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Top 125 Comic Book Writers: #75-71
Here are the next five writers on the countdown, based on your votes for your favorite comic book writers of all-time! Here is the archive of all the writers featured so far!
I’ll give you two sample pages for each writer.
75 Fred Van Lente – 133 points (1 first place vote)
Page from Action Philosophers #1…
74 Jeff Parker – 136 points (3 first place votes)
Page from Underground #4…
73 Harvey Kurtzman – 137 points (1 first place vote)
Page from Mad #1…
72 Bill Finger – 139 points (1 first place vote)
Page from Batman #47…
71 Doug Moench – 141 points
Page from Legends of the Dark Knight #11
15 Comments
Chris
April 23, 2011 at 7:48 am
Finally Jeff Parker gets a place, although I think it should have been higher
John
April 23, 2011 at 8:20 am
Bill Finger should have made the Top 50! He was a huge influence on Batman’s mythology!
buttler
April 23, 2011 at 8:54 am
Damn, that’s a fine bunch. (Also possibly a funky bunch.)
I didn’t much like Moench’s Batman, but his Master of Kung Fu run was among my favorites. Really there’s nobody in this cluster whom I don’t like a lot, although on some projects more than on others.
DanCJ
April 23, 2011 at 9:10 am
I thoroughly dislike Moench’s writing – though I haven’t read his Marvel stuff which I understand is better.
Who’s the artist on those Jeff Parker pages? That’s some nice work.
Chris
April 23, 2011 at 9:59 am
The artist on those Jeff Parker page’s are Steve Lieber. The book itself is called Underground. Great book!
The Dude
April 23, 2011 at 10:18 am
I wish Fred Van Lente made more Action Philosophers.
Wasn’t that Bill Finger issue referenced by Morrison in the beginning of his Batman run? “Joe Chill in Hell”, or something like that?
Cass
April 23, 2011 at 1:47 pm
Yeah, Morrison retcons the story (kinda, we see Morrison’s version of the story in a dream Batman is having) so that Batman more or less bullies Chill into taking his own life, and then has a laugh about it afterward. In Finger’s original, the criminals in green (see the page above) turn on Chill when they find out he’s responsible for creating Batman. They take him out, and Batman marks his parents’ murder as “case closed.” Both very cool stories, and although I just spoiled the endings, I would highly recommend checking them out.
DanCJ
April 23, 2011 at 2:09 pm
Lieber? Wow. I’ve never really liked his work in the past, but those pages are really good.
I’ll keep an eye open for that book.
chad
April 23, 2011 at 2:17 pm
nice to see Bill finger get some aknowledgement. and was waiting to see when Doug Moenech would show up on the list.
Brian Cronin
April 23, 2011 at 2:31 pm
Note that Underground was very much a collaborative effort, so Parker (as the writer) had a lot to say about the layouts (which were amazing).
Dominic
April 23, 2011 at 5:21 pm
Great group here. This is some fine stuff.
sgt pepper
April 24, 2011 at 7:49 pm
Great to see Van Lente and Parker on here. Two of the new greats.
And Underground is excellent and it’s available for free download here: http://www.undergroundthecomic.com/download-it-free/
*James*
April 25, 2011 at 8:29 am
Jeff Parker is such a great writer – I am reading his Agents of Atlas work in trades and its so good!
And Doug Moench’s Batman run (with Kelley Jones) is one of my all time favorite takes on the character!
Jack
April 29, 2011 at 11:12 am
Doug Moench 71? flip those two digits around that guy’s a legend!
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