Jim LeeJim Lee est un dessinateur de comics coréano-américain né le à Séoul, en Corée du Sud, connu pour son style détaillé et dynamique. Il est aujourd'hui un des dessinateurs de comics contemporains les plus populaires. Au début des années 1990, Lee devient une star dans son domaine pour son travail sur les X-Men de Marvel. Plus tard, il fonde les productions Wildstorm, filiale d', et rencontre le succès avec des séries comme WildC.A.T.s et Gen 13 vendues à des millions d'exemplaires chaque mois.
Mjolnir (comics)Mjolnir, plus formellement connu sous le nom de Mjölnir (/ ˈmjɔːlnɪər /) est une arme magique de fiction apparaissant dans les comics américains publiés par la maison d'édition Marvel Comics. Créé par le scénariste Stan Lee et conçu par les artistes Jack Kirby et Joe Sinnott, l'objet apparaît pour la première fois dans le comic book Journey into Mystery () #83 en août 1962.
HelicarrierThe Helicarrier is a fictional airborne aircraft carrier appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. Created by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby, the aircraft first appeared in Strange Tales #135 (August 1965). The Helicarrier is depicted as the crucial mobile command center, forward operations platform, and signature capital ship of the fictional intelligence/defense agency S.H.I.E.L.D. It has survived multiple redesigns while rarely straying from its originally depicted role as a mobile headquarters of S.
Bande dessinée de guerreWar comics is a genre of comic books that gained popularity in English-speaking countries following World War II. Shortly after the birth of the modern comic book in the mid- to late 1930s, comics publishers began including stories of wartime adventures in the multi-genre omnibus titles then popular as a format. Even prior to the U.S. involvement in World War II after the attack at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, comic books such as Captain America Comics #1 (March 1941) depicted superheroes fighting Adolf Hitler and the Nazis.
Discrimination against superheroesDiscrimination against superheroes is a common theme and plot element in comic books and superhero fiction, usually as a way to explore the issue of superheroes operating in society or as commentary on other social concerns. Often in response to this are Registration Acts, fictional legislative bills that have been plot points used in various comic books and mediums which, when passed into law, enforce the regulation of extra-legal vigilante activity vs. criminal activity, or the mandatory registration of superpowered individuals with the government.
