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| x Chris Claremont |
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Mind Out of Time! |
Chris Claremont (born November 30, 1950, in London, England) is an award-winning American comic book writer and novelist, known for his 17-year (1975-1991) stint on Uncanny X-Men, far longer than any other writer. Claremont co-created numerous...
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| x John Byrne |
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Mind Out of Time! |
John Lindley Byrne (born July 6, 1950) is a British-born Canadian-American author and artist of comic books. Since the mid-1970s, Byrne has worked on nearly every major American superhero.
Byrne's best-known work has been on Marvel Comics’ X-Men and...
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| x Stan Lee |
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X-Men |
Stan Lee (born Stanley Martin Lieber; December 28, 1922) is an American comic book writer, editor, and the former president and chairman of Marvel Comics.
With several artist co-creators, most notably Jack Kirby and Steve Ditko, he co-created Spider...
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| The Immortals! | ||||
| The Stone Men From Saturn! | ||||
| x Grant Morrison |
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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 narratives and counter-cultural leanings.
Grant Morrison was born in Glasgow, Scotland in 1960. His first published works were...
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| x Brian Michael Bendis |
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The Trust |
Brian Michael Bendis (born August 18, 1967) is an American comic book writer and erstwhile artist. He has won critical acclaim (including five Eisner Awards) for his self-published, Image Comics and Marvel Comics work, and is one of the most...
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| The New Avengers #27 : Revolution | ||||
| x Warren Ellis |
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Iron Man : Extremis |
Warren Ellis (born 16 February 1968) is an English author of comics, novels, and television, well known for sociocultural commentary, both through his online presence and his writing, which covers transhumanist themes (most notably nanotechnology,...
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| x Frank Miller |
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Daredevil |
Frank Miller (born January 27, 1957) is a U.S. writer, artist and film director best known for his dark, film noir-style comic book stories and graphic novels Ronin, Daredevil: Born Again, Batman: The Dark Knight Returns, Sin City and 300. He...
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| Batman: The Dark Knight Returns | ||||
| Elektra: Assassin | ||||
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| x Sara Ryan | 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 Best...
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| x J. Michael Straczynski |
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Joseph Michael Straczynski (born July 17, 1954), known professionally as J. Michael Straczynski and informally as Joe Straczynski or JMS, is an American writer and television producer. He works in a variety of media, including films, television...
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| x Steve Gerber |
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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, Marvel...
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| x Alan Moore |
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Batman: The Killing Joke |
Alan Oswald Moore (born 18 November 1953) is an English writer known for work in comics, including the acclaimed comic book series Watchmen, V for Vendetta and From Hell. He wrote the novel Voice of the Fire, and performs "workings" (one-off...
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| x Jim Starlin |
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A Death in the Family, Part One |
James P. "Jim" Starlin (born October 9, 1949, in Detroit, Michigan) 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, for...
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| A Death in the Family, Part Two | ||||
| A Death in the Family, Part Three | ||||
| A Death in the Family, Part Four | ||||
| x Ed Brubaker |
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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.
Brubaker is best known for his work as a comic book writer on such titles as Batman...
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| x J.C. Gagné | Spore, Part 4 | Spore, Part 4 | ||
| x Garth Ennis |
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Garth Ennis (born 16 January 1970 in Holywood, Northern Ireland) is a Northern Irish comics writer, best known for the DC/Vertigo series Preacher, co-created with artist Steve Dillon, and his successful revival of Marvel Comics' Punisher franchise....
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| x Neil Gaiman |
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The Sandman: Dream Country |
Neil Richard Gaiman (pronounced /ˈɡeɪmən/) (born 10 November 1960) is an English author of science fiction and fantasy short stories and novels, graphic novels, comics, audio theatre, and films. His notable works include The Sandman graphic novel...
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| Calliope | ||||
| A Dream of a Thousand Cats | ||||
| Façade | ||||
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | ||||
| x William Shakespeare |
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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 preeminent dramatist. He is often called England's national poet and...
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| A Midsummer Night's Dream | ||||
| x Kelley Puckett | Mark of Cain, Part One |
Kelley Puckett is a comic book writer. He is the creator of the character Cassandra Cain, the Batgirl who succeeded Barbara Gordon and who was succeeded herself by Stephanie Brown, as well as the second Green Arrow, Connor Hawke.
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| x Bill Finger | 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'...
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| The Legend of the Batman - Who He is, and How he Came to Be | ||||
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| x Gardner Fox |
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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....
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| The Race of Wheel and Keel | ||||
| x Chuck Dixon |
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The Bigger They Are |
Charles "Chuck" Dixon (born 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...
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| x Greg Rucka |
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Fruit of the Earth, Part Two |
Gregory "Greg" Rucka (born November 29, 1969) is an American comic book writer and novelist. He is married to fellow comic writer Jen Van Meter. Currently, Rucka is writing DC's Action Comics, Detective Comics (starring Batwoman), and the miniseries...
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| x Bob Kane |
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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 famous DC Comics superhero Batman.
A high school friend of fellow cartoonist and future Spirit creator Will...
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| x Mike W. Barr | Double Image |
Mike W. Barr, is an American writer of comic books, 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...
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| x John Wagner | 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...
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| Judge Dredd: Mutie Block (Part 1) | ||||
| Judge Dredd: The Edgar Case (Part 6) | ||||
| x Larry Lieber |
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The Stone Men From Saturn! |
Larry D. Lieber (born October 26, 1931) is an American comic book artist and writer, and the younger brother of Marvel Comics' writer, editor and publisher Stan Lee.
Lieber is best known for scripting the first appearances of the Marvel characters...
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| x Gerry Conway |
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The Punisher Strikes Twice |
Gerard F. "Gerry" Conway (September 10, 1952 - ) is an American writer of comic books and television shows. He is best known for co-creating the Marvel Comics vigilante The Punisher (with artist Ross Andru) and scripting the death of the character...
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| x Mark Millar |
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Civil War, Part One of Seven |
Mark Millar (born December 24, 1972) is an award-winning Scottish comic book writer born in Coatbridge. Now a resident of Glasgow, Millar has been the highest selling British comic-book writer working in America this decade. His best known works...
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| Civil War, Part Seven of Seven | ||||
| Civil War, Part Two of Seven | ||||
| x John Broome | SOS Green Lantern! |
John Broome (1913 – March 1999), who additionally used the pseudonyms John Osgood and Edgar Ray Meritt, was an American comic book writer for DC Comics.
Broome began his career as a writer of a dozen published science-fiction stories. He switched to...
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| Secret of the Flaming Spear! | ||||
| Menace of the Runaway Missile! | ||||
| The Man Who Broke the Time Barrier | ||||
| The Gun That Dropped Through Time! | ||||
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| x Joss Whedon |
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Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season Eight |
Joseph Hill "Joss" Whedon (pronounced /ˈwiːdən/; born June 23, 1964) is an Emmy Award-winning American director, executive producer, occasional actor, and creator and head writer of the television programs Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel, Firefly,...
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| Astonishing X-Men : V3 Torn | ||||
| x Robert Kirkman |
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Brit : Old Soldier |
Robert Kirkman is an American comic book writer best known for his work on The Walking Dead, Invincible and Marvel Zombies.
Kirkman's first comic book work was self published, through the publisher Funk-O-Tron. This series was Battle Pope (2000)...
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| x Marc Andreyko |
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Manhunter : Street Justice |
Marc Andreyko (born 20 June 1970 in Cleveland, Ohio) is a comic book and screenplay writer, known for writing the 2000s ongoing series Manhunter for DC Comics. He is openly gay
Andreyko co-wrote the limited series Torso with Brian Michael Bendis,...
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| x Allan Heinberg | Young Avengers : Sidekicks |
Allan Heinberg (b. June 29, 1967) is an American film screenwriter, who wrote Young Avengers for Marvel Comics, and has been a writer and producer on The Naked Truth, Party of Five, Sex and the City, Gilmore Girls, The O.C., and currently Grey's...
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| x Scott McCloud |
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Zot! |
Scott McCloud (born Scott McLeod on June 10, 1960) is an American cartoonist and theorist on comics as a distinct literary and artistic non-linear medium.
McCloud was born in Boston, Massachusetts and spent most of his childhood in Lexington,...
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| x Matthew Sturges | Jack of Fables : Jack of Hearts |
Matthew Sturges (born October 1970 in Rhode Island) is an American writer of comics
Sturges is best known for the Eisner-award nominated Jack of Fables from DC/Vertigo. In the 1990s, he was a member of the writers' collective Clockwork Storybook,...
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| Jack of Fables : Jack Frost | ||||
| x Bill Willingham | Jack of Fables : Jack of Hearts |
Bill Willingham (born December 1956 in Fort Belvoir, Virginia) is an American writer and artist of comics.
Willingham got his start in the late 1970s to early 1980s as a staff artist for TSR, Inc., where he illustrated a number of their role-playing...
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| Jack of Fables : Jack Frost | ||||
| x Gail Simone |
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Birds of Prey : Blood and Circuits |
Gail Simone is an American writer of comic books. Best known for penning DC's Birds of Prey, her other notable works include Secret Six, Welcome to Tranquility, The All-New Atom, and Deadpool. In 2007, she took over Wonder Woman. Simone has a...
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| x Douglas Rushkoff |
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Testament : Babel |
Douglas Rushkoff is a New York-based writer, columnist and lecturer on technology, media and popular culture.Rushkoff graduated magna cum laude from Princeton University. He moved to Los Angeles and pursued a Master of Fine Arts in Directing from...
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| x Dave Simmonds |
Dave Simmonds (25 October 1939 in London – October 23, 1972 in Rungis, France) was a British former Grand Prix motorcycle road racer. In 1969, he won the FIM 125 cc road racing World Championship . The victory marked the first world championship for...
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| x Dave Sim |
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Cerebus the Aardvark |
David Victor Sim (born May 17, 1956 in Hamilton, Ontario) is an award-winning Canadian comic book writer and artist, best known as the creator of Cerebus the Aardvark.
Dave Sim was born in Hamilton and moved to Kitchener, Ontario with his family...
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| x Mike Johnson | K Chapter 4: WSDs | |||
| x Michael Green | K Chapter 4: WSDs |
Michael Green is an American television and film writer, as well as a comic book scripter.
Green grew up in Mamaroneck, New York.
Green has been a contributor for Superman/Batman. He will also co-write a Green Lantern movie with Greg Berlanti and...
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| x Howard Chaykin |
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American Flagg! |
Howard Victor Chaykin (born October 7, 1950 in Newark, New Jersey) is an American comic book writer and artist famous for his innovative storytelling and sometimes controversial material. Chaykin’s main influences are the mid-20th Century book...
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| x Jeph Loeb |
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Batman: The Long Halloween |
Joseph "Jeph" Loeb III is an Emmy and WGA nominated American film and television writer, producer and award-winning comic book writer. Loeb was a producer/writer on the TV series Smallville and Lost, writer for the films Commando and Teen Wolf and...
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| x Darwyn Cooke |
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Ice Ginger Coffee |
Darwyn Cooke (b. 1962, Toronto, Canada) is an Eisner Award-winning comic book writer, artist, cartoonist and animator, best known for his work on the comic books Catwoman, DC: The New Frontier and The Spirit.
In 1985, Cooke published his first comic...
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| x Brad Meltzer |
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Chapter One: Coffin |
Brad Meltzer (born April 1, 1970) is an American author of novels and comic books. He created a six-issue story arc for DC Comics' Green Arrow #16 - #21 (October 2002 - April 2003), and the 2004 miniseries Identity Crisis.
Meltzer grew up in...
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| Chapter Two: House of Lies | ||||
| Chapter Three: Serial Killer | ||||
| Chapter Four: Who Benefits | ||||
| Chapter Five: Father's Day | ||||
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| x Robert Kanigher | Mystery of the Human Thunderbolt |
Robert Kanigher (June 18, 1915 - May 7, 2002) was a prolific comic book writer and editor whose career spanned five decades. He was involved with the Wonder Woman franchise for over twenty years, taking over the scripting from creator William...
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| x Ian Edginton | The Red Seas: Old Gods (Part 1) |
Ian Edginton is a British comic book writer.
He is one of the few British comic talents to follow the reverse trajectory to the one usually taken: becoming successful in American comics before returning to work for 2000 AD.
Edginton sees part of the...
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| x Tony Lee | Stalag 666 (Part 1) |
Tony Lee (born 30 June 1970) is a British writer. Born in Hayes, Middlesex, he now lives in Wanstead, London.
Writer Lee has written for various UK and US comic publishers including Marvel Comics, 2000ad, IDW Publishing and Walker Books, and he has...
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| x G. Powell | The Vort (Part 6) | |||
| x Pat Mills | Defoe: Brethren of the Night (Part 6) |
Pat Mills, nicknamed 'the godfather of British comics', is a comics writer and editor who, along with John Wagner, revitalised British boys comics in the 1970s, and has remained a leading light in British comics ever since.
His comics are notable...
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| x Geoff Johns |
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The Gathering |
Geoff Johns (born 25 January, 1973) is an American comic book and television writer, best known for his work for DC Comics, in particular for the characters Green Lantern and the Flash. As of June 2009, Johns is also a comic book retailer, having...
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| x Dave Gibbons |
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The Gathering |
Dave Gibbons (born 14 April 1949) is a English comic book artist, writer and sometime letterer. He is best known for his collaborations with writer Alan Moore, which include the miniseries Watchmen and the Superman story "For the Man Who Has...
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| x David S. Goyer | Justice Be Done |
David Samuel Goyer (born December 22, 1965) is an American screenwriter, film director and comic book writer.
Goyer was born and raised in Ann Arbor, Michigan. He is Jewish and an alumnus of Huron High School and the University of Southern...
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| x James Robinson |
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Justice Be Done |
James Dale Robinson is a British writer of comic books and screenplays who is also known for his interest in vintage collectibles and memorabilia. His style is described as smart and energetic, built upon his vast knowledge of obscure continuity...
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| x Scott Rockwell | Chapter One: Torturer's Apprentice | |||
| Chapter Two: The Traitress | ||||
| Chapter Three: "The Challenge" | ||||
| x Sam Kieth |
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Sam Kieth (born January 11, 1963) is an American comics writer and illustrator and film director, best known as the creator of The Maxx and Zero Girl.
Kieth first came to prominence in 1983 as the inker of Matt Wagner's Mage, his brushwork adding...
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| x Raven Gregory | Return to Wonderland | |||
| x Bill White |
Bill White is an animator, and a comic book writer, penciller, and inker.
White studied animation under former Disney animator Milt Neil at the Joe Kubert School of Cartoon and Graphic Art. He has contributed artwork and stories to many comic book...
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