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movieupdating of the original comic strip buoyed by Maxvon Sydow's twisted turn as the Emperor.Screen-writer Stephen Sommers(The Mummy,1999)isreturning Ming to the big screen in Flash Gordon(indevelopment in 2006).Ming has appeared innumerous original Flash Gordon novels,Big LittleBooks,and comic-book series issued from a varietyof publishers,as well as in three television car-toons:1979's The New Animated Adventures ofFlash Gordon,1986's Defenders of the Earth,and1996's Flash Gordon.To avoid racial stereotyping,in the latter series Ming was redesigned a pointy-eared reptile-man.Ming action figures tying into theanimated series were produced,as was an elabo-rate Ming outfit for the poseable figure of CaptainAction's arch-foe,the original Dr.Evil.—ME  \nAs the true source of evil in the action fantasyAmanga Madara(1996-1999),Miroku is theone who set the events of the story in motion.Cre-ated by Eiji Otsuka(story)and Sho-u Tajima(art),Miroku first appeared to Madara readers in the“Tale of the Abandoned Prince”storyline in 1996.However,he is described in the prologue of thefirst volume of Madara.  \nAccording to legend,many years earlier,Miroku was the leader of a strange army thatclaimed to be “descendants of the gods”—mean-ing he was possibly of extraterrestrial origin.Miroku stood at more than 40 feet tall,and hephysically resembled a human being.He also hadcontrol over demons called\"Moki.\"Swiftly defeat-ing allenemies,Miroku eventually took over theland,established the Diamond Kingdom,anddeclared himself emperor.  \nYet Miroku's own offspring would become hisundoing.When his son was born,Miroku—actingon a prophecy that his son would eventuallydepose him—sacrificed the infant to the demonlord and divided the body among his eight gener-als.Only the child's spirit survived,taken away bythe wizard Hakutaku.That child is Madara.  \nFifteen years later,Madara—his soul now inhab-iting a cybernetic(or“gadget”)body—began tosearch for the creatures that possessed the parts ofhis real body.Each time the boy killed one ofMiroku's generals he gained a part of his real bodyback,as well as the experience needed to defeat hisfather.Miroku,now alerted to his son's quest,sentout his own army of bizarre and horrific creatures,aswell as his demonic henchmen,to destroy Madara.One of his best commanders is Kaos,who later joinswith Madara to bring about Miroku's downfall.—MM  \nDetty crook Sam Scudder learned a trade whilein prison.As seen in The Flash vol.1\\#105P                                                             —\"(1959),Scudder,in the pen's mirror factory,mis-takenly applies the incorrect chemical to glass andinadvertently discovers a means of manipulatingmirrors into tools for crime.As the high-tech pur-loiner the Mirror Master,wearing a green cowl andgold bodysuit designed by the tale's artist,Carmine Infantino,Scudder uses his“Image Con-troller”—writer John Broome's interpretation of ahologram projector—to rob a bank with a mirror-created 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