An usage of the preposition "to"

In the preface to the revised 2003 edition of The Gunslinger, King also identifies http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lord_of_the_Rings, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matter_of_Britain, and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Good,_the_Bad_and_the_Ugly as inspirations. He identifies http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clint_Eastwood "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Man_with_No_Name" character as one of the major inspirations for the protagonist, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roland_Deschain. King's style of location names in the series, such as Mid-World, and his development of a unique language abstract to our own (High Speech), are also influenced by http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._R._R._Tolkien's work.

I'd like to know whether in my examples, the underlined word "to" means "in comparison to."
Thank you in advance for your help.