Jeremiah Ordway (born November 28, 1957) is an American writer,

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, inker and painter of

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s. He is known for his inking work on a wide variety of

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titles, including the continuity-redefining ''

Crisis on Infinite Earths "Crisis on Infinite Earths" is a 1985 American comic book crossover storyline published by DC Comics. The series, written by Marv Wolfman and pencilled by George Pérez, was first serialized as a 12-issue limited series from April 1985 to Mar ...

'' (1985–1986), his long run working on the Superman titles from 1986 to 1993, and for writing and painting the Captain Marvel

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The Power of Shazam! ''The Power of Shazam!'' is a 1994 hardcover graphic novel, written and painted by Jerry Ordway for DC Comics. The 96-page story, depicting the revamped origins of former Fawcett Comics superhero Captain Marvel, was followed by an ongoing seri ...

'' (1994), and writing the ongoing monthly series from 1995 to 1999. He has provided inks for artists such as Curt Swan,

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, John Buscema,

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, John Byrne,

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and others.

Early life and influences

Jerry Ordway attended Milwaukee Technical High School, where he took a three-year commercial art course, before joining a commercial art studio as a

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in 1976. He subsequently worked his way "from the ground floor up at the art studio" between 1978 and 1981. Among the artists Ordway considers influential are Curt Swan,

, John Buscema,

, all of whose pencils he would later ink over. He cites

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at the

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Alex Raymond Alexander Gillespie Raymond Jr. (October 2, 1909 – September 6, 1956) was an American cartoonist who was best known for creating the ''Flash Gordon'' comic strip for King Features Syndicate in 1934. The strip was subsequently adapted into many ...

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, and

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as early inspirations. He names contemporaries such as

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, Mike Weiringo and Alan Davis, and inkers such as

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, Tom Palmer and Klaus Janson.

Comics career

Before beginning his professional career as an inker, Jerry Ordway entered the comics industry as an artist and publisher for small-press

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s. Ordway discovered Marvel comics in "June of 1967," and wrote in 1975 (aged 17) that he had "been drawing superheroes

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since." His first published work, a story entitled "The Messenger", appeared in ''Tim Corrigan's Superhero Comics'' No. 4 (April, 1975), and his own self-published fanzine ''Okay Comix'' followed in May–June, 1975.Ordway, Jerry "What? Another 'zine?" in Ordway's ''Okay Comix'' No. 1 (May–June, 1975), p. 2 ''Okay Comix'' featured stories by Ordway and his friend Dave Koula, and art predominantly by Ordway himself. Ordway's own hero "Proton" headlined the 'zine, which featured a pin-up of a character "called Acrobat" who was "the first superhero rdwaycreated. His birth was Dec. 1969."''Okay Comix'' No. 1 (May–June, 1975), p. 24 Spending the late 1970s working as a painter in a commercial art studio in Milwaukee, between 1978 and 1979, he provided illustrations for a number of fanzines and pro-zines, including ''Omniverse'' and ''

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''. His first professional work was for

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on young-reader Marvel books, and the ''Superheroes Golden Beginning Stampbook '79''.

DC Comics

Having produced comics-related artwork for fanzines and licensed publishers, Ordway attended "a talent search at the 1980 Chicago Comicon," held by DC Comics. After showing them his "DC related artwork from the Golden Books," he "walked away with a promise of work." This work began in the summer of 1980 for "DC's anthology comics," (including ''

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'' and ''

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'') in which he "inked Carmine Infantino,

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, as well as

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, and

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." After continuing to work at the art studio for a further six months, inking comics for DC by night, Ordway began "freelancing full time in February 1981." During the mid-1980s, he "shared a studio with other artists, including Machlan,

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, and Al Vey." At DC, he would illustrate ''

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'', a series which he helped launch in an insert preview in ''

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'' No. 193 (Aug. 1981). With writer Roy Thomas, he co-created '' Infinity, Inc.'' in ''All-Star Squadron'' No. 25 (Sept. 1983) and the new team was launched in its own series in March 1984. Ordway inked ''

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Annual'' No. 4 (1985) over artist

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's pencils, was one of several artists on '' Batman Annual'' No. 9 (July 1985), inked

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's pencils on the epic crossover miniseries ''

'' in 1985 and Superman artist

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's pencils for a retelling of the definitive Golden Age Superman origin story written by Roy Thomas in '' Secret Origins'' No. 1 (April 1986), which he considers a particular favorite. Ordway was the penciller and inker for the DC Comics adaptation of the 1989 ''Batman'' film which was published as a "movie special". Ordway has noted that "Inking is a weird job, because as much as you put into it, the page still belongs to the penciler."

Superman

In 1986, along with writer/artist John Byrne and writer

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, Ordway revamped Superman, in the wake of the Ordway-inked continuity-redefining maxiseries ''Crisis on Infinite Earths''. Launching, with a revised origin and new continuity, in Byrne's miniseries, '' The Man of Steel'', Superman soon returned to featuring in a number of titles. After the titular title '' Superman'' was cancelled and replaced with ''The Man of Steel'', it was relaunched as ''The Adventures of Superman'', continuing the numbering of the original ''Superman'' series, with Wolfman as writer and Ordway as artist. When Wolfman departed the title with issue #435, Byrne briefly took over script writing duties before Ordway assumed the mantle of writer-artist and took over the series solely with issue #445 (Oct. 1988), making his writing debut two issues earlier with #443 (Aug. 1988). Ordway had also served as co-plotter on a few issues during both Wolfman and Bryne's writing tenures (issues #426, 435–437, 439–442, and 444). Switching from ''The Adventures of Superman'', Ordway became the writer-artist on the companion title '' Superman vol. 2'' between #34 (Aug. 1989) and #55 (May 1991), before later returning to ''Adventures of Superman'' as writer and sometimes as cover artist from issues #480 (July 1991) to #500 (June 1993). Ordway was the writer and primary artist for the story in which Clark Kent proposes to

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(''Superman vol. 2'' #50). While writing for the Superman family of titles, Ordway cowrote such storylines as "Panic in the Sky" and "

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" storyline in 1992. After seven years working on the character, Ordway largely left the Superman titles in 1993, although he would make frequent returns to the character as writer and throughout his career, co-writing ''Adventures of Superman'' with

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from issues #539–540, 558–562, 564–567 in 1996, and 1998–1999. In Nov. 2017, he drew the

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for ''

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'' #992 (cover dated Jan. 2018). During the 50th anniversary celebrations for Superman, he inked John Byrne's pencils for the cover of the March 14, 1988 issue of ''

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'' magazine and an interior spread celebrating the Man of Steel's anniversary. Ordway has produced a large number of covers for DC from 1982 onwards, including for issues of '' Secret Origins'' and the painted cover art to the hardcover reprint collection ''The Greatest Golden Age Stories Ever Told''. He produced the cover art for the prestige format

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s, ''Superman: The Earth Stealers'' in 1988 where he inked Curt Swan's pencils and ''Superman For Earth'' (1991), among other work.

Captain Marvel

In 1994, Ordway masterminded the return of the original Captain Marvel to the

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with the 96-page hardcover graphic novel ''

'', which he both wrote and painted. The story saw Ordway depict the revamped origins of the former-

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superhero. It proved to be a success, and was followed by an ongoing monthly series, also titled ''The Power of Shazam!'' (which ran between 1995 and 1999). Ordway wrote and provided painted covers for the entire run of the regular series, as well as illustrating fill-in issues between series-regular artists

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and Mike Manley. Towards the end of the series' run, he again took on the dual role of writer & artist with issues #42–47.

Non-DC work

During the mid-1980s, Ordway provided covers and occasional artwork to titles from a number of different comics companies. Companies included

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, AC Comics,

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and fan-turned-pro Marty Greim. For

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, Ordway provided pencils for a short "Epilogue" story in

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's ''

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'' No. 18 (Jan. 1985). He produced ''Munden's Bar'' for

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, and provided pencils and inks on an issue of ''

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''. For Image Comics, Ordway co-created the character WildStar with

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in 1993, and published his creator-owned one-shot ''The Messenger'' in July 2000. Although the vast majority of Ordway's professional work has been produced for DC, Ordway inked issues of Marvel's '' Fantastic Four''. He produced occasional work for Marvel between 1984 and 1988, then returned a decade later to write and illustrate a three-issue arc of '' The Avengers'' vol. 3 #16–18 (1999), guest artist on ''Captain America'' (vol. 3) #32 (Aug. 2000) with writer

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, as well as penciling the four-issue crossover mini-series ''Maximum Security'' (#1–3 and prologue ''Dangerous Planet''), and writer/penciller on a ''

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'' mini-series in 2000–2001. He was artist for the one-shot ''Captain America and the Invaders: Bahamas Triangle'' with writer Roy Thomas, released in July 2019.

Other DC work

As well as inking most of ''Crisis on Infinite Earths'', Ordway inked the second of DC's continuity-redefining event titles in 1994 by inking writer-artist

' pencils on '' Zero Hour: Crisis in Time''. In 2001, he drew the one-shot '' Just Imagine... Stan Lee with Jerry Ordway Creating the JLA'' as part of Marvel-stalwart Stan Lee's foray into the DC Universe, in which the two of them re-imagined DC's

. He inked the last year (May 2002–May 2003) of the Batman-related title '' Azrael: Agent of the Bat'' (#88–100), and provided the artwork for a six-issue story arc in ''

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'' (vol. 2, issues #189–194), with writer

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in 2003. In 2004, Ordway was inker on '' JLA'' issues #94–99, the “Tenth Circle” story arc which reunited the former ''Uncanny X-Men'' creative team of writer Chris Claremont and artist John Byrne. From 2003–2008, he provided new covers to the ''Superman: The Man of Steel'' series of six trade paperbacks, collecting the early adventures of the

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Superman. To celebrate the twentieth anniversary of the original ''Crisis'', DC published

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' ''

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'' limited series (Dec. 2005–June 2006), for which Ordway provided the artwork for the flashback scenes set on Earth-Two, including a recreation of the cover to ''Action Comics'' #1, which he cites as another favorite piece of his. In the wake of ''Infinite Crisis'', he inked

' pencils once again in the "History of the Multiverse" back-up stories in the weekly comic book '' ''Countdown'''' (issues No. 39 and No. 38, Chapters 11 and 12) (October 2007). His work since 2008 includes pencilling three issues of ''

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'' (volume 2) (#11–13, May–July 2008) with writer Mark Waid, and pencils for ''

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Annual'' No. 1 (Sept. 2008), alongside some interior artwork for the ongoing ''Justice Society of America'' series during late 2008. In 2012, Ordway worked on a

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storyline for ''

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'' with DC Co-Publisher Dan DiDio. Later that same year, he drew a ''

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'' limited series which was written by

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and

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. Ordway and artist

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produced a Superman story for DC's ''Adventures of Superman'' digital series in 2014. Ordway drew the "Five Minutes" chapter in ''Action Comics'' #1000 (June 2018). He drew the new cover art for the trade paperback collection ''Wonder Woman By Walter Simonson and Jerry Ordway'', collecting ''

'' vol. 2, issues #189–194 in 2018.

Awards

Ordway received an

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in 1994. In 2017, he was awarded the

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Hall of Fame Award for "an inking career in American comic books of outstanding accomplishment."

Personal life

Ordway is married to Peggy May Ordway (b. 1959).

Bibliography

DC Comics

* '' 52'' #23 (

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backup story) (artist) (2006) * ''

'' #600 (

backup story) (inker); #650 (penciller); #667 (artist); ''Annual'' #2 (writer/penciller) (1988–1991); #992 (

art, 2017); #1000 (artist) (2018) * '' Adventure Comics'' vol. 2 #4–5 (penciller) (2010) * '' Adventures of Superman'' #424–442 (435 with Marv Wolfman) (artist); #436–438, 444 (plotter/penciller); #443, 445–451, 453–456, 480–500, 539–540, 558–562, 564–567 (writer); #445–451, 453–455 (writer/penciller) (1987–1999) * ''Adventures of Superman'' vol. 2 #17 (writer) (2014) * '' All New Atom'' #19 (penciller) (2008) * ''

'' #1–15 (inker); #19–26, 29, ''Annual'' #1–3 (penciller) (1981–1984) * '' America vs. the Justice Society'' #1 (artist, page 12); #1-4 (cover artist) (1984-1985) * '' The Authority: The Lost Year'' #12 (penciller) (2010) * '' Batman Annual'' #9 (artist) (1985) * '' The Batman Chronicles'' #7 (writer) (1997) * '' Batman:The Official Comic Adaptation'' #1 (artist) (1989) * ''

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: Tales of the Corps'' #1 (artist) (2009) * ''

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'' vol. 2 #13–14 (inker); #30 (artist) (2008–2010) * ''

'' vol. 3 #11–13 (penciller) (2008) * ''Convergence: Infinity Inc.'' #1–2 (writer) (2015) * ''

Countdown A countdown is a sequence of backward counting to indicate the time remaining before an event is scheduled to occur. NASA commonly employs the terms "L-minus" and "T-minus" during the preparation for and anticipation of a rocket launch, and eve ...

'' #39–38 (inker) (2007) * ''

'' #5–12 (inker) (1985–1986) * ''

Annual'' #4 (inker) (1985) * ''DC Comics Presents: Mystery in Space'' #1 (penciller) (2004) * ''DC Nuclear Winter Special'' #1 (artist) (2019) * ''DC Primal Age'' #1 (writer/artist) (2019) * '' DC Universe: Legacies'' #6 (penciller); #7–8 (inker) (2010–2011) * ''

'' #6–8 (

) (penciller) (2012) * '' Doomsday Annual'' #1 (writer/inker) (1995) * ''

Fanboy A fan or fanatic, sometimes also termed an aficionado or enthusiast, is a person who exhibits strong interest or admiration for something or somebody, such as a celebrity, a sport, a sports team, a genre, a politician, a book, a movie, a vid ...

'' #1 (artist) (1999) * '' Gog'' #1 (penciller) (1998) * ''

Green Lantern Green Lantern is the name of several superheroes appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics. They fight evil with the aid of rings that grant them a variety of extraordinary powers, all of which come from imagination, fearlessness, ...

'' vol. 4 #49 (artist) (2010) * ''Green Lantern'' vol. 5 #20 (artist) (2013) * '' Green Lantern Corps'' #18 (inker) (2008) * '' Green Lantern Movie Prequel: Hal Jordan'' #1 (artist) (2011) * ''Green Lantern Movie Prequel: Sinestro'' #1 (artist) (2011) * ''

Heroes Against Hunger ''Heroes Against Hunger'' is a 1986 all-star benefit comic book for African famine relief and recovery. Published by DC Comics in the form of a "comic jam" or exquisite corpse, the book starred Superman and Batman. Spearheaded by Jim Starlin and B ...

'' #1 (inker) (1986) * ''

House of Mystery ''The House of Mystery'' is the name of several horror, fantasy, and mystery Mystery, The Mystery, Mysteries or The Mysteries may refer to: Arts, entertainment, and media Fictional characters *Mystery, a cat character in ''Emily the Strang ...

'' #319 (artist) (1983) * ''

'' #1–4 (artist) (2013) * ''

'' #5–6 (artist); #7 (inker) (2006) * ''Infinite Crisis Secret Files 2006'' #1 (inker) (2006) * '' Infinity, Inc.'' #1–10 (penciller); ''Annual'' #2 (1984–1988) * '' JLA'' #94–99 (inker) (2004) * ''JLA: Classified'' #34 (inker) (2007) * '' Joker: Last Laugh Secret Files'' #1 (writer) (2001) * '' JSA'' #63–64 (penciller); #86–87 (artist) (2004–2006) * ''JSA 80-Page Giant'' #1 (writer/artist) (2010) * '' Just Imagine Stan Lee with Jerry Ordway Creating JLA'' #1 (artist) (2002) * ''

Justice League The Justice League (also known as The Justice League of America) are a team of superheroes appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics. The team first appeared in ''The Brave and the Bold'' #28 (March 1960). The team was conceived b ...

'' vol. 2 #40 (artist, among others) (2015) * ''

'' #193 (All-Star Squadron insert preview) (inker) (1981) * ''

'' #18–21, 53, 54, ''Annual'' #1 (penciller); #23–25, 27–28 (writer/penciller) (2008–2011) * ''

'' #117 (inker) (1981) * ''

Outsiders Outsider(s) may refer to: Film * Outsider (1997 film), ''Outsider'' (1997 film), a 1997 Slovene-language film * Outsider (2012 film), ''Outsider'' (2012 film), a Malayalam-language Indian film * Outsiders (1980 film), ''Outsiders'' (1980 film), a ...

'' #10 (artist); #13 (inker) (1986) * '' Planetary/JLA: Terra Occulta'' #1 (artist) (2002) * ''Power of Shazam'' HC (writer/artist) (1994) * '' Power of Shazam'' #1–41, ''Annual'' #1 (writer); #42–47, #1,000,000 (writer/penciller) (1995–1999) * '' Red Menace'' #1–6 (penciller) (2007) * '' Secret Origins'' #1 (inker) (1986) * ''

Sergio Aragonés Sergio Aragonés Domenech ( , ; born September 6, 1937) is a Spanish/Mexican cartoonist and writer best known for his contributions to '' Mad'' magazine and creating the comic book '' Groo the Wanderer''. Among his peers and fans, Aragonés is ...

Destroys DC'' #1 (inker) (1996) * '' Showcase '95'' #10 (writer) (1995) * ''Showcase '96'' #7 (writer) (1996) * '' Superman'' vol. 2 #31, 34–35, 39, 110 (writer); #36–38, 40–47, 49–55 (writer/penciller); #57 (inker); #226 (artist) (1989–2006) * ''

Superman/Batman ''Superman/Batman'' is a monthly comic book series published by DC Comics that features the publisher's two most popular superheroes: Superman and Batman. ''Superman/Batman'' premiered in August 2003, an update of the previous series, ''World's ...

'' #72–75 (artist) (2010) * ''Superman:

Secret Files and Origins ''Secret Files and Origins'' (abbreviated ''SF&O'') is a series of one-shot comic books and miniseries produced by DC Comics during the late 1990s and 2000s. Publication history The books are a combination of origin stories (similar to the earli ...

'' #1 (inker) (1998) * ''Superman: The Earth Stealers'' #1 (inker) (1988) * ''Superman: The Legacy of Superman'' #1 (writer) (1993) * '' Superman: The Man of Steel'' #1 (inker); #1,000,000 (writer) (1991–1998) * '' Superman: The Wedding Album'' #1 (inker) (1996) * ''

'' #2 (artist) (2012) * ''Tales of the Sinestro Corps: Superman Prime'' #1 (artist) (2007) * ''

Trinity The Christian doctrine of the Trinity (, from 'threefold') is the central dogma concerning the nature of God in most Christian churches, which defines one God existing in three coequal, coeternal, consubstantial divine persons: God th ...

'' #3–4, 16 (inker) (2008) * ''

'' #99–100, 102–103, 106 (inker) (1981) * '' Weird Worlds'' vol. 2 #1–6 (artist) (2011) * ''

'' #294 ( Huntress backup stories) (inker) (1982) * ''Wonder Woman'' vol. 2 #189–194 (penciller) (2003) * '' Worlds' Finest'' #5 (artist) (2012) * '' Zero Hour: Crisis in Time'' #4–0 (inker) (1994)

America's Best Comics

* ''

Tom Strong ''Tom Strong'' is a comic book created by writer Alan Moore and artist Chris Sprouse, initially published bi-monthly by America's Best Comics, an imprint of DC Comics' Wildstorm division. Tom Strong, the title character, is a "science hero", wi ...

'' #5, 20–21 (penciller); #22, 31–32 (artist) (1999–2005) * ''Tom Strong's Terrific Tales'' #3, 6 (artist) (2002–2003) * '' Top 10: Beyond the Farthest Precinct'' #1–5 (artist) (2005–2006)

First Comics

* ''

Grimjack Grimjack is the main character of a comic book originally published by the American company First Comics. John Ostrander and Timothy Truman are credited as co-creators of the character, although Ostrander had been developing Grimjack with artist L ...

'' #10 (artist) (1985)

Image Comics

* ''Action Planet Comics'' #3 (writer/artist) (1997) * ''The Messenger'' (one-shot) (writer/artist) (2000) * ''Phantom Force'' #2 (inker) (1994) * '' WildStar: Sky Zero'' #1–4 (penciller) (1993) * '' WildStar'' #1 (

art inker) (1995)

Marvel Comics

* '' The Avengers'' vol. 3 #16–18 (writer/penciller) (1999) * '' Captain America'' vol. 3 #32 (artist) (2000) * ''Captain America and the Invaders: Bahamas Triangle'' (artist) (2019) * ''Domination Factor: Avengers'' #2, 4, 6, 8 (writer/penciller) (1999–2000) * '' Fantastic Four'' #276–283 (inker); #294–296 (penciller) (1985–1986) * '' Hulk'' #9–11 (writer) (1999–2000) * ''

Maximum Security Maximum Security may refer to: * Supermax, "control-unit" prisons, or units within prisons * Maximum Security (comics), a comic book miniseries published by Marvel Comics * ''Maximum Security'' (Tony MacAlpine album), 1987 * ''Maximum Security'' ...

'' #1–3 (penciller) (2000–2001) * ''Maximum Security: Dangerous Planet'' #1 (penciller) (2000) * ''

Thor Thor (; from non, Þórr ) is a prominent god in Germanic paganism. In Norse mythology, he is a hammer-wielding god associated with lightning, thunder, storms, sacred groves and trees, strength, the protection of humankind, hallowing, an ...

'' vol. 2 #9 (inker) (1999) * ''Thor 2000'' #1 (artist) (2000) * ''

'' #1–3 (writer/penciller) (2001) * ''

What The--?! ''What The--?!'' is a Marvel Comics comic book series self-parodying the Marvel Universe, similar in vein to the 1960s series '' Not Brand Echh''. It was billed as "The Marvel mag of mirth and mayhem!" The series ran for 26 issues, from August 19 ...

'' #2 (inker) (1988)

References

External links

Jerry Ordway blog

Jerry Ordway
at Mike's Amazing World of DC Comics
Jerry Ordway on Marvel.com

at the Unofficial Handbook of Marvel Comics Creators
Interview at Fantastic Four Headquarters
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