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Comic Book Writer

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Chris Claremont Cover to Uncanny X-Men #94, Claremont's first issue Person   Mind Out of Time!
Chris Claremont (born November 30, 1950) is a writer of American comic book, known for his 16-year (1975-1991) stint on Uncanny X-Men, during which the series became one of the comic book industry's most successful properties. Claremont was born...
Fictional Character Creator
John Byrne Dark Phoenix on the cover of the Dark Phoenix TPB; art originally from Uncanny X-Men #135, by John Byrne Person Mind Out of Time!  
John Lindley Byrne (born July 6 1950) is a British-born Canadian-American author and artist of comic book. Since the mid-1970s Byrne has worked on nearly every major American superhero. His best-known work has been on Marvel Comics’ X-Men and...
Comic Book Penciler
Fictional Character Creator
Stan Lee Shawn McManus' caricature of Stan Lee Person   X-Men
Stan Lee (born Stanley Martin Lieber; December 28, 1922) is an American writer, editor, creator of comic book characters, and the former president and chairman of Marvel Comics. With several artist co-creators, most notably Jack Kirby and Steve...
Film actor The Queen Commands
Film writer The Immortals!
Film producer The Stone Men From Saturn!
Comic Book Editor
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Grant Morrison Person   D.O.A.: The GOD of WAR!
Grant Morrison (born January 31, 1960) is a Scottish comic book writer and artist. He is best-known for his nonlinear narrative and counter-cultural leanings. Grant Morrison was born in Glasgow, Scotland in 1960. His first published works were...
Fictional Character Creator
Comic Book Creator
Brian Michael Bendis Person   The Trust
Brian Michael Bendis (born 1967) is an American comic book writer and erstwhile artist. He has won critical acclaim (including five Eisner Award) for his self-published, Image Comics and Marvel Comics work, and is one of the most successful writers...
Film writer The New Avengers #27 : Revolution
Fictional Character Creator
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Award Winner
Warren Ellis Warren Ellis Person   Iron Man : Extremis
Warren Ellis (born February 16, 1968) is a British author of comic, novel, and television, well known for sociocultural commentary, both through his online presence and his writing, which covers extropian and transhumanist themes (most notably...
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Comic Book Creator
Fictional Character Creator
Frank Miller Frank Miller Person   300
Frank Miller (born January 27, 1957) is an American writer, artist and film director best known for his dark, film noir-style comic book stories. Miller spent his childhood in Montpelier, Vermont. Setting out to become an artist, he eventually...
Film writer Batman: The Dark Knight Returns
Film actor Daredevil
Film director Sin City
Film producer Elektra Lives Again
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Sara Ryan   Person   Juggling Act
Sara Ryan (born 1971) is an American writer and librarian living in Oregon. Ryan was raised in Ann Arbor, Michigan, where she graduated from Pioneer High School in 1989. Her first novel, Empress of the World, was published in 2001 and is an ALA...
Comic Book Creator Deep, Too
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J. Michael Straczynski J Michael Straczynski 2007-05-12 Person    
Joseph Michael Straczynski (known professionally as J. Michael Straczynski and informally as Joe Straczynski or jms), born July 17, 1954, is an award-winning American writer/producer working in a variety of media, including television series, novel,...
TV Producer
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Steve Gerber   Person   Void Indigo
Stephen Ross "Steve" Gerber (September 20, 1947 - February 10, 2008) was an American comic book writer best known as co-creator of the satiric Marvel Comics character Howard the Duck. Other works include Man-Thing, Omega the Unknown, Foolkiller,...
Film writer
TV Writer
Fictional Character Creator
Deceased Person
Alan Moore Film writer   Batman: The Killing Joke
Alan Moore (born November 18, 1953 in Northampton) is an English writer most famous for his influential work in comics, including the acclaimed graphic novel Watchmen, V for Vendetta and From Hell. He has also written a novel, Voice of the Fire, and...
Musical Artist
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Jim Starlin Jim Starlin (2006) Person   A Death in the Family, Part One
James P. "Jim" Starlin (born October 9 1949) is an American comic book writer and artist, who has worked for Marvel Comics, DC Comics and others since the early 1970s. He is best known for "cosmic" tales and space opera and as the creator of the...
Fictional Character Creator A Death in the Family, Part Two
A Death in the Family, Part Three
A Death in the Family, Part Four
Ed Brubaker Ed Brubaker. Person Dead Reckoning, Part 3 Dead Reckoning, Part 3
Ed Brubaker (born November 17, 1966) is an Eisner Award-winning American cartoonist and writer. He was born at the National Naval Medical Center, Bethesda, Maryland. He is best known for his work as a comic book writer on such titles as Batman,...
Fictional Character Creator
Award Winner
J.C. Gagné   Person Spore, Part 4 Spore, Part 4  
Garth Ennis Person    
Garth Ennis (born January 16, 1970 in Holywood, Northern Ireland) is an Irish comics writer, best known for the DC/Vertigo series ''Preacher'', co-created with artist Steve Dillon, and his wildly successful revival of Marvel Comics' Punisher...
Film writer
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Comic Book Creator
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Neil Gaiman NeilGaimanNov04 Film director   The Sandman: Dream Country
Neil Richard Gaiman (born November 10, 1960) is an English author of science fiction and fantasy short stories and novels, graphic novel, comic, and film. His notable works include The Sandman comic series, Stardust, and American Gods. He lives...
Film writer Calliope
Musical Artist A Dream of a Thousand Cats
Person Façade
Author A Midsummer Night's Dream
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William Shakespeare William Shakespeare Person   The Sandman: Dream Country
William Shakespeare (baptised 26 April 1564 – died 23 April 1616) was an English poet and playwright, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist. He is often called England's national poet...
Film story contributor A Midsummer Night's Dream
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Kelley Puckett   Person   Mark of Cain, Part One
Kelley Puckett is a comic book writer. He is the creator of the character Cassandra Cain, the latest Batgirl, as well as the second Green Arrow, Connor Hawke.
Fictional Character Creator Mark of Cain, Part Two
Comic Book Creator
Bill Finger   Person   The Batman Wars Against the Dirigible of Doom
William "Bill" Finger (February 8, 1914 – January 18, 1974) was an American comic strip and comic book writer best known as the uncredited co-creator, with Bob Kane, of the DC Comics character Batman, as well as the co-architect of the series'...
Deceased Person The Legend of the Batman - Who He is, and How he Came to Be
Film writer The Joker
Fictional Character Creator
Comic Book Creator
Gardner Fox The Arsenal of Miracles, one of Fox's science fiction novels Person   The Batman Wars Against the Dirigible of Doom
Gardner Francis Cooper Fox (May 20, 1911, Brooklyn, New York – December 24, 1986) was an American writer best known for creating numerous comic book characters for DC Comics. Comic-book historians estimate that he wrote over 4,000 comics stories. ...
Deceased Person
Fictional Character Creator
Comic Book Creator
Chuck Dixon Chuck dixon Person   The Bigger They Are
Charles "Chuck" Dixon (b. 1954) is an American comic book writer, perhaps best-known for long runs on Batman titles in the 1990s. Chuck Dixon was born on April 14, 1954 and grew up in the Philadelphia area, reading comics of all genres. He has...
Fictional Character Creator
Greg Rucka GregRucka Person   Fruit of the Earth, Part Two
Gregory Rucka (born November 29, 1969) is an American writer of novels and comic book. He is married to fellow comic writer Jen Van Meter. Currently, he is writing the upcoming miniseries Final Crisis: Revelations which ties into DC's major...
Author Endgame, Part Three: ...Sleep In Heavenly Peace...
Fictional Character Creator
Bob Kane Person   The Atom Cave Raiders!
Bob Kane (born Robert Kahn, October 24, 1915 – November 3, 1998) was an American comic book artist and writer, credited as the creator of the DC Comics superhero Batman. A high school friend of fellow cartoonist and future The Spirit creator Will...
Film writer
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Mike W. Barr   Person   Double Image
Mike W. Barr, is an American writer of comic book, and mystery, and science fiction novels. Mike W. Barr was born on May 30, 1952. His introduction into comics writing came in DC Comics' Detective Comics #444, for which he wrote an 8-page back-up...
TV Writer
Fictional Character Creator
Devin K. Grayson   Person   Endgame, Part Three: ...Sleep In Heavenly Peace...
Devin Kalile Grayson (birth name unknown) is an American writer of comic book and novels. Titles that she has written include Gotham Knights, The Titans, the Vertigo series USER, and Nightwing. Her work on Gotham Knights made her the first, and as...
Fictional Character Creator
John Wagner   Person   A Gotham Tale, Part One - Gargoyles
John Wagner is a comics writer who was born in Pennsylvania in 1949 and moved to Scotland as a boy. Alongside Pat Mills, Wagner was responsible for revitalising British boys' comics in the 1970s, and has continued to be a leading light in British...
Film writer
Film producer
Fictional Character Creator
Larry Lieber The Amazing Spider-Man daily strip from 2004. Art by Larry Lieber (pencils) and Alex Saviuk (inks). Person   The Stone Men From Saturn!
Larry D. Lieber (born October 26, 1931, New York City, New York) is an American comic book artist and writer, and the younger brother of Marvel Comics' writer/editor/publisher Stan Lee. Lieber is best known for scripting the first appearance of the...