Information: - DC Thomson is a British publishing and television production company best known for producing "The Dundee Courier", "The Evening Telegraph", "The Sunday Post", "Oor Wullie", "The Broons", "The Beano", "The Dandy", and "Commando" comics. It also owns Parragon and the Aberdeen Journals Group which publishes the "Press and Journal". It was a significant shareholder in the former ITV company Southern Television. Through its subsidiary DC Thomson Family History the company owns several websites including Friends Reunited and Findmypast. Based in Dundee, Scotland, the company also owns children books publisher Parragon. - Detective Comics is the title of an American comic book series published by DC Comics. The first volume, published from 1937 to 2011, is best known for introducing the superhero Batman in "Detective Comics" #27 (cover date May 1939, release date March 1939). A second series of the same title was launched in the fall of 2011 but in 2016 reverted to the original volume numbering. The series is the source of its publishing company's name, and along with "Action Comics", the series that launched with the debut of Superman one of the medium's signature series. The series published 881 issues between 1937 and 2011 and is the longest continuously published comic book in the United States. - The Beano is a long running British children's comic, published by DC Thomson. The comic first appeared on 30 July 1938, and was published weekly. In September 2009, "The Beano"'s 3,500th issue was published. One of the best selling comics in British popular culture, along with "The Dandy", the weekly circulation of "The Beano" in April 1950 was 1,974,072. "The Beano" is currently edited by Craig Graham. Each issue is published on a Wednesday , with the issue date being that of the following Saturday. - The Dandy was a long-running British children's comic published by DC Thomson. The first issue was printed in December 1937, making it the world's third-longest running comic, after "Detective Comics" (cover dated March 1937) and "Il Giornalino" (cover dated 1 October 1924). From August 2007 until October 2010, it was rebranded as "Dandy Xtreme". - Sparky was a British comic published weekly by DC Thomson , that ran from ( issue dates ) 23 January 1965 to 9 July 1977 when it merged with The Topper after 652 issues . From 1965 - 1980 the comic published an annual entitled The Sparky Book . It was a DC Thomson comic , originally aimed at a slightly younger audience to The Beano and The Dandy later it was aimed at the same audience . It changed its name to The Sparky Comic in 1973 . After reading the paragraphs above, choose the best answer for the entity that related to 'sparky ' with the relationship of 'instance of'. Choices: - 1 - 1937 - august - book - comic - comic book - commando - company - dc comics - family - history - july - march - name - production - production company - publishing - running - september - series - television - title - volume
comic book

Information: - Brendan Hughes ( 16 October 1948 -- 16 February 2008 ) , also known as '' The Dark '' , was a leading Irish republican and former Officer Commanding ( OC ) of the Belfast Brigade of the Provisional Irish Republican Army ( IRA ) . He was the leader of the 1980 Irish hunger strike . - Major is a military rank of commissioned officer status, with corresponding ranks existing in many military forces throughout the world. When used unhyphenated, in conjunction with no other indicators, Major is one rank senior to that of an army Captain, and one rank subordinate or below the rank of Lieutenant colonel. It is considered the most junior of the field officer ranks. - The officer commanding (OC) is the commander of a sub-unit or minor unit (smaller than battalion size), principally used in the United Kingdom and Commonwealth. In other countries, the term commanding officer is applied to commanders of minor as well as major units. - The Troubles is the common name for the ethno-nationalist conflict in Northern Ireland during the late 20th century. Also known internationally as the Northern Ireland conflict, it is sometimes described as a "guerrilla war" or "low-level war". The conflict began in the late 1960s and is usually deemed to have ended with the Good Friday "Belfast" Agreement of 1998. Although the Troubles mainly took place in Northern Ireland, violence spilled over at times into parts of the Republic of Ireland, England and mainland Europe. - The Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA or PIRA) was an Irish republican paramilitary organisation that sought to remove Northern Ireland from the United Kingdom and to bring about an independent republic encompassing all of Ireland. It was the biggest and most active republican paramilitary group during the Troubles. It saw itself as the successor to the original IRA and called itself simply the Irish Republican Army, or "Oglaigh na hEireann" in Irish. It was also widely referred to as such by others. After reading the paragraphs above, choose the best answer for the entity that related to 'brendan hughes' with the relationship of 'conflict'. Choices: - captain - the troubles
the troubles