Tony Isabella

Tony Isabella

Tony Isabella (born December 22, 1951 ) is an American comic book writer .

Life and work

Isabella began working as an editorial assistant for Marvel Comics in 1972, before taking on his first engagements as a writer in 1973. He subsequently wrote for the series Ghost Rider , The Champions and Captain America , and he also directed stories for the series Living Colossus, which was featured in the series Astonishing Tales , Luke Cage (in Hero for Hire ) and Tigra (in Marvel Chillers ).

In the later 1970s, Isabella began to take on engagements for Marvel's competitor DC-Comics : So he - together with the illustrator Trevor Von Eeden - created the first African-American character in DC's publishing program in 1977 with the figure of the superhero Black Lightning of its own ongoing series. In the 1990s, Isabella also presented a reinterpretation of the science fiction hero Hawkman together with the illustrator Richard Howell, which he presented for the first time in the miniseries Shadow War of Hawkman , after which DC launched a new Hawkman series, the first Editions Isabella wrote.

Isabella has published the novels Captain America: Liberty's Torch (1998) and Star Trek: The Case Of The Colonist's Corpse (2003) as a book author . He also writes a column titled Tony's Tips for the trade magazine Comics Buyer's Guide .

More recently, Isabella has translated various Disney comics written by European - mainly Italian and Scandinavian - comic authors into English for publication on the American market.