Daniel "Danny" Fingeroth is an American
comic bookA comic book is a magazine made up of narrative artwork, often accompanied by dialog and often including brief descriptive prose...
writer and editor, better known for a long stint as group editor of the
Spider-ManSpider-Man is a fictional Marvel Comics superhero. The character was created by writer and editor Stan Lee and artist and co-plotter Steve Ditko. He first appeared in Amazing Fantasy #15...
books at
Marvel ComicsMarvel Publishing, Inc., a company doing business as Marvel Comics, produces American comic books and related media. It forms a subsidiary of Marvel Entertainment, Inc....
.
Fingeroth got his start in the comics business in 1974 as an editorial assistant for the short-lived Seaboard Comics. At Marvel in the 1980s, he edited the
Spider-ManSpider-Man is a fictional Marvel Comics superhero. The character was created by writer and editor Stan Lee and artist and co-plotter Steve Ditko. He first appeared in Amazing Fantasy #15...
titles as well as
Marvel Team-UpMarvel Team-Up is the name of several American comic book series published by Marvel Comics. The series featured two or more Marvel characters in one story. The original series consisted of 150 issues, published from March 1972 through February 1985. The series featured Spider-Man in most of its...
and
Ka-ZarKa-Zar is the name of two jungle-dwelling comics fictional characters published in the United States. The first appeared in pulp magazines of the 1930s, and was adapted for his second iteration, as a comic book character for Timely Comics, the 1930s and 1940s predecessor of Marvel Comics. The third...
.
As a writer, Fingeroth worked on
DarkhawkDarkhawk is a fictional comic book superhero who first appeared in his own self-titled series, Darkhawk #1...
, writing all fifty issues of the book between 1991 and 1995.
Daniel "Danny" Fingeroth is an American
comic bookA comic book is a magazine made up of narrative artwork, often accompanied by dialog and often including brief descriptive prose...
writer and editor, better known for a long stint as group editor of the
Spider-ManSpider-Man is a fictional Marvel Comics superhero. The character was created by writer and editor Stan Lee and artist and co-plotter Steve Ditko. He first appeared in Amazing Fantasy #15...
books at
Marvel ComicsMarvel Publishing, Inc., a company doing business as Marvel Comics, produces American comic books and related media. It forms a subsidiary of Marvel Entertainment, Inc....
.
Editing and writing
Fingeroth got his start in the comics business in 1974 as an editorial assistant for the short-lived Seaboard Comics. At Marvel in the 1980s, he edited the
Spider-ManSpider-Man is a fictional Marvel Comics superhero. The character was created by writer and editor Stan Lee and artist and co-plotter Steve Ditko. He first appeared in Amazing Fantasy #15...
titles as well as
Marvel Team-UpMarvel Team-Up is the name of several American comic book series published by Marvel Comics. The series featured two or more Marvel characters in one story. The original series consisted of 150 issues, published from March 1972 through February 1985. The series featured Spider-Man in most of its...
and
Ka-ZarKa-Zar is the name of two jungle-dwelling comics fictional characters published in the United States. The first appeared in pulp magazines of the 1930s, and was adapted for his second iteration, as a comic book character for Timely Comics, the 1930s and 1940s predecessor of Marvel Comics. The third...
.
As a writer, Fingeroth worked on
DarkhawkDarkhawk is a fictional comic book superhero who first appeared in his own self-titled series, Darkhawk #1...
, writing all fifty issues of the book between 1991 and 1995. Before that, he had a long stint on
DazzlerDazzler is a Marvel Comics superhero, associated with the X-Men. She first appeared in Uncanny X-Men #130 ....
, wrote the
Deadly Foes of Spider-Man and
Lethal Foes of Spider-Man mini-series, the
Howard The DuckHoward the Duck is a comic book character in the Marvel Comics universe created by writer Steve Gerber and artist Val Mayerik. The character first appeared in Adventure into Fear #19 and several subsequent series have chronicled the misadventures of the ill-tempered, anthropomorphic, "funny...
movie adaptation comic and various issues of several Marvel titles, including
AvengersThe Avengers are a team of superheroes that appears in publications published by Marvel Comics. The team first appear in The Avengers #1 The Avengers are a team of superheroes that appears in publications published by Marvel Comics. The team first appear in The Avengers #1 The Avengers are a team...
,
DaredevilDaredevil is a fictional character, a superhero in the . 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 of New York City, Matt Murdock is...
,
Iron ManIron Man is a fictional character, a superhero that appears in comic books published by Marvel Comics. The character first appeared in Tales of Suspense #39 , and was created by writer-editor Stan Lee, scripter Larry Lieber, and artists Don Heck and Jack Kirby.Born Anthony Edward "Tony" Stark, he...
and
What If?What If, sometimes rendered as What If...?, is the title of several comic book series published by Marvel Comics, exploring "the road not traveled" by its various characters...
, as well as the
Deathtrap: The Vault graphic novel.
Fingeroth resigned from Marvel in 1995 to become editor-in-chief of Virtual Comics for
Byron Preiss MultimediaByron Preiss was an American writer, editor and publisher. He founded and served as president of Byron Preiss Visual Publications, and later of iBooks....
and
AOLAmerica Online, LLC is an American global Internet services and media company operated by Time Warner. It is headquartered at 770 Broadway in Midtown Manhattan, New York City...
. From there, Fingeroth served as senior vice president for creative development at Visionary Media, home of
ShowtimeShowtime is a subscription television brand used by a number of channels and platforms around the world, but primarily refers to a group of channels in the United States...
's
Whirlgirl, for which he served as story editor.
Education
Fingeroth has taught comics writing at
New York UniversityNew York University is a private, nonsectarian, research university in New York City. NYU's main campus is situated in the Greenwich Village section of Manhattan...
,
The New SchoolThe New School is a university in New York City, located mostly in Greenwich Village. From its founding in 1919 and for most of its history, the university was known as the New School for Social Research. Between 1997 and 2005 it was known as New School University...
, and Media Bistro. He edits
Write Now!, a magazine about the craft of comics writing which he created, for
TwoMorrows PublishingTwoMorrows Publishing is a publisher of magazines about comic books, founded in 1994 by John and Pam Morrow out of their small advertising agency in Raleigh, North Carolina...
. He wrote the 2004 Continuum Publishing book
Superman on the Couch: What Superheroes Really Tell Us About Ourselves and Our Society. Fingeroth also wrote
The Rough Guide to Graphic Novels (which features artwork by Mike Manley).
Fingeroth serves on the board of advisors of the New York-based
Museum of Comic and Cartoon ArtThe Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art is an American not-for-profit arts organization, founded in October 2001 and devoted to the production, history and relevance of comic books, comic strips and other forms of cartoon art...
, and on the board of directors of the Institute for Comics Studies.
Selected works
Comics
- Dazzler
Dazzler is a Marvel Comics superhero, associated with the X-Men. She first appeared in Uncanny X-Men #130 ....
: #8–24, 26
- Superman 80-Page Giant #1 (Feb. 1999) (writer for ten-page short story)
Books
- Superman On The Couch: What Superheroes really tell us about ourselves and society; foreword by Stan Lee
Stan Lee is an American comic book writer, editor, and the former president and chairman of Marvel Comics....
(Continuum International Publishing Group, 2004) ISBN 0-8264-1540-7
- The Rough Guide to Graphic Novels (Rough Guides, 2008) ISBN 978-1843539933
- Disguised as Clark Kent: Jews, Comics, and the Creation of the Superhero; forward by Stan Lee
Stan Lee is an American comic book writer, editor, and the former president and chairman of Marvel Comics....
(Continuum International Publishing Group, 2007) ISBN 9780826417671
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