Several comic book

Comic book

A comic book or comicbook is a magazine made up of comics, narrative artwork in the form of separate panels that represent individual scenes, often accompanied by dialog as well as including...

 and comic strip

Comic strip

A comic strip is a sequence of drawings arranged in interrelated panels to display brief humor or form a narrative, often serialized, with text in balloons and captions....

 writer

Writer

A writer is a person who produces literature, such as novels, short stories, plays, screenplays, poetry, or other literary art. Skilled writers are able to use language to portray ideas and images....

s, artist

Artist

An artist is a person engaged in one or more of any of a broad spectrum of activities related to creating art, practicing the arts and/or demonstrating an art. The common usage in both everyday speech and academic discourse is a practitioner in the visual arts only...

s, and others have appeared within the fictional world of comics

Comics

Comics denotes a hybrid medium having verbal side of its vocabulary tightly tied to its visual side in order to convey narrative or information only, the latter in case of non-fiction comics, seeking synergy by using both visual and verbal side in...

, both their own and others'. Some appear as simple characters in the story, some appear as characters who break the fourth wall

Fourth wall

The fourth wall is the imaginary "wall" at the front of the stage in a traditional three-walled box set in a proscenium theatre, through which the audience sees the action in the world of the play...

 and address the reader directly, and some make cameo appearances in framing sequence

Frame story

A frame story is a literary technique that sometimes serves as a companion piece to a story within a story, whereby an introductory or main narrative is presented, at least in part, for the purpose of setting the stage either for a more emphasized second narrative or for a set of shorter stories...

s to introduce a story and sometimes to have a last word.

" * " = "behind the scenes" stories not in regular continuity

• Sergio Aragones
  Sergio Aragonés
  Sergio Aragonés Domenech is a cartoonist and writer best known for his contributions to Mad Magazine and creator of the comic book Groo the Wanderer....
  
  

Jon Sable, Freelance#33 (July 1986)

• Dick Ayers
  Dick Ayers
  Richard "Dick" Ayers is an American comic book artist and cartoonist best known for his work as one of Jack Kirby's inkers during the late-1950s and 1960s period known as the Silver Age of Comics, including on some of the earliest issues of Marvel Comics' The Fantastic Four, and as the signature...
  
  

Sergeant Fury and His Howling Commandos Special #6 (Aug. 1970): "Through the Past Darkly"

• Cary Bates
  Cary Bates
  Cary Bates is an American comic book, animation television and film writer.-Biography:Bates began submitting ideas for comic book covers to DC Comics at the age of 13, and a number of them were bought and published, the first as the cover to Superman #167...
  
  

Flash

Flash (comics)

The Flash is a name shared by several fictional comic book superheroes from the DC Comics universe. Created by writer Gardner Fox and artist Harry Lampert, the original Flash first appeared in Flash Comics #1 ....

#228 (Aug. 1974): "The Day I Saved The Flash!"

Justice League of America

Justice League

The Justice League, also called the Justice League of America or JLA, is a fictional superhero team that appears in comic books published by DC Comics....

 #123 (Oct. 1975): "Where On Earth Am I?"

Justice League of America

Justice League

The Justice League, also called the Justice League of America or JLA, is a fictional superhero team that appears in comic books published by DC Comics....

 #124 (Nov. 1975): "Avenging Ghosts of the Justice Society!"

• Otto Binder
  Otto Binder
  Otto Oscar Binder was an American author of science fiction and non-fiction books and stories, and comic books...
  
  

Shazam #1 (Feb. 1973): "In The Beginning"

• Brian Bondurant

Duck-Girl #0 (Aug. 2000): "Made in Japan."

• Sol Brodsky
  Sol Brodsky
  Sol Brodsky was an American comic book artist who, as Marvel Comics' Silver Age production manager, was one of the key architects of the small company's expansion to a major pop culture conglomerate. He later rose to vice president, operations and vice president, special projects...
  
  

What If?

What If (comics)

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...

 #11 (Oct. 1978): "What if the Fantastic Four Were the Original Marvel Bullpen?"

• Carl Burgos
  Carl Burgos
  Carl Burgos was an American comic book and advertising artist best known for creating the original Human Torch in Marvel Comics #1 Carl Burgos (né Max Finkelstein, April 18, 1916, New York City, New York; died March 1984) was an American comic book and advertising artist best known for creating...
  
  

Strange Tales

Strange Tales

Strange Tales is the name of several comic book anthology series published by Marvel Comics. It introduced the features "Doctor Strange" and "Nick Fury, Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D.", and was a showcase for the science fiction/suspense stories of artists Jack Kirby and Steve Ditko, and for the...

 #123 (Aug. 1964): "The Birth of the Beetle"

• Kurt Busiek
  Kurt Busiek
  Kurt Busiek is an American comic book writer notable for his work on the Marvels limited series, his own title Astro City, and his four-year run on Avengers.-Early life:...
  
  

The Avengers

Avengers (comics)

The Avengers is a fictional team of superheroes, appearing in magazines published by Marvel Comics. The team made its debut in The Avengers #1 The Avengers is a fictional team of superheroes, appearing in magazines published by Marvel Comics. The team made its debut in The Avengers #1 The Avengers...

 vol. 3, #14 (March 1999): "Hi, Honey... ...I'm Hooooome!" *

• John Byrne

Iron Fist #15 (Sept. 1977): "Enter the X-Men"

E-Man

E-Man

E-Man is a fictional comic book superhero created by writer Nicola Cuti and artist Joe Staton for Charlton Comics in 1973. Though the character's original series was short-lived, the lightly humorous hero has become a cult-classic sporadically revived by various independent comics...

 #2 (First Comics, 1982)

Fantastic Four

Fantastic Four

The Fantastic Four is a fictional superhero team appearing in comic books published by Marvel Comics. The group debuted in The Fantastic Four #1 , which helped to usher in a new level of realism in the medium...

 #262 (January 1984): "The Trial of Mr. Fantastic"

Hulk

Hulk (comics)

The Hulk is a fictional character, a superhero in the . Created by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby, the character first appeared in The Incredible Hulk #1 ....

 #1 (April 1999): "Everything You Ever Wanted To Know About The Hulk (But Were Afraid To Ask!)"

• Paul Chadwick
  Paul Chadwick
  Paul Chadwick is an American comic book creator best known for his series Concrete about a normal man trapped in a rock-hard body....
  
  

Concrete Eclectica #2 (1993)

• Hank Chapman
  Hank Chapman
  Henry P. "Hank" Chapman is an American comic book writer for Marvel Comics' two predecessors, Timely Comics and Atlas Comics, and later for DC Comics, where he specialized in war fiction. Though much of his Timely/Atlas work went unsigned, comics historians estimate that Chapman, a staff writer,...
  
  

Astonishing #4 (June 1951): "The Nightmare"

• Chris Claremont
  Chris Claremont
  Chris Claremont is an award-winning American comic book writer and novelist, known for his 17-year stint on Uncanny X-Men, far longer than any other writer, during which he is credited with developing strong female characters, and with introducing complex literary themes into superhero...
  
  

X-Men

X-Men

The X-Men are a superhero team in the . They were created by writer Stan Lee and artist Jack Kirby, and first appeared in The X-Men #1...

 #98 (April 1976): "Merry Christmas, X-Men..."

X-Men #105 (June 1977): "The Flame, The Frenzy... and Firelord", pp. 10 and 11

Iron Fist #15 (Sept. 1977): "Enter the X-Men"

Man-Thing

Man-Thing

The Man-Thing is a fictional character, a monster in publications from Marvel Comics. Created by writers Stan Lee, Roy Thomas, and Gerry Conway and artist Gray Morrow, the character first appeared in Savage Tales #1 , and went on to be featured in various titles and in his own series, including...

 vol. 2, #11 (July 1981): "Hell's Gate"

• Dave Cockrum
  Dave Cockrum
  David Emmett Cockrum was an American comic book artist known for his co-creation of the new X-Men characters Nightcrawler, Storm, and Colossus...
  
  

X-Men #105 (June 1977): "The Flame, The Frenzy... and Firelord", pp. 10 and 11

Iron Fist #15 (Sept. 1977): "Enter the X-Men"

E-Man

E-Man

E-Man is a fictional comic book superhero created by writer Nicola Cuti and artist Joe Staton for Charlton Comics in 1973. Though the character's original series was short-lived, the lightly humorous hero has become a cult-classic sporadically revived by various independent comics...

 #2 (First Comics, 1982)

• Paty Cockrum

Iron Fist #15 (Sept. 1977): "Enter the X-Men"

• Gene Colan
  Gene Colan
  Eugene Jules "Gene" Colan was an American comic book artist best known for his work for Marvel Comics, where his signature titles include the superhero series, Daredevil, the cult-hit satiric series Howard the Duck, and The Tomb of Dracula, considered one of comics' classic horror series...
  
  

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...

 Special #1 (Sept. 1967): "At the Stroke of Midnight" *

• Gerry Conway
  Gerry Conway
  Gerard F. "Gerry" Conway is an American writer of comic books and television shows. He is known for co-creating the Marvel Comics vigilante The Punisher and scripting the death of the character Gwen Stacy during his long run on The Amazing Spider-Man...
  
  

Batman

Batman (comic book)

Batman is an ongoing comic book series featuring the DC Comics hero of the same name. The character first appeared in Detective Comics #27, published in May 1939. Batman proved to be so popular that a self-titled ongoing comic book series began publication in the spring of 1940...

 #237 (Dec. 1971): "Night of the Reaper"

Justice League of America

Justice League

The Justice League, also called the Justice League of America or JLA, is a fictional superhero team that appears in comic books published by DC Comics....

 #103 (Dec. 1972): "A Stranger Walks among Us!"

Amazing Adventures #16 (Jan. 1973): "And the Juggernaut Will Get You... If You Don't Watch Out!"

Thor

Thor (Marvel Comics)

Thor is a fictional superhero who appears in publications published by Marvel Comics. The character first appeared in Journey into Mystery #83 and was created by editor-plotter Stan Lee, scripter Larry Lieber, and penciller Jack Kirby....

 #207 (Jan. 1973): "Firesword!"

Fantastic Four

Fantastic Four

The Fantastic Four is a fictional superhero team appearing in comic books published by Marvel Comics. The group debuted in The Fantastic Four #1 , which helped to usher in a new level of realism in the medium...

 #176 (Nov. 1976): "Improbable As It May Seem — The Impossible Man Is Back In Town"

• Peter David
  Peter David
  Peter Allen David , often abbreviated PAD, is an American writer of comic books, novels, television, movies and video games...
  
  

The Incredible Hulk #418 (June 1994) "We are Gathered Here"

• Steve Ditko
  Steve Ditko
  Stephen J. "Steve" Ditko is an American comic book artist and writer best known as the artist co-creator, with Stan Lee, of the Marvel Comics heroes Spider-Man and Doctor Strange....
  
  

The Amazing Spider-Man

The Amazing Spider-Man

The Amazing Spider-Man is an American comic book series published by Marvel Comics, featuring the adventures of the fictional superhero Spider-Man. Being the mainstream continuity of the franchise, it began publication in 1963 as a monthly periodical and was published continuously until it was...

 Annual #1 (1964): "How Stan Lee and Steve Ditko Create Spider-Man" *

• Lela Dowling

Dragon's Teeth #1 (1983): "Inspiration"

• Will Eisner
  Will Eisner
  William Erwin "Will" Eisner was an American comics writer, artist and entrepreneur. He is considered one of the most important contributors to the development of the medium and is known for the cartooning studio he founded; for his highly influential series The Spirit; for his use of comics as an...
  
  

The Spirit (June 8, 1947)

The Spirit #17 (1977) and #30 (1981)

The Dreamer (1986)

• Harlan Ellison
  Harlan Ellison
  Harlan Jay Ellison is an American writer. His principal genre is speculative fiction.His published works include over 1,700 short stories, novellas, screenplays, teleplays, essays, a wide range of criticism covering literature, film, television, and print media...
  
  

Dark Horse Presents #66 (Sept. 1992): "Concrete: Byrdland's Secret"

Justice League|Justice League of America #89 (March 1971): "The Most Dangerous Dreams of All"

• Steve Englehart
  Steve Englehart
  Steve Englehart is an American novelist. In his earlier career he was a comic book writer best known for his work at Marvel Comics and DC Comics, particularly in the 1970s...
  
  

Justice League of America #103 (Dec. 1972): "A Stranger Walks among Us!"

Master of Kung Fu #17 (April 1974): "Lair of the Lost"

Amazing Adventures #16 (Jan. 1973): "And the Juggernaut Will Get You... If You Don't Watch Out!"

Thor

Thor (Marvel Comics)

Thor is a fictional superhero who appears in publications published by Marvel Comics. The character first appeared in Journey into Mystery #83 and was created by editor-plotter Stan Lee, scripter Larry Lieber, and penciller Jack Kirby....

 #207 (Jan. 1973): "Firesword!"

• Lee Falk
  Lee Falk
  Lee Falk, born Leon Harrison Gross , was an American writer, theater director, and producer, best known as the creator of the popular comic strip superheroes The Phantom and Mandrake the Magician, who at the height of their popularity attracted over a hundred million readers every day...
  
  

The Phantom: Mystery of Cape Cod

Cape Cod

Cape Cod, often referred to locally as simply the Cape, is a cape in the easternmost portion of the state of Massachusetts, in the Northeastern United States...

 (1986), The Triads (1994)

• Al Feldstein
  Al Feldstein
  Albert B. Feldstein is an American writer, editor, and artist, best known for his work at EC Comics and, from 1956 to 1985, as the editor of the satirical magazine Mad. Since retiring from Mad, Feldstein has concentrated on American paintings of Western wildlife...
  
  

Weird Fantasy #14 (1952)

• Danny Fingeroth
  Danny Fingeroth
  Daniel "Danny" Fingeroth is an American comic book writer and editor, better known for a long stint as group editor of the Spider-Man books at Marvel Comics.-Career:...
  
  

Man-Thing vol. 2, #11 (July 1981): "Hell's Gate"

• Gardner Fox
  Gardner Fox
  Gardner Francis Cooper Fox 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....
  
  

Strange Adventures

Strange Adventures

Strange Adventures was the title of several American comic books published by DC Comics, most notably a long-running science fiction anthology that began in 1950.-Original series:...

 #140 (May 1962), "The Strange Adventure That Really Happened"

• Gary Friedrich
  Gary Friedrich
  Gary Friedrich . is an American comic book writer best known for his Silver Age stories for Marvel Comics' Sgt...
  
  

Sergeant Fury and His Howling Commandos Special #6 (Aug. 1970): "Through the Past Darkly"

• Mike Friedrich
  Mike Friedrich
  Mike Friedrich is an American comic book writer and publisher best known for his work at Marvel and DC Comics, and for publishing the anthology series Star*Reach, one of the first independent comics...
  
  

Justice League|Justice League of America #89 (March 1971): "The Most Dangerous Dreams of All"

• Neil Gaiman
  Neil Gaiman
  Neil Richard Gaiman born 10 November 1960)is an English author of short fiction, novels, comic books, graphic novels, audio theatre and films. His notable works include the comic book series The Sandman and novels Stardust, American Gods, Coraline, and The Graveyard Book...
  
  

Marvel 1602

Marvel 1602

Marvel 1602 is an eight-issue comic book limited series published in 2003 by Marvel Comics. The limited series was written by Neil Gaiman, penciled by Andy Kubert, and digitally painted by Richard Isanove; Scott McKowen illustrated the distinctive scratchboard covers...

 #5 (Feb 2004) *

Wolff & Byrd, Counsellors of the Macabre #4 (Nov. 1994):"A Host of Horrors"

• William Gaines
  William Gaines
  William Maxwell Gaines , better known as Bill Gaines, was an American publisher and co-editor of EC Comics. Following a shift in EC's direction in 1950, Gaines presided over what became an artistically influential and historically important line of mature-audience comics...
  
  

Weird Fantasy #14 (1952)

• Ron Garney
  Ron Garney
  Ron Garney is a comic book writer/artist, known for his work on books such as JLA,The Amazing Spider-Man, Silver Surfer, Hulk, Daredevil and Captain America.-Career:...
  
  

Hulk #1 (April 1999): "Everything You Ever Wanted To Know About The Hulk (But Were Afraid To Ask!)"

• Steve Gerber
  Steve Gerber
  Stephen Ross "Steve" Gerber was an American comic book writer best known as co-creator of the satiric Marvel Comics character Howard the Duck....
  
  

Man-Thing (1974 series) #22: "Pop Goes the Cosmos!"

Howard The Duck

Howard the Duck

Howard 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...

 #16: "Zen And The Art Of Comic Book Writing"

• Michael Golden

Howard the Duck #5 (black and white magazine format, May 1980): "The Tomb of Drãkula!"

• Archie Goodwin
  Archie Goodwin (comics)
  Archie Goodwin was an American comic book writer, editor, and artist. He worked on a number of comic strips in addition to comic books, and is best known for his Warren and Marvel Comics work...
  
  

Fantastic Four #176 (Nov. 1976): "Improbable As It May Seem — The Impossible Man Is Back In Town"

• Sid Greene
  Sid Greene
  Sidney "Sid" Greene was an American comic book artist known for his work for a host of publishers from the 1940s to 1970s, most prominently DC Comics, where as an inker on series including Batman, Green Lantern, Justice League of America and The Atom he helped to define the company's house style...
  
  

Strange Adventures

Strange Adventures

Strange Adventures was the title of several American comic books published by DC Comics, most notably a long-running science fiction anthology that began in 1950.-Original series:...

 #140 (May 1962), "The Strange Adventure That Really Happened"

• Mike Grell

Warlord #35 (July 1980): "Gambit"

• Mark Gruenwald

Marvel Preview #23 (black and white magazine format, Fall, 1980): "Annie Mae"

• Mark Hanerfeld

Batman

Batman (comic book)

Batman is an ongoing comic book series featuring the DC Comics hero of the same name. The character first appeared in Detective Comics #27, published in May 1939. Batman proved to be so popular that a self-titled ongoing comic book series began publication in the spring of 1940...

 #237 (Dec. 1971): "Night of the Reaper"

• Jack C. Harris

Detective Comics

Detective Comics

Detective Comics is an American comic book series published monthly by DC Comics since 1937, best known for introducing the iconic superhero Batman in Detective Comics #27 . It is, along with Action Comics, the book that launched with the debut of Superman, one of the medium's signature series, and...

 #482 (February/March 1979): "Bat-Mite’s New York Adventure"

Warlord #35(July 1980): "Gambit"

• Mike Higgins

Fantastic Four #262 (January 1984): "The Trial of Mr. Fantastic"

• Louise Jones
  Louise Simonson
  Louise Simonson, born Mary Louise Alexander , is an American comic book writer and editor. She is best known for her work on comic book titles such as Power Pack, X-Factor, New Mutants, Superman: The Man of Steel, and Steel...
  
  

Man-Thing vol. 2, #11 (July 1981): "Hell's Gate"

• Paul Jenkins
  Paul Jenkins (writer)
  Paul Jenkins is a British comic book writer and Gary Gygax's stepson. He has had much success crossing over into the American comic book market. Primarily working for Marvel Comics, he has had a big part shaping the characters of the company over the past decade.-Life and career:Paul Jenkins...
  
  

New Avengers #7-10 (July-Oct. 2005): "The Sentry"

• Gil Kane
  Gil Kane
  Eli Katz who worked under the name Gil Kane and in one instance Scott Edward, was a comic book artist whose career spanned the 1940s to 1990s and every major comics company and character.Kane co-created the modern-day versions of the superheroes Green Lantern and the Atom for DC Comics, and...
  
  

Green Lantern

Hal Jordan

Harold "Hal" Jordan is a DC Comics superhero known as Green Lantern, the first human shown to join the Green Lantern Corps and a founding member of the Justice League of America. Jordan is the second DC Comics character to adopt the Green Lantern moniker...

 #29 (June 1964): "Half a Green Lantern is Better than None!" *

Green Lantern #45 (June 1966): "Prince Peril's Power Play"

Judgment Day: Aftermath (March 1998)

Green Lantern #45 (June 1966): "Prince Peril's Power Play"

House of Mystery

House of Mystery

The House of Mystery is the name of several horror-mystery-suspense anthology comic book series. It had a companion series, House of Secrets.-Genesis:...

 #180 (1969): "His Name is Kane"

• Bob Kane
  Bob Kane
  Bob Kane was an American comic book artist and writer, credited as the creator of the DC Comics superhero Batman...
  
  

The Dreamer by Will Eisner (1986)

• Jack Kirby
  Jack Kirby
  Jack Kirby , born Jacob Kurtzberg, was an American comic book artist, writer and editor regarded by historians and fans as one of the major innovators and most influential creators in the comic book medium....
  
  

Justice Traps the Guilty #56 (Nov. 1953): Cover

The Fantastic Four #10 (Jan. 1963): "The Return of Doctor Doom"

Fantastic Four Special #5 (Nov. 1967): "This is a Plot?" *

X-Men #98 (April 1976): "Merry Christmas, X-Men..."

What If? #11 (Oct. 1978): "What if the Fantastic Four Were the Original Marvel Bullpen?"

Boy Commandos #1 (Winter 1942-43): "Satan Wears a Swastika"

The Dreamer by Will Eisner (1986)

• Andy Kubert
  Andy Kubert
  Andrew "Andy" Kubert is an American comic book artist, son of Joe Kubert, and brother of Adam Kubert, both of whom are also artists...
  
  

Marvel 1602 #5 (Feb 2004)

• Michele Laframboise

La Plume Japonaise (2006), previously serialized in Mensuhell #57-77 (Aug. 2004- April 2006)

• Stan Lee
  Stan Lee
  Stan Lee is an American comic book writer, editor, actor, producer, publisher, television personality, and the former president and chairman of Marvel Comics....
  
  

All Winners Comics

All Winners Comics

All Winners Comics was the name of two American comic book series of the 1940s, both published by Marvel Comics' predecessor, Timely Comics, during the period fans and historians call the Golden Age of Comic Books. A superhero anthology comic in both cases, they variously featured such star...

 #2 (Fall 1941): "Winners All" (two-page text story)

Astonishing #4 (June 1951): "The Nightmare"

The Fantastic Four #10 (Jan. 1963): "The Return of Doctor Doom"

The Amazing Spider-Man Annual #1 (1964): "How Stan Lee and Steve Ditko Create Spider-Man" *

Strange Tales #123 (Aug. 1964): "The Birth of the Beetle"

Daredevil #29 (June 1967): "Unmasked"

Daredevil Special #1 (Sept. 1967): "At the Stroke of Midnight" *

Fantastic Four Special #5 (Nov. 1967): "This is a Plot?" *

The Amazing Spider-Man Special #5 (Nov. 1968): "Here We Go-a-Plotting" *

Chamber of Darkness #2 (Dec. 1969) "The Day of the Red Death" (host)

X-Men #98 (April 1976): "Merry Christmas, X-Men..."

Fantastic Four #176 (Nov. 1976): "Improbable As It May Seem — The Impossible Man Is Back In Town"

What If? #11 (Oct. 1978): "What if the Fantastic Four Were the Original Marvel Bullpen?"

Stan Lee Meets Superheroes

Stan Lee Meets Superheroes

Stan Lee Meets Superheroes was a limited non-canonical Marvel Comics series in which comic book writer Stan Lee met one of the characters he has created in each issue. The series was written by Stan Lee himself and is used to celebrate his 65th year as a Marvel Comics employee...

 (five issues from Nov. 2006)

• Larry Lieber
  Larry Lieber
  Lawrence D. "Larry" Lieber is an American comic book artist and writer, and the younger brother of Marvel Comics' writer, editor and publisher Stan Lee....
  
  

The Amazing Spider-Man Special #5 (Nov. 1968): "Here We Go-a-Plotting" *

Sergeant Fury and His Howling Commandos Special #6 (Aug. 1970): "Through the Past Darkly"

Marvel Team-Up 74 (Oct. 1978): "Live From New York It's Saturday Night"

• Elliot S! Maggin
  Elliot S! Maggin
  Elliot S. Maggin, also spelled Elliot S! Maggin , is an American writer of comic books, film, television and novels. He was a main writer for DC Comics during the Bronze and early Modern ages of comics in the 1970s and 1980s...
  
  

Justice League of America #123 (Oct.1975): "Where On Earth Am I?"

Justice League of America #124 (Nov. 1975): "Avenging Ghosts of the Justice Society!"

• Bill Mantlo
  Bill Mantlo
  Bill Mantlo is an American comic-book writer, primarily at Marvel Comics, best known for his work on two licensed toy properties whose adventures occurred in the Marvel Universe: the Eagle Award-winning Micronauts and the long-running Rom. An attorney, he also worked as a public defender...
  
  

Howard the Duck #5 (black and white magazine format, May 1980): "The Tomb of Drãkula!"

• Al Milgrom
  Al Milgrom
  Allen "Al" Milgrom is an American comic book writer, penciller, inker and editor, primarily for Marvel Comics. He is known for his 10-year run as editor of Marvel Fanfare; his long involvement as writer, penciler, and inker on Peter Parker, the Spectacular Spider-Man; his four-year tenure as West...
  
  

Detective Comics #482 (March 1979): "Bat-Mite’s New York Adventure"

Master of Kung Fu #17 (April 1974): "Lair of the Lost"

• Mark Millar
  Mark Millar
  Mark Millar is a Scottish comic book writer, known for his work on books such as The Authority, The Ultimates, Marvel Knights Spider-Man, Ultimate Fantastic Four, Civil War, Wanted, and Kick-Ass, the latter two of which have been adapted into feature films...
  
  

Flash 80 Page Giant #1 (Aug. 1998): "Your Life Is My Business"

Simpsons Comics #88 (Nov. 2003): "Licence to Kilt"

• Moebius (Jean Giraud)

Doctor Strange - Sorceror Supreme #9 (Nov. 1989): "That Was Then... This Is NOW"

• Grant Morrison
  Grant Morrison
  Grant Morrison is a Scottish comic book writer, playwright and occultist. He is known for his nonlinear narratives and counter-cultural leanings, as well as his successful runs on titles like Animal Man, Doom Patrol, JLA, The Invisibles, New X-Men, Fantastic Four, All-Star Superman, and...
  
  

Animal Man

Animal Man

Animal Man is a fictional character, a superhero in the . As a result of being in proximity to an exploding extraterrestrial spaceship, Buddy Baker acquires the ability to temporarily “borrow” the abilities of animals...

 #26 (Aug. 1990): "Deus Ex Machina"

Doom Patrol

Doom Patrol

The Doom Patrol is a superhero team appearing in publications from DC Comics. The original Doom Patrol first appeared in My Greatest Adventure #80...

 #58 (Oct. 1991): "Suicide Attack"

Simpsons Comics #88 (Nov. 2003): "Licence to Kilt"

• Dennis O'Neil
  Dennis O'Neil
  Dennis J. "Denny" O'Neil is an American comic book writer and editor, principally for Marvel Comics and DC Comics in the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s, and Group Editor for the Batman family of books until his retirement....
  
  

Batman

Batman (comic book)

Batman is an ongoing comic book series featuring the DC Comics hero of the same name. The character first appeared in Detective Comics #27, published in May 1939. Batman proved to be so popular that a self-titled ongoing comic book series began publication in the spring of 1940...

 #237 (Dec. 1971): "Night of the Reaper"

• Joe Orlando
  Joe Orlando
  Joseph Orlando was a prolific illustrator, writer, editor and cartoonist during a lengthy career spanning six decades...
  
  

Warlord #35(July 1980): "Gambit"

• George Pérez
  George Pérez
  George Pérez is a Puerto Rican-American writer and illustrator of comic books, known for his work on various titles, including Avengers, Teen Titans and Wonder Woman.-Biography:...
  
  

Fantastic Four #176 (Nov. 1976): "Improbable As It May Seem — The Impossible Man Is Back In Town"

The Avengers vol. 3, #14 (March 1999): "Hi, Honey... ...I'm Hooooome!" *

Wonder Woman

Wonder Woman

Wonder Woman is a DC Comics superheroine created by William Moulton Marston. She first appeared in All Star Comics #8 . The Wonder Woman title has been published by DC Comics almost continuously except for a brief hiatus in 1986....

 vol. 2, #14, p. 20

• Wendy Pini

Ghost Rider #14

Teen Titans vol. 2, #21

E*Man Comics #17 (1984): "Smeltquest"

• Bob Powell
  Bob Powell
  Bob Powell né Stanislav Robert Pawlowski was an American comic book artist known for his work during the 1930-40s Golden Age of comic books, including on the features "Sheena, Queen of the Jungle" and "Mr. Mystic". He received a belated credit in 1999 for co-writing the debut of the popular...
  
  

The Dreamer by Will Eisner (1986)

• Trina Robbins
  Trina Robbins
  Trina Robbins is an American comics artist and writer. She was an early and influential participant in the underground comix movement, and one of the few female artists in underground comix when she started. Both as a cartoonist and historian, Robbins has long been involved in creating outlets for...
  
  

Wonder Woman

Wonder Woman

Wonder Woman is a DC Comics superheroine created by William Moulton Marston. She first appeared in All Star Comics #8 . The Wonder Woman title has been published by DC Comics almost continuously except for a brief hiatus in 1986....

 vol. 2, Annual #2 (1989): "Play Like"

• John Romita, Sr.
  John Romita, Sr.
  John V. Romita, Sr. is an Italian-American comic-book artist best known for his work on Marvel Comics' The Amazing Spider-Man...
  
  

The Amazing Spider-Man Special #5 (Nov. 1968): "Here We Go-a-Plotting" *

• Bob Rozakis
  Bob Rozakis
  Robert "Bob" Rozakis is a comic book writer and editor known mainly for his work in the 1970s and 1980s at DC Comics, as the writer of Mazing Man and in his capacity as DC's "Answer Man".-Biography:...
  
  

Detective Comics #482 (March 1979): "Bat-Mite’s New York Adventure"

• John Severin
  John Severin
  John Powers Severin is an American comic book artist noted for his distinctive work with EC Comics, primarily on the war comics Two-Fisted Tales and Frontline Combat; for Marvel Comics, primarily on its war and Western comics; and for the satiric magazine Cracked...
  
  

Sergeant Fury and His Howling Commandos Special #6 (Aug. 1970): "Through the Past Darkly"

• Marie Severin
  Marie Severin
  Marie Severin is an American comic book artist and colorist best known for her work for Marvel Comics and the 1950s' EC Comics....
  
  

Fantastic Four #176 (Nov. 1976): "Improbable As It May Seem — The Impossible Man Is Back In Town"

• Julius Schwartz
  Julius Schwartz
  Julius "Julie" Schwartz was a comic book and pulp magazine editor, and a science fiction agent and prominent fan. He was born in the Bronx, New York...
  
  

Strange Adventures

Strange Adventures

Strange Adventures was the title of several American comic books published by DC Comics, most notably a long-running science fiction anthology that began in 1950.-Original series:...

 #140 (May 1962), "The Strange Adventure That Really Happened"

Flash #179 (May 1968): "Flash - Fact Or Fiction"

Justice League of America #103 (Dec. 1972): "A Stranger Walks among Us!" (mentioned, not seen)

X-Men #98 (April 1976): "Merry Christmas, X-Men..."

Superman

Superman (comic book)

Superman is an ongoing comic book series featuring the DC Comics hero of the same name. The character Superman began as one of several anthology features in the National Periodical Publications comic book Action Comics #1 in June 1938...

 #411 (Sept. 1985): "The Last Earth-Prime Story"

Action Comics #565 (March 1985): "Ambush Bug in '$ellout' or 'Manna from Mando'"

Ambush Bug #3(Aug. 1985): "The Ambush Bug History of the DC Universe"

Ambush Bug #4 (Sept. 1985): "Whoops"

• Scott Shaw
  Scott Shaw
  Scott Shaw is an American actor, author, journalist, film director, film producer, musician, professor and martial artist.-Early life:...
  
  

Jimmy Olson #144 (Dec. 1971): "A Big Thing In a Deep Scottish Lake"

• Jim Shooter
  Jim Shooter
  James Shooter is an American writer, occasional fill-in artist, editor, and publisher for various comic books. Although he started professionally in the medium at the extraordinarily young age of 14, he is most notable for his successful and controversial run as Marvel Comics' ninth...
  
  

Howard the Duck #5(black and white magazine format, May 1980): "The Tomb of Drãkula!"

• Joe Simon
  Joe Simon
  Joseph Henry "Joe" Simon is an American comic book writer, artist, editor, and publisher. Simon created or co-created many important characters in the 1930s-1940s Golden Age of Comic Books and served as the first editor of Timely Comics, the company that would evolve into Marvel Comics.With his...
  
  

Justice Traps the Guilty #56 (Nov. 1953): Cover

Boy Commandos #1 (Winter 1942-43): "Satan Wears a Swastika"

• Joe Sinnott
  Joe Sinnott
  Joe Sinnott is an American comic book artist. Working primarily as an inker, Sinnott is best-known for his long stint on Marvel Comics' Fantastic Four, from 1965 to 1981 , initially over the pencils of industry legend Jack Kirby...
  
  

Fantastic Four #176 (Nov. 1976): "Improbable As It May Seem — The Impossible Man Is Back In Town"

• Steve Skeates
  Steve Skeates
  Steve Skeates is an American comic book creator known for his work on books such as Spectre, Hawk and Dove, T.H.U.N.D.E.R. Agents, Aquaman, and Namor the Sub-Mariner.-Career:...
  
  

Marvel Preview #23 (black and white magazine format, Fall, 1980): "Annie Mae"

• Bob Smith

Detective Comics

Detective Comics

Detective Comics is an American comic book series published monthly by DC Comics since 1937, best known for introducing the iconic superhero Batman in Detective Comics #27 . It is, along with Action Comics, the book that launched with the debut of Superman, one of the medium's signature series, and...

 #482 (March 1979): "Bat-Mite’s New York Adventure"

• Milt Snappin

Detective Comics

Detective Comics

Detective Comics is an American comic book series published monthly by DC Comics since 1937, best known for introducing the iconic superhero Batman in Detective Comics #27 . It is, along with Action Comics, the book that launched with the debut of Superman, one of the medium's signature series, and...

 #482 (March 1979): "Bat-Mite’s New York Adventure"

• Art Spiegelman
  Art Spiegelman
  Art Spiegelman is an American comics artist, editor, and advocate for the medium of comics, best known for his Pulitzer Prize-winning comic book memoir, Maus. His works are published with his name in lowercase: art spiegelman.-Biography:Spiegelman was born in Stockholm, Sweden, to Polish Jews...
  
  

Supernatural Law Big First Amendment Issue (2005)

• Jim Starlin
  Jim Starlin
  James P. "Jim" Starlin is an American comic book writer and artist. With a career dating back to the early 1970s, he is best known for "cosmic" tales and space opera; for revamping the Marvel Comics characters Captain Marvel and Adam Warlock; and for creating or co-creating the Marvel characters...
  
  

Star Reach

Star Reach

Star Reach was an influential, American science fiction and fantasy comics anthology published from 1974 to 1979 by Mike Friedrich...

 #1 (1974): "Death Building"

Master of Kung Fu #17 (April 1974): "Lair of the Lost"

• Flo Steinberg
  Flo Steinberg
  Florence "Flo" Steinberg is an American publisher of one of the first independent comic books, the underground/alternative comics hybrid Big Apple Comix, in 1975...
  
  

What If? #11 (Oct. 1978): "What if the Fantastic Four Were the Original Marvel Bullpen?"

• Dave Stevens
  Dave Stevens
  Dave Stevens was an American illustrator and comics artist. He is most famous for creating The Rocketeer comic book and film character, and for his pin-up style "glamour art" illustrations, especially of model Bettie Page...
  
  

Dark Horse Presents # 100-3 (August 1995)"Concrete: The Artistic Impulse"

• Dann Thomas
  Dann Thomas
  Danette "Dann" Thomas is a comic book writer, the wife of comic book writer and editor Roy Thomas. She has at times collaborated with Thomas on All-Star Squadron, Arak, Son of Thunder, the Crimson Avenger miniseries and Avengers West Coast.She married Roy Thomas in May 1981 and legally changed her...
  
  

What If #13 (Feb. 1979): "What If Conan the Barbarian Walked the Earth in the Twentieth Century?"

• Roy Thomas
  Roy Thomas
  Roy William Thomas, Jr. is an American comic book writer and editor, and Stan Lee's first successor as editor-in-chief of Marvel Comics. He is possibly best known for introducing the pulp magazine hero Conan the Barbarian to American comics, with a series that added to the storyline of Robert E...
  
  

Fantastic Four Special #5 (Nov. 1967): "This is a Plot?" *

The Amazing Spider-Man Special #5 (Nov. 1968): "Here We Go-a-Plotting" *

The Avengers #83 (Dec. 1970): "Come On In... The Revolution's Fine!"

Marvel Feature

Marvel Feature

Marvel Feature was the name of two comic book showcase series published by Marvel Comics in the 1970s. The first volume led to the launching of the new ongoing series The Defenders and Marvel Two-in-One, while volume two led to the new ongoing series Red Sonja.- Volume One :The first series was a...

 #2 (March 1972): "Nightmare on Bald Mountain"

Fantastic Four #176 (Nov. 1976): "Improbable As It May Seem — The Impossible Man Is Back In Town"

Sergeant Fury and His Howling Commandos Special #6 (Aug. 1970): "Through the Past Darkly"

• Frank Thorne

Cerebus the Aardvark #3 Apr-May, 1978): "Song of Red Sophia"

• Anthony Tollin

Detective Comics #482 (February/March 1979): "Bat-Mite’s New York Adventure"

• George Tuska
  George Tuska
  George Tuska , who early in his career used a variety of pen names including Carl Larson, was an American comic book and newspaper comic strip artist best known for his 1940s work on various Captain Marvel titles and the crime fiction series Crime Does Not Pay, for and his 1960s work illustrating...
  
  

The Dreamer by Will Eisner (1986)

• John Verpoorten
  John Verpoorten
  John Verpoorten was a comic book artist and editorial worker best known as Marvel Comics' production manager during the latter part of the Silver Age of Comic Books and afterward, during a seminal period of Marvel's expansion from a small publishing concern to a multinational popular culture...
  
  

Fantastic Four #176 (Nov. 1976): "Improbable As It May Seem — The Impossible Man Is Back In Town"

• Len Wein
  Len Wein
  Len Wein is an American comic book writer and editor best known for co-creating DC Comics' Swamp Thing and Marvel Comics' Wolverine, and for helping revive the Marvel superhero team the X-Men...
  
  

Batman

Batman (comic book)

Batman is an ongoing comic book series featuring the DC Comics hero of the same name. The character first appeared in Detective Comics #27, published in May 1939. Batman proved to be so popular that a self-titled ongoing comic book series began publication in the spring of 1940...

 #237 (Dec. 1971): "Night of the Reaper"

Justice League of America #103 (Dec. 1972): "A Stranger Walks among Us!"

Amazing Adventures #16 (Jan. 1973): "And the Juggernaut Will Get You... If You Don't Watch Out!"

Thor #207 (Jan. 1973): "Firesword!"

Fantastic Four #176 (Nov. 1976): "Improbable As It May Seem — The Impossible Man Is Back In Town"

• Alan Weiss
  Alan Weiss (comics)
  Alan Weiss is an American comic book artist and writer known for his work on Warlock, Avengers, Captain America, Daredevil, Sub-Mariner and Spider-Man...
  
  

Batman #237 (Dec. 1971): "Night of the Reaper"

• Marv Wolfman
  Marv Wolfman
  Marvin A. "Marv" Wolfman is an award-winning American comic book writer. He is best known for lengthy runs on The Tomb of Dracula, creating Blade for Marvel Comics, and The New Teen Titans for DC Comics.-1960s:...
  
  

Fantastic Four #176 (Nov. 1976): "Improbable As It May Seem — The Impossible Man Is Back In Town"

• Wally Wood
  Wally Wood
  Wallace Allan Wood was an American comic book writer, artist and independent publisher, best known for his work in EC Comics and Mad. He was one of Mads founding cartoonists in 1952. Although much of his early professional artwork is signed Wallace Wood, he became known as Wally Wood, a name he...
  
  

Weird Science 22 (1953): "My World"

• Bernie Wrightson
  Bernie Wrightson
  Bernie "Berni" Wrightson is an American artist known for his horror illustrations and comic books.-Biography:...
  
  

Batman #237 (Dec. 1971): "Night of the Reaper"

• Catherine Yronwode
  Catherine yronwode
  Catherine "Cat" Yronwode is an American writer, editor, graphic designer, typesetter, publisher, and practitioner of folk magic with an extensive career in the comic book industry....
  
  

Miracleman

Miracleman

Marvelman, also known as Miracleman for trademark reasons in his American reprints and story continuation, is a fictional comic book superhero created in 1954 by writer-artist Mick Anglo for publisher L. Miller & Son. Originally intended as a United Kingdom home-grown substitute for the American...

 #8 (June 1986)

The Spirit #30 (Kitchen Sink Press, 1981)

• René Goscinny
  René Goscinny
  René Goscinny was a French comics editor and writer, who is best known for the comic book Astérix, which he created with illustrator Albert Uderzo, and for his work on the comic series Lucky Luke with Morris and Iznogoud with Jean Tabary.-Early life:Goscinny was born in Paris in 1926, to a family...
  
  

Asterix and the Class Act (2003):

• Albert Uderzo
  Albert Uderzo
  Albert Uderzo is a French comic book artist, and scriptwriter. He is best known for his work on the Astérix series, but also drew other comics such as Oumpah-pah, also in collaboration with René Goscinny.-Early life:...
  
  

Asterix and the Class Act (2003):