Книга: Giuseppe Camuncoli, Dan Slott, Christos Gage, Humberto Ramos «The Superior Spider-Man: Volume 3: No Escape»

Dan Slott is an American comic book writer best known for The Amazing Spider-Man, Arkham Asylum: Living Hell and She-Hulk. He is the current writer of the twice monthly The Amazing Spider-Man.

Early writing

Slott's break came when he became the regular writer for Marvel’s Ren and Stimpy comic, where interestingly enough was where he first wrote for Spider-Man in a battle against the Powdered Toast Man. Following its success (it consistently placed in the top 50 best-selling comics) he found himself in high demand to write more children's comics, including DC’s Scooby Doo, Looney Tunes and Powerpuff Girls, but was eager to show a more serious side in superhero comics. After work on Batman Adventures and Justice League Adventures, Slott was given the chance to pitch a series for DC. The resulting miniseries was Arkham Asylum: Living Hell with artist Ryan Sook in 2003. In 2004 he wrote the 4th Parallel storyline for the Justice League which introduced the Red King; this story was published in 2007 in JLA Classified #32-36.

Marvel Comics work

Slott speaking on a panel on comic book writing at the 2009 Brooklyn Book Festival. To Slott's right is Jim McCann, and to his left are Fred Van Lente and Peter David.

Arkham Asylum's success led to Slott's return to Marvel in 2004 to launch a new She-Hulk series. The title focused on She-Hulk as a "superhuman lawyer" in the Marvel Universe. After relaunching in October 2005, the second series met with higher sales, and after tie-ins with crossover events Civil War and World War Hulk, reached its highest numbers yet. In 2007 Slott left the title with (volume 2) #21, to become one of the writers on The Amazing Spider-Man.^[1]

While She-Hulk was on hiatus in 2005, Slott penned the Spider-Man/Human Torch miniseries, which chronicled the friendship of the two characters over the years, with each issue paying tribute to a different era of Marvel Comics.

Slott also gave the team the Great Lakes Avengers their first ever solo miniseries in GLA: Misassembled, which featured a character being killed in each issue. He also made the first roster changes to the team since its inception by creating a new character, Grasshopper, and reviving an obscure one, Squirrel Girl. During this period, Slott signed an exclusive contract with Marvel. He has since returned to the GLA twice, first with the 2005 GLX-mas Special, following a name change to the Great Lakes X-Men, and then again in the 2007 Deadpool/GLI Summer Fun Spectacular with co-writer Fabian Nicieza, to coincide with Marvel's Initiative crossover.

At the end of 2005, Slott was assigned to write The Thing's first solo series in 20 years. It was not a sales success, and was canceled with issue #8, despite Slott's attempts to rally readers in a campaign he called "Pull My Thing." The eight issues have been released in a trade paperback entitled Idol of Millions, which sees the Thing and other heroes fighting deadly roller-coasters and other machines in Arcade's Murderworld.

Slott was also the writer of Marvel's Avengers: The Initiative, which launched following the conclusion of the 2006-7 Civil War storyline. He was also one of the four writers of the thrice-monthly The Amazing Spider-Man, a schedule which began in January 2008 following the controversial storyline One More Day. His first three issues placed in the top ten highest selling comics for January, with the first issue taking the number two spot that month, selling around 128,000 copies, a 3% jump from the previous month.^[2]

Slott appeared at MarvelFest NYC 2009, where he judged a costume contest with Joe Quesada, Scott Adsit, Chris Claremont, and Frank Tieri.^[3]

Slott took over writing duties on Mighty Avengers after writer Brian Michael Bendis's departure, starting with issue #21 and finishing with issue #36.^[4] He also wrote the story for the Spider-Man: Shattered Dimensions video game, which was released in September 2010.^[5] In November, Slott took over The Amazing Spider-Man as the sole writer, marking the book's change to a bi-weekly schedule, beginning with Slott's "Big Time" storyline.^[6]

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• Marvel Comics Presents #89, 93, 98, 99, 116, 119, 129, 130, 132-136, 148, & 156, Marvel Comics, 1991–1994
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• Night Thrasher #13-14, Marvel Comics, 1994
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• The Original Ghost Rider #3, 5-12, 15 & 19, Marvel Comics, 1992-1994 (backup stories featuring Phantom Rider)
• Pinky and the Brain #3 & #4, DC Comics, 1996
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• X-Men Annual #1, Marvel Comics, 1992

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Christos N. "Chris" Gage is an American comic book writer and screenwriter.

Early life

Gage is the son of author and journalist Nicholas Gage. He was born in New York, and grew up in Athens, Greece, and then North Grafton, Massachusetts. He attended Brown University where he majored in American Civilization.^[1]

Career

Gage with Rebekah Isaacs at the 2011 New York Comic Con.

Gage wrote The Breed and the 2002 film Teenage Caveman.

Since joining the comic book industry in December of 2004, he has written a number of series including a 2006 Union Jack mini-series with Mike Perkins.^[2]

Gage wrote a comic book series based on the Man with No Name for Dynamite Entertainment^[3][4][5] and wrote some fill-ins for Thunderbolts for Marvel, with three one-shots^[6] before, starting with #122, writing the four-issue tie-in with Secret Invasion.^[7] Also at Marvel he wrote Civil War: House of M.^[8] Gage wrote the "Secret Invasion" tie-in War Machine: Weapon of SHIELD^[9][10] and with the "Dark Reign" tie-in, Avengers: The Initiative, he became the main writer for the series.^[11]

At Wildstorm he wrote The Authority: Prime with Darick Robertson^[12][13][14] and then worked on a number of Wildstorm titles, Wildstorm: Armageddon,^[14][15] Wildstorm: Revelations^[16] and the Wildcats: Worlds End^[17] which allowed a number of titles to be relaunched.^[18]

Other projects include Absolution for Avatar Press,^[19] G.I. Joe: Cobra at IDW Publishing.^[20][21] and Area Ten at Vertigo.^[22]

Personal life

Gage is married to Ruth Fletcher Gage, with whom he often collaborates in screenwriting projects.^[1]

Works

TV and film

• The Breed (2001)
• Teenage Caveman (2002)
• Law and Order: Special Victims Unit:
  • "Mercy" (2003)
  • "Ritual" (2004)
• Numb3rs: "Bones of Contention " (2005)
• Re\Visioned: Tomb Raider: "A Complicated Woman" (with Jim Lee, 2007, forthcoming)

Comics

• Deadshot (with pencils by Steven Cummings and inks by Jimmy Palmiotti, 5-issue mini-series, DC Comics, 2005)

• Legends of the Dark Knight (DC Comics):
  • #201-203: "Cold Case" (with pencils by Ron Wagner and inks by Bill Reinhold, 2006)
  • #214: "Superstitious and Cowardly" (with Phil Winslade, 2007)

• Union Jack (with pencils by Mike Perkins and inks by Drew Hennessy, 4-issue mini-series, November 2006 - February 2007, Marvel Comics, tpb London Falling, 96 pages, July 2007, ISBN 0785121811)
• Worldstorm (with Doug Mahnke, 2-issue mini-series, Wildstorm, 2006–2007)

• Stormwatch: Post Human Division #1-12 (Wildstorm, 2006-2007) collected as:
  • Volume 1 (with Doug Mahnke, tpb collects #1-4 & 6-7, 160 pages, July 2007, ISBN 9781401215002) ^[23]
  • Volume 2 (with Matthew Dow Smith and Andy Smith, collects #5 and #8-12, 144 pages, April 2008, ISBN 1401216781)^[24]

• World War Hulk: X-Men #1-3 (with Andrea Di Vito, mini-series, Marvel Comics)
• Midnighter #8 (with John Paul Leon, Wildstorm, June 2007)
• Annihilation: Conquest - Quasar (with Mike Lilly, Marvel Comics, September–December 2007, tpb, January 2008, 96 pages, ISBN 0785127186)
• New Line Cinema's House of Horror #1 (DC Comics, September 2007) ^[25]
• House of M: Avengers (with Mike Perkins, 5-issue limited series, Marvel Comics, November 2007) ^[26]
• The Authority: Prime (with Darick Robertson, Wildstorm, 2007, tpb collects The Authority Vol. 4 #5-11, Titan Books, August 2008, ISBN 1845768612, Wildstorm, July 2008, ISBN 1401218342)^[27]

• Thunderbolts: Secret Invasion (168 pages, Marvel Comics, March 2009, ISBN 0-7851-2394-6) collects:
  • "Breaking Point" (with Brian Denham, one-shot, January 2008)
  • "International Incident" (with Ben Oliver, one-shot, February 2008)
  • "Reason in Madness" (with Ben Oliver, one-shot, May 2008)
  • "Running the Asylum" (with Fernando Blanco, 4-issue Secret Invasion tie-in, Thunderbolts #122-125, September–December, 2008)

• Avengers: The Initiative #8-35 (with co-author Dan Slott and art by Stefano Caselli and Harvey Montecillo Tolibao, Marvel Comics, 2008–2010)
• Wildstorm: Armageddon (with various artists, 6-issues, Wildstorm, tpb, 144 pages, April 2008, ISBN 1401217036)^[28]
• Wildstorm: Revelations (with co-author Scott Beatty, and art by Wes Craig, Wildstorm, 2008, tpb, 296 pages, July 2008, Titan Books, ISBN 1845769333, Wildstorm, ISBN 1401218679)^[29]
• The Man with No Name: The Good, The Bad, and The Uglier (with Wellington Dias, Dynamite Entertainment, 2008)^[30]
• Wildcats: World's End #1-18 (with Neil Googe and Trevor Hairsine, Wildstorm, 2008–2009) collected as:
  • Wildcats: World's End (136 pages, August 2009, ISBN 140122363X)
• Civil War: House of M (with Andrea Di Vito, 5-issue mini-series, Marvel Comics, September 2008)
• Iron Man: Director of SHIELD #33-35: "War Machine: Director of SHIELD" (with Sean Chen, Marvel Comics, 2008)
• Absolution (with Roberto Viacava, Avatar Press, August 2009, ongoing)
• X-Men/Spider-Man (with art by Mario Alberti, 4-issue mini-series, Marvel Comics, 2008–2009)
• G.I. Joe: Cobra (with co-author Mike Costa and art by Antonio Fuso, 4-issue mini-series, IDW Publishing, March 2009, forthcoming)
• House of M: Masters of Evil (with art by Manuel Garcia, 4-issue mini-series, Marvel Comics 2009-2010)
• Avengers Academy #1- (with Mike McKone, ongoing series, Marvel Comics, June 2010–present)

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References

External links

• Official website