The Wizard (DC Thomson)

The Wizard was launched as a weekly British story paper on 22 September 1922, published by D. C. Thomson & Co. It was merged with The Rover in September 1963, becoming Rover and Wizard, and renamed The Rover in August 1969. The Wizard was relaunched on 14 February 1970, and continued until 10 June 1978, by which time 1,970 issues had been produced.

Regular features

Wilson the Wonder Athlete

Wolf of Kabul

Ruthless Ruff

Fictional RFC flying ace of the Great War

The Blazing Ace Of Spades

Fictional RAF fighter pilot of the 2nd World War

THE Q TEAM

A football team assembled by the mysterious Ka

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Wizard

Wizard is a synonym for a magician.

Wizard, the wizard or wizards may also refer to:

Characters

Wizard (Middle-earth), powerful beings in the writings of J. R. R. Tolkien

Wizard of Oz (character), in L. Frank Baum's novel The Wonderful Wizard of Oz and its movie adaptations

Wizards (Discworld), major characters in Terry Pratchett's Discworld series

Kamen Rider Wizard (character), in the TV Asahi Tokusatsu series Kamen Rider Wizard

The Wizard (DC Thomson), a weekly comic from D. C. Thomson & Co.

Wizard (Archie Comics), a comic book superhero

Wizard (DC Comics), a comic book villain

Wizard (Marvel Comics), a comic book villain

Film and television

The Wizard (1927 film), a 1927 American silent horror film

The Wizard (film), a 1989 American film about a skilled video game player

The Wizard (Seinfeld), the 171st episode of the NBC sitcom Seinfeld

The Wizard (TV series), a short-lived 1980s CBS television series

Wizards (film), a 1977 animated post-apocalyptic fantasy/science fiction film by Ralph Bakshi

Wizard of New Zealand

The Wizard of New Zealand QSM (born Ian Brackenbury Channell; 4 December 1932) is a New Zealand educator, comedian, magician and politician who has become something of a national icon.

Life and career

Ian Brackenbury Channell was born on 4 December 1932 in London. Educated at Framlingham College, in 1951-53 he served in the Royal Air Force as an airman and in 1963 he graduated from the University of Leeds with a double honours degree in psychology and sociology. Shortly afterwards he was recruited by the University of Western Australia Adult Education Board to run their community arts programme. In 1967 he joined the teaching staff of the newly opened School of Sociology at the University of New South Wales in Sydney.

During the student upheavals, which began at this time, he created a direct action reform movement called Alf (Action for Love and Freedom) and implemented this with what he announced to be "The Fun Revolution". The result was a revitalisation of the university referred to in the Sydney Morning Herald as "the university that swings".

The Wizard (Uriah Heep song)

"The Wizard" is a single from rock band Uriah Heep's 1972 album Demons & Wizards and was the first single to be lifted from the album. It was composed by Mark Clarke and Ken Hensley. It is a gentle, semi-acoustic ballad whose lyrics deal with a man wandering until he meets "the Wizard of a thousand kings", a possible reference to the druid Merlin, to Gandalf, to an angel or even God. This song is the first Uriah Heep single which had a music video. The song is in the tuning of C-G-C-F-A-D. The song is written in the key of C major.

The style of "The Wizard" represents a country rock ballad.

The song was composed by keyboardist-guitarist Ken Hensley and the band's short time bassist Mark Clarke. "The Wizard" also was the only composition that includes Clarke as a member of the band. Clarke also call the studio version of the song. "The Wizard" tells the story of man who is walking in mountains and meets the wizard. The song has charted at #34 in Germany and at #8 in Switzerland.