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Dynamite Entertainment characters

  • James Bond (literary character)Ian Fleming took James Bond's name from the author of a bird guide. He thought it the dullest name he ever heard.
  • Annie JanuaryAnnie January, the superheroine known as Starlight in the comic series The Boys, was supposed to be a joke. Her creator Garth Ennis says so himself: "Annie started out as a joke." He made the series with Darick Robertson. In the story she…
  • HomelanderGarth Ennis, who created Homelander together with the artist Darick Robertson, offered a blunt way to picture him. In Ennis's words: "It might help to think of the Homelander as having all the self-control of… let's say… a…
  • Billy ButcherBilly Butcher hunts gods, and he does it with no superpowers of his own. He is a fictional character, one of the two main protagonists of the comic series The Boys, created by Garth Ennis and Darick Robertson. He leads a group of…
  • John Carter of MarsHiding from Apaches in an Arizona cave, John Carter was carried to Mars. Burroughs calls it astral projection.
  • The ShadowThe Shadow is a fictional crime fighter whose catchphrase has outlived most of the stories told about him. "Who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men? The Shadow knows!" Those words opened the radio adaptation and earned a lasting…
  • Soldier BoySoldier Boy is a superhero name worn by three different men in the comic series Herogasm and The Boys, created by Garth Ennis and John McCrea. On television, the name belongs to a single man who combines all three. One comic version is a…
  • Black NoirBlack Noir is the name shared by three characters in The Boys, a story created in comics by Garth Ennis and Darick Robertson. Eric Kripke later developed it for television. In both versions, Noir belongs to the Seven, a hedonistic and…
  • Mother's Milk (character)Mother's Milk, known to his teammates as M.M., is a character in the comic series The Boys, created by Garth Ennis and Darick Robertson. His name sounds like a crude joke. It is closer to a medical record. Cut off from one particular…
  • ZorroZorro first rode into print in 1919, and the novel that introduced him eventually sold more than 50 million copies. That figure places The Curse of Capistrano among the best-selling books of all time. Its author, the American pulp writer…

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