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1 COMIC BOOK HUHIBDAY-1 ™ 1 May 5, 2007 www.freecomicbookday.com . Remember the 300 with director Zack Snyder. • See page 46. t INSIDE THIS ISSUE 15 SECRETS OF TORCHWOOD Creator Russell T. Davies reveals his TV show's origins 20 ENTER PAINKILLER JANE Joe Quesada & Jimmy Palmiotti's heroine goes TV 24 THE LIST OF HEROES Sendhil Ramamurthy looks for extraordinary people 28 LESSONS FROM JERICHO Sprague Crayden faces new teaching challenges 32 BLAKE, THE DOCTOR & ME British SF vet David Maloney recalled his life in television 37 THE GHOST IN BRONZE Ryerson Johnson sent Doc Savage to The Land of Always-Night 42 COWABUNCA, DUDES! Kevin Munroe unchains Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 46 LAST OF THE SPARTANS Filmmaker Zack Snyder chronicles the days of 300 53 TOURING TERABITHIA AnnaSophia Robb guides audiences to fantasy worlds 56 MIMSY WERE THE BOROGOVES The story inspires a moving picture, The Last Mimzy 60 RENEE ZELLWEGER SPEAKS She urges one & all to see her bioflick tale of Miss Potter 62 FIRST FEMALE IN FEAR Pioneering genre scribe Pat Fielder knows what scares us 68 S.H.I.E.L.D. REPORT Andre Ware speaks up as the Ultimate animated Nick Fury 72 MAKING SPIDER-MAN 3 The producing troika preview an epic Marvel movie 78 MEET THE ROBINSONS This toon family of the future hosts today's lost orphan 86 OF GODS AND MEN The latest Internet Star Trek celebrates 40 years of action 300 Art: Copyright 2007 Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. 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MOHALLEY The Marvel Superheroes and Spider-Man as well Editor QUOTE OF THE MONTH as three later Ralph Bakshi-directed animated DAVID MCDONNELL "Nobody tells this Wookiee what to do!" films (Fritz the Cat, Heavy Traffic, The Nine Lives Art Director —Chewbacca of Hollywood Boulevard of Fritz the Cat) and the live-action chillers Ruby HEINER FEIL (1977) and Jennifer. Managing Editor DECISION Tige Andrews (January) The character actor ALLAN DART SAD OF THE MONTH Silver and Warner Bros. They hired the who played Captain Adam Greer, boss of The Mod Contributing Editors Joel ANTHONY TIMPONE genre's best (Buffy creator Joss Whedon) to Squad, and The Werewolf of Woodstock. He was MICHAEL CINCOLD make Wonder Woman, and then eventually the Klingon Kras in Star Trek's "Friday's Child." TOM WEAVER IAN SPELLING opposed his take on the comics character. Whedon (STARLOG#138) JOE NAZZARO exited. It's Wonder Woman's loss. Lee Bergere (January) The man Captain Kirk WILL MURRAY conjured up as noble hero Abraham Lincoln in STARLOC CROUP, FIVE OF OUR HEROES Star Trek's "The Savage Curtain." The actor guest- A CREATIVE CROUP Company are Sir Arthur still his JOSEPH V. AVALLONE, CEO They C. Clarke, on ed on Wonder Woman, The Six Million Dollar Man odyssey as one of Earth's greatest science fic- and The Wild Wild West. Mainstream audiences Executive Assistants: Dee Erwine, Logan tion writers. as Aynders, DeSisto, Sean Ogden. know him Joseph the butler of TV's correspondents: (LA) Pat Janklewlcz, Neil Armstrong & Buzz Aldrin, the First Men Dynasty. (STARLOG #1 12) Bob Miller, Marc Shapiro, Bill warren, Dan on the Moon. Ian Richardson (February) The formidable Yakir; (NYC1 Dan Dickholtz, Mike McAven- nie, Maureen McTigue, Keith Olexa; Bob Burns, Monster Kid extraordinaire. British character actor seen as Sherlock Holmes in (Chicago) Kim Howard Johnson; Ollie Johnston, animation legend. 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OF A DEEP, PEEP MINESHAFT Tobey Maguire, David Maloney, Suzanne Martin, Lauren McCabe, Kevin Munroe, Art Buchwald (January) The Don Payne, Chrissy Quesada, Sam Raimi, great American humorist. sendhil Ramamurthy, Mike Rau, Anna- Robert Anton Wilson Sophia Robb, Bruce Joel Rubin, Sarah (January) GET 'IM? Sanders, Dan Scapperotti, Deborah & The conspiracy theorist/co-author Zack Snyder, Gina Sollz, Lisa Stone, (with Robert Shea) of The Illumina- Anthony Tollin, Jack Trevino, Jeff Walker, Andre ware, Sheelagh Wells, Dave Wong, tus! Trilogy as well as (solo) further Renee Zellweger, Laura ziskin. Illuminatus volumes and the Cover images: Spider-Man: ©2007 Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc. All Schrddinger's Cat Trilogy. Rights Reserved. Spider-Man Character Sidney Sheldon (January) The Likeness: Trademark & ©2007 Marvel Oscar-winning screenwriter who cre- Characters, Inc. 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