Thomas Stanford Lyle (November 2, 1953 – November 19, 2019) was an

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, best known for his work on '' Starman'' and ''

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, and ''

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Career

Tom Lyle's comics career began in the mid 1980s penciling titles such '' Airboy'', '' Strike!'', and '' Airwolf'' for

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. From 1988 to 1990, he penciled

' '' Starman'' series with writer Roger Stern, introducing the second Blockbuster in ''Starman'' #9 (April 1989). Lyle worked on the first solo ''

'' limited series with writer

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. The series was reprinted a number of times, and led to two sequel miniseries – ''Robin II: Joker's Wild'' and ''Robin III: Cry of the Huntress'' – by the same creative team. Dixon and Lyle also co-created the Electrocutioner in ''

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'' #644 (May 1992) and Stephanie Brown in ''Detective Comics'' #647 (August 1992). Meanwhile, in 1991 he worked on '' The Comet'' for DC's Impact Comics imprint, which he pencilled and plotted, with writer

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contributing the scripts. In 1993, Lyle started working for

, as penciler of ''

''. He was one of the artists on the " Maximum Carnage" and " Clone Saga" storylines which ran through the Spider-Man titles, during which time he designed the original blue hoodie-and-red spandex costume worn by the Scarlet Spider, a clone of Spider-Man. He also co-created the character

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in ''

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Annual'' #27 with writer

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. Lyle penciled the three-issue miniseries '' Venom: Funeral Pyre'', which co-starred the Punisher and introduced the villain Pyre. Lyle's other work for Marvel included '' Punisher'' (third series; 1995) with writer John Ostrander from 1995 to 1997, a '' Warlock'' mini-series which he wrote himself in 1998, and issues of '' Mutant X'' in 2000 and 2001. He drew several issues of ''

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in 2000. He was the artist on the 2004 series ''Chickasaw Adventures'' for the Chickasaw Nation. Between 2005 and his death in 2019, he taught

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at the

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Tom Lyle
at Mike's Amazing World of Comics

at the Unofficial Handbook of Marvel Comics Creators {{DEFAULTSORT:Lyle, Tom 1953 births 2019 deaths 20th-century American artists 21st-century American artists American comics artists American art educators Artists from Jacksonville, Florida DC Comics people Marvel Comics people Role-playing game artists Savannah College of Art and Design faculty