Joe Kelly (comic book writer)

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Joseph "Joe" Kelly is an American comic book writer.

Life and work

Kelly began working as a full-time comic book writer while still studying at New York University in 1996, after successfully participating in the “Stan-hattan Project” writing competition initiated by Marvel Verlag. His first published work subsequently appeared in issues 1-8 of the science fiction series 2099: World of Tomorrow.

In 1997 Kelly took on his first engagement as a permanent writer of an ongoing comic series: Together with illustrator Ed McGuinness and other artists, Kelly designed the superhero title Deadpool for almost three years, up to issue # 33 in 1999. At the same time, Kelly wrote from 1997 to 1998 / 1999 stories for the Marvel series Daredevil (# 365-375) and X-Men (# 70-85), with Gene Colan and Carlos Pacheco being assigned as draftsmen.

In 1999, Kelly moved to Marvel's rival DC-Comics , for which he took over the traditional series Action Comics, which focuses on the adventures of the iconic superhero Superman . Kelly wrote for Action Comics for five years, until 2004, as the author of issues # 760 to 813. At the same time, he also took on writing jobs for the Superman spin-off series Superboy (# 83-93) and for the series JLA (# 61–93, 100), which deals with the exploits of an entire team of superheroes. While Kelly's work on Superman and Superboy was largely captured by Pasqual Ferry , his stories for JLA were visualized by Doug Mahnke . This was followed from 2004 to 2005 by the twelve-part maxi series Justice League Elite and from 2006 to 2007 a run on Supergirl (# 7-19), another Superman spin-off.

Together with the artists Brent Anderson and Bill Sienkiewicz , Kelly also presented the graphic novel Green Lantern: Legacy - The Last Will & Testament of Hal Jordan in 2002 . More recent projects were the Space Ghost series and a miniseries about the adventurer Johnny Quest .

As an independent writer, Kelly has developed the Steampunk series (published by Wildstorms Cliffhanger Imprint) and M. REX (published by Avalon Studios) as well as the One-Shot Ballast (published by Active Images).

Kelly also developed the animated series Ben 10 with friends Joe Casey , Duncan Rouleau and Steven T. Seagle , which is currently broadcast by the American broadcaster Cartoon Network.

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personal data
SURNAME Kelly, Joe
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kelly, Joseph
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American comic book writer
DATE OF BIRTH 20th century