Dan Jurgens

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Dan Jurgens.

Dan Jurgens (born June 27, 1959) is an American writer and artist of comic books. He is best known for creating the superhero Booster Gold, and for his lengthy runs on the Superman titles, particularly during The Death of Superman storyline. Other series he has been associated with include Thor, Captain America, Justice League, Teen Titans, Zero Hour and the DC Comics' imprint Tangent.

1 Career
2 Bibliography
3 External links

[edit] Career

His first professional comic work was for DC Comics on Warlord #63 which he was hired for due to a recommendation of the preceding artist of the Warlord-series Mike Grell who was deeply impressed by Jurgens' work after Jurgens had shown him his private portfolio at a convention. In 1986, created the character Booster Gold, who became a member of the Justice League and who went on to have a very succesfull run in the series thanks to the writing of Keith Giffen and J.M. DeMatteis.

His first work on Superman was doing the pencilling in the 1987 Annual of Adventures of Superman. In 1989 Dan began working full-time on Superman when he took over the writing/pencilling of the monthly Adventures of Superman with Art Thibert providing inks.

Dan Jurgens was the penciller of the 1990 - 1991 Limited Series Armageddon 2001 and co-created the hero "Waverider" with comic legend Archie Goodwin.

In 1991 Dan took over the writing/pencilling of the main Superman comic book, where he created a supporting hero named Agent Liberty. During his run on Superman, Dan created two very popular villains - Doomsday and the Cyborg. Doomsday was the main antagonist in the runaway hit Death of Superman. He also wrote and drew the Justice League America for about 1 year.

Jurgens wrote and pencilled the landmark 1994 comic book miniseries and crossover Zero Hour storyline that ran in DC Comics.

In 1995 Jurgens and Italian artist Claudio Castellini worked on the highly publicited crossover "DC Vs. Marvel/ Marvel Vs. DC books". In the same year, He gave up the pencilling duties on Superman to artists Gil Kane, Ron Frenz and Steve Epting.

In 1999, he ended his run as writer on Superman.

Dan also worked with Marvel Comics as writer/artist on Captain America, writer on Thor with pencilling from John Romita Jr and as writer/artist on Solar from Valiant Comics where he was inked by the legendary Dick Giordano.

After a haitus from comics, Dan recently returned to DC Comics and has been doing art in the weekly series 52. He has been recently announced as the new artist on the series Nightwing with returning writer/creator Marv Wolfman. He and Marv will work together on a four part story, from issues 125-128, before Jurgens begins work on Metamorpho: Year One.

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Comics work includes

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Superman vs. Aliens 2: God War

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[edit] Awards

His work has earned him several awards over the years, including the 1994 National Cartoonists Society Award for Best Comic Book.

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Preceded by Marv Wolfman	Teen Titans writer 1996–1998	Succeeded by Devin Grayson
Preceded by Warren Ellis (Thor vol. 1)	Thor writer 1998–2004	Succeeded by Daniel Berman & Michael Avon Oeming
Preceded by Mark Waid	Captain America writer 2000–2002	Succeeded by Darko Macan (Captain America: Dead Man Running)
Preceded by Jerry Ordway	Superman(vol. 2) writer 1991–1999	Succeeded by Jeph Loeb