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13-463: Alan Weiss may refer to: Alan Weiss (comics) (born 1948), American comic book artist Alan Weiss (musician) (born 1950), American musician Alan Weiss (mathematician) (born 1955), American mathematician and pioneer Alan Weiss (entrepreneur) (born 1946), American entrepreneur and author [REDACTED] Topics referred to by the same term This disambiguation page lists articles about people with

26-473: Is considered one of the authoritative bibles of the medium. The true-life anthology series of Big Books also found a niche following. The Big Book Of series was an anthology series, each devoted to a theme or concept, e.g., The Big Book of Conspiracies and The Big Book of Urban Legends . The imprint was phased out after attracting low sales, and most of the books under the Paradox label are out of print for

39-743: The Batman graphic novel The Blue, the Grey and the Bat as well as Paradox Press ' The Big Book Of series, doing many pages on a variety of historical topics. From 2002 to 2005, he contributed work to Tom Strong 's Terrific Tales published by America's Best Comics . His work has appeared in the comic books The Human Drama , Big Apple Comix , The Twilight Zone , Boris Karloff Tales of Mystery , and Our Love Story ; in Warren Publishing 's black-and-white horror comics magazines Creepy and Eerie ; and

52-734: The Captain Marvel character for DC with Weiss providing more realistic art for the series. Dennis O'Neil and Weiss created the character Calypso in The Amazing Spider-Man #209 (Oct. 1980). Weiss created the Steelgrip Starkey and the All-Purpose Power Tool limited series for Marvel Comics ' Epic Comics comics line in 1986 and War Dancer for Defiant Comics in 1994. Weiss has worked on DC Comics' alternate universe series Elseworlds , co-writing and pencilling

65-504: The foreseeable future. Those books that have remained in print were rereleased under DC's more lucrative Vertigo label. Below is a list of books published under the Paradox Press logo: In addition, several magazines entitled Weird collected reprint material from the above volumes. Slated for 2001 Paradox Press had intentions to release a book known as The Big Book of Wild Women . From time to time mentions of this book can be found on

78-451: The graphic novel demographic, the line produced only a handful of books over its decade-long history. While almost all received critical acclaim, none reached high sales amongst the general graphic-novel and comic book reading populace. Two of the imprint's books— A History of Violence and Road to Perdition —were adapted into successful films, and Scott McCloud 's Understanding Comics (originally published through Kitchen Sink Press )

91-400: The helm in 2000 at the time of the line's final three Big Books , none of which ever saw publication. Paradox Press was designed to publish graphic novels that were not of the superhero genre (as comprises most of DC's publishing efforts) and without the fantasy and sci-fi elements of DC's "mature reader" line Vertigo comics . Because of the limited interest in non-fantasy stories among

104-578: The internet. The book is narrated by "Susie the Floozie". The book was to profile notable women throughout history who had made an impact on our culture while pushing the envelope of unconventional behavior. Among the women to be profiled were risqué nightclub singer -comic Rusty Warren , B-movie goddess Tura Satana , presidential candidate Victoria Woodhull , 19th century sex star Lola Montes , legendary seductress Cleopatra , scandalous writer Anaïs Nin and kinky pin-up icon Bettie Page . According to DC comics

117-542: The same name. If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Alan_Weiss&oldid=877664159 " Category : Human name disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Alan Weiss (comics) Alan Weiss began his professional comics career at Warren Publishing by drawing

130-402: The satirical magazines National Lampoon and Blast . Inker Joe Rubinstein called Weiss "the most difficult guy in the business to ink, without exception." He added that this also made him one of his favorite artists to ink, because Weiss's work was so intricate that he couldn't tell what the final art would look like until he had finished inking it. Paradox Press Paradox Press

143-472: The second volume of Marvel Masterworks : Warlock . The remainder of the artwork was lost in a New York City taxicab in 1976. In 1977, Weiss was one of the artists on the first issue of Marvel Comics Super Special which featured the rock band Kiss in a 40-page fictional adventure written by Steve Gerber . Kiss reappeared in an occult adventure in issue #5 (1978) which was co-written by Weiss. In April 1978, Weiss and writer E. Nelson Bridwell revamped

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156-609: The story "Gunsmoke Charly!" in Creepy #35 (Sept. 1970). The following year, he began working for Marvel Comics as well where he drew The Avengers , Captain America , Daredevil , Sub-Mariner , and The Amazing Spider-Man . Weiss recalled in a 2006 interview there was a " lost " Adam Warlock story, which if completed would have been reminiscent of the Jonathan Swift novel Gulliver's Travels . Portions of it were printed in

169-449: Was a division of DC Comics formed in 1993 after editor Mark Nevelow departed from Piranha Press . Under the initial editorship of Andrew Helfer and Bronwyn Carlton , the imprint was renamed. Paradox was best known for publishing the graphic novels A History of Violence and Road to Perdition , both of which were later adapted into feature films. Jim Higgins edited the line after Helfer's departure, and Heidi MacDonald briefly took

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