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guardian: Masked policemen take cover behind shields during...

Thu, 02 May 2013 23:16:59 +0300

Masked policemen take cover behind shields during clashes at a May Day demonstration in Istanbul.

Pagan rituals and global protests brought to you by the Guardian’s award-winning picture team, rounding up the most eye-catching images of the day

Photograph: Bulent Kilic/AFP/Getty Images

guardian: Justified: Timothy Olyphant on Elmore Leonard and...

Sun, 28 Apr 2013 01:30:34 +0300

guardian:

Justified: Timothy Olyphant on Elmore Leonard and the golden age of TV

As marshal Raylan Givens - self-satisfied, unreliable, and cool in a cowboy hat - he’s the undisputed star of Justified. So when will this show get the awards it deserves?

dcu: This month in DC History The first appearance of Red Hood...

Sat, 02 Mar 2013 13:59:58 +0200

dcu:

This month in DC History

The first appearance of Red Hood happened in 1951. Although the current Red Hood is Jason Todd, the first Red Hood was actually one of a group of criminals in a gang called the Red Hood gang. The gang would take turns under the hood giving the appearance that there was a singular mastermind behind the crimes. Red Hood was also used as the origin for The Joker but didn’t tell us how he got those scars.

What else happened in 1951?

Killer Moth was introduced (also in February). Although he’s now usually seen at the but of a joke. Killer Moth started out to be the “anti-Batman” and got his own “Mothmobile.” He also probably had two living parents who took care of him as he grew up, can’t get more “anti-Batman” than that.

Space was all the rage while superheroes were struggling so DC came out with Mystery in Space, it’s second space title. Spoiler alert: The Space Butler did it.

All Star Comics, which was a buffet of all the hero comics DC was producing, met it’s end. It ended on issue 57 with the ironically titled story “The Mystery of the Vanishing Detectives.”