Two new books from my friends at Stone Arch Books, part of their DC Super Heroes line! First up is my fourth Superman book, The Shadow Masters, featuring art and color by two old buddies from my DC editorial days, Rick Burchett and Lee Loughridge.… Read the rest
I’ve always said that I was lucky to get into comic books when I did. The giants of the Golden and Silver Ages were still working and I was getting to work with them. One of my earliest jobs for Charlton Comics was drawn by Steve Ditko, and once I got to DC Comics, my scripts would be handed to the likes of Curt Swan, Gil Kane, Kurt Schaffenberger, Carmine Infantino, Irv Novick, Rick Estrada, Bill Draut, Don Heck, George Evans, Dick Giordano, Jim Aparo, Jerry Grandenetti, Jose Delbo, Dick Ayers, Win Mortimer…
…Or George Tuska.… Read the rest
Way back at the beginning of my career, I wrote an ongoing 10-page feature in Superman Family (an anthology title, for which I later wrote Supergirl and Jimmy Olsen, and which also featured Superboy, Krypto, and Lois Lane stories) featuring Nightwing and Flamebird.… Read the rest
In the past year or so, I have written five (and am about to start on my sixth) kids chapter book for Stone Arch Books. These are fun little stories, running about 4,000 words, starring Superman, Batman and Wonder Woman, and are done in the animated style.… Read the rest
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Once again, a new installment of Capes, Cowls & Costumes is up on Bookgasm.com, this installment looking at novels adapting major comic book story lines, including Crisis On Infinite Earths and Kingdom Come. Check it out.
Really, do I ask you for much?… Read the rest
Continue reading about What Day Is It, Kids? It’s Capes, Cowls & Costumes Friday!
Over on Bookgasm.com, the latest bi-weekly installment of my Capes, Cows & Costumes column is up and ready to be read. This week, I look at some of the superhero junior novels on my bookshelf starring Superman, Batman, X-Men and Iron Man.… Read the rest
Continue reading about It’s Yet Another Capes, Cowls & Costumes Friday
That’s right, yet another thrill-packed episode of Capes, Cowls & Costumes is up and ready for viewing on Bookgasm.com (‘Reading Material to Get Excited About’). Not a week goes by that I don’t pick up or add to my list at least one book I’ve seen reviewed thereon.… Read the rest
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I’ve run a couple of pieces from a Superman novel (here and here) that I started playing around with, mostly just to get the words down on paper. Here’s some more:
Chapter 1/ Smallville (Continued)
When the first calls came in, Doug Parker was only wishing he were home in bed.… Read the rest
Continue reading about Getting Down to the Last Bits of a Book I’ll Probably Never Write
On July 22 I posted the Prologue to a Superman novel that I started playing with last October for no other reason than I had the idea and needed to get it out of my system. After a lifetime as a commercial writer, it’s unusual for me to work on something featuring someone else’s intellectual property without there being a paycheck waiting for me on the other end, but, as I wrote when I ran the first part of this, it was a creative itch I needed to scratch.… Read the rest
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