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My Adventures with Superman
US animated tv series (2023-current). Warner Bros. Animation, DC Studios, Studio Mir. Based on the DC Comics characters created by Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster. Series developed by Jake Wyatt. Directed by Jen Bennett, Diana Huh and Christina Manrique. Writers include Aman Adumer, Josie Campbell, Brendan Clogher, Angela Entzminger, Cynthia Furey, M Willis and Jake Wyatt. Voice cast includes ...
Futuristic Stories
UK pulp-size magazine. Two undated issues, 1946, published by Hamilton & Co, Stafford; edited anonymously by Dennis H Pratt. Futuristic Stories was poor-quality, juvenile, and of little interest. As with its companion magazine, Strange Adventures, the entire contents were written by Norman Firth. [FHP] links / ...
Invisible Avenger, The
Japanese film (1954). Original title Tomei Ningen; vt The Invisible Man. Toho. Directed by Motoyoshi Oda. Written by Shigeaki Hidaka. Special effects by Eiji Tsuburaya. Cast includes Seizaburo Kawazu, Minoru Takada and Yoshio Tsuchiya. 70 minutes. Black and white. / During World War Two, Japanese Scientists secretly created a troop of invisible ...
Hydrozagadka
["Hydro-Mystery"] Polish film (1971). Zespół Filmowy Plan. Directed by Andrzej Kondratiuk. Written by Andrzej Bonarski and Andrzej Kondratiuk. Cast includes Iga Cembrzyńska, Roman Kłosowski, Zdzisław Maklakiewicz, Wiesław Michnikowski and Józef Nowak. 70 minutes. Black and white. / Hydro-Mystery uses the Superhero genre as a vehicle for Satire. Shot in ...
Ponson du Terrail, Pierre-Alexis
(1829-1871) French author, mostly of popular fiction, best known for the character Rocambole, an Antihero who prefigures many similar adventurers who begin their careers as criminals and end up working, usually in secret, to defend society, a list which includes Maurice LeBlanc's Arsène Lupin, Doc Savage, Leslie Charteris's The Saint, and others; ...
Robinson, Roger
(1943- ) UK computer programmer, bibliographer and publisher, active in UK Fandom for many years. The Writings of Henry Kenneth Bulmer (1983 chap; rev 1984 chap) is an exhaustive Bibliography of one of the most prolific sf writers, Kenneth Bulmer, and Who's Hugh?: An SF Reader's Guide to Pseudonyms (1987) is similarly exhaustive in its ...