Books with author Jonathan Parker

Back to the Swingin' 60s as DC Comics reimagines the classic Batman TV series in comics form. These all-new stories portray The Caped Crusader, The Boy Wonder and their fiendish rogues gallery just the way viewers remember them.In this volume, the Dynamic Duo team-up with Barbara Gordon to take on The Bookworm, a deranged zombie creating Professor, The Queen of Diamonds, Lord Death Man and The Joker. Collects issues Batman '66 The Lost Episode #1, Batman '66 #17-22.

THE JOKER is the Clown Prince of Crime and the Caped Crusader’s most formidable foe — but is this perverse Pagliacci low-down enough to commit the ultimate corporate crime and downsize his own gang? KING TUT is the felonious pharaoh who means to make Gotham City into his own modern-day jewel on the Nile — but will a sinister spell allow him to travel through time and rule over the real thing? THE RIDDLER is the malevolent master of mind-teasers — but will his latest query-filled crime spree distract Robin, the Boy Wonder, from the dirty deeds of Gotham’s newest criminal... Bruce Wayne? Tune in — er, read on — for the answers in BATMAN ’66 VOL. 2, collecting brand-new tales of the Dynamic Duo in the style of the smash-hit TV series from the swingin’ ’60s! Written by Jeff Parker and Tom Peyer, this titanic tome features astonishing art from such towering talents as Ty Templeton, Ted Naifeh, Rubén Procopio, Chris Sprouse, Joëlle Jones and many more!

You are stifled. You may not even realize it right now, but the society that surrounds you seeks to stifle you, suffocate you, and box you in. The rules they implement are walls designed to close in around you, crushing you and your spirit into oblivion. They create rules that they say are for safety, but what they do is sanitize you, keep you away from growth.What will you do about that? Will you sit idly by and let the world control you? Will you let society tell you who you are or how to be a man? I thought not.Man must do that which his heart calls him to do, otherwise, he will lose it. "Don't give into your fears. If you do you won't be able to talk to your heart," says Coelho in The Alchemist. The loss of one's heart is death in this life, and this is what you see when you look at your surroundings, modern Man: death. The rules supposedly meant to promote safety in truth often promote the dying of the soul. Go forward, follow your hearts calling, and if they call you "TOXIC" for being who you were created to be, then laugh and forge forward, for you know which of you is toxic, which of you is dead, and which of you is alive!

An artifacts thief known as the Jaguar has stolen the oldest English writing ever discovered the Beowulf manuscript. Now it s up to the Creation Response Team to get it back But the thief has concealed it in the ultimate hiding spot, where only those granted special permission by the Japanese government can go How will they stop the thief? Meanwhile, Myles Morgan, the team s archenemy, is secretly planning to work against the CRT to swipe the manuscript for his own personal gain. This is album 1 of 4 of The Hunt for Beowulf Series. This album contains three episodes.

You are stifled. You may not even realize it right now, but the society that surrounds you seeks to stifle you, suffocate you, and box you in. The rules they implement are walls designed to close in around you, crushing you and your spirit into oblivion. They create rules that they say are for safety, but what they do is sanitize you, keep you away from growth.What will you do about that? Will you sit idly by and let the world control you? Will you let society tell you who you are or how to be a man? I thought not.Man must do that which his heart calls him to do, otherwise, he will lose it. "Don't give into your fears. If you do you won't be able to talk to your heart," says Coelho in The Alchemist. The loss of one's heart is death in this life, and this is what you see when you look at your surroundings, modern Man: death. The rules supposedly meant to promote safety in truth often promote the dying of the soul. Go forward, follow your hearts calling, and if they call you "TOXIC" for being who you were created to be, then laugh and forge forward, for you know which of you is toxic, which of you is dead, and which of you is alive!

If you were searching for answers about the mysterious disappearance of your father, but were warned that pulling at that thread would put you in grave danger... would you pull at it anyway?A turbulent seaside town holds a dark secret. Terror reigns in the form of drug king pin, Smiler, whose core business is to exploit the vulnerable. Hope is all but non existent.Tommy Dawson has believed for most of his life that his dad, Timothy, ran out on him when he was just two years old, leaving him to grow up in survival mode with his mum and brother, who had become more focussed on their drug habits than his welfare.That's until information comes to light which suggests that his dad's disappearance isn't all it seems.Tommy and his trusted sidekick, Kirsten, embark upon a quest to uncover the truth, taking them to the darkest corners of Granville and uncovering shocking secrets that will reveal the town's disturbing underbelly.The Disappearance of Timothy Dawson is a Young Adult fiction, with dark themes that expose sinister secrets. It takes place in a poor, forgotten seaside town in the north of England, called Granville-upon-sea, a place that was once glorious is now rife with drugs and poverty. The story is a coming of age mystery, following the journey of Tommy, a likeable chap that's been dealt an unfair hand in life. His mum and brother are addicts and he is left for the most part to fend for himself. The mystery of his father's whereabouts hadn't bothered him at all until, bit by bit, information surfaces suggesting maybe his dad didn't just leave them after all. As the story unfurls, the plot takes a dark turn and Tommy, along with his friends, must face evil head on in order to expose the truth."A gritty mystery that'll knock your socks off! Kept me guessing until the very end.""More twists and turns than a rollercoaster ride, the inherent danger keeps you wanting more!""Gripping, intense, sinister and mystifying!"*Please note: story for 16+, contains occasional explicit language and some adult themes with references to drugs and sexual abuse, but is without graphic detail.

Put on your go-go boots and get ready to 'Batusi' back to the Swingin' 60s as DC Comics reimagines the classic Batman TV series in comics form for the first time! These all-new stories portray The Caped Crusader, The Boy Wonder and their fiendish rogues gallery just the way viewers remember them. In this first adventure, The Riddler's out to steal some valuable artwork from under the noses of Gotham's police. But Batman gets help from an unlikely source: a certain femme fatale dressed in feline finery!