Series 3 In “Everyone”, Cook, Freddie and JJ vie for Effy’s attention after meeting her the morning before college starts. Effy sets Cook and Freddie a challenge, whoever breaks the college rules gets to “know her better”. Cook breaks the rules, in the process starting a fire. His reward is sex with Effy in the [...]
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Concept and creation The Hulk first appeared in ”The Incredible Hulk” #1 (May 1962) by writer-editor Stan Lee and penciller and co-plotter Jack Kirby, who was inked by Paul Reinman. Lee cites influence from ”Frankenstein” and ”Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde” in the Hulk’s creation: “I combined ”Jekyll and Hyde” with Frankenstein,” he explains, “and [...]
Origins The director of Yale Psychology laboratory E.W. Scripture, PhD, published ”The New Psychology” in 1897 (The Walter Scott Ltd, London), which described the basic principles of subliminal messages. In 1900, Knight Dunlap, an American professor of psychology, flashed an “imperceptible shadow” to subjects while showing them a Müller-Lyer illusion containing two lines with pointed [...]
In Bram Stoker’s novel Count Dracula’s biography, characteristics, powers, abilities and weaknesses are narrated in a piecemeal way by multiple narrators, from different perspectives. The most informative of these narrators are Jonathan Harker, Abraham Van Helsing and Mina Harker. Biography Count Dracula (his first name is never given in the novel) is a centuries-old vampire, [...]
1960s Although Ultron first appears in ”Avengers” #54 (1968), the character is disguised for the majority of the issue as the Crimson Cowl, with his face only revealed on the last page of the issue and no name given to the character. The character leads the Masters of Evil against the Avengers. In the following [...]
Dr. Michael Morbius was created in response to the comic-book industry’s self-censorship board, the Comics Code Authority, lifting its ban on vampires and certain other supernatural characters in February 1971, and not as a challenge to the code, as many believe. Writer Roy Thomas and penciler Gil Kane created the character as a living man [...]
Selina Cook was introduced as a Summer Bay High student with a crush on teacher Luke Cunningham. She had something of a reputation for being easy to “get to know” and attracted the attention of Jack Wilson. Jack was much aggrieved therefore when Selina decided Jack was going to be her first proper boyfriend and [...]
Until the middle of the 19th century, psychology was widely regarded as a branch of philosophy. For instance, Immanuel Kant (1724–1804) declared in his ”Metaphysical Foundations of Natural Science” (1786) that a scientific psychology “properly speaking” is impossible. However, Kant proposed what looks to modern eyes very much like an empirical psychology in his ”Anthropology [...]
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