Though it ultimately remained unexplained in “Big Trouble in Little China,” the orangutan-like beast seen in David Lo Pan’s lair was explained in the sequel comics as being a “wild man,�...
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Who was the first Transformer to appear in animation? As Transformers were cobbled together from several different toy lines that were animated at different points, this question is challenging t...
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Shigeru Komatsuzaki’s box art for Thunderbirds model kits.
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A new admission to the Hall of Amazing Men, Branscombe Richmond is best known for being an actor where he played Lorenzo Lamas’s friend, the Lando Calrissian-like sharpie Dallas Sixkiller, or a...
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One detail in the worldbuilding of Back to the Future Part II (1989) that is often overlooked: the police department of Hill Valley in 2015 seems to be made up of statuesque women. And no, it was...
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Dirk Benedict transforming into a snakeman in “Sssssss” (1973).
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Jim Burns’s two wraparound covers for the UK and European edition of “Gilgamesh the King” (1984). Inspired by Mary Renault’s novels about Theseus, and Gene Wolfe’s “Soldier in the M...
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William Hartnell with his collection of tiny toy Daleks by Marx Toys.
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Michael Winterbauer’s cover art for “Solstice: the Quest for the Staff of Demnos” (1990).
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Created by Daredevil, Avengers, and Indiana Jones comics writer Dave Michelinie, Lynxana the Huntress was an original character created for the 1985 Marvel STAR Comics line as a villain, an amora...
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Holy microchip! Bruce Coville’s “A.I. Gang” was a 1980s kid-adventure series that lasted for four books, set around four computer whiz kids (Wonderchild, “Gamma” Ray, 3-D, and Twerpy) w...
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Roy Chiao, who appeared in Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, Bloodsport, Enter the Dragon, and King Hu’s films, left Shanghai to become a translator for American forces during the Korean Wa...
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Robert Lansing in “4-D Man” (1959)
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