Gerard Francis Conway was born on September 10,1952 and is an American comic book writer, comic book editor, screenwriter, television writer, and television producer.
19 Facts About Gerry Conway
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Gerry Conway is known for co-creating the Marvel Comics vigilante antihero the Punisher as well as the Scarlet Spider, and the first Ms.
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Gerry Conway wrote the first major, modern-day intercompany crossover, Superman vs the Amazing Spider-Man.
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Gerry Conway published his first professional comic book work at 16, with the 6.
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Gerry Conway recalled breaking into Marvel Comics through Marvel editor Roy Thomas:.
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Gerry Conway quickly went on to assignments on Iron Man, The Incredible Hulk, and both "The Inhumans" and "The Black Widow" features in the split book Amazing Adventures.
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Gerry Conway scripted the first Man-Thing story, in 1971, sharing co-creation credit with Stan Lee and Roy Thomas.
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At 19, Gerry Conway began scripting The Amazing Spider-Man, succeeding Stan Lee as writer of one of Marvel's flagship titles.
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Gerry Conway wrote a revival of the Golden Age comic book series All Star Comics which introduced the character Power Girl.
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Gerry Conway briefly returned to Marvel where he succeeded Marv Wolfman as editor-in-chief in March 1976, but held the job only "about a month-and-a-half," relinquishing the post and being succeeded by Archie Goodwin.
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Gerry Conway wrote two additional Superman projects in the oversized tabloid format, Superman vs Wonder Woman, drawn by Jose Luis Garcia-Lopez, and Superman vs Shazam, drawn by Rich Buckler.
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Gerry Conway co-created the characters Firestorm with artist Al Milgrom and Steel, the Indestructible Man with artist Don Heck in the premiere issues of the respective titular comics.
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Gerry Conway was one of the contributors to the DC Challenge limited series in 1986.
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Gerry Conway returned to Marvel in the 1980s and served as the regular writer of both The Spectacular Spider-Man and Web of Spider-Man from 1988 until 1990.
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Gerry Conway relinquished writing duties on both titles when he became the story editor of the television series Father Dowling Mysteries.
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Gerry Conway returned to comics in 2009 and wrote DC Comics' The Last Days of Animal Man, with artist Chris Batista.
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Gerry Conway returned to work as a series' regular writer that same year with Carnage which ran for 16 issues until 2017.
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Gerry Conway's second wife, Karen, is a psychologist who works with autistic children.
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Gerry Conway was raised a Christian, but stated in a 2013 interview that he does not "have any religious belief at this point".