The DC Comics Action Figure Archive

The DC Comics Action Figure Archive

Author: Scott Beatty

Publisher: Chronicle Books

Published: 2007-12-20

Total Pages: 212

ISBN-13: 9780811858328

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Alphabetical listings provide release dates, scales, articulations, accessories, first appearance notes, and photographs of more than 1,400 DC Comics action figures.


Toys and American Culture

Toys and American Culture

Author: Sharon M. Scott

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA

Published: 2009-12-09

Total Pages: 536

ISBN-13:

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Tracing developments in toy making and marketing across the evolving landscape of the 20th century, this encyclopedia is a comprehensive reference guide to America's most popular playthings and the culture to which they belong. From the origins of favorite playthings to their associations with events and activities, the study of a nation's toys reveals the hopes, goals, values, and priorities of its people. Toys have influenced the science, art, and religion of the United States, and have contributed to the development of business, politics, and medicine. Toys and American Culture: An Encyclopedia documents America's shifting cultural values as they are embedded within and transmitted by the nation's favorite playthings. Alphabetically arranged entries trace developments in toy making and toy marketing across the evolving landscape of 20th-century America. In addition to discussing the history of America's most influential toys, the book contains specific entries on the individuals, organizations, companies, and publications that gave shape to America's culture of play from 1900 to 2000. Toys from the two decades that frame the 20th century are also included, as bridges to the fascinating past—and the inspiring future—of American toys.


Alter Nation

Alter Nation

Author: Tim Seeley

Publisher: Dark Horse Comics

Published: 2020-12-22

Total Pages: 74

ISBN-13: 150671871X

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The top-secret team of cryptid-heroes, GK Delta, are committed to protecting humanity from extraordinary threats. When you are all that stands between humanity and certain annihilation, you must be able to trust each other. So when Bomber betrays his brothers in arms, the team is forced to fight one of their own! What's worse, what if he was right to leave? The team must confront their worst enemies while grappling with the fact that they may not be the heroes they think they are! Collects an entirely new 50-page OGN and the 12-page comic Alter Nation: The Mystery of Whining Winny.


The DC Comics Rarities Archives

The DC Comics Rarities Archives

Author:

Publisher:

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 356

ISBN-13:

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Reprinting for the first time some of DC Comics' rarest publictions from the Golden Age of comics, including three early anthology titles in their entirety. Features appearances by virtually every Golden Age hero: Superman, Batman, Wonder, Sandman, Hawkman, Scribbly, The Atom, Wildcat and more. An action-packed adventure, this volume of classic tales is sure to entertain!


The Plastic Man Archives

The Plastic Man Archives

Author: Jack Cole

Publisher:

Published: 1998

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781563896217

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When gangster Eel O'Brien was double-crossed by his partners during a heist, he fell into a vat of chemicals that would forever change his body and life. These are the original stories of a common thief who turned into the world's wackiest super-hero. With the ability to stretch his body into any shape and length, Plastic Man has become one of the most colorful and comical icons of all time.


Black Lightning

Black Lightning

Author: Tony Isabella

Publisher: DC

Published: 2016-04-12

Total Pages: 234

ISBN-13: 1401269540

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Black LightningÍs first solo series and origin story! With the power to generate electricity from within, Jefferson Pierce has donned a colorful costume and the secret identity of Black Lightning! However, it will take all of his abilities to protect his Metropolis neighborhood of Suicide Slum from those who seek to destroy it. With guest appearances by Superman and some familiar villains, Black Lightning makes DC Comics history. Collecting for the first time BLACK LIGHTNING #1-11 and WORLDÍS FINEST #260, featuring work by creators Tony Isabella and Trevor Von Eeden, along with veteran inkers Frank Springer and Vince Colletta!


T.H.U.N.D.E.R. Agents Archives

T.H.U.N.D.E.R. Agents Archives

Author: Larry Ivie

Publisher:

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781563899034

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GRAPHIC NOVEL. Listed in Steven Weiner's 101 Best Graphic Novels. Originally published in the 1960's, these stories combine the human problems in the superhero comic book popularized by Marvel Comics.


Super Powers by Jack Kirby

Super Powers by Jack Kirby

Author: Jack Kirby

Publisher: DC Comics

Published: 2018-01-23

Total Pages: 276

ISBN-13: 1401283845

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Following the unprecedented achievements of his Fourth World titles, Jack Kirby returned to the DC Universe in 1984 for two special miniseries celebrating Kenner’s new DC-themed Super Powers toy line. Together with such creative collaborators as Joey Cavalieri, Adrian Gonzales and Paul Kupperberg, Kirby revisited all of DC’s greatest heroes and villains in the pages of SUPER POWERS, and launched them through time and space into the kind of cosmic adventure that only the King of Comics could deliver! Jack Kirby reinvented the superhero genre with his sprawling saga of the Fourth World—a bold storytelling vision that was decades ahead of its time. In honor of this extraordinary talent’s centennial, DC Comics is proud to re-present the groundbreaking work of the King of Comics in a brand-new series of trade paperback editions collecting his classic DC titles in all their four-color glory! Revisit this bygone era—and thrill to the imaginative power of one of the medium’s greatest masters—in SUPER POWERS BY JACK KIRBY, collecting both of the dimension-spanning sagas that capped off the King’s triumphant tenure at DC. Collects SUPER POWERS #1-6.