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Golden Archer: Encyclopedia Ii - Golden Archer - Squadron Supreme
Wyatt MacDonald, a master archer with large selection of specialized trick arrows, originally began his career as a masked superhero unde...
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Nuke Comics: Encyclopedia Ii - Nuke Comics - Squadron Supreme
Real Name: Albert Gaines
Family: Gilbert (father, deceased), Florence (mother, deceased), Scott (brother).
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Arcanna: Encyclopedia Ii - Arcanna - Squadron Supreme
The origin of Art magical abilities is still unknown. Arcanna originally worked as a medium before becoming professional crime fighter. H...
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Squadron Supreme: Encyclopedia Ii - Squadron Supreme - The Utopia Project
Squadron Supreme - Synopsis.
The Squadron's next major appearance was in The Defenders #112-115 (October 1982-January 1983), in which t...
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Hyperion: Encyclopedia - Hyperion
Hyperion - Origin.
Hyperion is a Titan from Greek mythology.
Hyperion - Astronomy.
Hyperion is a moon of Saturn.
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Wonder Woman: Encyclopedia - Wonder Woman
Wonder Woman.
Brian Bolland, artist
Wonder Woman is a DC Comics superheroine. Co-created by William Moulton Marston with his wife Elizab...
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Avengers Comics: Encyclopedia - Avengers Comics
A variant cover of New Avengers #1 (February 2005). Art by Joe Quesada.
The Avengers are a Marvel superhero team, consisting of many of ...
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Arcanna: Encyclopedia Ii - Arcanna - Supreme Power
In Part III: High Command, Arcanna Jones is introduced as a scientist and author of Quantum Physics: The New Reality. She has the ability...
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Doctor Spectrum: Encyclopedia Ii - Doctor Spectrum - Various Incarnations Of Doctor Spectrum
There are three versions of Dr. Spectrum from three different dimensions in the Marvel Universe, none of which come from the normal Marve...
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List Of Marvel Comics Teams And Organizations: Encyclopedia Ii - List Of Marvel Comics Teams And Organizations - List Of Teams And Organisations
List of Marvel Comics teams and organizations - A.
Acolytes
AIM (Advanced Idea Mechanics)
Alliance of Evil
All-Winners Squad
Alpha Fli...
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Supreme Power: Encyclopedia Ii - Supreme Power - Synopsis
Supreme Power - Part I: Contact #1–6.
The story begins with the origin of Hyperion, which parallels Superman's somewhat, with a baby ...
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Exiles Comics: Encyclopedia Ii - Exiles Comics - Exiles
The Exiles are a group of reality-hopping heroes, created by writer Judd Winick and artist Mike McKone. The Exiles are a group of superhe...
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List Of Current Marvel Comics Publications: Encyclopedia Ii - List Of Current Marvel Comics Publications - Upcoming
List of current Marvel Comics publications - Ongoing.
Ms. Marvel 2006- (second volume)
Nextwave 2006-
Spider-Man Loves Mary Jane 2006-...
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Marvel Universe: Encyclopedia Ii - Marvel Universe - Concepts
The central concept of the Marvel Universe is that it is just like the real world, except that superheroes (and supervillains) exist. It ...
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Flash Comics: Encyclopedia Ii - Flash Comics - Publication History
The Flash first appeared in Flash Comics #1 (1940). This Flash was Jay Garrick, a college student who gained his speed through the inhala...
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Nighthawk Supreme Power: Encyclopedia Ii - Nighthawk Supreme Power - Character Information
In Supreme Power, J. Michael Straczynski's update and revamp of the old Squadron Supreme characters in Marvel's mature line, Marvel MAX, ...
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Ultimates: Encyclopedia Ii - Ultimates - Characters
Ultimates - The Ultimates.
Captain America is Steve Rogers - patriotic, nationalistic, and prone to violence (as are most of his teamm...
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Whizzer: Encyclopedia Ii - Whizzer - Bob Frank
The first Whizzer was a Golden Age superhero created for Timely Comics, the 1940s predecessor of Marvel Comics. The character debuted in ...
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Nighthawk Marvel Comics: Encyclopedia Ii - Nighthawk Marvel Comics - Nighthawk I
In Avengers #85-86 (March-April 1971), Thomas created the Squadron Supreme, a group of heroes from a parallel world who were a more direc...
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Justice League: Encyclopedia Ii - Justice League - History
Justice League - Silver and Bronze Age versions.
The original team first appeared in The Brave and The Bold #28 (1960) as a revival of ...
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Avengers Comics: Encyclopedia Ii - Avengers Comics - History Of The Team
Avengers comics - The 1960s.
Loki, the Asgardian god of mischief, plotted revenge against his half-brother Thor, and tricked the Hulk i...
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Wonder Woman: Encyclopedia Ii - Wonder Woman - History
Wonder Woman - Her origin and creator.
William Moulton Marston was an educational consultant in 1940 for Detective Comics, Inc. (now DC...
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Intercompany Crossover: Encyclopedia Ii - Intercompany Crossover - Released Crossovers
Intercompany crossover - 1977-1982.
Superman vs. The Amazing Spider-Man
Superman and Spider-Man (Marvel Treasury Edition #28)
Batman v...
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Justice League: Encyclopedia Ii - Justice League - History
Justice League - Silver and Bronze age.
The original team first appeared in The Brave and The Bold #28 (1960) as a revival of the Justi...
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Batman In Other Media: Encyclopedia Ii - Batman In Other Media - Television
In the late 1960s, the ABC Network aired a Batman television series with Adam West as Batman and Burt Ward as Robin. The series aired for...
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Hyperion Supreme Power: Encyclopedia Ii - Hyperion Supreme Power - Character Information
Hyperion is a character in the Marvel Comics series Supreme Power, published under the mature-readers imprint MAX Comics, written by J. M...
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Flash Comics: Encyclopedia Ii - Flash Comics - Publication History
The Flash first appeared in Flash Comics #1 (1940). This Flash was Jay Garrick, a college student who gained his speed through the inhala...
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J. Michael Straczynski: Encyclopedia Ii - J. Michael Straczynski - Television
Straczynski started in television in 1983, working on various animated shows, and he quickly worked his way from staff writer to executiv...
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Green Lantern: Encyclopedia Ii - Green Lantern - Publication History
Green Lantern (sometimes called The Green Lantern in the early days) was created by Martin Nodell and Bill Finger and first appeared in A...
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Wonder Woman: Encyclopedia Ii - Wonder Woman - History
Wonder Woman - Her origin and her creator.
William Moulton Marston was an educational consultant in 1940 for Detective Comics, Inc. (no...
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Hyperion Comics: Encyclopedia Ii - Hyperion Comics - Various Incarnations Of Hyperion
There are four versions of Hyperion from four different dimensions in the Marvel Universe, none of which come from the normal ("616") Mar...
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Avengers Comics: Encyclopedia Ii - Avengers Comics - Other Comic Book Avengers
The Avengers have existed in multiple continuities and universes.
Avengers comics - Ultimate Marvel.
Main article: Ultimates
In the U...
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Nighthawk Marvel Comics: Encyclopedia Ii - Nighthawk Marvel Comics - Nighthawk Ii
Image:NIGHTHAWKII(COMICS).JPG When the Grandmaster needed a team to fight the Avengers, he transformed several humans on Earth-616 into n...
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Wonder Woman: Encyclopedia Ii - Wonder Woman - Graphic Novels
This current series is collected in several graphic novels:
God and Mortals: Wonder Woman #1-7
Challenge Of The Gods: Wonder Woman #7-14...
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Justice League: Encyclopedia Ii - Justice League - Origin Of The Jla
The Justice League's first origin, according to 1962's Justice League of America #9, began when Earth was infiltrated by various competin...
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Intercompany Crossover: Encyclopedia Ii - Intercompany Crossover - Crossovers Under The Same Publisher
Intercompany crossover - Exiles.
The Exiles are a group of reality-hopping heroes that have been removed from their home realities to f...
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Wonder Woman: Encyclopedia Ii - Wonder Woman - Post-crisis
Post-Crisis, Wonder Woman was rebooted in 1987. Writer Greg Potter, who previously created the Jemm, Son of Saturn series for DC, was hir...
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Flash Comics: Encyclopedia Ii - Flash Comics - Fictional Biographies
While several other individuals have used the name Flash, these have lived either on other parallel worlds, or in the future. Garrick, Al...
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Wonder Woman: Encyclopedia Ii - Wonder Woman - Graphic Novels
This current series is collected in several graphic novels:
God and Mortals: Wonder Woman #1-7
Challenge Of The Gods: Wonder Woman #7-14...
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Wonder Woman: Encyclopedia Ii - Wonder Woman - In Other Media
In 1944-45 there was a short-lived Wonder Woman daily comic strip, written by Charles Moulton and drawn by H. G. Peter.
The first attempt...
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Nighthawk Marvel Comics: Encyclopedia Ii - Nighthawk Marvel Comics - Nighthawk Iii
Some time later, the new Nighthawk, Neil Richmond, was introduced. This Nighthawk was the adopted son of the original Nighthawk who had g...
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Wonder Woman: Encyclopedia Ii - Wonder Woman - In Other Media
In 1944-45 there was a short-lived Wonder Woman daily comic strip, written by Charles Moulton and drawn by H. G. Peter.
The first attempt...
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Green Lantern: Encyclopedia Ii - Green Lantern - Biographies Of The Major Green Lanterns
Green Lantern - Golden Age Green Lantern Alan Scott.
Main article: Alan Scott
Thousands of years ago, a mystical "green flame" fell t...
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Ultimates: Encyclopedia Ii - Ultimates - Trivia
In Ultimates #4, a discussion occurs where the characters talk about which actors should play them. The results are:
Nick Fury: Samuel L...
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Ultimates: Encyclopedia Ii - Ultimates - Relationship To Other Ultimate Marvel Characters
In the Ultimate Marvel universe the team is connected to other heroes, including Spider-Man, the X-Men and the Fantastic Four. The link b...
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Avengers Comics: Encyclopedia Ii - Avengers Comics - Bibliography
Avengers comics - Published titles.
Main article: Bibliography of Avengers titles
Avengers Vol. 1 #1-402 (Marvel Comics; September 1...
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Whizzer: Encyclopedia Ii - Whizzer - Stanley Stewart
While running alone on a country road, Stanley Stewart passed through a dense, luminescent fogbank. When Stewart emerged from the fogbank...
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Avengers Comics: Encyclopedia Ii - Avengers Comics - The Avengers In Other Media
The Avengers appeared in a 1966 animated series, alternating with the characters of several other Marvel comics of the time. This series ...
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Ultimates: Encyclopedia Ii - Ultimates - Bibliography
The Ultimates Vol.I
Super-Human (#1-6)
Homeland Security (#7-13)
Ultimates 2 Vol.II
Gods And Monsters (#1-6)
The Ultimates 2 Annual #1...
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Ultimates: Encyclopedia Ii - Ultimates - Villains
Aside from the Hulk, Ultimates have fought and encountered several super powered foes, including Magneto and his Brotherhood of Mutant Su...
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Avengers Comics: Encyclopedia Ii - Avengers Comics - Publication History
The Avengers first appeared in their own comic book, titled The Avengers, in September 1963 (the same month as the debut of the X-Men). T...
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Flash Comics: Encyclopedia Ii - Flash Comics - Powers And Abilities
All incarnations of the Flash can run and move their limbs at superhuman speeds, and possess superhuman reflexes. All possess an aura tha...
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Green Lantern: Encyclopedia Ii - Green Lantern - Powers And Abilities
All Green Lanterns wield a power ring that can generate a variety of effects and energy constructs, sustained purely by the ring wearer's...
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Green Lantern: Encyclopedia Ii - Green Lantern - Powers And Abilities
All Green Lanterns wield a power ring that can generate a variety of effects and energy constructs, sustained purely by the ring wearer's...
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Wonder Woman: Encyclopedia Ii - Wonder Woman - Post-crisis
Post-Crisis, Wonder Woman was rebooted in 1987. Writer Greg Potter, who previously created the Jemm, Son of Saturn series for DC, was hir...
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Flash Comics: Encyclopedia Ii - Flash Comics - References In Popular Culture
- "So she did a Barry Allen on us."
(Blank response fom others)
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See also...
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Green Lantern: Encyclopedia Ii - Green Lantern - Green Lantern Oath
Green Lantern is famous for the oath he recites when he charges his ring. Originally, the oath was simple:
...and I shall shed my light ...
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Marvel Universe: Encyclopedia Ii - Marvel Universe - Continuities
The action of most Marvel Comics titles takes place in a continuity known as Earth-616. Note that in Marvel Comics, the concept of a cont...
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Supreme Power: Encyclopedia Ii - Supreme Power - Characters
The first issue dealt with the character Hyperion, based on Superman. The second issue introduced Nighthawk (based on Batman), the Blur (...
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Green Lantern: Encyclopedia Ii - Green Lantern - Television
Several Green Lanterns have appeared in animated TV shows, both as regular characters and as guest stars.
Green Lantern - Regular roles....
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Supreme Power: Encyclopedia Ii - Supreme Power - Spin-off Mini-series
Doctor Spectrum had a six-part miniseries (written by Samm Barnes), exploring the character's origins and his relationship to the crystal...
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Marvel Universe: Encyclopedia Ii - Marvel Universe - Places
Certain places, some of which exist in real-life and some of which are fictional, figure prominently in the Marvel Universe.
Marvel Univ...
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Marvel Universe: Encyclopedia Ii - Marvel Universe - Cosmology
Marvel Universe - Dimensions.
As mentioned under history, the Marvel Universe is really a multiverse, with several universes coexisting...
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J. Michael Straczynski: Encyclopedia Ii - J. Michael Straczynski - Comic Books
Straczynski has long been a comic aficionado, and wrote a few comics during the 1980s, namely an issue of Teen Titans Spotlight, The Twil...
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Justice League: Encyclopedia Ii - Justice League - Origin Of The Jla
The Justice League's first origin, according to 1962's Justice League of America #9, began when Earth was infiltrated by various competin...
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J. Michael Straczynski: Encyclopedia Ii - J. Michael Straczynski - Early Years
Straczynski hails from Paterson, New Jersey.
According to the jacket bio for the first edition of his scriptwriting text (see Other work ...
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Marvel Universe: Encyclopedia Ii - Marvel Universe - History
Though the concept of a shared universe was not new or unique to comics in 1961, writer/editor Stan Lee, together with several artists in...
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J. Michael Straczynski: Encyclopedia Ii - J. Michael Straczynski - Awards
He has received a good deal of recognition for his work, including a nomination for the Comics' Buyer's Guide Award for Favorite Writer i...
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Supreme Power: Encyclopedia Ii - Supreme Power - Differences Between Supreme Power And Squadron Supreme
While the Squadron Supreme had started off as Justice League knock-offs and had moved on in different directions thanks to the works of t...
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Flash Comics: Encyclopedia Ii - Flash Comics - Other Media
A version of the Flash guest-starred in Adventures of Aquaman in 1968. Flash appeared off and on in the animated series Super Friends thr...
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Green Lantern: Encyclopedia Ii - Green Lantern - Powers And Abilities
All Green Lanterns wield a power ring that can generate a variety of effects and energy constructs, sustained purely by the ring wearer's...
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Flash Comics: Encyclopedia Ii - Flash Comics - Fictional Biographies
While several other individuals have used the name Flash, these have lived either on other parallel worlds, or in the future. Garrick, Al...
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Flash Comics: Encyclopedia Ii - Flash Comics - Powers And Abilities
All incarnations of the Flash can run and move their limbs at superhuman speeds, and possess superhuman reflexes. All possess an aura tha...
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Flash Comics: Encyclopedia Ii - Flash Comics - Appearences In Other Media
Flash comics - Early appearances.
A version of the Flash guest-starred in Adventures of Aquaman in 1968. Flash appeared off and on in t...
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Doctor Spectrum: Encyclopedia Ii - Doctor Spectrum - Powers And Abilities
Dr. Spectrum's power prism enables him to fly and create objects of some unknown form of energy. He can create a force field around himse...
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Flash Comics: Encyclopedia Ii - Flash Comics - References In Popular Culture
"The Ballad Of Barry Allen" is a song by Jim's Big Ego featured on They're Everywhere and released through Creative Commons. The song por...
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Green Lantern: Encyclopedia Ii - Green Lantern - Biographies Of The Major Green Lanterns
Green Lantern - Golden Age Green Lantern Alan Scott.
Main article Alan Scott
Thousands of years ago, a mystical "green flame" fell to E...
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Batman In Other Media: Encyclopedia Ii - Batman In Other Media - Theme Park Attractions
Several Six Flags theme parks, formerly owned by Warner Brothers, opened live-action "Batman Stunt Shows" as the movies increased in popu...
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Avengers Comics: Encyclopedia Ii - Avengers Comics - Other Comic Book Avengers
The Avengers have existed in multiple continuities and universes.
Avengers comics - Ultimate Marvel.
In the Ultimate Marvel Universe, t...
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Batman In Other Media: Encyclopedia Ii - Batman In Other Media - Books
Batman is also slated to appear in a novel by cyberpunk/horror novelist John Shirley, entitled Batman: Dead White from Del Rey books. Man...
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Batman In Other Media: Encyclopedia Ii - Batman In Other Media - Video Games
Several Batman video games were created:
Batman for the Amstrad PCW in 1985. Now known as Batman 3D.
Batman: The Caped Crusader for vari...
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Squadron Supreme: Encyclopedia Ii - Squadron Supreme - Squadron Supreme's Impact
The Squadron Supreme concept is well-respected among many comic fans, although the actual work itself has been criticized for being under...
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Squadron Supreme: Encyclopedia Ii - Squadron Supreme - Exile
In the 1990s, the Squadron Supreme became trapped in the main Marvel Universe, where they had a number of adventures, including with Grue...
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Squadron Supreme: Encyclopedia Ii - Squadron Supreme - Early History
While writing the Marvel comic book The Avengers, writer Roy Thomas—a longtime fan of DC Comics' Justice Society of America—paid homa...
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