Ebony White, the Glossary
Ebony White is a fictional character from the 1940s syndicated newspaper comics series The Spirit, created by Will Eisner.[1]
Table of Contents
39 relations: Alter Ego (magazine), Bill Mumy, Black people, Bleeding Cool, Brian Azzarello, Bumper Robinson, Charles Dickens, Comic book letter column, Comics, ComicsAlliance, DC Comics, Fagin the Jew, Graphic novel, Horatio Alger, Kitchen Sink Press, List of DC Comics imprints, Lost in Space, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Minstrel show, Negro, New York Herald Tribune, Penrod, Pickaninny, Private investigator, Pun, Quality Comics, Reed Crandall, Robert Merrill, Sheet music, Sidekick, Spirit (comics character), Stereotype, Taxi, The Spirit (2008 film), Tom Sawyer, Uncle Tom, United States, Warren Publishing, Will Eisner.
- African-Americans in comic strips
- Characters created by Will Eisner
- Comic book sidekicks
- DC Comics characters
- Fictional drivers
- Fictional taxi drivers
Alter Ego (magazine)
Alter Ego is an American magazine devoted to comic books and comic-book creators of the 1930s to late-1960s periods comprising what fans and historians call the Golden Age and Silver Age of Comic Books.
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Bill Mumy
Charles William Mumy Jr. (born February 1, 1954) is an American actor, writer, and musician and a figure in the science-fiction community/comic book fandom.
Black people
Black is a racialized classification of people, usually a political and skin color-based category for specific populations with a mid- to dark brown complexion.
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Bleeding Cool
Bleeding Cool is an Internet news site, focusing on comics, television, film, board games, and video games.
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Brian Azzarello
Brian Azzarello (born August 11, 1962) is an American comic book writer and screenwriter who first came to prominence with the hardboiled crime series 100 Bullets, published by DC Comics' mature-audience imprint Vertigo.
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Bumper Robinson
Larry C. "Bumper" Robinson II is an American film, television and voice actor.
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Charles Dickens
Charles John Huffam Dickens (7 February 1812 – 9 June 1870) was an English novelist, journalist, short story writer and social critic.
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Comic book letter column
A comic book letter column is a section of an American comic book where readers' letters to the publisher appear.
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Comics
a medium used to express ideas with images, often combined with text or other visual information.
ComicsAlliance
ComicsAlliance was an American website dedicated to covering the comic book industry as well as comic-related media, and is owned by Townsquare Media.
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DC Comics
DC Comics, Inc. (doing business as DC) is an American comic book publisher and the flagship unit of DC Entertainment, a subsidiary of Warner Bros. Discovery.
Fagin the Jew
Fagin the Jew is a graphic novel by American cartoonist Will Eisner.
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Graphic novel
A graphic novel is a long-form work of sequential art.
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Horatio Alger
Horatio Alger Jr. (January 13, 1832 – July 18, 1899) was an American author who wrote young adult novels about impoverished boys and their rise from humble backgrounds to middle-class security and comfort through good works.
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Kitchen Sink Press
Kitchen Sink Press was a comic book publishing company founded by Denis Kitchen in 1970.
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List of DC Comics imprints
DC Comics has published a number of other imprints and lines of comics over the years.
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Lost in Space
Lost in Space is an American science fiction television series, created and produced by Irwin Allen, which originally aired between 1965 and 1968 on CBS.
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Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc. (also known as Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures, commonly shortened to MGM), is an American media company specializing in film and television production and distribution based in Beverly Hills, California.
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Minstrel show
The minstrel show, also called minstrelsy, was an American form of theater developed in the early 19th century.
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Negro
In the English language, the term negro (or sometimes negress for a female) is a term historically used to refer to people of Black African heritage.
New York Herald Tribune
The New York Herald Tribune was a newspaper published between 1924 and 1966.
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Penrod
Penrod is a collection of comic sketches by Booth Tarkington that was first published in 1914.
Pickaninny
Pickaninny (also picaninny, piccaninny or pickininnie) is a pidgin word for a small child, possibly derived from the Portuguese pequenino ('boy, child, very small, tiny').
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Private investigator
A private investigator (often abbreviated to PI and informally called a private eye), a private detective, or inquiry agent is a person who can be hired by individuals or groups to undertake investigatory law services.
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Pun
A pun, also known as a paranomasia in the context of linguistics, is a form of word play that exploits multiple meanings of a term, or of similar-sounding words, for an intended humorous or rhetorical effect.
Quality Comics
Quality Comics was an American comic book publishing company which operated from 1937 to 1956 and was a creative, influential force in what historians and fans call the Golden Age of Comic Books.
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Reed Crandall
Reed Leonard Crandall (February 22, 1917 – September 13, 1982) at the Social Security Death Index, via GenealogyBank.com; and via, citing U.S. Social Security Administration, Death Master File, database (Alexandria, Virginia: National Technical Information Service, ongoing. Retrieved on 22 February 2013.
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Robert Merrill
Robert Merrill (June 4, 1917 – October 23, 2004) was an American operatic baritone and actor, who was also active in the musical theatre circuit.
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Sheet music
Sheet music is a handwritten or printed form of musical notation that uses musical symbols to indicate the pitches, rhythms, or chords of a song or instrumental musical piece.
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Sidekick
A sidekick is a slang expression for a close companion or colleague who is, or is generally regarded as, subordinate to those whom they accompany.
Spirit (comics character)
The Spirit is a fictional masked crimefighter appearing in American comic books. Ebony White and Spirit (comics character) are characters created by Will Eisner, comics characters introduced in 1940, dC Comics characters and Male characters in comics.
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Stereotype
In social psychology, a stereotype is a generalized belief about a particular category of people.
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Taxi
A taxi, also known as a taxicab or simply a cab, is a type of vehicle for hire with a driver, used by a single passenger or small group of passengers, often for a non-shared ride.
The Spirit (2008 film)
The Spirit is a 2008 American neo-noir superhero film written and directed by Frank Miller and starring Gabriel Macht, Eva Mendes, Sarah Paulson, Dan Lauria, Paz Vega, Scarlett Johansson, and Samuel L. Jackson.
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Tom Sawyer
Thomas "Tom" Sawyer is the title character of the Mark Twain novel The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876).
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Uncle Tom
Uncle Tom is the title character of Harriet Beecher Stowe's 1852 novel Uncle Tom's Cabin.
United States
The United States of America (USA or U.S.A.), commonly known as the United States (US or U.S.) or America, is a country primarily located in North America.
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Warren Publishing
Warren Publishing was an American magazine company founded by James Warren, who published his first magazines in 1957 and continued in the business for decades.
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Will Eisner
William Erwin Eisner (March 6, 1917 – January 3, 2005) was an American cartoonist, writer, and entrepreneur.
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See also
African-Americans in comic strips
- Angelfood McSpade
- Candorville
- Curtis (comic strip)
- Dateline: Danger!
- Ebony White
- Franklin (Peanuts)
- Friday Foster
- Herb and Jamaal
- Jump Start (comic strip)
- Lobo (Dell Comics)
- Luther (comic strip)
- Quincy (comic strip)
- The Boondocks
- The Boondocks (comic strip)
- The K Chronicles
- Watch Your Head
- Wee Pals
Characters created by Will Eisner
- Black Condor
- Blackhawk (DC Comics)
- Doll Man
- Ebony White
- Flame (comics)
- Lady Luck (comics)
- Sheena, Queen of the Jungle
- Spirit (comics character)
- Uncle Sam (comics)
- Wonder Man (Fox Publications)
Comic book sidekicks
- Abe Sapien
- Ebony White
- Eva Kant
- J. Wellington Wimpy
- Jerom
- Jolly Jumper
- Jughead Jones
- Kato (The Green Hornet)
- List of comic book sidekicks
- Little Wise Guys
- Maggy (Monica and Friends)
- Marcie
- Obelix
- Oliver B. Bumble
- Rantanplan
- Rocko
- Shermy
- Smudge (Monica and Friends)
- Snowy (character)
- Spip (comics character)
- Woodstock (Peanuts)
DC Comics characters
- Batman (Jace Fox)
- Batman and Superman
- Brimstone (DC Comics)
- Calendar Girl (DC Comics)
- Captain Compass
- Cassie Cage
- Chief Parker
- Chris King and Vicki Grant
- DC Comics: Anatomy of a Metahuman
- Danny the Street
- Ebony White
- Ellen Dolan (comics)
- Haunted Tank
- Johnny DC
- Johnny Reb
- Kid Flash
- Kung Jin
- Lana Lang
- Legs (character)
- Lena Luthor
- Lex Luthor (Arrowverse)
- Lists of DC Comics characters
- Mademoiselle Marie
- Paco (character)
- Peter Gambi
- Presence (DC Comics)
- R. J. Brande
- Rex the Wonder Dog
- Robby Reed
- Sea Devils (comics)
- Shvaughn Erin
- Silver St. Cloud
- Snagglepuss
- Spirit (comics character)
- Stanley and His Monster
- Static (DC Comics)
- Sugar and Spike
- Tamara Fox
- Titans of Myth (comics)
- Tomahawk (character)
- Valerie Perez
- Winky, Blinky, and Noddy
- Woozy Winks
- Zola (DC Comics)
Fictional drivers
- Alan Scott
- Asami Sato
- Barney Gumble
- Bulma
- Clutch (G.I. Joe)
- Cobra Troopers
- Copperhead (G.I. Joe)
- Cover Girl (G.I. Joe)
- Cross-Country (G.I. Joe)
- Deep Six (G.I. Joe)
- Ebony White
- Frostbite (G.I. Joe)
- Ghost Rider (Robbie Reyes)
- Happy Hogan (character)
- John Wick (character)
- Kimmy Schmidt
- Long Range (G.I. Joe)
- Max Rockatansky
- Michael Knight (Knight Rider)
- Mr. Toad
- Mrs. Puff
- My Driver
- Overdrive (character)
- Portrayal of James Bond in film
- Punisher 2099
- Sgt. Slaughter (G.I. Joe)
- Steeler (G.I. Joe)
- Thrasher (G.I. Joe)
- Trinity (The Matrix)
- Turtle (Entourage)
- Yamcha
- Zanzibar (G.I. Joe)
Fictional taxi drivers
- Adrian "Fletch" Fletcher
- Ali Osman
- Archie Bunker
- Charlie Slater
- Chas Dingle
- Claire Peacock
- Clyde Tavernier
- Darren Miller
- Debbie Dingle
- Denise Fox
- Doiby Dickles
- Ebony White
- Eddie Windass
- Frazer Yeats
- Harvey Monroe
- Jamie Baldwin
- Jim Ignatowski
- Joe Scully
- John Stape
- Karl Munro
- Kazuma Kiryu
- Ken Barlow
- Les Battersby
- Lisa Dingle
- Lloyd Mullaney
- Maxine Minniver
- Mehmet Osman
- Mick Johnson
- Mickey Miller
- Mohinder Suresh
- Moon Knight
- Niko Bellic
- Noddy (character)
- Peter Barlow (Coronation Street)
- Ricky Butcher
- Sallah
- Silver Streak (character)
- Space Cabbie
- Steve McDonald (Coronation Street)
- Terry Sullivan (Brookside)
- Tim Metcalfe (Coronation Street)
- Tony Carpenter
- Tony Hutchinson
- Travis Bickle
- Tyrone Dobbs
- Vernon Tomlin
- Vinnie Monks
- Walrus (Marvel Comics)
- Zak Dingle