Jeremiah "Jerry" Ordway (born November 28, 1957) is an American writer, penciller, inker and painter of comic books.
He is best known for his inking work on a wide variety of DC Comics titles, including the continuity-redefining classic Crisis on Infinite Earths (1985-1986), his long run working on the Superman titles from 1986-1993, and for writing and painting the Captain Marvel original graphic novel The Power of Shazam! (1994), and writing th...
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Jeremiah "Jerry" Ordway (born November 28, 1957) is an American writer, penciller, inker and painter of comic books.
He is best known for his inking work on a wide variety of DC Comics titles, including the continuity-redefining classic Crisis on Infinite Earths (1985-1986), his long run working on the Superman titles from 1986-1993, and for writing and painting the Captain Marvel original graphic novel The Power of Shazam! (1994), and writing the on-going monthly series from 1995-1999.
Jerry Ordway attended the Milwaukee Technical High School, at which he took a 3-year "commercial art course," before joining a commercial art studio as a typographer in 1976, before working his way "from the ground floor up at the art studio" between 1978 and 1981.
Before beginning his professional career as an inker, Jerry Ordway broke into comics as an artist (and publisher) for small-press comics fanzines. Ordway discovered Marvel comics in "June of 1967," and wrote in 1975 (aged 17) that he had ...
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