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The Runaways defined the art of women’s Rock and Roll. They were young and talented, they had a strong passion for rocking that defied every aspect of the male-dominated music industry in the mid 70’s. With the rocketing voice of Cherie Currie, future rock legends Joan Jett and Lita Ford on guitar, the dominating talent of Jackie Fox on bass and the ever-so amazing Sandy West on drums, The Runaways were essentially a super-group. Their identity as such was masked only by the cloak of their gender. The members were marketed and largely perceived as teenage sex symbols singing about sex, drugs and the R&R lifestyle. A good measure of the responsibilty for that unfortunate marketing strategy falls squarely on the shoulders of manager Kim Fowley.
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The Runaways carried the banner for teenage rockers in the late 70s. They dealt with things teenagers should never have to be exposed to, and 25 years after their debut album, continue to hold a captivated cult following in the palms of their hands. The years of dealing with critics, drugs, sex and heartache, combined with platinum albums and worldwide exposure, caused a whirlwind of confusion, good times and bad. But The Runaways are still here and forging ahead as solo artists and industry professionals when many may have fallen apart. They've reached icon status to their loyal fans as a group and as individuals. Today The Runaways are living life like only they can, dealing with their experiences and each, in her own way, coming to terms with her legacy.
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Even though the core of the Runaways was to hold in the years to come, other musicians made their way through the group. They included: Rusty Davis, Terry Klein, Sam French, Grant Gilmore, Jim Johan, Jim Groth, Roger Whitmore, Roger Hughes, Jim Weiner and Curt Powell.
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The teens who became the Runaways found that some family secrets are bigger than others when they witnessed their parents, part of a cabal known as the Pride, murdering a young girl during a secret sacrificial ritual. Running away from their homes, the group banded together and began a journey of discovery, both of their parents' origins and of their own inherited powers. Arsenic found she could control her time-traveling parents' dinosaur, which she named Old Lace; Sister Grimm took her mother's magical Staff of One, with which she could cast any spell, but only once; the mutant Bruiser found that with puberty came super strength; Lucy in the Sky learned that she was an alien with energy powers; Talkback took several of his mad scientist parents' weapons; ... Alex Wilder, possessing only his own natural genius, retained use of his real name.
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Runaways is a comic book about six teenagers who discover their parents were secretly a group of super-villains called The Pride. It was launched in 2002 as part of Marvel's Tsunami imprint. It was created by writer Brian K. Vaughan and artist Adrian Alphona.
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This deluxe hardcover collects "Runaways" Vols. 5-7, plus extras. In "True Believers", it's an all-new beginning for the book that Wizard calls "the best original concept from Marvel in thirty years!" When a group of teenagers discovers that their parents are actually super-villains, they run away from home...but that's only step one! Now that the evil Pride is gone, nearly every bad guy in the Marvel Universe is trying to fill the power vacuum in Los Angeles, and the Runaways are the only heroes who can stop them! Plus: What does a mysterious new team of young heroes want with the Runaways, and which fan-favorite Marvel characters are part of this group?
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