Lunatik is a fictional character appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics .
28-675: Lunatik first appeared in Defenders #51 (September 1977), though a later retcon identifies him as an incarnation of Arisen Turk, a character who appeared in Creatures on the Loose #35-37 (May-September 1975), by writer David Anthony Kraft and artist George Pérez . According to Kraft, he had been trying to link Lunatik to the Creatures on the Loose story arc during his time as writer on Defenders , and his successor Ed Hannigan picked up on this, but made
56-429: A Punisher limited series in 1986 and an original hardcover graphic novel of the character three years later. Grant's creator-owned character, the female ninja Whisper, debuted at Capital Comics in 1983, though the company's publishing arm folded after only two issues and a promotional poster of the series were published. Several months after First Comics picked up two other Capital publications ( Nexus and
84-534: A box of cereal and across the label where the name of the cereal would be I pencilled in "shit". So I figured, because I used to write nutty comments in the borders and stuff, I thought they'd get a laugh out of it and change it. So they gave it to [Peru-born inker] Pablo Marcos and I don’t know if he knew how to read English or not but he inked it. I walked in one day [to Marvel] ... and [editor-in-chief Jim] Shooter started yelling, "What did you do? Look at it! They called me upstairs and showed me this," and I said, "Wait
112-533: A conclusion to Steve Gerber 's Omega the Unknown series in two issues of The Defenders at the end of which most of the original series' characters were killed. While Gerber seemed unhappy with Grant's conclusion, it nevertheless tied up the loose ends of the comic series. In 1982, Grant, Mark Gruenwald , and Bill Mantlo co-wrote Marvel Super Hero Contest of Champions , the first limited series published by Marvel Comics. Grant and artist Mike Zeck produced
140-1020: A different connection between the two than Kraft had had in mind. Keith Giffen stated "Lunatik was a character I came up with in high school. When it went radically wrong, I went to DC [Comics and] took the basic concept of Lunatik and ... split [it] into two characters: Lobo had his mercilessness, and Ambush Bug had his goofiness." The character was created and designed in a hurry, with his appearance based on Alice Cooper , when Giffen suddenly left Marvel to work for DC Comics . The character subsequently appears in Defenders #51-53 (September-November 1977), #55-56 (January-February 1978), #61-62 (July-August 1978), #64-65 (October-November 1978), Marvel Premiere #45-46 (December 1978, February 1979), and Defenders #70-73 (April-July 1979). An unrelated character, also named Lunatik, appears in Marvel Comics Presents #172-175 and Lunatik #1 (December 1995). He
168-451: A few issues of Classics Illustrated at First. At Dark Horse Comics , Grant wrote several limited and ongoing series in the short-lived Dark Horse shared superhero continuity, including the entire two-year run of the series X . His creation Enemy, published by Dark Horse, was optioned and produced as a Fox pilot, but ultimately did not air. He wrote numerous stories for DC Comics in the 1990s and created new versions of Manhunter and
196-404: A minute. That thing goes through an assistant editor, an editor, a proofreader and then you’re supposed to read it. And no one picked it up so don't blame me." So what happened was he said fine, just don't write anymore comments on your pages. Suffering from creative burnout on the series, DeMatteis felt a change was needed. As of issue #125, The Defenders was retitled to The New Defenders as
224-538: A number of works for Marvel. In addition to bringing the Punisher back into the forefront of the Marvel Universe after a several-year lull, Grant has written The Avengers , The Incredible Hulk , and fill-in runs on comics such as What If? , The Spectacular Spider-Man , Marvel Team-Up and Moon Knight (which is humurous as one of Moon Knight's identities is coincidentally named Steven Grant). Grant wrote
252-454: A real fun book because you got a chance to draw almost every character Marvel had at one time or another." He has also stated that Kim DeMulder, who inked issues #122-144 apart from a few fill-ins, is his preferred inker after himself. . During his run, Perlin recalled, he became what he has characterized as "the first guy, unwittingly, to put profanity in [ Comics Code -approved] comics": This happened in one [issue] of The Defenders . There
280-760: Is a cosmic mercenary who is later killed by Drax the Destroyer . Arisen Tyrk acted as the tyrannical ruler and god-king of the dimension called Other Realm. He seeks the power that the Godstone would give him, which is bonded to John Jameson as the Man-Wolf. Tyrk hires Kraven the Hunter and has him attack Man-Wolf, but Man-Wolf fights Kraven off. Rebels from the Other Realm bring the Man-Wolf to their land, and he defeats Tyrk. Tyrk tries to escape through an extra-dimensional portal, but
308-400: Is an American comic book writer best known for his 1985–1986 Marvel Comics mini-series The Punisher with artist Mike Zeck and for his creator-owned character Whisper. Grant has a long history scripting for both major publishers such as Marvel Comics and DC Comics , as well as smaller companies such as First Comics and Dark Horse Comics . Beginning in the 1980s, Grant wrote
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#1733092344014336-550: Is the name of several comic book titles featuring the team the Defenders and published by Marvel Comics , beginning with the original The Defenders comic book series which debuted in 1972. The Defenders first appeared as a feature in Marvel Feature #1 (December 1971). Due to the popularity of their tryout in Marvel Feature , Marvel soon began publishing The Defenders . Writer Steve Englehart has stated that he added
364-494: The Challengers of the Unknown . He continued to periodically write for Marvel Comics, his last major contribution being X-Man in collaboration with Warren Ellis and Ariel Olivetti . Among his other creator-owned works of the 1990s were the superhero comic Edge , with Gil Kane , published by Malibu Comics /Bravura, and the crime series Damned with Mike Zeck , published by WildStorm . His two long-running columns exposing
392-626: The Silver Surfer and Iron Fist . The new series follows the reunion of the Defenders in Fear Itself: The Deep . The series was cancelled at issue #12. February 2013 saw the debut of The Fearless Defenders , a series written by Cullen Bunn with artwork by Will Sliney . Bunn said that he had wanted to write the series, which centers on a new team of Valkyrior , led by Valkyrie and Misty Knight , after writing Fear Itself: The Fearless . It
420-559: The Badger ), they published a one-shot entitled Whisper Special which led to Whisper being featured in the anthology series First Adventures and eventually to her own ongoing series in June 1986. During this time, Grant wrote American Flagg! (he was personally selected by Howard Chaykin to take over scripting the title after Chaykin's departure), a fill-in run on Shatter , a short-lived comic book of his own creation called Psychoblast and
448-597: The Valkyrie to the Defenders in issue #4 "to provide some texture to the group." Englehart wrote "The Avengers–Defenders War" crossover in The Avengers #116–118 (October–December 1973) and The Defenders #9–11 (October–December 1973). Len Wein briefly wrote the series, and later became the editor for several issues. Steve Gerber first worked on the characters in Giant-Size Defenders #3 (January 1975) and became
476-489: The filmed versions. In addition to comic book work, Grant has written a number of Hardy Boys novels for young adults under the pen-name Franklin W. Dixon , as well as Tom Swift and various "choose-your-own-adventure" type books, a posthumous collaboration with science fiction writer Isaac Asimov . Grant's 2 Guns has been made into a major motion picture from Universal Studios starring Denzel Washington , Mark Wahlberg , Bill Paxton and Paula Patton . Grant
504-791: The inner workings of the comics industry, "Master of the Obvious" and "Permanent Damage", ran from 1999–2010 at the Comic Book Resources website. Since 2005, Grant has written several works for IDW Publishing including original comics featuring the characters from the television show CSI . He wrote a one-shot featuring an updated version of his character Whisper and created a crime series, 2 Guns , about undercover cops, for Boom! Studios . At Avatar Press , he produced two creator-owned mini-series, Mortal Souls and My Flesh Is Cool , as well as adapted Frank Miller 's original Robocop screenplays to comics format, which deviated considerably from
532-405: The off-beat humor in his "Defender for a Day" storyline in issues #62–64 were polarized: "readers were either wildly enthusiastic or absolutely and very utterly appalled." Steven Grant wrote a conclusion to Steve Gerber's Omega the Unknown series in two issues of The Defenders , at the end of which most of the original series' characters were killed. Writer J. M. DeMatteis took over
560-640: The original four members (Doctor Strange, the Silver Surfer, the Hulk, and Namor) are forced to leave the team. The "New Defenders" concept provided a substantial boost to the series's sales, but left DeMatteis in a creative drought, as he realized in retrospect that "...I created a book that was exactly the kind of the thing that I hated to write. I made it into a standard superhero team..." DeMatteis stayed on for only six issues of The New Defenders before turning it over to writer Peter Gillis . The series's final issue
588-677: The portal is damaged and splits him into several duplicates. Four of them battle the Defenders before eventually being re-fused. For a time, he poses as drama professor Harrison Turk at Empire State University . Lunatik appears in Guardians of the Galaxy , voiced by John DiMaggio . This version is an old friend of Star-Lord who owns a nightclub on the Grandmaster 's space station, the Conjunction . The Defenders (comic book) The Defenders
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#1733092344014616-472: The series with issue #92. Coming from a background of writing eight-page horror shorts for DC Comics, DeMatteis found it a struggle to adapt to writing a 22-page superhero comic on a monthly basis. He and Mark Gruenwald co-wrote The Defenders #107–109 (May–July 1982). While working on the series, DeMatteis developed a strong friendship with penciler Don Perlin , who would draw the series for nearly half its run. Perlin later commented, "It turned out to be
644-497: The writer of the main title with issue #20 the following month. He wrote the series until issue #41 (November 1976). In 2010, Comics Bulletin ranked Gerber and Sal Buscema's run on The Defenders first on its list of the "Top 10 1970s Marvels". David Anthony Kraft 's run as writer included "The Scorpio Saga" (issues #46, 48–50) and the "Xenogenesis: Day of the Demons" storyline (issues #58–60). Kraft later recalled that reactions to
672-802: Was The New Defenders #152. Penciler Don Perlin recounted "[Editor] Carl Potts he took me and Peter Gillis to lunch. We went to an Indian restaurant... He said, ‘They canceled the book.’" In 1993, Marvel sought to revive the "Defenders" brand as "The Secret Defenders". The new team first appeared, unofficially, in Dr. Strange #50 and later Fantastic Four #374, before being officially introduced in Secret Defenders #1. In 2001–2002, The Defenders reunited in The Defenders volume 2 #1–12 created by Kurt Busiek and Erik Larsen , immediately followed by The Order #1–6. A fill-in issue set between these two series
700-452: Was a character in there who was a lawyer for the Defenders and his gimmick was that no matter where you saw him in his office, there had to be a TV set on—he was always watching TV. And while I was drawing one of the panels I was listening to a talk show and there was someone on telling how bad cereals for kids were—they were all loaded with sugar. So I drew a picture on the TV of a bunny rabbit holding
728-620: Was later collected into both hardcover and trade paperback collections, entitled Defenders: Indefensible . In 2008 Joe Casey wrote a new miniseries with a new line-up of Defenders as a result of the Super-Human Registration Act and the events of the Civil War . Marvel launched a new Defenders series in December 2011, written by Matt Fraction and drawn by Terry Dodson. The new book features Doctor Strange , Red She-Hulk , Namor ,
756-555: Was published in 2011. A Defenders five-issue mini-series debuted in July 2005, by Keith Giffen , J. M. DeMatteis , and Kevin Maguire (as a team, best known for their work on DC's Justice League franchise), featuring Doctor Strange attempting to reunite the original four Defenders to battle Dormammu and Umar . This series focuses mostly on humor as the characters spend most of their time arguing with and criticizing one another. The series
784-509: Was suggested to him that it should run as a Defenders title, however Bunn explained that beyond the name there is "little connection" to the Defenders. In August 2017, Marvel launched a new Defenders comic book series starring Daredevil , Jessica Jones , Luke Cage and Iron Fist , based on the Netflix incarnation of the team . In August 2021, Marvel launched a new Defenders series. Steven Grant Steven Grant (born October 22, 1953)
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