gloinson's New Writeups

Justice League of America (thing)

2002-03-05T17:07:03Z

Created by editor Julius Schwartz in collaboration with writer Gardner Fox the Justice League of America (JLA) first appeared in The Brave and the Bold #28, published by DC Comics in 1960. The JLA was created as a {Silver Age} revival of the Justice Society of America {JSA}, a successful teaming of many of the major super-heroes of the Golden Age of comics. The first artist on the project was penciller Mike Sekowsky.

The original membership of the team included:

After two more appearances in The Brave and the Bold (in #29 and #30), the JLA was granted their own title, Justice League Of America. With the fourth issue of the series they received their first new member in Green Arrow. Ten issues after this the Atom joined the team as well. With issue #21 the JLA first met the JSA, creating what…

Meat Sauce (thing)

2002-02-25T08:15:30Z

This is a somewhat traditional Neapolitan meat sauce that my family has been making just about every week for all of my life. We call it chopped meat sauce, referring to the ground beef that goes into the sauce. It's good over just about any type of pasta and is also used when preparing such dishes as lasagna and eggplant and chicken parmesan. It's especially good with ravioli, tortellini and other stuffed pastas.

Ingredients:

1 tbsp olive oil
1 small yellow onion - sliced
1 lb. ground beef
1 - 6 oz. can of tomato paste
1 - 32 oz. can of crushed tomatoes
3 cups of water
1 tsp. salt
2 tsp. dried crushed basil (or 3-5 fresh basil leaves)
1/4 cup pine nuts (optional)

Instructions:
Pour olive oil into a saucepan and heat for aproximately one minute on high. Add the onion and stir until the onion becomes browned. At this point remove the onion. (The onion is used for a flavoring device only, it will…

El Capitan (thing)

2002-02-21T07:46:44Z

El Capitan is the name of the publishing company started by writer/artist David Lapham in 1995 in order to independently publish his comic book Stray Bullets, after his departure from Defiant Comics. David's wife Maria Lapham serves as the publisher and in an editorial and customer service capacity.

The company has published 28 issues of Stray Bullets (along with 3 hardcover collections and 6 softcover collections of the title), 9 issues of Murder Me Dead (along with 1 hardcover and 1 softcover collecion of the title) and 2 issues of Amy Racecar Color Special, along with numerous t-shirts and stickers related to the titles published.

Sources: Robert M Overstreet. The Overstreet Comic Book Price Guide, 31st Edition. New York: Crown Publishing Group. 2001.
http://www.thefourthrail.com/reviews/snapjudgments/102901/murdermedead9.shtml
1998 discussion with David and Maria Lapham

Captain Blood (thing)

2002-02-19T20:34:13Z

Captain Blood

1935, 119 minutes, Black & White, Adventure. Directed by Michael Curtiz for Warner Bros. Pictures.

Cast:

Errol Flynn as Peter Blood
Olivia De Havilland as Arabella Bishop
Lionel Atwill as Colonel Bishop
Basil Rathbone as Levasseur
Ross Alexander as Jeremy Pitt
Guy Kibbee as Hagthorpe
Henry Stephenson as Lord Willoughby
Robert Barrat as Wolverstone
Hobart Cavanaugh as Dr. Bronson
Donald Meek as Dr. Whacker
Jessie Ralph as Mrs. Barlowe
Forrester Harvey as Honesty Nuttall
Frank McGlynn Sr. as Rev. Ogle
Holmes Herbert as Capt. Gardner
David Torrence as Andrew Baynes

Captain Blood is based on the novel by Rafael Sabatini and was adapted for the screen by Casey Robinson. It is the story of Peter Blood, a British doctor, who is wrongfully accused of treason against the British King and sold into slavery in the Caribbean. Through a…

manga (thing)

2002-02-18T17:16:38Z

The word manga was first coined by Hokusai Katsushika, an artist of the ukiyo-e school of Japanese woodblock printing. The word has been translated into English as "random sketches", "cartoons", "sketches from life", and "drawing things just as they come". Hokusai's Manga, a series of 15 volumes was published between 1814 and 1879 (30 years after the artist's death), and depicted, in sketch form, a variety of subjects from animals, to architecture, to common people going about their everyday lives.

While the word manga comes from Hokusai (as does the quick brushwork that is typical of most modern manga), modern manga's present style is derived more from newspaper comic strips. The first serialized comic strip in Japan was Tagosaku to Mokube no Tokyo Kembutsu (Tagosaku and Mokube Sightseeing in Tokyo). In 1902 the strip was created by Rakuten Kitazawa for the color newspaper supplement Jiji Manga. The supplement was modeled on American sections of the time.

Rakuten Kitazawa…

Queens (place)

2002-02-10T16:40:02Z

Queens County is a 109 square mile area that comprises one of the five boroughs of New York City. Named for English Queen Catherine of Braganza, it was founded on November 1st, 1683 as one of the original counties of New York. It originally incorporated present day Nassau County and what is part of present day Suffolk County.

The history of settlement in Queens began in the late 1630s when Dutch settlers expanded the colony of New Netherlands after settling the southern portion of Manhattan and establishing farms in Brooklyn. The earliest portion of Queens to be settled is what is today's Long Island City area.

In the 1640s English settlers began to move into the area with the approval of the Dutch government. Between 1646 and 1656 they established settlements at Newtown (modern Elmhurst), Flushing and Jamaica(which serves as today's county seat). In 1664 the area was surrendered to British control and became part of the colony of New York. With its…