Alan Grant

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Alan Grant (* 1949 in Bristol ) is a Scottish novelist and comic book author. In addition to his friend John Wagner, Grant is considered to be the co-creator of Judge Dredd , an antihero who also acts as a police officer, judge and possibly executor, whose bizarre adventures are set in a dystopian future. The character of Judge Dredd is widely known through comics and a film with Sylvester Stallone .

Life and work

Alan Grant

1967 Grant was hired as editor for the publishing house DC Thompson in Dundee . In 1970 he went to London where he worked for IPC on various magazines dealing with love stories. Then he returned to school and tried unsuccessfully in various professions, so that he finally had to live on welfare. In this precarious situation, Grant met the writer and editor John Wagner, who was looking for a co-writer who could help him finish the work on a Tarzan comic that he was writing at the time, without sacrificing his obligations as editor of the The SF magazine 2000 AD that is currently in the planning stage is negligible. A long-term partnership between the two authors developed from this collaboration, which was intended as a temporary solution.

In the 1980s Grant also worked as a writer for American publishers. Together with Wagner he wrote the twelve-part miniseries “Outcasts” for DC Comics , which helped the two authors to achieve a great reputation in the American comic scene despite their commercial unsuccessfulness. For example, the Batman editor Dennis O'Neil became aware of the two Brits, who in 1987 offered them to try out two booklets of the Detective Comics series (# 583 and 584). The two agreed and delivered the two-part "Fever", in which they enriched the Batman universe with the personality-divided ventriloquist Arnold Wesker and his perfidious ventriloquist dummy Scarface, a figure whose popularity has meanwhile become among other things in appearances in various episodes of the various Batman- Animated series in Batman computer games and novels. Positive about the outcome of the issue, O'Neil offered the two authors the job of regular authors for Detective Comics. After Wagner withdrew from the series, after only five more editions, because of his work on the Judge Dredd film, which was entering the planning stage, and because of the stagnating circulation, Grant took over the sole authorship. With the success of Tim Burton's Batman feature film (1989), Detective Comics soared from 60,000 editions to 650,000. Grant remained one of the regular authors in the Batman franchise until 1998. By 1992 he wrote more than fifty issues of the Batman and Detective Comics series. In 1992 he was given the rare honor of starting a new series especially for him, Batman: Shadow of the Bat . The first edition in this series sold more than 950,000 copies. In the course of his work on the Batman series, Grant enriched the Batman universe with countless characters (including Stan Kitch, Anarky , Jeremiah Arkham the head of the lunatic asylum of Gotham City, the cannibal Cornelius Stirk, the raving chicken Amygdala, the bat Rhino , the pied piper Otis Flannegan, the sadistic Mortimer carcass, the modern version of the old Batman opponent Basil Carlo, the mobster Tally-Man and many more).

Grant lives with his wife Sue in Moniaive ( Dumfries and Galloway ) in southern Scotland, where he lives in a converted 14th century church.

Grant has also written two comic-based novels, "The Stone King" (2001) and "Last Sons" (2006).

bibliography

comics

  • Blackhawk (in 2000 AD # 127-28 & 130-161, 1979-1980)
  • Judge Dredd (in 2000 AD # 156-267, 1980-1982)
  • Tharg the Mighty (in 2000 AD # 162, Sci-Fi Special & 176-77, 1980)
  • Strontium Dog
  • Ace Trucking Co. (in 2000 AD # 232-36, 239-285 & 1982 Sci-Fi Special, 1981-1982)
  • Robo-Hunter (in 2000 AD # 259-272, 1982)
  • Doomlord (in Eagle # 1-13, 1982)
  • Blackhawk (in 2000 AD 1982 Sci-Fi Special, 1982)
  • Joe Soap (in Eagle # 12-22, 1982)
  • Judge Dredd (in 2000 AD # 269-296, 1982)
  • Doomlord (in Eagle # 21-40, 1982)
  • Robo-Hunter (in 2000 AD # 275-281 & 283-288, 1982)
  • Manix (in Eagle # 24-31, 1982)
  • The House of Daemon (in Eagle # 25-47, 1982-1983)
  • Harry Twenty on the High Rock (unnamed co-author) (in 2000 AD # 287-307, 1982-1983)
  • Ace Trucking Co. (in 2000 AD # 288-293, 1982)
  • Robo-Hunter (in 2000 AD # 292-307, 1982)
  • Tharg's Time Twisters (in 2000 AD # 294, 1982)
  • Judge Dredd (in 2000 AD # 297-349, 1983)
  • Joe Soap (in Eagle # 41-45, 1983)
  • Manix (in Eagle # 41-64, 1983)
  • Tharg's Time Twisters (in 2000 AD # 302 & 307, 1983)
  • Gil Hazzard - code name Scorpio (in Eagle # 49-67, 1983)
  • Doomlord (in Eagle # 49-67, 1983)
  • Robo-Hunter (in 2000 AD # 312-334 & 1984 2000 AD Annual, 1983)
  • Tharg's Time Twisters (in 2000 AD # 313, 316, 321, 346 & 348, 1983)
  • Manix (in Eagle # 68-77, 1983)
  • Anderson: Psi Division (in 2000 AD 1984 Annual, 1983)
  • Doomlord (in Eagle from # 79 to 93 and onwards, 1983-1984)
  • Manix (in Eagle from # 79 to 93 and onwards, 1983–1984)
  • Judge Dredd (in 2000 AD # 350-399, 1984)
  • Anderson: Psi Division (in Judge Dredd 1985 Annual, 1984)
  • Ace Trucking Co. (in 2000 AD # 378-390 & 392-400, 1984-1985)
  • The Helltrekkers (in 2000 AD # 387-415, 1984–1985)
  • Judge Dredd (in 2000 AD # 400-449, 1985)
  • Anderson: Psi Division (in 2000 AD # 416-427 & 1986 Judge Dredd Annual, 1985)
  • Ace Trucking Co. (in 2000 AD # 428-433 & 1986 2000 AD Annual, 1985)
  • Mean Team (in 2000 AD # 437-447, 1985)
  • Ace Trucking Co. (in 2000 AD # 451-472, 1986)
  • Judge Dredd (in 2000 AD # 451-502, 1986)
  • Anderson: Psi Division (in 2000 AD # 468-478, 1986)
  • Bad City Blue (in 2000 AD # 468-477, 1986)
  • Anderson: Psi Division (in 1987 2000 AD Annual, 1986)
  • Ace Trucking Co. (in 2000 AD # 475-483 & 485-498, 1986)
  • Judge Dredd (in 2000 AD # 503-554, 1987)
  • Anderson: Psi Division (in 2000 AD # 520-531 & 1988 Judge Dredd Annual, 1987)
  • Tales from Mega-City One (in 2000 AD # 523, 525-26, 532-34 & 539, 1987)
  • Judge Dredd (in 2000 AD # 555-574 & 577, 1988)
  • Tales from the Doghouse (in 2000 AD # 578-79, 1988)
  • Judge Dredd (in 2000 AD # 587, 598, 600-602 & 607, 1988)
  • Anderson: Psi Division (in 2000 AD Winter Special # 1, 1988)
  • Tales from Mega-City One (in 2000 AD # 605, 1988)
  • Judge Hershey (in Judge Dredd Mega-Special # 2, 1989)
  • Anderson: Psi Division (in 2000 AD # 607-609, 612-622, 635-647, 657-659 & 1990 2000 AD Annual, 1989)
  • Doctor Who (in Doctor Who Magazine # 148-150, 1989)
  • Batman
  • Anderson: Psi Division (in 2000 AD # 669-670, 1990)
  • Judge Dredd (in Judge Dredd Megazine vol.1 # 1-6, 10-20, 1990-1992)
  • Anderson: Psi Division (in 2000 AD # 700-717, 1990-1991)
  • The Last American (4 issues, Epic Comics, 1990–1991)
  • Anderson: Psi Division (in 2000 AD # 758-763, 1991)
  • Durham Red (in 2000 AD # 762-773 & 1993 2000 AD Yearbook, 1991-1992)
  • Middenface McNulty (in Judge Dredd Megazine vol.1 # 15-20, 1991–1992)
  • Anderson: Psi Division (in Judge Dredd Mega-Special # 5, 1992)
  • Armageddon: The Bad Man (in Judge Dredd Megazine vol. 2 # 1-7, 1992)
  • Anderson: Psi Division (in Judge Dredd Megazine vol. 2 # 8, 1992)
  • Anderson: Psi Division (in Judge Dredd 1993 Yearbook, 1992)
  • Batman: Shadow of the Bat (82 issues, DC Comics, 1992-1998)
  • Lobo
  • LEGION
  • Anderson: Psi Division (in Judge Dredd Megazine vol. 2 # 10-11 & 14, 1992)
  • Judge Dredd (in Judge Dredd Megazine vol. 2 # 19-20, 1993)
  • Batman / Judge Dredd: Vendetta in Gotham (DC / Fleetway, 1993)
  • Anderson: Psi Division (in Judge Dredd Megazine vol. 2 # 22-24, 27-34 & 37, 1993)
  • Anderson: Psi Division (in Judge Dredd Megazine vol. 2 # 50-60, 1994)
  • The Bogie Man
  • Anderson: Psi Division (in Judge Dredd Megazine vol. 2 # 73-80, 1995)
  • Batman / Judge Dredd: The Ultimate Riddle (DC / Fleetway, 1995)
  • Anderson: Psi Division (in Judge Dredd Megazine vol. 3 # 1-7, 1995)
  • Anderson: Psi Division (in Judge Dredd Megazine vol. 3 # 14, 1996)
  • Mazeworld Book I (in 2000 AD # 1014-1023, 1996)
  • Anderson: Psi Division (in 2000 AD # 1045-1061, 1997)
  • BLAIR One (in 2000 AD # 1071-1074, 1997)
  • Anderson: Psi Division (in 2000 AD # 1076, 1997)
  • BLAIR One (in 2000 AD # 1084, 1998)
  • Anderson: Psi Division (in 2000 AD # 1087-1090, 1998)
  • BLAIR One (in 2000 AD # 1097-98, 1998)
  • Mazeworld Book II (in 2000 AD # 1101-1110, 1998)
  • Anderson: Psi Division (in 2000 AD # 1102-03, 1998)
  • Anderson: Psi Division (in 2000 AD # 1132-37 & 1140, 1999)
  • Mazeworld Book III (in 2000 AD # 1151-1160, 1999)
  • Batman / Scarface (DC, 2001)
  • Young Middenface (17 episodes in Judge Dredd Megazine 2001-present)
  • Anderson: Psi Division (in 2000 AD # 1263-1272, 2001)
  • Juliet November (in Judge Dredd Megazine # 202-204, 2003)
  • Apocalypse Soon (in Judge Dredd Megazine # 204-214, 2003-04)
  • Robo-Hunter (in 2000 AD prog 2004 & # 1371-1373, 2003-04)
  • Anderson: Psi Division (in Judge Dredd Megazine # 214-217, 2004)
  • Robo-Hunter (in 2000 AD # 1406-1411, 2004)
  • Anderson: Psi Division (in Judge Dredd Megazine # 221-236, 2004-05)
  • Robo-Hunter (in 2000 AD prog 2005, 2004)
  • The Bogie Man: Return to Casablanca (in Judge Dredd Megazine # 227-233, 2005)
  • Whatever Happened to Melda Dreepe? (in Judge Dredd Megazine # 230, 2005)
  • Robo-Hunter: Stim! (in 2000 AD from # 1450, 2005)

Books

  • Batman The Stone King (2001)
  • DC Universe: Last Sons (2006 - Superman, Martian Manhunter and Lobo)

Web links

personal data
SURNAME Grant, Alan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Scottish novelist and comic book writer
DATE OF BIRTH 1949
PLACE OF BIRTH Scotland