Jae Lee

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Jae Lee
Jae Lee at the February 7, 2007 signing of The Dark Tower: The Gunslinger Born #1 at Midtown Comics in Times Square, New York City.
Birth name	June 22, 1972
Born
Nationality	Naturalized American (immigrated Korean)
Area(s)	Penciller; Inker

Cover art from Inhumans #1 (1998).

Cover art from Manhunter vol. 3, #4 (Jan, 2005).

Jae Lee (born June 22, 1972) is a Korean-American Eisner Award-winning comic book artist known for his dark, gothic style of work.

Jae Lee was born in South Korea and emigrated with his family to the United States at age six. He attended art school, but left in 1990 to pursue a career at Marvel Comics.

Lee first rose to prominence in the industry for his work on Marvel's Namor the Sub-Mariner, Inhumans (for which he won an Eisner Award), and The Sentry, as well as his creator-owned character Hellshock at Image Comics.

Lee is currently working on the Marvel Comics' spinoff of Stephen King's The Dark Tower novels, The Dark Tower: The Gunslinger Born, which is written by Robin Furth and Peter David.

Jae Lee is a 1990 graduate of Robinson Secondary School in Fairfax County, Virginia. While a student there, he designed the commemorative t-shirt for his class's graduating party and was selected as the most artistic male in his graduating class. He received professional commissions as early as his ninth grade.