The earliest take on Spider-Woman (not yet called Jessica Drew), by Goodwin. The retcons start by her very next appearance.

Spider-Woman (Jessica Drew) during the Wolfman/Infantino era, which is also when she gets her own book. This should be read after the *first* Spider-Woman character profile.

A guy turned into an evil ape during a 1951 horror anthology comic book story. Obscure, but typical of the comics of the era.

Medical equipment in hospitals, mostly the high-tech kind. What it does and its DC Heroes RPG stats.

The very first, 1940 anti-Nazi Marvel Boy (Martin Simon Burns).

These are obscure Green Lantern/Green Arrow/Black Canary 1970s characters. They apparently were active during far prehistory before being exiled off Earth.

The evil witch-queen in the beloved 1988 Willow fantasy movie.

The protagonist of 1980s heroic fantasy schlock movie Hawk the Slayer. And his magic sword, obvs.

Another agent of S.H.I.E.L.D., mostly for those Marvel Universe campaigns where S.H.I.E.L.D. plays an important role. More of a technical type, but fairly senior.

A fallen but quite technical soldier with near-future hardware. This is the second half of the profile — the first half is there.

This primer explains, in a compact manner, the basics of the Dragon Age setting. It’s a low fantasy setting (think Game of Thrones) for several landmark video games.

From the early 2010s Gail Simone series The Movement, in the DC Universe. Renegade Laotian-American ex-cop with an attitude, a sword, wings and two angry angry fists.

A guide/disambiguation page to help readers navigate our different Black Canary DC Comics character profiles.

Another profile for Black Canary (Dinah Drake). This one covers a *specific* era during the mid-2010s, when she was part of a rock band. For orientation, you can check our guide to Black Canary character profiles.

The second half of our profile for Black Canary during a specific slice of the 2010s. For orientation, you can check our guide to Black Canary character profiles.

This primer profile presents the world of La Horde du Contrevent, a major French sci-fi setting. On this planet only a narrow equatorial band is semi-inhabitable, but it also funnels immensely destructive winds.

A somewhat obscure, powerful 1970s enemy of the Justice League of America. Otherdimensional alien feeding off fear.

A selection of weapons — ranged and melee — from the Warframe video game.

A time traveller from the early Silver Age of comics. Darius Tiko chiefly appeared in Jack Kirby’s Challengers of the Unknown run.

A killer, urchin and hardened thief dragged into an unpopular army of paladin commandos. Duncan is a pivotal character in Dragon Age: Origins, though most of his material is in the The Calling prequel novel.

A mighty-thewed Skrull space pirate/barbarian who doesn’t shape-shift but has some odd powers. In space.

One of the major Russian super-heroes. Darkforce powers. This profile is part of a series that starts with the Soviet Super-Soldiers team profile.

One of the major Russian super-heroes. Darkforce powers. This is the second half of her profile, itself part of a series that starts with the Soviet Super-Soldiers team profile.

A fallen but quite technical soldier with near-future hardware. Jan is the protagonist of Soleil Froid, a series of post-plague-apocalypse French graphic novels.

A big, heavily illustrated article about special application rifles, shotguns, submachineguns, etc. in fiction. So that’s useful to have.

DC Comics’ Davy Tenzer is the Biblical King David, but as a 1970s immortal anti-terror international singing super-spy. Sometimes, he fights snake aliens.

Enhanced megalomaniacal giant scientist in a vintage, dime-novel post-apocalyptic setting. He’s responsible for World War Three, too.

In one of the fragile, once terraformed areas on Venus, a cyborg industrial floor boss who is secretly an illegal union leader and elite hacker. An underdog, but one who recently made certain… friends.

One of the main Russian (and formerly Soviet) Marvel Comics superhumans. Reflective force-field, beefiness, hammer and sickle. This profile is part of a series that starts with the Soviet Super-Soldiers team profile.

One of the main Russian (and formerly Soviet) Marvel Comics superhumans. This profile is part of a series, which starts with the Soviet Super-Soldiers team profile.