Robert Morales was born in New York City on February 3,1958.
10 Facts About Robert Morales
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Robert Morales wrote short review pieces for the Dossier section of Heavy Metal magazine in the period 1982 to 1985.
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Robert Morales was the executive editor of Reflex magazine in the early 1990s, where he brought author Neil Gaiman onto the editorial team as consulting editor.
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Robert Morales was senior editor for the music and entertainment magazine Vibe from 1994 to 2007.
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Delany reflected that Robert Morales had originally introduced him to author Kathy Acker, with whom he later collaborated.
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Robert Morales was a comic book writer, known mostly for his work on the Marvel Comics series Captain America.
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Robert Morales pitched the idea for a black Captain America at a meeting with Joe Quesada, Marvel's editor-in-chief.
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Robert Morales co-created the series with illustrator Kyle Baker, with whom he had previously worked on satirical cartoons for Vibe Magazine.
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Robert Morales rejected criticism that he made Captain America a party to racism, stating that "It's a book where every single person is complicit, one way or another".
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Robert Morales died in his home in Brooklyn on April 18,2013.