Kurt Busiek (Author of Marvels)

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Kurt Busiek

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September 16, 1960

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Kurt Busiek is an American comic book writer notable for his work on the Marvels limited series, his own title Astro City, and his four-year run on Avengers.

Busiek did not read comics as a youngster, as his parents disapproved of them. He began to read them regularly around the age of 14, when he picked up a copy of Daredevil #120. This was the first part of a continuity-heavy four-part story arc; Busiek was drawn to the copious history and cross-connections with other series. Throughout high school and college, he and future writer Scott McCloud practiced making comics. During this time, Busiek also had many letters published in comic book letter columns, and originated the theory that the Phoenix was a separate being who had impersonated Kurt Busiek is an American comic book writer notable for his work on the Marvels limited series, his own title Astro City, and his four-year run on Avengers.

Busiek did not read comics as a youngster, as his parents disapproved of them. He began to read them regularly around the age of 14, when he picked up a copy of Daredevil #120. This was the first part of a continuity-heavy four-part story arc; Busiek was drawn to the copious history and cross-connections with other series. Throughout high school and college, he and future writer Scott McCloud practiced making comics. During this time, Busiek also had many letters published in comic book letter columns, and originated the theory that the Phoenix was a separate being who had impersonated Jean Grey, and that therefore Grey had not died鈥攁 premise which made its way from freelancer to freelancer, and which was eventually used in the comics.

During the last semester of his senior year, Busiek submitted some sample scripts to editor Dick Giordano at DC Comics. None of them sold, but they did get him invitations to pitch other material to DC editors, which led to his first professional work, a back-up story in Green Lantern #162 (Mar. 1983).

Busiek has worked on a number of different titles in his career, including Arrowsmith, The Avengers, Icon, Iron Man, The Liberty Project, Ninjak, The Power Company, Red Tornado, Shockrockets, Superman: Secret Identity, Thunderbolts, Untold Tales of Spider-Man, JLA, and the award-winning Marvels and the Homage Comics title Kurt Busiek's Astro City.

In 1997, Busiek began a stint as writer of Avengers alongside artist George P茅rez. P茅rez departed from the series in 2000, but Busiek continued as writer for two more years, collaborating with artists Alan Davis, Kieron Dwyer and others. Busiek's tenure culminated with the "Kang Dynasty" storyline. In 2003, Busiek re-teamed with Perez to create the JLA/Avengers limited series.

In 2003, Busiek began a new Conan series for Dark Horse Comics, which he wrote for four years.

In December 2005 Busiek signed a two-year exclusive contract with DC Comics. During DC's Infinite Crisis event, he teamed with Geoff Johns on a "One Year Later" eight-part story arc (called Up, Up and Away) that encompassed both Superman titles. In addition, he began writing the DC title Aquaman: Sword of Atlantis from issues 40-49. Busiek was the writer of Superman for two years, before followed by James Robinson starting from Superman #677. Busiek wrote a 52-issue weekly DC miniseries called Trinity, starring Batman, Superman and Wonder Woman. Each issue (except for issue #1) featured a 12-page main story by Busiek, with art by Mark Bagley, and a ten-page backup story co-written by Busiek and Fabian Nicieza, with art from various artists, including Tom Derenick, Mike Norton and Scott McDaniel.

Busiek's work has won him numerous awards in the comics industry, including the Harvey Award for Best Writer in 1998 and the Eisner Award for Best Writer in 1999. In 1994, with Marvels, he won Best Finite Series/Limited Series Eisner Award and the Best Continuing or Limited Series Harvey Award; as well as the Harvey Award for Best Single Issue or Story (for Marvels #4) in 1995. In 1996, with Astro City, Busiek won both the Eisner and Harvey awards for Best New Series. He won the Best Single Issue/Single Story Eisner three years in a row from 1996鈥�1998, as well as in 2004. Busiek won the Best Continuing Series Eisner Award in 1997鈥�1998, as well as the Best Serialized Story award in 1998. In addition, Astro City was awarded the 1996 Best Single Issue or Story Harvey Award, and the 1998 Harvey Award for Best Continuing or Limited Series.

Busiek was given the 1998 and 1999 Comics Buyer's Guide Awards for Favorite Writer, with additional nominations in 1997 and every year from 2000 to 2004. He has also received numerous Squiddy Awards, having been selected as favorite writer four years in a row from 1995 to 1998, ...more

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	Marvels by Kurt Busiek, Alex Ross (Painter) 4.29 avg rating — 39,394 ratings — published 1993 — 83 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Astro City, Vol. 1: Life in the Big City 4.12 avg rating — 10,404 ratings — published 1996 — 28 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Superman: Secret Identity by Kurt Busiek, Stuart Immonen (Illustrator) 4.27 avg rating — 8,089 ratings — published 2004 — 25 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Astro City, Vol. 2: Confession by Kurt Busiek, Brent Anderson (Illustrator), Will Blyberg (Illustrator) 4.32 avg rating — 4,595 ratings — published 1997 — 15 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	JLA/Avengers by Kurt Busiek, George P茅rez (Illustrator) 4.01 avg rating — 3,853 ratings — published 2004 — 15 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Conan, Vol. 1: The Frost Giant's Daughter and Other Stories by Kurt Busiek, Cary Nord (Illustrator), Thomas Yeates (Illustrator) 4.23 avg rating — 3,041 ratings — published 2005 — 23 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Astro City, Vol. 4: The Tarnished Angel by Kurt Busiek, Brent Anderson (Illustrator), Will Blyberg (Illustrator) 4.27 avg rating — 2,670 ratings — published 2000 — 14 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Autumnlands, Vol. 1: Tooth and Claw by Kurt Busiek, Benjamin Dewey (Illustrator) 3.84 avg rating — 2,794 ratings — published 2015 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Astro City, Vol. 3: Family Album by Kurt Busiek, Alex Ross (Cover Art), Brent Anderson (Illustrator) 4.15 avg rating — 2,517 ratings — published 1997 — 16 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Astro City, Vol. 5: Local Heroes by Kurt Busiek, Brent Anderson (Illustrator), Alex Ross (Cover Artist) 4.13 avg rating — 2,156 ratings — published 2004 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Avengers (1998) (New Editions) (12 books)
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Kurt Busiek (Writer),

Roger Stern,

Roy Thomas,

Steve Englehart,

Manuel Garc铆a (Illustrator)

3.90 avg rating — 14,962 ratings

Trinity (3 books)
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Kurt Busiek,

Fabian Nicieza (欧宝娱乐 Author),

Mark Bagley (Illustrator)

3.94 avg rating — 2,649 ratings

Astro City Metrobook (5 books)
by

Kurt Busiek,

Alex Ross (illustrator),

Brent Anderson (illustrator),

Jes煤s Merino (illustrator),

Joe Infurnari (illustrator),

Gary Chaloner (illustrator)

4.43 avg rating — 1,002 ratings

Arrowsmith (2 books)
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Kurt Busiek,

Carlos Pacheco (Artist),

Jose Rafael Fonteriz (Artist),

Jos茅 Villarrubia (Artist)

3.98 avg rating — 938 ratings

Conan Omnibus (7 books)
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4.23 avg rating — 756 ratings

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“Maybe I had a "secret identity", but then when you think about it, don't we all? A part of ourselves very few people ever get to see. The part we think of as "me". The part that deals with the big stuff. Makes the real choices. The part everything else is a reflection of.”
― Kurt Busiek, Superman: Secret Identity

tags: comics, truth

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“It strikes me that the only real reason to take apart a pocket watch, or a car engine, aside from the simple delight of disassembly, is to find out how it works. To understand it, so you can put it back together again better than before, or build a new one that goes beyond what the old one could do. We鈥檝e been taking apart the superhero for ten years or more; it's time to put it back together and wind it up, time to take it out on the road and floor it, see what it鈥檒l do.”
― Kurt Busiek, Astro City, Vol. 1: Life in the Big City

tags: disassembly, improvementment, reconstruction, superheroes

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“And is that why we do what we do? For public approval, for fame? Do we help people because they will be appropriately grateful--or merely because they need help?”
― Kurt Busiek, Astro City, Vol. 2: Confession

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