Alan Grant (writer)

Alan Grant ( b. 1949 in Scotland) is a Scottish writer and comic book writer. Next to his friend John Wagner Grant is regarded as a co-creator of Judge Dredd, a simultaneously acting as policeman, judge and, where appropriate, as executioners anti- hero whose bizarre adventures are set in a dystopian future. The character of Judge Dredd has obtained by comics and a movie with Sylvester Stallone great notoriety.

Life and work

1967 Grant was as an editor for the publishing house DC Thompson engaged in Dundee. In 1970 he went to London where he operated for IPC on various magazines that had love stories on the topic. He then returned to the school and tried unsuccessfully in various professions, so that he was eventually rely on to live on welfare. In this precarious situation Grant met the authors and publisher John Wagner, who was looking for a co-authors, which should help him in this deadline to finish the work in a Tarzan comic he wrote at this time, without his duties as editor of the in the planning situated SF magazine 2000 AD negligible. From this imaginary as Provisourium cooperation is a long-standing partnership between the two authors developed.

In the 1980s, Grant was also active as an author for American publishers. Along with Wagner, he wrote the twelve-part mini-series " Outcasts " for DC Comics, who, despite commercial failure, helped the two authors gained an excellent reputation in the American comics scene. Among other things, the Batman editor Dennis O'Neil to the two British became aware of who offered them in 1987, on a trial basis two books of this series Detective Comics (# 583 and 584 ) to write. The two agreed and gave the two-parter "Fever" from where they enriched the Batman universe to the split personality ventriloquist Arnold Wesker and his perfidious ventriloquist dummy Scarface, a character whose popularity has now among other appearances in various episodes of the various Batman animated series, has been reflected in Batman computer games and novels. Positively impressed by the result of the output O'Neil offered the two authors the job as regular contributors to the Detective Comics. After Wagner, after only five further editions, withdrew because of his participation in the plan to stage the incoming Judge Dredd movie and because of the stagnant circulation, from the series, Grant took over sole authorship. With the success of the Batman movie directed by Tim Burton (1989 ), the edition of Detective Comics soared from 60,000 to 650,000 in the spending level. Grant remained until 1998 one of the regular contributors of the Batman series. Until 1992, he wrote more than fifty editions of the series Batman and Detective Comics. Him the rare honor was bestowed in 1992, which was specially launched a new series for him, " Batman: Shadow of the Bat". The first issue of this series has sold more than 950,000 times. In the course of his work on the Batman series Grant enriched the Batman universe with innumerable figures ( including, inter alia Stan Kitch, Anarky, Jeremiah Arkham the head of the asylum of Gotham City, the cannibal Cornelius Stirk, the maniacal Hühnen amygdala, the bat Rhino, the Pied Piper Otis Flannegan, the sadistic Mortimer carcass, the modern version of the old Batman opponent Basil Carlo, the Mobster Tally -Man, etc. ).

Grant lives with his wife Sue in Moniaive ( Essex ) in the south of Scotland, where he lived in a converted church from the 14th century. In addition, Grant operated as a collector of obscure and macabre objects: is in his house so among other things, a Reizdeprivations container, a banned by the Convention on Human Rights of the United Nations torture device in the Grant allegedly retreats for writing.

Grant has also written two comic novels based " The Stone King" (2001) and "Last Sons " (2006).

Bibliography

Comics

  • Blackhawk ( in 2000 AD # 130-161 & 127-28, 1979-80 )
  • Judge Dredd ( in 2000 AD # 156-267, 1980-82 )
  • Tharg the Mighty ( in 2000 AD # 162, Sci- Fi & Special 176-77, 1980)
  • Strontium Dog
  • Ace Trucking Co. ( in 2000 AD # 232-36, 239-285 & 1982 Sci- Fi Special, 1981-82 )
  • Robo -Hunter ( in 2000 AD # 259-272, 1982)
  • Doomlord ( in Eagle # 1-13, 1982)
  • Blackhawk ( in 2000 AD 1982 Sci -Fi Special, 1982)
  • Joe Soap ( in Eagle # 12-22, 1982)
  • Judge Dredd ( in 2000 AD # 269-296, 1982)
  • Doomlord ( in Eagle # 21-40, 1982)
  • Robo -Hunter ( in 2000 AD # 275-281 & 283-288, 1982)
  • Manix ( in Eagle # 24-31, 1982)
  • Harry Twenty on the High Rock ( unnamed co-author ) ( in 2000 AD # 287-307, 1982-83 )
  • Ace Trucking Co. ( in 2000 AD # 288-293, 1982)
  • Robo -Hunter ( in 2000 AD # 292-307, 1982)
  • Tharg 's Time Twisters ( in 2000 AD # 294, 1982)
  • Judge Dredd ( in 2000 AD # 297-349, 1983)
  • Joe Soap ( in Eagle # 41-45, 1983)
  • Manix ( in Eagle # 41-64, 1983)
  • Tharg 's Time Twisters ( in 2000 AD # 302 & 307, 1983)
  • Gil Hazzard - codenamed Scorpio ( in Eagle # 49-67, 1983)
  • Doomlord ( in Eagle # 49-67, 1983)
  • Robo -Hunter ( in 2000 AD # 312-334 & 1984 2000 AD Annual, 1983)
  • Tharg 's Time Twisters ( in 2000 AD # 313, 316, 321, 346 & 348, 1983)
  • Manix ( in Eagle # 68-77, 1983)
  • Anderson: Psi Division ( in 2000 AD Annual 1984, 1983)
  • Doomlord ( in Eagle from # 79-93 and continuously, 1983-84 )
  • Manix ( in Eagle from # 79-93 and continuously, 1983-84 )
  • Judge Dredd ( in 2000 AD # 350-399, 1984)
  • Anderson: Psi Division ( in Judge Dredd Annual 1985, 1984)
  • Ace Trucking Co. ( in 2000 AD # 378-390 & 392-400, 1984-85 )
  • The Helltrekkers ( in 2000 AD # 387-415, 1984-85 )
  • Judge Dredd ( in 2000 AD # 400-449, 1985)
  • Anderson: Psi Division ( in 2000 AD # 416-427 & 1986 Judge Dredd Annual, 1985)
  • Ace Trucking Co. ( in 2000 AD # 428-433 & 1986 2000 AD Annual, 1985)
  • Mean Team ( in 2000 AD # 437-447, 1985)
  • Ace Trucking Co. ( in 2000 AD # 451-472, 1986)
  • Judge Dredd ( in 2000 AD # 451-502, 1986)
  • Anderson: Psi Division ( in 2000 AD # 468-478, 1986)
  • Bad City Blue ( in 2000 AD # 468-477, 1986)
  • Anderson: Psi Division ( in 2000 AD Annual 1987, 1986)
  • Ace Trucking Co. ( in 2000 AD # 475-483 & 485-498, 1986)
  • Judge Dredd ( in 2000 AD # 503-554, 1987)
  • Anderson: Psi Division ( in 2000 AD # 520-531 & 1988 Judge Dredd Annual, 1987)
  • Tales from Mega -City One ( in 2000 AD # 523, 525-26, 532-34 & 539, 1987)
  • Judge Dredd ( in 2000 AD # 555-574 & 577, 1988)
  • Tales from the Doghouse ( in 2000 AD # 578-79, 1988)
  • Judge Dredd ( in 2000 AD # 587, 598, 600-602 & 607, 1988)
  • Anderson: Psi Division ( in 2000 AD Winter Special # 1, 1988)
  • Tales from Mega -City One ( in 2000 AD # 605, 1988)
  • Judge Hershey ( in Judge Dredd Mega - Special # 2, 1989)
  • Anderson: Psi Division ( in 2000 AD # 607-609, 612-622, 635-647, 657-659 & 1990 2000 AD Annual, 1989)
  • Doctor Who ( in Doctor Who Magazine # 148-150, 1989)
  • Batman
  • Anderson: Psi Division ( in 2000 AD # 669-670, 1990)
  • Judge Dredd ( Judge Dredd Megazine vol.1 # in 1-6, 10-20, 1990-92 )
  • Anderson: Psi Division ( in 2000 AD # 700-717, 1990-91 )
  • The Last American ( 4 issues, Epic Comics, 1990-91 )
  • Anderson: Psi Division ( in 2000 AD # 758-763, 1991)
  • Durham Red ( in 2000 AD # 762-773 & 1993 2000 AD Yearbook, 1991-92 )
  • Middenface McNulty ( in Judge Dredd Megazine vol.1 # 15-20, 1991-92 )
  • Anderson: Psi Division ( in Judge Dredd Mega - Special # 5, 1992)
  • Armageddon: The Bad Man ( in Judge Dredd Megazine vol.2 # 1-7, 1992)
  • Anderson: Psi Division ( in Judge Dredd Megazine vol.2 # 8, 1992)
  • Anderson: Psi Division ( in Judge Dredd Yearbook 1993, 1992)
  • Batman: Shadow of the Bat ( 82 issues, DC Comics, 1992-98 )
  • Lobo
  • L.E.G.I.O.N.
  • Anderson: Psi Division ( in Judge Dredd Megazine vol.2 # 10-11 & 14, 1992)
  • Judge Dredd ( Judge Dredd Megazine vol.2 # in 19-20, 1993)
  • Batman / Judge Dredd: Vendetta in Gotham (DC / Fleetway, 1993)
  • Anderson: Psi Division ( in Judge Dredd Megazine vol.2 # 22-24, 27-34 & 37, 1993)
  • Anderson: Psi Division ( in Judge Dredd Megazine vol.2 # 50-60, 1994)
  • The Bogie Man
  • Anderson: Psi Division ( in Judge Dredd Megazine vol.2 # 73-80, 1995)
  • Batman / Judge Dredd: The Ultimate Riddle (DC / Fleetway, 1995)
  • Anderson: Psi Division ( in Judge Dredd Megazine vol.3 # 1-7, 1995)
  • Anderson: Psi Division ( in Judge Dredd Megazine vol.3 # 14, 1996)
  • Mazeworld Book I ( in 2000 AD # 1014-1023, 1996)
  • Anderson: Psi Division ( in 2000 AD # 1045-1061, 1997)
  • BLAIR One ( in 2000 AD # 1071-1074, 1997)
  • Anderson: Psi Division ( in 2000 AD # 1076, 1997)
  • BLAIR One ( in 2000 AD # 1084, 1998)
  • Anderson: Psi Division ( in 2000 AD # 1087-1090, 1998)
  • BLAIR One ( in 2000 AD # 1097-98, 1998)
  • Mazeworld Book II ( in 2000 AD # 1101-1110, 1998)
  • Anderson: Psi Division ( in 2000 AD # 1102-03, 1998)
  • Anderson: Psi Division ( in 2000 AD # 1132-37 & 1140, 1999)
  • Mazeworld Book III ( in 2000 AD # 1151-1160, 1999)
  • Batman / Scarface (DC, 2001)
  • Young Middenface (17 episodes in Judge Dredd Megazine 2001 -present)
  • Anderson: Psi Division ( in 2000 AD # 1263-1272, 2001)
  • Juliet November ( in Judge Dredd Megazine # 202-204, 2003)
  • Apocalypse Soon ( in Judge Dredd Megazine # 204-214, 2003-04 )
  • Robo -Hunter ( in 2000 AD Prog 2004 & # 1371-1373, 2003-04 )
  • Anderson: Psi Division ( in Judge Dredd Megazine # 214-217, 2004)
  • Robo -Hunter ( in 2000 AD # 1406-1411, 2004)
  • Anderson: Psi Division ( in Judge Dredd Megazine # 221-236, 2004-05)
  • Robo -Hunter ( in 2000 AD prog 2005, 2004 )
  • The Bogie Man: Return to Casablanca ( in Judge Dredd Megazine # 227-233, 2005)
  • Whatever Happened to Melda Dreepe? ( in Judge Dredd Megazine # 230, 2005)
  • Robo - Hunter: Stim! ( in 2000 AD # 1450 from 2005)
  • Batman The Stone King ( 2001)
  • DC Universe: Last Sons ( 2006 - Superman, Martian Manhunter and Lobo )
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