Tony Isabella
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Tony Isabella (born December 22, 1951) is an American comic book writer and commentator, best known as the creator and writer of Black Lightning, DC Comics' first major African American superhero.
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[edit] Career
[edit] Marvel Comics
He began as an editorial assistant at Marvel Comics in 1972. At Marvel, he wrote Ghost Rider, It, the Living Colossus in Astonishing Tales, Luke Cage in Hero for Hire and Power Man, Tigra in Marvel Chillers, The Champions, and Captain America. He also served as editor of Marvel's black and white magazine line for a time.
[edit] DC Comics
For DC Comics, he worked as a writer and story editor. In addition to two runs on Black Lightning (one in the 1970s, the other in the 1990s), in the 1980s he revamped Hawkman and Hawkwoman with artist Richard Howell in the mini-series Shadow War of Hawkman. The mini-series led to a regular series which he initially wrote.
[edit] Other Work
He is the co-author (with his fellow Comic Buyer's Guide columnist Bob Ingersoll) 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).
He writes a regular column for the Comics Buyer's Guide, called Tony's Tips. This has resulted in a regular (and, given the different demands of the medium, much more frequent) online column/blog called Tony's Online Tips.
He has also recently worked on translating foreign language Disney comics and revamping the wording for the US such as "Walt Disney's Uncle Scrooge #354". Also, he has recently announced on his column that he plans on doing new comic book work. He has said that he will work on comics for Heroic Publishing, probably working on that company's superheroine Tigress (not to be confused with the Marvel superheroine Tigra mentioned above or the DC characters).
[edit] Christian-themed story arc
Tony Isabella had written at one time a story arc in Ghost Rider (Johnny Blaze) where Johnny Blaze became a Christian, and in doing so, freed himself of the curse. Isabella said in May 2007, "I’d written a story wherein, couched in mildly subtle terms, Blaze accepted Jesus as his savior and freed himself from Satan’s power forever."
CCM sightings said on the subject, "According to Isabella’s account, the story arc took two years to unfold, and was approved by several editors. But when the story reached the big twist -- and a certain mysterious drifter was going to be revealed as Jesus Christ -- an assistant editor “took offense” and intercepted the issue right as it was about to go to the printer and completely rewrote the story."
Isabella says, "To this day, I consider what he did to my story one of the three most arrogant and wrong-headed actions I’ve ever seen from an editor."[1]
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| Preceded by John Warner |
Captain America writer 1975 |
Succeeded by Jack Kirby |
| Preceded by Steve Gerber |
Daredevil writer 1975 (with Bob Brown in late 1975) |
Succeeded by Marv Wolfman |
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