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Encyclopedia > Button Man

A comic strip created for leading British comic 2000AD, written by John Wagner and illustrated by Arthur Ranson. 2000 AD logo 2000 AD is a weekly British science fiction oriented comic. ... John Wagner, is a comics writer who has also written under the pseudonyms John Howard, T.B. Grover, Mike Stott, Keef Ripley, Rick Clark and Brian Skuter. ... Arthur Ransons photorealistic drawing style has been gracing British comics since the early 1970s. ...


Harry Exton, ex-mercenary, is a "Button Man", a hired killer pitted against other killers. Each works for a mysterious "Voice", a rich man of unknown identity. The object of the game is to kill your opponent, or capture him and take his marker - the first two joints of a finger. Button Men who lose three fingers are shot anyway. Exton decides to quit, only to discover that leaving the Button Man game isn't so easy.


Button Man ran for three series, and remains one of the best-selling collections of 2000AD strips (other than Judge Dredd) ever put together. This article is about the comic-book character Judge Dredd. ...


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Fitzgerald's short story: Curious Case of Benjamin Button (7581 words)
Roger Button were fifty years ahead of style when they decided, one day in the summer of 1860, that their first baby should be born in a hospital.
Button wished passionately that his son was fl--past the luxurious houses of the residential district, past the home for the aged....
Benjamin Button walked with dignity from the room, and half a dozen undergraduates, who were waiting in the hall, followed him curiously with their eyes.
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