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Paul Grattan Kirk, Jr., né le 18 janvier 1938 à Newton, est un homme politique américain, membre du Parti démocrate qu'il a d'ailleurs dirigé de 1985 à 1989. Il est sénateur du Massachusetts du 24 septembre 2009 1 au 4 février 2010.
Paul Leland Kirk (May 9, 1902 – June 5, 1970) [1][2] was a biochemist, criminalist and participant in the Manhattan Project who was specialized in microscopy.
He is the chairman and chief executive officer of Kirk & Associates, Inc., a business advisory and consulting firm located in Boston. He is also a member of the board of directors of the Hartford Financial Services Group, Inc., Rayonier, Incorporated, and Cedar Realty Trust, Inc.
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Golden Age
Paul Kirk was originally depicted as a non-costumed independent investigator, who helped police solve crimes during the early 1940s. Though the series was titled "Paul Kirk, Manhunter", Kirk didn't use the Manhunter name as an alias. He appeared in Adventure Comics#58–72 (Jan. 1941 – March 1942). Beginning with Adventure Comics #73, Joe Simon and Jack Kirby established a new Manhunter, Rick Nelson, a big game hunter who returns to his home in Empire City and concludes the most challenging gam...
1970s revival
In 1973, decades after his original run of stories ended, Archie Goodwin and Walt Simonson brought back Paul Kirk in his Manhunter role in Detective Comics #437Simonson noted: The 1970s Paul Kirk/Manhunter stories appeared primarily as 8-page backups in Batman's Detective Comics, at the time going through an incarnation as a "100-Page Super Spectacular" featuring mostly reprints of non-Batman stories. Only with the last episode of the series did Manhunter move to the front of the book, in a f...
Golden Age
A natural athlete and tracker, Paul Kirk became a famous hunter of large and dangerous wildlife. Concluding there are no more challenges left in the jungle, Kirk returns home to Empire City (later retconned to be New York City). Concluding that criminals are the most challenging prey to track and capture, Kirk becomes an amateur detective, aiding the police in several cases. Eventually, costumed super-villains become more common and one named the Buzzard kills Police Inspector Donovan, a frie...
The Resurrection of Paul Kirk
Paul Kirk's body is recovered by the Council, a group of ten individuals who concluded the invention of the atomic bomb is proof humanity will soon destroy itself unless stopped and properly guided. Impressed with Kirk's talent for fighting, athletics, and tracking, Mykros, leader of the Council, orders his chief scientist Dr. Oka to place the hero in suspended animation. Dr. Oka successfully creates several clones of Kirk to act as the Council's elite soldiers, each of whom have no will of t...
Paul Kirk's legacy
For the next few years, Christine St. Clair and Asano Nitobe hunt down the remaining Paul clones until they are satisfied they have killed them all. The last clone is hunted down and killed in Gotham City. Though he does not condone murder, Batman lets St. Clair and Nitobe escape the police after learning the man they killed was a remaining clone of Paul Kirk. Soon after Paul Kirk's death, the man who succeeded him as Manhunter gives the original red and blue costume to a man named Mark Shaw....
The 1973–74 Goodwin/Simonson Paul Kirk Manhunter stories from Detective Comics have been collected several times: first in 1979 in oversized, black-and-white format by Excalibur Enterprises; then in color by DC in 1984; they were reissued yet again by DC in 1999 with additional material, namely a silent story illustrated by Simonson from a plot bre...
The Paul Kirk version of Manhunter appears in the Beware the Batman episode "Unique", voiced by Xander Berkeley. This version is an old friend of Thomas Wayne who was wounded and left for dead during a mission. The Council found him and their leader, Anatol Mykros, and put him in suspended animation for twenty years, intending to create an army of ...
Paul Grattan Kirk, Jr., né le 18 janvier 1938 à Newton, est un homme politique américain, membre du Parti démocrate qu'il a d'ailleurs dirigé de 1985 à 1989. Il est sénateur du Massachusetts du 24 septembre 2009 au 4 février 2010.
"Paul Kirk, Manhunter" was a crime series that ran in Adventure Comics #58–72 (Jan. 1941 – March 1942). In this original incarnation, Kirk was a non-costumed investigator who helped police solve crimes.
Paul Kirk may refer to: Paul G. Kirk (born 1938), former United States Senator from Massachusetts and former chairman of the Democratic National Committee. Paul G. Kirk Sr. (1904–1981), associate justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court. Paul H. Kirk (1914–1995), American architect.
