Bob Ingersoll
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Robert "Bob" Ingersoll (October 13, 1952 - ) is an American lawyer and writer. Ingersoll's full time occupation is as a Lead Attorney with the Cuyahoga County Public Defender Office in Cleveland, Ohio. However he is more widely known for his writing, in particuliar his work in comic books.
Comic series he has written for include Donald Duck, The Green Hornet, House of Mystery, Justice Machine, Mickey Mouse, Moon Knight and Star Trek: All of Me. He was also a frequent contributor for Innovation Comics where he contributed to the Lost in Space and Quantum Leap comic books as well as being the regular writer on Hero Alliance.
Since 1983 Ingersoll has written "The Law is a Ass", a regular column in Comics Buyer's Guide, which has also been published online by World Famous Comics.com since 1999. The column examines the depiction of the law in comics and other fiction and compares it humorously to the reality of legal practice.
He is also the writer of several prose works. He wrote the horror story Making the Leap which was published in Hot Blood XI: Fatal Attractions (2003, ISBN 0-7582-0099-4). He is the co-author (with his fellow Comic Buyer's Guide columnist Tony Isabella) of the short story If Wishes Were Horses... (which was published in The Ultimate Super Villains, ISBN 1-57297-113-4, in 1996) and the novels Captain America: Liberty's Torch (1998 ISBN 0-425-16619-8) and Star Trek: The Case Of The Colonist's Corpse (A Sam Cogley Mystery) (2003, ISBN 0-7434-6497-4).
In 1987 (in the pages of Secret Origins #14) writer John Ostrander named a piece of legislation in the fictional DC universe "the Ingersoll Amendment"; this was an obvious reference to Ingersoll who has frequently provided Ostrander and other comic book writers with advice on how to portray the law in their work.
