cell-o-mania

Cell-o-Mania

The mobile phone or mobile, also called a cellular phone, or cell phone is a long-range, portable electronic device used for mobile communication that uses a network of specialized base stations known as cell sites. In addition to the standard voice function of a telephone, current mobile phones can support many additional services such as SMS for text messaging, email, packet switching for access to the Internet, and MMS for sending and receiving photos and video. Most current mobile phones connect to a cellular network of base stations (cell sites), which is in turn interconnected to the public switched telephone network (PSTN) (the exception is satellite phones).Nokia Corporation is currently the world's largest manufacturer of mobile telephones, with a global device market share of approximately 36% in Q1 of 2007.[4] Other mobile phone manufacturers include Apple Inc., Audiovox (now UT Starcom), Benefon, BenQ-Siemens, High Tech Computer Corporation (HTC), Fujitsu, Kyocera, LG Mobile, Mitsubishi, Motorola, NEC, Neonode, Panasonic (Matsushita Electric), Pantech Curitel, Philips, Research In MotionThere are significant questions as to who first invented the camera phone, as numerous other people received patents filed in the early 1990s for the device, including David M. Britz of AT&T Research in March of 1994 and Phillipe Kahn, who claims to have first invented it in 1997.[citation needed] The camera phone now holds 85% of the mobile phone market[citation needed]. Mobile phones often have features beyond sending text messages and making voice calls, including Internet browsing, music (MP3) playback, memo recording, personal organizer functions, e-mail, instant messaging, built-in cameras and camcorders, ringtones, games, radio, Push-to-Talk (PTT), infrared and Bluetooth connectivity, call registers, ability to watch streaming video or download video for later viewing, video calling and serve as a wireless modem for a PC, and soon will also serve as a console of sorts to online games and other high quality games (e.g. Final Fantasy Agito).[citation needed]

The Great E-man

E-Man is a fictional comic book superhero created by writer Nicola Cuti and artist Joe Staton 

for Charlton Comics in 1973. Though the character's original series was short-lived, the lightly 

humorous hero has become a cult-classic sporadically revived by various independent comics 

publishers.

  First Comics 

In 1983, during a period of financial uncertainty for Charlton, the company sold independent 

publisher First Comics the rights to E-Man. First's E-Man ran 25 issues (April 1983 - Aug. 

1985), with the company also publishing a seven-issue miniseries, The Original E-Man and 

Michael Mauser, that reprinted those characters' Charlton stories.

Staton did the artwork, with stories written by Martin Pasko, Paul Kupperberg, Cuti, and Staton 

himself. In the course of the run, Staton acquired the copyright to the character from First, 

although First Comics retained ownership of those stories that had been published by them.

Later publications

Several years after the cancellation of the First Comics series, Comico published an E-Man 

one-shot (Sept. 1989) by Cuti & Staton, followed by a three-issue miniseries (Jan.-March 

1990). After Comico's demise, Alpha Productions did a one-shot in (Sept. 1993), as well as 

three ashcan previews of that issue.

E-Man appeared in the two-page story "Come and Grow Old With Me", by Cuti and Staton, 

published in the magazine Comic Book Artist #12 (March 2001).

Cuti & Station reteamed for two one-shots by Digital Webbing Press published the one-shots 

E-Man: Recharged (Oct. 2006) and E-Man: Dolly (Sept. 2007), each with Cuti & Staton as the 

creative team.^[1] The indicia for each listed E-Man as copyrighted by "Joe Staton/First 

Comics".

A previously unpublished E-Man story (done originally for Alpha Productions) by Cuti & Staton, 

saw print inCharlton Spotlight #6 (2008), along with an unpublished Mike Mauser story

Fictional character biography

E-Man is a sentient packet of energy thrown off by a nova. Traveling the galaxy he learned 

about life, how to duplicate the appearance of life, and good and evil. Reaching Earth, he met 

exotic dancer/grad student Katrinka Colchnzski (who attended Xanadu University), also known 

as Nova Kane (novocaine), and formed himself into a superhero dubbed E-Man, with a civilian 

identity dubbed "Alec Tronn" (electron). His emblem was the famous mass-energy 

equivalenceformula "E=mc²", and his powers included firing energy blasts from his hands, 

changing his appearance, and transforming part or all of his body into anything he could 

envision (e.g., turning his feet into jet engines so he could fly).

Nova would later be caught in a nuclear explosion and gain the same powers as E-Man and 

become his partner; later still, she would lose her powers and become a normal human being 

again, only to regain her powers sometime afterward. During their early adventures they picked 

up a pet koala namedTeddy Q, whose intelligence grew to the point where he had a job 

waiting tables in a cafe