Joe Staton

Joe Staton ( born January 19, 1948 in North Carolina) is an American comic book writer and signatory.

Life

Staton grew up in Tennessee, where he attended Milan High School. After graduating from Murray State University in Kentucky, which he successfully completed in 1970, he began working as a freelance illustrator. From 1971, he drew comic series E-Man, which appeared in Chartlon comics, and in consequence numerous other comic series for Charlton and Marvel Comics, and Warren Publishing's.

At the insistence of the editor Paul Levitz Staton finally began some years exclusively for DC Comics to work. There he oversaw the first series All-Star Comics and Adventure Comics. Later in the 1970s he worked on projects such as Superboy and the Legion of Super-Heroes, Metal Men and Doom Partol. In 1979 Staton finally drew the series Green Lantern.

In the 1980s, he worked for three years as artistic director at the publisher First Comics before returning to DC to work again on Green Lantern and the Green Lantern Corps series. This was followed in the 1980s working on the series Millennium, The Huntress and The New Guardians and in the 1990s, Guy Gardner, Batman: Shadow of the Bat.

Currently working as a draftsman Staton a manner tailored to a childlike audience comic series with the cartoon character Scooby Doo and for Archie_Comics.

• Born in 1948
• Americans
• Man
• Comic author
• Cartoonist