Preacher is a comic book series created by writer Garth Ennis and artist Steve Dillon, published by the American comic book label Vertigo ( an imprint of DC Comics ), with painted covers by Glenn Fabry.

The following month, DC Comics premiered American Vampire, a monthly comic book series written by King with short story writer Scott Snyder, and illustrated by Rafael Albuquerque, which represents King's first original comics work.

After a period of high creative turnover, in 1991 DC sought to revive interest in Swamp Thing by bringing horror writer Nancy A. Collins on board to write the series.

Other notable people born in or associated with Newcastle include: engineer and industrialist Lord Armstrong, engineer and father of the modern steam railways George Stephenson, his son, also an engineer, Robert Stephenson, engineer and inventor of the steam turbine Sir Charles Parsons, inventor of the incandescent light bulb Sir Joseph Swan, modernist poet Basil Bunting, Lord Chief Justice Peter Taylor, the Portuguese writer Eça de Queiroz who was a diplomat in Newcastle from late 1874 until April 1879 — his most productive literary period, The Prime Minister of Thailand Abhisit Vejjajiva, singers Eric Burdon, Sting and Brian Johnson, lead singer of AC / DC from 1980 to the present, actors Charlie Hunnam multiple circumnavigator David Scott Cowper, Neil Tennant, Alan Hull, Mark Knopfler, Hank Marvin, Bruce Welch, Cheryl Cole, entertainers Ant and Dec, and international footballers Peter Beardsley, Michael Carrick, Andy Carroll, Paul Gascoigne and Alan Shearer.

Other fledgling work at DC included the six-page " The Greatest Story Never Told ", by writer Paul Kupperberg, in that same issue, and the five-page " The Edge of History ", written by Elliot S. Maggin, in Unknown Soldier No. 219 ( Sept. 1978 ).

In September 2007, DC Comics announced that Shooter would be the new writer of the then-current Legion of Super-Heroes ( Vol.

Following Crisis on Infinite Earths, which rebooted the history of the DC Universe and retro-actively eliminated the existence of the Golden and Silver Age versions of Krypton, writer / artist John Byrne was given the task of recreating the entire Superman mythos.

An untold story from Crisis on Infinite Earths was published in February 1999 as a special in Legends of the DC Universe: Crisis on Infinite Earths # 1, written by Crisis writer Marv Wolfman, with art by Paul Ryan and Bob McLeod.

Gardner Francis Cooper Fox ( May 20, 1911 – December 24, 1986 ) was an American writer best known for creating numerous comic book characters for DC Comics.

Debuting as a writer in the pages of Detective Comics, Fox " intermittently contributed tales to nearly every book in the DC lineup during the Golden Age.

He was a main writer for DC Comics during the Bronze and early Modern ages of comics in the 1970s and 1980s.

Though the initial grade was not amended, Maggin became a writer for DC.

* Superman writer Elliot S. Maggin incorporated the Kansas location into the DC Universe in his 1981 Superman novel, Miracle Monday.

In October 2005, DC began publishing the 12-issue miniseries Justice by writer Jim Krueger, writer / illustrator Alex Ross, and artist Doug Braithwaite.

According to science fiction writer and animation historian Andy Mangels, who hosts commentary for many Filmation releases, the three Super 7 segments in question were pulled from distribution due to " various lawsuits " from Marvel Comics and DC Comics.

During the mid-1970s, DC Comics published an " atmospheric interpretation " of the character by writer Dennis O ' Neil and artist Michael Kaluta in a 12-issue series ( Nov. 1973-Sept. 1975 ).

The Shadow, set in our modern era, was continued the following year, in 1987, as a monthly DC comics series by writer Andy Helfer ( editor of the mini-series ), and was drawn primarily by artists Bill Sienkiewicz ( issues 1-6 ) and Kyle Baker ( issues 8-19 and two Shadow Annuals ).

He was on the staff of Senator Lee Metcalf, a research columnist for Jack Anderson, author of Six Days of the Condor ( filmed as Three Days ...) and numerous other spy and crime novels, currently a writer for Politics Daily, resident of Washington DC area.

Peyer left editing behind in 1994, returning to DC as a writer.

) during the late 1950s, DC tapped industry veteran ( and former Justice Society writer ) Gardner Fox to pen a new version of the Justice Society, which Fox renamed the Justice League.

Adams later said that writer Elliot Caplin, brother of Al Capp and Jerry Capp, offered Adams the job of drawing a comic strip based on author Robin Moore's The Green Berets, but that Adams, who opposed the war, suggested longtime DC Comics war-comics artist Joe Kubert, who landed that assignment.

He was meant to become a full-time writer for several years, as Delano, Ennis and Jenkins before him, but left the title early after DC refused to publish the story " Shoot ", about high school shootings, following the Columbine High School massacre, despite the fact it had been written and submitted prior to the event.

* Marc Guggenheim ( born 1970 ), American television writer-producer and writer for Marvel Comics and DC Comics

This suspect was recently identified as DC Brian Cushway by the writer Stewart Home in a review of Seabrook's book ( www. stewarthomesociety. org / seabrook. htm ) but there is no evidence supporting the allegation, which is merely speculative.

* Dembek, Zygmunt ( editor ), Medical Aspects of Biological Warfare ; Washington, DC: Borden Institute ( 2007 ).

1983 ), American comic book editor and executive for DC Comics

When he was 12 years old he also discovered and enjoyed the Superman titles by DC Comics of the editor Mort Weisinger period, drawn mostly by his favorite Superman artists Curt Swan and Kurt Schaffenberger.

However, Aragonés broke with DC when the company began insisting on work-for-hire contracts ; when Aragonés balked, an editor tore up Aragonés ' paycheck in front of his face.

According to the editor of Ballot Access News, which periodically compiles and analyzes voter registration statistics as reported by state voter agencies ( only 29 states and DC tally voter registration by party ), it ranks third nationally among all U. S. political parties in registered voters, with 438, 222 registered voters as of October 2008.

In the early 1980s, DC Comics promoted Dick Giordano from his position as Batman group editor to editorial director for the company.

He practiced for about two years, but as the Great Depression dragged on he began writing for DC Comics editor Vin Sullivan.

In partial response to this shift, DC editor Julius Schwartz began a widespread reinvention / revival of many Golden Age heroes, and " Fox was one of the first writers ... Schwartz called in to help.

Gaiman mentioned his treatment in passing to DC editor Karen Berger.

Maggin served as an editor for DC from 1989 to 1991 and oversaw the licensed TSR titles Advanced Dungeons and Dragons, Avatar, Dragonlance, Forgotten Realms, Gammarauders, and Spelljammer.

The new Filmation studio would for the next few years make television commercials, until approached by DC Comics editor Mort Weisinger to do a Superman cartoon.

Vertigo originated in 1993 under the stewardship of Karen Berger, a Brooklyn College graduate with a degree in English Literature and a minor in Art History, who had joined DC Comics in 1979 as an assistant to editor Paul Levitz, debuting with House of Mystery # 292 after a Sgt.

By the mid-1980s, Berger, then editor of such DC titles as Wonder Woman and Amethyst, Princess of Gemworld, began assigning writers from the UK.

In a 1993 editorial meeting with Berger, Levitz, DC publisher Jenette Kahn and managing editor Dick Giordano, Berger was given the mandate to place these titles under an imprint that, as Berger described, would " do something different in comics and help the medium ' grow up '".

Touchmark was to be helmed at Disney by ex-DC editor Art Young, but when it was jettisoned, both Young and the properties were acquired by DC forming part of the debut Vertigo line.

A second imprint, Touchmark Comics, was actually announced, with former DC Comics editor Art Young at its head.

Echoing what had been called the DC Implosion of the 1970s, Duckburg Times editor Dana Gabbard dubbed this the Disney Implosion.

In the mid-1950s and 1960s Silver Age of Comic Books, DC Comics editor Julius Schwartz had the Spectre revived and returned to the role of an avenging undead spirit, beginning in Showcase # 60 ( Feb. 1966 ).

Most of Charlton's superhero characters were acquired in 1983 by DC Comics, where Giordano was then managing editor.

Following Mort Weisinger's retirement from DC, the Legion was passed to the oversight of editor Murray Boltinoff and began appearing occasionally as a backup in Superboy, starting with # 172 ( March 1971 ), with writers E. Nelson Bridwell and Cary Bates and artist George Tuska.

He did a smattering of additional horror and war stories, respectively, for the two publishers, and then, after being turned down by DC's Batman editor Julius Schwartz, approached fellow DC editor Murray Boltinoff in the hopes of drawing for Boltinoff's Batman team-up title The Brave and the Bold.

Albert's Chief of Staff was Charles Ward, a respected Washington DC leader and former newspaper editor from Oklahoma.

In 1938, after that proposal had languished among others at More Fun Comics — published by National Allied Publications, the primary precursor of DC Comics — editor Vin Sullivan chose it as the cover feature for National's Action Comics # 1 ( June 1938 ).