17 Facts About Jerry Ordway

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Jeremiah Ordway was born on November 28,1957 and is an American writer, penciller, inker and painter of comic books.

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Jerry Ordway has provided inks for artists such as Curt Swan, Jack Kirby, Gil Kane, John Buscema, Steve Ditko, John Byrne, George Perez and others.

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Jerry Ordway attended Milwaukee Technical High School, where he took a three-year commercial art course, before joining a commercial art studio as a typographer in 1976.

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Jerry Ordway subsequently worked his way "from the ground floor up at the art studio" between 1978 and 1981.

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Jerry Ordway cites Gene Colan, Wally Wood, Alex Raymond, Hal Foster, and Roy Crane as early inspirations.

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Jerry Ordway was the penciller and inker for the DC Comics adaptation of the 1989 Batman film which was published as a "movie special".

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Jerry Ordway had served as co-plotter on a few issues during both Wolfman and Bryne's writing tenures.

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Jerry Ordway has produced a large number of covers for DC from 1982 onwards, including for issues of Secret Origins and the painted cover art to the hardcover reprint collection The Greatest Golden Age Stories Ever Told.

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Jerry Ordway produced the cover art for the prestige format graphic novels, Superman: The Earth Stealers in 1988 where he inked Curt Swan's pencils and Superman For Earth, among other work.

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The story saw Jerry Ordway depict the revamped origins of the former-Fawcett Comics superhero.

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Jerry Ordway wrote and provided painted covers for the entire run of the regular series, as well as illustrating fill-in issues between series-regular artists Peter Krause and Mike Manley.

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For Image Comics, Jerry Ordway co-created the character WildStar with Al Gordon in 1993, and published his creator-owned one-shot The Messenger in July 2000.

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Jerry Ordway produced occasional work for Marvel between 1984 and 1988, then returned a decade later to write and illustrate a three-issue arc of The Avengers vol.

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Jerry Ordway was artist for the one-shot Captain America and the Invaders: Bahamas Triangle with writer Roy Thomas, released in July 2019.

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Stan Lee with Jerry Ordway Creating the JLA as part of Marvel-stalwart Stan Lee's foray into the DC Universe, in which the two of them re-imagined DC's Justice League of America.

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In 2012, Jerry Ordway worked on a Challengers of the Unknown storyline for DC Universe Presents with DC Co-Publisher Dan DiDio.

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Jerry Ordway drew the new cover art for the trade paperback collection Wonder Woman By Walter Simonson and Jerry Ordway, collecting Wonder Woman vol.