Roger Slifer

Roger Slifer (* 1947) is an American comic book writer. He was best known as the co- creator of the comic book character Lobo.

Life and work

Slifer began working as a professional comic book writer in the 1970s. During these years he wrote among other things for appearing in Marvel Comics superhero Iron Man comic, before he moved to Marvel's competition Publisher DC Comics in the early 1980s.

In DC Comics wrote Slifer, among other stories for the science fiction series Omega Men Together with his artist and co-authors Keith Giffen he created during this period - in Omega Men # 3 - the figure of the antihero Lobo, which when proved so popular that those responsible for DC Comics finally made ​​it the title character 's own comics and Webcartoons. Slifers popularity as a science fiction author was reflected among other things in later named after him figure Slifer the Sky Dragon in the card role playing game Yu- Gi -Oh! down.

In the 1990s, Slifer moved to television, where he wrote stories for the children's series Jem and the Holograms.

• Comic author
• Americans
• Born in 1947
• Man