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Jan Strnad, the Glossary

Jan Steven Strnad (sometimes credited as J. Knight) is an American writer of comic books, horror, and science fiction.^[1]

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A1 (comics)

A1 is a graphic novel anthology series published by British company Atomeka Press.

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Ace Ventura: Pet Detective (TV series)

Ace Ventura: Pet Detective is an animated television series based on the film of the same name.

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Aladdin: The Series (also known as Disney's Aladdin: The Series) is an American animated television series produced by Walt Disney Television Animation that aired from February 6, 1994, to November 25, 1995, concluding exactly three years to the day from the release of the original Disney's 1992 animated feature film of the same name on which it was based.

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Alan Kupperberg

Alan Kupperberg (May 18, 1953 – July 16, 2015) was an American comics artist known for working in both comic books and newspaper strips. Jan Strnad and Alan Kupperberg are American comics writers.

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Atom (Ray Palmer)

The Atom (Ray Palmer) is a superhero appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics.

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Atomeka Press

Atomeka Press is a British publisher of comic books set up in 1988 by Dave Elliott and Garry Leach.

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Back Issue!

Back Issue! is an American magazine published by TwoMorrows Publishing, based in Raleigh, North Carolina.

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Batman Black and White

Batman Black and White refers to the comic book limited series published by DC Comics featuring 8-page black and white Batman stories.

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Bernie Wrightson

Bernard Albert Wrightson (October 27, 1948 – March 18, 2017) was an American artist, known for co-creating the Swamp Thing, his adaptation of the novel Frankenstein illustration work, and for his other horror comics and illustrations, which feature his trademark intricate pen and brushwork.

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Brandy & Mr. Whiskers

Brandy & Mr.

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Bud Plant Inc.

Bud Plant Inc. was a wholesale comics distributor active in the 1970s and 1980s during the growth of the direct market.

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Buzz Lightyear of Star Command

Buzz Lightyear of Star Command is an American animated science fiction comedy television series produced by Walt Disney Television Animation and co-produced by Pixar Animation Studios.

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Catalan Communications

Catalan Communications was a New York City publishing company that existed from 1983 to 1991.

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Clive Barker

Clive Barker (born 5 October 1952) is an English novelist who came to prominence in the mid-1980s with a series of short stories, the Books of Blood, which established him as a leading horror writer.

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Comic book

A comic book, also called comicbook, comic magazine or simply comic, is a publication that consists of comics art in the form of sequential juxtaposed panels that represent individual scenes.

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Comic Book Resources

CBR, formerly Comic Book Resources, is a news website covering movies, television, anime, video games and comic book–related news and discussion.

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Comics Buyer's Guide

Comics Buyer's Guide (CBG), established in 1971, was the longest-running English-language periodical reporting on the American comic book industry.

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CreateSpace

On-Demand Publishing, LLC, doing business as CreateSpace, was a self-publishing service owned by Amazon.

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Creepy (magazine)

Creepy was an American horror comics magazine launched by Warren Publishing in 1964.

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Czech Americans

Czech Americans (Čechoameričané), known in the 19th and early 20th century as Bohemian Americans, are citizens of the United States whose ancestry is wholly or partly originate from the Czech lands, a term which refers to the majority of the traditional lands of the Bohemian Crown, namely Bohemia, Moravia and Czech Silesia. Jan Strnad and Czech Americans are American people of Czech descent.

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Dark Horse Comics

Dark Horse Comics is an American comic book, graphic novel, and manga publisher founded in Milwaukie, Oregon by Mike Richardson in 1986.

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Darko Macan

Darko Macan (born 1966) is a Croatian writer and illustrator who has created and collaborated on comics, essays and science fiction and fantasy. Jan Strnad and Darko Macan are comics critics.

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Darkwing Duck

Darkwing Duck is an American animated superhero comedy television series produced by Disney Television Animation (formerly Walt Disney Television Animation) that first ran from 1991 to 1992 on both the syndicated programming block The Disney Afternoon and Saturday mornings on ABC.

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Dave Simons

Dave Simons (December 20, 1954 – June 9, 2009) was an American comic book artist known for his work on Conan, Ghost Rider, Red Sonja, and Spider-Man for Marvel Comics and Forgotten Realms for DC Comics. Jan Strnad and Dave Simons are American comics writers.

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Davidé Fabbri

Davidé Fabbri is an Italian comic book artist.

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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.

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Den (comics)

Den is the name of two identical sword and planet fictional characters created by Richard Corben.

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Disney Television Animation

Disney Television Animation (DTVA) (formerly known as Walt Disney Pictures Television Animation Group and Walt Disney Television Animation) is an American animation studio that serves as the television animation production arm of Disney Branded Television, a division of Disney General Entertainment Content, which is a division of Disney Entertainment.

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Eclipse Comics

Eclipse Comics was an American comic book publisher, one of several independent publishers during the 1980s and early 1990s.

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Epic Comics

Epic Comics (also known as the Epic Comics Group)Shooter, Jim.

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Epic Illustrated

Epic Illustrated was a comics anthology in magazine format published in the United States by Marvel Comics.

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Fandom

A fandom is a subculture composed of fans characterized by a feeling of camaraderie with others who share a common interest.

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Fantagraphics

Fantagraphics (previously Fantagraphics Books) is an American publisher of alternative comics, classic comic strip anthologies, manga, magazines, graphic novels, and (formerly) the erotic Eros Comix imprint.

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Fanzine

A fanzine (blend of fan and magazine or -zine) is a non-professional and non-official publication produced by enthusiasts of a particular cultural phenomenon (such as a literary or musical genre) for the pleasure of others who share their interest.

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Gil Kane

Gil Kane (born Eli Katz,; April 6, 1926 – January 31, 2000) was a Latvian-born American comics artist whose career spanned the 1940s to the 1990s and virtually every major comics company and character. Jan Strnad and Gil Kane are American comics writers.

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Gilbert Hernandez

Gilberto Hernández (born February 1, 1957), usually credited as Gilbert Hernandez and also by the nickname Beto, is an American cartoonist. Jan Strnad and Gilbert Hernandez are American comics writers.

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Goethe Awards

The Goethe Award, later known as the Comic Fan Art Award, was an American series of comic book fan awards, first presented in 1971 for comics published in 1970.

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Goof Troop

Goof Troop is an American animated television series and sitcom produced by Walt Disney Television Animation.

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Grand Central Publishing

Grand Central Publishing is a book publishing imprint of Hachette Book Group, originally established in 1970 as Warner Books when Kinney National Company acquired the Paperback Library.

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Harold and the Purple Crayon

Harold and the Purple Crayon is a 1955 children's picture book written and illustrated by Crockett Johnson.

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Heavy Metal was an American science fiction and fantasy comics magazine, published between 1977 and 2023.

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Hercules (1998 TV series)

Disney's Hercules: The Animated Series (commonly referred to as simply Hercules) is an American animated television series based on the 1997 film of the same name and the Greek myth.

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Horror fiction

Horror is a genre of fiction that is intended to disturb, frighten, or scare.

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House of Mouse

Disney's House of Mouse (or simply House of Mouse) is an American animated television series produced by Walt Disney Television Animation that originally aired on ABC and Toon Disney from January 13, 2001, to October 24, 2003, with 52 episodes and 22 newly produced cartoon shorts made for the series.

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IDW Publishing

IDW Publishing is an American publisher of comic books, graphic novels, art books, and comic strip collections.

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Iron Man (TV series)

Iron Man, also known as Iron Man: The Animated Series, is an American animated television series based on Marvel Comics' superhero, Iron Man.

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Jackie Chan Adventures

Jackie Chan Adventures is an animated television series developed by John Rogers, Duane Capizzi and Jeff Kline, and produced by Sony Pictures Television (previously Columbia TriStar Television for the first three seasons), Adelaide Productions, The JC Group and Blue Train Entertainment.

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Jame Retief

Jame Retief is the main character in a series of satirical science fiction stories by Keith Laumer.

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Jim Mooney

James Noel Mooney (August 13, 1919 – March 30, 2008) was an American comics artist best known for his long tenure at DC Comics and as the signature artist of Supergirl, as well as a Marvel Comics inker and Spider-Man artist, both during what comics historians and fans call the Silver Age of Comic Books and what is known as the Bronze Age of Comic Books.

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John Steinbeck

John Ernst Steinbeck --> (February 27, 1902 – December 20, 1968) was an American writer.

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Keith Laumer

John Keith Laumer (–) was an American science fiction author.

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Kevin Nowlan

Kevin Nowlan (born 1958) is an American comics artist who works as a penciler, inker, colorist, and letterer.

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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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Lilo & Stitch: The Series

Lilo & Stitch: The Series (titled simply as Disney's Lilo & Stitch on its title card and on U.S. copyright registrations) is an American animated television series produced by Walt Disney Television Animation.

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Live-action animated film

Live-action animated is a film genre that combines live-action filmmaking with animation.

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Magazine Management

Magazine Management Co., Inc. was an American publishing company lasting from at least c. 1947 to the early 1970s, known for men's-adventure magazines, risqué men's magazines, humor, romance, puzzle, celebrity/film and other types of magazines, and later adding comic books and black-and-white comics magazines to the mix.

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Mark Chiarello

Mark Chiarello (born October 31, 1960) is an American illustrator, art director and comic book editor.

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Mark Twain

Samuel Langhorne Clemens (November 30, 1835 – April 21, 1910), known by the pen name Mark Twain, was an American writer, humorist, and essayist.

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Marvel Comics

Marvel Comics is an American comic book publisher and the property of The Walt Disney Company since December 31, 2009, and a subsidiary of Disney Publishing Worldwide since March 2023.

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Marvel Two-in-One

Marvel Two-in-One is an American comic book series published by Marvel Comics featuring Fantastic Four member the Thing in a different team-up each issue.

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MEAD (film)

MEAD is a 2022 science fiction live-action animated film based on the story "To Meet the Faces You Meet" from the comic book Fever Dreams by Jan Strnad and Richard Corben.

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Michael A. Stackpole

Michael Austin Stackpole (born November 27, 1957) is an American science fiction and fantasy author best known for his Star Wars and BattleTech books.

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Mirage Studios

Mirage Studios was an American comic book company founded in 1983 by Kevin Eastman and Peter Laird in Dover, New Hampshire.

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Parallax Studio

Parallax Studio is an American animation studio based in Nixa, Missouri, created by J. Allen Williams.

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Pat Broderick

Pat Broderick (born November 26, 1953) is an American comics artist, known for his work on the Micronauts and Alpha Flight for Marvel Comics, and Legion of Super-Heroes, Captain Atom and Green Lantern for DC Comics.

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Patrick Warburton

Patrick Warburton (born November 14, 1964) is an American actor.

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Patton Oswalt

Patton Peter Oswalt (born January 27, 1969) is an American stand-up comedian and actor. Jan Strnad and Patton Oswalt are American comics writers.

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Penthouse (magazine)

Penthouse is a men's magazine founded by Bob Guccione and published by Los Angeles–based Penthouse World Media, LLC.

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Penthouse Comix

Penthouse Comix is an American mass-market, magazine-sized comic book, published by Penthouse International/General Media Communications from spring 1994 through July 1998 and 2024 to present.

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Project G.e.e.K.e.R.

Project G.e.e.K.e.R. is an animated television series that premiered on CBS on September 14, 1996.

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Richard Corben

Richard Corben (November 1, 1940December 2, 2020) was an American illustrator and comic book artist best known for his comics featured in Heavy Metal magazine, especially the Den series which was featured in the magazine's first film adaptation in 1981.

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Rick Leonardi

Rick Leonardi (born August 9, 1957) is an American comics artist who has worked on various series for Marvel Comics and DC Comics, including Cloak and Dagger, The Uncanny X-Men, The New Mutants, Spider-Man 2099, Nightwing, Batgirl, Green Lantern Versus Aliens and Superman.

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Rip Off Press

Rip Off Press Inc. is a comic book mail order retailer and distributor, better known as the former publisher of adult-themed series like The Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers and Rip Off Comix, as well as many other seminal publications from the underground comix era.

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Robert Picardo

Robert Alphonse Picardo (born October 27, 1953) is an American actor.

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RoboCop: Alpha Commando

RoboCop: Alpha Commando is a 1998–1999 animated series based on the Orion Pictures film RoboCop and the series/films that followed.

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Rocket's Blast Comicollector

Rocket's Blast Comicollector (RBCC) was a comics advertising fanzine published from 1964 to 1983.

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Sabrina: The Animated Series

Sabrina: The Animated Series is an American animated television series based on the Archie Comics series Sabrina the Teenage Witch.

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Samuel Hunt (actor)

Samuel Caleb Hunt (born October 10, 1986) is an American actor best known for his reoccurring role as Greg "Mouse" Gerwitz in the television series Chicago Fire and Chicago P.D., playing Xavier Rosen in the third season of Empire, and for starring in the 2018 film Unbroken: Path to Redemption, in which he portrayed the World War II veteran and evangelist Louis Zamperini.

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Science fiction

Science fiction (sometimes shortened to SF or sci-fi) is a genre of speculative fiction, which typically deals with imaginative and futuristic concepts such as advanced science and technology, space exploration, time travel, parallel universes, and extraterrestrial life.

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Secret Origins

Secret Origins is the title of several comic book series published by DC Comics which featured the origin stories of the publisher's various characters.

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Sitting Ducks (TV series)

Sitting Ducks is a CGI-animated children's television series based on the 1977 "Sitting Ducks" lithograph and the 1998 children's book of the same name, created by the poster artist Michael Bedard.

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Skeleton Warriors

Skeleton Warriors is a 13-episode cartoon series created by Landmark Entertainment Group, which originally aired in 1994 on CBS.

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Spider-Man (1994 TV series)

Spider-Man, also known as Spider-Man: The Animated Series, is an American superhero animated television series based on the Marvel Comics superhero of the same name.

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Spirit (comics character)

The Spirit is a fictional masked crimefighter appearing in American comic books.

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SpongeBob SquarePants

SpongeBob SquarePants is an American animated television series created by marine science educator and animator Stephen Hillenburg that first aired on Nickelodeon as a sneak peek after the 1999 Kids' Choice Awards on May 1, 1999, and officially premiered on July 17, 1999.

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Stalkers (comics)

Stalkers is a comic book series that lasted twelve issues created in 1990 by Jan Strnad, Mark Verheiden and Mark Texeira, and published by Marvel Comics imprint Epic Comics.

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Star Wars comics

Star Wars comics have been produced by various comic book publishers since the debut of the 1977 film Star Wars.

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Star Wars has been expanded to media other than the original films.

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Star Wars: Republic

Star Wars: Republic is an American comic book series set in the fictional Star Wars universe.

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Star Wars: X-wing – Rogue Squadron

Star Wars: X-wing – Rogue Squadron is a series of comic books written by Michael Stackpole (who also wrote the ''Star Wars: X-wing'' book series) and Darko Macan and published by Dark Horse Comics.

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Starship Troopers

Starship Troopers is a military science fiction novel by American writer Robert A. Heinlein.

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Steve Buccellato

Steve Buccellato (born May 1968) is a freelance artist and self-publisher who has worked in the comics industry as a colorist, writer, penciller, and editor.

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Streaming media refers to multimedia for playback using an offline or online media player that is delivered through a network.

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TaleSpin

TaleSpin is an American animated television series first aired in 1990 as a preview on Disney Channel and later that year as part of The Disney Afternoon.

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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (Mirage Studios)

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (TMNT) is a comic book series that was published by Mirage Studios between 1984 and 2014.

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The Amazing Spider-Man

The Amazing Spider-Man is an ongoing American superhero comic book series featuring the Marvel Comics superhero Spider-Man as its title character and main protagonist.

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The Avengers: United They Stand

The Avengers: United They Stand (also known simply as The Avengers) is an animated series based on the Marvel Comics superhero team Avengers.

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The Comics Journal

The Comics Journal, often abbreviated TCJ, is an American magazine of news and criticism pertaining to comic books, comic strips and graphic novels.

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The Return of Jafar

The Return of Jafar (sometimes marketed as Aladdin: The Return of Jafar on re-release) is a 1994 American direct-to-video animated musical fantasy film produced by Walt Disney Pictures and Television.

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Tony Isabella

Tony Isabella (born December 22, 1951) is an American comic book writer, editor, actor, artist and critic, known as the creator and writer of Marvel Comics' Black Goliath; DC Comics' first major African-American superhero, Black Lightning; and as a columnist and critic for the Comics Buyer's Guide. Jan Strnad and Tony Isabella are American comics writers.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_Strnad

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