Daniel Fingeroth (; born September 17) is an American

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writer and editor, best known for a long stint as group editor of the

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books at

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Early life

Fingeroth was born in

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Career

As a writer and editor

Fingeroth got his start in the comics business in 1976 as an assistant to Larry Lieber at Marvel Comics. At

in the 1980s, he edited the

titles as well as ''

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'' and '' Ka-Zar''. As a writer, Fingeroth worked on ''

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'', writing all 50 issues of the book between 1991 and 1995. Before that, he had a long stint on '' Dazzler'', wrote the ''Deadly Foes of Spider-Man'' and ''Lethal Foes of Spider-Man'' mini-series, the ''

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'' movie adaptation comic and various issues of several Marvel titles, including ''

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'', '' Daredevil'', ''

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'' and '' What If?'', as well as the ''Deathtrap: The Vault'' graphic novel. Fingeroth resigned from Marvel in 1995 to become editor-in-chief of Virtual Comics for

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and

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. From there, Fingeroth served as senior vice president for creative development at Visionary Media, home of

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'', for which he served as story editor. He edited ''Write Now!'' (

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), a magazine about the craft of comics writing that he created, which ran for 20 issues from 2003 to 2009. He wrote the 2004 Continuum Publishing book ''Superman on the Couch: What Superheroes Really Tell Us About Ourselves and Our Society''. Fingeroth also wrote ''The Rough Guide to Graphic Novels'' (featuring artwork by Mike Manley).

As an educator and public speaker

Fingeroth has taught comics writing at

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,"Study with Danny"
DannyFingeroth.com. Retrieved March 19, 2013.

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and Soho Gallery for Digital Art. He has been a speaker at the New York Comics & Picture-Story Symposium at

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. He has also taught classes, and functioned as organizer, moderator and curator of events at the

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. In 2012, Fingeroth along with Karen Green, Graphic Novels Librarian (Columbia University) and Jeremy Dauber, Director, Institute for Israel and Jewish Studies (Columbia University) organize
Comic New York
a symposium marking writer

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's donation of his archives of all his major writing projects over the previous 40 years to the university's

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. The symposium, which was held March 24–25, 2012 at Columbia's

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, featured discussion panels with Fingeroth, Claremont, and numerous other mainstream and independent comics creators.Reed, Calvin
"X-Men Writer Chris Claremont Donates Archive to Columbia University"
''

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''. November 14, 2011"Panelist Bios"
''Comic New York: A Symposium''.

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. Retrieved March 29, 2012

Selected works

Comics

*''

'': #207-208, 304 *'' Daredevil'': #235 *''

'': #1-50 ''Annual'' #1-2 *''Darkhawk: Heart of the Hawk'' *'' Dazzler'': #8–24, 26 *''Deadly Foes of Spider-Man'': #1-4 *''

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'': #355 *''

'': #210, 212-214, 253 *''

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'': #125-126 *''Spider-Man: Friends and Enemies'' #1-4 *''Superman 80-Page Giant'' #1 (Feb. 1999) (writer for ten-page short story) *''

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'': #4-6, 10-11, 71-72 ''Annual'' #3 *'' Venom: Deathtrap: The Vault'' (1993)

Books

*''Superman On The Couch: What Superheroes really tell us about ourselves and society''; foreword by

Stan Lee Stan Lee (born Stanley Martin Lieber ; December 28, 1922 – November 12, 2018) was an American comic book writer, editor, publisher, and producer. He rose through the ranks of a family-run business called Timely Publications which ...

(Continuum International Publishing Group, 2004) *''The Rough Guide to Graphic Novels'' (Rough Guides, 2008) *''Disguised as Clark Kent: Jews, Comics, and the Creation of the Superhero''; foreword by

(Continuum International Publishing Group, 2007) *''The Stan Lee Universe''; co-editor (with

Roy Thomas Roy William Thomas Jr."Roy Thomas Checklist" ''Alter Ego'' vol. 3, #50 (July 2005) p. 16 (born November 22, 1940) is an American comic book writer and editor, who was Stan Lee's first successor as editor-in-chief of Marvel Comics. He is possibl ...

) (

, 2011) (hardcover), 1-60549-029-6 (softcover) *''A Marvelous Life: The Amazing Story of Stan Lee'' (St. Martin's Press, 2019)

References

External links

* *Fingeroth, Danny (July 30, 2008)
"Danny Fingeroth's top 10 graphic novels"
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