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Elliot S. Maggin

Auteur de Superman, Last Son of Krypton

82+ oeuvres 970 utilisateurs 17 critiques

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Crédit image: Elliot S! Maggin 2007 by Sarah L Maggin

Œuvres de Elliot S. Maggin

Superman, Last Son of Krypton (1978) 278 exemplaires
Kingdom Come (1998) — Auteur — 212 exemplaires
Superman: Miracle Monday (1981) 140 exemplaires
Generation X (1996) — Auteur — 99 exemplaires
Batman: The Blue, the Grey, the Bat (1992) — Auteur — 42 exemplaires
Star Raiders (1983) — Writer — 20 exemplaires
Kingdom Come [audio book] (1998) 16 exemplaires
Action Comics # 455 (1976) 3 exemplaires
Best of DC #40: Superman (1983) 3 exemplaires
Starwinds Howl (1999) 3 exemplaires
Superman [1939] #292 (1975) 2 exemplaires
Luthor's Gift 2 exemplaires
Wonder Woman, Vol. 1 #225 (1976) 2 exemplaires
Green Lantern/Green Arrow, Vol. 1, No. 6 (1983) — Auteur — 2 exemplaires
Superman [1939] #276 — Auteur — 2 exemplaires
Superman [1939] #279 (1974) — Auteur — 2 exemplaires
Action Comics # 437 (1974) 2 exemplaires
The Joker #4 (1975) (1975) — Auteur — 2 exemplaires
Action Comics # 459 2 exemplaires
Action Comics # 424 (1973) 2 exemplaires
Superman [1939] #376 (1982) — Writer — 2 exemplaires
Superman [1939] #394 (1939) 2 exemplaires
Superman [1939] #395 (1939) 2 exemplaires
Action Comics # 420 (1973) 2 exemplaires
Action Comics # 458 2 exemplaires
Action Comics # 642 2 exemplaires
SUPERMAN #414 (1985) 1 exemplaire
Shazam! (1973-1978) #13 — Auteur — 1 exemplaire
Superman [1939] #400 (1984) 1 exemplaire
The Joker (1975-1976) #8 — Auteur — 1 exemplaire
Tarzan Family #66 (1976) — Auteur — 1 exemplaire
The Joker (1975-1976) #7 — Auteur — 1 exemplaire
Not My Closet 1 exemplaire
Superman Family [1974] #171 (1975) — Writer — 1 exemplaire
Iliad {Classic Comic} 1 exemplaire
Superman [1939] #295 (1976) — Writer — 1 exemplaire
Superman n. 01 1 exemplaire
Superman n. 06 1 exemplaire
Superman n. 12 1 exemplaire
Justice League of America [1960] #119 (1975) — Auteur — 1 exemplaire
Superman Annual # 9 1 exemplaire
Action Comics # 429 1 exemplaire
Action Comics # 440 1 exemplaire
Action Comics # 448 1 exemplaire
Superman [1939] #267 1 exemplaire
Superman [1939] #293 (1975) 1 exemplaire
Not My Closet 1 exemplaire
Superman [1939] #277 (1974) 1 exemplaire
Superman Ultimo hijo de Krypton (1979) 1 exemplaire
Justice League of America [1960] #123 (1975) — Auteur — 1 exemplaire
Shazam! (1973-1978) #20 (1973) — Auteur — 1 exemplaire
Shazam! (1973-1978) #18 (1975) 1 exemplaire
TSR Worlds Annual 1990 #1 (1996) 1 exemplaire
The Joker #9 (1975) (1976) — Auteur — 1 exemplaire

Oeuvres associées

Crisis on Multiple Earths, Volume Four (2006) — Contributeur — 68 exemplaires
Wonder Woman: The Greatest Stories Ever Told (2007) — Contributeur — 64 exemplaires
Elseworlds: Batman Vol. 1 (2016) — Story, Author, quelques éditions62 exemplaires
Superman in the Seventies (2000) — Contributeur — 55 exemplaires
Superman: The Greatest Stories Ever Told, Vol. 1 (2004) — Contributeur — 51 exemplaires
Batman in the Seventies (1999) — Writer — 51 exemplaires
Green Arrow/Black Canary: For Better or For Worse (2007) — Contributeur — 39 exemplaires
Superman: The Greatest Stories Ever Told, Vol. 2 (2006) — Contributeur — 30 exemplaires
Batgirl: The Greatest Stories Ever Told (2010) — Auteur — 25 exemplaires
Path of the Bold: Superhero Anthology (2004) — Contributeur — 12 exemplaires
Best of DC #1: Superman — Contributeur — 5 exemplaires
Time Warp #5 (DC Series) (1980) — Auteur — 4 exemplaires
The Batman Family #1, October 1975 (1975) — Contributeur — 3 exemplaires
Secret Origins (1986-1990) #50 (1990) — Auteur — 2 exemplaires
World's Finest Comics [1941] #255 (1979) — Auteur — 2 exemplaires
Detective Comics # 436 — Auteur — 2 exemplaires
The Batman Family #5, June 1976 (1976) — Contributeur — 1 exemplaire
The Batman Family #6, August 1976 (1976) — Contributeur — 1 exemplaire

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Autres noms
Maggin, Elliot S!
Date de naissance
1950
Sexe
male
Nationalité
USA
Professions
writer

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Access a version of the below that includes illustrations on my blog.

This is a licensed story based on Atari videogames! As you might expect of a space adventure story from 1983, it's very Star Wars: it opens with a space battle over a desert planet, there's a hotshot pilot, a wise old man, an evil empire, a heroic resistance, and cute alien animals. The basic premise is that the insectoid Zylons control the galaxy; the pilot (Jed) and navigator (Tomorrow "Tommy" Hardtack) of a star cruiser come to a devastated planet where they find an immortal librarian (Zeke) and an old spaceship, the Star Raider. Jed and Tommy repair the Star Raider with Zeke's guidance, recruit more rebels, and have a couple run-ins with the Zylons. (There's also a bit of Battlestar Galactica in it, I guess.)

It's fun enough. Jed arguing with Zeke is a little overdone, and everyone goes off half-cocked and has to be rescued by someone else at some point. I liked Tommy (a riff in name if nothing else on the DC character Tommy Tomorrow of the Planeteers) the most; she's sublimely 1980s-- just look at those shoulderpads and that hair band-- and feels the least like a Star Wars character. The beautiful art by José Luis García López is probably the real selling point of this book; this story didn't deserve art this good, but it got it anyway! The only thing to not like about it is that Jed and Tommy's original ship has a confusingly similar design to the Star Raider. (But I would guess this has something to do with the original videogame on which the graphic novel is based.)

The set-up is good, but the ending feels rushed-- a significant connection between a minor character and the Zylon queen comes out of nowhere, allowing everything to be wrapped up easily. It felt like Maggin was setting up an ongoing series (there are a number of characters introduced who end up not doing much) and had to swerve to wrap everything up in twenty pages at the last minute. Still, if you want some 1980s spectacular space action, this is a quick, enjoyable read. Too bad there's no more adventures for these characters, because I'd read them.
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Stevil2001 | Jun 22, 2018 |
Rereading this recently and really enjoying the added details on the story not accessible in the graphic format. Good job, Elliot.
 
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SESchend | 2 autres critiques | Sep 6, 2017 |
Batman: The Blue, the Grey, and the Bat reimagines the caped crusader's story by casting Bruce Wayne as a Union Army colonel tasked by President Lincoln with tracking the disappearance of gold shipments in the Nevada territory. The Union needs these shipments to help fund the ongoing war effort against the Confederacy. Colonel Wayne adopts a foppish personality to throw off suspicion that he might be the mysterious Batman. Along the way, he teams with Agent R - a Native American named Redbird - and Agent H - Jim "Wild Bill" Hickok. He also pairs up with Samuel Clemens, though not in an official capacity. With Redbird's aid, Wayne musters escaped slaves as the Dark Knights to help uncover the conspiracy to steal the gold. Elliot S. Maggin and Alan Weiss' writing plays upon the expected tropes of a Western with various Civil War touches, though they appear to deliberately avoid anything but the most tacit acknowledgement of the Civil War and how it fundamentally reshaped the United States. Weiss' pencils combined with José Luis García-López's inks do a nice job of combining DC artistic styles from 1992 with those found in mid-nineteenth century broadsides. Overall, the narrative is entertaining, but it succeeds more as a concept than in its execution.… (plus d'informations)
 
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DarthDeverell | 1 autre critique | May 4, 2017 |
I bought a copy of this in paperback back when it was released and still own it today. Maggin showed how to move from comic writing to novel writing very well. One of the benchmarks of Superman novel fiction to date.
 
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Martin_Maenza | 4 autres critiques | Apr 14, 2017 |

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