimate Spider-Man is a superhero comic book series published by Marvel Comics. The series is a modernized re-imagining of Marvel's long-running Spider-Man comic book franchise as part of its Ultimate Marvel imprint.
The protagonist of Ultimate Spider-Man is Peter Parker, a science whiz teenager who lives in Queens, New York. He is bitten by a genetically altered spider and inherits its powers, including enhanced strength, agility and reflexes. When a burglar that Peter refuses to stop kills...
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| Ms. Tree |
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Topic | DC Comics |
Ms. Tree was the most well-known comic book creation of author Max Allan Collins prior to his graphic novel, Road to Perdition. Terry Beatty was the series' artist.
The title character is Michael Tree, a female private detective who takes over her husband's investigation business when he is murdered. In her first case, she captures the murderer and discovers his link to the Muerta organized crime family.
Ms. Tree's dead husband was named Michael Tree, the joke being that after the marriage...
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| Ultimate Daredevil and Elektra |
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Ultimate Daredevil and Elektra is a four-issue comic book mini-series published by Marvel Comics.
The story introduced Marvel characters Daredevil and Elektra to the Ultimate universe, and was written by novelist Greg Rucka with art by Salvador Larroca.
In this story, Matt Murdock and Elektra Natchios are both students in Columbia University, where they meet and start dating. Murdock is blind and studying law. During the course of the story, Elektra and her roommates are harassed by a rich...
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| Ultimate War |
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Topic | Marvel Comics |
Ultimate War is a comic book limited series produced by Marvel Comics featuring the Ultimates and the Ultimate X-Men. The series contains four books, released between December 8, 2002 and February 23, 2003. It was written by Scottish comics author Mark Millar with art by Chris Bachalo.
It is collected as part of the Ultimate X-Men series of trade paperback. This was the first time the Ultimates as a team had crossed over with characters from the Ultimate Marvel Universe.
Previously, the X...
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| Ultimate Nightmare |
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Ultimate Nightmare is a five-issue comic book limited series written by Warren Ellis of Transmetropolitan, Planetary, and The Authority fame, after signing an exclusive two-year work-for-hire contract with Marvel Comics). Issues 1, 2, 4 and 5 were penciled by Trevor Hairsine noted for working on the Ultimate Six limited series with Brian Michael Bendis), and inked by Simon Coleby who has previously worked on Marvel UK's Warhead series in the 1990s. The third issue was drawn by Steve Epting.
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| Legends |
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Topic | DC Comics |
Legends was a six issue comic book limited series published in 1986-1987 by DC Comics, which had plot threads running through several other DC comic titles, crossing over into them (each individual crossover/tie-in had a Legends Chapter # header on the cover). The series was plotted by John Ostrander, scripted by Len Wein, pencilled by John Byrne, and inked by Karl Kesel.
A trade paperback Legends: The Collection (ISBN 1-56389-095-X) was published in 1993 collecting the entire 6 issue limited...
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| Ultimate Iron Man |
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Topic | Marvel Comics |
Ultimate Iron Man is the name of two comic book miniseries written by Orson Scott Card and published by Marvel Comics. The stories tell the origins of the Ultimate Marvel version of Iron Man, who appears in Ultimates.
The first volume, which published between 2005 and 2006, was a five-part miniseries depicting the early life and origins of Tony Stark, and was drawn by Andy Kubert.
The second volume is also a five-part miniseries and had its first issue released on December 12, 2007. This...
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| Identity Crisis |
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Topic | DC Comics |
Identity Crisis is a seven-issue comic book limited series published by DC Comics in 2004, written by Brad Meltzer and penciled by Rags Morales. It was one of DC's top-selling series throughout its run, but attracted controversy for retcon aspects of DC's history and its graphic depiction of crimes committed. This series was followed by Infinite Crisis.
The first issue was released in June 2004 and was ranked first in comic book sales for that period with pre-order sales of 163,111. The...
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| Justice Society of America |
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The Justice Society of America, or JSA, is a DC Comics superhero group, the first team of superheroes in comic book history. Conceived by editor Sheldon Mayer and writer Gardner Fox, the JSA first appeared in All Star Comics #3 (Winter 1940).
Unlike subsequent "all-star" teams, the JSA was limited to heroes not already featured in their own titles because the publisher wanted to expose their lesser known characters. Hence, Superman and Batman were only honorary members and Flash and Green...
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| Spectre |
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Topic | DC Comics |
The Spectre is a fictional cosmic entity and superhero who has appeared in numerous comic book published by DC Comics. The character first appeared in a next issue ad in More Fun Comics #51 (January 1940) and received his first story the next month, #52 (February 1940), and was created by Jerry Siegel and Bernard Baily, although several sources attribute creator credit solely to Siegel, limiting Baily to being merely the artist assigned to the feature.
The Spectre's career began in the late...
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| The Batman Strikes! |
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The Batman Strikes! is a DC comic book series featuring Batman. It is different from other Batman titles in that it is set in the continuity (and style) of the television animated series The Batman as opposed to the regular DC Universe.
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| Superman/Batman |
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Topic | DC Comics |
Superman/Batman is a monthly comic book series published by DC Comics that features the publisher's two most popular characters: Superman and Batman. Superman/Batman premiered in August 2003 and is an update of the previous series World's Finest Comics, in which Superman and Batman regularly join forces.
Superman/Batman explores the camaraderie, antagonism, and friendship between its titular characters. Prior to the 1985 limited series Crisis on Infinite Earths, the two iconic characters were...
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| DC One Million |
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Topic | DC Comics |
DC One Million was a crossover event published by DC Comics in 1998. It featured a vision of the DC Universe in the 853rd century (chosen because that is the century in which, assuming they maintain a regular publishing schedule, DC Comics will first publish an issue #1,000,000 of one of their current monthly titles) The mini-series was written by Grant Morrison and drawn by Val Semeiks.
The core of the event was a four-issue mini-series, in which the 20th-century Justice League of America and...
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| Showcase |
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Topic | DC Comics |
Showcase has been the title of several anthology series published by DC Comics. The general theme of these series has been to feature new and minor characters as a way to gauge reader interest in them, without the difficulty and risk of featuring "untested" characters in their own ongoing titles. The original series ran from March 1956 to September 1970, and then was revived for eleven issues from August 1977 to September 1978.
The best-known issue of Showcase is #4, which introduced an...
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Battle Pope is an independent comic book created by Robert Kirkman and Tony Moore, which was published by their own small press company under the moniker of Funk-O-Tron originally in 2000. The series was reprinted in color by Image Comics in 2005, with plans to possibly continue it with new stories after collecting the original material.
The book tells the tale of a hard drinking, womanizing Pope condemned by God for his own evil ways, who is called to action to save Saint Michael, with the...
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| House of M |
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Topic | Marvel Comics |
House of M was an eight-part comic book crossover storyline published by Marvel Comics in 2005.
Written by Brian Michael Bendis, and illustrated by Olivier Coipel, its first issue debuted in June 2005, as a follow-up to the events of the Planet X and Avengers Disassembled storylines, in which the mutant superhero Scarlet Witch suffered a mental breakdown and tried to alter the fabric of reality to recreate her lost children. Scarlet Witch's father Magneto and her twin brother Quicksilver...
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| Justice League Europe |
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Topic | DC Comics |
Justice League Europe was a DC Comics book run that was a spin-off of the comic book "Justice League America" (which was also named Justice League Internatonal" (vol 1) for issues #7 to #25).
Justice League Europe was published for 68 issues (plus five annuals) from 1989 to 1994. Starting with issue #51 the title was renamed Justice League International (vol. 2). Like Justice League America, the series featured tongue in cheek humor but was a much more action-centric series than Justice...
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