{"product_id":"classic-adventure-comics-volume-7","title":"CLASSIC ADVENTURE COMICS Volume 7","description":"\u003cp\u003eJohnny Dynamite, created by \u003cstrong\u003ePete Morisi\u003c\/strong\u003e, was a hard-boiled private detective, known as \"The Wild Man from Chicago.\" Good friends with the D.A. but readily accepted by the underworld, he smoked cigarettes constantly, cursed frequently, and had a bad habit of getting shot and beaten by his enemies. But he always gave as good as he got; he was experienced and persistent, taking his cases personally and killing many of his early foes, claiming they were reaching for a weapon. Myra Benz, who had shot him in the eye, was brazenly killed without any true justification beyond his own sense of justice.\n\nThe other main artist across Comic Media titles was \u003cstrong\u003eDon Heck\u003c\/strong\u003e, who in 1955 would be recruited by Stan Lee to Atlas Comics, later to become Marvel Comics.\n\nPete Morisi was also known as PAM and was a major contributor to the Charlton super hero line.\n\nMorisi early in his career freelanced for companies including Comic Media, Harvey Comics, Fiction House, Lev Gleason Publications, Nesbitt Publishers, Quality Comics, Toby Press and the Marvel Comics precursors Timely and Atlas, where his work appeared in titles including the Westerns \u003cem\u003eArizona Kid, Cowboy Romances\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eTexas Kid\u003c\/em\u003e, and the horror\/suspense anthologies \u003cem\u003eAstonishing, Journey into Mystery, Marvel Tales, Strange Tales\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eUncanny Tales\u003c\/em\u003e. In 1954, when editor-in-chief Stan Lee expressed admiration for the cover artist of some Comic Media books, Morisi brought in the artist, his friend and future Silver Age star Heck.\n\nMorisi's character \u003cem\u003eThunderbolt\u003c\/em\u003e debuted in Peter Cannon ... Thunderbolt #1 (Jan. 1966), part of Charlton editor Dick Giordano's \"Action Heroes\" superhero line. The series then took over the numbering of the defunct title \u003cem\u003eSon of Vulcan\u003c\/em\u003e, and ran from issue #51–60 (March–April 1966 – Nov. 1967), by which time Morisi, time-pressed with police work, had turned it over to other hands. When DC Comics bought the rights to Charlton's superhero properties in 1983, Thunderbolt was one of the characters originally planned for use in writer Alan Moore's miniseries Watchmen; when DC chose to save those characters for other uses, Moore adapted him into Ozymandias (Adrian Veidt).\n\nDC published the 12-issue, slightly retitled miniseries Peter Cannon – Thunderbolt (Sept. 1992 – Aug. 1993) by writer-penciler Mike Collins and inker José Marzan Jr. Rights to the character later reverted to Morisi.[7]\n\nA later incarnation, Peter Cannon, Thunderbolt, was published by Dynamite Entertainment for ten issues from September 2012 to July 2013, by Alex Ross, co-writer Steve Darnall, and Jonathan Lau. A trade paperback omnibus edition reprinting all ten issues was published by Dynamite Entertainment in March 2015, including a complete cover gallery and the origin story by Peter Cannon: Thunderbolt creator, Pete Morisi.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"vendor-unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":59641198674206,"sku":"PCAD07","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0999\/0684\/7006\/files\/pcad07-classic-adventure-comics-vol-7-book.jpg?v=1784502165","url":"https:\/\/shop.budsartbooks.com\/products\/classic-adventure-comics-volume-7","provider":"Bud's Art Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}