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A. David Lewis
Aaron David Lewis (born 1977 in Boston, Massachusetts) is an American comic book and graphic novel writer.
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Action Comics 1
Action Comics #1 (cover dated June 1938) is the first issue of the original run of the comic book series Action Comics.
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Alan Moore
Alan Moore (born 18 November 1953) is an English writer known primarily for his work in comic books including Watchmen, V for Vendetta, The Ballad of Halo Jones and From Hell.
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Amazons
In Greek mythology, the Amazons (Ἀμαζόνες,, singular Ἀμαζών) were a tribe of women warriors related to Scythians and Sarmatians.
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Ancient astronauts
"Ancient astronauts" (or "ancient aliens") refers to the pseudoscientific idea that intelligent extraterrestrial beings visited Earth and made contact with humans in antiquity and prehistoric times.
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Antihero
An antihero, or antiheroine, is a protagonist in a story who lacks conventional heroic qualities and attributes such as idealism, courage, and morality.
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Antonio del Pollaiolo
Antonio del Pollaiuolo (17 January 1429/14334 February 1498), also known as Antonio di Jacopo Pollaiuolo or Antonio Pollaiuolo, was an Italian painter, sculptor, engraver and goldsmith during the Italian Renaissance.
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Archetype
The concept of an archetype appears in areas relating to behavior, modern psychological theory, and literary analysis.
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Ascended master
In the Ascended Master Teachings, Ascended Masters are believed to be spiritually enlightened beings who in past incarnations were ordinary humans, but who have undergone a series of spiritual transformations originally called initiations.
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Übermensch
The Übermensch (German for "Beyond-Man", "Superman", "Overman", "Superhuman", "Hyperman", "Hyperhuman") is a concept in the philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche.
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Batman
Batman is a fictional superhero appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics.
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Berserker
"Berserkers" (or "berserks") were champion Norse warriors who are primarily reported in Icelandic sagas to have fought in a trance-like fury, a characteristic which later gave rise to the English word "berserk." These champions would often go into battle without mail coats.
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Captain America
Captain America is a fictional superhero appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics.
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Captain Marvel (DC Comics)
Captain Marvel, also known as Shazam, is a fictional superhero appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics.
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Christopher Knowles (comics)
Christopher Knowles (born 1966) is an American comic book artist, writer and blogger who writes on comic books and broader pop culture topics.
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Comic Book Artist
Comic Book Artist was an American magazine founded by Jon B. Cooke devoted to anecdotal histories of American comic books, with emphasis on comics published since the 1960s.
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Comic Book Resources
Comic Book Resources, also known as CBR, is a website dedicated to the coverage of comic book-related news and discussion.
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Dennis O'Neil
Dennis J. "Denny" O'Neil (born May 3, 1939) is an American comic book writer and editor, principally for Marvel Comics and DC Comics from the 1960s through the 1990s, and Group Editor for the Batman family of titles until his retirement.
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Devil Dinosaur
Devil Dinosaur is a fictional character appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics.
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Doc Savage
Doc Savage is a fictional character originally published in American pulp magazines during the 1930s and 1940s.
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Doctor Occult
Doctor Richard Occult is a fictional superhero appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics.
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Doctor Strange
Doctor Stephen Vincent Strange is a fictional superhero appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics.
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Douglas Rushkoff
Douglas Mark Rushkoff (born 18 February 1961) is an American media theorist, writer, columnist, lecturer, graphic novelist, and documentarian.
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Eagle Award (comics)
The Eagle Award was a series of awards for comic book titles and creators.
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Edward Bulwer-Lytton
Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton, PC (25 May 1803 – 18 January 1873) was an English novelist, poet, playwright and politician.
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Friedrich Nietzsche
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (15 October 1844 – 25 August 1900) was a German philosopher, cultural critic, composer, poet, philologist and a Latin and Greek scholar whose work has exerted a profound influence on Western philosophy and modern intellectual history.
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G. Willow Wilson
Gwendolyn Willow Wilson (born August 31, 1982), known professionally as G. Willow Wilson, is an American comics writer, prose author, essayist, and journalist.
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Gerard Jones
Gerard Jones (born July 10, 1957) is an American writer, known primarily for his non-fiction and comic book work.
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Golden Age of Comic Books
The Golden Age of Comic Books describes an era of American comic books from the late 1930s to circa 1950.
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Golem
In Jewish folklore, a golem (גולם) is an animated anthropomorphic being that is magically created entirely from inanimate matter (specifically clay or mud).
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Google Books
Google Books (previously known as Google Book Search and Google Print and by its codename Project Ocean) is a service from Google Inc. that searches the full text of books and magazines that Google has scanned, converted to text using optical character recognition (OCR), and stored in its digital database.
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Grant Morrison
Grant Morrison, MBE (born 31 January 1960) is a Scottish comic book writer, and playwright.
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Green Lantern
Green Lantern is the name of several superheroes appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics.
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Hollow Earth
The Hollow Earth is a historical concept proposing that the planet Earth is entirely hollow or contains a substantial interior space.
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Jack Kirby
Jack Kirby (born Jacob Kurtzberg; August 28, 1917 – February 6, 1994) was an American comic book artist, writer, and editor, widely regarded as one of the medium's major innovators and one of its most prolific and influential creators.
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John Constantine
John Constantine is a fictional antihero, appearing in comic books published by DC Comics and its alternative imprint Vertigo.
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Magic (supernatural)
Magic is a category in Western culture into which have been placed various beliefs and practices considered separate from both religion and science.
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Mandrake the Magician
Mandrake the Magician is a syndicated newspaper comic strip, created by Lee Falk (before he created The Phantom).
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Messiah
In Abrahamic religions, the messiah or messias is a saviour or liberator of a group of people.
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New York Comic Con
The New York Comic Con is an annual New York City fan convention dedicated to comics, graphic novels, anime, manga, video games, toys, movies, and television.
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Publishers Weekly
Publishers Weekly (PW) is an American weekly trade news magazine targeted at publishers, librarians, booksellers and literary agents.
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Pulp magazine
Pulp magazines (often referred to as "the pulps") were inexpensive fiction magazines that were published from 1896 to the 1950s.
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Punisher
The Punisher (Francis "Frank" Castle, born Castiglione) is a fictional character appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics.
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Red Wheel/Weiser/Conari
Red Wheel Weiser Conari, also known in different periods in its history as RedWheel/Weiser, LLC and Samuel Weiser, Inc., is a book publisher with three imprints: Red Wheel, Weiser Books and Conari Books.
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Spider-Man
Spider-Man is a fictional superhero appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics.
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Superhero
A superhero (sometimes rendered super-hero or super hero or Super) is a type of heroic stock character, usually possessing supernatural or superhuman powers, who is dedicated to fighting the evil of his/her universe, protecting the public, and usually battling supervillains.
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Superman
Superman is a fictional superhero appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics.
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The Daily Telegraph
The Daily Telegraph, commonly referred to simply as The Telegraph, is a national British daily broadsheet newspaper published in London by Telegraph Media Group and distributed across the United Kingdom and internationally.
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The Shadow
The Shadow is the name of a collection of serialized dramas, originally in 1930s pulp novels, and then in a wide variety of media, and it is also used to refer to the character featured in The Shadow media.
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Theosophy (Blavatskian)
Theosophy is an esoteric religious movement established in the United States during the late nineteenth century.
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Vril
The Coming Race is a novel by Edward Bulwer-Lytton, published anonymously in 1871.
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Wolverine (character)
Wolverine (birthname: James Howlett colloquial: Logan, Weapon X) is a fictional character appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics, mostly in association with the X-Men.
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Wonder Woman
Wonder Woman is a fictional superhero appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics.
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WonderCon
WonderCon is an annual comic book, science fiction, and film convention held in the San Francisco Bay Area (1987–2011), then - under the name WonderCon Anaheim - in Anaheim, California (2012–2015, 2017–), and WonderCon Los Angeles in 2016.
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