22 Facts About Dheeraj Verma

Dheeraj Verma was an Indian comic book artist and creator.

Dheeraj Verma is often credited with being the first Indian to enter the US comics industry.

Dheeraj Verma was born on 22 October 1967, in Delhi, India.

Dheeraj Verma attended school at N P Boys Sr Secondary School and graduated from Pannalal Girdharlal Dayanand Anglo Vedic College, University of Delhi in 1991.

Dheeraj Verma was quite impressed with "The Phantom and Flash Gordon" which became his inspiration to draw.

Dheeraj Verma started his career as an illustrator in the Indian comic industry in 1991 with the New Delhi-based publishers Parampara Comics and Fort Comics.

Dheeraj Verma was noticed by the industry with Divaystro Ka Raja, Ajoobey and garnered more attention from the Indian comics industry with the comics Jangaroo.

Dheeraj Verma wrote as well as illustrated its initial issues which were a huge hit such as Wolfano, Grahano, Lazy, Tilangey and many more.

Dheeraj Verma worked on almost all the major Raj comics characters as an artist.

Dheeraj Verma's best selling comics were from the 90's, and all of them were drawn by him.

Dheeraj Verma worked on covers, posters, trading cards, pin-ups, and other promotional merchandising for Raj comics.

Dheeraj Verma was the first artist to introduce digital coloring to the Indian comic industry in 1996 on Parmanus cover and then Bheria's Digest.

Dheeraj Verma worked on Dynamite's The Complete Dracula series written by Alan Moore's daughter Leah Moore.

Dheeraj Verma did cover art for Marvel Comics's invincible Iron Man.

Dheeraj Verma worked on Transformers' series published by IDW Publications.

Dheeraj Verma's first series for IDW Transformers: Fall Of Cybertron was a superhit series on ComiXology, which was launched in August 2012.

Dheeraj Verma has done up to 14 issues of Lady Death.

Dheeraj Verma was working on Conan the Slayer, as a penciller.

In January 2013, after a decade away, Dheeraj Verma made his comeback in the Indian comic industry with Jaljeevni from Raj Comics.

Dheeraj Verma ventured to exhibit his painting in the world renowned Indian Government national academy of fine arts Lalit Kala Akademi in Delhi, and caused quite a buzz in the fine art circle by introducing original comics pages from Transformers and Lady Death in the gallery in a seven-day exhibition, which was inaugurated by Mr Taj Hassan, Special Commissioner of Police.

Dheeraj Verma married Malti Dheeraj Verma in 1991 and had two daughters.

Dheeraj Verma died on 7 June 2021, in Delhi from pulmonary fibrosis complicated by a COVID-19 infection.