The Perils of Captain Mighty and the Redemption of Danny the Kid - Softcover

O'Neil, Mr. Dennis

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1974584992 ISBN 13: 9781974584994

Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2017

Synopsis

“Denny helped to lift comics out of the category of ‘little kid stuff’ and endow them with substance and intelligence.” -- Stan Lee “Denny O’Neil has crafted a heartbreaking epic about life, love, personal demons and the power of imagination - a two-faced whirlwind that has the power to torment us and also, paradoxically, the power to set us free.” -- David S. Goyer, Co-writer of the Dark Knight Trilogy and Man of Steel “A shadow autobiography as soaked in brightly costumed super-heroics as it’s shaded by the grays of a turbulent, mid-century America.” -- Patton Oswald, Writer, Actor, Stand-up Comic “Denny shaped comics and the popular culture for a generation with his sharp-edged storytelling, and his ambition to make characters like Batman deeply human...and complexly flawed. The writers and filmmakers he’s influenced would fill a stadium, not just a writing class.” -- Paul Levitz, Former president of DC Comics Danny O’Boyle is drinking himself to death by inches when he lucks into a job with a comic book publisher and begins an odyssey from a New York ghetto to a black hole in deep space. It is the Sixties, when popular culture is responding to the upheavals of angry and restless young people and when comics, that most despised medium, begins its ascent into respectability. Danny is there for all of it. The Perils of Captain Mighty and the Redemption of Danny the Kid has two other stories to tell, and here it bows to magical realism. Two of Danny’s fictional creations to acquire lives of their own. One is Captain Mighty, whose evolution from imaginary friend to galaxy-hopping hero parallels the evolution of comic-book superheroes. The other is Captain Miighty’s opposite, Mr. Gnarly, an angry troll apparently doomed to wander, cold and lonely, in some vast underground. The adventures of Captain Mighty and the Redemption of Danny the Kid blends history, science fiction and fantasy in a novel unlike anything you’ve ever read.

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About the Author

One of comics’ most acclaimed writers, St. Louis native Dennis O’Neil worked briefly in journalism, then moved to New York and comics. Denny brought social consciousness to the medium with the groundbreaking Green Lantern/Green Arrow series. His work on Batman — as writer and editor — returned that character to its dark, gothic roots. An expert on comics, pop culture and folklore/mythology, Dennis is a popular guest at conventions and has been heard on literally hundreds of radio shows and has appeared on dozens of television programs. Some of Dennis’s work provided the basis for the recent Batman movies directed by Christopher Nolan, and for stories in the Arrow television series. Dennis has taught writing at the School of Visual Arts and New York University in Manhattan, and at Rockland Community College in Suffern, NY, and has lectured at New York University, Fairleigh-Dickenson, Penn State, Tufts, St. Louis University, Indiana State University, the State University of New York at Stonybrook, City University of New York, UCLA, the Philadelphia College of Art, Webster University, MIT, the Smithsonian, the Library of Congress, The Open Center and The Learning Annex. Dennis currently lives in Nyack, New York, with his wife, Marifran.

Edition details

• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Publication date: 2017
• ISBN 10: 1974584992
• ISBN 13: 9781974584994
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 338