After working for DC Comics, Roy Thomas then became editor-in-chief at which comic book company?
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Captain Carrot Captain Carrot is a funny animal superhero published by DC Comics. His first appearance was in a special insert in "The New Teen Titans" #16 (cover-dated Feb. 1982). He was created by Roy Thomas and Scott Shaw.
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Roy Thomas Roy William Thomas, Jr. (born November 22, 1940) is an American comic book writer and editor, who was 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. Howard's character and helped launch a sword and sorcery trend in comics. Thomas is also known for his championing of Golden Age comic-book heroes – particularly the 1940s superhero team the Justice Society of America – and for lengthy writing stints on Marvel's "X-Men" and "The Avengers", and DC Comics' "All-Star Squadron", among other titles.
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Dell Comics Dell Comics was the comic book publishing arm of Dell Publishing, which got its start in pulp magazines. It published comics from 1929 to 1974. At its peak, it was the most prominent and successful American company in the medium. In 1953 Dell claimed to be the world's largest comics publisher, selling 26 million copies each month.
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The Exaggerated Death of Ultra Boy "The Exaggerated Death of Ultra Boy" is a story arc that was published by DC Comics, and presented in "Legion of Super-Heroes" vol. 2, #273–275 and #277–282 (March–December 1981). It was written by Gerry Conway, Roy Thomas and Paul Levitz, with pencils by Jimmy Janes and Steve Ditko. It depicts the long odyssey of Ultra Boy, who is incorrectly presumed to be slain in battle.
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Continüm Comics Continüm Comics was an American comic book publisher which operated between the years 1988–1994. Owned and operated by Joseph Naftali, their most successful title was "The Dark".
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DC Comics Presents DC Comics Presents is a comic book series published by DC Comics from 1978 to 1986 which ran for 97 issues and 4 annuals and featured team-ups between Superman and a wide variety of other characters of the DC Universe. A recurring back-up feature "Whatever Happened to...?" had stories revealing the status of various minor and little-used characters.
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First Comics First Comics was an American comic-book publisher that was active from 1983 to 1991, known for titles like "American Flagg!", "Grimjack", "Nexus", "Badger", "Dreadstar", and "Jon Sable". Along with competitors like Pacific Comics and Eclipse Comics, First took early advantage of the growing direct market, attracting a number of writers and artists from DC and Marvel to produce creator-owned titles, which, as they were not subject to the Comics Code, were free to feature more mature content.
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Sheldon Mayer Sheldon Mayer (April 1, 1917 – December 21, 1991) was an American comics artist, writer, and editor. One of the earliest employees of Major Malcolm Wheeler-Nicholson's National Allied Publications, Mayer produced almost all of his comics work for the company that would become known as DC Comics.
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Valiant Comics Valiant Comics is an American publisher of comic books and related media. The company was founded in 1989 by former Marvel Comics editor-in-chief Jim Shooter and lawyer and businessman Steven Massarsky. In 1994, the company was sold to Acclaim Entertainment. After Acclaim declared bankruptcy in 2004, the company was restarted as part of Valiant Entertainment by entrepreneurs Dinesh Shamdasani and Jason Kothari in 2005.
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Wonder Comics Wonder Comics or Wonder Color Comics was a very short-lived American comic book publishing company that existed from 1985-1987. It was also the name of a golden age comic book published by Nedor Comics. They only published a few titles, some of which moved to another short-lived company, Pied Piper Comics after its first issues of each.
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John Byrne (comics) John Lindley Byrne ( ; born July 6, 1950) is an American comics artist and writer. Since the mid-1970s, Byrne has worked on many major superheroes. Byrne's better-known work has been on Marvel Comics' "X-Men" and "Fantastic Four" and the 1986 relaunch of DC Comics' "Superman" franchise, the first issue of which featured comics' first variant cover. Coming into the comics profession as penciller, inker, letterer and writer on his earliest work, Byrne began co-plotting the "X-Men" comics during his tenure on them, and launched his writing career in earnest with "Fantastic Four" (where he also served as penciler and inker). During the 1990s he produced a number of creator-owned works, including "Next Men" and "Danger Unlimited". He scripted the first issues of Mike Mignola's "Hellboy" series and produced a number of "Star Trek" comics for IDW Publishing. In 2015, Byrne and his X-Men collaborator Chris Claremont were entered into the Will Eisner Award Hall of Fame.
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Serpent Crown The Serpent Crown is a fictional mystical power object which has appeared in various comic book series published by Marvel Comics. It exists within Marvel's main shared universe. It was created by writer Roy Thomas and artist Marie Severin in "Sub-Mariner" #9 (January 1969).
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Future Comics Future Comics is a semi-active comic book publishing company founded by industry all-rounder Bob Layton, and his creative partners — Layton's mentor, artist/editor Dick Giordano and his frequent writing-partner David Michelinie, CFO Allen Berrebbi — and publisher Skip Farrell.
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Batman Incorporated Batman Incorporated (also known as Batman, Inc.) is an American comic book series published by DC Comics, featuring the superhero Batman. Written by Grant Morrison, the series debuts following the events of "Batman R.I.P", "Final Crisis", "Batman and Robin", and "" where, after being stranded in the distant past and believed dead, Bruce Wayne has returned to the present day DC Universe. Now, he is prepared to take his war on crime to the next level, by essentially "franchising" it and drafting, training and commanding a global team of heroes who will answer to Batman himself called Batman Incorporated.
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Larry Nadle Lawrence Malcolm "Larry" Nadle (September 29, 1913 in Manhattan - December 26, 1963) (sometimes credited as Larry Nadel) was a comic book editor and writer who was known for his work for DC Comics' romance comics, celebrity comics, and other humor-centric titles.
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Michael Catron Michael Catron (born October 9, 1954) is an American comic book editor and publisher. He is former publisher of Apple Comics and co-founder of Fantagraphics.
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Intercompany crossover In comic books, an intercompany crossover (also called cross-company or company crossover) is a comic or series of comics where characters that at the time of publication are the property of one company meet those owned by another company (for example, DC Comics' Superman meeting Marvel's Spider-Man, or DC's Batman meeting Marvel's Wolverine). These usually occur in "one-shot" issues or miniseries (comics).
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DC Comics Bonus Book DC Comics Bonus Books were 16-page comic book stories inserted into issues of existing DC Comics series to showcase new writers and artists. Running from April 1988 to February 1989, they consisted of a front cover, 14 pages of story, and a back cover with a brief biography of the story's creators. The addition of the insert did not entail an increase in the price of the comic book. The Bonus Books featured early work by such comics creators as Mark Askwith, Jim Balent, Randy DuBurke, Dean Haspiel, Rob Liefeld, Gordon Purcell, and Denis Rodier.
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Janus Directive "The Janus Directive" was an eleven-part comic book crossover first published by DC Comics between May and June of 1989. Among the creators who contributed to the storyline were writers John Ostrander, Kim Yale, Paul Kupperberg, Cary Bates and Greg Weisman and artists John K. Snyder III, Rick Hoberg, Rafael Kayanan, Tom Mandrake and Pat Broderick.
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Frank Thomas (comics) Frank Thomas (1914–1968) was an American Golden Age cartoonist who worked primarily for Centaur Publications.
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Union Jack (comics) Union Jack is the name of three fictional superheroes appearing in the Marvel Universe comic books published by Marvel Comics and Marvel UK. Created by Roy Thomas and Frank Robbins, the first Union Jack first appeared in "Invaders" #7 (July 1976), a second incarnation from the same creators appeared in "The Invaders" #21, and a third incarnation was created by Roger Stern and John Byrne for "Captain America" Vol. 1 #254 (February 1981).
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Continuity Comics Continuity Publishing, also known as Continuity Comics, was an American independent comic book company formed by Neal Adams in 1984, publishing comics until 1994.