Wagner asked Grant if he could help him write the Tarzan comic he was working on so began the Wagner/Grant writing partnership. Thompson editor, who was helping put together a new science fiction comic for IPC, 2000 A.D., and was unable to complete his other work. He then met John Wagner, another former D.C. After going back to college and having a series of jobs, Grant found himself back in Dundee and living on Social Security. Thomson before moving to London from Dundee in 1970 to work for IPC on various romance magazines. He is also the creator of the character Anarky.Īlan Grant first entered the comics industry in 1967 when he became an editor for D.C. Alan Grant is a Scottish comic book writer known for writing Judge Dredd in 2000 AD as well as various Batman titles during the late 1980s and early 1990s.
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This TPB edition collects "Batman & Robin" #1-6 featuring two storylines: "Batman Reborn" and "Revenge of the Red Hood". He divides his time between his homes in Los Angeles and Scotland.īeware villains! Here comes Batman & Robin! He is also the author of the New York Times bestseller Supergods, a groundbreaking psycho-historic mapping of the superhero as a cultural organism. In his secret identity, Morrison is a "counterculture" spokesperson, a musician, an award-winning playwright and a chaos magician. In addition to expanding the DC Universe through titles ranging from the Eisner Award-winning SEVEN SOLDIERS and ALL-STAR SUPERMAN to the reality-shattering epic of FINAL CRISIS, he has also reinvented the worlds of the Dark Knight Detective in BATMAN AND ROBIN and BATMAN, INCORPORATED and the Man of Steel in The New 52 ACTION COMICS. 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