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- ↑ Podcast of WildStorm panel at San Diego Comic-Con July 2006
- ↑ Scott Peterson at the Comic Book DB (archived from the original )
- ↑ The DC Comics Guide to Writing Comics, Dennis O'Neil (Watson-Guphill Publications, 2001), p. 105.
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