Nick Spencer

Nick Spencer is a comic book writer known for his creator-owned titles at Image Comics (Morning Glories, Thief of Thieves, Bedlam), his work at DC Comics (Action Comics, T.H.U.N.D.E.R. Agents), and for his current work at Marvel Comics (Secret Avengers, Superior Foes of Spider-Man, Avengers World, Ant-Man).

Career

While in college, Spencer wrote three pitches to Marvel Comics soon after the Marvel Knights imprint launched in 1998. According to Spencer, "Joe [Quesada] didn’t like the first two but the third one was a Black Cat pitch that was a Jackie Brown kind of Tarantino-esque thing. He said he liked that one but they weren’t going to do anything with anybody new at the time." After another pitch was rejected, this time by Oni Press, Spencer went on to work in other fields, including politics and music, before he successfully pitched Existence 2.0 to Jim Valentino of Image Comics. The first issue was released in July 2009.^[1] A second miniseries, Existence 3.0, followed in November.^[2] In 2010, Paramount Pictures acquired the rights to Existence 2.0, and a film is in development through Platinum Dunes with Miles Millar and Alfred Gough to adapt and executive produce.^[3] Spencer also wrote Forgetless and Shuddertown at Image.^[4] An A.V. Club review of Shuddertown stated that Spencer "has become one of the finest practitioners" of crime noir in comics.^[5]

Spencer's first ongoing series, Morning Glories, was released in August 2010.^[4] He has written a seven-part Jimmy Olsen co-feature for DC Comics beginning in September's Action Comics #893 which will conclude in a one-shot^[6] to be released March 30, 2011 and is writing the T.H.U.N.D.E.R. Agents monthly debuting in November 2010.^[4] He was scheduled to take over as the writer of Supergirl in January 2011 with issue #60,^[7] but DC announced soon after that he will only be co-scripting one issue.^[8] Spencer is writing Iron Man 2.0, a new War Machine ongoing for Marvel Comics which debuted in February 2011.^[9] Spencer will also be taking over writing duties on Secret Avengers from Ed Brubaker as of #13.^[10] It was announced at the Emerald City Comic Con that Spencer has signed an exclusive contract with Marvel, although he will be allowed to continue writing his existing titles at both DC and Image.^[11]

Spencer is one of three writers announced to be working on "Ultimate Comics Universe Reborn", a relaunch of Marvel Comics' Ultimate Marvel line, along with Jonathan Hickman and Brian Michael Bendis. Spencer will be writing Ultimate Comics X-Men.^[12]

Bibliography

Image Comics

• Existence 2.0/3.0 #1-3, #1-4 (with Joe Eisma, 2009-2010) collected as Existence 2.0/3.0 (tpb, 144 pages, 2010, ISBN 1-6070-6299-2)
• Forgetless #1-5 (with Scott Forbes, Jorge Coelho and Marley Zarcone, 2009–2010) collected as Forgetless (tpb, 128 pages, 2010, ISBN 1-6070-6361-1)
• Shuddertown #1-4 (with Adam Green, 2010) collected as Shuddertown (hc, 128 pages, 2010, ISBN 1-6070-6943-1)
• Fractured Fables: Cinderella (with Rodin Esquejo, 2010) collected in Fractured Fables (hc, 160 pages, 2010, ISBN 1-6070-6269-0; tpb, 2012, ISBN 1-6070-6496-0)
• Morning Glories (with Joe Eisma, 2010–present) collected as:
  • For a Better Future (collects #1–6, tpb, 192 pages, 2011, ISBN 1-60706-307-7)
  • All Will Be Free (collects #7-12, tpb, 168 pages, 2011, ISBN 1-60706-407-3)
  • P.E. (collects #13-19, tpb, 240 pages, 2012, ISBN 1-60706-558-4)
  • Truants (collects #20–25, tpb, 216 pages, 2013, ISBN 1-60706-727-7)
  • Tests (collects #26–29, tpb, 136 pages, 2013, ISBN 1-60706-774-9)
  • Demerits (collects #30–34, tpb, 144 pages, 2013, ISBN 1-60706-774-9)
  • Honors (collects #35–38, tpb, 124 pages, 2014, ISBN 1-6070-6943-1)
• Infinite Vacation #1-5 (with Christian Ward, 2011–2013) collected as Infinite Vacation (hc, 191 pages, 2013, ISBN 1-6070-6721-8)
• Thief of Thieves (with Robert Kirkman and Shawn Martinbrough, 2012) collected as:
  • I Quit (collects #1-7, 152 pages, 2012, ISBN 1-6070-6592-4)
• Bedlam (with Riley Rossmo and Ryan Browne, 2012–present) collected as:
  • Volume 1 (collects #1–6, tpb, 184 pages, 2013, ISBN 1-6070-6735-8)
  • Volume 2 (collects #7–11, tpb, 120 pages, 2014, ISBN 1-6070-6846-X)

DC Comics

• Superman
  • Action Comics #893-896: "Jimmy Olsen" (with RB Silva, 2010) collected as Jimmy Olsen (one-shot, 71 pages, 2011)
  • Supergirl #60 (with James Peaty and Bernard Chang, 2011) collected in Volume 10: Good Looking Corpse (tpb, 176 pages, 2011, ISBN 1-4012-3252-3)
• T.H.U.N.D.E.R. Agents (with CAFU, Howard Porter, Adriana Melo, Livesay, Norman Lee, Howard Chaykin and George Pérez, 2010-2012) collected as:
  • Volume 1 (collects v1 #1-10, tpb, 160 pages, 2011, ISBN 1-4012-3254-X)
  • Volume 2 (collects v2 #1-6)

Marvel Comics

• Iron Man 2.0 (February 2011-December 2011)
  • Palmer Addley is Dead (tpb, 176 pages, 2011, ISBN 0-7851-4749-7) collects:
    • "Palmer Addley is Dead" (with Barry Kitson and Ariel Olivetti, in #1-4, 2011)
    • "Fear Itself!" (with Ariel Olivetti, Carmine Di Giandomenico and Matthew Wilson in #5-7, 2011)
  • Asymmetry (tpb, 128 pages, 2012, ISBN 0-7851-4751-9) collects:
    • "Untitled" (with Kano, in #7.1, 2011)
    • The Palmer Addley Infection" (with Joshua Hale Fialkov, Will Pfeifer, Ariel Olivetti, Carmine Di Giandomenico, Mirco Pierfederici, Neil Edwards and Jesus Aburtov, in #8-12, 2011)
• Avengers
  • Secret Avengers vol. 1 (April 2011-July 2011)
    • Fear Itself (tpb, 120 pages, 2012, ISBN 0-7851-5178-8) collects:
      • "Untitled" (with Scott Eaton, in #12.1, 2011)
      • "Fear Itself" (with Scot Eaton, in #13-15, 2011)
  • Secret Avengers vol. 2 (February 2013-February 2014)
    • Volume 1: Reverie (tpb, 120 pages, 2013, ISBN 0-7851-6688-2) collects:
      • "NYSE" (with Luke Ross, in Marvel NOW! Point One, 2012)
      • "Budapest" (with Luke Ross, in #1, 2013)
      • "Bagalia" (with Luke Ross, in #2, 2013)
      • "Arlington" (with Luke Ross, in #3, 2013)
      • "Tehran" (with Luke Ross, in #4, 2013)
      • "Barbuda" (with Luke Ross, in #5, 2013)
    • Volume 2: Iliad (tpb, 136 pages, 2014, ISBN 0-7851-6689-0) collects:
      • "Iliad" (with Butch Guice, Steve Epting and Brian Thies, in #6-7, 2013)
      • "The Cathedral" (with Luke Ross, in #8, 2013)
      • "Lexington" (with Butch Guice, in #9, 2013)
      • "Infinity" (written by Ed Brisson and drawn by Luke Ross, in #10-11, 2013)
    • Volume 3: How to MA.I.M. a Mockingbird (tpb, 112 pages, 2014, ISBN 0-7851-8482-1) collects:
      • "How to MA.I.M. a Mockingbird" (with Ales Kot, Butch Guice and Luke Ross, in #12-16, 2013-2014)
  • Avengers vol. 5 (May 2013-August 2013)
    • Volume 3: Prelude to Infinity (hc, 152 pages, 2013, ISBN 0-7851-6825-7)
      • "Evolve" (with Jonathan Hickman and Mike Deodato, in #12, 2013)
      • "Strong" (with Jonathan Hickman and Mike Deodato, in #13, 2013)
      • "The Signal" (with Jonathan Hickman and Stefano Caselli, in #14, 2013)
      • "Sent and Received" (with Jonathan Hickman and Stefano Caselli, in #15, 2013)
      • "To The End" (with Jonathan Hickman and Stefano Caselli, in #16, 2013)
      • "... To the Light" (with Jonathan Hickman and Stefano Caselli, Marco Rudy and Marco Checchetto, in #17, 2013)
  • Avengers World (January 2014–December 2014)
    • Volume 1: A.I.M.PIRE (collects #1-5, with Jonathan Hickman and Stefano Caselli, tpb, 120 pages, 2014, ISBN 0-7851-8981-5)
    • Volume 2: Ascension (collects #6-9, with Marco Checchetto and Stefano Caselli, tpb, 120 pages, 2014, ISBN 0-7851-9094-5)
    • Volume 3: Next World (collects #10-16, with Marco Checchetto , Raffaele Ienco and Frank Barbiere, tpb, 160 pages, 2015, ISBN 0-7851-9251-4)
• Ultimate Comics: Fallout #2-6 (with Lee Garbett, Eric Nguyen, Clayton Crain and Luke Ross, 2011) collected as Ultimate Comics: Fallout (hc, 136 pages, 2011, ISBN 0-7851-5912-6; tpb, 2012, ISBN 0-7851-5913-4)
• Ultimate Comics: X-Men (with Paco Medina and Carlo Barberi, 2011-2012)
  • Volume 1 (collects as #1-6, tpb, 136 pages, 2012, ISBN 0-7851-4102-2)
  • Volume 2 (collects as #7-12, tpb, 136 pages, 2013, ISBN 0-7851-6134-1)
• Spider-Man
  • Spider-Island: Cloak & Dagger #1-3 (with Emma Rios, 2011) collected in Spider-Man: Spider-Island Companion (tpb, 360 pages, 2012, ISBN 0-7851-6229-1)
  • Superior Foes of Spider-Man (with Steve Lieber, 2013–present)
    • Getting the Band Back Together (collects as #1-6, tpb, 136 pages, 2014, ISBN 0-7851-8494-5)
    • The Crime of the Century (collects as #7-12, tpb, 216 pages, 2014, ISBN 0-7851-8495-3)

Notes

References

• Arrant, Chris (2009-06-23). "Existential Comics: Talking to the Creators of Existence 2.0". Newsarama. Retrieved 2010-08-09. 
• Wigler, Josh (2009-09-29). "Nick Spencer Wants You To Remember Forgetless". Comic Book Resources. Retrieved 2010-08-09. 
• Arrant, Chris (2009-12-29). "Creator Nick Spencer Hopes You Remember Image's Forgetless". Newsarama. Retrieved 2010-08-09. 
• Wigler, Josh (2010-01-22). "Visiting Spencer's Shuddertown". Comic Book Resources. Retrieved 2010-08-09. 
• Wigler, Josh (2010-04-12). "Nick Spencer's Thriving Existence". Comic Book Resources. Retrieved 2010-08-09. 
• Renaud, Jeffrey (2010-07-19). "Spencer Reloads T.H.U.N.D.E.R. Agents". Comic Book Resources. Retrieved 2010-08-09. 
• Mahadeo, Kevin (2010-07-20). "Spencer Takes "Action" with Jimmy Olsen". Comic Book Resources. Retrieved 2010-08-09. 
• Ching, Albert (2010-08-03). "Nick Spencer Takes Readers to School with Morning Glories". Newsarama. Retrieved 2010-08-09. 
• Ching, Albert (2010-09-22). "Jimmy Olsen, Chloe Sullivan, Nick Spencer and Action Comics". Newsarama. Retrieved 2010-09-29. 

External links

• Nick Spencer at the Comic Book DB