Cary Bates

Cary Bates ( born 1948 in Pennsylvania) is an American comic book and screenwriter.

Life and work

Bates began submit ideas for title pages at the publisher DC Comics at the age of thirteen. After 1964, the first conceived by him the title page was used as a cover for a published DC comic book ( Superman # 164), Bates began to intensify its collaboration with DC, so he was hired in 1967 at the age of only seventeen years full-time author.

From the 1960s to 1980s, he wrote in particular countless stories about the most popular figure in DC's publishing program, the superhero Superman for series such as Superman, Action Comics, World's Finest and Lois Lane. There were also working on the series Legion of Super-Heroes, Justice League of America and The Flash, and in the 1980s, work on the series Captain Atom in the 1970s.

In addition, Bates wrote the lyrics for the newspaper comic strip The Lone Ranger (1980 to 1983) and Buck Rogers in the 25th Century ( 1981-1983 ), worked together with his friend Mario Puzo, whom he had met during the preparations of the Superman film from 1978, to different scenarios ( as for the film, Christopher Columbus - the Discovery of 1992) and wrote the Disney -produced animated series Gargoyles - on the wings of justice.