Alan Weiss is an American

United States

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 comic book

Comic book

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 artist and writer known for his work on Warlock

Warlock

The term warlock in origin means "traitor, oathbreaker".In early modern Scots, the word came to be used as the male equivalent of witch ....

, Avengers

Avengers (comics)

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, Captain America

Captain America

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, Daredevil

Daredevil (Marvel Comics)

Daredevil is a fictional character, a superhero in comic books published by Marvel Comics. The character was created by writer-editor Stan Lee and artist Bill Everett, with an unspecified amount of input from Jack Kirby, and first appeared in Daredevil #1 .Living in the Hell's Kitchen neighborhood...

, Sub-Mariner and Spider-Man

Spider-Man

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. He is the creator, writer and artist of the feature "Steelgrip Starkey and the All-Purpose Power Tool" in Marvel Comics

Marvel Comics

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' Epic Illustrated

Epic Illustrated

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comics magazine, and also creator, co-writer and artist of War Dancer

War Dancer

War Dancer is a comic book series published by DEFIANT, from February of 1994 until July 1994.The series was created and illustrated by Alan Weiss and co-written by Weiss and comics author, creator and one time former Editor-in-Chief of Marvel Comics and VALIANT, Jim Shooter.The series spanned a...

for Defiant Comics

Defiant Comics

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. In the 1990s he contributed work to America's Best Comics' Tom Strong

Tom Strong

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, and a comic book about Houdini titled Daring Escapes. Weiss has also worked on DC Comics' alternate universe series Elseworlds

Elseworlds

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, on a Batman

Batman

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 one-shot entitled The Blue, the Grey and the Bat.

His work has also appeared in the comic books The Human Drama, Big Apple Comix

Big Apple Comix

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, Twilight Zone

Twilight zone

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, Boris Karloff

Boris Karloff

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 Tales of Mystery and Our Love Story; in Warren Publishing

Warren Publishing

Warren Publishing was an American magazine company founded by James Warren, who published his first magazines in 1957 and continued in the business for decades...

's black-and-white horror-comics magazines Creepy

Creepy

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and Eerie

Eerie

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; and the satirical

Satire

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 magazines National Lampoon

National Lampoon

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and Blast.

In the 1990s he contributed to Factoid Books' Big Book Of... series, doing many pages on a variety of historical topics.

External links

• Surreal Deal Studios Alan Weiss art commissions web site.
• The legendary lost Warlock. Adelaide Comics and Books.